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  How Cultish are the JW's?

  by xjwsrock in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  first off, i certainly agree the jw's are a cult.

  but i'm sensitive to black-and-white thinking now.. so, where do they rank on the scale?

  think of a cultish religion scale from 0-10.. consider the likes of unitarian universalism vs baptist vs amish vs charles manson.. where do you think jw's fall on the scale?.

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  Except for North Korea............and ISIS................A cult is a cult is a cult. Witnesses may not drink koolaid but they will die and allow their children to die rather than have a blood transfusion. They control access to information re: education, books, music. They victimize the victims who are raped by fellow members. They exercise undue influence and control on even the most intimate aspects of members lives. Where else can uneducated misogynistic men who mostly have no formal qualifications exercise such power only on the basis of being 'spirit appointed'. And they victimise those who seek to leave.......a cult is a cult is a cult...........

  JW CULT is..........

  a perversion of the gospel, based upon an unholy devotion to a person, a principle, or both.
  
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  Hello everyone!

  by Planetsmashers in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ive been lurking for a while and finally got around to registering.

  about me: i was essentially born in & indoctrinated from youth.

  i was always a borderline "bad association" type because i always did the minimum and always disagreed with much of what was taught; even when i was a child.. luckily for me my father was never a jw so i never had to endure the male head pressure.

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  Welcome look forward to your posts!
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  What is Your Favorite JW YouTube Video?

  by cognac in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  maybe it's shocking, funny, a good story, etc.. i was just watching the one below... i was shocked!

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  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7qmypu7mxo.

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  RE: the guy at the assembly.

  Quoting the "ONLINE WT SITE"

  ▪ “Mere oppression may make a wise one act crazy.”—ECCLESIASTES 7:7.

  The Bible acknowledges that at times people feel driven by force of circumstance to do what they otherwise would not do. Some may even commit criminal acts in an effort to bring about what they perceive as solutions to hardships and injustices. “In many cases,” says the book Urban Terrorism, “the primary motivation for a terrorist is a genuine frustration with seemingly intractable political, social, and economic forces.” (WT'S OWN WORDS) Completely understand why that poor man felt so muzzled.

  While I would not disrupt a convention personally every time Mr. Possum and I drive past KH I really want to graffiti it. Only thing that has stopped me (and I am 55!) is that Royal Commission gave me a voice.

  “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
  ― Henry David Thoreau
  
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  Any funny stories of when a"brother" giving a talk, said something "funny" or "questionable", and didn't even realize it?

  by Dunedain in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  there were always all types of speakers in the org.

  myself, growing up a "witness", must have heard all types of talks, and given by all manner of speakers, especially on sundays, when almost every week we would get a "visiting" brother giving the public talk.. sometimes, you would have a "great" speaker, all fluent and animated.

  other times we would get a comical speaker, one who would maybe purposelly get a few laughs outta the audience.

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  In Australia to be "randy" means sexuality excited. One district convention the drama outline came straight from USA The main character was called "Randy". an american name? The name was mentioned often..... the young ones just just giggled all the way through............. the older ones where just mortified!
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  Should I be mad?

  by kairos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been df'd for about six weeks now.no one has broken the obligation to "honor the disfellowshipping decree".that's the way notorious co paul kohler describes the "loving arrangement" that is jw shunning.

  ( just "serving" napa ).

  so, my wife's family has been "loving me" ( barf ) when out of nowhere, one of them sends home homemade soup for me.... well, i got super pissed.

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  possum

  Thanks sparrowdown
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  Should I be mad?

  by kairos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been df'd for about six weeks now.no one has broken the obligation to "honor the disfellowshipping decree".that's the way notorious co paul kohler describes the "loving arrangement" that is jw shunning.

  ( just "serving" napa ).

  so, my wife's family has been "loving me" ( barf ) when out of nowhere, one of them sends home homemade soup for me.... well, i got super pissed.

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  Proverbs 15:17 ' Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a manger fed bull where there is hatred." Sharing food is supposed to be an act of unconditional love would be completely different if she had of eaten it with you as a normal part of a healthy relationship. It takes enourmous courage/resilence to live life as a disfellowshipped person we are not the ones that need conditional charity........
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  Hello. New here.

  by ULFBERHT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  new around here.

  wanted to say "hello".. +ulfberh+t.

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  Welcome!
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  Hartlepool UK JW groomed girl for sex

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/crime/jehovah-s-witness-from-hartlepool-groomed-girl-for-sex-1-7504907.

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  What disobiedant parents!

  no "2 witnesses"

  How dare they? the elders may have already judged him as repentant!!
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  Hartlepool UK JW groomed girl for sex

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/crime/jehovah-s-witness-from-hartlepool-groomed-girl-for-sex-1-7504907.

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  If they want the right to self righteously portray themselves as the only true clean christian organisation in the whole world and place them self in public with their little carts and land on every-bodies doorsteps (uninvited)

  they don't have the right to deny the public information to keep their children safe when child groomers/pedophiles could be at their door soon!!
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  Governing body member engaged... Again!

  by OneDayillBeFree in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just found out that the australian governong body member known as geoffrey jackson got engaged to a sister about two weeks ago.

  it really shocked me at first but then i remembered how other members of the gb have remarried in the past like daniel sidlik.

  what made me say "woah" was hearing that the holy bride to be is really young!

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  I have been to Samoa and attended an assembly where Jackson was the key speaker. The poverty is absolutely terrible. The brothers and sisters I met there where kind and hospitable (as I am sure Jackson's new wife is). But she is still married to a man who will protect pedophiles in front of a Royal Commission wearing a watch that would feed 10 families in Samoa for a year. Good healthy mature relationships don't need to be based around patriarchal power Feminist theory defines patriarchy as an unjust social system that enforces gender roles and is oppressive to both men and women.....................