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  Nudity in the movie "Roma"

  by Wonderment in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the movie "roma," a man is shown making some martial type moves with a sword totally naked.

  and the scene is not so brief, giving a clear glimpse of his private parts.

  it is a very graphic scene.

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  Although this is kind of random - my mom used to call the dog's penis - a "pee stick"
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  Brief Encounter

  by snugglebunny in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the witnesses knocked on my door yesterday.

  a married couple, 70's probably, and introduced themselves by giving their first names and stating that they were jehovah's witnesses.. it's 5+ years since we left our old address and moved a few hundred yards away.

  no-one visited us back then.

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  Answering "do you mind if I don't?", is a very different answer than they are used to. No thanks, I already go to a church, I hate JW's, etc is probably more common.

  Hahaha, it required them to answer. Did they say "Oh no we don't mind" ? That would mean that their preaching work is not life saving. "Well they are free of charge - we do this as a volunteer to promote bible reading etc." That might be a typical comeback.

  
  
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  IMPORTANT Message for Child Sex Abuse Victims in California...

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  please watch.

  we need your help.. https://youtu.be/xmcekwjtbi8.

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  One of the comments below the vid had an excellent point. In order for an elder to legally marry someone, they have to have a licence by the state.

  Here is part of their post:

  
  

  I am a registered as a civilian justice of the peace. I am not attached to any church. However, under the laws according to each state, I can marry, bury, baptize and council. I am legally recognized as "Clergy". The elders carry the same clerical license I do in order to legally marry their members. The new laws should include "ALL" registered clergy, religious or not. This includes the Jws as they simply do not recognize themselves as clergy ,but have license through their states that recognizes them as clergy.
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  Anyone else do this?

  by Biahi in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i used a public washroom in a grocery store.

  in the stall, someone left a tract on the baby changer.

  my first thought was to trash it, instead i wrote cult on it and jwfacts.com on it.

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  Just do not have a pocketful of additional stickers on you when you go into the store, right?

  Hahahaha right.
  
  
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  The Sad lights (not the highlights) from the 12-1-85 WT.

  by days of future passed in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i had found this wt a week or more ago and it had, as i previously posted on an article on how we "know" that paul was part of the governing body in the first century.. out of curiosity i looked thru some of the articles.

  everything is so different when you know about how the wt is run by hypocrites and money grubbers.

  what i saw as something positive or totally trustworthy, i now can only sadly sigh and roll my eyes at.. did you know that before caleb and sophia, there was little shelly and stephen?

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  days of future passed

  I had found this WT a week or more ago and it had, as I previously posted on an article on how we "know" that Paul was part of the Governing Body in the first Century.

  Out of curiosity I looked thru some of the articles. Everything is so different when you know about how the WT is run by hypocrites and money grubbers. What I saw as something positive or totally trustworthy, I now can only sadly sigh and roll my eyes at.

  Did you know that before Caleb and Sophia, there was little Shelly and Stephen? Both children supposedly sent a letter to the Society donating a dollar. This was in the first paragraph of the article "Do you honor Jehovah with your valuable things?" As you might guess, this article uses them to show that anyone can donate. At the end of it, in a separate box titled "Just how is your Work Financed" the Society lists these:

  1. Gifts - donations of money sent directly to headquarters (property can be donated too)
  2. Conditional donation arrangement - Money, stocks, bonds a property can be given to the Society with the provision that, in cases of personal, returns may be made to the donor. This method avoids the expense and uncertainties of probate of will, while ensuring the Society receives the property in event of death. (yeah try to get it back like someone on this forum had to fight for)
  3. Insurance - The WT wants you to name them as your beneficiary and also wants your bank savings accounts put in trust for them..
  4. Wills - why leave anything for your family? Leave it all to us with a legal will. ps - send us a copy

  Was this the first big push for all of your money - dead or alive? I don't have the Cd to check. The funny thing is, the article starts out this way:

  Many ask this question. They are surprised when Witnesses calling at their door do not solicit funds. Others are likewise amazed when, attending a Witness assembly or visiting a Kingdom hall for the first time, they find that no collection is ever taken. How, then,, is the witness work financed? The answer: through voluntary contributions from those who want to honor Jehovah with their valuable things.

  Do people at the door or at a convention, ask this question? No the Witnesses are encouraged to tell the householder that the work is voluntary - to solicit a donation. They are just using this as an excuse to solicit the funds from the jw's in the congregations...

  New Missionaries Strive for Real Success

  David Olson of the Service Department Committee, told the experience of a man who supervised part of the project that succeeded in putting a man on the moon. Later, this same man earned his living sweeping parking lots. He felt more of a success in his second career. Why? Because his new work allowed him time to serve Jehovah and care for his family.

  Kingdom Proclaimers Report

  Love the "Perfect Bond of Union"

  Under this heading, a small article spoke about how in Zimbabwe, there was a devastating three year drought.

  Did the Society do this/these for the brothers and sisters there:

  • A. Send money
  • B. Send food and water
  • C. Send clothing
  • D. All of the above
  • E. None of the above

  If you answered E you would be correct. The article says this:

  This, of course, affected our brothers who live in those areas. However, fellow Witnesses responded wonderfully to the call for help. In fact, so much clothing was donated that it was necessary to inform the brothers not to donate more until further notice.

  It was nice that fellow regular witnesses donated clothing but where was the Society helping out? And although clothing is nice, food and water would have been better. But wait, someone did take care of that part. Did the Society finally do something?

  This, plus aid given by the government, provided most of our brothers with the help they needed. "Those still in need are also being cared for," reports the Society's branch office.

  Yet the Society doesn't say who is caring for "those still in need." If it was them, they would be tooting their own horn. It also downplays what the government is doing for the brothers.

  The next paragraph has, what is probably an imaginary person, giving a glowing testimonial:

  This loving aid on the part of the our brothers had not gone unnoticed. One unbelieving husband told his wife, who is a Witness: "While others are draining the people of all they have, you (Witnesses) are providing them with food and clothing." Favorable comments have been made by others also.

  So are the Sad lights of this WT.
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  Anyone else do this?

  by Biahi in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i used a public washroom in a grocery store.

  in the stall, someone left a tract on the baby changer.

  my first thought was to trash it, instead i wrote cult on it and jwfacts.com on it.

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  At a thrift store I go to, there are old jw bibles publications. I've debated on whether to put something inside of them. They recently put cameras in to stop people stealing or whatnot so I'm not sure if I want to take the chance of getting called out on it.
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  7 Jehovah’s Witnesses Brutally Tortured in Russia

  by Drearyweather in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://jw-russia.org/en/news/19021923-622.html.

  at least seven of jehovah’s witnesses were subjected to torture—electric shocks, suffocation, and cruel beatings—on the first floor of the russian investigative committee’s building at ul.

  ostrovskogo, d. 47, in surgut.

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  I wouldn't put it past the WT to have a magazine with the poor JW's faces on it, touting them as good examples like they did with the poor children who died without a blood transfusion. They will capitalize on the situation somehow.
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  Why did Jehovah allow Eve to become pregnant?

  by moomanchu in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah reminds me of married couples who are having problems who decide to .

  have children to improve their lot.. obviuosly jehovah can prevent pregnancy.. 1 samuel 1:5,6 .

  but to hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, .

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  Well God had to prove he was right. After all, the angels were watching!

  That is what the WT said. Which means God is a narcissist and has to look good in front of all the lowly angels.
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  Is this how you saw your Armageddon? I sure did :(

  by Diogenesister in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i think most of our imaginations of the new world was probably nothing like the watchtower reality.

  after all, we jws are very good at avoiding uncomfortable truths!

  you can tell micheal jackson was a certain type of jehovahs witness.

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  The 12 Apostates - You and I share that experience. It was a miserable life for me.
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  Ignorance of Watchtower doctrine among young JW's

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been having a conversation with a young jw on twitter and have, once again, come up against beliefs that do not match up with official watchtower doctrine.

  if you like you can read the full thread here (you'll need to click on some comments to open it all up).. anyway the upshot is that this jw, and many like her, believe that only truly wicked people will be killed at armageddon - not innocent babies and children or anyone who "didn't know better" perhaps because they didn't get a witness.

  it's as though they cannot accept the obvious injustice of jehovah's morality.. this jw teenager believes that all these non-jw's who survive armageddon will get their chance to prove their loyalty during the 1000 year reign of christ - again, not a watchtower teaching.. i don't really have a question to ask, this is just an observation.

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  From my own experience, and maybe because I wasn't among the "power" witnesses, I would say that many witnesses wanted to believe that God wouldn't just kill everyone. I myself thought about that quite a bit. But after awhile of trying to figure it out, you just shrug your shoulders because of course, God would never do something unrighteous.

  There were also articles from the WT that gave wiggle room about who was to be killed during Armageddon. Like how it isn't up to us to read others hearts and that although the preaching work has reached many lands - the places where there are isolated indigenous people - well probably God wouldn't kill them because they may have good hearts. The biggest "get out of killing innocents" card is WE DON'T KNOW. This is very different from what was preached from the WT in the early days. They had that fire and brimstone attitude from the podium. Like anyone that dared not listen to us - Down They Go into Gehenna!

  As they gradually realized that translated into regular JW's looking down on anyone that didn't take a magazine and not making an effort to convert them, it changed to "it's not up to us to say a person is a Goat!" Cause some did go around talking about how many "goats' were in the territory.