Being honest with yourself is the best effort in life. A self inventory now and again can keep a person from becoming an automaton. The JW's desire all to be cookie cutter persons, slaves to a communal dullness and self deception. You have run with your hands in the air in sweet surrender to reality. The other hostages can't see the great crowd surrounding the bank where the Governing body keeps a gun filled with painful blanks pointed at them. Applause to you. Take courage and know others are with you.
Wasanelder Once
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Day 1: The Night of Anger, Tears, and Pain
by Saethydd inmy freedom came with a heavy cost.
i couldn't stand the dishonesty so when my sister went out of town on a trip i told my parents that i no longer wanted to be a jw.
when my sister got back and i told her she was so angry, said she really wanted to slap me, then she ran off sobbing, a few minutes later she deposited every gift i ever gave her in front of my door.. my entire family has turned against me.
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If a person is transgender and gets saved what will they go to heaven as?
by Nikorasu95 ini know this is a stupid question because the answer is obvious, but if a person was born a male and gets transgender surgery to turn into female will that person go to heaven as a male or female if they died saved?
i think they will go to heaven with the gender they were born with.
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Wasanelder Once
As a ghost. Perhaps a pirate or a clown?
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Asking a Jew about the Name "Jehovah"
by David_Jay injehovah's witnesses...that's the trademark of the religion, the use of the name "jehovah.
" if there is anything jws and non-jws can agree on is that this one thing sets them apart from everybody else.. i have only had witnesses come to my door less than five times since i left in the 1990s.
i guess they don't work the territory i live in often, or perhaps after that first time (which was still after the year 2000) they have marked the words "jew who knows a lot" or something in their notes on my address.
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Too long, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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When was the first time you said, "thank you for your service" to someone?
by Coded Logic inmine was to some random guy in uniform i saw on the street about two years ago.
even as a jw i knew that we had a lot of freedoms here in the us that were hard earned.
it felt really good to finally be able to say in person to someone when i i did..
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Wasanelder Once
Coded, cool. You spend your life and the lives of your youngsters to stop the current rape in Africa, or the middle east or wherever. I say stop the culture that teaches that it's ok. Stop dumping billions in aid to the very same criminal countries where we prop up the dictator who later is exposed for the raping our government knew about all along. Nope, my kids will be taught not to die for bullshit governments. Our life is our own. Feel free to go rapist hunting if it makes you feel better. It's ironic that we never were put in danger of Vietnamese people until the war was over and they came to California and formed the most horrific gangs. Now they are definitely raping people. All those brave soldiers that didn't get a hug were used to make a mess and then it came back to bite us in the ass. Come to California and help prevent rapes!
"In the long-established mostly Mexican barrios along Anaheim Street, where increasing numbers of shops now display pictures of the temple of Angkor Wat, residents take refuge in their homes after dark, some turning off their lights for safety, as carloads of young men with guns cruise the streets."
"It's just like in a war zone," he said. "Everybody is scared. But you see, we Cambodians have no country to go back to. Our homeland is a war zone."
"Officer Chittapalo said Long Beach's Cambodians learned from Vietnamese gang members. "They had very good teachers who taught them very well: extortion, armed robbery, rape and other things like drive-by shootings," he said."
When you see a Vietnam vet, thank them for that. My point is, the soldier is not in charge of the war they are sent to, but they can choose whether or not to engage in a job where they kill for hire.
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When was the first time you said, "thank you for your service" to someone?
by Coded Logic inmine was to some random guy in uniform i saw on the street about two years ago.
even as a jw i knew that we had a lot of freedoms here in the us that were hard earned.
it felt really good to finally be able to say in person to someone when i i did..
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Codedlogic, so who picks which genocide to go to war over? There are currently 9 countries experiencing genocide. http://genocidewatch.net/alerts-2/new-alerts/
Which country is responsible to send their sons and daughters to die? Should I send the son or daughter I gave life to? They should die by the bullet of some ignorant warlord? All that love and life invested should be ended to do some altruistic bullshit that will continue either way because there is no money to be made in doing it right? I have no faith in the hereafter so this is it. You die, end of experiences. Show over.
In the U.S. we currently have a volunteer army. Basically they are seeking a job, though some really want to serve their country. The problem is they are paid to kill for the powers that be. Do as you wish. I cannot thank them for their service.
Vietnam? Who fought in Vietnam? Who benefited from that debacle? I was never in danger from the North Vietnamese. These gleaming heroes fought a war where they had to request permission to shoot. Not only was it a worthless endeavor but the U.S army draft was rigged against those less affluent. I'm sure many of those legless African American vets don't feel like heroes because they were targeted in the draft and knew they were cannon fodder. They didn't fight to win, they fought merely to survive.
"The draft did pose a major concern. Selective Service regulations offered deferments for college attendance and a variety of essential civilian occupations that favored middle- and upper- class whites. The vast majority of draftees were poor, under-educated, and urban—blue-collar workers or unemployed. This reality struck hard in the African American community. Furthermore, African Americans were woefully underrepresented on local draft boards; in 1966 blacks accounted for slightly more than 1 percent of all draft board members, and seven state boards had no black representation at all."
Because you hug them and I don't, it doesn't mean I don't feel pity for the mess they either willing or unwillingly ended up in.
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When was the first time you said, "thank you for your service" to someone?
by Coded Logic inmine was to some random guy in uniform i saw on the street about two years ago.
even as a jw i knew that we had a lot of freedoms here in the us that were hard earned.
it felt really good to finally be able to say in person to someone when i i did..
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Wasanelder Once
War is a reality we face in this life. When a man protects his family it is a sort of war that includes a sense of honor. When it comes to wars where the goal is simply financial or ideologically motivated, killing people in lands which have posed no threat to our "family", ie. nation, I cannot thank a soldier for their service. Can I really thank the soldier who volunteers to fight but has no compunction about the slaughter of 100's of thousands of Iraqi or Vietnamese women and children for corporations like Halliburton or big oil? It was never simply that Jehovah hates killing that tempered my opinion. Tell me please, when besides Pearl Harbor has the United States been directly attacked by another nation? Even the attack of 9/11 was not by a specific nation. I cannot be moved to thank pawns in the wars during my lifetime. If the fight were so noble, why so much mental anguish for the horrors they were subjected to, senseless slaughter of the innocent and the loss of battle buddies to the madness of goalless battles with no clear purpose or end in sight.
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Fatherless Boys
by JW_Rogue inthe wt teaches that "fatherless boys" need special care and attention in the congregation.
however, as brought out at the rc their definition of "fatherless boys" includes boys that have actual fathers who maybe very well qualified to teach and raise their sons.
according to wt, if either of your parents aren't jws then you are a "fatherless boy.
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Wasanelder Once
What better way to open the door for the pedophiles? Take a "trusted adult" and put them with a child who will look up to them as sent from God to handle the spiritual need that good ol' dad has neglected. Next thing you know there's trouble right here in River City. (Music Man reference).
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Is a born-in brought up in a JW home like being a child inmate being raised in prison?
by Still Totally ADD ini bring up this subject because of all the restrictions children have to endure in the jw cult.
they are made prisoners of mind and body.
being forced to do things that are not natural for children to do.
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Things are relative. Hard core JW parents can be restrictive, other parents of born ins do not outlaw a modicum of worldliness. There is no hardfast rule. Life is how it works itself out, don't sell all JW parents down the river as zealots. Those that are true believers can be true Aholes, but so can some converts. There is a saying, "There's nothing worse than a converted sinner."
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Gas or Electric Stove
by just fine ini am getting new appliances.
i have decided on black stainless for the finish.
the house is stubbed for gas and electric for the range.
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Wasanelder Once
Gas is king.
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Southern California USA Congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses On High Alert
by JW GoneBad incircuit overseers, elders, ministerial servants, pioneers and rank & file are stressed out over an ex-jw (kevin) who has visited nearly 20 congregations (orange county) and has high-jacked the opening prayers and done some effective witnessing before he is escorted to the back door.
and everything is caught on video!.
kevin is also visiting numerous jw cart locations from the los angeles area to orange county and giving a most effective wiitness at each location and they're all on video.
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To each their own. He was childish and disrespectful. All he accomplished was to confirm apostates are rude and self serving. If that works for him, more power to him. Me? I would have popped him one if he were in my face like that.