Posts by JWdaughter

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Why attack?

by newqatarjob in

as someone brought up as a jw and been an elder and been disfellowshipped (twice!!!

) i find it difficult to understand why ex jws have to attack the religion, yes religion, not cult or sect.

i am no longer disfellowshipped just do not want to practice anymore.

JWdaughter

Its a damaging religion. Maybe they all are, I don't know, but there seems no possibility of one being unscathed after being a part of it.

How do you like Qatar? I loved living there.

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Rainham residents upset about plans for Jah Jireh care home for Jehovah’s Witnesses

by Simon in

(posted for andersonsinfo).

people are protesting against plans to build a large care home for jehovahs witnesses behind their houses.. homeowners living in the bloors lane area of rainham have lodged objections to proposals by the jah jireh charity, which specialises in spiritual and physical care for followers of the religion.. people living in neighbouring homes say it is too big and its three storeys will dwarf their properties.. .

what the care home will look like.

JWdaughter

Good news is that there will be very little traffic. There will be minimal staffing and there will be very few visitors. Whatever is wrong with the way the elderly are treated normally will be exacerbated by the fact that many of these people will shun their relatives and the rest will likely be too busy to bother visiting with them as they further the kingdom work.

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Yet Another Putdown of Women! – KM March 2015

by SAHS in

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this weeks service meeting part (week starting march 23, 2015) in the our kingdom ministry under the heading meetings for field service that accomplish.

their purpose includes a little sub-article entitled when a sister must conduct.

the direct link is: http://www.jw.org/en/publications/kingdom-ministry/ click the little document download button under the one labeled km15 03-e us and then choose a format (pdf looks best)..

JWdaughter

The man who can't even show up on time is a more worthy leader than the woman who is already conducting the meeting? Really?

These people are so whacked.

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Those of you that born in the Borg in the late 60;s and early 70's

by James Mixon in

was life that bad for you?

we are really sorry...

JWdaughter

My life wasn't so bad. Thank God my dad wasn't a JW and lent some balance to my life. Mom is a true beleiver. Birthdays and Christmas ended (she took awhile to commit, but my whole life was spent mired in it) when I was 8 or so. I had regular nightmares and daymares about persecution. Fortunately, while there were a few asses in the cong, most of the folks were good hearted and well meaning. My parents loved each other and our relatives put up with my mom's weird religious inclinations pretty graciously. School was hard-being different and feeling obligated to underline it (my own worst enemy at times, trying to PROVE (to myself) that I had the truth. Then when I realized it wasn't the truth, I felt obligated (by the teachings drummed into me my whole life about being in the truth) to say what I really thought. Placed me in an awkward position at 15.

Yeah, I did see the whole 1975 thing and NO, it wasn't a made up drama by mad ex-JWs. I was there.

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There are still JW's calling the masturbation video as fake and apostate propaganda

by EndofMysteries in

10 hours ago, " another malicious propaganda against jehova's witnesse!!".

"he is not a jehova's witness!!

!thois a big lie against jehova's witnesses!

JWdaughter

Any JW who thinks it is a fake planted by anti JWs (it is no longer on the website) should look and see the same ASL signer on the "whole association of brothers" ASL video that is still online. The download from JW.org is pretty hard to deny though.

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Ever Think About This One? Another Bible Contradiction

by freemindfade in

8you must not make for yourself a carved image+ or a form* like anything that is in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.-deuteronomy 5:8. .

18 you are to make two cherubs of gold; you will make them of hammered work on the two ends of the cover.+ 19 make the cherubs on the two ends, one cherub on each end of the cover.

20 the cherubs are to spread out their two wings upward, overshadowing the cover with their wings,+ and they will face each other.

JWdaughter

The first verse says do not make graven images. That is a stand alone, I think. The next one mentions about not bowing down to such things. It continues the thought and completes it, but without it, the first verse stands on its own. Just my take on it. OTOH, I think most of the OT is entirely man made, so I do not have the attitude that all the Bible is inspired.

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Is there a Child Molester on the Governing Body?

by TTATTelder in

great report by abc on the abuses in jw-dot-org land.... i hope it opens a "floodgate" of future news reports and exposes.

if you ask yourself, "why hasn't the watchtower leadership changed their policy on the 2 witness rule?

if one or more persons on the gb has victims out there that can't come forward because of the 2 witness rule, then that would explain the permanent road block to policy change that is obviously in place.

JWdaughter

I think that these guys are in love with their power. They don't need to be abusers (physically) to put the borg ahead of human beings, especially children. They are serving self interests that rest with all the elite in the organization. They have a sugar daddy for the rest of their lives that is taking care of all their needs and giving them a beautiful place to live and travel, besides. They aren't going to mess with that!

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Borg music video a real tear-jerker

by Slave4_38y in

this is a must watch video.

it brought tears of laughter!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx-akomec3q.

JWdaughter

A family man choosing to turn down a job that will be overly demanding is not a tragedy. His family already has to compete with the Borg and a normal job. He can change his mind when he sees TTATT if he wants a promotion.

The young woman choosing to pioneer when she is intelligent and young seems more of a tragedy. She is never going to have the choice to make between a demanding JOB and family, she will be forsaking both family and job to serve the WTBTS. She likely rejected the idea of college as soon as she knew it was an option-when she was about 8 or 9. She will never get that promotion even offered to her, not even a decent job.

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According to Prince: It is fun being in Islamic Countries!!!

by JustHuman14 in

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/23/prince-islamic-countries-fun.

i was a loving tyrant' ... prince.

in an exclusive interview with the guardian's film&music, prince said: "it's fun being in islamic countries, to know there's only one religion.

JWdaughter

Only one country I know of that requires women to cover. And they don't require burkas or chadri's, actually. They just require a woman to be covered from neck to feet. I've been to Mecca (Saudi Arabia) and I didn't wear a burka, just a loose-ish long sleeve shirt and long skirt. My waist, (ah, when I had one!) was evident. I covered my hair with a simple scarf. I was not harrassed in any way.

Some areas have customs requiring it, and in places where extremists are in control (terrorists) it is required for safety, but I am not aware of anywhere where a 'burka" is required by any official law. To say that it is required by custom is sometimes true-but there is usually a bigger explanation than simplistic comments such as Princes' .

BTW, it is just as much "required" by custom that men wear long tunics or gowns, even (kameez or thobes) to protect THEIR modesty. Folks usually miss that when they start going off on women's customary clothing. When a man wears western clothes, they go down a few notches in respect among many Muslims. Some try, like their wives, to reach a compromise acceptable to modesty and the western standards for business wear.

Prince's clothes would be considered pretty raunchy in that part of the world.

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Prince sings a christian rock song

by JWdaughter in

not sure what category to put this in.

just read that prince (rogers, the jw) is doing a "christian" song.. https://celebrity.yahoo.com/news/prince-debuts-cover-christian-rock-211000432.html.

"what if" lyrics can be found here: http://www.bing.com/search?q=what+if+lyrics+nichole+nordeman&qs=sc&sk=sc7&pq=%22what+if%22lyi&sc=8-12&sp=8&cvid=3e7dc2f13ad14020b0e27317de1e38b0&form=qbre.

JWdaughter

Not sure what category to put this in. . .

Just read that Prince (Rogers, the JW) is doing a "christian" song.

https://celebrity.yahoo.com/news/prince-debuts-cover-christian-rock-211000432.html

"What if" Lyrics can be found here: http://www.bing.com/search?q=what+if+lyrics+nichole+nordeman&qs=SC&sk=SC7&pq=%22what+if%22lyi&sc=8-12&sp=8&cvid=3e7dc2f13ad14020b0e27317de1e38b0&FORM=QBRE

So, from the peanut gallery, what do you all make of this?