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  Elders & Ex Elders, did knowing sins of congregation members change how you treated them?

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  when you found out all the sins of fellow witnesses did it effect how you treated them?

  it was shocking when i found out the range of bs these people did to each other.

  i don't mean sexual abuse, i mean fraud, theft, infidelity and more.

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  resoect_observer: all things considered, it is probably just as well no sleep overs. But as to limiting your friendships and association so much, did it make you wonder about how the most happy and loving organization on earth created an entire congregation of people who were not trustworthy enough for children to visit unless accompanied by their parents?
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  Ladies: Circumcision or not?

  by Wonderment in

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  the topic of circumcision has been brought up a few times recently.

  then i wondered... .

  how do women really view circumcision?

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  Female circumcision: my experience was knowing family where the wife had been circumcised as a young child. It is done by women to girls usually. It is cultural and according to husband, men would prefer a wife that enjoys sex and didn't avoid it. He found no value in it in any way. Wife accepted the family tradition, but she is a doctor and knows better. It hasn't ruined her life with a loving husband and healthy children, but it is not a tragedy, just a wistful regret for what could have been. Another friend said he refused to marry anyone who had been because he was cautioned by a older family member.

  He didn't want a daughter because he didn't want the fight about it with in laws-who had done it to his niece w/o consent from parents. The maternal grandma was a dinosaur. Husband and wife both opposed but tradition dies slowly. These people are well educated and not living in a village.
  
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  Ladies: Circumcision or not?

  by Wonderment in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the topic of circumcision has been brought up a few times recently.

  then i wondered... .

  how do women really view circumcision?

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  JWdaughter

  My son had issues from not being circumcised. Not fatal, but uncomfortable and requiring medical attention. Next son was circumcised. Doc said it hurt me more than him. He cried more from waking up with a wet diaper. Felt bad, but eh, that one had no issues.
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  Got in a bad wreck.....uuugh

  by brandnew in

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  2. friends

  just happy to be alive....can barely move ☺.. a girl who just got her license , and a new suv....thought it might be cool to pass the person in front of her....at a curve......on a two way road!!!!!😠😠😠.

  very mad puppy.

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  JWdaughter

  Get well soon!
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  GoFundMe - JW Pioneer & LDC Couple

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  jerry jones on youtube exposed a jw couple who were begging for money on gofundme.

  this is his youtube .

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feohxtbml2c.

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  JWdaughter

  Most or many Christians fund their missions by appealing to Christians in churches. The collections taken go direct to the missionaries and perhaps the school or clinic or whatever they are working at. There may be a mission fund through an org, but a lot spend their furloughs fundraising. No problem with that but asking for debt relief? THAT went over the boundaries.

  Will a hundred buy a cart? I bet they seeded that themselves hoping the friends would compete to be generous. Like the tip jar with a few buck already stuffed in at opening time at the coffee shop.

  I feel for any family in medical need, but if I can't help all of them, I'm sure not donating so that someone can annoy people!
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  I was critically ill for a long time...

  by The Rebel in

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  but thanks to the excellent health care on this site iam on the road to recovery, and can now fully appreciate what a gloriouse thing it is to be free from the w.t and savor approaching spring in all its beauty, ....however i am not sure i am ready for debating on all the boards many heavy threads about gods existence and evolution .. anybody else feal the same?

  " tis a gift to be simple, tis a gift to be free, tis a gift to wake up and breath the morning air, and tis a gift to each day walk on the path we want to be....." .

  the rebel.

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  JWdaughter

  Don't bother worrying about debates. Just be happy. There is no obligatory debating to be here. You just laugh at the latest WT broadcast and sympathize with our escaping and/or "ill" friends. No obligation for that, either.

  I'm so glad you are doing better. It's like being cured. The underlying illness may be gone, but getting your strength back may take awhile. You are welcome here no matter what.
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  So Proud of Pops

  by brandnew in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok so a car pulls up to the house and 3 eldurrs from my dads congo come up.

  they come in and have thee nerve to ask me to step out so they can speak to pops!!!!

  this is the good part.....pops says...and i quote " whatever needs to be said..can be said in front of my son".

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  JWdaughter

  So, no one is supporting that small congregations on PR now? You will keep us informed as to what they do, right?

  Does he still go?

  If most of the deep pockets are are elderly and single handedly supporting halls then it seems inevitable that it will soon collapse entirely.
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  WATCHTOWER SCAM? WTWR NYSE

  by biblexaminer in

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  2. scandals

  in 2009, a new company, traded on the new york stock exchange was initiated.. watchtower inc. wtwr.

  corporate headquarters.

  100 henry streetbrooklyn, new york 11201united states.

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  JWdaughter

  I'm no WT defender. I am a person who spends lot of time in research about companies. The wtbts is corrupted in many ways. Th I s is likely not one of them. Their hypocrisies are boundless.
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  Bloodless Medicine....not all its cracked up to be.

  by Lee Elder in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  this is a pretty good example of the limitations of "bloodless medicine", and why the informed choice should always be "blood conservation" medicine, which retains the safety net of blood transfusion when medically required.

  sadly, the watchtower fails to inform jws regarding these important limitations, and their potentially disastrous consequences.. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/id=1202750028414/jury-awards-100k-to-family-of-jehovahs-witness-who-died-after-refusing-blood-transfusion?mcode=0&curindex=0&curpage=3&slreturn=20160118223352.

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  JWdaughter

  You can choose to escape ignorance, but you can't cure stupid.
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  1974 Special Meetings

  by NeonMadman in

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  2. beliefs

  as we all know, armageddon was just around the corner in 1974. at the district conventions that year, it was announced that there would be two special meetings during the month of september; one would be for interested people (e.g., bible studies, family members, inactive, etc.

  ), and the other would be for baptized publishers.

  these were to be held in place of the service meetings for the two weeks, iirc.

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  JWdaughter

  I boned up for Armageddon by reading novels and biographical stories of the ww2 Jews. Escape from Warsaw is a sentimental favorite." The five little peppers, and how they grew" was about how a very very poor family survived in 19th century. Yes, I was a freaky kid. Anne Frank and Jo march helped me keep a balance. Books saved my childhood. Not WT books! Perspective kept me aware that we weren't being persecuted just because people disagreed or even if they though we were idiots. Then I realized we WERE idiots!