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  What's The Worst Thing You Know Of That A JW Did?

  by minimus in

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  witnesses are supposed to be "exemplary" and not like the "world".

  yet some jws are pretty notorious.. did you know of any jws that did some real bad things?.

  i knew a pious witness who got caught twice trying to solicit prostitutes.

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  Clerical sex abuse. But it's been mentioned as a given, so it can't really be all that big a deal...
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  UPDATE: its over

  by WuzLovesDubs in

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  my brother in law left us and went to his heaven to be with his dad today at 1:20pm pacific.

  it took his strong body almost two days to give up its fight.

  now we can move on..... his daughter is due to have a new baby on may 20th....a very sad and very happy time and the continuation of life..

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  (((WLD)))
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  Uh Oh!!! The elders are coming!!!

  by Blue Grass in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  well after fading and keeping a low key i think the elders are finally going to get to me.

  in 2007 i moved to another city but quickly moved back home about two months later.

  the whole time everyone from my old congregation has been thinking i've been in another city.

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  I'm a little upset that this girl would even mention to him I contacted her on Facebook

  Um...remember the whole cult thing and like bazillions of threads on this site?

  I think the conundrum you are experiencing is between trying to be friends with these folks and trying to not be part of the cult. I'm not sure it works that way.

  But there's plenty of polite ways to say, "I'm sorry, but I don't believe in this religion any more. Wanna be friends still?"
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  Is youth a time for anger and cults?

  by gubberningbody in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm 26 years older than i was when i got started as a jw.

  i was a hurt and angry young man who wanted a world that was a better place, a place where it was ok to be ok and not the same.

  i think maybe my anger and hurt helped to blind me from how angry and hurt everyone in the world really is and was and will be and perhaps this is one more reason the idea of a paradise following swiftly on the deaths of billions was not so much a trouble for my self-absorbed mind.. i wanted to believe and i convinced myself..

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  Yes.
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  can spirituality replace religion?

  by make yourself in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was watching cnn, an d they asked this question and this one lady called in and claimed she wasn't raised in a religious household.

  but she remembered when she was in elementary school that this jw girl asked her if she was spritual she said no, then the jw told her she would go to hell.

  wow.

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  Religion = memorialized beliefs.

  Spirituality = attention to synthesized experience.

  Spirituality allows access to a greater spectrum of the organism.

  Religion, like all belief, is an approximation after the fact.
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  Most people who are not JW's live with out moral restrain! All who have left the "Truth" regret it. June 15th WT

  by life is to short in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  in the june 15th wt it says on page 9 i will just write it out as it is to hard and unbelievable to preface this.

  so here it is.. "many who today are members of the christian congregation can tell you that before learning of and adopting jehovah's righteous standards, they lived without moral restrain.

  yet, they were unsatisfied and unhappy.

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  Wow.

  The only child molester I knew outside of therapeutic settings was a JW.

  The only heroin abuser I knew outside of therapeutic settings was a JW.

  The only incestuous relationship I knew outside of therapeutic settings were JWs.

  The only wife beaters I knew outside of therpeutic settings were JWs.

  And I left in my late teens!
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  My kitty is having kittens soon and Im stressing about it. Advice?

  by WuzLovesDubs in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  like i dont have enough going on right now...my kitty is expecting and im not sure when she actually got pregnant but im thinking her due date might be around 5/10.

  i have read online a bit about the process and i hope she can handle this.

  i made a secure and private kittening box for her and she seems to like it in there with ripped up rags she can pile up into a nest.

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  You're doing fine. The issue with the earlier kitty is unusual, don't let it stress you out.

  Listen to Baba and Quandry and Restrangled.

  I've never had to actually intervene in any kittenings, the most I've had to do is be there and be patient and let them do what's necessary. Having a spot the mom seems to be taking an interest in is great, but I've never had a cat follow the plan in that regard.

  VE - of the Funny Old Man With Cats class
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  "All athiests/agnostics will regret their path and beg God to take them in before their death..."

  by sabastious in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  that's what my older jw brother of 34 said a few months back.

  he actually 100% believes that an athiest cannot have a happy life.. -sab.

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  If God exists, and He *is* love, and He grants undeserved grace, then ALL will be welcomed...
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  The generation changed is explained in the June 15'th WT!

  by life is to short in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  it is here in writing the new generation change.

  on page 5 of the of the wt while talking about the annual meeting report.. "john barr gave the third and final talk.".

  "john barr made clear that the gathering wound not continue indefinitely.

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  WTS needs to download a "security" update...
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  im so worried about my daughter ,need some advice please !

  by looloo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  my daughter was abused by an ex min servant age 13 , she is now 22 and has been with her loving caring boyfriend for a year (he is her 1st boyfriend ) over the years she has been bulimic ,self harmed and suffered low self esteem , i thought she had got better since the relationship with her boyfriend started , i found out yesterday that she is no better at all and im frightened for her , her boyfriend said "that bastard haunts her" she suffers flashbacks and post traumatis stress disorder , due to the horrific things the abuser did and said to her , which i cant bare to go into detail about as i try to block it out my mind , unfortunatly my poor girl cannot !

  she has had a lot of help by a psyciatrist , counsellor etc but is no better so what can i do to help ?

  have any of you been in this situation ?

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  I was abused for 12 years by an elder.

  My path to recovery included therapy for something like 15 years, about 5 years on several medications. The meds allowed my physiology to calm and "reset" in a way, while the talk therapy helped me understand what had happened and consciously work towards healthier beliefs and behaviors.

  I also used EMDR and Hakomi techniques (based in Zen meditation) to work more on the PTSD and become more self-aware. Buddhist practice played a part in my healing.

  I didn't feel like a human until I was 40. I felt like an object. I had been dissociated most of my life, and had symptoms that looked like autism when younger, as a way to escape the self-loathing and revulsion of living I experienced. I didn't truly feel safe until my molester was dead.

  There are moments when I caught up in the past, but these are more rare as time goes by, shorter as times go by, and less drastic.

  So...yes, there is light at the end of the tunnel. But it does take intervention and work to become a survivor, rather than a victim.

  I don't mind answering questions in public or private.