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  JW's And Their Education Level

  by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was thinking about this.... in my congregation, i was literally the only one with universitary education, out of a cong from around 110 people.... and we're very close to a very big university, which makes it even weirder.. on the other hand... sooo many here with their own business, mostly small cleaning businesses.

  cleaning windows, or cleaning somewhere else... painters.... all have jobs that do not require any education level, cos they never had a decent education.. how is the composition of the jw people/congs that you know about?.

  how many painters... cleaners... compared to people with jobs that require higher education?.

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  rebel8

  I was from a big college town and jws were among the least educated groups.

  Ass-embly programs always included lots of drumming on the anti-education message. There were lots of talks about how great it is to start your own business. All you need is a squeegee--just walk around the mall asking the store owners to pay you $8 to clean their windows each week and jehoopla will manipulate the store owners' hearts to say yes. He always provides for you as long as you don't do something bad like get a full-time job, go to college or get a 2-door car.

  Or if you're a chick, you need a vacuum cleaner and bucket. Put an ad in the Pennysaver offering to clean somebody's house for 2 hours per week for $25.
  
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  Are there 'ultra strict' congregations?

  by jambon1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i studied as a young adult, it was in one of those congregations.

  having viewed the religion as a quaint little band of christians it conpletely dumbfounded me when i was told about such rules as 1 - no beards.

  2 - you must wear a suit to meetings and while giving a talk.

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  rebel8

  Just when you think such an obscure rule didn't exist, blondie posts a published article about it!
  
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  Marry Only in the Lord

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last night at the meeting, a local needs talk preempted the regularly scheduled part.

  an elder who is the most society following elder talked about loving god and then he talked about bible principles such as marry only in the lord.

  he talked of deut.

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  Good, I am glad they are sticking to their old school cult ways--otherwise, people become indifferent to its danger.

  Back when I was in, they did that all the time and the marked person almost always permanently left.
  
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  Outcome - Banned in Russia - Final

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just watched the live feed from the russian court room and followed the updates on the russian exjw forum.. just waiting for confirmation from other sources...but, it looks like the final (and expected) result is:.

  banned.

  which means that the wts property in russia now belongs to the russian state..

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  rebel8

  Is there any evidence that banning a religion has a negative or positive affect on its growth?
  
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  Fear guilt etc

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i switched on the tv the other night late.

  there was a lady preacher joyce?

  who said there are four things that prevent us becoming fulfilled in our lives.. fear guilt insecurity worry.

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  Joyce Meyer, yep, that's who I had in mind. She rants on about first world, "worried well" problems, and the faux humility that I hated in xianity:

  Let me tell everyone, in great detail, how HORRIBLE a minor personality flaw of mine is so I can LOOK humble and spiritual. Meanwhile, I can keep my serious issues to myself and they are perfectly justified by my religion.

  People in the first world, too, suffer. Let's not let God off the hook for allowing the suffering while pretending it's our reaction to it that's the problem. Talk about blaming the victim.

  Sorry but Joyce Meyer is a major pet peeve of mine.
  
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  Psychedelic Jezebel

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  psychedelic jezebel _________.

  she’s psychedelic jezebel.

  it says so on her vw bus, tie-dye blouse, and her handmade jewelry.. there she is now in her garden; child of the 60’s; a cinder from a long ago passed comet.she shoots me the “peace sign”.

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  I demand photographic proof of these tattoos.
  
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  Fear guilt etc

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i switched on the tv the other night late.

  there was a lady preacher joyce?

  who said there are four things that prevent us becoming fulfilled in our lives.. fear guilt insecurity worry.

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  ewwww....if it's who I'm thinking of. She is arrogant.
  

  And wrong.

  5. SUFFERING

  Yes, suffering itself prevents us becoming fulfilled in life, not just fear of suffering or worry about it.

  You can get proof of this by asking a starving child who is living in a war zone. It is not the fear of her house getting blown up. It is not the fear of not having enough to eat. It's the actual experience of having her house blown up, being homeless, being injured, having her innocent parents killed in a completely senseless act of violence, and the discomfort of starving that is causing her to be unfulfilled.
  
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  BUSTED by a GYPSY

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  busted by a gypsy__________________how do i know they are gypsy?i had some run-ins in l.a. many years back.

  had they worn a banner it wouldn't have been more obvious.the patriarch wore a special hat with a silver spangled band.i've seen the old gypsy with his cane and his scowl.

  he walks like a king or a panther at prowl.

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  Interesting story!

  In other news, I have never heard of tables set aside for disabled individuals.
  
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  "The James Randi 1 Million Dollar Challenge Finally Terminated"

  by unsure in

  1. social
  2. current

  the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.

  aaaaand discuss!.

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  Randi is awesome.

  The site hosting the article you linked to is pro-supernatural and anti-Randi.
  
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  Another big step on my journey

  by LogansRun in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  1987 attended the memorial for the first time, and the last time?

  2016. it was a big step for me to not go last night i'm convincing myself that i really do have the strength to never return to this living nightmare of a religion.

  you may recall i'm a fader my last meeting was 9 months ago and i have deflected a number of attempted visits and dozens of phone calls they now just hang up on my answering machine, as a matter of fact they did it again this morning.

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  rebel8

  You did it! Congrats on shedding another shackle.