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  To Fade or Disassociate

  by Jules Saturn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello to all, so i did want to talk about this topic because i think it is very important to me.

  i have a grandfather who faded several decades ago.

  he occasionally attends an assembly and the memorial but no longer attends meetings or goes on field service.

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  smiddy

  I was out, a fader , for about twenty years when on a whim I decided to disassociate myself from the religion.

  I had no family left in except for a niece and I got it in my head that I would disfellowship the organization ,what did I have to lose .

  Nothing

  I only had contact with a couple of other faders and nothing has changed and my niece only ever contacted us if she thought she could encourage us back into the religion with statements like " the bros,are really concerned about those that have left the truth " (nobody ever tried to get us back in ) and "their is so much love shown in the congregations now" and crap like that.

  It made me feel better that I could ex-communicate them.
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  Jehovah's Vatican Scandal?

  by mrmagic in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  someone sent this link of kelso law firm and their blog post on cardinal pell being australia's most hated man.

  the implications are very interesting, as this is the 3rd most powerful man in the vatican.

  the catholic church is no doubt much larger than jehovah's witnesses, however, the jw's incidence of child sexual abuse is about 4 times higher than the catholic church's child sex abuse (and subsequent coverups).. the main thread tying cardinal pell and the other vatican scandals to jehovah's witnesses is the australian royal commission.

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  I dont have statistical figures showing whether JW`s are worse than the R.C.Church as far as Child abuse goes.

  However somebody out their will come up with these statistics sooner or later .

  Jehovahs witnesses have only 8 Million members

  R.C.Church has over 1 Billion members.

  One day soon I hope someone will make a comparison between the two

  I`m inclined to think while the JW`s may not be worse than the R.C.Church in a ration scenario, members /victims , I wouldnt be surprised if JW`s were pretty close to them.

  However it remains for someone more cluey than I am.
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  Gaslighting

  by mann377 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ever heard of it?

  i have but never realized the full meaning.

  this is the tactic the wtbs uses to control people.

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  smiddy

  Did you think we said /meant this system/world would end in 1914 ? You must be mistaken , what we meant was 1914 would be the beginning of the time of the end at some future date that we will tell you about.....soon

  Again and again and again.
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  Jws banned from further suing doctors

  by tepidpoultry in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  https://articles.pennlive.com/news/2017/07/court_nixes_lawsuit_by_family.amp.

  if a jw gets drunk on an occasion, he could get a pass if it was in private, if however in public there's a much greater chance of disfellowshipping as the sin has now "maligned the reputation of the congregation".

  i got this through michael sherlock's fb page, he likes to expose religious nuts,.

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  The fact that JW`s seek out doctors who will take on their restrictive procedures on medical options available to them and then when things go wrong and the patient dies going against recommended medical options to minnimise problems they then go and sue the doctors /medical profession knowing the risks involved is just pathetic.

  I`m surprised that any doctor or medical profession will even consider taking on a JW patient now knowing full well they may be sued by the patient or their JW relatives.if things go against their expectations.

  The law courts should never entertain such law suits ,The JW`s know the risks and have to bear the consequences.

  Kudos for this judgement against the Jehovah Witnesses
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  Hello

  by Jules Saturn in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hello, i've been lurking for quite some time here on this forum, reading a whole lot and i've finally made the courage to create an account as a form of escape and in hopes to be understood and not feel "mentally diseased".

  little background on me, i am a born in but i consider myself a pimo (physically in mentally out).

  i feel like i've always had doubts but these doubts would sink with the meetings and the assemblies and every other little thing that drowns any doubts a witness may have.

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  Welcome jules you can speak your mind here wth no fear of repurcussions .I like to point out to newbies such as yourself about the search option at the top right-hand of the screen.

  Type in your question and their is a wealth of info that comes up going back about 16 years .

  And their is no revision of history on here.

  And you my friend are not the one who is mentally diseased.

  I look forward to more posts from you.

  Take care.
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  10 years on.....

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was a window cleaner, i was at the time unemployed, homeless.

  i had no education to be proud of (high school one a two b's rest c's) i was a jehovahs witness.

  i had been a pioneer.

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  An excellent post snare thanks for sharing it with us
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  Car commercial reminded me of JWs

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on the radio today, an ad for a car dealership said:.

  'if a salesman came to your door to sell you a car, would you buy it from him?

  of course not, you'd go online and do your research.'.

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  So simple yet so true of ,an illustration you get a "G" nbd
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  ET phones home

  by Coded Logic in

  1. social
  2. current

  a nearby star, ross 128, about 11 light years away, seems to be putting out some rather remarkable radio waves.

  discovered by the arecibo observatory in puerto rico (the one shown in the move contact) other observatories like the allen telescope array are set to begin observations in the next couple of days to make sure the signal really is coming from interstellar space and isn't caused by instrument malfunction or radio waves bouncing off satellites.

  it could be anything at this point (but very-very unlikely aliens).

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  If they stopped the monthly report card ?

  by Chook in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  witnessing would cease, would it flow on to attendance numbers at meetings and then total decimation of the church..

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  Stop the monthly report cards and you would kill off the D2D witnessing within 6 months.Lets face it , it`s outlived its usefullness by about 80+ years
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  JW Losses Civil Case Against Hospital

  by John Davis in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  jw family loses a civil case against a pa hospital where the mother died after bleeding following child birth.

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  http://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/2017/1838-eda-2015.html.

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  smiddy

  For some reason I could not read the case mentioned ,

  However for family members suing the hospital staff who are responsible for looking after the patient and she dies because of rejecting doctors recomendations as to what treatment she should be receiving ,

  is simply pathetic.

  It just simply seems that they are wanting financial gain from the restrictions they themselves and the deceased placed on the medical profession and they didnt get the outcome they were hoping for.

  For doctors ,surgeons and medical staff assisting in operations involving Jehovahs Witnesses be aware that you may be sued if the patient dies regardless of your efforts to save them simply because they refuse your advice as to what is the best medical procedure that is available.