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  Officials in Remote Northern Canada Thank Jehovah’s Witnesses for Special Bible Education Campaign

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this article was published by the wts on their website.. i find this jw practice of targeting vulnerable populations to be so disturbing.

  the last thing that canadian aboriginal communities need is yet another institution that victimizes their members.. http://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/canada/inuit-bible-education-northern-canada/.

  officials in remote northern canada thank jehovahs witnesses for special bible education campaign.

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  I don't have knowledge of the particular community mentioned in the article but the whole North Arctic region is a huge area with hardly anyone living in it so word spreads very quickly. When I get chance later I might tell a couple of stories about it just to illustrate.
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  Officials in Remote Northern Canada Thank Jehovah’s Witnesses for Special Bible Education Campaign

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this article was published by the wts on their website.. i find this jw practice of targeting vulnerable populations to be so disturbing.

  the last thing that canadian aboriginal communities need is yet another institution that victimizes their members.. http://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/canada/inuit-bible-education-northern-canada/.

  officials in remote northern canada thank jehovahs witnesses for special bible education campaign.

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  their findings would spread like wildfire through their community.

  Yes words, rumours and innuendo spread like wildfire.
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  Officials in Remote Northern Canada Thank Jehovah’s Witnesses for Special Bible Education Campaign

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this article was published by the wts on their website.. i find this jw practice of targeting vulnerable populations to be so disturbing.

  the last thing that canadian aboriginal communities need is yet another institution that victimizes their members.. http://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/canada/inuit-bible-education-northern-canada/.

  officials in remote northern canada thank jehovahs witnesses for special bible education campaign.

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  Petraglyph internet access is limited and very expensive in a lot of those areas but it is improving all the time. believe me, there is nothing better than sitting nice warm and comfortable at the keys of a good internet connection through the long Arctic night.
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  Officials in Remote Northern Canada Thank Jehovah’s Witnesses for Special Bible Education Campaign

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this article was published by the wts on their website.. i find this jw practice of targeting vulnerable populations to be so disturbing.

  the last thing that canadian aboriginal communities need is yet another institution that victimizes their members.. http://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/canada/inuit-bible-education-northern-canada/.

  officials in remote northern canada thank jehovahs witnesses for special bible education campaign.

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  Petroglyph:It will be so destructive to those communities if the JWs get a foothold there. I feel sick in my stomach thinking about it.

  Me too. The Inuit people are an amazingly resilient people to have survived and prospered for so long and under such harsh conditions. They are not stupid people! But I fear that some of them might be especially vulnerable to cults like the dubs. Maybe its just evolution? They will have to learn to deal with the idiots from "Down South".

  I personally can't see how the custom of shunning and disfellowshipping will go over big among them. They are a very forgiving people and shunning someone over some stupid belief (not even eating with such a man) won't sit well with them. Coming together and fellowship with one another has been used by them as a survival mechanism in the harsh Arctic environment for a long time. They do have some very strange beliefs and folklore especially among the elderly ones, sort of the same as the idiots down south have.
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  Officials in Remote Northern Canada Thank Jehovah’s Witnesses for Special Bible Education Campaign

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this article was published by the wts on their website.. i find this jw practice of targeting vulnerable populations to be so disturbing.

  the last thing that canadian aboriginal communities need is yet another institution that victimizes their members.. http://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/canada/inuit-bible-education-northern-canada/.

  officials in remote northern canada thank jehovahs witnesses for special bible education campaign.

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  On second thought, I am in a bit of a quandary(got to love that British spelling) about what to do about this? The more attention and emails they get from "Down South" the more chance they might feel a little flattered. The Inuit Elders are to a large degree just like our politicians. They like attention and the perceived money it might bring.
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  Officials in Remote Northern Canada Thank Jehovah’s Witnesses for Special Bible Education Campaign

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this article was published by the wts on their website.. i find this jw practice of targeting vulnerable populations to be so disturbing.

  the last thing that canadian aboriginal communities need is yet another institution that victimizes their members.. http://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/canada/inuit-bible-education-northern-canada/.

  officials in remote northern canada thank jehovahs witnesses for special bible education campaign.

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  This article was published by the WTS on their website.

  I find this JW practice of targeting vulnerable populations to be so disturbing. The last thing that Canadian Aboriginal communities need is yet another institution that victimizes their members.

  I agree 100% with that statement. I removed free literature from the library in Iqaluit and checked out a JW truth book never to return. I am not one that's into burning books but in this case I might make an exception. I think the Inuit people are especially prone to a cult like the JW's. It's it long cold dark winter night throughout Canada's far North and it can drive a person crazy looking for relief I would hate to see any of those people poisoned by any new light from the Watchtower. I will be sure to send him an email too!
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  What is the most bizarre counsel you received as a JW, from a JW?

  by Funchback in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there were many addressed to me.

  for example, i once had a sister tell me i was gambling because i liked playing skill crane (the machine where you have to try to pick up prizes like stuffed animals) at the arcade.

  i then fired back a her: "you saw the r-rated movie 'backdraft.

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  I am glad you appreciated it Morpheus and Oubliette.

  Oubliette don't the student testimonials in that advertisement give you that warm and fuzzy feeling about how normal these people are? LOL just kidding
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  What is the most bizarre counsel you received as a JW, from a JW?

  by Funchback in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there were many addressed to me.

  for example, i once had a sister tell me i was gambling because i liked playing skill crane (the machine where you have to try to pick up prizes like stuffed animals) at the arcade.

  i then fired back a her: "you saw the r-rated movie 'backdraft.

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  I remember as a young man sitting in another witness young man's basement watching television and drinking a few beers when he pulled out a letter that he got that day from a young sister in another congregation. She was obviously very smitten with him and he was indifferent as to his attitude about her. So we decided to write her back and we made up a story about the various ordinary things we did and the things we were worried about and it was our intention to make us both look a bit weird.

  We told her how we were taking a correspondence course in taxidermy and that sometimes the formaldehyde got to us and caused us to pass out and not remember what had happened. Now I don't know if there is such a thing as a correspondence course in taxidermy but it sounded weird enough to us LOL. He joked in the letter about our many conversations with each other about our obsession with taxidermy and how sometimes some of the neighbouring animals seemed to go missing and how we suspected each other of stealing the animals stuffing and hiding them.

  He mailed the letter and about two weeks later we were both called into a council session with the elders about the dangers of drugs and inhalants and how they might cloud your judgement. They never indicated to us what it was that brought about the elder's wise council to us but we both knew. You just can't make stuff like that up LOL
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  Why did you choose Jehovahs Witnesses?

  by vinman in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm wondering why ones on this forum initially became jw's.

  if you were born in, why did you make it "your own"?

  if you became one later, what was your draw and driving force?

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  Born in. Sigh! Proverbs 22:6 "Bring up a boy according to the cult when he grows old he will hate the cult".So true. Note: Actual biblical quote not exactly as shown.
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  For those of you that are disfellowshipped, How Far Would Your Faithfull JW Family Go To Stay Loyal to The WT?

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ive seen jw parents shun their disfellowshipped children for 20-30 years.

  ive seen parents remove disfellowshipped or fader children from wills and give the inheritance to the watchtower..

  if your country got run over by some form of government like the nazi regime and started a process of eliminating any groups or individuals who it considered a threat.

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  writerpen:The confusing thing is that my parents' degree of shunning changes. Sometimes it's a very hard line; other times it's not as hard core.

  I experienced similar behavior myself. I think in my case it was probably because of advice given from the local body of elders in a vain attempt to coerce my return to the flock.They probably thought they would be able to come between me and my family. I was never a victim of sexual molestation or anything like that but in my case there were other things that I think there were factors that influenced my parents egregious behavior. I will disclose them someday.

  Why does it appear to hurt more now? In my case it's because the pressure is off me and I have time now to reminisce about previous events. No professional therapy on my end its all just self analysis. There is an old saying about a man that felt sorry for himself because he had no shoes until he met a man who had no feet! Then he realized he didn't have it that bad after all. It's the way I try to envision things its all just a matter of perspective.