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  Women's March on Washington

  by azor in

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  my support is with the marchers in washington and around the country today.

  i was raised through my formative years by my mother and sister while my father was out of the picture.

  they gave me the compassion i have today.

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  Attention needs to be kept for however long it's necessary on the misogynistic nature of this man. What we are seeing is stirred Mama bears. You don't mess with them, and he has. I believe that what we're seeing is just the beginning. It's often been said that America is like a sleeping tiger, and that you tread at your own risk by shaking a stick at it. I believe the appropriate description at this time is that America is an angry Mama bear.
  

  It's going to be a long four years. I have to admit, azor, at some point I was feeling like women were having it easier in this country than any other minority. This election made me change my mind about that, big time.
  
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  7th Day Adventist growth/decline stats similar to JWs

  by fukitol in

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  the sda's are also getting most of their growth in africa and latin america but plateauing or declining in europe and parts of the western world.. what's also interesting is the sda leadership fronts up and attempts to explain why there is decline in some areas of the world (albeit somewhat disingenously), eg, on the link below from 2014. but the watchtower leaders have never tried to give any explanation for why membership is dramatically falling away in the western world.

  increasingly worried jws are instead turning to other sources of information to try and understand why the 'true religion' is contracting.. http://news.adventist.org/en/all-news/news/go/2013-10-13/membership-nears-18-million-secretary-highlights-regions-of-growth-decline/.

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  But the Watchtower leaders have never tried to give any explanation for why membership is dramatically falling away in the western world. Increasingly worried JWs are instead turning to other sources of information to try and understand why the 'true religion' is contracting.
  

  I know little about the SDAs. Not sure if they believe in some kind of abrupt ending of the world as we know it by divine intervention like the WT. To me that makes a difference in how they explain their numbers. The WT teachings mention that when the time for their great tribulation approaches, their numbers are supposed to dwindle since there will not be any people in the world left to be saved.

  To me, that fact that they are doing anything to grow and keep making money instead of accepting what they themselves preach is a major sign that they don't even believe the nonsense they teach. Their response to less numbers is supposed to make them happy that their work is supposed to be coming to an end, but instead they keep reinventing themselves to keep the money coming.
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  Brother Hitting on Df'd Brothers Wife at KH

  by poopie in

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  interesting story i have a friend who is df but his wife still faithfully goes to meetings.

  there's a single brother in the cong that is always flirting with his wife.

  well at a recent meeting my df friend decided to show up to check this brother out.

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  Apparently this single Bro was under the impression that because her husband is df he could do and say whatever he wanted because the df Guy is not allowed to speak to anyone at kh .. he said after he pulled his foot out Bro button the sis near by freaked out and ran away.
  

  That's just downright wrong. You don't need to be brainwashed to do that. He's an inappropriate jerk, JW or not.
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  Question on the sun created in the fourth day

  by opusdei1972 in

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  2. bible

  in the first day elohim created light, and it was day and night in the first day.

  then in the fourth day he created the sun, the moon and the stars.

  of course, it did not actually happen, but what did the writer have in mind?.

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  Interesting catch. It's no surprise that they try to provide contrived explanations to accommodate for what they say. That is, not to mention that there's absolutely no correlation between any of that (even if it were 100% as they claim it is) and the ridiculous arbitrary rules and moral "standards" they impose on their crop.
  
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  Occupations that will disappear

  by joker in

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  while growing up in the cult one thing that always bothered me was the way witnesses could forecast jobs/occupations that we're going to vanish in their new world.. for example, we would usually discuss at saturday night wt studies how doctors, nurses, funeral directors, and soldiers would go the way of the dodo.

  i always found discussions like that just so strange.. in hs, i mounted an unsuccessful effort to enter veterinary sciences, the big answer was always "why" it won't be needed after armageddon 😝😜.

  does anyone have their own story about professions that the witnesses believe will not be needed after the big a ?.

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  does anyone have their own story about professions that the witnesses believe will not be needed after the big A ?
  

  This brings memories of those ridiculous conversations about how things are going to be in paradise. Yes, I remember many saying that there are never going to need doctors.

  In fact, I also remember my mother discouraging a woman she was giving bible studies from her daughter becoming a nurse because according to her there are more useful things to do that can be useful in the new order.
  
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  Every Country and Land... Except Oman

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  so the other day someone asked me what use was it to make the list of countries in which there have been reports.... well... to know that, as far as i can tell, there has never been preaching done in oman.. it has never appeared in any report, and the reports go back to 1926!.

  all other countries and lands have appeared, but not oman.. so there... first useful fact about the watchtower that we can get from 90 years of data..

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  So there... first useful fact about the Watchtower that we can get from 90 years of data.
  

  There's another useful fact you can get from their data: they are full of --it.
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  WhatchTower 2015

  by Inoque Soares Wanga in

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  2. experiences

  hello, my brothers.

  iam new here and a need your help.. my problem is that i cant find were to download the library 2015 - cd-rom (set-up).

  can you guys help me out on this one?.

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  I hope you don't find it and don't effing call me brother.
  
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  attended funeral.

  by zeb in

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  to show respects for the older bro who died.. first thing i noticed.

  the noise!..

  jw never learn to sit and do so quietly.

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  jw never learn to sit and do so quietly. It might as well been a standard kh meeting.
  

  They have to be told everything.

  JW funerals are advertising of their agenda. They use them to try to manipulate people who have lost a loved one to join them. They know that high chances are not every person attending is a JW so they have the disrespectful idea of using somebody's loss to push their agenda.
  
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  God's Kingdom: the only solution for mankind or the final solution for man?

  by nowwhat? in

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  2. beliefs

  as you know jw's preach god's kingdom is the only solution to poverty, hunger, injustice etc.

  but as you recall the the "final solution" of the nazi's was the extermination of jews and other inferior humans.

  so in reality god's solution to rid mankind of it's problems is to exterminate 99.9% of mankind whom he deems inferior.

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  scratchme1010

  The WT's Jehovah is a psychopath with extreme mood swings. Reminds me of Roger from American Dad.
  
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  COs are like parrots, can’t handle questions of dynamic nature!

  by anointed1 in

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  2. beliefs

  when i was a zealous publisher, once i took co for a return visit to learn how he handles difficult questions.

  house holder brought the subject of joshua secretly sending two spies to spy out the city of jericho before its planned conquest, and asked: “wasn’t joshua acting in a human way here?

  why would joshua need to send spies if he was the commander-in-chief appointed by god the almighty?”.

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  We were conditioned to believe that those men were very wise, great role models and knowledgeable of everything JW. I only met one who I felt wasn't a big disappointment. The rest were all quacks.