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A 'typical JW' story
by joey jojo in
1. jw
2. experiences
i am friends with an elderly 'worldly' woman, who was unaware i am an ex-jw.

she employs a jw husband and wife pioneer couple for odd jobs around her house- mowing, cleaning etc.

the couple has been working for her and her recently deceased husband for years.. just before the 2019 international convention, despite the fact that the husband was fighting his last battle with illness, the couple kept asking him to attend the convention with them.
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Interesting place for a KH. My thoughts
by joe134cd in
1. jw
2. experiences
yesterday i happened to be driving through a rural town where i made an observation.

first let me describe this town.

it’s almost a shadow of its former self.
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What do you see?
by Simon in
1. jw
2. friends
do you see a man with a backpack running into the woods?.

do you see a dog running out of the woods?.

i saw the man running first .... .
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Donald John Trump incited ...
by MeanMrMustard in
1. social
2. humour
https://youtu.be/jdy7yvyzmxw.
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Have JEHOVAH ever supported WARS between his WORSHIPPERS?
by Longlivetherenegades in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
jehovah's witnesses used to state other christian denominations go to war and in fact that their religious leaders bless such wars.

they see this as one reason why all other christian denominations are not true christians since they kill one another at war and therefore they don't love one another as stated by jesus in john 13: 34,35.. for example when a roman catholic go to war, he/she is bound to kill a fellow roman catholic in the cause of the war.

therefore roman catholic can't be true christians since its member don't love one another and kill one another at war and as such god cannot be in support of such wars where his worshippers kill one another.. the question that comes for consideration is, has jehovah ever supported wars between his own worshippers?.
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Sound Familiar?
by peacefulpete in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a republican congressman voted his conscience to impeach trump.

the results might surprise some of us.. "my dad's cousins sent me a petition - a certified letter - saying they disowned me because i'm in 'the devil's army' now," kinzinger said in a phone conversation on thursday.

"it's been crazy, when you have friends - that you thought were good friends that would love you no matter what - that don't.".
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If only someone had kicked my a$$.. (This is post is not for theists)
by HowTheBibleWasCreated in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i think back on the 30+ years of bs as well as my fading almost a decade and even now being low key in person to hopefully save my nieces from the wt.

i'm a wreck in some ways.

i'm other days i'm stable however when it comes to theism i depart quickly and with anger!
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What to say? Death of an adult child.
by jwundubbed in
1. social
2. family
my father married b when both her children and his children were grown adults.

b had two children, a son d and a daughter m. my sister db, my brother rh, and myself got along well with m but not at all with d, who was a very christian person but not a jw.

my siblings and i do not have much to do with our stepmother though we are civil and we don't have any hard feelings between us.
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GameStop - Great Seeing Short-Selling Hedge Funds Get Beaten Up
by Simon in
1. social
2. current
in case you haven't seen what's happened with gamestop and redditors.. these are the people who drive companies like blockbuster out of business and put people out of work.. but maybe the people have more power after all .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toogruq7me.
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Are We Now Living in a POST-Science world (at least politically?)
by Terry in
1. jw
2. friends
if your sex is only what you say it is, without any reference to biological reality, .

your race can be only what you say it is, without any reference to biological reality.. .

is this repudiation of science?