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  To the brother who called in sick after Thanksgiving vacation

  by schnell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  thanks.. no really, thank you.. you decided to drive down to la with your wife and kids to be with extended family and eat a great big meal on thanksgiving.

  that's awesome.

  no, really, i hope you had great thanksgiving.. then you drove back up here, and that's a good day's drive so you were pretty tired.

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  What he did sucks, but ultimately you gave in. Don't be a pussy. Stand up for yourself next time.
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  jw celebrity advert in gey newspaper

  by closed in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think is rather funny.

  the king in gay magazine😁 but business is business, isn't it?.

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  That's not really an advertisement and it's like 4 years old.
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  Leonard Cohen - a tribute

  by NewYork44M in

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  i have gotten hooked on podcasts, one of which is fresh air, a pbs podcast.

  this past week the re-aired an interview with the late leonard cohen.

  here is a link to the pbs site that includes the interview:.

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  FYI, PBS is not NPR. Fresh Air is an NPR show that they also release in podcast format.
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  Why Did JWs Abandon Brooklyn for the Sticks?

  by Room 215 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i 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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  It's insanely expensive to operate in NYC.

  They've been slowly moving since 2003 or so when they moved the printery and shipping to Wallkill.

  What I really don't get is why they didn't just build the new complex at Patterson OR Wallkill which both have a ton of space for all that.
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  Do you have a Virtual Reality headset for your smartphone yet? Be prepared - Soon all the press will be using VR to tell stories

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  for your information, i'm absolutely not in the virtual reality (vr) headset business, but take it from me, you should get one.

  soon all the press will be using vr to tell stories, so get prepared for extraordinary experiences using your vr headset and your smart phone.

  “virtual reality!

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  VR porn is like the greatest thing ever and I'm not even remotely exaggerating.
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  "Brexit? What's that?"

  by schnell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  having shared the arc report on facebook and shaken up my network of jw friends, uhhh... i am now learning how unfortunately ignorant they have become.

  so far the overall response to the report has shown that well enough, but it got worse.. a friend of mine moved to the uk from california a few years back.

  after he saw my post, he pmed me, essentially checking up to see if i'm alright.

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  At one of the Circuit Assembly parts this service year, there was literally a talk that told people not to watch the news a lot.
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  Quite Possibly The Most Sinister Speaker Ever?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hi guys.. "brother" jose is quite possibly the most sinister speaker i've ever seen or heard.

  and i've seen/head a lot of cults in my time.. he's over the top with his voice tone and gestures.

  i see a future governing body member in the making here:.

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  wow i had no idea that pioneers charged people to walk them around the Met. lol
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  Jehovahs Witnesses and Marijuana

  by NikL in

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  2. friends

  i live in california where pot just became legal for recreational use very similar to alcohol.

  my wife who is a very active jw has had her medical card for cannabis for a couple of years now.

  and i know several in our congregations around our area who are using it medically.

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  The JW rules on drugs make no fucking sense.

  I get that they would prohibit something that's illegal, but otherwise it's really weird.

  There's a few reasons why they 'just say no'

  -Harmful effects on the body. Ok, I get that, but why are painkillers ok? Or eating unhealthy foods?

  -DEMONIC POSSESSION!!! This is just absurd. First because they aren't real. Even if they were real, and could enter your mind, why is it ok to take drugs if you have a prescription? Does a demon check your wallet for your medical marijuana card? Does he check your local pharmacy to see if you have a prescription for vicodin?

  hahaha it makes no goddamn sense.
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  The uptake...

  by Thisismein1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  with recent events pointing at watchtower growth, i felt compelled to say a few words.. if the figures turn out to be true, then we should not be discouraged.

  after 9/11 there was a surge in, not only the watchtower, but other demonisation of organised religion.

  whenever there is a a paradigm shifting event that puts fear into others, this tends to have a life changing affect on an individual.. now let us zoom to the present.

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  How'd the growth in spanish language areas in the US? I know for a while that shit was off the scales and now they are consolidating congregations.
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  How about prayers being used as a talk?

  by NikL in

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  2. friends

  another thread on here made me think of it.. its a personal peeve of mine.. you bow your head in prayer and the brother says thinks like thank you for the lessons we learned today like bla bla bla and for that wonderful point about yadda yadda yadda.

  jehovah we know that etc etc etc therefore we must...well you get the gist.and on and on it goes.

  absolutely drives me mad..

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  I hated when that would happen. A prayer isn't a soapbox, bro. There's been lots of reminds on that in the KM and other stuff. Keep prayers to under a minute.

  The worst were at Bethel. Holy shit. For some brothers, that's the first time they've ever been able to do something in front of the whole bethel family, so the prayers would go on and on and on and on and on and on and on. Fuck you man. I've got like 10 minutes to eat and get to work.