WingCommander

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  Is Being a “Manly Man” a Bad Thing?

  by minimus in

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  so much is said regarding men , in a negative way.

  shaving commercials are now lecturing us as to how bad we really are.

  men should be less masculine.

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  "Toxic feminism" has pussified the entire world. Real men of the Greatest Generation would be laughing their asses off and grimacing in disgust at what this planet has turned into. Snowflakes and safe places? GTFOOH!!!
  
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  Discontinue unproductive bible study - jw broadcasting

  by Gorbatchov in

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  https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-ism_2_video.

  interesting video explaining how to end a bible study.. watch the kind of uber behaviour of the witnesses: make a choice or we leave.... so hard, so not christian.

  no love for the person.. g..

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  How about another perspective?

  Maybe it's not so much about wasting the JW's time, as much as it is the fear the potential recruit (AKA: Study) will actually be SMART, and decide to fact-cheque and research what the JW's are telling them, OUTSIDE of JW-approved sources?

  We're hearing more and more about this on the forums: JW's, even "Lifers" that have been woken up because their Study decided to look outside of the JW-approved liter-a-trash and go onto Google. Then, the appalled Study shares the info with the JW and demands some answers. Well, the JW of course has to research this matter for themselves in order to clear it up. Imagine the JW's surprise when shit don't add up!! Sometimes, the "awoken" JW then goes and starts telling close JW friends, more liberal Elder types, etc.

  I see this as a control tactic by the Governing Body to keep JW's moving. The more time the JW spends answering a thinking-person's questions, the more likely they are to fall upon the multitude of free information on Google.

  Remember, pretty much everything the WT HQ puts out now is not pro-active, but RE-active. As-in, they are reacting to what they are being told by the CO's reporting back to HQ from the field.
  
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  I Am Still Here! Another Birthday look back at one helluva lifetime

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.the world of 1947--compared to today's world--an alien planet.. the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.. there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.

  everywhere you found telephone booths!

  a call was a nickel.where did all those telephone booths go?i dunno.where did my whole world go?i dunno.. tv sets were huge boxes with tubes and small screens.

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  Happy Birthday!!!
  
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  RBC... something I heard this weekend and I want to confirm

  by StarTrekAngel in

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  i have not been around much or even cared to dig into jw land.

  i been working on moving to a new place and leaving behind my old jw past, even the neighborhood where it all happened.. but something i heard this weekend had me thinking.

  my mother in law has a small, run down wooden home near the kh where we used to attend.

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  Would YOU want to lodge in some hoarded up dump? No? Than what exactly makes their "demands" out of the ordinary? Seems like a legit, appropriate request to me. Don't want to house volunteers? Don't offer up your place. A wood shack doesn't sound very comfy to me. Just sayin'.
  
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  Flawed Website

  by pinkpizza in

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  when i first seen this website i actually thought it was a jw website hence the home page and not an ex jw website and i posted a topic thinking people were real witnesses then i quickly discovered it was not and all these people were commenting and embarrassing me and i couldn’t even delete the thread.

  then i asked the admin to delete it and i said it was very misleading saying it’s a jw page and he’s like are you serious i deleted your topic and now you are attacking me and it clearly says ex jw page.

  he was very rude and btw no where does it say ex jw and you should be able to delete your own threads you start.

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  Sounds like someone has a case of the Stupidzzzzzzz!
  
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  Saying hello again

  by EdenOne in

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  just saying i’m still alive and greeting everyone, veterans and newcomers to this forum.. 2018 was a year with a lot of turmoil in my life; me and my wife separated, then reunited months later, and spent the second half of the year healing the emotional wounds from that episode.

  that, along with a record year in terms of my business meant that choices had to be made regarding my time, and i decided to focus on my marriage instead of other endeavours.

  it seemed to have paid off.

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  Damn Eden, sounds like life put you thru the wringer this past year! Hope 2019 turns out better for you.
  
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  New Year's Day Party

  by Giordano in

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  for what it's worth:.

  we just held our 3rd annual new year's day party.. we kept the list down to thirty invites this year with the provision that they could bring guests.

  so the final count was well up there.

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  Stephen Lett's New Year's Day Party Greeting:

  "We waaaaarrmmlly wel-cum yoooouu........to this year's special New Year's Day Party! Want to especially wel-cum all of the yunnnnng waaaanzz! Rest assured, our 2 witness rule is still in efff-feecttt!"
  
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  Update on Scary Experience

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

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  update on this:.

  just been to the police station with my friends where we were asked individually to identify aknife.

  it looks identical to the one we saw.

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  BAN ALL KNIVES!!!

  KNIVES KILL!!!!

  All knives need to be confiscated, even a Chef's block. Who besides a Chef needs a filet or butcher knife? Only a brut needs such an item. They are deadly! Anything beyond say a box cutter should be illegal!
  
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  Are these books worth anything?

  by moomanchu in

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  23 years out and i'm still purging this trash.

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  i still have 1 box of jw stuff left.. .

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  eBay.
  
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  These days it not really that hard being a witness.

  by I believe in overlapping in

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  if you are a true believer, then you are toast.

  because you will be a slave to everything the watchtower, circuit overseers, elders, pioneers, imply.

  believe me, there are not many true believers anymore, and the majority of them are old.

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  WingCommander

  Frankly, nearly everything the original poster wrote, (minus the cart witnessing) I myself witnessed back in the late 90's already. How do I know? Because I basically saw and lived just that!!! My parents were mostly off the JW radar by the mid-90's. I was 16, had a good job, and attended maybe 6 meetings a year by then. I wasn't baptized. No one gave a shit. I never hung out with other JW kids at school, so I could say and do whatever I wanted at that point in time. My parents were up in age, in failing health, and never dissuaded my getting an education because they knew I had to make a living. I kept my mouth shut about any girl I dated (always a non-JW), where I went, what I did, what I said. What can they do when you're not baptized, and only attend 6 meetings a year, and never hand in field service?