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  Did you make artificial smiles at the hall?

  by JH in

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  i smiled alot at the hall.. but i think it was all artificial !!!.

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  I don't like thinking about it now...so embarrassing.
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  The Battery is almost Dead.

  by KW13 in

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  for over 100 years the same message of doom and gloom for the world has been preached with a twist.

  if your a jehovah's witness you can be saved.. .

  i think people are tired of expecting the end of the system, the older generation (there are more older ones than younger i am guessing) are seeing the end of their lives when they thought they never would and some of them probably think about the false prophecy.. .

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  Scottsperson declared: Jehovahs organisation goes from strength to strength. Increase every year. Special tract campaign will help to sort the deserving from the not so deserving.

  You're such a comedian! Most amusing. Thanks for the laughs.
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  The Battery is almost Dead.

  by KW13 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for over 100 years the same message of doom and gloom for the world has been preached with a twist.

  if your a jehovah's witness you can be saved.. .

  i think people are tired of expecting the end of the system, the older generation (there are more older ones than younger i am guessing) are seeing the end of their lives when they thought they never would and some of them probably think about the false prophecy.. .

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  I wonder what the attitude will be when, again, nothing happens after their big tract campaign?

  Hopefully a few more people wake from their WTS-induced stupor.
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  Watchtower strengthens families they say ???

  by JH in

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  in the new kn # 37, we read that the watchtower "strengthens families" ???.

  didn't jesus say just the opposite ?.

  didn't jesus say, the father would be turned against the son, and the mother against the daughter because of me ?.

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  Yep...its all about how they look. They say all the right things and people get the idea that they strive to attain what they say their goals are but the reality isn't truly about being better people, its all about the facade they present to the world.
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  Fuzzy Right-of-Way Rules Leads to Pathetic, Awkward, Theocratic Dork Fight

  by Check_Your_Premises in

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  apupi - idaho.

  "there were watchtowers and osmond cd's strewn around everywhere" recalled the shaken resident marjorie spade, whose yard was the setting for a lame, sissy fight.

  "i couldn't believe that in this day and age we still are fighting religious wars", she said in the aftermath of the flailing, ineffectual fracas.. apparantly the outbreak of faith-based nerd violence took place when two groups of youths approached eachother while out in their respective ministries.

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  Nice report, CYP.
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  Disfellowshipping in America- more commonplace

  by dido in

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  when i was in the states, texas to be accurate, i attended some congs and got to speak to a few people, and i couldn`t believe how many times individuals were d/f, sometimes 3 or 4 times, and they were also married the same times as well, in the so called `truth`.

  i did feel that it made a mockery of the `truth` as in england, most people are only d/f once, very rarily twice or more.

  i know america is more advanced in many areas, good things and bad, but i was shocked at the ratio out there.

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  In the Illinois congregation that I attended there was one guy who'd been df'd several times and he kept coming back for more. I never did get to know him because most of the time we weren't allowed to speak to him. lol I can't remember what his problem was...I'm thinking something to do with immorality because I believe he was married a couple of times. (One assumes that he perhaps wasn't scripturally free to remarry...not certain, tho).

  There was another gal who was df'd two or three times too. She had three kids, I'm thinking that they may have all had different fathers...or maybe there were only two men involved. This all happened before I knew her, so I'm fuzzy on the details. She was df'd...or maybe only reproved... while I knew her because she got together with a brother from our congo and was discovered. She then moved to TX and I heard that she'd been df'd there.

  In the CT congo I don't remember anybody with multiple DFings. But by then, I was really on the fringes of the org so I'm sure I didn't know everything that was going on.
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  IN YOUR OPINION

  by Honesty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does the watchtower society show the bait and hide the hook when it comes to being open and honest with newly interested ones?.

  in other words, do they make themselves appear to have all the answers, the most righteous crowd and the only truth from god until a person is hooked by the 'fear factor' that unless they conform to watchtower doctrines they will surely be destroyed by god at armageddon or, if they decide the jw's are not for them they will never be resurrected should they die before armageddon?.

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  They definitely skim over some of those "deeper" subjects in the beginning. I know the gal who studied with me often made the comment that I would understand better as I became a more "spiritual" person. I also know she sincerely believed this.

  What's funny is that she also told me (when I expressed distress about seemingly good non-Witnoids and their innocent little children being destroyed by Jah) that a person could be very sincere in their beliefs but that didn't mean that they weren't sincerely wrong (and it was up to us to enlighten them ::sigh::). Pot, meet kettle.
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  "Won't you all look stupid when Armageddon comes!"

  by jgnat in

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  2. bible

  i've often pondered the impossibility of arguing with an armageddon-believer.

  it's like, the only way you can prove they are wrong is out-wait them.

  and if they refuse to set a date, well, you'd be staring the poor prophet down when you are wobbly, grey, and snaggle-toothed.

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  I was so stupid as to tell my ex that I wouldn't be surprised if Armageddy didn't come before the year 2000. I was completely convinced that it would happen. Of course, I still hedged my bets in fine WTS-style by not making a pronouncement that it definitely would happen before 2000, only that I wouldn't be surprised. Still, even with my careful wording, all he heard was that I expected the end of the earth by 2000 and any time I talked to him afterward he threw that in my face. Nothing like being humbled by your jackass of an ex-husband. Good thing I don't talk to him any more.
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  See Ya Next Year!

  by HadEnuf in

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  (emotional music swelling in background) good-by hostas, roses, coneflowers and daisies.

  farewell astilbe, vinca, hops, black-eyed susans.

  adieu to sweet potato vines, ferns, day lilies and cat mint.

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  luna2

  Sorry, HadEnuf, I am very, very sorry you got snow and all your flowers and things died. Very sorry. very.
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  See Ya Next Year!

  by HadEnuf in

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  (emotional music swelling in background) good-by hostas, roses, coneflowers and daisies.

  farewell astilbe, vinca, hops, black-eyed susans.

  adieu to sweet potato vines, ferns, day lilies and cat mint.

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  luna2

  Apple crisp...Mmmmm...with ice cream.

  We're supposed to drop into the 40's tomorrow. Fine with me. I like the 40's. Don't want snow, tho.