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  Would you trust your Doctor if he got things wrong??

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just thinking..... assume we had a family doctor that we had seen all our lives, perhaps he had been the doctor for your extended family too.

  he is lovely man, very kind and honest hearted.. but if he had prescribed treatment or medication that was wrong, and had bad effects on you, then changed the medication to something else, then randomly changed it again etc, how would you feel?.

  if you did some research into him, and found disturbing facts and things in his history that made you question his qualifications, how would you feel?

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  ^That's exactly what I was thinking! "5 points for use of illustrations"
  
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  JW Apprentice in Hair Salon.

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my hairdresser warned me that he had taken on a jw apprentice and asked me what i thought.

  she attends the kh that disfellowhipped me.

  i told him that i would have to be careful about what i said concerning my personal life as she would report back anything she heard to the elders.

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  As a side point:

  The plus side is that she could be a hard and honest worker.

  This has no correlation to being a jw. That is a myth they created about themselves.
  
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  Xmas / New Year - Time to Review Your Finances

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. family

  it's that time of the year again, when most people spend too much buying too much crap for people .... it's also a good time to take advantage of the few days off to look at your finances and make sure you're not being "gouged" by the big companies that, well, like to extract as much money from people as possible.. for us, one of the biggest culprits was telecoms.. think about it: years ago you just had to buy a tv and probably paid to have a phone line.

  nowadays you have cell phones for everyone in the family and a million and one tv channels (all showing crap or repeats of crap) and extra for movies and pay-per-view.

  you can easily be paying hundreds of dollars per month.. it can all add up, quickly.

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  For $15, I bought a digital antenna that gets me about 20 channels. We watch Netflix and HBO GO for everything else. I still have way more than I can possibly watch, and am spending way less.
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  Vatican launches website for preventing clerical sex abuse

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2016/12/06/vatican-launches-website-preventing-clerical-sex-abuse/.

  inés san martín .

  december 6, 2016 vatican_correspondent.

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  rebel8

  Here is the correct URL. http://www.protectionofminors.va/content/tuteladeiminori/en.html
  
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  Do pregnant sisters wear the tight, formfitting dresses like those women of "the world" do?

  by ShirleyW in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just wondering about that as i was watching the news tonight with lester holt, the weatherperson was dylan dryer i believe her name is, who is also on the today show, she was wearing what pregnant women have been wearing for more than ten years now which is the formfitting style of maternity dress.

  just wondering if the sisters in the hall are doing the same thing, because back in the day the old elderettes and female pioneers would have an earful to say about a pregnant women who doesn't wear the appropriate maternity wear, showing off that big belly and so on.

  btw, i don't care for that style on pregnant women at all, too revealing to me, i don't have kids but couldn't imagine showing off a 30lb belly like that, seems a bit inappropriate to me, imho i guess i should add here..

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  IMHO it isn't inappropriate. It's not like her vajayjay is showing or something. It's an outline of a belly.

  Taste is another matter entirely though.

  You'd think the dubbies wouldn't want to show off pregnancies so much. Woe to the woman bearing children during these times or whatever. Yet it does seem to be a big deal to them, cause for celebration. Kinda hypocritical.
  
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  Banned From The Kingdom Hall

  by darkspilver in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  banned from going to the kingdom hall..... a former jehovah’s witness has been banned from visiting any of the organisation’s kingdom halls in the uk – or face going to jail.. http://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/judges-jail-warning-to-former-117012/.

  previous thread / discussion.

  youtube channel.

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  So he got DFd for some reason unknown to us, and he played a recording of a discussion with an elder, on the street, loudly.

  He is tried and convicted for this? Seems kinda harsh. What am I missing?
  
  I am not saying it was right, just seems like a weird punishment for doing that.

  Also, I'm sure it was quite fun and cathartic for him.
  
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  Stepford Children

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i watched this movie for the first time today and i noticed some disturbing similarities with the personalities of jws.

  the way they train their children and wives so they become robots to serve jehovah, but most importantly of all, to make their husbands and fathers look good and boost their egos.

  if you haven't watched this movie or stepford wives, take a look.

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  I remember watching the original movie on TV and thinking it was similar to what was going on in the hall, even though I was young at the time and had only been a jw for a short time at that point.

  They were controlling what the women wore, made sure they were subservient to the men, and told them what to think.

  I did NOT want to dress like Holly Hobby like the other girls at the kh.

  
  
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  There Were TWO Child Molesters Hiding In My Old Congregation

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  it's come out in my old congregation that, not one, but two child molesters have been hiding in my old congregation.

  i knew both of them and one of them, an old man, was regularly at my house for field service meetings on a weekly basis.. in my old congregation there's an apostate who was awake long before i was.

  unfortunately he cant leave because his wife and children and parents are still full on believers.

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  Good for the son for reporting this!! I hope he has the needed support through this.
  
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  Special Talk During the Meeting Today About the Bad Press in Canada

  by RobertT18 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i was invited to a congregation in ontario, canada today and as soon as the meeting opened the brother conducting the meeting said there was a very important statement coming from the borg.

  this talk replaced the two last parts of "living as a christian" section.

  he started reading a letter from the borg about how much they loved us.

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  God forgives everyone and how people can have a change of heart but since elders can't read hearts it is possible that these people may commit the same offences.

  What now? I thought the elders were guided by the imaginary bearded sky daddy himself.

  So either way it's the elders' fault this continues, not jehoopla's. Nice. That guy gets all the credit and none of the blame.
  
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  Living with Your Parents Well Into Adulthood the Norm?

  by Sorry in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i don't want to seem like a jerk.

  i know full well economic times are not the greatest.

  there's no shame in struggling and staying with your family until you're back on your feet.

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  When I was a jw teen, my top goal in life was to get my own place and escape my abusive home situation. When I was 18, I tried hard to get other jw girls to be my roommates because I couldn't afford rent by myself. I was taken to task by an elder for doing this. He said I was to stop discussing this matter with my peers immediately. lol. This was one of the moments that prompted me to leave the borg.

  My own jw mother confiscated my $ and banned me from working full time. I finally got a job that paid cash so I could hide my income, and got my own bank account w/o her name on it. She was fully intent on marrying me off to get pregnant soon so I would turn into an obedient person. LOL. That just made me run away faster.

  At the last circuit assembly I attended she was once again hauled up on stage at 36 years of age, to talk about having taken a stand in high school by refusing an invitation from a "worldly" boy to go to the Prom.

  This may be one of the saddest stories I've heard. She said no to a date, big whoop. Hauling this chick out 10 years later to keep bragging about it is so bizarre.