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  Have you had a crisis of concience?

  by new hope and happiness in

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  my little boy has decided he wants to be a vegetarian and has been for over a year now.

  i fully accepted and supported this.. my view however is no matter what you eat or how you eat it ....beings will die for you to eat.. i have noticed where we live we have the terms " free range" and " ecological".

  if affordable i am sure most peoples preferrd option for their own health and the conditions of the animals.. i would say everyone has the right to eat what they want within reason.

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  One “crisis of conscience” I have regarding humans eating animals is the way in which people deliberately and callously choose to treat them, causing them unnecessary suffering in the way they are kept, handled, and slaughtered. The thing that really gets me upset and mad is the use of agonizingly painful anal electrocution done on foxes and minks on these “fur farms” – not for them to be eaten, but, rather, just for their fur. This is absolutely despicable, heinous, and simply intolerable, because it’s a totally unnecessary method of slaughter. It is done just to avoid any kind of “damage” to the fur. So, those people would rather put the poor creatures through that than poke a tiny hole in the fur with a needle to administer a more humane method. Or, they could simply asphyxiate them using some lethal but painless gas – which would also still keep the fur totally pristine. But, no. They just couldn’t be bothered. (People like that are lower than any pile of shit.)

  The other “crisis of conscience” I have is the nature of life wherein animals are hardwired to savagely and cruelly attack and eat each other, with some animals eating members of its own species, sometimes even their own offspring, just to survive their harsh and seemingly meaningless existence. I am disturbed and appalled by the constant savagery in the entire animal kingdom, where sensitive biological beings always have to suffer fear and anxiety about being terrorized and painfully attacked, often horrifically being eaten alive. Not to mention all the competition and fighting over space, food, and mates. (Ever seen footage of large herds of elephant seals or walruses jabbing each other with those long, sharp tusks, causing painful and bloody gashes, which are subject to agonizing infection? Ouch!) There are so many nature documentaries showing all this pain, aggression, struggling, and suffering. It seems that the basic nature of biological existence is, Eat and be eaten. That is another reason which convinces me that there really is no “god,” at least in the sense of a “deity” which most people think of. (I’m now an agnostic.) And I’m glad. Because if there was a magical “god,” such as Jehovah, then he/she/it must be quite the asshole, when you really think of it.
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  Governing Body Teaching Islamic Hatred of Women

  by TOTH in

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  i am thinking there is a strange tie between wt and islam.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlafa5lbopw.

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  “prologos”: “. . . ladies sound like children, mostly, and I like it that way.”

  That would come across as being quite condescending and insulting to any woman, I would think. The WTS likes to put women on the same level as children (more like chattel, or property), and certainly even lower than any baptized male children, no matter how young they are. I don’t think that anybody really goes for that nowadays, male or female. (I certainly don’t, and I’m a man. I strongly believe in equality and fairness.) I mean, deep down, everyone knows that it’s old stereotypical BS. All I can say is, wake up to the 20th – actually, now 21st – century!
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  Child with brain tumour taken from UK hospital by JW parents

  by Fe2O3Girl in

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  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-28978655.

  a five-year-old boy with a brain tumour has been taken without consent from hospital by his parents, sparking a major police hunt for the family.. ashya king was taken from southampton general hospital and is now believed to be in france with his parents and six siblings.. police said he needs constant medical care and there are "serious concerns" for his life if he is not found today.. brett king, 51, and naghemeh king, 45 removed him from the ward on thursday.. ashya's father was pictured taking him from the hospital"everyone is sending their love now.

  we love you so much and we want to see you very soon and i love you so much and can't wait to see you.".

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  This is certainly a very difficult and delicate situation, from many angles. I sure hope that this little boy, Ashya King, gets an effective treatment within the time he has. That, of course, is the important thing.

  Also, regardless of what the outcome may be in this case, perhaps, if nothing else, this situation which is now in the public eye will give all the more impetus for the governmental, scientific, and medical communities to work together to develop, refine, and expand the new proton beam therapy in the most timely manner possible. This new therapy seems to have promising potential in the near future to improve the care in treating perhaps many different types of cancer. Let’s hope! Any progress that can be made in understanding, treating, and, hopefully soon, eradicating this horrible disease is welcome news, to be sure.
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  Governing Body Teaching Islamic Hatred of Women

  by TOTH in

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  i am thinking there is a strange tie between wt and islam.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlafa5lbopw.

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  The GB has always been perpetuating with a passion the attitude toward women so embodied by Franklin Rutherford, as shown by his infamous statement, “What is a woman anyway, but a hank of hair and a bag of bones.” (Him and his predecessor, Charles Taze Russell, were not exactly a catch for any woman. Those two were about as romantically and sexually satisfying to a woman as a pair of crutches made out of gummy worms would be practical.)

  The very purpose of this misogynist scheme is really to reinforce the WTS’ authoritarian “headship principle,” with Jehovah – I mean, the GB/Watchtower – at the very top, and then downward to baptized male children – I mean, the family dog – and then women (at the very bottom, of course).

  In all seriousness, though, women may have on average a ten percent smaller brain size, head size, and cranial capacity; HOWEVER, brain density and white matter versus gray matter usage, as well as individual IQ, are better indicators of women’s overall thinking abilities, all of which being in their favor!

  It is such a well-known and accepted fact for some time now that women basically have the same mental abilities as men. As we can readily see, woman have been functioning quite well in the business and political world, and have more than adequately proven their abilities in this world in general, if given half a decent chance, . . . . which, unfortunately, is something that still doesn’t look too hopeful in the world of Allah or Jehovah.
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  Are Congregation Picnics still forbidden? If so, Why???

  by NAVYTOWN in

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  Talking about “liability,” you would think that the WTS should be far more concerned about the liabilities of their strictly-enforced policies regarding blood transfusions (kids and babies dead), shunning (severe depression and anxiety, leading to mental illness and even suicides), protecting pedophiles (while threatening and expelling innocent victims), etc., etc. Now, that would be a liability, you would think! Much more so than any little normal social get-together like barbecues and beach parties.
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  A Way to Weave 2

  by looter in

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  now i know that this would of course be illegal, wrong, and deceitful but has anyone here ever thought of creating a fake jw.org website that looks 100% authentic to the actual site but features ttatt?

  like mentioned before, this would definitely be fraud or some other badness but just think of how many people could be woken up if this were real.

  it might not open up everyone's eyes but for the witnesses that stumble onto jw.org for hours watching videos, this false jw site could really work.

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  IMHO, I think that a stunt like that would just be shooting yourself in the foot. Other than getting yourself into some fancy legal trouble, it would just make people all the more angry and resentful at what they could label a stereotype “apostate.” Just like the devious form of mudslinging politician on the campaign trail, it would just be sure to backfire with a vengeance. (Simply put: Bad idea. Don’t even think about it. Not that you would ever try, I’m sure, but, well, just say’n.)
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  AnointedJW Response On Df'ing

  by metatron in

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  https://anointedjw.org/qr_august_2014.html#qr_082914c.

  so, they are claiming that these new partakers associated with their site are not being df'd.. i understand that two witness guys run this site.

  can anyone confirm that they are not df'd?.

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  I think that one logical reason why the new people claiming to be of the anointed and partaking of the emblems are not disfellowshipped en masse is due to this simple fact: Whether any particular person would be anointed or not cannot actually be proven or disproven – not any more than so many of the teachings of the WTS, such as Jesus’ invisible presence since 1914. It’s like someone saying that they predicted some particular event ahead of time in a dream – dreams cannot be proven or disproven.

  This is of course becoming more of a dilemma for the WTS because the total number of anointed partakers of the emblems is steadily increasing rather than decreasing – and there is not anything the WTS can really do, because how do you go about trying to prove exactly who has, or has not been, anointed by an invisible and undetectable “holy spirit”?

  Although, it’s rather unfortunate that all JWs couldn’t simply rely on Romans 14:12 – “So, then, each of us will render an account for himself to God” (RNWT) – in relation to whether or not they wish to celebrate birthdays or “worldly” holidays, take an emergency blood transfusion, etc., as a purely personal matter. Another scripture in Romans chapter 14 with a similar idea is verse 4, which says: “Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for Jehovah can make him stand.”

  The GB sets itself up not only as leaders, rulers, and mediators, but also as judges – at least in anything which they can tangibly catch people on.
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  An important message from a PRACTICING Jehovah's witness

  by Sparks in

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  hi, i am also a practicing jehovah's witness and very proud of it,to say the very-very least..!

  i am a middle-aged man with many decades of being a witness of jehovah god in england.. this important letter is personally to you, just as many of the bible's 88 letters are to be taken personal by you the reader.

  i am writing to you to urge you to take stock of your life, think what your future holds for you.

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  I’m wondering if our Mr. “Sparks” had started to “fall away” from his JW beliefs for a time, then began feeling guilty and anxious about it, and then had some change of heart wherein he felt that he should return to the WTS to become “approved” so as to escape that non-existent state of death which he referred to. It almost sounds to me like he’s somehow making a rather pathetic attempt to ease his own guilty conscience, as he sees it, and redeem himself by making some show of affinity and allegence to what he says is God’s true organization. (Although, I would wonder if even Mr. “Sparks” himself actually believes, deep in the logical part of his noodle, what he is now spewing out to us.)

  All well. At least, if nothing else, he has in reality just ended up shooting himself in the foot, as he has really just laid out for everyone how ridiculous and nonsensical it is to devote oneself to such an obviously man-made, power-hungry, and self-serving outfit as the WTS. (That is, of course, assuming that he’s not just playing with us. Either way, he’s certainly getting under my skin.) All in all, I believe that this “Sparks” fellow has, albeit unwittingly, done us all a favour!
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 08-31-2014 WT Study (FULL POTENTIAL)

  by blondie in

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  wt publications http://www.a2z.org/wtarchive/archive.htm (old).

  united nations http://www.randytv.com/secret/unitednations.htm.

  newly baptized brothers (not sisters) because the wts needs men to reach out.

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  SAHS

  It’s good to see your insightful comments on the Watchtower Study again, which certainly does help put things into a more logical and objective perspective for us all.

  I gave the comment in paragraph 15 of that Watchtower Study this morning. (Our congregation recently voted to try switching the Sunday meeting to Saturday morning instead, supposedly to facilitate better field service success on Sunday morning.) The question on paragraph 15 was “How did Paul express appreciation for his brothers?,” and I related my answer to where the paragraph stated: “In Romans chapter 16, Paul gave recognition to more than 20 fellow believers for qualities that made them dear to his heart.”

  I went on to highlight in my comment the following verses of Romans chapter 16:

  Vs. 1: “Phoebe, our sister, who is a minister of the congregation . . .”

  Vs. 6: “Greet Mary, who has worked hard for you.”

  Vs. 12: “Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, women who are working hard in the Lord. Greet Persis, our beloved one, for she has worked hard in the Lord.”

  I then concluded my comment with the following: “This shows that at that time women had a respectable and dignified role as workers and ‘ministers’ in the Christian congregation.”

  Romans chapter 16 seems to indicate that even the apostle Paul himself gave women more confidence and consideration of their roles in working, or ‘ministering,’ in behalf of the Christian congregation. I was thinking that this could imply that women in the first century could work at various tasks which today the WTS would require a “ministerial servant” – i.e., a male – to perform. Although, I’m sure that this logical deduction would have effectively been completely lost on the audience, as would be most such logical thoughts daring to venture outside of the silly and confining “box” of the WTS mindset.
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  Give me a reason not to go back

  by chukky 594 in

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  been out now for 10 yrs but life is a mess.

  starting to think its because i have no spiritual compass.

  why shouldn't i consider going back?.

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  SAHS

  You need to differentiate between being an approved JW and living a decent, happy life – and to realize that the two do not necessary have to go together.

  JWs are taught to believe that any financial, emotional, or physical hardships are a result of not being a member in good standing with the WT Society. The JW religion thus instills a kind of superstitious behavior in that the ritualistic activities and legalistic prohibitions required are thought to alleviate spiritual emptiness and make a person acceptable to his Maker, God, and thus be spiritually whole. However, one needs to realize that their life being a “mess” is not due to the failure of satisfying the expectations of any religion which is man-made but, rather, is to a large extent related to their own practical decisions and actions.

  My suggestion to you would be to honestly and fearlessly examine all the elements of your life, including financial, emotional, interpersonal, and physical, and see if there are things like financial management assistance, positive affirmations, character development, or diet and exercise which can give you the actual power to sort out and modify whatever “mess” your life may seem to be at present.

  In other words, think in terms of taking positive and practical steps to improve various aspects of your life, exploring new and empowering information which can open doors for you by giving you objective insight toward a better spiritual perspective. Anyone can put their own unique “spin” on the Bible (or any other “holy book”) – and many do – but one needs to be able to look above all the trees and see the entire forest as a whole – and that requires being able to think outside of the box.

  Just remember this, my friend, which is very important: “religiosity” and “spirituality” are not one and the same!