OneEyedJoe

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  The Happiest I Have Ever Been

  by nolongerconfused in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello dear friends,.

  it has been a while since i've posted here.

  much has happened since i left the cult.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Congrats! Living well is the best revenge against the murderous cult. Glad to hear you're getting your revenge in full.
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  Glaring discrepency in Blood Doctrine

  by kjg132 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i found an article on the dr. sears website about the benefits of breasfeeding.

  according to the article it says: "a drop of breastmilk contains about one million white blood cells.

  " it also says "colostrum also contains higher amounts of white blood cells..........than mature milk.

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  OneEyedJoe

  The discrepancy is even more blatant when you read the WTS's justification for allowing certain fractions. Part of why some fractions are allowed is because they're transferred from mother to child during breastfeeding.
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  "The Friends"

  by FeelingFree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have only come across this term very recently on jwn and in an "apostate" video i watched yesterday.

  never have i heard anyone refer to jw's as "the friends" here in the uk.

  is it just used in america?.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Used all the time here, and it's very irritating because 99.9% of the ones that I'm aquainted with are nothing resembling friends.
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  What Was Your Body of Elders Like?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  were they pretty much a good group of men?

  we're they jerks?.

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  OneEyedJoe

  The elder who is timid and can't say no is usually the secretary. If there is a pioneer elder he is the service overseer. The bully/ahole is usually the COBE.

  You're 3/3 in describing my BOE.
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  Will the Societies tighten their grip even more with the power slipping?

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i think its pretty clear that the gb are power hungry.

  you cannot listen to the branch visit and not see clear as day that there are some of them that are loving the power.

  it showed the clearest with anthony morris.. now all these sex abuse scandals and news media are taking their power away.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Wow, it's crazy how the human brain works. Haven't seen that movie or heard that phrase in several years but it's still bouncin around in there...
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  Will the Societies tighten their grip even more with the power slipping?

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i think its pretty clear that the gb are power hungry.

  you cannot listen to the branch visit and not see clear as day that there are some of them that are loving the power.

  it showed the clearest with anthony morris.. now all these sex abuse scandals and news media are taking their power away.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Nothing wrong with paraphrasing Princess Leia.

  Seriously? That can't possibly be where I picked that up lol. Wow.
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  What Was Your Body of Elders Like?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  were they pretty much a good group of men?

  we're they jerks?.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Mine is made up of:

  1 Nazi (a genuinely caring man in many cases, but VERY hardline on the rules when it comes down to it) who is well known for neglecting his wife due to constantly volunteering for anything/everything "theocratic" that he can. Like ditching her on their aniversary to go to a sheparding call type neglect. very sad.

  1 super-zealous pioneer (service overseer) who is super annoying and makes any conversation about "theocratic" things.

  1 very intelligent and humble man who got pulled in by his super-controlling wife in the run-up to 1975. (Previously, he was agnostic...)

  A couple are sort of non-existant and always in the background

  1 86 year old "honorary elder" who's completely senile and has absolutely no responsibility in the congregation (I don't think he's even been regular in service for a few years)
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  Want to email a bunch of local JW's something about TTATT anonymously but don't know their email address?

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. social
  2. humour

  post a cl add looking to contract some window washers and house cleaners, 98% of the 200+ respondents will be your local jw's.

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  OneEyedJoe

  I chuckled. I think even being in the wrong category, your hyperbole made it clear that this was meant tongue-in-cheek.
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  Will the Societies tighten their grip even more with the power slipping?

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i think its pretty clear that the gb are power hungry.

  you cannot listen to the branch visit and not see clear as day that there are some of them that are loving the power.

  it showed the clearest with anthony morris.. now all these sex abuse scandals and news media are taking their power away.

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  OneEyedJoe

  I agree, I think as they see that they have less and less control over the "world" and it's media, they'll instinctively tighten the grip on the thing they can control. To go along with Vidiot's comment - I love the saying (I'm paraphrasing) 'the harder you squeeze the more there is that slips through your fingers.' It's an apt observation that applies to essentially all authoritarian power systems. They'll have to be careful to avoid a runaway feedback loop - losing members causing tighter control that causes them to lose more members, etc until only a few remain. That is, if they actually do want to avoid such a scenario.
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  I'm Shocked The Jehovah's Witnesses Even Allow Their Kids To Go To Mainstream Schools.

  by Jehovanomics in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  judging by the material that my kid brings home on a daily basis in copius amounts.

  everything about everything in elementary school goes against the doctrines of the jehovah's witnesses.

  how do jw's expect to make any money if all of their kids are defecting the jw's?

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  OneEyedJoe

  The Jws allow secular schooling because there is no money in it for them to provide schools.

  Plus it keeps parents from the preaching work.

  So there is no upside for not allowing kids to go to school.

  I suspect allowing secular schooling has more to do with legal implications of an outright ban on it - in some countries this may be illegal or otherwise problematic. It would be difficult to justify (though I'm sure they'd manage if they wanted to) such an action from the scriptures, so any government (aka superior authority) would have the final say. That's why I'd expect any action against public schooling to at least start with talks (conventions or CO visits) so that they'd have deniabilty if parents start getting in hot water with the government.

  I don't think they care about it actually keeping parents from preaching - the preaching work is more about keeping JWs busy so if they allow homeschooling they'd actually be better off since parents would still have to "get in their time" and they'd have to deal with homeschooling and would thus have even less time to think critically about their belief system.

  The upside is (probably) that they'd have a higher retention rate of JW children, and thus better long-term profitibility. That said, they're going to be at least profitable enough, long enough, for the existing GB to live out their lives. That may well have something to do with why the GB doesn't seem to care about youth retention.