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  It's My Turn

  by OneFingerSalute in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well i finally got the, "we would like to stop by with the circus oversneer and have an encouraging visit.

  would ---------day be good, at say -----------?".

  it'll probably be a pretty dull visit with the entire conversation being only one way.

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  rebel8

  Why participate in this religious ritual (CO visit)? If you can't say no directly for some reason, there must be dozens of excuses you could come up with. Appendicitis has a nice ring to it.
  
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  I left the troof behind in 2006. What have I missed?

  by Jehovah lol in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm up to date with what the wt taught in 2006 but have no idea what has changed since.. do tell..

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  rebel8

  wts posted a picture of an Armageddon countdown card on its website near the anniversary of the end-of-the-world prediction not coming true in October 1914.

  They launched a televangelism feature on their website and ask for $.
  

  They have cartoon characters to brainwash kids.

  They lost an enormous lawsuit for hiding sex abuse of kids (not paid yet).

  They use tablets in field service.

  There is no book study meeting.

  They have sign language videos on their website and one of them shows masturbation to orgasm (female and male) graphically. It made international news. There are other, equally ridiculous videos as well.

  They're selling the Crooklyn property and moving upstate.
  
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  A Burger and a Hook-up

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i went to get a burger just now, and a couple of elders from my former congregation caught me off guard.

  they started giving me the we feel so sorry for you, you must be so lonely bit.

  i kept telling them im doing great and im not lonely but its like they couldnt hear me talking.

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  rebel8

  The Sisters married the brothers "While" the brothers were disfellowshipped.

  Ok, that's a new one! Did the sistas get DFd for consorting with the devil? I mean, you're sharing in their sin if you even talk to them. Or did they go through courtship and marriage without speaking or eating a meal together?
  
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  Linking to cult site w/o increasing their search engine position

  by rebel8 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just found out about donotlink and thought it might be of interest to others here.

  we are always talking about j w dot org and i am worried it's helping them.

  is that true?.

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  rebel8

  How to do it:

  1. Go to http://www.donotlink.com/.
  2. Type in the URL (website address) you want to link to.
  3. Press "continue".
  4. Copy and paste the new URL and use that to link to.

  That's it. It takes 15 seconds of your time.
  
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  Linking to cult site w/o increasing their search engine position

  by rebel8 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just found out about donotlink and thought it might be of interest to others here.

  we are always talking about j w dot org and i am worried it's helping them.

  is that true?.

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  rebel8

  This does concern me but I am not any kind of expert on how this all works.

  Quote from berrygerry's other thread:

  [–]berrygerry 1 point 22 days ago

  It's not visits (often incorrectly called hits), but moreso visitors and links from sites such as these.

  JW.Borg has acquired a PR of 6 (matching fox.com ) and has a Moz Page Authority of 70 (out of 100).

  Mock if you want, but the website strategist that they hired knows what he is doing.
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  Was it worth it?

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  for those of you who left family and friends and had to start over from scratch just to get out of the organization, was it worth it?.

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  rebel8

  Absolutely. I am free, not only of toxic beliefs, but of a toxic lifestyle and toxic people.
  
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  Teddy Hero Worship Continues -- Sept 15 Study Edition Bio on Melita Jaracz

  by LostGeneration in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  very weird article, you can read it here if you can tolerate such nonsense:.

  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20150915/melita-jaracz-blessing-in-life/.

  basically teddy was a super, duper spiritual giant who went undercover behind the iron curtain, sorta james bond like.

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  rebel8

  Whenever the publications quote people going on about how they love preaching, it makes me want to gag. What a bold-faced lie. I seriously doubt there's a sane person alive who enjoys that crapola.
  
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  Linking to cult site w/o increasing their search engine position

  by rebel8 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just found out about donotlink and thought it might be of interest to others here.

  we are always talking about j w dot org and i am worried it's helping them.

  is that true?.

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  rebel8

  I just found out about donotlink and thought it might be of interest to others here. We are always talking about j w dot org and I am worried it's helping them. Is that true?

  Let me try.
  

  Link to the Borg

  What is donotlink?

  Linking to dubious websites

  You've all heard there's no such thing as bad publicity. On the internet this is doubly true. When you link to a website — regardless of the reason — this strengthens its position in search engines. This means that a bad review of a website makes it more popular.

  When you are discussing or alerting others to a website that promotes a fraud, scam, cult or other questionable business and you link to that site, search engines will (after a while) improve the offending site's rank.
  Therefore, more people will find these shady websites, and will be exposed to their content without getting the proper context.

  That's where donotlink comes in.

  With donotlink.com, you can link to sites without giving them "Google juice".

  Donotlink uses three different ways to block search engines from crawling a link. So you can post the link on forums, message boards, facebook, twitter, reddit, and other public places without giving shady websites any undue credibility.

  What does donotlink do?

  Using donotlink.com instead of linking to questionable websites directly will prevent your links from improving these websites' position in search engines.

  How does this work?

  Much like standard url shorteners, donotlink creates a shortened url to the website you submit. Just use this url instead of linking directly to the website, and we'll do the rest.

  If you don't want to visit donotlink.com every time you use this service, you can also put "http://www.donotlink.com/" before the website's url like this:

  http://www.donotlink.com/www.example.com/shady/stuff.html

  How does this prevent search engines from crawling the website?

  Donotlink routes links to questionable sites through a unique intermediate url that forwards the visitor to the destination through javascript.

  • This url is blocked in our robots.txt file, so (search engine) robots are discouraged from crawling it.
  • The "nofollow" attribute of the link and the intermediate page give robots another reminder to not crawl the link.
  • If a known robot does decide to crawl the link, our code will identify it and serve it a blank page (403 Forbidden) instead of redirecting to the url.

  But we don't stop there. We are continually improving our algorithms — a clever combination of blacklists and bayesian inference — that identify crawlers and bots, so even search engines and scrapers that don't play by any rules will get caught out.

  
  
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  Young Girl Exposes Jehovah's Witnesses at school video goes VIRAL last 2 days 273,000 views

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  original thread here.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/291080001/brave-high-school-student-exposes-abuse-corruption-within-jehovahs-witnesses.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdvt_gyq-ls.

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  rebel8

  https://twitter.com/richarddawkins
  

  
  

  
  

  Richard Dawkins retweeted

  LibertyALF @ALFLiberty · May 26

  Schoolgirl’s tearful speech exposes how Jehovah’s Witnesses silence women to protect rapists http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/schoolgirls-tearful-speech-exposes-how-jehovahs-witnesses-silence-women-to-protect-rapists/#.VWRJCUf22I8.twitter …

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  Young Girl Exposes Jehovah's Witnesses at school video goes VIRAL last 2 days 273,000 views

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  original thread here.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/291080001/brave-high-school-student-exposes-abuse-corruption-within-jehovahs-witnesses.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdvt_gyq-ls.

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  rebel8

  I had been texting a boy from another JW congregation and sent him a picture of us on the beach… which meant we were in bikinis. Unfortunately, his mother went through his phone and came across our “horrible” photo. It led to Church elders coming over to my house to counsel me.They told me I was guilty of making him masturbate.

  Oh my god. That's a new twist.