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  So This is What They are Studying This Week at the Mid-Week Meeting -"Don't Give Way to Doubt"

  by xjwsrock in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this week they finish up a chapter in the "imitate their faith" book about peter.

  they cover the account of jesus walking on water.

  in the story peter also walks on the water out to jesus.

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  Ignore your common sense and good judgement, bury your head in the sand and keep doing what you are told.
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  Abandoned by JW and yet trapped

  by awake!watcher in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  had an enlightening discussion with my 20 something, baptised, awake son.

  he said he feels abandoned by the religion, and yet trapped at the same time.

  i had never thought about it that way before, but can totally understand where he is coming from.

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  Isolation is a tactic of all cults. First they isolate you from anyone not in the cult, which they do by demonizing all other religions and anyone not a JW. Then they manipulate you to stay in the religion by using the threat of shunning, which is very powerful because it involves everyone you know. Social isolation is very detrimental to a person, which is why shunning is so effective.
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  Convicted Child Rapist Proselytizing. Is the Community Aware? Is the Community Safe?

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  wow, this is awesome.

  this really shows the jw passiveness towards child sex abusers.

  there needs to be more of this exposing this!.

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  The link didn't verify if he was currently on the sex offender registry, it would be nice to verify that he is indeed in the registry. If so, this is something that needs to be publicized.

  I am on a neighborhood app called NextDoor. It allows people In a geographical area to share information on areas of concern in a neighborhood, like crime issues. If we had someone who lives in that area of Colorado Springs they could join and put out an alert so that people there know who is going door to door in their neighborhood. In fact we could do that for any known Jehovah's Witness child predators. Of course the ideal is to get it out in the media, but this could be another way to get the word out, not only to protect people but to publicize the problem of Jehovah's Witnesses and child abuse.
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  JW broadcasting and doubts

  by Colinconfused in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi everyone to cut a long story short, ive been away from the meetings for over 10 years.

  i recently reconnected with the congregation and started a study.

  cant get my head around all the changes and jw broadcasting.

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  Its not necessary to connect with an organization to connect with god, and if he does have an organization, it sure isn't this one. Listen to the voice that is telling you that something is wrong with an organization that changes doctrines and practices this radically. Why did they all of a sudden start putting the governing body out there, where they were hardly mentioned before? Why have they begun selling off kingdom halls and other properties and getting rid of bethel workers? Something just does not add up.

  Do yourself a favor and research the history of this religion. I think you will be shocked, as I was, that they have not been honest about their history and practices. Their failed date predictions, questionable chronology, and child abuse cover ups are easy to investigate on the internet. You have children, so I am sure you don't want them to be in an organization that too often has failed to investigate claims of child sex abuse, failed to inform the authorities or worse, allowed abusers back to the congregation with no warning to parents, even sometimes allowing them to serve as elders or ministerial servants.
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  Poor Sisters

  by Darryl in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i really felt for you sisters i mean i really did.

  when you showed up at the sunday meeting and found out the subject of the talk was going to be -and i can't quite remember the exact wording- but something to the effect of marriage and headship, or honoring and obeying your husband, or something like that how many of you wanted to jump right back in your car and head home.

  i mean 45 straight minutes of beating down you poor ladies and telling you that you are not worthy of making one decision, taking the lead in anything, don't question the man be obedient and keep quiet.

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  At first I bought into the whole "women should be submissive " thing, but as I got older it started to just feel wrong. In the working world I was as respected as any man and paid as well, then I would go to the kingdom hall and be treated as less than because I was female, it just didn't make any sense.
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  Young JW's attitudes

  by Phizzy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i met an old friend last evening, a great guy, an xjw for longer than me.. during a conversation about our experiences since fading (neither of us are da'd or anything) we got to talking about the young jw's.. his wife is still in, and he has two lovely daughters who he is trying to teach the art of critical thinking so that they can make the right choice in the future.. what worries him though is that he is convinced almost all young jw's do not give a "proverbial" if it is the truth or not, they simply wish to remain in it because of the social aspects, loads of friends and activities that they feel safe partaking in etc etc.. so how do you convince these young people that they would have a better life if they left ?.

  they see it as losing all their friends, and being alone and trying to build new relationships, which is mostly true.. how do we convince them to make the leap ?.

  should they ?.

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  What the young people need to know is that yes, the religion provides a social structure that has its benefits, but that this group of people can turn on them at any time, for any reason that three elders agree upon, sometimes for just one mistake and even sometimes when they haven't done anything wrong at all. Any other group of human beings can provide the same social structure without the threat of losing everyone you know in the blink of an eye.
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  Just Sent in My DA Letter!

  by Thoughtless in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hey, this thread is nothing new so i don't wanna get too personal but i'm happy to announce that i am apart of the 33% club!!

  i sent in my da letter this past wednesday (again actually, i sent it in the week before but i got hit with the old 'return to sender') and i sent the letter up to the hq instead.

  i did courteously mark it as re: disassociation for whatever lackey got it, but i did request in the letter not be contacted.

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  Congratulations.

  As with any major change, it's hard at first, but gets easier as time goes by. Just focus on your future and putting one foot in front of the other and in time the JWs will just be a distant memory.

  Good luck

  Lisa 🌹
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  Do you think this would work?

  by LisaRose in

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  anyone else had this following convention

  by freeandcontent in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so my mam visited today.

  she recently went to convention in north east england, newcastle i think they still have them at.

  before she left she said (this is her exact words btw) "you have put me in a difficult position and i can't come to see you anymore".. she told me that as i live with my partner and we are unmarried that she can't visit anymore.

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  You should tell your mom that SHE has put you in a difficult position, having to explain to a young child why her grandmother won't come to visit. Tell her that it is entirely her choice to not visit, based solely on some words spoken by others, not her own conscience or her relationship with God, because she was fine visiting you before she went to the convention.
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  Why are the least informed people the most opinionated?

  by Coded Logic in

  1. social
  2. current

  while trying to have a conversation with a trump supporter today i realized the person knew next to nothing about the us constitution, world events, trumps flip-flops, hillary's e-mails, etc.. i have sense decided it is much easier to do absolutely no research and boldly make broad proclamations rather than read up on a particular topic and make concise points.

  as such, i will now be telling you why tim kaine was the worst governor new jersey has ever had:.

  under tim kaine new jersey gdp dropped by 97%.. humming birds were able to penetrate restricted airspace.. the bridge to missouri kept getting closed.. he made the state look weak by having a state flower.. all the hard working i-pad miners lost their jobs.. and he set up obamacare death panels that were run by isis in planned parenthood vegan centers..

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  I was just thinking about this today. I was wondering how anyone could support Trump after reading the news the last few days, but then I realized those who support him probably don't actually read or watch the news, and if they do they explain it away as lies from "the liberal media". It's like the JWs, they have bought into a concept and simply don't believe anything that would contradict their beliefs, explaining away uncomfortable truths as apostate lies.