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  " I hate Jehovers Witnesses...

  by The Rebel in

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  yesterday a friend invited me to a barbecue .

  late in the evening for some reason a guy with tattoos all over his arms, who i didn't know shouted out " i hate jehovers witnesses".

  anyway i noted a sudden quietness in the group, but basically the entire comment passed me by.

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  DJS

  Three comments:

  1. Thanks for starting my US day with something uplifting about our species. Perhaps there is hope.

  2. I thought you were a Brit. Yall have barbecues? You must live in S. England!

  3. He is right. You were one of the good ones.
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  What is the current suicide and mental illness rate among JWs and previous members

  by 060702015 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there seems to be no current data on this information and there is questions concerning the validation of past data.

  apparently there is high rate of mental illness and suicide.

  jehovahs witnesses suicide rate 5 to 10 times above average.

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  Thanks Lisa Rose. the ever prying eyes of the Empiricists strike again .

  On an Anecdotal, observational note, some 25 years ago some of us on the servant body used to joke that half the congregation was on Prozac. And the other half needed to be.

  Yes, I was a wise ass then too.

  And our congregation was considered mature, balanced and loving.
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  Headaches vs. Migraines

  by Coded Logic in

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  2. physical

  a while back a coworker was telling me she had a migraine in the morning and had to take some aspirin before coming to work.

  i was like, "yeah, that wasn't a migraine dear.

  that was just a headache.

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  Coded

  You left out the vomiting that can be included. I used to get migraines, and you have described them well. Leaving the cult and getting divorced ended them.

  Seriously.
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  JWs anti gay video reaches over 1,000,000 views on youtube

  by alanv in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the anti gay video that watchtower recently produced has now had over 1,000,000 views.

  of those who selected to like or dislike the video, over 92% disliked it.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnk52bu92oe.

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  This should be a matter of society in general and those specifically harmed by such hateful views, beliefs, teachings and verbiage.

  Thank god for the world wide web, the Dislike button and capitalism with a soul.
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  JWs anti gay video reaches over 1,000,000 views on youtube

  by alanv in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the anti gay video that watchtower recently produced has now had over 1,000,000 views.

  of those who selected to like or dislike the video, over 92% disliked it.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnk52bu92oe.

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  50 Shades of Grey

  1. ISIS throws gays off buildings, to their horrific deaths. We are all outraged at these monsters and their monstrous religion.

  2. At a lecture at the University of Michigan in 2013, when asked about homosexuality he said: “Death is the sentence. There’s nothing to be embarrassed about this. Death is the sentence. We have to have that compassion for people. With homosexuals, it’s the same. Out of compassion, let’s get rid of them now. A video of that speech surfaced in March when Sheik Sekaleshfar spoke at the Husseini Islamic Center outside Orlando on “How to deal with the phenomenon of homosexuality”. Shortly after his appearance at an Orlando mosque, Mr. Mateen kills 49 gays at a local nightclub. We are all outraged at these monsters and their monstrous religion.

  3. The DarkLords developed and placed on the world wide web for the widest possible audience (anyone with an internet connection) a video with attractive, kindly sweet animated characters, one of which, the mom, is kindly telling her small child Sophia that god doesn't approve of gays (and by direct inference that gays are deserving of death). Some of us are outraged at these monsters and their monstrous religion.
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  JWs anti gay video reaches over 1,000,000 views on youtube

  by alanv in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the anti gay video that watchtower recently produced has now had over 1,000,000 views.

  of those who selected to like or dislike the video, over 92% disliked it.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnk52bu92oe.

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  DJS

  Once again we have an OP where a lot of posters post specious comments that sound good on the surface but fall short of rational analysis. Religions have never been completely free of the strong arm of the law to believe and practice whatever they wish. Or are you all suggesting that human sacrifice, public torture devices for adulterers and heretics, having sex with children, honor killings, stoning the occasional heretic, etc., all of which have been practiced by various past and present religions, are acceptable?

  So it is all relative. But let's for a moment forget about this law or that law. This OP, like so many others, is about the pressure for change brought about by social, cultural and capitalist/economic forces who strongly disagree with the expressed religious beliefs.

  The DarkLords are not in prison. The FBI isn't investigating them. Bethel isn't burning. The IRS isn't climbing over their cyber fire walls. Society, in the form of 920,000 out of 1M viewers, "Dislikes" the hate filled views expressed by the DarkLords through Sofia's mom.

  It's no different than the cable channel vs. DuckDynasty, the NFL/NBA/Cisco, et al vs. the governors of Indiana, MS and NC, the NBA vs. Donald Silver, or Bruce Springsteen and Maroon Five exercising their rights to show their own brand of dislike to hate.

  Flailing about against those who agree with the NFL/NBA/Cisco/Bruce/Maroon and the 920,000 who dislike the Sophia don't say gay videos is irrational and misses the point.

  Welcome to the 21st Century. Come on in guys, the water's fine.
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  JWs anti gay video reaches over 1,000,000 views on youtube

  by alanv in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the anti gay video that watchtower recently produced has now had over 1,000,000 views.

  of those who selected to like or dislike the video, over 92% disliked it.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnk52bu92oe.

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  5 people, the US Cinstitution, The SCOTUS, Russia extremist laws, Switzerland acclimation laws, The Hate Speech laws in many countries all say the same thing.

  You can believe whatever you wish. Practicing those beliefs, which includes speech, videos, etc. , otoh, has limits.

  And what the laws don't or haven't yet addressed regarding religion and ithe carnage, psychological and emotional damage caused by the teaching of those beliefs, social, cultural and financial forces are.

  And we've only just begun. Let it come.
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  JWs anti gay video reaches over 1,000,000 views on youtube

  by alanv in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the anti gay video that watchtower recently produced has now had over 1,000,000 views.

  of those who selected to like or dislike the video, over 92% disliked it.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnk52bu92oe.

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  The first thing they will do is keep these types of videos off the www.

  Or at least try. Big smiley.
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  Don't believe anyone is up there listening - said a prayer anyway out of sense of obligation

  by Zoos in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've read many statements on this forum from people who have expressed the sentiment that you don't shove ttatt down the throat of an older person.

  it would be too traumatic and its best to let some people, in some situations, simply pass on in the delusion.. its humane.

  merciful.. in the initial roar of my awakening, i was unable to cuddle up to that sentiment; preferring, instead, to shove the blood curdling shock of truth down the throat of anyone i could get my grip on... age be dammed.

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  Well done Zeus.
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  Breaking news: Subcontracted logistics in US and Canada, more layoffs coming...

  by sp74bb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  more changes in us and canada operations.. new "arrangements" in jw.org to get more benefits and less costs.

  logistics in canada and the united states will be managed by a new arrangement.. confidential: a famous supermarket and logistics company will take care of sending literature, keep an eye not getting your wt supplies together with a butter cream pot.. read well: wal **** logistics .... more layoffs.... headquarters in canada of this famous company only at 37 km away from watchtower canada..

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  DJS

  Dubs and Walmart shoppers. I hate it when you all are redundant.