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  Can the world condition be worse than this?

  by abiather in

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  the innocent civilians being attacked is the norm of the day.

  attacking hospitals too are happening frequently.

  now schools being attacked is becoming a regular affair (last of its kind massacred 150 children in peshawar on december 16, 2014)..

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  True, but the trend has been a decrease in violence for several centuries. 
  
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  Can the world condition be worse than this?

  by abiather in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the innocent civilians being attacked is the norm of the day.

  attacking hospitals too are happening frequently.

  now schools being attacked is becoming a regular affair (last of its kind massacred 150 children in peshawar on december 16, 2014)..

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  Study history and you'll learn that it almost always has been worse. This is actually better!

  
  
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  2015/1/13/BOE!--Technical preparations for the 20l5 visit of headquarters representatives!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  (from the source).

  2015 january 13, boe.. .. re: technical preparations for the 20l5 visit of headquarters representatives.

  .. click the link by the little blue arrow and nothing else.. .. https://www.sendspace.com/file/0g0mr0.

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  Thanks, Petra,

  I see this is from the London Branch. Did they do this in the US as well?

  
  
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  Some screenshots from new KH meeting!

  by pixel in

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  they just put up a link to watch a replay of the "new kh meeting", here some screenshots.. .

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  Cappytan: Looks like a bank. 

  I second that.
  

  
  

  DOC: they clearly have put the emphasis on future resale value.

  I second that too!
  
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  The Opal Ring: a story based on the true life of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Julia Orwell in

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  2. friends

  it's finally finished!

  it's a fictional story about an old jw.

  it is very long, about 7000 words.. the opal ring.

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  Cofty hasn't commented on this thread.
  
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  The Fear mongering of this weeks WT study!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. beliefs

  have you all read this weeks study article?.

  oh my word it is full of fear inducing tactics....doom and gloom outlooks.... anxiety inducing methods to develop absolute control over witnesses and cripple them in any attempt to think for themselves!.

  (notice i am saying "themselves" rather than "ourselves"?!

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  Yeah, the guy on the right looks like Vin Diesel.

  It's blatant propaganda. Be glad you can recognize it for what it is. Feel for sorry for the suckers that fall for it.

  
  

  
  
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  So my dad comes from vacation and ???!!!

  by Kool Jo in

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  2. experiences

  hello folks.....so in an earlier thread i started, you'd realize that my father and i are quite close, we talk about almost everything/anything.. he traveled outside the country (he's semi-retired), enjoying the fruitage of his hard labor during his younger years.

  so he recently returned home after he and mum went away to catchup with some old friends in another country.. upon his returning home, and subsequently to the meetings, he was told that a decision was made to strip him of his "field overseer" role, but will still continue to be an elder.. the reason...he goes away for too long too often...you can't be away from your congregation for three months out of the year!!!???

  has anyone else had this experience before?

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  The personality/culture of this religion is the same as a jealous and controlling spouse. They just can't stand anyone having any outside interests of their own.

  It's a codependent relationship with the religion being the abuser and each individual being the abused enabler. Ironically, elders play both roles. They are the abusers when they act in their official capacity, they are the abused enabler as an individual.

  There is only one way to have a healthy self-image in a situation like this: leave it.

  Let's review: It's a cult!

  
  
  
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  Don't you just love a great quote?

  by stillin in

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  i have seen a few here on this forum.

  i just came across on in a book i'm reading that i thought i would share with you, appropriate to the forum.. "men think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one".

  charles mackay in extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds (1841).

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  Stillin, can you source that quote you attributed to Richard Feynman? 

  I don't believe he is the source.
  
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  Don't you just love a great quote?

  by stillin in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have seen a few here on this forum.

  i just came across on in a book i'm reading that i thought i would share with you, appropriate to the forum.. "men think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one".

  charles mackay in extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds (1841).

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  "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire
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  To Blue Dot or Not to Blue Dot. That is the question ....

  by Oubliette in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i've been noticing recently that some khs in the area where i live (socal) are putting up the jw.org little blue dot, but others are not.

  i would think this would be a mandatory directive from hq.

  does anyone here have any intel on the matter?.

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  They should be displayed in an appropriate, dignified way.

  Um, yeah!

  How 'bout like, "Not at all!"