I blame my stepkids bad grades in school squarely on the watchtower. They don't get enough sleep because of the demands of family bible study and thursday meetings but comprimise isn't in my wife's vocabulary. My stepson has friends at school but there are also bullies, and the classes are overcrowded with sicknesses spreading through them in a way that is detrimental to the family's health. The fact that the schools get their money based on how many children are sitting in the classroom seems to encourage the overcrowding. There is a new charter school in the school district that is homework based, and gets its money based on the homework that the children do. The kids get two days of school instead of five days, and the rest of the week is spent doing homework. The class sizes are less than 10 students to a teacher. I have an associates degree with childhood development coursework so I can help him with the increased homework. My kid is getting bullied both by his mother with religion and with the kids at school for having a high pitched voice and being a Dub kid. He is getting sick a lot because of overcrowding and stress from the bullying both at school and at home. So he is going to that Charter School. But my one concern is that with the small class size and school only 2 days a week, his social and emotional development might be stunted by the reduced days and class size. He is a shy kid with developmental social anxiety, meaning so many kids have it that the kid shrinks can't call it a disorder. There are no flag salutes or all day holiday nonsense to make him feel excluded and out of place. This school seems like a good fit, but I fear he will be even more isolated within the world of the Jehovah's Witnesses, at least other children might not recognize him when he goes out witnessing. It seems like a happy medium between homeschooling and regular school but the limited socializing plus going to school outside the neighborhood worries me. There is also a good chance he may be the only child of color in his class.
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Semi Home Study Based Charter School vs. Regular School
by SonoftheTrinity ini blame my stepkids bad grades in school squarely on the watchtower.
they don't get enough sleep because of the demands of family bible study and thursday meetings but comprimise isn't in my wife's vocabulary.
my stepson has friends at school but there are also bullies, and the classes are overcrowded with sicknesses spreading through them in a way that is detrimental to the family's health.
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BRITAIN | Man 'glassed in the face' at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
by jwleaks innews report.
13 february 2015 .
man 'glassed in the face' at kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses.
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New Caleb video uses fearmongering on children
by Jonathan Drake incheck it out.
literally the message is if you don't pay attention at the meetings you could die.
how insane, i feel like this must wake some people up..
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That is true, if you don't pay enough attention to it to realize it is bullshyt then you will die, either from refusing a blood transfusion or become another baldfaced empty suit zombie like all the grown ups around you in the meeting. -
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Jehovah's Witnesses are Boko Haram for Wussies!
by SonoftheTrinity inthe meaning of the name boko haram is "secular education is forbidden".
so due to their stance on higher education, i charge that jehovah's witnesses are the same as them only not as valiant in their madly misguided doctrine.
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Jehovah disapproves of Child Abuse in his name, and discouraging a child from going to University is Child Abuse! Yes one prophecy of the Watchtower is true, that false religions will be destroyed, so they prophesy against themselves. -
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Jehovah's Witnesses are Boko Haram for Wussies!
by SonoftheTrinity inthe meaning of the name boko haram is "secular education is forbidden".
so due to their stance on higher education, i charge that jehovah's witnesses are the same as them only not as valiant in their madly misguided doctrine.
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Jehovah's Witnesses are Boko Haram for Wussies!
by SonoftheTrinity inthe meaning of the name boko haram is "secular education is forbidden".
so due to their stance on higher education, i charge that jehovah's witnesses are the same as them only not as valiant in their madly misguided doctrine.
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The meaning of the name Boko Haram is "Secular Education is Forbidden". So Due to their stance on higher education, I charge that Jehovah's Witnesses are the same as them only not as valiant in their madly misguided doctrine. -
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Those who have not defiled themselves with women
by Doug Mason ini am seeking a copy of this article:.
those who have not defiled themselves with women: revelation 14:4 and the book of enoch, daniel carl olson, catholic biblical quarterly, 59.3, 1997, pages 492-510, issn: 0008-7912.
if someone is able to locate a copy, you will find my email address at:.
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I always imagined the ancient Israelites to be rather like the Woodabe of West Africa. Men were the sex objects, and women chose not only the wealthiest and most pious, but especially the most handsome husbands whether they were already married or not. Even in modern Judaism a man cannot initiate a divorce. -
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Are the WT following Jewish practices toward ex-believers?
by Wonderment inon the book of hebrews, the believer's bible commentary says regarding those who leave the jewish faith:.
"now when a jew left the faith of his forefathers, he was looked on as a turncoat and an apostate (meshummed), and was often punished with one or more of the following:.
disheritance by his family.
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12 Tribes of Israel. 12 Apostles. 12 GB Members?
by campaign of hate inthis week we have mention of the 12 tribes of israel in the bible study.
we have the same thing mentioned in the wt this week.
12 apostles are also mentioned (need to double check that one).
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Well the generation of 1914 can't possibly be the Twelve Tribes of Israel because to enter the gates of the New Jerusalem you have to know what tribe you are from. I actually belonged to an organization known as the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Not the cult up in Vermont, or the Black Hebrews, but the Twelve Tribes of Israel founded in Jamaica. Bob Marley helped spread The Twelve Tribes Organization all over the world. Every chapter was run by Twelve Brethren from Twelve Tribes each born in a different month, one of which is an overseer, and Sister Dinah. Twelve Tribes also teaches these are the last days, and they don't really celebrate pagan holidays as an organization, but the similarity to JW generally ends there. They do not hold authority over people's personal lives, instead teaching that everyone should 'Read a Chapter a Day from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 and Find the Truth for Yourself', numerous entertainers have done Christmas gigs as professionals (there are a lot of Reggae and Hip Hop musicians in Twelve Tribes as we invented two turntables and a microphone format in our 1960s and 70s fundraisers.) And at our fundraisers and balls we take Matthew 15:11 so literally that your average dub would literally defecate themselves at our excesses, but as TTOI views itself as the aging whore of a wife compared to the virgin bride church, the wheat and tares are even more apparant. Finding the Truth for Yourself generally meant if there were 2 members discussing something that there would be 10 opinions, and critical thinking and imagination were considered an essential ingredient in being a complete Christian. Vernon "Prophet Gad" Carrington was a natural food hustler from the Ghettos of Kingston, Judge Rutherford was an American lawyer. Maybe they were both quacks, but Rutherford the White American Gentleman knew how to keep the common people in their place, which is where they are today in their little kingdom halls with the scriptures predigested by Mother Watchtower Bird. It would be lovely if the Kingdom Halls were converted into boisterous dance halls crowded by people with SOUL (the Theocratic Players of internet fame out in Wisconsin need a little more rhythm, maybe they should start with something they know like Polka) but that has about as much chance as another Ice Age in a time of Scientifically Proven Global Warming. But who knows, maybe 12 Brothers and One Sister as a blueprint for the governing body might cancel out the lunacy of the Watchtower organization and force them to realize the damage they have done and repent of it. History teaches that men have a tendency to come to corrupt, cynical, and selfish decisions when not a single woman is around. Sorry for my long windedness folks but there isn't a lot of information about TTOI on line because old Gad man was a little paranoid of the internet, I'm not trying to promote TTOI but I thought it had some relevance to this particular subject.