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  If you had to choose

  by dothemath in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if you had to choose to belong to 1 religion, i was curious as to what any on the forum would pick.. i realize most here are likely atheist (i would have to say i'm agnostic), but if any would like to share their opinion, and maybe why?.

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  smiddy

  If I had to choose some/any religion on the pain of death ,I think I would choose death.
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  JWs banned from Russia

  by dogon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so the russian have banned jws as a destructive cult.

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  JW`s are just one of many banned organizations their

  Nothing special to see here .

  They are not unique ?
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  Voting

  by confused in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi guys,.

  i have been told that a while ago there was a watchtower article that said that voting, (i'm in uk) is down to individual conscience.

  i always thought it was a judicial matter.

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  smiddy

  In Australia it is compulsory for people 18 years old to register to vote.

  Their are also exceptions for people who do not want to vote such as religious objections.

  Many Jw`s take advantage of that ,also many JW`s go to polling booths and cast informal votes either by stuffing up the procedure making it void or by adding Jesus Christ /jehovahs kingdom on the ballot paper which I did on many occasions.

  Others just wait for a please explain letter and put religious exemption as a JW which I have also done and nothing more is heard about it again

  Though I have been out for over 20 years now if you voted for a political party you would be denying your neutrality and rejecting Jehovahs Kingdom of Christ Jesus that would get you DF.
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  The West Australian: Jehovah Witness charged with historic child sex offences

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/jehovah-witness-charged-with-historic-child-sex-offences-ng-b88453246z.

  jehovah witness charged with historic child sex offences.

  friday, 21 april 2017 3:11am.

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  The man has been charged with a string of child sex offences including indecent dealing, unlawful carnal knowledge of girls under 16 and deprivation of liberty.
  

  The man was charged on Thursday after ongoing investigations from the Royal Commission into institutional child sex offences

  Hopefully this is only one of many charges that will arise from the ARC into child sexual abuse in institutions in Australia

  And as I said in the above post ,surely the Elders who know of these crimes and fail to report to the appropiate authorities such as police and child protection services ,they should face criminal prosecution also..

  The Elders report it to the legal department of jehovahs Witnesses who again fail to report it to the appropiate authorities ,they should all be held responsible and charged accordingly.
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  The West Australian: Jehovah Witness charged with historic child sex offences

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/jehovah-witness-charged-with-historic-child-sex-offences-ng-b88453246z.

  jehovah witness charged with historic child sex offences.

  friday, 21 april 2017 3:11am.

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  Well said Finkelstein ,the elders who would have been involved in the JC and never reported it to the appropiate authorities should be jailed for obstructing justice.and being complicit in concealing a sex crime against a minor.
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  exJW from Galway, Ireland

  by Band Completely in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've been reading many articles on here and other forums relating to exjws for some time.

  when my mother first got involved with the witnesses back in '77, my mother's mother and my father's mother, being the "good catholics that they were", gave my father "license" to do "whatever it takes" to stop her associating with these people.. due to "confirmation bias", (i.e.

  "satan will do whatever he can to stop you associating with us"), this "persecution" only convinced her that the witnesses had "the truth".

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  I like that BC you have a sense of humour and we all need that.

  A great first post and you have had success in helping others exit the Borg.well done

  look forward to more of your posts.
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  Russia forbids Jehovah's Witnesses. El País newspaper also points to complaints in Spain

  by sp74bb in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  source: el país newspaper.

  http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2017/04/21/mundo_global/1492792022_341557.html.

  russia forbids jehovah's witnesses.

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  Thanks for the link sp74bb , the more exposure the witnesses are given about their cultish behaviour and the cover ups of child sexual abuse the better ,not to mention the kangaroo courts they hold in house.
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  Marry Only in the Lord

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last night at the meeting, a local needs talk preempted the regularly scheduled part.

  an elder who is the most society following elder talked about loving god and then he talked about bible principles such as marry only in the lord.

  he talked of deut.

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  The more cultish things they say the better I like it .

  Maybe more people will wake up to it. and exit stage left.
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  "Hard work never killed anyone," or "I have to give up knitting."

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. humour

  greetings, my aging friends:.

  it's not really a funny subject, our getting old and our bodies falling apart.

  sure, as the saying goes, hard work won't kill you, but it can wear out your body.

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  smiddy

  Some of these ailments just come and go over a period of time I believe.

  I developed a pain in the arch of my foot that made it difficult to walk seemingly for no reason at all ,after a few months it disappeared ?

  A similar thing happened with my shoulder pain when I would lift my arm a certain height the pain was severe again after many months it also just vanished , the pain not my arm.

  Some years ago I lost the ability to have a " normal erection" , I`m still waiting for that to remedy itself .
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  An update

  by WeatherLover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i told my parents that i was considering taking some college classes, (of course they think that i mean at the community college) and that it would be a good idea for me to take the act (which i took on the 8th of this month).

  i'm trying to take baby steps so it won't be a big shock to them all at once.

  and just to make something clear, i'm not planning on starting college this fall, but instead i have my sights set on next year.. p.s.

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  smiddy

  The decrease in memorial attendance was that just local or a worldwide trend ?

  Keep us informed on your progress especially with your aunt

  Take care WL