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  Learn To Speak Like A Jehovah's Witness

  by pale.emperor in

  1. social
  2. humour

  for those who were never a jw, here's a fun guide to passing yourself as one:.

  privilege [priv-lij] - a duty nobody would volunteer to do which is assigned to you without your say so.

  such as cleaning the toilets, picking up other brats candy wrappers in the back row and being stuck on locking up duty for the 7th time in a row.. df'd [dee-eff'd] - disfellowshipped.

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  baker

  Excellent meeting tonight, lets get a bite to eat...
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  Pyramid Schemes

  by schnell in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  several years ago, i was introduced to a "wonderful" company called fortune hi tech marketing by a brother and his wife.

  they had been introduced by a former sheriff who claims he had researched the company and found no leins or judgments, and that former sheriff had been brought in by a pastor.

  you can read what happened with fhtm on wikipedia if you so desire.. this whole new idea of multilevel marketing had my brain reeling, though, and soon enough, i actually signed up with none other than prepaid legal.

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  baker

  I think the biggest scammer of all Jw kingdumb was the real estate no money down books and tapes by Dave Del Dotto. He was on TV infomercials in the 80.s and 90,s, till he got taken down by the FTC for making false claims . Today he sells wine from his vineyard in Napa valley. Google his name and read up on his scams as a JW.
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  Musicians Who Died in the Last Year - or Through the Years- Who Do you Miss Most ?

  by flipper in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i think for me in the last year the death of david bowie got to me the most.

  not only in the way he handled his demise so classy by even making a song about it and a you tube about dying and sharing it with fans, but just his whole persona i always thought was pretty cool.

  plus i enjoyed a good many of his songs.

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  baker

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOgFZfRVaww

  John Lennon was lost way too early
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  Another Outright Lie Published 2/17 WT

  by LostGeneration in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this info is from the article "who is leading god's people today" feb 17 study edition.. to help them disseminate bible truth in various languages, zion’s watch tower tract society was legally incorporated in 1884, with brother russell as president.

  * he was an outstanding student of the bible, and he fearlessly exposed as false such doctrines as the trinity and the immortality of the soul.

  he discerned that christ would return invisibly and that “the appointed times of the nations” would end in 1914.. pretty sickening article overall about how badass the gb is, though this little gem is printed as well, paragraph 12. the governing body is neither inspired nor infallible.

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  baker

  Russell also taught the Egyptian pyramids has so much to do with his chronology that he wrote Thy Kingdom Come book, which today not many, if any, witnesses have investigated this side of Russell. My guess is that it would make Russell look too paganist.
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  Spy camera wanted, motion activated, wireless, etc.

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  okay, it doesn't have to be a spy camera.. it must be something wireless that send signals to my android smart phone.

  and some of those spy cameras seem to have fairly good features but they are also scary.

  their descriptions are obviously translated from some other language and i would worry about decent customer support.. i'd simply like to be notified the moment a certain cabinet door (actually, two doors) is opened.

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  baker

  just went to Fry,s electronics and they had a lot of gadgets, almost too many to pick any particular one.
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  Petr Muzny: A Law Professor Explains His Faith

  by konceptual99 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is absolutely feckin' priceless.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/videos/viewpoints-origin-of-life/petr-muzny-law-professor/.

  in yet another appeal to authority, jw.org has trotted out a professional to vouch for creation.

  this guy is a law professor.

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  baker

  I saw a t shirt on a cruise that described it pretty well, PHD= Pretty Huge D...uhh diver
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  To Transfuse or Not To Transfuse

  by Chris Tann in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  when my son became baptized as a witness at age nine, it worried me that he could now get a no blood card.

  i wanted to make sure if blood transfusions were really as disgusting to "jehovah" as i was taught.

  i already found out some things about my beliefs that were not true, so it wasn't hard for me to be questionable about this.. i first looked in the reasoning book under blood as to why we don't accept transfusions.

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  Just found out that one of the celebrities from Our Gang, Darla Hood, died from complications of a blood transfusion she received for a relatively benign surgery back in 1979 when she was 47. This was news to me today, but anyone remember if the WT used this tragedy to push their Blood doctrine back then?
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  CO visits me today

  by Chook in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm at home and hear knock on door , i sneak and look i see two men and recognise one voice and go back into lonunge and ask wife ( who is inactive believer) does she want to speak to elders ,she says no ,then literally 3 minutes has pasted another knock the 3 minutes seemed like an eternity.

  so brave heart me think fuck it i'll answer ,i invite them in for coffee, i recognise one older man he is a unique elder who i genuinely was fond of when i was in his name is andrew ,the other guy i didn't recognise we will call harry ( not real name australia doesn't have that many cos with his same name).

  so i think to myself i will tread lightly and not cause to much of a fuss for the wife's sake, but my personality is very the opposite of treading lightly ,as you read my threads you will realise i'm not timid.

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  Wow, mentioned just about everything except the overlapping generation of 1914, which most co,s don't want to explain. They just refer to the web site and keep humming the new songs...
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  Christians made me stop believing in the Bible

  by jws in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm agnostic.

  there could be a god, but i don't believe it's the god described in the bible.i grew up a jw believing in the bible.

  after i left, i didn't want religion but was determined to be a christian on my own.. but things started to unravel.

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  Ask your friend to explain Judges chapter 19, and for what reason this was even included in the bible. Its a horrible story that no one can take on, even the concordance.
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  Front cover of the 2017 Watchtower - unbelievable!

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  study edition.

  january 2017.

  (can someone put up a link please?).

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  baker

  At least the magazines can come to some good use, when nature calls...