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  Brand New Shoes

  by APieceOfShitNamedTate in

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  i'm debuting these at the meeting sunday.

  all the other brothers will be jealous of me, and all of the sisters will want to date me with a view to marriage.

  don't try to talk me out of it.

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  Pete Zahut

  Does your Kingdom Hall have Cockroaches cause them shoes are what ya' call "Roach Killers"... you trap them when they run into a corner and get em' with the point of your fancy shoe. Round toed shoes are too short to reach into the corner.
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  Virginia Beach Shooting Victim a JW

  by RubaDub in

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  i didn't see it mentioned here yet, but this week at morning worship in bethel it was mentioned that one of the women shot and killed in the virginia beach shooting was a jw.. rub a dub.

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  Pete Zahut

  So heartbreaking to read the Father's words about his daughter and to image the kind of pain he must be in over this senseless occurrence. What a person is, often shows on their face and she looked to be lovely woman.
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  According to the Old Testament aren`t YHWH God and the then Nation of Israel guilty of War crimes by today`s standards? ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just going by memory here with regard to the "old testament' when god promised the land he chose for the jews ,flowing with milk and honey ?.

  their is no record in the bible of god ever giving an option to all the nations that already lived their to move on and he would compensate them at a new destination.?.

  apparently without warning he just charged up the israelite`s for war with these nations to evict them from this territory that they had resided in for who knows how long.. not only that ,they apparently spared no one in their conquests killing man,woman and even dashing children to pieces ,and not feeling sorry for anyone.. don`t people think that this is a bit barbaric ?.

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  Biblical accounts such as this make it easy for JWS today to “ dehumanize” the rest of the non JW world so they can feel positively giddy at the thought of them all soon being destroyed.
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  kingdom halls

  by inbetween09 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this weeks meeting features a video about maintaining kingdom halls.

  it mentions a few times, how kh belong to jehovah, and are dedicated to him.. anybody ever wondered, if they belong to jehovah, how come, they are being sold all the time?

  can you give something to jehovah and then take it back?

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  ....and Jehovah told us that he wants us to sell his Kingdom Hall, keep the proceeds and he wants you to keep sending us additional money. He told us that a faithful sheep follows instructions without asking questions or needing proof even if what they’re being instructed to do seems suspicious.
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  Pale.Emperor Summons Some Demons

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  remember when we were jws and all loved to hear demon stories?

  and then there was always that paranoid person that would shut us up "in case they're listening"?

  and the resident crazy every congregation seems to have that claims to have been possessed at some point?.

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  Pete Zahut

  You could have saved yourself all that trouble by looking at the millions upon millions who celebrate halloween every year and nary a demon is encountered.

  P.S. You might want to be careful of smoking anything wrapped in paper that contains potentially toxic/ carcinogenic ink and bleaches.
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  Shift in beliefs?

  by blankspace in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was wondering whether anyone observed this point in the previous week's wt study, in paragraph 17: "jehovah’s spirit moves “the faithful steward” to keep giving his servants their food supply.".

  i see this as a subtle move away from earlier claims to be channel for spiritual food.

  the gb earlier said that they weren't inspired or infallible.

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  Pete Zahut

  Double Think/ Double Speak .... whatever you want to call it, this is yet another example of a “ mixed message” put out by the Watchtower where the rank and file get to hear what they want to hear (ears tickled) and yet there’s an “out” for the Watchtower where they can claim that overzealous publishers read more into their comment than was intended.
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  Absolutely mind blowing. Wow just wow!!!!!

  by joe134cd in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.facebook.com/rafael.riveraarias.3/videos/2271651422931947/.

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  This kind of thing has long been tolerated in certain cultures so long as it wasn't done by westerners/europeans AKA white people. They are held to a different standard and are supposed to know better and be above this sort of thing which is supposedly borderline Pagan and even considered primitive.

  We were even told that it would be displeasing to Jehovah to have friends over to our homes to study Sunday's Watchtower lesson because it wasn't sanctioned by the Society. I can only imagine what would happen if we organized groups of singers and salsa dancers even if Kingdom Songs were what they sang and danced to.

  Kingdom songs were supposed to be a form of prayer or communication to Jehovah and were to be done in a reverent manner.
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  Inside The Lost Tunnels Under Brooklyn Heights

  by Tahoe in

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  2. friends

  https://youtu.be/l9e7nkzhyt4.

  from this article:.

  http://gothamist.com/2019/05/22/brooklyn_heights_tunnels_jehovahs_witnesses.php#photo-1.

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  Wow....that was a blast from the past from my Bethel days. The Commissary was kind of a nice amenity for us to have. There was also a few washers and dryers down there that were available for us to use if we got tired of having everything shrunk by the Bethel laundry.
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  Still dont get the friggin birthdays

  by nowawake14 in

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  i have read extensively about the origins of birthdays, and i still don't get it.

  but it's not what it means today.. even wedding veils were used to ward off the "evil eye".

  but it's not what it means today.

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  They used to use the account from the Bible where John the Baptist was beheaded and his head was presented on a serving platter at the birthday celebration of Pharaoh's Daughter.

  I never saw how that account meant that we shouldn't celebrate birthdays. What I took away from it was that we should never behead anyone at a birthday celebration and we probably shouldn't use serving platters since the Pagans apparently used them.

  For that reason, we always used to acknowledge our boys birthdays by recanting the story of the day they were born and getting them a little something special even if it was only a special dessert at dinner, just for them.

  Now that they're grown up and the Watchtower is a thing of the past, I'm glad that we went with our gut on that one (a few others as well) and we weren't robbed of yet another harmless life experience.
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  2019 BOE Elders letter May 13 England - Ireland Data Protection

  by Not_Culty in

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  https://tinyurl.com/y2bzncu9.

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  Pete Zahut

  I remember when I was a kid back in the 70's my Mother called at the door of a young couple who showed interest. It was the 70's so the guy had long hair and faded jeans, the girl had beads around her neck and was wearing faded patched jeans etc. My Mother was fastidious about keeping the required house to house records and also wrote their names and address in her own "Return Visit / Back Call " book and made a note that said "Young Hippie Couple" to remind herself of their conversation.

  When she called on them again, she left her "Return Visit" book open and the young woman saw the note and said indignantly "We're not Hippies !"

  Mom was embarrassed of course and tried to explain that to someone of her generation, anyone with long hair and faded jeans, was what was they though of as a Hippie, which of course isn't true.

  Try as she might to apologize, the young woman suddenly lost interest and my Mom learned a hard lesson about not pigeon holing people based on their appearance. Mom always felt that the ministry was a life saving work and keeping accurate house to house records was of utmost importance so that no one was missed. She worried that she may be held responsible for "stumbling" a potential sheep in this particular instance.

  I think she'd have felt better had she known that 4 decades later, the end didn't come after all and in fact they would be told not to keep house to house records at all.