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  10 Years On...

  by done4good in

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  just a note that 10 years ago, (christmas day, 2005), was my last time inside a kh.

  a lot has taken place for the better in those 10 years:.

  1. met the love of my life and happily married for 9 years, two days ago.. 2. completed a master's degree.. 3. work at senior management level in the it field.. 4. have a savings and retirement, and no debt outside of a mortgage and 1 car loan.. 5. lots of travel to several places that i never would have done as a jw.. 6. contribute to what i believe are meaningful causes.. 7. read, think, and meditate for myself.. 8. have a great extended family i inherited from my wife.. 9. lots of other great stuff, too much to list.. none of this is intended to be boastful.

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  I always read your posts and admired your intellect and style,

  Thanks for your contributions here as I gradually learned how to research, reason and restore my mind and heart.

  Enjoy the open road before you with those you love...
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  Kevin O'Leary Asked to Invest in Watch Tower Society of Pennsylvania - His Response

  by berrygerry in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwspmjngt6w

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  At 3:20 he gives 200 volts everytime the guy mentions the word 'Mall' in his pitch, and even more for mentioning the word 'Kiosk' ! both tired, dead, has-been business models.

  Imagine the reaction any sane businessman has to the words 'Kindom Hall' and 'Literature trolley' hahaha !
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  New Field Service Format?

  by jw07 in

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  2. beliefs

  it seems that hype is the only thing keeping jw.org alive and well these days (that and the money of suckers who continue to fall for it).. at meeting on monday, an elder announced "the faithful slave has seen it fit to change the format of our ministry in 2016, and more information will come".

  i guess the desired reaction is to get jws preoccupied with what those changes could possibly be, and if it means that the end is nearer or some crap.. with that said, i've been suckered into wanting to know what these 'changes' will be.

  does anyone know?

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  Data-Dog

  Thank you for an outstanding rant - we look forward to your next talk...

  "... WTBTS, have created a stagnant pool of diseased, progress destroying, soul stifling, thought crushing, bigoted regurgitation, from which they continually feed from, bathe in, and poop in. This is their "gene pool" from which future leaders arise..",

  ...noting your excellent use of descriptives and illustrations... truly memorable!
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  Simon, How do you sustain this website?

  by Wonderment in

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  2. announcements

  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

  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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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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