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  Simon, How do you sustain this website?

  by Wonderment in

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  simon,.

  first, i hope you and your family are having a nice christmas.. we are at the end of the year, so it's time to ponder a bit about how grateful we should be to you and all the contributors for making this site for what it is.

  i have noticed other jw's forum related sites come and go, but this one has held steady for many years.

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  Simon -

  Like many others I too owe you a debt of gratitude for what you have done here over the years...

  Thank you sooooo much!
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  Pictures in the Watchtower

  by Sour Grapes in

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  2. friends

  after sitting through last sunday's watchtower i got so sick of seeing the bobbing/nodding heads when talking about the pictures.

  they act like god himself took the picture.

  there must have been 10 comments about the group in service and the one brother was looking at his phone with a smile, which is a dead give away that he was reading something interesting.. what got me was how the older brother in the posed picture had a bible in his hand had a stern look on his face looking at the young brother.

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  End of Misteries -

  Very insightful of you I think .

  I fully expect the publications to be completely in graphic/comicbook as the light gets brighter in NYS.
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  Pictures in the Watchtower

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after sitting through last sunday's watchtower i got so sick of seeing the bobbing/nodding heads when talking about the pictures.

  they act like god himself took the picture.

  there must have been 10 comments about the group in service and the one brother was looking at his phone with a smile, which is a dead give away that he was reading something interesting.. what got me was how the older brother in the posed picture had a bible in his hand had a stern look on his face looking at the young brother.

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  Sour Grapes -

  That was a great post ..."air-mags... they place" . That's funny, a keeper even!
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  Good books to read?

  by thedepressedsoul in

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  i read crisis on the conscience and i am about to start, "who wrote the bible?

  does anyone have a list or great books to read for anyone searching for the real truth?

  i've only ever seen the world through a jw lens and i am excited to see what other view points are out there!

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  Just finished The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.

  A Wonderful book- especially appreciated by those who have wasted some of their life to cult fundamentalism. A great plot and a story that assesses religious fanaticism from the viewpoints of those it harms the most - its' own members.
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  Should JWs perform immigration screening for jihadiis ?

  by gone for good in

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  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witlesses worship and serve the same desert god as do all the worlds jihadists.

  both these groups experience the same giddy delight contemplating the worldwide annihilation of infidels .

  jihadists and jw's share the same wet dream of theocracy - the idea that public governance is best left to an invisible genocidal, misogynistic homophobic, sadistic, megalomaniacal bully...and his (male) earthly imitators.. jw's and jihadiis both covet their delusion of imagining themselves as the sole survivors of a global bloodbath - think of the stupendous irony there!.

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  Jehovah's Witlesses worship and serve the same desert god as do all the worlds jihadists.

  Both these groups experience the same giddy delight contemplating the worldwide annihilation of infidels .

  Jihadists and JW's share the same wet dream of Theocracy - the idea that public governance is best left to an invisible genocidal, misogynistic homophobic, sadistic, megalomaniacal bully...and his (male) earthly imitators.

  Jw's and jihadiis both covet their delusion of imagining themselves as the sole survivors of a global bloodbath - think of the stupendous irony there!

  And finally in the interests of detecting hidden agendas, ulterior motives, misdirection and subterfuge - both groups know and proudly practice the "secret" art of Theocratic Warfare!

  
  

  If there is any truth to the old adage " It takes one to know one.", then, if a pious, hypocritical, self-righteous, doomsday cult preacher should observe, even briefly across a kiosk counter, a pious, hypocritical, self-righteous, doomsday cult enforcer.....would not the recognition of one for another be instantaneous, as in "this is at last bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh" kind of thing??

  Do you think Donald Trump should knows this kind of affinity even exists? and might be useful in his own efforts to separate sheep from goats?
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  Which bible character do you hate the most?

  by Bonsai in

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  the more i think about it, the more i feel an extreme dislike for the apostle paul.

  he was on par with hitler in his treatment of the jews before he "saw the light".

  he replaced jesus teachings of love and mercy with a more legalistic, pharisaical concept of devotion to god.. any evil person can come to believe in god and worship him if the scales were literally and miraculously removed from his eyes.

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  “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

  
  ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
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  Which bible character do you hate the most?

  by Bonsai in

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  the more i think about it, the more i feel an extreme dislike for the apostle paul.

  he was on par with hitler in his treatment of the jews before he "saw the light".

  he replaced jesus teachings of love and mercy with a more legalistic, pharisaical concept of devotion to god.. any evil person can come to believe in god and worship him if the scales were literally and miraculously removed from his eyes.

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  punkofnice11 hours ago

  I hate the Governing body. they're in the Bible, right? (Ahem...coff coff).

  
  

  yuk yuk yuk ... Punky- now THAT was funny!... tee hee hee
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  The Tale Of River Song

  by River Song in

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  2. experiences

  hello all, thanks for all the warm welcomes this weekend.

  there was some interest in my origins story so here goes.. i am a born in, never baptised.

  my parents were immigrants who knew no one in a new town in a new country when they got love bombed into the cult.

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  River Song

  Welcome to this much better place. I am so very happy you are able to look back on a horribly distorted life through the eyes of an escaped survivor and comment with such clarity.

  I know you are speaking absolute truth because I was once the same deluded elder your dad was and an living with the guilt and anger of what I have done to my childrens lives inside that ridiculous cult..

  This is a good place to recover at your own pace and plan for the future of those you love.

  Welcome
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  big accident at Warwick construction site

  by oppostate in

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  the wt society is fond of using the tilt-up method of construction where a network of rebar is made on the ground, concrete poured on it and allowed to cure, then the whole thing is tilted up and voila' you've got yourself a massive big-ass wall ready made.

  these walls for several stories-high buildings are indeed massive and weighty so you need a heavy-duty crane to raise into position.. i just heard from an eye-witness ldc volunteer that while there a few weeks ago they had an enormous accident.

  the crane tilted and crashed, the only one hurt was its operator.

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  So this is a building site for a palace for Gods very own representatives - the delusional guys directed by and watched over by myriads of angels,

  Wouldn't it be brazenly blasphemous to even insinuate the need for worldly insurance?

  Remember that Jabooba was thwarted years ago by chariots with iron wheels - maybe modern construction cranes are beyond his abilities to control as well?

  New light - god always needs money and is no good with machinery.
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  Jehovah's Witness grandparents ordered to keep faith to themselves

  by OrphanCrow in

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  british columbia, canada.

  jehovah's witness grandparents ordered to keep faith to themselves.

  a pair of devout jehovah's witnesses have been ordered by a b.c.

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  OrphanCrow-

  Thank you for posting this.

  I can imagine how hesitant judges would be to facilitate the indoctrination methods of destructive cults like

  the JWs as they see the results showing up in their courtrooms - example this very case.

  A conflict-free safe environment for this child required restricting relatives trained and willing to search out and exploit the vulnerable.

  Make disciples = search and exploit