GoneAwol

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  Today's Watchtower; if GB say celebrity adulation is wrong, why do they pose for pics and sign autographs?

  by Isambard Crater in

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  says it all really.

  total hypocrisy once again..

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  GoneAwol

  And signed for PUBLIC OFFICIALS no less! Not for ordinary Joe and Joanna public.

  "We are no part of the world!" Total liars!!
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  UK Daily Mirror: Girl who was abused by dad for 5 years asked JWs for help - but got molested by church elder too

  by darkspilver in

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  2. child-abuse

  this is from the website of the daily mirror - a british 'mass-market' red-top tabloid.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/daily_mirror.

  in the words of simon: "peers morgan was editor of the mirror and forced to resign after they published faked photos alleging that british soldiers were abusing iraqi's (around the time of ahu ghraib).

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  Hi Darkspilver, yes this article is indeed true. Knew the Cousin and Holt clan very well when a teenager.

  I find the quote from Angie about Lot's daughters quite unnerving. Shows how the bible can mess with a kids head. I hope she can have a great life from now on.
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  What do You Think About Hybrid and Electric Cars?

  by Village Idiot in

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  2. current

  battery technology has been making leaps and bounds in affordability and energy output throughout the past decade.

  while pure electric cars currently have limited range, the near future holds prospects for longer ranges.

  hybrids, and recently plug in hybrids, have a mileage of up to 50 mpg* giving them a range of 500 miles from a ten gallon gas tank.

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  Toyota have lead the way in hybrid cars for years now, and they see a future in hydrogen celled electric cars. I would definately have one, but as with everything, it needs to be a consumer price as opposed to a rich git price ie. Tesla.

  Also, graphene is being used more in batteries which make them lighter, more powerful and can hold a charge longer. https://www.graphene-info.com/graphene-batteries

  Good article here:

  http://driving.ca/toyota/mirai/auto-news/news/hydrogen-vs-electric-which-is-actually-more-efficient
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  JW Trolley Caption Competition

  by usualusername1 in

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  2. friends

  just saw this profile pic in facebook.

  made me chuckle.

  https://www.facebook.com/eleanorconwayuk/photos/gm.119963091878435/10154964287646233/?type=3&theater.

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  "She would make a lovely sister!"
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  JW Trolley Caption Competition

  by usualusername1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just saw this profile pic in facebook.

  made me chuckle.

  https://www.facebook.com/eleanorconwayuk/photos/gm.119963091878435/10154964287646233/?type=3&theater.

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  GoneAwol

  "Wow! Minimal baggage, knows her Joe, AND can hunt!. There is a god!"
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  How did you feel when you got baptized?

  by Schnufti in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  back in 2005, i remember sitting in the stadium in the special rows with 42 others.

  8000 people were looking at us - maybe even with a binocular - while listening to the speech.

  my family and my friends among them, being all proud of me.. i don't remember being enthusiastic.

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  I got dunked so that I could "court" a pioneer sister. I was 16 at the time, with no plans to be a model dub. I had not a spiritual bone in my body.

  Until some hellduh decided a swim was in order to even speak to this mega spiritual lady. So i was baptized at Scarborough arse-embly. My now wife was sooo proud of me I got a kiss and a cuddle that evening! Was worth every molecule of water.

  Both been out for nearly 10 years now, and much happier. Would we change anything? No.
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  UK: Paul Shields "abused girls after luring them with video games"

  by darkspilver in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  fyi from north-east england:.

  http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/johovahs-witness-abused-girls-after-12538877.

  jehovah's witness abused girls after luring them with video games, court told.

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  Oh dear! This guy was our 'best man' at our wedding in 1990! More later.. feel ill right now.
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  Is it possible to decline preaching in the carts?

  by Skepsis in

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  2. friends

  hi folks,.

  i have a difficult dilemma.

  since i'm not pioneering any more, i'm reducing my hours wasted at that artifact known as cart or trolley.

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  Complain of having anxiety attacks. Nobody can disprove it. When on the cart one day, start breathing into a paper bag and say you're all sweaty.

  Hey, that might work with the mini servant thing when the time comes! You wont have to give talks either!

  Hope it goes well whatever you decide.
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  How do JW's determine a person is anointed?

  by thinker11 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've always wondered about this.

  when a person believes they made a spiritual connection with god and proclaims themselves as anointed, how do they determine whether this person is anointed or not.

  does a group of elders look at the person's spiritual resume and check off the person's pioneer stats, bible knowledge, attendance, work ethic, personality, etc and then believe in the person if they have a good track record?

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  In my first cong, we had a 'tongue of flame on the head' guy who had multiple failed businesses, a failed marriage, in fact all but him had left the club.

  I ended up doing work experience with this loser when I was still at school. He was cleaning aircraft for our local airport. Half way through the week, he sent everyone home as he'd gone bust again. 6 brothers left with no job.

  I thought that you could be deleted as an elder if you went broke?

  He was and is a joke. Nobody believes that he is anointed. 'god' must be really licking the barrel with this one.

  Yet each memorial he has the 'privilege' of giving the talk. That's at least 40 years of listening to an absolute yawn fest.
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  Dose Wt really have that much cash.

  by joe134cd in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i realize that wt has got a wind fall of cash through various means.

  so my question is in the greater scheme of things is it really that much.

  for example let's say with all their real estate and cash on hand they are worth about $20 billion dollars.

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  What alarms me is the SPEED with which they have made these changes. Herd might as well have had a machete the way he carved slices out of each department. That doesn't show to me a sustainable business model being slowly rolled out. It shows sheer panic.

  They already have congregational pledging. It wouldn't take much to implement it on a personal level. It will be just one extra form to fill in.

  Yes, some may leave, but the gb will just blame it on the 'love of the greater number cooling off'.