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  Kleenex Head Covering

  by jwundubbed in

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  2. experiences

  growing up a woman in the cult was pretty bleak.

  most of the adult women i knew were either depressed sad women or an embarrassment to me.

  i was typical kid in that regard.

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  A JW friend of mine (a woman in her fifties) chuckled as she told me about the time her mother resorted to using a diaper as a head covering. I couldn't believe she thought anything about that situation was funny.
  
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  Signing Away Your Hard Earned Cash

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  reading the meeting workbook study for this week to see what my family will be reading at their meeting, once again they are asking for members for generous gifts not only from money they earn but also part of any investments they may have and making future arrangements for them to inherit after death through their wills.

  take a look at the lower part of the page on this link, its awful!

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20151115/donations-worldwide-work/.

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  Frankly, I'm surprised they included this one:

  CONDITIONAL DONATION ARRANGEMENT

  • Donations of cash with the condition that it can be returned if needed by the donor.
    
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  My Invisible (cat)

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my invisible (cat) .

  when i was a little boy all the way up to when i was a not-so-little boy, i had sort of ...well--an invisible cat as a friend.. .

  i'll let you adjust to that thought before i continue.... .

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  This needs to be a book. An honest-to-God, buy-it-at-your-local-Barnes-&-Noble book.
  
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  TATTOO

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i have a tattoo of an envelope about half-way up the front of my leg.

  it means i've got a knee mail to look at each day.

  :).

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  konceptual99 What does "tiki" mean in this context?
  
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  Will they drink the Kool Aid?

  by Hecce in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as you know the question regarding the “kool aid” is related to the tragic events at guyana and jim jones.

  blind obedience and faith in this man resulted in a massive loss of lives.. sometimes we see the same pattern of blind obedience to the watchtower from the witnesses.

  this could be on major items or small details.

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  This is something from a year or two ago that I saved from Facebook. This is a group of JW's discussing what they will do during the tribulation. You can skip the article. The comments alone are disturbing.

  
  
  
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  Grocery Store conversation with an elder

  by problemaddict 2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm inactive here to the local jw's as i have faded.

  i've been slandered and all that, shunned by some but not all, but the elders basically leave me alone.

  i still run into to people all over though.

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  "Frank - PA oh just busy doing well thank you."
  
  What does "PA" mean?
  
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  Those who DO NOT get a resurrection?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so we know that by jw logic, the idea is that everyone who dies is acquitted of their sin and will get a resurrection in the "new world".

  however, those directly destroyed by god, or at his command will not.

  (for example, those destroyed in the flood.

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  I've never gotten a clear answer on what part of the Bible is supposed to back up their claim that Adam and Eve won't be resurrected. Something about them being perfect already and therefore their sins were automatically unforgivable, which doesn't make a lick of sense because:

  1. Nowhere in the Bible does it specifically say that Adam and Eve won't come back. There is only a vague, roundabout suggestion based on an interpretation of another scripture entirely, and we all know how JWs like to cherry pick vague scripture to apply to something seemingly unrelated, or do the opposite and insist that a scripture MUST be very specific or else it cannot be applied,
  
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  2. How on earth can a perfect person be capable of sin in the first place? Committing a sin, even intentionally, seems like the polar opposite of perfection. In what exact way were Adam and Eve "perfect"? Because it certainly wasn't in the judgment department, that's for sure.
  
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  Freudian slip in last Sunday's WT?

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i had this point highlighted to me yesterday by a dyed-in-the-wool j.w.

  who is beginning to see cracks in his beloved golden calf of warwick.

  so encouraging to hear his disgruntlement with org-related topics.. “many in the christian congregation may not have expected their loved ones to die this side of armageddon.” (july 2017 study wt).

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  Not sure how that's a Freudian slip. Do you think he was subconsciously implying that some are expected to die AFTER Armageddon? Like, after the thousand-year reign when Satan is allowed one more chance to tempt us? Because that was already to be expected, wasn't it?
  
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  Your Top Ten Favourite Movies?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  just thought i'd start a thread about favourite movies.

  mine, in no particular order, are .... alien - a great visual film.

  the chest-bursting scene is still great to watch, no matter how many times i've seen the movie.

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  Labyrinth (1986 Jim Henson film)

  The Wizard of Oz
  

  Beetlejuice

  Short Circuit 2

  Pete's Dragon (the 1977 original, NOT the remake)

  Spirited Away

  The Nightmare Before Christmas

  The Goonies

  Spaceballs

  The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney, 1996)
  
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  Three gen sex-abuse cover up in my fam; and other fun

  by cyngz in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi, first time posting.i got out about 10 years ago, but only beginning to reconcile with my trauma from being raised as a witness.

  i am a professional writer, and never wanted my body of work to be prefaced -- 'oh the writer who broke free from being a jw,' but i've started the last year to now write about my experiences.

  another reason i have held back is many of the victims in my family are still of the faith, and i've grappled with it is not entirely my story to tell or expose.context: the sexual abuse cover-up with my family goes back to the 50's over three generations of girls in a large extended family all raised as witnesses at the hands of an uncle, and protected by the elder body, ca, da, ontario branch of bethel, ny and so on.i grew up in a culture where the girls in my family would go 'off the deep end' at ages 16/17, and kept waiting to grow up for my turn to 'go crazy', which did happen at age 17 when i had my first manic phase and left the org for about two years.

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  Sorry, but I can't take anyone seriously when they use stupid words like "fam."