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  Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Curse of Music.

  by donny in

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  jehovahs witnesses and the curse of music.. .

  i was inspired to write this after listening to a recent podcast of the thinking atheist by seth andrews.

  as many of you know, seth was a devout christian who not only loved contemporary christian music but was one of the hosts of a popular morning show on kxoj in tulsa, oklahoma in the 1990s.

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  days of future passed

  What interesting experiences. My mother didn't really involve herself in her children's lives so I listened to all sorts of music that probably would have raised eyebrows.

  The thing that I remember is, some JW's innocently would take kingdom melodies and rearrange them into some nice(r) guitar music. Play it at picnics or get togethers. Then the hammer came down. It was disrespectful to do that to the kingdom melodies. People had to stop immediately. I thought at the time, what a shame, all they were doing was making nice music.

  Now look at them. Playing all sorts of worldly music in the kingdom halls and dancing in their meeting clothes.
  
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  Pope says "hell does not exist"

  by Gorbatchov in

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  today the pope said in an interview that hell does not exist.. (we allready knew...).

  g..

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  days of future passed

  Tell that to all the generations of people that were blackmailed by it. I met a man out in service, that was outraged because his young nephew had been "educated" about hell from the priest. The poor kid was afraid to go to sleep and cried most of the time.
  
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  Yay! I get to go to the memorial this weekend

  by StarTrekAngel in

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  i kind of expected it.

  this is an event that even satan himself could attend.

  yes, if the wt don't quit blaming satan for everything, soon he will be more qualified for mercy than the f&d slave himself (or themselves).

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  days of future passed

  Sorry to hear that it will be your evenings entertainment. 104 years of re-hashing the same story and counting.
  
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  Demon dog

  by lastmanstanding in

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  look at the picture for yesterday's watchtower study.

  see the good jw folks sitting around the campfire..... zoooom in on that campfire.

  have a good look..

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  days of future passed

  After scrutinizing the picture more, I see that the artist didn't finish certain areas. Like between his hand and leg (purple sleeve guy) and where the marshmallow hand is.

  Why is the mother's hand so white? Why is her vest showing a strong light effect that is making a shadow past her boobs? It's because she has her Ipad with her! Yes, she is looking at the songs on her Ipad which will also allow the family not to miss a single meeting while they are vacationing.
  
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  Thank You All - Dealing with my Dad

  by truth_b_known in

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  it was 2010 when i first came to this website.

  it was the day after the memorial.

  i swore i would never attend another memorial, ever.. my father had called me a few day prior to that memorial and encouraged me to go.

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  days of future passed

  Good for you for falling a little further from the tree. (the illustration of not being the carbon copy of your dad) You never know how much a family situation can influence a child's perspective in life. Finding out that your father isn't your biological one, can rock your world and turn it upside down. So who knows what thoughts drive your dad.

  How fortunate that you got out young.
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  Demon dog

  by lastmanstanding in

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  look at the picture for yesterday's watchtower study.

  see the good jw folks sitting around the campfire..... zoooom in on that campfire.

  have a good look..

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  days of future passed

  Either they are burning a german shepherds head up in the fire or an upside down cows head. (yes there is the two of them) There is a lot of weird painting going on. To me it looks like they used a program to simplify the photo and then retouched with small detail. Or they repainted the whole photo doing "airbrushing" and then fine detail. But there are lighting problems with the inside of the mans fluffy vest who's roasting a marshmallow. His hand is too bright white. It also looks like a person has been cut out of the picture on the left because of the sharp shadow - but I think that is their attempt at making it look like the "fire" is casting a strong light on the girls blanket.

  My, that fire is sure throwing off white light.
  
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  Mind numbing

  by Bigdummy in

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  i went with my wife to a one day ca the other day.

  i haven’t been to a meeting in.

  probably 8 or 9 months.

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  days of future passed

  Just thinking about going to an assembly.. is..full.. of...memories of humid women's bathrooms that reeked, dragging books and food up the stairs in heels, watching the "foreign" language sisters "humbly" walking around in their pastel india garb, children bored and tired in their seats and the freezing cold walk into the facility.

  Plus, everything you had to listen to. Glad you got out of it alive.
  
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  Automatic Donations Introduced Online

  by JW_Rogue in

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  this was announced a couple of weeks ago on the clam.

  you can now donate to any congregation, the worldwide work, and assemblies online.

  further they have implemented recurring payments "because the hard part about donating is remembering to donate," they actually said that!

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  days of future passed

  Even if a person dies, the WT will keep withdrawing I bet, until caught.
  
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  Why are there more sisters than brothers at the Kingdom Hauls?

  by Sour Grapes in

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  i have always wondered why there are more females than males in all of the congregations that i have visited?

  some of these females are in their 70's so maybe their husbands have died and women just live longer.

  or could the reason be that years ago men were the breadwinners and women stayed home to raise the children thus they were home during the week when the jdubs came a knocking?

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  days of future passed

  I guess the other side of the question is why there is less men. Do other religions put pressure on the men to participate in holding mikes, do talks and climb the religious ladder of responsibility? Maybe it's the suits and ties!
  
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  "DO NOT look here! Seriously...just dont!"

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  ok, so you all looked here??.

  this thread is prompted by losch's stupid 'decrees' in the march 2018 broadcast, where he denounced online information that may be 'negative' about the organization.. it strikes me that the gb are so dumb!

  the moment someone says "dont look at something", human curiousity will make most people look.

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  days of future passed

  I think a snake and Losch had the same idea.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCX5JJwkZhU