OnTheWayOut

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  Gun Nuts...

  by silentbuddha in

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  anyone here into guns.

  i know alot of the euros here hate the idea but i wonder if there are any other members who are collectors or who are into hunting, target shooti g etc.. no shame zone?.

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  I haven't heard any follow-up on how it's being received. My stepfather, a gun nut who attends meetings for the sake of his JW wife, wants the elders at the Kingdom Hall to attend some classes about arming the flock and being ready for a shooter to come into the Kingdom Hall.
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  Please Switch Off Your Critical Thinking

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have an uneasy feeling inside that something is coming this year or the next.

  perhaps a new big announcement that turns jwdom on it's head.. we've seen the statement in the watchtower november 15th, 2013 which said:.

  watchtower november 15th, 2013 - page 20, paragraph 17.. .

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  Removing any doomsday connection dooms the organization. They thrive on "The sky is falling...soon."

  Increased shunning would be difficult for even hardcore members. It would have to be tied to some major doomsday-connected announcement, or else it will shake out many more members.

  One day soon, they may announce a 2034 deadline, but I see that as a last big gasp from a nearly dead organization. Right now, it is most likely they will do more money/property/merging congregations stuff....or put all literature online and shut down printing.
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  What is attractive?

  by Freedom rocks in

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  2. relationships

  has anyone found that since leaving the borg that their tastes have changed in what they find attractive in the opposite sex?

  beards, long hair, tattoo's, etc).

  i don't now if it's just my taste changing as i get older or if it's coz beards were frowned upon by the society that i find them attractive now and didn't when i was younger 😊.

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  I am so much more appreciative of others doing whatever makes them happy, including tats or long hair, short hair, no hair. Don't really care for beards on ladies, but if it makes her happy, she seems more beautiful in it.
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  Dead Wrong (A Tolerance for Ambiguity)

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is your level of tolerance for ambiguity?.

  ambiguity is a clunky, uncomfortable word, imho.. .

  ambiguity means "open to more than one interpretation".

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  Bill Clinton meant that '... "at this very moment," (currently) Monica is not sucking my penis.'
  
  While that's true, it is just as bad as (but not any worse than) telling everyone that their definition or understanding of "illegal immigration" is wrong and yours is correct. Or that we must agree that the glass is defined as half full or half empty according to your rules.
  
  Have you ever run for office? Like Trump, you are a very stable genius (in your own mind).
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  $5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.

  it was sold a couple of years ago.

  we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.

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  The flock would pay $10 per month subscription for the privilege of seeing the Gibbering Booty in action with all of the wonderful songs and videos.

  They would make it a DF offense to share an account online without sending in funds for each person, encouraging family to turn each other in for doing that.
  
  
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  An elder with only one testicle

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i happen to be one of very few people who know of this condition that the man has.

  he had an accident several years ago with some power equipment.

  leviticus 21:20 commands that no man present the bread at the temple with damaged testicles... so?.

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  Of course someone beat me to it. There are loads of elders that could be labled as "Big Richard" but with no balls.
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  Philly! Philly!

  by eyeuse2badub in

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  i can't believe that with all the bible knowing members on this forum (lol) that not one person has posted or commented about the only world championship won by the "city of brotherly love"-----philadelphia eagles!

  fly birds fly!.

  just saying!.

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  Not from Philly, bu like most everyone else, anyone but Tom Brady and the Pats.

  DILLY DILLY for PHILLY PHILLY!!!
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  Dead Wrong (A Tolerance for Ambiguity)

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
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  what is your level of tolerance for ambiguity?.

  ambiguity is a clunky, uncomfortable word, imho.. .

  ambiguity means "open to more than one interpretation".

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  Your view is not the only one.
  The glass is always full. Even when it is half water and half air.

  I still tire of you insisting that it's EASY PEASY as long as we see it the way YOU DO!!!
  
  You ask "DO YOU INSIST ON ONLY ONE interpretation?" right after you insist on your one interpretation.
  
  Terry, you do that most of the time, so I don't get how you are lecturing us on it.
  
  

  In a Court of Law, you might swear to tell the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth, but then in reality, you are asked to limit your answers to YES or NO sometimes and are cut off on trying to tell "the whole truth" part.
  
  The Jury verdict in the O.J. Trial was not WRONG. O.J. was guilty of murder, but it was not proven sufficiently to the jury due to sloppy police work and other stuff.
  
  I agree with you about Jehovah's Witnesses, but you may need to continue your self examination a while longer.
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  $5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.

  it was sold a couple of years ago.

  we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.

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  Could they have strongly suggested that the money would be used for new buildings "somewhere" but really never said that exactly? I mean, is it likely that they really only promised it would be transferred to the worldwide work and that money was needed for building projects?
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  Is Trump Doing Better Than You Thought As President!

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i know that some here detested him while others may have simply accepted the reality of who is president.. do you think he is better than you might have thought as a president?.

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  The bar for my expectations was set so low that, YES, Trump is exceeding my expectations.
  
  Plus, I don't want to see a President Pence ever.