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  jehovahs witnesses base ALL teachings on the bible - false part 1

  by Kevin McFree in

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  2. beliefs

  https://youtu.be/cqpdb7c_wdk.

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  freddo

  So true. As an ex-elder I can confirm having discussions about what constituted "all night" in counting as porneia terms!

  
  
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  New Store called Best Life Gifts

  by Franklin30 in

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  2. friends

  i noticed a recent post where it was suggested the store was taken over by hostile means!.

  the person who posted it pretended to have knowledge of why the store changed names but clearly was operating with an agenda!

  one filled with lies, misinformation and deceit!.

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  freddo

  I don't know the truth about the business dealings at MinistryIdeas or whatever it's called. Sparrowdown had it right in her first post!

  If the moneychangers in the temple are squabbling over a carbuncle on a backside then it shows what hypocritical bunch of money-grubbers they are.
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  Women and Children First Still!

  by Charles Gillette in

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  2. friends

  at a time when women fly combat aircraft, when they are grant equality in education,in employment,in government,in athletics,etc.

  what entitles women to the status of children still?.

  women and children first when it comes to emergency situations.

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  freddo

  Practically speaking - children especially gravitate to their mothers in times of peril. So the women are better at looking after their children and keeping them feeling safe.
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  Growing Up Strange (even for a JW)

  by GizmoSnicket in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've been meaning to join an online ex-jw community for quite some time, and finally have made the effort to do so.

  i was raised in a small/mid size city in the northeast united states.

  i am currently 27 years old, just about five years fully out of the organization (after about two years of "fading" away).

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  freddo

  Excellent read and high quality writing. Some of what you say chimes with my experience - (one parent - the non jw one of course - sometimes doing the others bidding to gain a peaceful life and my feeling unsupported) yet I am 30 years older than you.

  Please contribute freely to this forum.
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  Banners for London Protest

  by Farmer Jim1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi folks, i’m attending the london protest at the excel convention in august and am making some banners.

  i’m aiming for short but memorable sentences that will stick in jws minds and also make them laugh a little at their own organisation.. my best so far is ‘this is not a protest, it’s an overlapping protest’.

  has anyone got any ideas for more?.

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  freddo

  Your Kingdom Hall Sold?

  Money gone to Chelmsford?

  Branch Committee Sitting Pretty!
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  Banners for London Protest

  by Farmer Jim1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi folks, i’m attending the london protest at the excel convention in august and am making some banners.

  i’m aiming for short but memorable sentences that will stick in jws minds and also make them laugh a little at their own organisation.. my best so far is ‘this is not a protest, it’s an overlapping protest’.

  has anyone got any ideas for more?.

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  freddo

  Compassion for abused

  children is not

  Apostasy!
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  Sex Offenders and Children Generally

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  is there a change in the way child sex offenders are being perceived?

  this article is from the telegraph newspaper.

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/8201521/sex-offenders-including-paedophiles-should-be-allowed-to-adopt-theresa-may-told.html.

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  No.

  That article is from 2010. Thankfully the idiot that wrote it is buried in an avalanche of vile cases hitting the headlines ever since making her stupid position even more untenable. Thankfully.
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  Explain why you are happy if you believe there is no afterlife vs when you joined JW's

  by Bad_Wolf in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  one thing that has intrigued me are so many who have left, who are wholly convinced everything in existence is merely by chance now, also claim they wouldn't want to live forever, and perfectly fine if this is the only life.

  now, i would understand that if you were raised into the religion.

  i was raised into it.

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  freddo

  Edit: Ooops ... wrong thread. Sorry.
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  Explain why you are happy if you believe there is no afterlife vs when you joined JW's

  by Bad_Wolf in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  one thing that has intrigued me are so many who have left, who are wholly convinced everything in existence is merely by chance now, also claim they wouldn't want to live forever, and perfectly fine if this is the only life.

  now, i would understand that if you were raised into the religion.

  i was raised into it.

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  freddo

  Remember "Is there a God who cares ...?"

  I'm at the stage where I think that pretty much the answer is "I don't think so, no evidence of that."

  However, if there is a God who cares then my eternal future/next life won't depend on what 8 men in New York say; more on whether I live by decent human values as I believe them to be.
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  Nowadays How Does One Become An Elder?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was appointed jan 1 1980 and back then it was a big deal to“qualify”.

  i was the youngest elder appointed in the district!

  i actually studied everything from the societies publications and listened to anything i was told to do.

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  freddo

  A pulse, loose fitting trousers, a brown nose and no brain.

  Oh ... gotta have a willy.