LoisLane looking for Superman

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  How many of you followed the WTS direction on education years ago and have been screwed by it?

  by Julia Orwell in

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  i'm really interested in this question because i've heard for years that if you forgo further education and go pioneering, when you have a family down the track you will get a good job because jehovah will provide for you because you pioneered.

  as long as i was a kool-aid drinker, even then, i thought, "how does pioneering pay your bills?

  surely education should come first.

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  LoisLane looking for Superman

  Someguywhocares... Oh my goodness!!! I could cry!

  I am so, so, so very sorry all of this has happened to you.

  You are so articulate, so genius, such a good person.

  Words fail me.

  Please accept this heart felt internet hug from me.
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  Anyone know what the special talk is this weekend?

  by charity7 in

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  non jw so thank you for bearing with me.

  do special talks happen with individual congregations or is it throughout?

  i was told by my husband that i had to go with him and the rest of his family to the special talk that was happening this weekend.

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  LoisLane looking for Superman

  JW..org ways are weird. Saying something is special, doesn't make it so. What they believe to be special, spiritual food from God's mouth to the Governing Body's... changes pretty rapidly...

  I am sorry that your beloved husband now thinks that you must be in subjection to him. No partnership allowed. No coming together of minds or plans. I am sorry that he thinks that you have to go with this him. WT is all about 'looks". It is a power game for men. Control over women and anyone else that permits it.

  Just asking. Has he also told you where you are spending your summer vacation... at a JW..org convention site or has he not got around to telling you about his summer plans yet?
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  A State of Emergency has been declared

  by Bungi Bill in

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  everybody here right now is busy "battening down the hatches" as they wait for the approach of a tropical cyclone.

  a state of emergency has been declared in the district - the second one in as many weeks.

  (the floodwaters from the tropical cyclone that hit just last week have still not drained away).. so far, the biggest hazard looks like it will be the storm surges from the ocean, and people living in some exposed coastal areas have already been evacuated.

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  LoisLane looking for Superman

  I live on The RIng of Fire. We are expecting an earthquake.

  Cyclone, flooding, earthquakes. All fodder for superstitious people.

  Stay safe all!
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  Would you give up one year at the end of your life if you could relive any one day in the past?

  by Esse quam videri in

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  like the question asks: if you could relive any one day of your life, any age, any place and remember everything about it afterwards, would you be willing to live one year shorter at the end of your life?

  one day for one year?.

  i realize that someone well on in years would think twice about it, but, what about you younger ones?

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  LoisLane looking for Superman

  This is an interesting question up for debate.

  My 2 cents would be, which lovely experience would you like to relive, not just in your mind? Possibly, the lovely moments in my life I have relived them up to and surpassing 24 hours time limit and I am still alive. I wouldn't trade real life and living 365 more days for anything. Life is precious and so our it's memories.
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  What will you be doing on the evening of the 11th ?

  by Phizzy in

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  mrs phizzy and myself will be eating out, sure in the knowledge we will not have jw's using the same restaurant.. i may have a cigar along with my brandy at the meal's end to celebrate my (our) freedom..

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  LoisLane looking for Superman

  Nathan Natas, I have to be so bold as to ask you... Are you insane?
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  Automatic Love

  by TheFadingAlbatros in

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  jehovah's witnesses have a kind of automatic love for all their other co-religionists all around the world.. this kind of attachment can only be the result of a cult machinations.. real love needs real freedom, a strong personal motivation and enough time to be fully developed.. .

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  LoisLane looking for Superman

  My dearest Claude, With tears in my eyes, reading your 3rd paragraph and the newspaper article, it is too sad. Too horrible. I am so, so sorry for your loss.

  Would you mind starting a new post, with a different heading, saying you have lost your most beloved son due to a tragic accident?

  You are in Switzerland, I am in North America. I do not quite understand the heading of automatic love. Do you mean if you are an active JDub you will get phony love and sympathy from the KHall people but if you do not go, then these JDub zombies (automations) will shun and turn their backs on you, as though you and your precious son never existed? Remember JDubs are WT zombies with, for the most part no feelings. They are trained (every week through meetings and literature to think and act a certain WT way) by brainwashing. They do not think for themselves. They are controlled by those 7 little men behind the curtain in New York. If this is what you mean by automatic love, and that the JW's in your area who know you and your son, act like nothing has happened because he did not go to their KHall? Where if they were normal human beings, they would mourn the loss with you, making meals, sending flowers to cheer you, hugging you and crying with you and making sure you were all right?

  On your 2nd paragraph, I listened for a few minutes to this beautiful music and thought I would like to have a garden party and have Arabian Nights as the theme with this music.

  Then I came to your 3rd paragraph and all the sadness of what just happened, came pouring out. I read the newspaper article. The man who killed your son, did a 'hit and run' and no one knows who he was. There is no one to pin his death on. No one to point a finger at and yell "You killed my son!!!" It is devastating. Just devastating.

  It is such an unimagiative loss. A young man off on holiday, riding his bicycle, feeling happy and content. Then a bus driver makes the fateful decision to drive around him to get ahead. For what? If this bus driver is normal, his conscience will bother him for the rest of his life. What he has shown is that he is a coward for not coming forward and owning up for what he has done and at the least apolizying. He has caused enormous pain and death to another human being. Hopefully, someone will notice the wrecked front of his bus and turn him in.

  Please accept the biggest heartfelt internet hug from me. The time ahead will be painful for you and all that knew your beloved son Jonathan. I can't imagine how horrible this daily nightmare is for you dear Claude. And please keep breathing, and living and please do not do anything foolish.

  I am just so very sorry for your tragic loss. I give you my most heartfelt regards and sympathy for your unimagiative loss.
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  Money and Happiness

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
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  wt has made a number of references to this alleged quote by j. paul getty:.

  “money doesn’t necessarily have any connection with happiness.

  nothing in my wt life brought more stress and anxiety than not having enough money.. this quote makes far more sense:.

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  LoisLane looking for Superman

  Why does WT always conveniently forget the scripture that says money is for a protection Ecc 7:12?

  What mind control thought does WT want its victims to think? Money is no good... So give it all to us! Even little kids ice cream money. Give It To JW..org... !!! Such creeps!!!
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  It's about progress, not perfection...

  by scratchme1010 in

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  2. experiences

  i guess at this point in time and space i'm ok if there's an indication of things going in the right direction.. my jw father, who joined the jws in 1973 when i was 8, has always had all the characteristics of the stereotypical brainwashed born again weirdo.

  as a jw he always felt the need to show that he was more devoted than the rest of the crop.

  to him, life became very easy from that point on: "the bible", interpreted by the millions of wt publications, along with the information in the meetings and getting involved in all jw activities, were the answer to everything and anything in his life".

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  LoisLane looking for Superman

  Wow. What a story. Very heartfelt. All I can say is you have done well with the "baggage" of your life. The way you wrote I can see your parents house and your dad preaching with his yellow vinyl clad Bible. Before your mom died, I wonder if they had bought, and used their 'tablet' at the Hall and meetings and door to door. And if and when the 'silver sword' came out not that long ago, if your dad switched from the old Bible to the new. It is all so sorrowful.

  Sympathys to you that your mom has died. Normal people know from an early age, that people die. That is what plants, and animals, humans and even stars do. They die. Lights out. It is such a tragic doctrine that the JW..org bring to people to deceive them (isn't that what Satan did to Eve, deceive her?) I was of that same deluded persuasion only 5 years ago up until I read Ray Franz's CofC, Crisis of Conscience. Shortly before that, I had realized gay people were born that way and church people should shut their mouths... when they have no knowledge or understanding and nothing nice to say.

  You have been put through the grinder, at no fault of your own. I am so sorry it has been that way for you. Hugs to you and your husband. I am so glad you found each other.
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  Amazing Video, modern-day miracle: "Chairs for Thousands"

  by neat blue dog in

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  2. humour

  god provides.

  https://tv.jw.org/#en/video/vodourorganization/pub-jwb_201703_4_video.

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  LoisLane looking for Superman

  That was pitiful.

  Painful.

  God provided chairs... ?

  Stephen Lett has lost weight. The neck of his shirt, gaps. Same stupid face though. Can't change stupid.

  What age group is intended to be mesmerized by this moron?

  Get a hook, and take this crook off the stage. Is JW..Org not embarrassed?
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  A major misadventure!

  by Bungi Bill in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi, everyone.. i haven't posted here much in quite a while, but having just been laid low by injury, i'll likely be a frequent visitor for some time to come!.

  two weeks ago, i was involved in a workplace accident that left me with my lower l.h.

  leg fractured in three places (the tibia and fibular both broken clean through, plus another crack in the "neck" of the fibular for good measure!

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  LoisLane looking for Superman

  Ouch!

  Will you be in the hospital then for the next 3 months? Bed pans and everything?