tootired2care
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Star Wars - rare Uncle Owen action figure, do you have one?
by tootired2care ini saw this, and laughed for a good while and had to share it, i don't know what is wrong with me...lol.. .
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Looks like the WT$ and the Catholics are gearing up for a turf war
by tootired2care inpope tells bishops to get out of their churches .
pope francis on saturday challenged bishops from around the world to get out of their churches and preach, and to have the courage to go to the farthest margins of society to find the faithful.. this should prove to be an interesting spectacle to watch.
do you think the catholics will actually get some traction?.
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No doubt Noah took the lead in family worship...
by tootired2care in"no doubt".
wasn't family worship night invented in 2010?
the writers at bethel really are getting more stupid, this was taken from the latest august 1st watchtower.
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Was Jesus admonition to remain no part of the world good advice or not?
by tootired2care inin thinking about my own life, i think i can safely trace most of my excluded outcast childhood to jesus words in the bible to: "remain no part of the world".
sure the wts in their legalistic thinking probably mis-applied this text, but it's still a prominent belief for other groups like the amish too.. no doubt many of us ex witnesses have issues with our childhood, who doesn't, right?
still, that admonition from jesus in my opinion has so much wrong with it.
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Investments/Stocks & the Wall St. Casino
by tootired2care inthe stock market has had a big run-up over the last few years.
i believe this is in large part because the federal reserve and treasury dept.
have been pumping it up with fake money--you may disagree.
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Would a downtown NY public protest against shunning help or harm the Watchtower Corp?
by tootired2care inso i was having an interesting thought the other night -- albeit probably not original, but interesting.
what would be accomplished if thousands of us banded together and held a huge protest of the issue of shunning family right behind the governing body's headquarters (25 columbia heights) in brooklyn bridge park?
the shunning of non-believing family is a strong issue that i'm sure everyone of us could get behind 100%.
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Will the Watchtowers growth in the third world keep them around for decades to come?
by tootired2care ini suspect the wt is going to continue to see slowing growth in all western lands as time goes on.
it seems to me though that there is so many potential suckers out there in the third world that will keep coming into the wt because of lack of internet, education or falling victim to love bombing as many of us did here at one time.
i think it's going to get really tough for them as the western land money dries up though.
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Sandy Hook Massacre - Solutions
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How did you break the news to your parents?
by tootired2care inso one of the things both me and my wife are faced with is breaking the news that we've stopped going to meetings to our parents.
my wifes parents could go either way, they have made several critical remarks of the wt over the years, while my parents are die hard jw's.
i tossed the idea around of sending a letter or doing a phone call or just not saying anything.. we've decided that were just tired of having to hide our true feelings and play pretend.
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Freedom from religion foundation - I'm joining!
by tootired2care inafter leaving jw's i have come to really despise religion, and how it manipulates and controls people.
what really irks me is when people try to inject their religious ideals into public policy in this day and age.. modern examples of where the mixing of religion and politics is bad for people is; countries like iran, where you get stoned for apostacy against muhammad, or countries like england where they are allowing people to get sharia law going.
we also have christians trying to get their ideals back into governments and schools like prayers at schools right here in the u.s.. imho such things are unnacceptable for public policy in this age of scientific understanding.