Can we let this day go past without acknowledging his contributions to the betterment of human society ?
smiddy3
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Today is the date of Albert Einstein birthday 14 / 03
by smiddy3 incan we let this day go past without acknowledging his contributions to the betterment of human society ?.
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Why Did JWs Abandon Brooklyn for the Sticks?
by Room 215 ini may have missed this, but can anyone tell me what was the pretext the gb concocted to justify their abandonment of a perfectly suitable, high-profile, high-visibility complex in what is arguably the world's greatest metropolis for the bucolic isolation of upstate new york.
any how does the move square with their purported belief in the imminence of armageddon?
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smiddy3
I think it`s all about the dollars $$$$$ ,look at all the prime real estate that they are getting big bucks for in N.Y.S.
over a Billion Dollars at last count.
Where is all that money going ? they are selling off Branches around the world
They are selling off and merging KH`s around the world .
They are selling off and merging Convention/Assembly halls around the world
They are cutting down printing operations and selling off printing equipment around the world reducing printing products no new hardbound books ,no calendars , no yearbooks , reducing Watchtower and Awake publications drastically ,
Mimicking Christendoms religions in installing TV`s in existing KH`s opening up their own brand of TV Evangelizing with JW.org ,adding credit card contributions at Conventions and Assembly`s that they once criticized Christendom for and always ,always begging for more money to keep the work going.
Something that Charles Taze Russell the Founder of the I.B.S.A. the forerunner of Jehovah`s Witnesses said he would never do .
And they even want the pocket money parents give to children of JW`s as depicted in the Sophie /Caleb videos.
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Another One Bites the Dust!
by freddo init's goodbye to bristol - hengrove congregation of jw's and the inmates ... err ... members, will be sent to two other bristol congregations either side of it.. i'm told by two elders from bristol, england it is being disbanded on may 1st 2018. this is the 2nd congregation in this circuit to be disbanded recently - the 1st being portishead in late 2014.. hooray!.
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smiddy3
And I thought this post was about Rex Tillerson
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Thoughts of Suicide?
by Simon inwe are not a support forum for people with serious depression or thoughts of suicide.
if you or someone you know are struggling with such issues there are professional support services in most countries with people who are experienced and qualified to help:.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_suicide_crisis_lines.
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smiddy3
That`s a good reminder Simon ,when someone does come on this forum with such thoughts we should refrain from giving them our personal opinions and/or advice and just simply refer them to a professional helpline
Point taken
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Wifes parents are in a bad way.
by blownaway inmy wife's parents are in a bad way.
she went to visit and her mother has alzheimer and father has a hart condition.
they are jws and he quit his job at gm many years ago for 1975. he moved to where the need was great to wait for the end.
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smiddy3
I would just like to add that your wife`s parents bought their own tickets putting all of their faith and trust in this religion and it`s leaders and now they now need to accept the consequences of their actions .
I`ts not your wife`s fault nor your fault for the choices her parents made.
That they have to live with it is nobody`s fault but their own .
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Advice from you to non jw
by Salley ini am not a jw, but know a jw family.
seem very loving and happy.
i have come to know the religion and have researched via this site,youtube, reddit etc.
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smiddy3
Welcome to the forum Salley as you say you are not and I presume never a JW is that right.?
Shunning of any family member who has been baptized whether it is for leaving the religion or talking against the beliefs of the religion no matter how old you were when you were baptized 8-10 years old the same penalty applies .You are ostracized until you go through normally a year of grovelling to the elders in how repentant you are of your sin in questioning the Governing Body or committing some sin as smoking cigarettes .
Suicide ? I have known a few who have committed suicide because of this religion and I will leave it up to others to fill you in on this sad aspect as I have been out more than 25 years now.
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"Each year, this observance is the most amazing unifying event that takes place on planet earth." - Kim Jong-un
by jwleaks in.
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smiddy3
Catholics have Easter with over 1 billion members Earth wide celebrating along with the majority of Protestant Religions which number over 1 billion members also .
And we have Jehovah`s Witnesses who have been preaching in all the inhabited Earth (gag) only in lands already witnessed to by Christendom whom they have poached from for about 140 years and only can muster up 18 million half of which do not and will not commit to the JW faith only going for family mainly and friends because of emotional blackmail.
Correct me if I am wrong but I would hazard a guess that at least a third of the worlds population has never been witnessed to or even heard of Jehovah`s witnesses today in the year 2018
So much for witnessing to the world or the ends of the earth.
Not to mention all of the other Eastern Orthodox Religions ,Russian Orthodox Religions ,Polish National Catholics ,Greek Orthodox Religions and many many more
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JWs line up to have Gov. Body members autograph bibles.
by blownaway ini was watching some of the videos on line and marc and cora had one where they said that after zone talks the gov body members would autograph bibles.
anyone have any video of this?.
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smiddy3
Hero / Idol worship of brothers who were considered important in the circuits / assembly`s / conventions goes back a long long way .
Nothing new here I had seen it often in my 33 years as a witness.
And passed it off as immaturity of the publishers involved and not giving much thought as to how the recipients of such adoration were basking in their glory as objects of others adoration .
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Today's Watchtower :Paragraph 5
by jwdoctrine in1 cor 13:5:"keep testing whether you are in the faith; keep proving what you yourselves are.
or do you not recognize that jesus christ is in union with you?
by ‘testing whether we are in the faith.’ to do that, we do well to ask ourselves: ‘do i really believe that i am part of the only organization that jehovah has approved to accomplish his will?
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By ‘testing whether we are in the faith.’ To do that, we do well to ask ourselves: ‘Do I really believe that I am part of the only organization that Jehovah has approved to accomplish his will?
When Geoffrey Jackson the Australian Governing Body member was asked at the ARC into Institutional child Sexual Abuse about whether JW`s considered themselves as the only way God was dealing with humans ( or words to that effect )
He said it would be presumptuous for him to say that ?
Theocratic warfare ? or an outright lie under oath.
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How do you deal with people who do not like you?
by usualusername1 inhi guysin the last year i have started to socialise a lot more.
namely comedy and a tennis social club.. for a variety of reasons i find socialising tough.
in my tennis club a couple of women have been extremely rude to me and i have blocked one from my phone and refuse to speak to both.. is my behaviour extreme?paul.
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smiddy3
As someone in the "truth" once said to me if anybody doesn`t want to know me or talk to me I take the upper hand that I don`t want to know them or associate with them , they have the problem not me.
And I remain with a positive attitude in life.