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  To The Australian Government .Have Jehovah`s Witnesses signed the Redress scheme ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  maybe i`m a just a bit more impatient than some ,but the govt.

  did say they will name and shame those who do not sign up to the redress scheme didn`t they ?

  and take away their special priveledges , etc.?.

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  dubstepped

  Weak. Why would you give them yet another chance, and why would they take the government seriously when it doesn't.
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  Left one cult not joining another

  by SnakesInTheTower in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just read this article about dave ramsey and his company ramsey solutions (formerly lampo group).

  reading about him and his board, made me think of jehovah's witnesses and the governing body (aka the hateful eight).

  i used to like him, listened or watched his show, even visited his new hq in nashville briefly.

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  Damn, dude got hella culty. I used to listen to him all the time, even as a JW despite the fact that his Bible thumping made me uncomfortable since he was a false christian according to my own cult. Honestly, I do owe a lot to him financially because his unwavering culty rigid black and white beliefs did truly help me to break some bad habits learned from growing up in an environment with zero financial intelligence. My wife and I are debt free. Ultimately it came from following what he said, though the reality is that we did it our own way within those confines, so to speak.

  Anyway, after leaving the JWs I tried listening to him a few times for entertainment purposes. I used to like the stories and such. But I couldn't do it. He was so rigid and it was quite triggering to listen to him. I still recommend his original Financial Peace book or whatever to people at times because it was solid financial advice, but it was never "The one and only Truth" as he basically sold it. I also had issues with some of the ELP services that he recommended and wondered why he would never promote things like low cost index funds for retirement, instead sending people to brokers as he made wild claims about hyperbolic returns on investments while receiving payment for promoting people.

  I learned a lot listening to him. But I could always tell that he was super controlling. He got really into the personal lives of his employees and would go over their budgets and interview people extensively before hiring them, even interviewing their spouse. He would talk about how involved he was in the lives of his adult children and it was quite boundary-less for a guy that always had Dr. Henry Cloud on talking about boundaries.

  I'll still recommend his financial principles and baby steps, but yeah, the dude is controlling as can be, and I thought he might have mellowed a bit. Sounds like he may have doubled down instead. Yikes.

  Thanks for posting that. It was an interesting read and confirmed so much that I had thought might be the case as I read it. I can see every bit of that happening after listening to him for years.
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  If only someone had kicked my a$$.. (This is post is not for theists)

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i think back on the 30+ years of bs as well as my fading almost a decade and even now being low key in person to hopefully save my nieces from the wt.

  i'm a wreck in some ways.

  i'm other days i'm stable however when it comes to theism i depart quickly and with anger!

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  Yeah, you wouldn't have listened. People challenge believers every day and yet there are still lots of believers. In fact, the harder someone comes at you when you have a persecution complex drilled into you, often the deeper it drives you into your beliefs. If only it was as simple as your post makes it we could wake up lots of people around lots of things but that's not how it works. You're ready to wake up when you're ready.

  Also, I'd encourage you to talk to someone about your anger. It's not healthy to carry around what you're carrying.
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  Keystone XL Pipeline & Watchtower Research

  by IWant2Leave in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  you may know that president joe biden canceled the permits for the xl canadian pipeline on his first day in office.

  this was a controversial move, and there has been discussion and videos floating around the office where i work.

  one of my co-workers showed a video of all the jobs being lost.

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  I love how the OP's point was simply that it's important to look at sources of information and how as a JW he never did that, and it is then followed by lots of people asserting that their opinions or their source is the accurate one. I agree with the OP. Do your own research, read multiple sides, come up with your own view, realize that it's nothing more than your view and not "The Truth" that everyone else must believe because you and you alone are right.
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  Jehovah's witnesses believe in Tranys.

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so women who are of the anointed will be changed to male?

  i know it says there are neither male nor female in heaven but they are never depicted as women always male gender.

  so does the cult believe in the transgender crap?.

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  dubstepped

  Lol, Jesus may or may not have existed, but I enjoy watching people jump through hoops to try to explain the insanity of the Bible or gnostics. I just posted the verse for fun. This whole conversation is dumb and the OP likes to be inflammatory. So have fun!
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  Jehovah's witnesses believe in Tranys.

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so women who are of the anointed will be changed to male?

  i know it says there are neither male nor female in heaven but they are never depicted as women always male gender.

  so does the cult believe in the transgender crap?.

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  Well, let's see what Jesus himself had to say in the Gospel of Thomas ;)

  
  114. Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve life."

  Jesus said, "Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven."
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  Underground JW in China - Latest Episode of Shunned

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i don't post most of my episodes here because most people here over time know that my podcast and youtube channel are out there if they're interested.

  but i just released an episode that i thought people here might like with an ex-jw that went underground in china.

  in two weeks i'm releasing an interview with an ex-scientologist, and i'm interviewing someone from the unification church soon as well.. new episode - 82 - geoff is shunned by jehovah's witnesses.

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  I don't post most of my episodes here because most people here over time know that my podcast and YouTube channel are out there if they're interested. But I just released an episode that I thought people here might like with an ex-JW that went underground in China. In two weeks I'm releasing an interview with an ex-Scientologist, and I'm interviewing someone from the Unification Church soon as well.
  
  

  New Episode - 82 - Geoff is shunned by Jehovah's Witnesses

  
  

  The underground. As Jehovah’s Witnesses we were trained for the possibility that someday we would have to go underground and do our public preaching work in secret. Most of us would never actually do that. Geoff did.

  
  

  Geoff went to China to work underground as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses in a country in which the cult is banned. Secret meetings, smuggling cult propaganda into the country, specious credentials, etc. But doing this work would backfire as it forced Geoff to realize certain things about the cult that he was involved in. Even bigger, living this underground life would force parts of his authentic self to come out and be exposed to the light of day in ways he could no longer hide.

  
  

  You can listen on the podcast app of your choice such as iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Podbean, Podcast Republic (my personal choice), or many others. You can also find the podcast on iHeartRadio, Spotify, Radio Public, and Owltail. **Now on Stitcher, Gaana, Audible Podcasts, and more**

  
  

  There is a player on my website where you can listen at:

  https://shunnedpodcast.com/episode-eighty-two-geoff-is-shunned-by-jehovahs-witnesses/
  Or watch on YouTube at:
  https://youtu.be/GRRzaPGhU5Y
  
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  Just helped my kid get his first used car.

  by GrreatTeacher in

  1. social
  2. family

  my son, only child, age 19, college sophomore, just got his first used car.

  most importantly, he learned the fun and exhilarating process of buying a used car from a dealer.

  he had saved some money, but everything around the $5000 range was basically a shit box on wheels.

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  I won't say my parents actively taught me this, but I watched them growing up and they didn't really do debt other than their house. Always paid cash for cars and drove cheap cars as we were poor-ish. To this day I buy all of my cars cash, find great deals from private parties, never pay more than $3500 or so, and have cars that run mostly problem free for years and years. Again, my parents weren't big on teaching me anything and what I observed was primarily what not to do in life, but this did rub off and I have little invested in depreciating assets and no debt.
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  QUITTING QUIETLY here is the Canadian version of the document

  by gone for good in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a while back, i suggested that an easy, quick, quiet exit with the signing and dating of a concise and irrefutable document would spur faders and pimos to preempt the elders' interference by quitting quietly first , before a fade or a confrontation.

  here is the document .

  https://1drv.ms/w/s!avoitfxyvyqghq3gbmkhfyqp_jqp?e=8bttg1.

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  dubstepped

  Cults exist in their own world with their own rules. They don't care about yours. This is just another attempt at circumventing cult rules that means nothing.
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  Suing The Music Industry

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. social
  2. current

  jehovah’s witnesses file copyright lawsuit in response to blundering christmas album - listen, obey, and be blessed.

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  https://www.toptutorials.co.uk/jehovahs-witnesses-file-copyright-lawsuit-in-response-to-blundering-christmas-album-torrentfreak/.

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  dubstepped

  People had all kinds of wild theories about this, that Watchtower was even building their new media center to create works and become licensing billionaires. It couldn't have been the company that screwed up. I'm sure people that buy into those theories won't be swayed by this either because people believe what they want to believe but it wouldn't be like the JWs to license a song and risk the sweet finances of free donations to get a few bucks on some sort of license deal on something like this.