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  Creepy display

  by neat blue dog in

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  i dunno about you, but if i walked up to this display at an expo i'd be a little creeped out..

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  Biahi

  They look like Scientologists!!
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  Canadians and Europeans, what do you think of your national health care ?

  by RubaDub in

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  we have been in a battle over health care for so long here in the us regarding public, private, gov't subsidized, obama care, medicare for all, and just about every permutation of the above.. we hear the horror stories here that people wait 20 years for a check-up (ok, bit of an exaggeration), but you get the point.

  one side tells us that canadians flock across the border when they are sick and need to see a doctor.

  the other side says that is simply not the case.. so tell us, if you live under one of the government systems would you replace it?

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  Biahi

  I heard of an Illinois resident (US citizen) who had no insurance but needed a lung transplant. The doctors asked for $500,000.00 UPFRONT to do the needed surgery. He, of course, did not have that much money, so he moved to Canada, became a legal resident, and got his lung transplant FREE from the Canadian government. I don’t think that was right, but I guess he did what he had to do to survive. I think the US needs national health care.
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  Not official representatives?

  by Lost in the fog in

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  just copying this article from a us newspaper website.

  it was the section of the article that said, ".

  when a reporter asks about jehovah's witness beliefs, a church elder refers her to the website jw.org, explaining that the quinoneses and wellses aren't official church spokespersons.".

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  Biahi

  Wow, this is sad, makes them almost appear normal
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  FOOD FOR THOUGHT November 3, 2019 WT Study Article (September 2019) JAH VALUES HUMBLE SERVANTS

  by blondie in

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  blondie’s food for thought, 11/03/2019 wt study article, jah values humble servants, september 2019. https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-study-september-2019/jehovah-values-his-humble-servants/.

  opening comments/food for thought.

  i first asked myself, why does the wts sometimes use the word “servant” then “slave”?

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  Biahi

  I used to always wonder, as a kid, why the “weaker spiritually “ members always seemed more Christlike than the “ company men”.
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  Publisher ID - I Saw It In Person & It Was Terrifying!

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'd like to start off this post by saying, we all know that the wt loves control.

  it's clear by their history, their wt's, the elder arrangement and so on.

  however, after witnessing and using the publish id program in person, it takes this need for control to a whole new level & it was scary.. if you've ever seen builder assist (the website program used for ldc volunteers) or the metro program, it actually looks pretty similar to that.

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  Biahi

  I stopped attending COMPLETELY n 1983. I wonder if they have anything on me.
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  Who knew that Halloween could be so much fun!

  by HiddenPimo in

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  today is my first time celebrating halloween.

  and it is just plain fun!

  each new thing, birthdays, halloween, next thanksgiving and xmas are all proof that we were held back and restricted from enjoying life.. .

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  Biahi

  I have such sad memories of childhood Halloween’s, one in particular. All I wanted was to be normal!! My daughter never suffered with this bullshlt. My grandchildren trick or treated as an astronaut, and a moon and stars.
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  Total strangers are more loving than God

  by pleaseresearch in

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  2. experiences

  imagine this.

  someone has been involved in a car crash or shooting.

  total strangers usually rush to the aid of the victims.

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  Biahi

  They would say that the injured one called out to God and he sent those strangers to help.
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  Russian raid on 50 Jehovahs witnesses

  by Diogenesister in

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  there has been a raid on a large jehovahs witness gathering in norilsk, above the arctic circle, according to the moscow times.. a building with 50 jws inside was surrounded by masked, armed special forces forces who burst into the building and demanded they surrender all electronic devices.. i'll link the article but it's obviously going to drive these witnesses deeper into the religion.

  not to mention the images conjured up in the report are likely to be used by watchtower as more fear mongering, since its very much like last year's terrifying assembly videos where witnesses were huddled in a field and surrounded with similarly masked, armed men.. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/10/22/russian-special-agents-raid-jehovahs-witnesses-resort-as-crackdown-intensifies-a67855.

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  Biahi

  Poor, deluded witnesses.
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  Good memories of full-time service?

  by fulano in

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  2. experiences

  perhaps not a topic for everybody... mine.. in both sp service in a foreign field in europe , the freedom and helping people to read and write in spanish .

  doing a lot of work in the congregations.. in missionary-service.. helping congregations in a third-world country and see good results in family relations.

  and the siestas from 13:00 to 15:00..... who has good memories of bethel?

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  Biahi

  I never pioneered, I hated service even for the 2 or 4 hours I put in. I feel sorry for you guys who pursued poverty to pioneer.
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  What happens to Bethelites?

  by rickroll in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so if someone puts their life into serving the cult for free at bethel, then say after 25 or 30 years they are not able to for one reason or another such as illness, or family issue or old age, does the cult have any safety net for these people or is it you serve until you can't and when you can't you just go away?

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  Biahi

  This is shameful, what they do to these bethelites, dumping them with nothing.