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  1969 Awake on Education - A Sore Spot for Me

  by NotBlind in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my father would have started college 49 years ago this week.

  about three months earlier, the week he graduated high school, the awake!

  magazine came out with some very clear direction to teenagers.

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  Yes, this 1969 article is still impacting our family today. They are now past retirement age (late 60's and 70's). They are working low paying, physically demanding jobs, no savings/retirement and NO WAY out.

  The impact and damage that Watchtower has inflicted on so many innocent people that thought they were doing what Jehovah (aka, the organization) wanted them to do, is unforgivable. I just hope I live long enough to see Watchtower pay for all the havoc they have inflicted on people and families.
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  Shunning Part B

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was shunned in high school.. did i do something inappropriate?

  nope, i was the perfect jehovah’s witness child.

  i was guilty by association.

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  Regardless of how you are shunned, place a BIG old smile on your face and give WT and those who shun you the middle finger. JW's HATE SEEING YOU HAPPY!!!
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  Latest update: Finally Free!

  by campaign of hate in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i haven’t posted here in a while, although i have been keeping an eye on the posts.

  i love morpheus bluntness and sbf optimism that jw chariot is going to fall of the cliff imminently!.

  as the title suggests, the latest in my life is that i’m finally free!

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  Fantastic!!! Enjoy your freedom.

  No, WT will never go away. It may decline but will not go away.

  When the Elders come a knockin, just tell them that you are fine and if you need them, you know where to find them. You don't owe them anything.

  If you have family in, WT will never go away. There will always be those reminders that the indoctrination runs deep.

  Just remember, they are stuck in a cult, you are free!!! Enjoy!!!
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  Remember the Wife of Lot

  by Addison0998 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for family worship last night, our family watched remember the wife of lot movie since it will be discussed in the meeting this week.

  there’s a few things i noticed that i didn’t think about last time i watched it.. first, the dad is very of course against his daughters going to college or even trying to find a good job.

  yet he does accounting, which is a very good job that almost always requires a college education.

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  WT forgot to tell the rest of the story, when Lot has sex with his 2 daughters. lol

  The interesting thing about Lots wife, she turned around and looked at the city burning and was turned into a pillar of salt but good old David schemed to have people murdered and did other terrible things but he was "Jehovahs friend" and was forgiven over and over again. No pillar of salt for David.
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  Stats just out: JWs in Wales decline (-3.4%) - COs primed for zero baptisms!

  by Darth FayDehr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  figures from that latest 2-weekend convention in caridff (wales) reveal jw “growth” now in decline.

  baptisms are discouragingly low (21, combined), and circuit overseers have been primed to deal with assemblies where there are no baptisms; see these leaked 2018 instructions:.

  pdf summary: https://1drv.ms/b/s!arekzxkzlp8ybsl45pov7y6k26a.

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  Watchtower has and continues to loose credibility. The overlapping generations teaching is showing so many JW's that WT is moving the finish line once again. You can only cry wolf so many times. They can deny they ever touted the 1975 teaching but people remember.

  The internet is destroying them. They may not go away but they are decreasing. Good news!!
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  The future of young Witnesses

  by john.prestor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there's a convention being held near my hometown, and as i was passing by i saw a father taking his young children for a walk outside.

  and i wondered what would happen to those children, what they would experience at school and in their adult life.

  i wondered if they would grow up repressed and anxious and fearful and full of guilt like i did, although i was not raised a witness.

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  The internet is killing WT. These kids are not afraid to use the internet and the younger generation is NOT afraid to leave the cult. As time goes on, WT will continue to have a bad reputation. A reputation of destroying families. Not many will want to be affiliated with that reputation. The borg will continue to show it's true colors. It may never go away but will be recognized as a dangerous cult.
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  S 147 for august 2018

  by obarac in

  1. watchtower
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  anyone have s 147 for august?.

  rumors about big announcement.. any hear about that..

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  The big announcement must be a "special" one. Everything in WT land is "special."
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  elder bags.

  by blownaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  not sure if this was every where or just our area, but you could always tell who was big shit top dog in the hall elders by the size of their bag.

  my dad used to call them elder bags.

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  How many people in the congregation tripped on one of those bags because the Elders would put them out in the isle. We had one Elder who had his on wheels. The ole rolley bag! lol Like DOC says....dick measuring! I love it!!!
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  Yay, my heart does rejoice..

  by zeb in

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

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  Fantastic!!!
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  Paranoia at Britain Branch?

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just 'phoned britain branch and asked to speak to someone in the public information department.

  it looks like the days of questioning the branch over the 'phone are a thing of the past.. here is the substance of my conversation with the sister who answered the telephone:.

  operator: "what sort of information, please - is it a legal question or an accounting or construction question?".

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  WT is being watch and scrutinized, I have a feeling they are not saying much now days. The spot light is on them and they know it.