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  MAD MAX FURY ROAD

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  i went to see the new mad max movie last night: "fury road.".

  this post-apocalyptic world is not recycled gray, it is blazingly colorful australian desert terrain with wide shots that will stop your heart.have you ever seen an heironymous bosch painting of hell with its where's waldo panoply of brutish, demonic, figures inflicting torments willy-nilly as far as the eye can see?

  well, fury road makes bosch look like a knit-one-purl-two doily maker at a sunday brunch.. director miller has thought about this movie, planned it, sketched it, worked it, perfected it millisecond by millisecond before scene one was ever shot.one second of onscreen activity has more interesting business happening than two hours spent by a voyeur in a nudist colony of playboy bunnies.. what is watching this film all about?

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  Terry, I believe you missed your calling.

  I was NOT going to see the movie, but now I am.
  
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  A Burger and a Hook-up

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i went to get a burger just now, and a couple of elders from my former congregation caught me off guard.

  they started giving me the we feel so sorry for you, you must be so lonely bit.

  i kept telling them im doing great and im not lonely but its like they couldnt hear me talking.

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  If your not a "spiritual man" you can't date or marry one of the congregation princesses. Even if you are a hard working man with values and character.

  I use to think that but before I left, two couples moved in to our hall, both brothers were disfellowshipped but not the sisters. Both couples were recently married. The Sisters married the brothers "While" the brothers were disfellowshipped. One sister admitted that even though he(her husband) was disfellowshipped, he was technically still in the lord-aka a Jehovah Witness.

  I will keep everyone posted I have to check it out.
  
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  A Burger and a Hook-up

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i went to get a burger just now, and a couple of elders from my former congregation caught me off guard.

  they started giving me the we feel so sorry for you, you must be so lonely bit.

  i kept telling them im doing great and im not lonely but its like they couldnt hear me talking.

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  So I went to get a burger just now, and a couple of elders from my former congregation caught me off guard. They started giving me the “We feel so sorry for you, you must be so lonely” bit. I kept telling them I’m doing great and I’m not lonely but it’s like they couldn’t hear me talking. So they start telling me that I should go back to the hall because------------------

  A bunch single sisters have moved into the congregation looking for capable brothers. 3 regular pioneers, 2 aux pioneers working part time, 1 with two children and 1 with one child. All in their 30s.

  Nothing was said about coming back to Jehovah before Armageddon.

  It was about the sisters. So they said there was a group going to see the new movie Jurassic World coming in June or July and all these sisters would be there, and if I go they can introduce me to them. (One elder said they have already seen a picture of me---------WTF)

  They know I’ve been inactive for over a year so I have no idea why they would want to hook me up with a “Spiritual Sister”.

  I was going to tell them flat NO, but I’m kind of curious what kind of sisters these women are.If I get the courage I might check it out, it's to tempting to just let it go. (Don't worry, I won't get tempted to go back,I've got some non-jw girl-friends) I just have to see this, it's like checking out the two headed goat in a circus.
  
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  "Be Kind to the Fornicators in the Congregation!" -- New August Watchtower

  by FusionTheism in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  have you noticed the article entitled "watch your associations in these last days" in the new august 2015 study watchtower?.

  unless i'm reading it wrong, or somehow misinterpreting it, it is saying that we should be kind to intentional breakers of god's laws inside and outside the congregation, including fornicators, but that we must not be close associates with them.. are they already preparing for a shift in their disfellowshipping practices?.

  here are the relevant paragraphs:.

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  For example, if we were to have close association with sexually immoral people, we might be tempted to practice immorality

  (Heaven's forbid, who in their right mind would want that)

  
  

  
  

  
  
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  Rumor about the Imitate Jesus Convention

  by FusionTheism in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i saw a rumor a few weeks ago on reddit that the new imitate jesus convention is supposed to present new light and clarified understandings on the disfellowshipping/disassociation practices.. supposedly, if this rumor has any truth to it, there will be a talk given at the convention about how we should not be strict like the pharisees in how we shun people, loosening up some of the jw rules about this practice.. has anyone here heard anything about this or have more info on it?.

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  They will probably follow the theme-“Imitate Jesus

  And ask the question; Did Jesus Shun People?

  (Matthew 7:23) . . .And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew YOU! Get away from me, YOU workers of lawlessness. . .

  Should we shun our relatives?

  (Luke 14:26) . . .“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own soul, he cannot be my disciple.

  So let’s imitate Jesus!!!
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  A big hello and thank you

  by iwasblind in

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  2. experiences

  i just wanted to introduce myself and say a big hello to all of my mentally diseased friends.. i say friends because i have been lurking for some time so it feels like home (us lurkers are a bit scared and cautious so it takes a while).

  i won't bore you with too many details, but i am a born in, currently serving as the cobe of a congregation.

  my wife and i have pioneered for the last 10 years and were shaken awake by that ridiculous 15th july 2013 wt about the generation and 1914.. my wife who is much smarter than me has questioned for years.

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  WelcomeIwasblind--sowasi

  I was an elder and pioneer for many years, and when I finally woke up, I moved to another hall across the city and faded totally. When I see former JW friends, I try not to engage them in JW stuff. You can't reason with them unless they are ready to wake up. It's been one hell of roller coaster ride. But not having to deal with Field service, tons of meetings, crazy teachings like you can't say bless you when someone sneezes or toast when drinking champagne, and disfellowshipping someone for touching someone breast but forgiving a child molester, is a huge weight off my shoulders and my health has improved 100% since I left.

  Here's to you and your wife's good health.

  
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  Son's new friend a JW

  by jws in

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  my son was never a jw.

  he was born about a dozen years after i left.

  but he's heard about it from me and knows i was one.. recently he has a new best friend at school.

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  The best way to know is someone is a JW is if one of the spouses dies, the surviving spouse marries the next day.
  
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  New Light! People CAN now be saved AFTER the Tribulation begins!

  by FusionTheism in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for decades, i remember the society, publications, and elders saying that once the great tribulation begins, it is too late to repent or be saved.

  they said the "door of the ark will have been closed.".

  now, however, look at the brand-new clarified understanding / new light on this from jw.org, below.. they are still saying that the majority of worldly people will not be saved, but they are now saying it is possible.. the simplified july study watchtower says this:.

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  If that's the case, then all us apostates will just jump in at the last minute and be saved!!!
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyENeCVg6R4
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  Rumor about the Imitate Jesus Convention

  by FusionTheism in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i saw a rumor a few weeks ago on reddit that the new imitate jesus convention is supposed to present new light and clarified understandings on the disfellowshipping/disassociation practices.. supposedly, if this rumor has any truth to it, there will be a talk given at the convention about how we should not be strict like the pharisees in how we shun people, loosening up some of the jw rules about this practice.. has anyone here heard anything about this or have more info on it?.

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  however can you imagine the "weeping and gnashing of teeth" there would be on the part of all those parents and grandparents who lost whole decades of their lives spent shunning their kids? I know quite a few who would be doing just that.

  Not as bad as those that lost loved ones who died because they were not allow certain blood fractions that are now acceptable.
  

  Their growth has gone from 15% pre 1975 to 2% 2013 so is it possible that it has finally clicked. In other words the downward spiral of growth has finally woken them up to either do something or fizzle out. The practice of shunning is now open to the public and it is a practice that repels new membership. So for the sake of staying alive and getting more mainstream, I can see it happening. And if it happens the members will praise the Governing Body for the New Light and confirm in their minds that God is directing the Only Channel on earth.
  
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  Questions about the Flood for Brother Jeramy

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how long did the flood last?how long can land vegetation survive submerged in seawater?how long can freshwater fish survive in saltwater?how old is human civilization?

  what is the oldest settlement in south america?

  how did those people get there from the middle east after the flood wiped out everything on the earth?.

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  Here's a thought. Would it had been a lot simpler for God to tell Noah, gather all the animals at the top of the mountain and your family, I will bring rain for 40 days until it reach about 50 feet from the top. That way all will be safe and you have vegetation plus it not necessary to cover all the mountain top. No need to spend years a building a boat, more time to preach...

  Cool! How about this;

  God speaking; Good morning Noah, can you do some clean up, I just killed all the evil people last night in their sleep, plus you can kill a cow and enjoy hot-dogs tonight because I didn't kill any of the millions of animals.

  (2 Kings 19:35) And it came about on that night that the angel of Jehovah proceeded to go out and strike down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the As·syr′i·ans. When people rose up early in the morning, why, there all of them were dead carcasses. . .