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  Why Is it the Girls who Hang in There?

  by snugglebunny in

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  having seen many, many people leave the org over the years, i have to say that, when it comes to married couples, it's almost always the man who makes the first move to leave.

  conversely, when it comes to being converted into the witnesses, more often than not it's the wife who joins up first.

  although that wasn't the case with my own parents, my father became converted and my mother followed very reluctantly..

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  VI: I don't consider a more sensitive nature, either in men or in women, to be a shortcoming

  I don't either - it is just a personality trait. That is all.

  However, in the context of this discussion, it is a less than desirable trait.
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  Why Is it the Girls who Hang in There?

  by snugglebunny in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  having seen many, many people leave the org over the years, i have to say that, when it comes to married couples, it's almost always the man who makes the first move to leave.

  conversely, when it comes to being converted into the witnesses, more often than not it's the wife who joins up first.

  although that wasn't the case with my own parents, my father became converted and my mother followed very reluctantly..

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  VI: It's known, according to studies, that women make up the majority of worshippers at all churches. Why exactly is not known but it most probably has to do with their psychological nature.

  Actually, the reason has far more to do with external factors like...oh...say...imbalance of power in the culture at large.

  Religion attracts powerless people. That is why more women turn to religion - for a sense of empowerment - for a lot of women, it is the only source of power they have.

  And by the way...it is sort of humorous to read the responses of men who project the standard stereotype of women "being more sensitive" and having emotional shortcomings, etc. And it is funny that it is the men commenting on this thread and not women. Poor, poor women...they don't even understand themselves what is happening...poor things.

  The underlying issue is not personality/psychological/emotional shortcomings of the female sex.

  The underlying issue is that men, in our patriarchal society, have taken women's power away from them. Men have taken more than their share of the pie, leaving women in a position to look for ways to feel what it is that they deserve, as a fundamental right - their own power.

  Unfortunately, religion offers a delusional state of self-empowerment, when it is anything but that. It becomes a catch-22 for women - be powerless or join a religion to feel powerful - a religion run by men. It is a lose-lose situation for women.
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  If the GB changed a major teaching, would all witnesses just go along with it?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. beliefs

  so if the gb changed its "bible based beliefs" on some teaching, would witnesses all of a sudden change their individual beliefs too?.

  witnesses like to claim that "their bible trained hearts and minds" make them believe as they do, but we know that the reality is that all witnesses hold their "deep seated beliefs" according to what they have been told to believe.. so what would cause the average witness to question those that dictate their "personal convictions"??.

  thoughts?.

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  The JWs care about one doctrine and one doctrine only - they want to live forever on a paradise earth.

  It doesn't matter what the other doctrines are. Those are flexible and the sheep will adjust to whatever nonsense comes from those on high. Just give them their promise of paradise. They will follow.
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  Circuit Overseers are putting their resume on LinkedIn? This is new?!

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am a bit surprised to see what appears to be current and in-good-standing circuit overseers putting their resumes on linkedin.

  www.linkedin.com/title/circuit-overseer.

  do you know any of these, and are they legit?.

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  I think that linkedin picks up a person's info from various online sources and sometimes will create a profile without a person's knowledge.

  My daughter and granddaughter both have linkedin profiles and I am pretty sure neither of them created them.

  And yes, the WT 'professionals' are abundant on linkedin. It seems like a social networking tool for a lot of them. Some of the qualifications and experience that they list is sort of sad.

  Lots of the bloodless crew use linkedin, including HLC dudes
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  "The G.B. is neither inspired nor infallible"

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  that admission in the feb.17 ,study edition of the watchtower , " who is leading gods people today ?

  " "the governing body is neither inspired, nor infallible, therefore it (they/we) can err in doctrinal matters or in organizational direction .".

  have the many jehovahs witnesses past and present who have lost their lives by refusing blood transfusions due to the prohibition on blood tranfusions by jehovahs witnesses really got the sense of this statement ?.

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  The GB don't admit to 'mistakes'.

  In Watchtower language, a 'mistake' by the GB is called NEW LIGHT
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  "The G.B. is neither inspired nor infallible"

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  that admission in the feb.17 ,study edition of the watchtower , " who is leading gods people today ?

  " "the governing body is neither inspired, nor infallible, therefore it (they/we) can err in doctrinal matters or in organizational direction .".

  have the many jehovahs witnesses past and present who have lost their lives by refusing blood transfusions due to the prohibition on blood tranfusions by jehovahs witnesses really got the sense of this statement ?.

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  When has WT doctrinal errors resulted in deaths and abuse of JW?

  And what about the Factor VII problem?

  When the WTS allowed some JW hemophiliacs to receive factor VII (a fractionated blood product) but didn't let all the JWs know this? Only some JWs received that treatment (clinical trial?).

  And then, the WTS has made considerable mileage on the HIV tainted blood scandal - without acknowledging that some of the JWs that did receive factor VII did contract HIV through factor VII transfusions. That the WTS had approved.
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  Canada - Macleans article, Oct. 28, 2016: A Jehovah’s Witness and her deadly devotion

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  http://www.macleans.ca/news/a-jehovahs-witness-and-her-deadly-devotion/.

  a jehovah’s witness and her deadly devotion.

  did a jehovah’s witness die after refusing a blood transfusion, and should the state have let it happen?.

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  Thank you for posting that article, Barbara.

  Excellent article.

  It is so good to see that the "care plan for mothers" that was recently sent to the elders has made its way into the hands of someone in the public.

  People need to be made aware of how coercive the blood refusal belief actually is.

  And hats off to wifibandit for leaking the care plan to begin with.
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  So I just watched Jackson's ARC interview...

  by schnell in

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  2. experiences

  thank you, everybody here, for introducing me to this.

  no, no i had not heard of this.

  child abuse issues have been roundly dismissed as apostate attacks in the congregations i've attended in the last decade.

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  Yup.

  Jackson got baptized at 13, quit school at 14, and now he heads up the writing department of a worldwide corporation.

  Good gig if ya can land it.

  Nice suit too.
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  97 Columbia Heights For Sale

  by wifibandit in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdyjb_v4gye.

  http://imgur.com/a/yhraf.

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  Some history on 97 Columbia Heights:

  http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2016/10/27/throwback-thursday-demise-hotel-margaret
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  Quebec coroner investigating death of another Jehovah's Witness after childbirth

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  quebec coroner investigating death of another jehovah's witness after childbirth.

  by stephen smith, cbc news posted: oct 26, 2016 6:39 pm et.

  http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-coroner-investigates-death-of-another-jehovahs-witness-1.3822768.

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  Vidiot: In all my time as an active JW, it never once occurred to me that the "bloodless" medical-tech industry might be something that the Org may being quietly profiting from.

  Vidiot, I still remember exactly the moment that thought crystallized for me. It horrified and shocked me but at the same time it made total and complete sense.

  Everything that I have turned up since that time indicates that the no blood doctrine is a phobia, not a religious belief. And that that phobia against using other people's blood is a profitable position that the Watchtower Society has exploited through their alliances with the bloodless industry.

  The Watchtower goes on and on about all the money that is needed for the "worldwide work".

  But...the questions that need to be asked and answered:

  How much money has the org spent on promoting bloodless technology?

  Is the Hospital Information Services part of their "worldwide work"?

  Is advocating for and promoting bloodless medicine a religious activity?

  And, how is the Hospital Information Services financed? Does that money come from the charitable donations the Watchtower receives?

  Who are the largest contributors to the WTS? Do they have interests in keeping the blood doctrine alive...or massaging the blood doctrine to serve the needs of the bloodless industry?

  Why has the WTS change their position on using processed blood at exactly the same times that the bloodless industry needed subjects to trial their products on?

  Why has the HLC made arrangements for procedures to be used on JW patients and then later...those procedures/products were stopped over safety concerns? Why does the WTS go on and on about the dangers of blood transfusions but NEVER says anything about the dangers that they have exposed the JWs to through experimental bloodless procedures?