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  How do I help my kids not buy into the JW thing?

  by Judc in

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  first a little bit about myself.

  i'm not a jw.

  but i'm married to a jw lady who is very dedicated to it all.

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  Judc

  Hi,

  First a little bit about myself. I'm not a JW. Never have been. But I'm married to a JW lady who is very dedicated to it all. I've pretty much let her do her thing without hassling her. We have young kids, however, and she's got them fully involved in the congregation activities.

  The congregation thing in itself doesn't bother me too much. The opting-out of certain school activities kind of does, however. But I've largely gone along with it. I'm still a bit conflicted about this.

  Most of all I just want my kids to learn take it all with a grain of salt. I don't mind them going along with all the meeting thing, etc. for now but at some point when they're old enough I want them to be able to decide for themselves what they will want to do. I just want to lay the right groundwork for that time.

  Does anyone out there have experience with this?

  The fact that I don't go to meetings, etc. while mom and the kids do is still sort of a mystery to my kids. I want to be able to explain to them why I'm not involved, and at the same time build credibility for my position in their minds. Right now all they hear is that not going to meetings is a bad thing.

  I really need a plan on a path forward here because just laying low isn't an option anymore.

  Thank you for any tips.
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  The WTS a religion or a commercial enterprise?

  by greendawn in

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  do you think the wts is behaving like a religion or like a commercial enterprise (operation) that is aping religion in order to derive profit out of it?

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  i see them as a business whose imitation of religion is so inept that it can easily be detected.

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  Judc

  A corporation whose ultimate goal is to maximize profits will run differently than one whose goal is to maximize market share. Purity of motives aside, the WBTS is the latter.
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  The 144,000 and the Great Crowd of Revelation

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  8-11; ch.

  as in ch.

  like the "great crowd", they are "of every race, language, people, and nation (cf.

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  Judc

  I think the one connection the WTS tries to draw between the 144,000 and the "anointed" Christians going back to the first century is through the description of the the 144,000 being the firstfruits to God and the Lamb--firstfruits referring to the "first Christians", or first in line. How would one respond to that?
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  The WTS a religion or a commercial enterprise?

  by greendawn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you think the wts is behaving like a religion or like a commercial enterprise (operation) that is aping religion in order to derive profit out of it?

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  i see them as a business whose imitation of religion is so inept that it can easily be detected.

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  Judc

  As L. Ron Hubbard attested you can do both.
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  Barf Quote

  by cosmic in

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  2. experiences

  i read a thread recently by stillawitness in which this person mentioned a "barf quote".

  the term didn't seem extraordinary at the outset, but, throughout the day, i kept giggling and chortling over the term.

  people would ask me what was "so funny", and all i could say was, "barf quote".

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  Judc

  happy to oblige:

  ***

  w62 4/15 p. 240 par. 55 Christendom Has Failed God! After Her End, What? ***

  At the climax of the battle of Armageddon Christ the King will bind Satan the Devil, who is the "god of this system of things" and the founder of Christendom with its hypocritical Christianity. Thus true Christianity will have the opportunity to flourish unopposed, earthwide. Jehovah’s witnesses who survive Armageddon will no longer be persecuted for bearing God’s name nor for preaching "this good news of the kingdom" in all the inhabited earth "for a witness."
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  My Story

  by XJW4EVR in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was adopted into a jw family in southern california.

  my birth mother gave me up after 6 months (the terms mom & dad refer to my adoptive/real parents).

  she gave me up due to the fact that she already had a three year old boy, and back in the late sixties it was not as socially acceptable to be a single mother.

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  Judc

  Eagerly waiting for the next installment!
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  Why did Jehovah create animals that eat blood with the meat?

  by moomanchu in

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  Judc

  or animals that eat blood itself?
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  Need some JW literature? Try this... :)

  by GoingGoingGone in

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  2. friends

  i got an email from a friend today describing some strange happenings at the meeting: .

  " my wife was in the back room with the kids today and there was this guy who my wife later described as a little "scary looking" for some reason and was carrying an empty "bowling bag" (whatever that is.

  anyway, this guy starts grabbing old literature from the library and putting it in his bag.

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  Judc

  Sick of Lies--you're kidding, right?

  You realize, that could land some jail time if you're caught? Especially considering the value of that stuff?

  C'mon. That just stoops to the level they expect from "opposers" and dissenters.
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  Question for the guys on JWD!

  by Poodles in

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  2. relationships

  good morning guys, i'm a women in love with a jw who does not feel the same way about me!

  we have been in this relationship for the past seven years!

  i will try to make this short and to the point so as not to bore you ok!

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  Judc

  please see: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/110287/1.ashx

  relevant? It just goes to show how deeply emotional abuse and insecurity can run.
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  i have a question

  by brandon_the many in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  would the passage from new world translation be a miss print....because in the holy bible the word is god......so if god is not capitalized..then what god is the book referring to...because there is only one father and one living god witch is jesus...... .

  please help me , because this has been puzzling me...... .

  new world translation of the holy scriptures new world translation of the holy scriptures .

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  Judc

  similarly, in my illustration, the ants could view Charlie as either "human" or "a human". The addition of the article does not shift the meaning. The main point is that Charlie is human, being of the same nature as "The Human".

  Later on, John qualifies himself by suggesting that the Father and Son are to be viewed as "one".