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  Visiting Japan and saw one of those Carts. What is the purpose of those book carts for the borg?

  by adjusted knowledge in

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  i'm in japan for three weeks visiting my sister-in-law and brother.

  the people are so polite and i came across two female jw using the cart.

  it is the same experience i noticed back in the states.

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  I'm in Japan for three weeks visiting my sister-in-law and brother. The people are so polite and I came across two female JW using the Cart. It is the same experience I noticed back in the States. The two Japanese women are just standing there smiling and everyone is ignoring them. I understand the appeal to the rank & file as it is an easy way to get the hour requirements in. But for the JW organization I doubt it is a useful recruiting tool. The college I attended I never saw one student engage in a conversation with the JW and their book cart.
  
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  FYI My JW mom and Alzheimer's

  by scary21 in

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  one year ago today my mom passed away.

  she was 91 years old.

  it has been really hard on me because i never expected what happened, to.have happened.

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  I'm sorry for your loss and having to go through that with your mother.
  

  I'm a nursing student in my final year and work at a local hospital in the cardiac unit. I've also worked in a memory care unit prior to enrolling into nursing school. Those who suffer from Alzheimer are in many ways not the same person. The true extent of damage done to a Alzheimer patient is not known until after death and a biopsy is performed. The brain literally deteriorates and so much is no longer there. I've had the privilege of attending a Seminar with Teepa Snow on Alzheimer. She is a nationally renowned dementia expert.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgPm8RMa48&list=PLeu1xlHHkFCU_k85X1xBwjzayVIzNB12R
  
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  Were you beaten as a child?

  by purrpurr in

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  i've been confronting my mother with her dubious parenting skills (abuse) of me as a child.

  particularly the beatings i would get with the wooden spoon.

  not a light smack but hitting me as hard as she could for as long as she could.

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  I suppose by today's standard I was "beaten". I wouldn't have a problem with the spankings, except my parents never hit me out of discipline. They hit me with belts, hands, and branches out of angry. There was no cooling down and coming back and then disciplining us children. Instead my father would be angry because we interrupted his sleep or tv program so we got smacked immediately. I think the verbal abuse was more traumatic than the physical discipline. Being told your worthless piece of shits because you have a bad day at work is not acceptable. To this day my sister that is 43 has low self esteem and I think it originates from the JW lifestyle. The worst was when my father literally forced me to eat a small portion of soap that was used and dirty. This wasn't for cussing but because I talked back to him. I was 9 years old at the time. That only happened once but I still remember it vividly. He squeezed my entire body with one arm and force a bar of soap into my mouth with his other. My mother doing nothing about it.
  

  My father never became a JW but allowed and supported my mother's decision to force this awful religion onto us. I think he liked their disciplinary methodology.
  
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  My physically disabled mom attends one day assembly while excusing herself from her best friend's wake.

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  my mom has been physically disabled the last three years.she cannot walk without assistance,needs someone to cut up her food,needs help bathing and is either in bed,in a wheelchair or sitting in an electric recliner.my brother pays for her care while he's at work and takes care of her after work and weekends.. last week my mom calls me to tell me that her best friend of 50 years (who was not a jehovah's witness ) passed away.she tells me that the wake would be on monday night.i told her that i would help my brother get her in the car and stay an hour or so with them and help pay her last respects to her best friend's husband and 3 children.. she tells me that she would have a hard time getting in and out of the car and sitting at the funeral home would be too difficult.so,i decide to attend her best friend's wake to represent our family since neither my dad,mom and brother decide to attend.i attended the wake and told the widowed husband and the 3 children that my mom was sorry that she couldn't attend the wake due to being physically disabled.. i found out that my mom attended a one day assembly on that saturday.

  she sat in her wheelchair from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to listen to the program.i'm pissed that she would miss her best friend's wake but attended an 8 hour assembly.my wife told me that i should of called her on why....." if she's so sick she could physically attend the assembly and not her best friend's wake.

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  This religion worships those that are willing to do what your mother did. They, JW Leadership, usually make up such stories and here they have a real life example. I can hear it now coming from the stage,

  "See brothers and sister, this elderly and affirmed sister was able to make it to the assembly despite her disability. What is your excuse?"

  I'm sure this has been grounded into your mothers head for a long long time.
  
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  USA toddler in car shoots mom dead AGAIN!!!

  by Witness 007 in

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  yes afew months ago a florida woman was shot in the back with a gun left under her seat by her toddler.

  today a milwaukee woman was killed by the same thing.

  australian 30 year anniversary of port aurthur massacre when most dangerous automatic weapons were banned.....no massacres since for 30 years.

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  We have a population of 400 million with just as many guns. You will be able to find this type of story every day if you like. The obsession over American culture, politics, and laws seems strange. Most Americans could care less what happens over in Britain.
  
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  Higher Education - is it really the end of the WT?

  by OutsiderLookingIn in

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  as a non-jw, before i started looking into things, i must say i only encountered intelligent jws.

  so i was quite surprised to read here and in the pew report about their low overall educational achievement.

  granted, my exposure was limited (less than a handful of people over a lifetime) but i met two of them in post-college education (graduate school) at a very good school.

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  Maybe the type of degree will have different impacts. If a person were to study the liberal arts at the graduate level, I'm not sure how they wouldn't be able to see the WT as the mind controlling cult it is. Then again I know an Elder that is a lawyer, an Elder that is a high school teacher, and so on. There are those that stay for family or the easy social network that comes along with the religion. Or if you own a business the kingdom hall is a nice supply of cheap labor.
  
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  Any here who didn't rebel as a teenager and were a goody two shoes instead?

  by purrpurr in

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  when i was a teenager in the borg i was a dyed in the wool, goody two shoes, squeaky clean,"spiritual " sister.

  alot of my peers around me were rebelling and going off the rails but not me.

  i was constantly praised for this and even felt a little smug about it ha!.

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  I was obedient and submissive to the Org until 18. I'm still a good person, just not their version of "good".
  
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  UFO's might be real.and what does it mean if they are?

  by atomant in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for some reason this subject has not received much attention over the years which surprises me.theres many conspiracy theories floating around on the internet and lve done my fair share of due diligence on the matter.the school is still out on this one.l find it very hard to believe humans are the only intelligent beings out there.has anyone on this forum ever seen a ufo or experienced a close encounter?

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  Never experienced a close encounter. I do believe in the possibility of alien life on other worlds.

  The problem is that so far life is very rare and takes many conditions for it to survive based upon at least the life on this planet. Due to the silence in the universe (yes I know only a fraction of our own galaxy has been scanned by SETI) I have a feeling if there is life out there, it probably isn't advanced.

  If there was some break through in abiogenesis then I would be more open up to the idea of UFOs and such.
  
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  Have you ever experience suprise by an Elder that actually showed compassion and reasoning in a judicial committee?

  by adjusted knowledge in

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  some 25 years ago when i was an active teenager in the congregation there was this elder's teenage son that acted out sexually at a young age.

  the elder's son i believe was molested over a short period of time at a very young age by another elder whose wife was dying of cancer.

  the reason why i suspect it is because this elder was caught and discipline "privately" for touching the breast of a 15 year girl in our congregation.

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  Some 25 years ago when I was an active teenager in the congregation there was this Elder's teenage son that acted out sexually at a young age. The elder's son I believe was molested over a short period of time at a very young age by another Elder whose wife was dying of cancer. The reason why I suspect it is because this Elder was caught and discipline "privately" for touching the breast of a 15 year girl in our congregation. In addition he was "counseled" for other acts but he never loss his title as Elder, and this was in the 80's.This young kid would spend the night at this elder's house to keep him company while his wife was dying. Now keep in mind this elder's children were grown adults. I'm not sure why a 9 year old that wasn't related to him needed to spend nights with him. Sounded creepy to me.
  

  Anyway this Elder's son would touch both boys and girls in different age groups. He never got disfellowshiped as he was an Elder's child. He was always privately reproved. One incident happened when he was 14 and my younger brother was 15. They both engaged in oral sex. This elder's son would constantly do stuff like this with boys and girls and then tell on himself. So my father was upset and even blamed my brother and me because we didn't spend enough time with my younger brother. I'm not really sure how he equates me not playing basketball or whatever, with my brother getting a bj from another boy but that was my father's thinking. I guess you do gay stuff if you're excluded by siblings.
  

  So my brother who wasn't and never was baptized and this elder's son were brought before a judicial committee. On the committee was this very cranky sour puss Elder. The type that would rant and rave on the podium about young ones not getting baptized are going to die in Armageddon. He was dogmatic and always ranting and raving about issues in the congregation. He was never married, had no children, and was a witness for nearly 70 years. I'm sure he was a little bitter paradise wasn't here yet.

  However, this elder was very calm and explained to my father and mother that young boys sometimes experiment and that this was natural. He of course condemned the actions and read some scriptures. He was harder on the elder's son because of his past and both loss some privileges. My brother only gave bible reading talks which he was happy he didn't have to do. But my mother and father told me this Elder was very understanding and was not dogmatic. He was completely different in that private setting than he was in a public forum addressing the entire congregation.
  
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  Trying To Leave - Im Going Crazy

  by pale.emperor in

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  this is my first post.

  i really feel i need to leave the jw's rather than go along pretending everything is perfect etc.

  no friends, me at work.

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  If I had in-laws that acted like that it wouldn't end well. Can't imagine anyone dare coming to my house asking to see my credit card statement. Too bad you don't have the reputation where no one would dare question your personal life. Your father-in-law is a dick.