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  Did you hear your Disfellowship Announcement ?

  by Pitchess Co-Gen in

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  i got this topic from another forum .

  when i was in my judicial committee (2009); after the decision came to disfellowship me one elder asked "pitchess are you gonna be there to hear your announcement .

  now i said "no i'm moving 75 miles north of los angeles " ( they tried to get me to stay, but thats another topic ).

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  Elgiard

  Wait, I thought disfellowshipping wasn't about punishment, it was about love?
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  Do You Think President Obama Takes Too Many Vacations?

  by minimus in

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  this guy enjoys his fun time!.

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  No, I'm fine with him taking vacation. In fact, I'm fine with him taking even more time off. Like a lot more.
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  Any Tourettes syndrome in your congregation?

  by fade_away in

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  a huge number of jws have mental illnesses.

  i knew someone with a schizophrenic disorder and he would occasionally forget/refuse to take his pills which made for some very embarassing moments at the meetings and on service.

  he would come to our house claiming he is jesus christ in the flesh and would get upset with anyone that didn't believe him.

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  I think it's possible to laugh at a funny situation without laughing at the disabled people who caused it. Funny is funny. If that makes me a bad person, then I'm the worst of them all.
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  Depressing

  by mankkeli in

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  isn't it depressing to believe that this is all there is to life?, an elder told me today that philosophers, apostates, free thinkers and many other enemies of the truth alike do not offer any hope for the future.

  but this is the only organisation offering the hope.. what do you think?, the thought of living for just 70 or 80 yrs and not returning back is very depressing or do some other line of reasonings offer any hope?.

  i am just curious..

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  I'd rather have hope for the present than for a promised future that never arrives. The JWs certainly can't offer you that.
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  What if Christainty is right?

  by mankkeli in

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  i was just wondering, what if afterall, christainity is right, what if there would be a ressurection, what if the heavenly hope is a valid aspiration god has set in place for faithful servants, what would be the hope of about 1.3million apostate dissidents who turned their back on the jw brand of christainity, where would they be?, some here seems to represent the anti-christ depicted in the bible, but what would be their hope, would god out of his abundant mercy shield us somehow and what would be the rationale behind his protection?.

  life as we presently live it is confusing, the future as perceived is unpredictable, we may think our corpses are deemed to serve as manure, but whereas what if there is really life after death.

  how would god judge those who seem to have spat on his face?, would he view us as mere victims of abundant hypocrisy in a confused world?.

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  What if Lord of the Rings is right?
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  True Faith

  by paulnotsaul in

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  i was thinking back to when i believed "the truth".

  i was trying to remember any real emphasis put on faith.

  it always seemed that faith, in the jw mind was a visual concept.

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  Wait. You talk to Jesus... and he answers back?
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  A new term for 'just around the corner'...unbelievable. sad.

  by tresdecu in

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  heard this from a friend of a friend via an email locally circulating.

  are you ready?

  take a deep breath.... "the end of this system is just a whisper away..." from a ca talk i think, maybe even from the dc, i can't remember.

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  Don't buy any green bananas.
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  Do you think the British are a proud nation?

  by not bitter in

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  i think we are to a degree but i think its on a different level to the americans.

  the impression i get (from watching us tv and news) is that the majority of americans come across as being proud to be american and quite a possitive nation.

  whereas us brits will display pride as a nation when we have to.

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  America is exactly like it's shown in the movies. Exactly.
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  Do You Think It Is Wrong To Stereotype?

  by minimus in

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  i know we are supposed to be politically correct but i don't always feel that this is warranted.. i do think that certain things might be generally true and could be viewed as stereotyping.

  for example, if i see a young person driving a car very slowly, i might think that they are texting and driving (or else are asian).

  now that might not have sounded proper, but i do think it's generally true, from my experience driving in the city.. if i see a "butchy" looking woman, i generally assume the woman is gay.

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  Of course not. We've been naturally selected to make snap judgements based on as little information as possible. This is an incredibly useful trait, and without it survival would be impossible. It's unfortunate that we sometimes make snap judgements which aren't really relevant to anything, but that's just how our brains work. It's no more "wrong" than any other biological function. And no matter what anyone tries to tell you, everyone does it.
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  What's Your Favorite Internet Site?

  by minimus in

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  since my homepage is drudge report, i'd have to say that the drudge report is what i often check during the day.. of course, this site is clearly one of my favs..

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  Elgiard

  TFNN, definitely.