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  Non JW Related Survey Help. How to start one and preferably free. Any advise would be great. Tia

  by Amelia Ashton in

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  hope this is ok simon.

  i am hoping you wonderful people can help as this group is the best for most things in life not just our shared jw experience.. as many of you know since leaving jwdom i have become totally involved in exotic hedgehogs and now run my own rescue for them.

  there is a horrible hereditary disease called wobbly hedgehog syndrome that has appeared in the uk.

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  ihunt

  https://www.google.com/forms/about/
  Google is good...
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  Your Favorite Poetry

  by compound complex in

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  thank you, dear friends, for expressing your thoughts today on the importance of the arts in your lives.

  many years ago, a number of threads were devoted to poetry, literature, even english grammar.

  rather than resurrect an old thread -- usually with zero results -- i would like to introduce a new post, asking you to add some of your favorite verse.

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  "Love, now a universal birth, 

  From heart to heart is stealing,

  From earth to man, from man to earth,

  It is the hour of feeling."

  Wordsworth, To My Sister
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  Does Believing in God Make You Dumb?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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

  http://jdc.jefferson.edu/jmbcimfp/5/.

  abstract.

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  ihunt

  David-Jay, I would just like to point out that the phrase "God is dead" was by no means coined by Jews in the holocaust. Read "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Neitzche if you are interested.
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  Brave New W0rld of Education - The Regressive Left

  by cofty in

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  i found this to be a thought-provoking film on the trend in higher education.. oubliette drew my attention to a brilliant article recently called "the coddling of the american mind".

  please have a look at the film, click the link and check out the links in the article.

  i would love to hear your thoughts.. ...

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  ihunt

  Too true...

  Reminds me of this

  http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25264/
  
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  converting to catholic

  by SloppyMcFloppy in

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  2. experiences

  hello i was wondering if any ex jw have converted to catholic?

  i have been tossing the idea around a bit and wondering if it was woth it from personal experience?

  thoughts?

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  ihunt

  Hello,

  The members of this forum hold a wide variety of beliefs, and you'll likely get a wide variety of answers to your question from them. The one thing we all have in common, however, are our experiences in a high-control religion and the struggle to make independent religious decisions. It seems strange to me that a person would exit an environment such as the wtbts and then continue rely on other people for information about religion and spirituality. What about Catholicism do you find appealing?
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  Singapore does the right thing

  by jdubhub in

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  http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2015/11/25/singapore-slashes-publication-bans-but-not-for-jehovahs-witnesses/

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  I wouldn't say they are necessarily doing the "right thing". Banning literature (of any kind) is a dangerous slippery slope, and I feel that their are better ways to counteract the jdubs teachings than to censor people's writings.

  Also, it feeds their persecution complex - remember, that last days are close! :P
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  ATT: WARNING

  by EJ257 in

  1. watchtower
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  please be aware of everything that is happening around the world at this moment in time.

  this goes to anyone, ex-communicated, removed, serving, believer and non.

  at this point in my observations i have realized many religions/ideologies know there is some sort "end of time" or a transition into a new order of living in this earth.

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  Sparky, I think someone should throw a trademark on that "I MEAN IT". It's real catchy when used like that.

  I MEAN IT
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  "Most women would prefer to be stay at home housewives. Women's lib did alot of damage to women!"

  by purrpurr in

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  the above is a quote from a jw female relative.

  this was in response to a discussion about the suffragette movement ( and the movie about it that's currently in cinemas).

  she seemed to think that it would be so much better if women were just daughters/ wives/ mothers and didn't go out to work and have career's?

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  Let's break this down into a non-gender based argument, shall we?

  A) I would argue that most PARENTS would like to spend as much time as possible with their children, especially when they are young.

  B) I would argue that most PEOPLE would prefer to have some career where they are able to apply themselves and feel rewarded.

  C) I would argue that most PEOPLE, when indoctrinated over the course of their lives to believe that they are inferior to a different group of PEOPLE, will internalize and perpetuate those doctrines.

  Just sayin, there's certainly no "womans' place" or even a "mans' place".
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  ATT: WARNING

  by EJ257 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  please be aware of everything that is happening around the world at this moment in time.

  this goes to anyone, ex-communicated, removed, serving, believer and non.

  at this point in my observations i have realized many religions/ideologies know there is some sort "end of time" or a transition into a new order of living in this earth.

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  Attempting to stir up paranoia within a group of ex-doomsday cultists? I like your style.
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  For the Supporters of Those Who Love Jehovah

  by lovesjehovah in

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  i am jehovah's witness, despite some of the questionable teachings, crimes, and other outlandish behaviors of specific people affiliated with the religion.

  i know that my relationship with jehovah is not influenced by any outside factors.

  i do not condone any crime.

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  From the OP,

  "i am jehovah's witness, despite some of the questionable teachings..."

  This line strikes me as awfully strange. As others have noted, a lot of the terminology used isn't correct. No long term witness would ever say "I am jehovah's witness", but rather "I am one of jehovah's witnesses", or "I am a jehovah's witness". Also, I feel that this correlates with his(her?) other posts (the clouds, the rain, the drugs...). This person may legitimately believe they are, more or less, a prophet of jehoobah.
  
  This is a link to a study that was conducted in the 1990's regarding mental illness and religious tendencies, and there are others available online.
  http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.660