Posts by Magnum

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Report Card : How’s President Biden Doing?

by minimus in

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i give him an f for falling down on the job..

Magnum

Disillusioned JW, I appreciate your answer which gives reasons and does not consist of derogatory remarks. I agree with you some and disagree some. First, though I consider myself a right-wing conservative, I am an avid conservationist and am, like you, greatly concerned about the environment.

As far as people go, I don't like Trump or Biden, but I like Trump far more than Biden. I know that Trump is flawed, but I just detest Biden. He is so phony and incapable. He is the typical politician - doing and saying what he thinks he needs to in order to win votes. I honestly believe he couldn't care less about the environment, people wanting to immigrate to the U.S., etc. I believe that he and his son care only about themselves and that they are a danger to this country because they have to answer to China.

Biden has done great damage by being soft on illegal immigration. I believe that even though Trump couldn't care less about the environment, his policies would have overall been better for the environment. I say that because I think Trump's policies would have been better overall for the country - making it stronger. A strong U.S. would be in a better position to contribute toward the correcting of environmental issues. With people flooding into the country, the middle class disappearing, etc., the U.S. is weakening (at least in my opinion). I believe that only strong countries with controlled populations can take care of the environment. To me Biden is weakening the country and losing control of the population.

Also, Biden is weak and incapable and not in control.

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UPDATE: Wife Pretty Much Knows That I Don't Believe

by JW_Rogue in

we had a nice long talk and i brought up some things that make me think that this isn't the "truth" and she somewhat agreed with me.

i stuck with things i personally experienced or had knowledge of plus all the changes in recent years.

she agreed on a lot of the points but still believes in god and the bible.

Magnum

YES!!! The org loses another one! I love to see its grip weakening.

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The Wwatchtower turning into a real laughing Stock

by Overrated in

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over the years watchtower has turned into a real joke in the world scene.

with the lawsuits, downsizing and decreasing numbers.

what they use to be is gone and they will never recover the numbers they once had.

Magnum

I lost a lot, too, and am glad I got out; I just wish I had awakened earlier so I could have salvaged some life.

What they use to be is gone and they will never recover the numbers they once had.

I think about that a lot. I just don't see how they could ever be again what they once were. Even if some big world catastrophe scared a lot of people, I don't think any (or many) would flock to JWdom because it is a joke now. There's too much widely available info against it. It's too weak. It's scared of arguments and debates. It's been woefully wrong too many times.

How could an organization backed by the supposed creator of the universe get weaker and weaker and become more of a joke with every passing day? If it's what it claims to be, it should be getting stronger and stronger as "the end" approaches.

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The Wwatchtower turning into a real laughing Stock

by Overrated in

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over the years watchtower has turned into a real joke in the world scene.

with the lawsuits, downsizing and decreasing numbers.

what they use to be is gone and they will never recover the numbers they once had.

Magnum

It really is nothing close to what it used to be. It would be a joke to me had it not ruined my life. Now, I am furious at it.

The information age has really damaged JWdom. It should be the other way around. An organization that loves truth and has it should love the interconnectedness and widespread availability of info, but JWdom hates it. The internet has exposed it and shown how weak and puny it is. It's playing the website game now only because it realized it had to. At first, it didn't want anything to do with the internet.

I agree with you about those drinking the Kool-Aid. I have three close family members who are JWs and who I always thought were smart, knowledgeable, and mostly level-headed, but they're gulping it down. I just told my wife that I can't conceive of how they can't see what we do. I have some other JW family members who are clueless; I can see why they're still in.

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Jw.org on PBS-utah

by nowwhat? in

https://www.pbs.org/video/jehovahs-witnesses-coping-with-pandemic-anxiety-yk0yvc/.

Magnum

OMG!!! So, he referred to helping people with practical advice concerning, for example, isolation, yet they isolate people who don't don't totally and unquestioningly accept what comes from the mouths of eight (or is it nine, now?) men.

So, they've shifted from the preaching work.... the all-important preaching work??? I agree with you, nowwhat, we're in the last minute of the last days, the end of the world is way overdue, and these guys are shifting from the warning work??? (Not that they were really ever warning in the first place.)

And, who are they to give practical advice? Why should anybody listen to them? The religion that has ruined countless lives is giving advice? JWs are some of the most screwed up people anywhere. It was always a huge problem whenever I and others I know had to do interviews for parts on assemblies/conventions. We couldn't find a normal person or family to interview in several hundred miles. Most of the normal ones were weak in the ministry or other "spiritual" activities, so we couldn't interview them.

Hendriks says they give advice on how to handle stress and worry. The religion that ruined my life and put me in the awful, stressful situation I'm in now is going to give advice on stress??? I'd literally like to have a few minutes with Hendriks and the Great Eight (or Nine) in a back alley.

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Colorado Mass Shooting

by Simon in

terrible news out of colorado this morning of a mass shooting in a supermarket leaving 10 dead.. missing from the homepage of cnn is any description of the shooter.

that's because it's a muslim refugee from syria who was apparently anti-trump and not a "maga white guy" which would otherwise be included in every headline.. more kids in cages than ever before (but strangely, now no one in the media seems to care) and now this.. biden doesn't have the magic wand he promised after all, right?.

Magnum

Oh good god!!! If that had been a right-wing extremist, it would be all over everywhere... just like when the Capitol incident was almost reported as being a national insurrection. Consider how the left spent a great deal of time on Trump's slow walk down a ramp and almost zero time on Biden's falls going up stairs.

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My first Kingdom Hall zoom meeting

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

i haven't been to any meetings in the last 9 years.

besides a couple of elder visits here and there, i've been pretty much left alone.

my family has also left me alone, and haven't acted any different towards me.. this week my brother, his daughter and his son all called me to invite me for the next weeks memorial and also my nephew's first sunday talk, which he gave today at noon.

Magnum

Has something changed? For as long as I was active, JWs weren't supposed to count time on other baptized JWs except under special circumstances (such as one who was baptized but who had finished studying a second publication).

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Would you leave the Watchtower if you woke up at age 80 plus, or just stay in for the rest of your life.

by pistolpete in

so yesterday while i was doing some work for a customer, i noticed the wt mags on the sofa.

and i asked the elderly man if he was a jehovah witness?.

he said that he and his wife and all his children were raised in the religion, but only he and his wife attend the meetings or zoom.

Magnum

Thanks for that, pistolpete; interesting. I wonder whether some GB members are in that same position. They would certainly have a lot to lose if they left.

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Why So Many Young People Are Leaving The Watchtower

by Jeremy C in

i have been giving a lot of thought to the young people who are leaving the watchtower organization in recent years.

last night, i was reading the thread posted by jwfacts a while back in which he provided some statistics and graphs showing the rapidly declining growth in the watchtower.

one factor that was discussed at length was the high number of young people who do not stay in the organization.

Magnum

'JWs are bullied by their leaders to stay ignorant or suffer the penalty.'

Damn, that's good; got to remember that!

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Do You Support The Death Penalty ?

by minimus in

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do you support the death penalty or do you think the worst punishment should be incarceration?.

Magnum

ABSOLUTELY. That is, if we can be 100% sure of guilt. So, my answer is assuming it is absolutely known that the one to be executed is guilty.

I especially support it as punishment for the unlawful taking of the life of another. I often hear people say that a murderer is reformed, however, the person he murdered doesn't have the opportunity to reform.. or even breathe. I think that society should stress that life is precious and that the penalty for unjustifiably taking a life will be the death penalty. It's not fair for one to be able to take another person's life and then get to continue to exist - even in prison. Even in prison, one can eat, sleep, think, read, hope, enjoy life to some extent. His victim can't. He should not be better off than his victim.

And if he does not get the death penalty, he should never, ever, be released from prison, no mater how much he reforms and is sorry.... unless he can bring his victim back from death.