Posts by OneGenTwoGroups

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Gas Pump "Witnessing"....Is this a thing?

by Bob Loblaw in

i've seen this twice now within a month.

a car group hanging out at a gas station.

one of the cult members jumps outs of their car and runs up to a "worldly" gas pumper, arm stretched out, tract in hand, and here comes the juvenile at best question.

OneGenTwoGroups

I did this for years and years, starting at 6am, Monday mornings.

26

Good idea or bad idea?

by stephanie61092 in

first and foremost, thank you so much to so many of you who have reached out to me over the past few days since my post on sunday.

i'm not totally in the best mental state, however, i do have a very small amount of people that i can lean on for support.

i relayed my feelings to a friend (my only friend, really), who took the initiative to inform my family.

OneGenTwoGroups

If it's just MSs handling the accounts, the elders may never see any check with your name on it.

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Not One of them is missing

by pandorasbox1914 in

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here is a question, if "not one of them is missing" how does the org explain super nova's, the destruction of a star at the end of it's life cycle?

because by definition it is missing, i have never heard of any explanation from the org to explain this contradiction..

OneGenTwoGroups

The Bible says what it says, and doesn't say what it doesn't say.

Unless you believe any of it has merit, then you've got your work cut out for you.

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They're now asking people to clean at Bethel?

by onightdivine in

jw
friends

i heard from a "friend" that a letter was read aloud during the midweek meeting asking people to volunteer to do cleaning work in bethel.

lol.

i really can't think of anything else to say if this is true.. they get more free labor, and they still ask for more more more money!!

OneGenTwoGroups

I'd rather mop a floor at Warwick on Saturday morning than knock on doors, for damn sure.

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Walking a thin line - Resigning Elder

by Sanchy in

jw
friends

warning of a long boring post ahead.

i feel like i need to vent my story out, as i feel quite helpless at the moment.. i'm 31 year old, married, father of toddler with another one on the way, due later this month.

i've been serving as elder for about 4 years now in a south florida congregation.

Former elder of 14 years here Sanchy. I resigned in 2012. I'm the co-host of a new podcast called "JW Escape" and I still go to meetings. LOL Episode 2 will be uploaded in a couple weeks and it will deal with our issues of being "stuck" in the organization.

I'm still going to to meetings for my wife sake. I plan to shut down all theocratic activity toward the end of this summer/early fall.

I have no children, I'm not sure what the future of my marriage will be. I will not be living my golden years with a JW, I'd rather not those be sacrificed as well.

2016 will be my year, I wish you the best.

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another hello from Cleveland area

by 08out in

jw
friends

lurker since 2008 when i walked out as an elder ,had all the politics i could take ,noticed a few from my area so i finally joined

OneGenTwoGroups

What's round on both ends and high in the middle?

Jennifer Lopez dude.

And welcome to JWC.

17

Science Alert Quiz

by cofty in

take the test fellow hominids.... i got 7/7.

OneGenTwoGroups

6/7. Quick pick on the last question got me. I knew I was wrong as soon as a clicked it.

4 years ago, I would have went 0/7, when I was an elder.

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When you Go to Bethel, You Sign Over Your Dead Body.

by new boy in

jw
friends

this is in response to the thread about the supposed suicide of a bethelite in 1995.. when i went to bethel i and everyone else, signed a form stating that "if we died while at bethel the wathtower bible and tract society,had the right to keep our body.".

yes, we thought it strange at the time but as a twenty years old you didn't think much about stuff like that.

besides we were never going to die anyway.

OneGenTwoGroups

Can't remember the dude's name, but he was 20, fresh at Wallkill, and jumped off the "E" building, on the pool/concrete/longest drop side. June 1987, if I remember correctly.

He's buried at the "launching pad", the Wallkill Cemetery.

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Satanic Temple’s Seven Tenets - Makes 10 Commandments Sound Facile

by cofty in

the so-called 10 commandments are a post-biblical construct.... there is an elohist list at exodus 20 and a yahwist one at exodus 34 that contains such gems as "you shall not cook a kid in its mother’s milk.".

any intelligent adult could create a more useful list of ethical precepts before the end of a coffee break.. it is interesting to compare the satanic temple's seven tenets.

i think you might agree that it makes yahweh's rules look like they were written by a bronze age power-hungry, misogynistic priest.

OneGenTwoGroups

I love seeing people defending OT slavery. Too bad it's the same old idiotic and absurd tripe. I'm always looking for a new idea on rationalizing this abomination found in Scripture. I'll keep looking.

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Evolution is a Fact #7 - Human Egg Yolk Gene

by cofty in

exploring the human genome is like roaming around an historic town.

some places are pristine and obviously still in everyday use.

others have been unused for a while and starting to show signs of decay and if you look carefully there are relics of buildings that were abandoned long ago.. in this post we are going to look at a gene that we still carry in every cell in our body but which fell into disuse 10s of millions of years ago.. humans are placental mammals.

OneGenTwoGroups

One thing I plan to do if I ever am able to retire is take a college course on Biology. This stuff is so fascinating to me now. Couldn't care less when I was 14.

Thank you Cofty for the time and effort you put into this thread, you make JWC an interesting place to keep up with.