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  Where have all the spiritual men gone?

  by ToesUp in

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  this photo was on jw-archive.. sisters are now passing microphones due to a lack of qualified brothers.

  this was in a english speaking group in slovenia .

  i feel sorry for the guy in the blue shirt!

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  I don't know current stats per/male female but sisters get no respect in that cult!!!!

  "You know, scientists say that the cranial capacity of a woman is 10% smaller than that of a man so now this shows that she's just not equipped for the role of headship. Her role is one of subjection to the man. Her role is that of submissiveness and that means that she should recognize that she is a woman and be glad to be a woman. Never want to be what you are not equipped to be. ... Sometimes we hear her say, "oh if-if-if-if I-I were a man I'd do this and I'd do that as if to be wishing to be something that she is not designed to be. Do you know what that borders on? That borders on homosexuality. And do you know what the Devil is doing nowadays? He's taking women who want to be men and makes men out of them. ..." The Value of Our Theocratic Sisters" Samuel Herd, Oakland CA 1971
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  Japan beats South Africa in the World Cup rugby

  by joe134cd in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i just want to congratulate any japanese apostates in their win over south africa.

  have to say it was a bit of a wtf moment for me.

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  I love the Wales games when the Wales fans sing! incredible harmonies! and of course the Haka! when hardcore wt drone wouldn't watch the haka "demonized" stupid brainwashed me.
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  The Governing Body's Publicity Methods

  by John Aquila in

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  possum

  I was encouraged not to let my kids have posters on walls of sports stars ect/ because of idolatry now this!!............

  The US Holocaust Museum states: The Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls were the primary tools that the Nazis used to shape the beliefs, thinking and actions of German youth. Youth leaders used tightly controlled group activities and staged propaganda events such as mass rallies full of ritual and spectacle to create the illusion of one national community (assemblies)

  John Aquila.........not exaggerating unfortunately same mindset
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  Are the Governing Body broadcasts promoted at Kingdom Hall meetings?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a question for those still attending i guess but are all these new jw.telemuppet.org broadcasts advertised to the the rank and file or is it more of a background thing?.

  i'm wondering because i just can't believe my 70 year old die-hard jw mum would ever see them if she wasn't sat down in front of a screen and someone clicked 'play' for her.

  i really want her to see the wizards behind the curtain.

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  I know of a community organisation that arranges for older/lonely members of the community who don't get but need more human interaction to come together as a group for "eating with friends" to meet mix/laugh and eat at different venues with varying menus....

  Disgustingly, the LAZY WT society offers offers older ones/lacking computer skills a couple of hours of sitting watching some moron drone on and on and on electronically. What is loving/ healthy or wholesome about that????
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  Do you feel embarrsed?

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when you look through a keyhole, and see the person you once were?.

  as for myself, i am just pleased i have mended my ways.

  i realise ( now) my time as a witness was a keyhole that looked in to the ground, and licked the elders arse.

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  Mortified! as well as same as Syme "What I feel is sorrow".
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  Two JWs visited

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just had two female jws visit, one in their 30s and the other about 20. .

  they invited me to their convention to learn about jesus, they said it is three days long but i don't need to attend every day and she highlighted one session at 11.15am where i could learn about jesus.. i said to her that i wouldn't be interested in attending the convention because i believed what a man called rutherford said about religion being a snare and a racket.

  they wanted to know who this rutherford guy was and after explaining knew who i was talking about.

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  amen
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  Two JWs visited

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just had two female jws visit, one in their 30s and the other about 20. .

  they invited me to their convention to learn about jesus, they said it is three days long but i don't need to attend every day and she highlighted one session at 11.15am where i could learn about jesus.. i said to her that i wouldn't be interested in attending the convention because i believed what a man called rutherford said about religion being a snare and a racket.

  they wanted to know who this rutherford guy was and after explaining knew who i was talking about.

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  The French philosopher Foucault makes it clear that labelling people as apostates, weak in the truth, inactive, un-spiritual leads to stigma which deprives people of social respect and individual empowerment.

  Stigma originated in ancient Greece (a special mark or special clothing) to warn people that they represented a danger to society,The individual receives a public definition, which is built into a stereotype, and is declared by the offender like "crazy", "junkie" "criminal" even "apostate' .The label helps to perpetuate the status of an individual in an outsider ("a person out of our circle")

  Such a master status suppresses all other statuses. The individual is shaped his social experience which results in playing a role of self-fulfilling prophesy. Why do we allow them to label us as apostate anyway!!!
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  Two JWs visited

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just had two female jws visit, one in their 30s and the other about 20. .

  they invited me to their convention to learn about jesus, they said it is three days long but i don't need to attend every day and she highlighted one session at 11.15am where i could learn about jesus.. i said to her that i wouldn't be interested in attending the convention because i believed what a man called rutherford said about religion being a snare and a racket.

  they wanted to know who this rutherford guy was and after explaining knew who i was talking about.

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  They won't be back! They only know how to talk at people not engage in an interesting, robust exchange of ideas. Heaven forbid!
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  Jamaican news - ‘SHUNNING’: A Cult-Like Practice Of Jehovah’s Witnesses

  by defender of truth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  www.jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20150913/shunning-cult-practice-jehovahs-witnesses

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  Defender of truth...thankyou....knowledge is power!
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  I never realized how boring I was.

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as a true believer in the watchtower, i never knew how truly boring i was until being out for a couple of years and then sitting down with a group of jws and having a conversation..

  thats what happened this morning.

  i decided to go have breakfast at mcdonalds and a group of jws who were out in service and know me also stopped for breakfast and sat down with me and we talked for about an hour.

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  possum

  ditto.