Wasanelder Once

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  237,000 illegal migrants in the last 5 months... is it time to intervene?

  by silentbuddha in

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  is it possible that anyone being truthful with themself can literally believe that there needs to be a cork placed in this problem.. if this continues, and most sources, not speaking about fox, are suggesting this is only going to get worse and at this rate there will be over 750k illegal migrants.

  how are we suppose to sustain this influx.

  the massive amounts of children flooding the schools in my own municipality is crippling, for many of the counties residents.. as an example the entire county offered free breakfast and lunch to all students.

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  Where are you getting these statistics? I'm not being a jerk, I sincerely want to know. This is what I read in Forbes:

  “While the president has focused the nation’s attention on the border wall, half a million U.S. undocumented residents from Mexico left the undocumented population in 2016 alone, more than three times the number that arrived that year, leading to an overall decrease of nearly 400,000 undocumented residents from Mexico from 2016 to 2017,” according to new research from Robert Warren, a demographer and senior visiting fellow at the Center for Migration Studies.
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  If The Cap Fits

  by jhine in

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  l sat in church on sunday listening to this sermon by ray , one of our lay readers , thinking " l wish that the good folk on jwn could hear this , they might be quite surprised " then l thought " why not share it ?

  mark 13:1-13.

  " l wonder what you make of this reading from mark .

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  Wasanelder Once

  Thanks for warning me that a sermon was to follow. It saved me from what I think is a waste of time. I love your posts when they are your words. Keep them coming.
  
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  Need Help - How do I refute this???

  by HappyBlessedFree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i was talking with my husband about all the things the organization is doing ie.

  hiding pedophiles, lying about what 1914 was etc.

  so his response was that the nation of israel had times when they weren’t doing the right thing, but it was still gods chosen organization.. another topic we were talking about was disfellowshipping.

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  Wasanelder Once

  Mt. 10 has traditionally been used to explain how a household would be divided when someone chose to follow Christ, not Disfellowshipping.

  When the Jews rejected Jehovah, he rejected his organization. Their house was abandoned to them as I recall. He dropped the whole organization, not the bad apples on their own.

  Why wouldn't he do the same with the JW organization?
  
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  Will You Stop Listening To Michael Jackson’s Music?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since the hbo documentary, more people are condemning mj.

  will these child abuse allegations affect you if you ever liked his music?.

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  Wasanelder Once

  Frank Sinatra was a morally corrupt person yet you cannot deny nor ignore his gift as a singer. Yes, separate I can.
  
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  Leaving Neverland the Micheal Jackson documentary

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  leaving neverland the micheal jackson documentary was just released and i must say watching it myself left me pretty disgusted but not necessarily surprised.. being that there is two accounts given by two separate boys, men now, leaves the impression that their stories are truthful and factual.. what one can take from this story is that mj was a megalomaniac that thought he had the power, money and personal stature to get away with just about anything he wanted, this included pedophilia with boys.

  i wonder if the over oppression restrictive nature of being brought up a child in the jws religion had an effect to his loose out of control behavior of a super rich celebrity ?.

  his celebrity status and wealth really came to him when he was a pubescent young boy/teen, money in such a huge amount made anything he wanted or could afford possible.. personally i think he was inherently gay and had pursued arranged marriages to protect his perceived public image, a pretentious act which was mostly devised as a money and business endeavor .

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  Pedophiles are notoriously NOT gay.
  
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  Lets face it. Baptism is a lie.

  by nowawake14 in

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  i remember when i did.

  i was in hs when that happened.

  i wasn't even awake yet.

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  It's not the same for everyone, I know that's a shock for some. I was 16 and knew exactly what it meant for me. I made on conscious decision based on facts. I compared religions and doctrines, I made a thorough investigation and knew what DFing meant. Of course it was fake, all religion is fake as far as I am concerned, but out of all of them this seemed to be it. They really knew how to appeal to psuedo intellectualism and guilt. Bastards.
  
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  Ending Bible Study

  by Maria Nieves in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been studying with jehovah's witnesses for approximately two years.

  initially, i liked the studies and felt that i was growing closer to god.

  however, as the studies progressed, they seemed to become increasingly negative and i did not like what i was being taught.

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  Wasanelder Once

  Maria, by stopping your studies you will force their hand and they will show you just how conditional their friendships are. Once they do you won't have any problem seeing where their loyalty lies. In reality you are a notch on someone's belt.
  
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  Michael Cohen... sleazebag or patriot?

  by Queequeg in

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  so, what do you think?

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  fwiw, i say sleazebag....

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  Wasanelder Once

  Where is the indignation towards Donald Trump for banging a porn star while his wife is home with his newborn son? Once a liar always a liar? How noble.
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses admit child sex abuse by Elders

  by Not_Culty in

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  Wasanelder Once

  "The 1986 Watchtower article speaks about certain Governing Body members who had to resign due to rumored sinful practices".

  Not in anyone's defense but I don't believe that 1986 article gave any names or stated anything about "certain Governing Body members".

  It's not right to refer to something that may be assumed but is NOT written. I think it said, "prominent ones" and did not name names. There have been many "prominent ones" who were not Gov Body members in addition to the non prosecuted and non-convicted persons named by Caminante. Lurkers may look up the reference and see that assumptions are being read as quoted material, thus losing any faith in the comments found here.
  
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  The awful treatment of my disfellowshipped cousin still continues

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my cousin was disfellowshipped twenty years ago when he was 18 years old.

  he admitted to the congregation elders that he was fornicating with his ''wordly'' girlfriend.

  the elders were following him and hiding in their cars to see what he was up to.

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  Wasanelder Once

  Divide and conquer seems to be the intent. Criminal organization.