Posts by scratchme1010

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Double standard?

by dogon in

i see serena williams is pregnant, not married and is she still a jehovahs witness?

if i have all this correct why is she not disfellowshipped?

more jw bull shit?

Marry Only in the Lord

by Rattigan350 in

last night at the meeting, a local needs talk preempted the regularly scheduled part.

an elder who is the most society following elder talked about loving god and then he talked about bible principles such as marry only in the lord.

he talked of deut.

scratchme1010

That starts so much gossip.

As always. The only difference is that this time was not covert. Gossip is the flesh and blood of every cult. It's what keeps people in control, afraid and therefore, obedient.

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"Hard work never killed anyone," or "I have to give up knitting."

by compound complex in

greetings, my aging friends:.

it's not really a funny subject, our getting old and our bodies falling apart.

sure, as the saying goes, hard work won't kill you, but it can wear out your body.

scratchme1010

Any comments you have on this subject would be appreciated. I don't understand everything medical I read. Additionally, I wonder how to avoid future flare ups. After three days, the pain has totally dissipated. During those three days, I had only minimal use of my entire right arm.

I'm sorry that you're going through that. Have you consulted a doctor? I do suffer from problems in my right arms for using the computer mouse since 1985. What helps me are massages. Once a month I get a massage (it was the doctor's recommendation). It does wonders.

About aging, oh well. Not a lot more we can do. That feeling of sadness to see our bodies slowly getting tired and sick is not a great feeling, and is what may JWs use to sell their paradise on Earth crap. To me it just is what it is.

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Ghost image of the Apostle Paul appears on Google maps

by jwleaks in

i found this ghost image on google maps of the apostle paul walking on one of his missionary journeys through the region now known as turkey.. evidently the google map car was able to capture the spiritual afterglow of the apostle paul while he was walking along a roadway on his one of his missionary journeys.

interestingly the google mapping computer was able to create an overlapping image from the first century and from the twenty-first century.. .

scratchme1010

LOL!

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I have a big nose...

by The Rebel in

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surprisingly whilst hating being born with this over large nose, women have fallen in love with my nose.

so with regards to look and charm, what i hated about my physical attributes, many women have found attractive.

anyway i just wanted to say what we find unattractive about ourselfs, doesn't necessarily mean others do.

scratchme1010

Anyone who knows basic Photoshop can tell that picture of Daniel Craig was retouched, and poorly.

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New JW Talk Show - "The Inside Story"

by neat blue dog in

has anybody seen the new half-hour jw talk show called the inside story?

the pilot is included in part 2 of the latest gilead graduation program, and they said more will likely come.. basically, it's probably one of the most cringeworthy programs to ever come out of jw broadcasting.

it has all the tropes: an opening monologue, a studio audience, a live band, and guests that move down the couch to the left as the next guest is introduced.

scratchme1010

Has anybody seen the new half-hour JW talk show called The Inside Story?

I have no interest in seeing that, plus I don't need to see it to know I'm not going to like it.

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Apostate carts

by Normalfulla in

so i've recently been travelling about usa and mexico and of course seen the carts parked at tourist spots all over and i had a funny thought ...if somehow we could get a bunch of identical carts together and print up a placard with a few key facts about the real truth with jwfacts logo and just park them right in the same areas ,dress up in our old meeting clothes and stand about with a coffee and look on our phones i wonder what response we would get from anyone ?

or park them outside assembly's and just stand.off at a distance ...basically the same thing they do to all society !.

scratchme1010

.if somehow we could get a bunch of identical carts together and print up a placard with a few key facts about the REAL truth with jwfacts logo and just park them right in the same areas ,dress up in our old meeting clothes and stand about with a coffee and look on our phones I wonder what response we would get from anyone ? Or park them outside assembly's and just stand.off at a distance ...basically the same thing they do to all society !

That would be a great joke to play at their expense, but personally I feel no need to make a point to them. To me, recovering is from letting them as out of my life as possible. Engaging in that is just still dealing with them.

That said, I just came back from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I didn't see any JW. So that's a great place to escape from the carts if you'd like (and great town to visit).

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Only Jehovah's people

by rebel8 in

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today i went to a large talk.. there was no arguing or swearing, just kindness and respect.. it was orderly and calm.. trash was put in the proper place.

people were even picking up litter that wasn't even theirs.. the speakers were passionate and inspiring.. the entire event was orchestrated by volunteers.. it was march for science, not a dub ass-embly.

so much for "only jehoopla's people" behaving like this at large events..

scratchme1010

rebel8, your post revived a long lost memory. Way back when I also felt amazed at some public places and see how well behaved people were, and by choice, not because of some Jehovah/paradise crap. I too was surprised to notice that.

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Jehovah Witnesses Unaware They Are Fulfilling Bible Prophecies

by Wakeupcall2u in

jehovah witnesses unaware they are fulling bible prophecies.

for many of us witnesses that have left either as stricken lost sheep or unlawfully disfellowshiped please consider that our brothers & sisters in the synagogues of kingdom halls are misled & need our help in trying to pull them out of the fire.

the test now on them is about just how they are treating their unlawfully excluded (disfellowshiped) brothers & sisters, as foretold at isaiah 66. at present they sit in judgement on us the growing great crowd who have come out & they are prepared with hard- heartedness to condemn their brothers & sisters to a final everlasting death, by running away as spiritual cowards refusing us a cup of life giving water (truth) matt 10: to explain the apostasy in their temple the disgusting thing in the holy place.

scratchme1010

...our brothers & sisters in the synagogues of Kingdom Halls are misled & need our help in trying to pull them out of the fire.

I stopped reading here. Nope, some of us are ex-JWs precisely because we're done with saving people from something. Good luck.

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Are JW's non- violent

by notalone in

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okay, i keep reading something and though jw's do not get involved in national wars, my experience has always been they are very violent people.

every convention i have ever been to was filled with children being beat within an inch of their lives for just not being able to take a third day of mind-droning silence without being able to move or now even sleep.

i have seen whole congregations laugh at stories of children being beaten and calling out to "jehovah".

scratchme1010

About the OP, yes, the WT has no regard for children. They are horribly treated.