Spiritual indigestion.
jwleaks
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So, I watched "The Founder" today, and had a minor Revelation
by Captain Schmideo2 inin the movie's story, ray kroc, the man who is in charge of franchising mcdonalds restaurants, is finding himself in a situation where he is doing gangbusters at creating the stores, but is going broke on his contract.
he gets help from another fast food executive who examines his books.one aspect of the business jumps out.
the stores need land to operate on, and that money is going to the land-owners who lease the land to the stores.
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Pseudo history in Watchtower today 😂
by Gorbatchov ingorby went to the kh for family reasons today.. and landed right away middle in a pseudo history watchtower article.
just that aspect of the jw belief he is so sensative about.. so 1918 and 1919 are changed with one mark of a pencil.
the argument of change was in the past the argument of the doctrine.
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jwleaks
Gorbatchov, had you been at the kingdom hall the week before you would have heard the reminder from the governing body - which was also pinned to the notice board - informing all who attend to leave their brains and thinking skills at home.
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So, the Womens March ... What Is It For?
by Simon init seems like mobilizing after the election, which seems pointless.
i keep hearing demands for equal rights but don't understand what rights they are missing exactly.. normally a march is to show the support (and potential votes) for a cause, but ... votes for what?
... and the election happened already.. is anyone else confused?
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jwleaks
They're marching against the results of the presidential erection.
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jwleaks
So former US presidents are invited, and expected, to attend each subsequent presidential inauguration, unless they are too ill, i.e. Bush seniors.
Imagine the invite for former president Clinton.
45TH PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION
Former president, Bill Clinton, plus one.
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HOUSE, M.D., Jehovah's Witnesses, and '75
by compound complex inseason 7, episode 18: "the dig".
house picks up "thirteen" -- dr. remy hadley -- upon her release from prison.
she asks him to take her to a certain location in order to take care of a personal matter.
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jwleaks
From Scrubs:
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Thoughts on African Americans and Slavery
by Simon inlet's start by saying that slavery is of course a terrible thing, one of the worst crimes imaginable, and that "slavery" rarely implies good treatment, anything noble or defensible.
nowadays, even god doesn't escape judgement from our enlightened views with passages about slavery in the bible usually glossed over because they are shameful.. but not all slavery was equal.. because of the media, movie industry, racial tensions in the us regularly shown on the news and our taught history, i think most people's knowledge and idea of slavery is that of the north atlantic slave trade where white people took africans to work in cotton fields.
this idea is probably also re-enforced because the largest group of descendents of slaves we see today are african americans (usually in the us or places they subsequently migrated to).. but it's incomplete.. it's only when you look into it more that you discover that there was much more to the slave trade than that, otherwise it would have been just called "the slave trade" and not "the north atlantic slave trade".. some 12.5 million slaves were taken from africa to the us with just under 11 million surviving the trip so it obviously took a terrible toll immediately, even before any maltreatment once they landed in the americas where conditions and treatment were truly awful.
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jwleaks
"It is generally believed that the curse which Noah pronounced upon Canaan was the origin of the Black race. Certain it is that when Noah said, "Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren," he pictured the future of the Colored race. They have been and are a race of servants ... There is no servant in the world as good as a good Colored servant, and the joy that he gets from rendering faithful service is one of the purest joys there is in the world."
- Official teaching of the Watch Tower Society (aka Jehovah's Witnesses). The Golden Age magazine (now known as Awake!), July 24, 1929, p. 702.
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Moscow City Court JW Restriction Verdict Today - 16-Jan-2017
by Da.Furious inon jw.org this is the first paragraph on the 12 january news on russia:.
on january 16, 2017, jehovah’s witnesses in russia will again seek to counter the decade-long tightening of restrictions on their religious freedom.
they will ask the moscow city court to rule that a warning against their national headquarters be rescinded as unlawful and unfounded.
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jwleaks
Win or lose, it's win-win for the JWs and Watchtower.
WIN = We are the true religion because the evidence is clear that we are following Jesus who said his followers would be blessed.
LOSE = We are the true religion because the evidence is clear that we are following Jesus who said his followers would be persecuted.
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Every Country and Land... Except Oman
by ILoveTTATT2 inso the other day someone asked me what use was it to make the list of countries in which there have been reports.... well... to know that, as far as i can tell, there has never been preaching done in oman.. it has never appeared in any report, and the reports go back to 1926!.
all other countries and lands have appeared, but not oman.. so there... first useful fact about the watchtower that we can get from 90 years of data..
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jwleaks
I have a friend, an XJW, who works in Oman. There are JWs there and they are active among the expat community.
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How Do JWs Reconcile Contradictions Between Mt. and Lk. and Their Birth Stories?
by Saename indoes anybody know how jehovah's witnesses reconcile the contradictions between the stories of jesus' birth as found in matthew and luke?
when i was a jehovah's witness, i wasn't even aware of this contradiction; i simply thought that all of it happen—namely that there was a census (luke 2) and the slaughter of the innocents (matthew 2) simultaneously.
but at the time i didn't know that the census took place in 6 ce and that herod the great died in 4 bce, thus placing those birth stories 10 years apart in time.
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jwleaks
It goes like this ... young unmarried JW girl, Mary, falls pregnant. Elder Matthew and Elder John, after consulting with Elder Mark, conduct initial judicial investigation.
Young unmarried JW girl, Mary, denies having sex with her fiance, Joseph, who himself denies having sex with Mary.
The elders convene and offer a prayer to jehovah for guidance so as to remove the unknown fornicator from the congregation.
A short time later jehovah comes clean and says "It was me. I got Mary pregnant even though she was engaged to Joseph at the time. I wanted a son."
The body of elders ring the Watchtower legal department to report the rape of Joseph's fiancee.
Watchtower legal ask "Were there two witnesses?" The elders reply "Well jehovah admitted to impregnating the fiance of Joseph."
Watchtower legal replies "Hmmm. Considering that Mary has denied committing fornication, then no sin has been committed as there are no two, or more, credible witnesses."
As for Elder Luke, he's not credible as he was never there nor part of the judicial committee.
Problem solved. And the rest is history...
By the way, under the Mosaic law the punishment for getting Mary pregnant, while engaged to Joseph, was death. Remember, Joseph, after finding out that Mary was pregnant, went away to get a secret divorce.
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Are there any doctrines which all Christian religions follow.
by jwfacts ini cannot think of a single doctrine that is so clearly laid out in the bible that every christian sect teaches the same point.
are there any doctrine where there is total consensus amongst all christian religions, including jehovah's witnesses?.
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jwleaks
If there was it would have to do with financially supporting the Christian religion of your choice.