"Having no natural affection..."
indeed Oubliette. I recieved a private message from TDS and have nothing else to say except that I hope he finds peace with himself and his mother. He'd be a happier camper if he let go of the anger.
fiddler
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Letter to a DF Parent
by thedepressedsoul inthank you for raising me in this religion, this religion that when people get disfellowshipped you have to cut off all communication, even family.
thank you for making sure all of my friends, work partners, family and 99% of my life was centered around this organization.
thank you for taking the time to study with me, read the bible, making me excluded from all school activities and friends so that my whole social life was surrounded by jw.
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Letter to a DF Parent
by thedepressedsoul inthank you for raising me in this religion, this religion that when people get disfellowshipped you have to cut off all communication, even family.
thank you for making sure all of my friends, work partners, family and 99% of my life was centered around this organization.
thank you for taking the time to study with me, read the bible, making me excluded from all school activities and friends so that my whole social life was surrounded by jw.
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fiddler
I have four kids and one is still JW and the very few times she has communicated to me via text message her tone has had a similar arrogance to it. My other three all left the religion around the time I did and when I have apologized to them for raising them JW they just say "no mom, you did the best you could and you're a great mom".
Four kids all raised the same and yet one can't forgive...the 'Christian' one.
Yes, thankyou JW religion for poisoning it's people with fear, guilt, hate...
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Pick your belief system
by Giordano ini think we've all noticed a ton of newbe's these past months.
one part of escaping or thinking about escaping the jw's is coming to terms with what you believe now and/or what direction you are leaning towards.. here is a site that has a quick quiz that may be of some worth or just for fun.
i took it when i first signed on here and the results surprised me because it was pretty accurate.. you don't have to sign up for anything and when you finish you will get a percentage answer on 20 major belief systems.
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fiddler
100% Taoism
0% JW
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Letter From My Elder Uncle
by freemindfade inok guys, this is long, so i am sorry, but i think it is important to publish.
this is a glimpse into a 4 page letter (love that song) from my uber elder uncle.
as some of you may know i got tired of being in an email chain and finally lost it and lashed out.
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fiddler
Wow...and yes, I've heard quite a few of those same arguments from my own dad (when he was alive). What I hear at the root of it all is fear of ones own mortality. All the words are just fluff hiding their fear. The words in the song 'The Rose' come to mind..
"It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It's the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying who never learns to live"
poor sorry souls....
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Introducing myself
by maksutov inmy name is russ, i'm 40 years old, from the uk, and i left the jws nearly 5 years ago.
i've been a member of the yuku board throughout that time, so there are probably some on here who know me already.
there seems to be more activity over here at the moment, so i thought i'd pop in and say hi.i was raised as a jw, started questioning it when i was 16, but there was no internet back then (well, no www anyway) so i got sucked right in and got baptized when i was 18. auxiliary pioneered on and off for a couple of years, then became a ministerial servant.
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Hey Russ (waves wildly) nice to see you over here! I visit here and other places as well.
You must share some of your music...classical guitar...beautiful stuff!
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How Honest is the Official Watchtower PR Department?..Check out this You Tube Video..
by OUTLAW inmost of us know the watchtower "isn`t" known for it`s honesty... what happens when a person calls watchtower headquarters... with questions the the watchtower "doesn`t" want to answer?!...
your about to find out in this youtube video... phone call to bethel ny jehovah's watchtower productions caleb sophia video series underlying themes.
by inform ant .
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fiddler
Wow! I think she handled the call very well and made it very clear that JW.(b)org is only about telling people what to do and not about giving rational explanations about why. The points made right at the beginning about how the JW content has to be reposted on other formats JUST so that a discussion can be had is spot on. The average JW may be OK with checking their brains at the door of the KH and accepting without question what is ladeled out to them but on the Internet 'interested' people want to be able to ask questions AND make comments.
Welcome to reality governing body! welcome to the Internet!!
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An anthropologist visits a JW community in Santa María Zapotitlán, Mexico
by OrphanCrow indr. jena barchas-lichtenstein is an anthropologist who received her doctorate through ucla.. https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jena-barchas-lichtenstein/43/427/702.
in 2013, barchas-lichtenstein submitted the paper "when the dead are resurrected, how are we going to speak to them?
": jehovah's witnesses and the use of indigenous languages in the globalizing textual community as a partial submission for her doctoral dissertation..
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fiddler
Revitalizing cultures through indigenous language is a noble thing but what Watchtower is doing is every bit as destructive as the colonial version. The paper by Jena is very good although a pretty deep read. She got it! If Watchtower is being funded in any way to carry out their deceptive agenda I hope it stops when revelations like this come out. -
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They just sound to me like the rantings of your average conspiracy theorist. You can't argue or reason with them when they're in that mindset (always in that mindset) Only time is on the side of reason. We just have to wait it out and maybe a few more will wake up.
Dog of Madog d-rules!
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Will there ever be another campaign like the 2006 one with kn37 ("The End of False Religion Is Near!")?
by Magnum inremember the 2006 tract campaign with kingdom news 37 - the end of false relgion is near!?
it seems to me that jwdom has changed to the point that there will not be anymore such campaigns.
it seems that the new rebranded jwdom is too soft for such a campaign; it's too feel-good, happy-clappy, and mainstream.. i just can't imagine a tract campaign like that coming from the new jwdom.
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fiddler
2006? I remember being all pumped up about the destruction of Babylon the great back in 1974 with the kingdom news tracts that were compared to Joshua's army marching around Jericho before the walls fell down...yeah right.
And that was what, 40 years ago. Armegeddon was Soooo imminent back then. I was barely supposed to graduate high school.
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The Cruelty of JW's
by Blackfalcon98 inso i was scrolling my social media account and i saw this from a dub: .
"i think the bible account of jael is probably my favorite.
she was very courageous when she drove that pin into sisera's head....while he was asleep!
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fiddler
Bloodthirsty tribalism of the OT alive and well established in the reality of ISIL.
Example of unevolved humanity stuck in the barbarity of bronze age tribalism...or califism...whatever.
yes, most JW's haven't got a clue about what they are really wishing for.
careful what you wish for as the old adage goes.