exjwlemming
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"Meetings, meetings....
by zeb in..bloody meetings" --dale carnegie.. i say this as my wife frequently returns from meetings in a bad mood and after any convention a worse than bad mood.. i detect the same in others postings.
whatever the wt is spewing out it is not honey but vinegar.
im going to bed with a book..
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double halls signage
by road to nowhere ini visited a double hall.
one thing i noted on the bulletin board was page 3 of some letter with a large a on it.
apparently there is at least a 4 page letter complete with a proper sized a or b or c to differentiate the sides.
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"Educated" a memoir by Tara Westover
by Gayle ini recommend this book by a gal raised mormon.
but her father was more offshoot, more anti-government, anti-medicine, anti-institutional education ( list goes on) .
she never was in classroom till 17 years old.
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Some Good News About A Local Boy
by Amelia Ashton inthey must be so relieved after all they've been through..
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Chapter 47 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave
by new boy inchapter 47. eleven out of one thousand.
even though i said i can’t do it anymore, it’s not like i had a plan of any kind.
i didn’t want out of the marriage just out of the religion.
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Signing petitions in other countries or writing to other countries inquires.
by John Davis ini am seeing this petition and call for people to write to the iicsa so that they will investigate watchtower.
i think that this part is good if the person who signs the petition or writes the letter is a citizen or a resident of that country.
i have a problem when people who are citizens or residents of other countries do this when they write into an inquiry like the arc or sign petitions.
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Cooperation and Conformity
by Saethydd ina common thing that jws point to as proof of god's blessing is the supposed cooperation between people of many different backgrounds.
however, i think there should be a distinction drawn between collaborations that are performed through true tolerance and open-mindedness towards another's point of view, and collaborations that are the result of a high level of conformity by its participants.. the former sort can be seen, for example, in the un, which while not perfect, i believe does try its best to foster true cooperation between people of all nations.
the latter of sort of cooperation, however, is more akin to the type found in communist dictatorships or countries controlled predominantly by a single religion which doesn't care to protect the rights of those in the religious minority.
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Live Kingdom Hall Streaming
by The Fall Guy insincere apologies if i've missed previous post/s on this topic, but who actually owns this nice little earner?
https://www.livekingdomhall.com/signup.
i've just been discussing this "provision" with an elderly jw sister who paid out over £100 for an apple box, in order to access her local congregation meeting when she didn't attend..
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The Big Sick - movie discussion
by traveb ini watched this movie recently, which is about a pakistani immigrant living in chicago who falls in love with a white woman.
i was struck by the similarities to the jw culture when the main character experiences trials with his traditional muslim family.
essentially, he is shunned and his parents refuse to talk to him.
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The one where the JW Died!
by Thisismein1972 inhttps://youtu.be/q6b77gm8xxi.
all will be revealed..