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  Changes in the last 7-ish years?

  by FinchAndWeston in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what has changed in the last 7 years?

  just curious .... 1) do they still shun?

  what's the policy on da's, df's and a?.

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  Village Idiot

  They've got television now. Go to JW.org and you'll find it. They even have cartoons for children including one where a little girl sacrificed her ice cream money to make a donation to the Watchtower organization.
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  Shunning: is it still practiced?

  by FinchAndWeston in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  are df, da and apostates still shunned?

  are each treated differently?

  i heard a secondhand report that they seemed to have eased up on this practice ...

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  Azor:

  Im not DA'd or DF'd and all my siblings ignored my invitation to come to my 8 year old son's end of chemo party. It truly is disgusting what this group brings people to.

  Sorry to hear that Azor. It seems that no matter how many wretched examples I hear there is always one that is worse.
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  Why did I take the red pill?

  by stephanie61092 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ignorance really is bliss and reality is harsh.

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  just having a bad, emotional day i suppose.

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  Village Idiot

  It was simply my nature to choose red. I was too curious to do otherwise. I don't miss it either.
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  Why all the hate...

  by Dystopia in

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  ...toward jehovah's witnesses?

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  Village Idiot

  Dystopia, they are the hatemongers. We simply respond to their hatred with or without hatred ourselves. Do you know what they've done to us?

  • Stolen our future by telling us not to go to college or university.
  • Stolen our present by having us go door to door.
  • Molested some of us while the molesters are protected.
  • Isolating us from what would be good friends outside the religion.
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  What would you do if you won a $300 million lottery

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i would pay a highly rated, very expensive advertising company to run a 1 minute ad that ran nationwide primetime every night of the week until i spent $75 million of it telling how the wt was covering over pedophiles and for people to go to jwfacts.com for the truth about the truth.

  it would be done in very good taste, way better than political ads.

  i would spare no expense.

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  Village Idiot

  And the things I would not get:

  A huge mansion. They are so impersonal. A three to four bedroom house would be just fine.

  Although I would get a quality automobile I would not get any luxury cars. I have no interest in showing off.

  Ten thousand dollar watches. My twenty dollar one is just fine.

  Toilets made of gold. I don't know if brown will match with it.
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  You are tomato sauce...

  by rrb2016 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the wife and i went to the memorial strictly out of respect for my mother-in-law last night.

  luckily our 20 month-old grand-baby was restless and making noise, so i quickly volunteered to take him in the back.

  so i didn't have to listen to the presentation.

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  Village Idiot

  Tomato sauce is yummy. I'm going to anoint the Flying Spaghetti Monster with it.

  
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  New Memorial Songs Were Very Good, IMO

  by RubaDub in

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  i guess we can agree to differ, but i personally found the new memorial songs (147, 149) to be very good, at least from a musical perspective.

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  rub a dub .

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  Is it possible that the songs were plagiarized?
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  Wearing a Guy Fawkes mask outside a JW Convention.

  by SonoftheTrinity in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i don't want my wife recognizing me, but i feel like making an anti-jw scene.

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  You won't make an impact on them.
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  What would you do if you won a $300 million lottery

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i would pay a highly rated, very expensive advertising company to run a 1 minute ad that ran nationwide primetime every night of the week until i spent $75 million of it telling how the wt was covering over pedophiles and for people to go to jwfacts.com for the truth about the truth.

  it would be done in very good taste, way better than political ads.

  i would spare no expense.

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  Village Idiot

  Two houses, two cars and one village.

  Then I would contribute a few million dollars to certain charities and organizations. A small amount to a little church that gave me free food when I needed it a large amount to a website dedicated to educating the public about global warming.

  Then I would invest in stocks from companies that are at the cutting edge of advanced technology.
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  My Personal Invitation to the Celebration of the Lord's Evening Meal

  by TMS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  by no means is this a heartwarming "experience" illustrating how an ex-jw skillfully "reached the heart" of a current jw, moving them to re-examine their belief system.

  that won't be my take on my half hour visit with an elder's wife last sunday.

  no one scored points here as is almost always the case in these interactions.. we live at the extreme southern tip of texas, on the u.s.-mexico border in a city of about 200,000. twenty years ago there were 20 spanish language congregations, 2 english.

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  Village Idiot

  The title of this thread just made me think of something. Their phrase "The Lord's evening meal" is the only time that the JWs refer to Jesus as their Lord.