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  Theocratic Greeting Cards?

  by Bangalore in

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  somebody in the uk has started a theocratic card business.looks like there is good money in jw businesses.. https://www.bennettcards.co.uk/product-category/47/theocratic-greetings-cards/.

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  Theocratic Greeting Cards?

  by Bangalore in

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  somebody in the uk has started a theocratic card business.looks like there is good money in jw businesses.. https://www.bennettcards.co.uk/product-category/47/theocratic-greetings-cards/.

  bangalore.

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  (A Childhood Memory) THE MYSTERY OF THE LOCKED CABINET

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  2. experiences

  the mystery of the locked cabinet.

  when i was about 10 years old, there was a tall, white handmade cabinet back in one of our storage sheds (a converted chicken house from back in the 30's, when my grandparents raised chickens in the great depression).

  affixed to its door, there was a big padlock on the cabinet.

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  (A Childhood Memory) THE MYSTERY OF THE LOCKED CABINET

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  2. experiences

  the mystery of the locked cabinet.

  when i was about 10 years old, there was a tall, white handmade cabinet back in one of our storage sheds (a converted chicken house from back in the 30's, when my grandparents raised chickens in the great depression).

  affixed to its door, there was a big padlock on the cabinet.

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  Great Story Terry. I hope you don't mind but I googled the address you gave and came up with the photos below. The first one (if correct) would be your grandparents house. The photo below that one shows the house across the street (Prince's house).

  Your Grandfathers perspective of the KKK was new to me. It seems like you only hear about that group terrorizing black people rather than also handling problems with criminals that the law couldn't touch for whatever reason. Your perspective of "white flight" being a good thing in the eyes of the other whites who remained in their homes and who were glad to see the "haters" leave town, was one you don't hear about. Listening to some folks, you'd almost think at one point practically every white person in the south owned a slave or was a supporter of segregation and bigotry.

  
  
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  I came here three years ago for support and to make friends

  by KateWild in

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  this site is such a great and valuable resource and simon is to be commended for running it for so long.

  when i first came i was in such a bad state and really needed support and friendship.

  so many posters commented on my threads and showed genuine care some are real life friends, some are facebook friends, some i talk to on the phone and some are forum friends.. i have just realised though that everyone online is not your friend.

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  Howdy Kate,

  I have to remind myself that the friendships we create on this forum are "virtual friendships" and these friendships exist only in the imagination.

  It's easy for those of us who were around before the Internet, to employ the same social skills we developed for use in the real world, while socializing in cyberspace. Even when we are aware of the difference between real life friends and Virtual friends, it's easy to forget ourselves and "project our own "virtual warm feelings" onto others and have our real life feelings "virtually hurt" when they don't "respond virtually", in kind.

  I've found myself feeling a little hurt or offended when someone misunderstood one of my poorly written comments and half baked ideas or when someone hit the dislike button after reading something I had written. I have to remind myself that the narcissistic side of my personality needs to be kept in check when interacting online with those I consider to be Virtual friends. It would be easy to become preoccupied with wanting ones comments to be admired by everyone or to develop and inflated idea about our own importance to this forum, only to be hurt by the realization that we are not the center of the virtual universe.

  Also, it used to be that in order to be considered a bully, you actually had to do something mean to someone weaker than yourself. These days you can be labeled a bully by just typing a few disagreeable words in response to a comment made by someone you've never even met. I've read most of your posts Kate and I'm imagining you as someone who would be far from being easily bullied, virtually or otherwise.
  

  Anyway, the nice thing is, it's up to us to choose how we will react in the physical world, to the goings on of our imaginary friends in the virtual world.

  You always have something interesting to say or add to an ongoing discussion so I think you should just keep going as you have been only try not to wear your virtual heart on your virtual sleeve, (learned that lesson myself).
  

  Pete
  
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  Sixty People Murdered in Nice Terror Attack

  by cofty in

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  2. current

  crowds celebrating bastille day in nice, france have been targeted by a terrorist driving a truck.. initial reports of 60 dead and 100 injured.. i am losing track of how many similar attacks there have been in europe in recently..

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  I don't think a news item has ever caught me so off guard and made me so upset. After the string of upsetting news items that have pummeled the U.S lately, I didn't realize I was in such an emotional state. This news really upsets me.

  I'm tired.

  I think we are all getting tired of this kind of thing. It's terrible, an attack on everyone, innocent people just trying to have a good time, just senseless, pointless violence. I am almost afraid to turn on the news anymore.

  In view of the "critical times hard to deal with" teachings we had drummed into our heads, I'm curious what other former JW's think the explanation as to why this is happening so much lately.
  
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  JW Cart Witnessing = ONE BIG JOKE

  by Black Man in

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  was talking to a good buddy of mine a couple days ago (we pioneered and were in bethel together and have both left the cult a few years ago), about the current cart and d. and the consensus was that it is now a complete joke.

  was watching a couple witnesses last week sit at a table with their literature display.

  no approaching people for conversation, no initiating stimulating dialogue with passerbys, as was encouraged when i "pioneered" back in the day.

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  My dyed-in-the-wool pioneer JW mom had a shift on the cart witnessing and telling me that you've got to be approved by the service committee in order to be qualified to sit there aimlessly for hours, which is just stupefying to me.

  Cults typically set up ways to "reward" or give "privileges" to subtly elevate certain ones above others to make their meaningless tasks seem more prestigious. Much like when one kindergartener gets a gold star, the others are envious and try harder.
  
  

  
  
  
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  unemployed bethel art dept. personell surface.

  by aintenoughwiskey in

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  my jadar lit up.

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  Perhaps the Watchtower is printing these as a sideline for additional income since the Watchtower isn't doing so well.
  
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  The story of a secret Apostate Anointed

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  the remarkable sister pettifog.

  this morning i arrived on my bicycle at the local starbucks early, before the intensity of the texas sun boiled to full blaze rendering me a soggy, wrung out mess.. i took up my perch on the outdoor patio in the shade, eager to work on my book of short stories.

  this will be my 3rd book and i’ve been enjoying the process daily.. .

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  Interesting story...thanks for sharing it. It goes to show you how dismissive they are of the elderly and of women within the congregation. If you're not young, you don't matter much so they don't have to take you seriously or worry about your personal power. She was able to fly under the radar and "undo" some of the "good" she though she was doing in her younger years.
  
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  How did all these civilizations survive the flood?

  by losthobbit in

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  flood 2304 bc (http://creation.com/the-date-of-noahs-flood).

  neolithic 8500-1500 bc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_neolithic_cultures_of_china).

  egyption dynasty 4 2613 to 2494 bc, dynasty 5: 2494 to 2345 bc, dynasty 6: 2345 - 2181 bc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_ancient_egyptian_dynasties).

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  There is a lot of debate about the accuracy of secular history and the dating of the pyramids for example but the question remains even if you strictly go by the Bibles chronology, how did the eight survivors of the flood, repopulate the world so quickly from the time of the flood to the time when the pyramids and great cities and civilizations came to be?