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  Disturbing JW letters again

  by Fadeaway1962 in

  1. watchtower
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  https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/anger-over-disturbing-handwritten-jehovahs-5705918i'm .

  upsetting the locals again ..

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  carla

  "...protect sisters from perverts."- they sure didn't mind sending known perverts to our homes did they? now those same perverts just write letters and still have our addresses.
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  What Do You Think About Home Schooling?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i knew a few witnesses who were very proud of the fact that their kids were homeschooled.

  years ago, i would raise my eyebrows wondering why these families couldn’t simply integrate their kids with other “worldly” kids.

  at this point in time, with so many theories being pushed on kids and their parents, i can see why parents, if they are qualified, could instruct their kids themselves.

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  carla

  I agree that in many religious zealots who attempt to home school fail miserably. The ones I spoke about were not in that category.

  As for jw's home schooling, well, didn't they say reading the awakes, wt's and their other literature was equal to a college education at one time? I think that says it all.
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  Disturbing JW letters again

  by Fadeaway1962 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/anger-over-disturbing-handwritten-jehovahs-5705918i'm .

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  carla

  In the US they are addressed to the home owner by name. That is creepy, they have your name but they do not sign their full name and they use a post office box number instead of their personal address. If they truly believed what they wrote they wouldn't have a problem with any Tom, Dick or Harriet having their personal information to be sent on to just anybody.

  My jw gets quite annoyed by getting spam phone calls and texts that do address him by his name. Hello Kettle, this is Pot.....
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  Disturbing JW letters again

  by Fadeaway1962 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/anger-over-disturbing-handwritten-jehovahs-5705918i'm .

  upsetting the locals again ..

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  carla

  your link isn't working
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  What Do You Think About Home Schooling?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i knew a few witnesses who were very proud of the fact that their kids were homeschooled.

  years ago, i would raise my eyebrows wondering why these families couldn’t simply integrate their kids with other “worldly” kids.

  at this point in time, with so many theories being pushed on kids and their parents, i can see why parents, if they are qualified, could instruct their kids themselves.

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  carla

  I have seen kids who were home schooled by very dedicated parents (not simply for religious reasons) and these kids were smarter than public school education. One family I am thinking of all 'graduated' early and were accepted into Ivy league colleges and went on to be very successful. I think these parents were exceptional and maybe not the rule. To be fair these kids seemed a bit different than their public school counterparts in that they could and would be happy to carry on a conversation with adults on many subjects. They did seem a bit socially different than the 'regular' kids because they did not play the same and had a more difficult time with kids their own ages.

  At one time I would have agreed with Stan, things are changing now.

  Today I see many young people researching and learning the best ways to home school for many reasons. As for the social parts of homeschooling, today public schools are required to allow homeschooled in for art, gym, band and so forth. Also many homeschooled also have their own socialization things going on.

  I don't think homeschooling is the same as it was in the 70;s, 80;s or even 90;s, it is changing quite a bit. There are so many more resources out there now. It takes real dedication on the parents part to be successful.
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  Sen. Barbra Boxer beat up by criminal. She is a uber liberal idiot.

  by mickbobcat in

  1. social
  2. current

  barbra boxer lie that idiot skank polousy are part of the problem and now they are reaping what they have sowed.

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  https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2021/07/27/former-democrat-senator-barbara-boxer-assaulted-robbed-in-oakland/.

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  carla

  I certainly don't condone what happened to her.

  In her city, "Oakland is among many cities cutting its police budget, despite the rise in murders, doing so over the objections of its police chief."

  Makes you wonder if there were more police boots on the streets of Oakland perhaps things like this would happen less often.
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  "Resurrection" or "Re-Creation of The Soul"? What do really JW's teach?

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  interesting find through a book "inside story of jehovah's witnesses" (1967) by w.c. stevenson, supposedly a former jw circuit overseer.

  it's an interesting "apostate" perspective written prior to the wts 1975 debacle.. anyway, at a certain point, there's a quote from a book called "the four cults", by professor anthony a. hoekema (1963, william b. eerdmans publishing company), a calvinist, which makes some sharp remarks about the way jehovah's witnesses teach the dead coming back to life:.

  1) in the case of those "resurrecting" for everlasting life on earth, one asks: if the soul is extinct at death, and the body disintegrates and its components are integrated into other forms of life, what is there to "resurrect"?

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  carla

  I once asked my jw how many clones of you could God make then? he paused and said, "I guess as many as he wanted". He still did not see the point. Went on to say that God wouldn't do that. How do you know that? change the subject.................
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  Promise Not to Make Appeals for Money

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "when he who says: ‘all the gold and silver of the mountains are mine,’ fails to provide necessary funds, we will understand it to be time to suspend the [watchtower] publication.” consistent with that, there is no begging for money in the literature of jehovah’s witnesses.. what is true of their literature is also true of their meetings.

  there are no emotional appeals for funds in their congregations or at their conventions.

  " - when he who says: ‘all the gold and silver of the mountains are mine,’ fails to provide necessary funds, we will understand it to be time to suspend the publication.” consistent with that, there is no begging for money in the literature of jehovah’s witnesses.. what is true of their literature is also true of their meetings.

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  carla

  In November don't they usually have a 'leave the wt your estate' sort of article? seems like they had an article every Nov. like that for awhile.
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  My JW uncle said a bad word!

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
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  yep, i never heard him use profanity------ever.. a couple of us were invited to lunch, which in my case never happened before covid because i never got baptized.. but now i’m being invited by most of my jw family to family cookouts.

  and we never talk about kingdom stuff.

  they always ask questions about politics.

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  carla

  Loved the post!

  We all giggle and bite our tongues around here when my jw lets a cuss word fly. Sometimes it is so funny we have to walk away.
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  What’s Wrong With President Biden?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just watched excerpts from his cnn town hall event and something is seriously wrong with him.

  he can’t put together a sentence without getting lost, tripping on his own words, forgetting what he is talking about.……this is embarrassing.

  and it’s not because he has a stutter!

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  carla

  I think he has dementia, Alzheimer's or some other neurological problem associated with age. If you look back to his speeches when he was young they are like watching two different people. This has nothing to do with what political party one is associated with, he clearly has some sort of health issues.