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  Did You Think Jehovah’s Witnesses Were Typically “Racists”?

  by minimus in

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  i was a jw from infancy.

  we had a melting pot type of congregation.

  i grew up with all types of witnesses , all with different backgrounds.

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  mann377

  "believing that races are genetically different isn't racist" Read exactly what I said. Believing genetically SUPERIOR is racist. Its a given that the races are different. This is not good or bad just different. Its culture that is the issue when someone is bigoted. Like I said I've known many people that are discriminated against because of culture. This is both sides of the aisle (white vs black vs Hispanic vs Asian). This culture bigotry also includes rich vs poor, city vs country, type of job, even clothes one wears.

  The news media is the one that has brainwashed and programmed the RACISM mind set that people default to when someone is disrespected.
  
  
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  Did You Think Jehovah’s Witnesses Were Typically “Racists”?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  i was a jw from infancy.

  we had a melting pot type of congregation.

  i grew up with all types of witnesses , all with different backgrounds.

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  mann377

  Racism is used very loosely if not out right wrong. Racism is the belief that your race is genetically superior. Just because your avoid someone or dislike someone is more an act of bigotry. I saw this on a few occasions. It was related to a difference of culture rather than feeling genetically superior. Some cultures just do not mix because of back ground or other issues. This goes on both sides of the aisle.
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  1958 VS 2019 International Covention

  by joey jojo in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlkvocpun8w.

  2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qut4sr9elo.

  so many emotional triggers and not much substance in 2019. at least they highlighted a part of a talk from knorr in the 1958 vid, nothing but a lovefest in the 2019 clip.

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  mann377

  Paradise Lost, Paradise Found. Big book for studying. Loved it. was only 7 years old there and could not get over the big city and all the people. Got beat up by a boy from Indiana three rows up from me. Ah the memories....
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  Long prayers

  by fulano in

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  2. experiences

  did you have one or two brother with way too long prayers in your congregation?

  when i was a child we had a brother who would go on and on after the watchtower study for at least five minutes.

  many elderly sisters just sat down and a lot were complaining after the long desired amen..

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  Bethel 1973, when the elders school was at Bethel one or more of the elders would say the prayer at breakfast. I was setting next to Sister Dechecka. She must have been in her 90's (her husband went to prison with Rutherford). Anyway the elder was going to impress all of us at Bethel with a long winded prayer. Sister Dechecka passed out and her face fell into the bowl of "Cheerios" with milk. She would have drowned had I not pulled her face out of the Cheerios by the hair on the back of her head. The prayer ended 2 min after I did this. So I sat there with my hand holding her head up til the prayer was over.
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  One simple photo to sum up the heartless and hypocritical attitudes of many Jehovah's Witnesses

  by nicolaou in

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  this was taken in london yesterday by a twitter user still managing his fade so i can't be more specific than that.

  disgusting.

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  mann377

  My observation is that the person OD on the truth as they were witnessing to him.
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  jwfacts.com Have you looked at it?

  by blondie in

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  i use this extensively rather than re-inventing the wheel.. paul grundy, the admin, keeps it up-to-date and welcomes any corrections or new information, especially in a well-written article, supported by wt publication quotes.. the 2 places i check first is www.jwfacts.com and then searching on jwn with key word(s) to see if the topic has been already extensively researched or commented on.. don't be frightened away by the material being more than 3 paragraphs.

  the quotes from wt publications is are extensive and from publications that are older and less available.

  i find it good to read many posts on a single topic and expand my knowledge and sources.. blondie.

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  mann377

  I like JWfacts, very informative. I like to call it: Preaching at the church of the painful truth
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  jwfacts.com Have you looked at it?

  by blondie in

  1. jw
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  i use this extensively rather than re-inventing the wheel.. paul grundy, the admin, keeps it up-to-date and welcomes any corrections or new information, especially in a well-written article, supported by wt publication quotes.. the 2 places i check first is www.jwfacts.com and then searching on jwn with key word(s) to see if the topic has been already extensively researched or commented on.. don't be frightened away by the material being more than 3 paragraphs.

  the quotes from wt publications is are extensive and from publications that are older and less available.

  i find it good to read many posts on a single topic and expand my knowledge and sources.. blondie.

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  An interesting side story. I knew a brother that was DFed for a day. While at Watchtower Farm there was a brother on the concrete crew was framed by two sisters in his congregation. The sisters confessed to the scheme a day after the DF'ing. No judicial action was taken against the sisters as they were the daughters of one of the elders. The brother was kicked out of Bethel and was not aloud back in even after reinstatement.
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  Watchtower volunteer injuries

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was recently talking with a zealous 'sister' who for years was assigned to use a certain chemical while taking care of wt property, only to have it irreparably damage her immune system partly because she wasn't trained properly.

  she said there was a potential lawsuit but she didn't want to bring reproach on jehovah's organization.

  has anybody else heard of similar situations, of people being hurt or injured in service to the org, maybe even because of them, and taking the loss so the org wouldn't look bad?.

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  mann377

  There was a young brother that fell down the elevator shaft at Squibb in '73.

  Several brothers had fingers cut off in the press room. Phil Wilcox was one of them. I helped take the press apart to look for the finger.

  Almost had a bad accident at the farm when I had an all night night watchman duty. On the top of the factory before it was complete I walked to inspect something but stopped (I don't know why I stopped) and noticed that I was one foot away from the edge of the slab. There was no barrier! I would have fallen 3 stories. Another time I had an all nighter at farm 2 and around 1 in the morning a calf got out of the feed lot. I grabbed the calf and put him back in the lot only to look over my shoulder and see the mother coming at me with head down and charging. I rolled under the enclosure (made of steel pipe) and got out just in time. I would have been dead if she had caught me.
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  I guess "New Boy" is now "The Bethelite"

  by The Bethelite in

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  i dropped my old computer 2 weeks ago and had to get a new one.

  i tried to log on under "new boy" for over a week and since there was no way to retrieve my old pass word i gave up and started a new profile as the bethelite.

  i just want to thank everyone for the help in getting my new book out, in fact i put this website in the dedication in the book.

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  mann377

  Well come back
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  Televangelist Kenneth Copeland

  by mann377 in

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  had to laugh at this.

  this may be what the wbts end up doing in the future as they become televangelist.

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  I take issue with Kenneth Copland on one point and that is demons are only in the coach section of the plane and not in first class.