Pete Zahut
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Has anyone seen this?
by wokeup ingoogle: vintage freemason compilation collinsworth family.. several pages into the program has a familiar face..
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2018 Courage Convention video invitation
by Listener inthe video invitation for the 2018 convention is just creepy.
i thought it was some parody at first as it seems 'dark'.it begins with a young man being pushed whilst standing at his locker and the voice over says that 'in critical times we need courage more than ever'.
next, comes a clip of a male putting his hand on the shoulder of a female worker, the look she gives him would be enough to give him nightmares for the next year.
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Pete Zahut
pale.emperor 4 hours ago
Also, we need to caption competition this beauty:Why should we assume the man gently touching her shoulder is a "worldly" co-worker?
Who's to say she doesn't work from home and that the man touching her, isn't her Husband?
(P.S. I notice they made sure this "sister" was wearing extra eye makeup.)
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Wasted A #@$%&!** Day
by FedUpJW inwell i got to waste another day.
for the sake of still in family i attended the circuit assembly.
they say a joy shared is doubled, and a burden shared is halved.
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Pete Zahut
Theme was Don't Give Up In Fulfilling The Law of Christ.
How does one fulfill the Law ?
I could see them saying "Don't give up obeying or following the law of Christ" but fulfilling seems more like a term one would use when speaking about a prophecy.
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Retirement Planning
by Whynot insince waking up i can't help but look at the future in a different way.
while i was working i felt it was ridiculous for me to start a 401k because i thought for sure the end would come before i retired.
but now, i'm a stay at home mom with very small children and it bothers me that i have done nothing to prepare for the future.
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Pete Zahut
Good for you for facing up to something that a lot of people find a bit scary and overwhelming to think about. Sometimes it feels as if the small amount you may have available to invest now, isn't worth bothering with but it's not true.
Suze Ormon focuses a lot on financial tips for women. https://www.google.com/search?q=suze+ormon+tips+for+women&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b
She even has a podcast that you could listen to in the car or have playing in the background while you do other things. https://www.podcastone.com/suze-ormans-women-and-money-show
If your husband has a company matched investment program at work, be sure and put as much as you can in that because the portion they match, is basically free money.
I was thinking of getting a Roth IRA since my husband works I can do that. What have uou guys done?
I have a pension plan at work that I've been paying into for about 32 years. My JW contemporaries said I'd never be able to use it but here I am, ready to take early retirement any time now because I didn't listen to them. It will pay me 65% of my highest wage for the rest of my life when I retire and when I'm gone, it will cover my wife for the rest of her life.
I also put the most I could into a "deferred compensation" 457(b) program that comes out of my paycheck before taxes. I found that because of the tax offset, you barely notice that it's gone. Once I begin using that money, I'll have to pay taxes on it but it will be at a lower tax rate because I'll be retired.
Each year when we'd do our taxes, we'd put the most money the IRS would allow us to invest, in an IRA. That way, instead of paying taxes at the end of the year, we'd get a pretty nice refund. For instance, this year, instead of getting a refund of around $200, we put around $11,000 in our IRA and will be getting nearly $2,000 back from the IRS.
I spent about 25 years doing jobs where the employer paid into Social Security but for the last 11 years I've been working in a job that has a Social Security replacement program. The idea is that if Social Security goes bust, the way they're predicting, this Social Security replacement will be there instead.
Historically when the stock market has a major downturn,it takes about 3 years for it to recover. I keep 1year of living expenses in a Money Market Account that has a guaranteed return, 2 years of living expenses in a Bond Account which are considered low risk. The rest I have invested in various Mutual funds.
The idea is that if the stock market takes a dive and I need my money, I'll have 3 years of living expenses to live on, giving it a chance to recover before I begin using my other funds.
My wife didn't work until our boys went into Jr High and then it was only part time. She is working full time now and has a pension plan that her employer pays into and she has her own IRA's etc.
I hope you get started investing with whatever minimum amount you are able to spare right now. You'll be glad you did even though it may seem like a pittance at first. Be sure and let the kids know what you're learning and let them see you being financially responsible and unafraid. It will give them a feeling of security and will be a good example to them in terms of being able to handle their own financial stability one day rather than being victims of whatever circumstance that may come their way.
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Famous last words spoken by every jdub at one time or another
by nowwhat? in"oh i'm not going to worry about it, armageddon will be here by then!".
-including me.
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The only reason the end hasn't come already is because Jehovah is lovingly extending it so that everyone gets a chance to hear the truth.
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My old congregation Auckland New Zealand
by karter inin 1991 we build a 250 seat hall and had 125 publishers so about 175 in attendance and filing fast.. just spoke to someone from my old congregation they now have 50 to 60 publishers and 100 in attendance on a good day.. very few pioneers.. seems this is happening everywhere.. karter..
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Pete Zahut
Because of the world wide reporting that takes place on this forum and our lack of fear to reveal unpleasant truths, we are seeing the whole scope of what's going on, whereas individual JW's tend to see the sale of the Kingdom Hall they attend, as is an isolated incident.
I think if they reversed the shunning policy or changed their stance on blood, it would be the final straw or the tipping point for a lot of long time JW's in terms of waking up to the fact that the whole thing is a made up hoax.
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KH hall 4 sale just whose waters are supposed to be drying up again?!
by nowwhat? inavon lake ohio.
while new mega church being built right down the street!.
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When a commercial airliner goes down, one of the first things the airline does at the crash scene is to paint out their name and logo on the side of the plane so the public won't associate them,with a crash.
You'd think for P.R reasons, the JW's would have at least taken their name off the sign in front of the Kingdom Hall before the For Sale sign went up. Visually, it gives the idea that they've failed and are going out of business. Not that I care, but the public tends to distance itself from the stink of failure.
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Song: The Life Of A Pioneer
by pale.emperor init struck me today how the lyrics to kingdom song 81 "the life of a pioneer" sound almost like a slave song from a plantation or something.
what's also sad is, if you read, you'll notice that they sound not only like slaves, but slaves that are admittedly tired and worn out yet grateful to serve their governing body overseers master to prove their devotion to him.. very sad indeed..
at the start of the day, with the sun yet to rise,.
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Pete Zahut
A song that is sure to bring out the martyr in all who sing it and an added sense of virtuousness because of what they must endure.
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You Know You're Starting To Wake Up When...
by pale.emperor inyou start listening to music deemed "unsuitable for christians".
you pretend to knock on the doors.
you explain a jw teaching to someone and realize how ridiculous it sounds.
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Pete Zahut
When you don't even bother to fill in the answers on the written review anymore.
When you, as a non drinker, have to duck out to your car for a quick nip of wine or beer just to calm the anxiety that attending the meeting induces. ( I had to do this toward the end of my JW days )
When you stop turning in time even though you have time to turn in.
When you ask to reschedule talks you've been assigned in the ministry school so much that they stop giving you assignments.
When you're attending an assembly in a stadium and instead of it being encouraging, it feels like you're having an out of body experience.
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Nephew’s JW Fiancée Begins Conversion to Judaism Due to Passover Date
by Rabbi Midge init’s been a while since i posted, but for those who remember, i came on here to get some information about jehovah’s witnesses because i have a nephew who was getting engaged to a girl who was a jehovah’s witness and, along with some other sites, i was recommended this one.. since then we’ve been busy with passover and jehovah’s witnesses have had something they call the memorial of christ’s death (i believe i have that right).
this clashing of the two observances apparently did more for this girl than anything else i ever saw in our months of conversations with her.. respectfully, jews do not proselytize.
these are people who, of their own desire, “join the tribe” after some years of study and practice--something this girl has just begun to do.
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Pete Zahut
This is a very interesting post and I'm so glad you've taken the time to lay out your views so well. Thank you !
It seems to me that main point of the Memorial is about the sacrifice Jesus made. The fact that it is still being remembered all of these centuries later is amazing in itself. I'm guessing that whether or not it is celebrated at the exact same moment each year, isn't all that important to Jesus. (if he actually exists)
The big issue to me is that the Jehovah's Witnesses teachings can be so off and so wrong yet I went along with them because as a kid, I somehow bought into the concept that the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses were being directly led by God himself (as if such a thing could was even provable).
As your Nephews fiance' found out, it is quite devastating and panic inducing when you discover that the belief system you've based your identity as a person upon, is flawed and is only one factoid away from crumbling like a house of cards. I'm guessing she like many of us, knew on some level that there was something that didn't add up about our beliefs. This could partially explain why she was able to adjust so quickly.