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  GB Private Gazebo @ Warwick - Someone Proposed There & It Didn't Go Well...

  by thedepressedsoul in

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  at warwick there is a gazebo overlooking the lake.

  it's a nice peaceful setting.

  well someone had the bright idea they were going to propose while they were at warwick.

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  Kudos to the person putting in the fake signs,I got a laugh out of that one
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  Do not think the end will come?

  by Akid48 in

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  2. beliefs

  thats somthing i see thats asked in my kingdom hall if you want to go get more than 2 years in collage.thing in some one asking that to me or etc i cant say any thing or that would show that i dont believe.. i hate when some one askes me that when i try to plan ahead when it comes to what job i want.what job would help me hold my own but no god will give if you put him first.i dont believe in god even when i did i never buyed into that.. it seems you cant get away from the question im only 13 and i get that question theres no getting away from it..

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  You can always use Theocratic Warfare strategy back on those that ask that question .

  Your answer : Of course I believe the end will come

  .{ In your mind you are answering truthfully as to when your own life ends ,you don`t know when just the fact that it will end one day}
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  Crisis of conscience

  by Ponyo in

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  does anyone know where i can buy coc for under $50?

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  How come its priced on E-bay at over 150$ `s ?
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  Special event this weekend

  by TweetieBird in

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  2. friends

  was talking with a family member today and they said that there is something special going on at the kh this weekend.

  any idea what it is?

  they said that some kind of broadcast from bethel for everyone..

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  So the bottom line TweetieBird is that the GB/WTB&TS is using the AGM to solicit more money from the gullible JW`s.
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  Help with acceptance for JW family still in

  by MaryKN in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  well, it's been a long time!

  i first lurked here around 20 years ago and read huge amounts of threads which certainly helped when i was making my decision to leave the religion.

  i was never baptised (resisted it!

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  Help with acceptance for JW family still in

  YOU just need to accept that they are happy being JW`s in their delusional state of mind and get your head around the fact that they never want to know or believe they are in a false /cult religion.

  You getting frustrated because of their continued trying to influence /convert you to their way of thinking is not doing your health any good

  Maybe you need to step back and minimize your association with your family and take a low key and just see how much they want to keep in touch with you once they know for sure you dont want to be a part of the JW religion.

  You are not going to change their thinking however they believe they can change yours.

  Once you make it plain to them they cant you will be dropped like a hot potato.

  Don`t put yourself through such trauma go and find new friends and acquaintances.

  What sort of family will only truly accept you on their terms only.
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  Just woke up turn TV on to hear yet another nut case with a gun.

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  2. friends

  first they said 20 dead with 100 injured.

  now i just heard 50 dead and 200 injured.

  whatever it is it just another nut case who was able to get a high power gun to kill people.

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  I fail to understand why a country ,any country has different laws in different states .Surely it makes more sense for a nation to have uniform laws all over the country ?

  I believe their are currently 630,000 machine guns registered with the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms,and Explosives,including law enforcement weapons in the country.

  In the past 18 months there have been more than 500 mass shootings in the USA in which 4 or more people have been injured or killed.

  And unless the pro and anti gun lobbies find a way to negotiate sensible reforms there will be many more deaths and injuries.

  The USA has a population roughly of 325 million people with over 300 million firearms strewn among the population .

  The future does not look good to me unless the American Government gets serious and acts on Gun Control .
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  When is the last time you saw an educated middle class family become Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by xjwsrock in

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  2. beliefs

  we know from casual observation that if anybody does respond to their preaching/recruiting work it is usually someone that is a social misfit in some way or a person that was indoctrinated early in life.. think about all the nicer neighborhoods witnesses preach in.

  if a family of four with a father that is an engineer and a mother who is a medical professional ever walked into a kingdom hall for the first time and said they were studying, people would faint.

  lol.... this of course isn't what you would expect from a religion backed by the ultimate intelligent creator.

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  Dw, Now I know what Jehovah thought of me .
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  Need help understanding the Overlapping Generation teaching

  by Jules Saturn in

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  2. beliefs

  so this is a topic that seriously boggles my mind and please correct me if i'm wrong.

  to me, the jw definition of the overlapping generation teaching is that the lives of the anointed from 1914 overlap with the lives of the anointed right now.

  david splane used the example of fred franz and how he finished his "earthly course" in 1992 but while he did, he had a lot of "contemporaries" that outlived him and are currently living today.

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  Don`t we all ? LOL ?
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  Why should WE be the bloodguilty ones??

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. beliefs

  it struck me just how odd and weird it is that jws are told that if they do not preach, they are "bloodguilty" for failing to warn people of the upcoming destruction at armageddon.. hang on a minute now, hang on!.

  why should a mere human be made to feel "bloodguilty" and "responsible" for "failing to warn someone" of gods wrath??.

  these average people are not the ones who are about to unleash a genocidal massacre on 99% of humanity (including babies born to non-witnesses).

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  A Good point stuck ,just another example of us ex JW`s accepting something without thinking it through in our willingness to believe whatever came out of the G.B.`s mouth but not anymore.
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  JW Stumper Questions - List You Best Here

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi guys.

  sooner or later we're going to get a jw knocking on our door.

  just like when we were jw's doing the knocking, it's good to have a question prepared to get them thinking about their own beliefs.

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  Why, in all of the illustrations in J.W literature of the anointed in heaven are they portrayed as men with beards.?

  Aren`t their women in your organization that are women who are of the Anointed ? It`s not just restricted to men ?

  So why are all the illustrations in your publications portrayed as only men ?

  {J.W}. because in heaven their is no gender neither male or female .

  {You}. If their is no gender neither male or female then why are those pictured as having beards ? doesn`t that give the impression that they are all male ? and that their are no females ruling with Christ Jesus.?

  how do you answer this conundrum ?