SonoftheTrinity

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  The 'Message" is spread into 700 languages...SO WHAT??? Big Deal!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you know how the org goes on and on about how the "preaching work" takes place in so many languages by the website?.

  they also trumpet the fact that witnesses are in "sooooo many lands and nations"....... so what!.

  just because the message is spread far and wide, does not mean the content of the message is correct or of value.. take the example of coca-cola or mcdonalds.... these products are in nearly every nation around the world....but does that mean they are beneficial or healthy?

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  The less they translate the scriptures, the better.

  For the preaching of the cross is unto them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
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  The 'Message" is spread into 700 languages...SO WHAT??? Big Deal!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you know how the org goes on and on about how the "preaching work" takes place in so many languages by the website?.

  they also trumpet the fact that witnesses are in "sooooo many lands and nations"....... so what!.

  just because the message is spread far and wide, does not mean the content of the message is correct or of value.. take the example of coca-cola or mcdonalds.... these products are in nearly every nation around the world....but does that mean they are beneficial or healthy?

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  It is somewhat amazing that such stupid, ignorant people can learn all those languages. Becoming a good linguist or translator is no small task.
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  All things considered, when will THE JW religion end?

  by sowhatnow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  id give a guess of maybe another 15 to 20 years ,.

  nothing will be the same , if there even is a headquarters.. opinion?.

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  I predict an inwardly focused time, in which the preaching work becomes focused on redeeming the born-in apostates and they become fed up with the world. They may also stop dressing to match the decade and appear quaint in the same way as the amish only in a 20th century style.
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  Semi Home Study Based Charter School vs. Regular School

  by SonoftheTrinity in

  1. social
  2. family

  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.

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  In Real Life
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  Attacking the elders, can that bring down the cult??

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the borg has left out in the cold the victims of child molesters all to save their reputation and have used the elders to do their bidding in these evil works.

  they have even made changes to their policies to put more of the responsibility on the elders.

  so if the lawyers of these molestation victims which normally go after the money ie the borg were to also aggressively go after these elders in these cases could this not start a ripple effect where by elders find out and start resigning en mass to protect themselves knowing the borg not going to help them?.

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  Get a subpoena for the entire GB, that is the one thing that is going to bring them down to earth.
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  Semi Home Study Based Charter School vs. Regular School

  by SonoftheTrinity in

  1. social
  2. family

  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.

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  Oubliette I need to sit in on that class just to figure out how much is getting done. My child is shy, he can't handle an overcrowded ghetto school. This kid may be Fijian, but he is delicate and quiet like an Ethiopian. His little brother looks like a Samoan, is built like a Mack truck, and is intense about everything.

  Getting my family out of this cult?

  I went back to my Church for the first time in years. I told my priest about my new family, and how I feel like it is a sin to to stay and a sin to go. Now is Lent, a time to fast from not just food, but all the Self indulgent BS that holds you back. Perhaps in becoming a better role model by overcoming my fragile male ego and bad habits, I can show them a more positive alternative to the JW lifestyle. Adrift by myself, with next to little IRL moral support to counter the JWs I have become one of those anti-religious Jesus Freaks. I won't cut my hair or beard until my wife leaves the religion is just an example of my hating the fact that the JWs have become Charles Taze Russells worst nightmare, Churchianity at its worst. All the guilt of Catholicism without all the cute little bells and whistles, all the intolerance of Islam without any of the scholarship or valor, all the victimhood and paranoia of Judaism without any of the independent thinking and chutzpah. It has all the bad qualities of all the so-called false religions that it slanders. Sorry for digressing.
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  Semi Home Study Based Charter School vs. Regular School

  by SonoftheTrinity in

  1. social
  2. family

  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.

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  You've have? People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw grammar stones LOL.
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  Semi Home Study Based Charter School vs. Regular School

  by SonoftheTrinity in

  1. social
  2. family

  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.

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  Great Teacher, don't get me wrong. My wife helps him with his homework, especially in Math. She comes from a family of statisticians. Her tutoring style is more in your face. Which is good sometimes, sometimes not. I am but a lowly stepparent, so I don't have the luxury of being in his face, without it being a case of "He can't treat my child like that, only I can treat my child like that." So I walk away for a few minutes just to keep my cool, which she preprograms to fail. She expects him to do his homework in a set amount of time so that it doesn't interfere with family bible interrogations and his bedtime. Sometimes he just needs to sit there and think it through at his own pace, even if it compromises his bedtime. He is going to middle school next year! If his bedtime were when he got his homework done, it would be less stressful for him IMHO. I realize the importance of getting regular sleep, but grasping the concepts rather than just doing the work is just as important. His bedtime is of course tied to his going to school where it seems like a lot of time gets wasted trying to keep a rowdy class of forty in line.
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  Maybe the Governing Body is the Beast with 10 horns.

  by SonoftheTrinity in

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  2. bible

  enforced clean shavenness the mark of the beast.

  the love of many becoming cold..... any other ideas as to why or why not?.

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  Enforced clean shavenness the mark of the beast

  The love of many becoming cold....

  Any other ideas as to why or why not?
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  Semi Home Study Based Charter School vs. Regular School

  by SonoftheTrinity in

  1. social
  2. family

  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.

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  SonoftheTrinity

  If you have had a child that was sick for 3 weeks, the sickness having been the 4th virus of the year caught at school, prolonged by bullying related social anxiety, you would also be fed up with the school. Now that my child is well, the school is having a one week Presidents Day vacation so that it can save money. I blame it all on the benchwarming rather than homework based funding. I intend to make the most of this time by having him do math problems before he can play. He is already in a homework based program as the pregnant teacher has lost control of the class but the school still needs its benchwarming money. I need to put on a suit and tie and sit in on the class so that I can see what is really going on. My kid is going to hate me, but I am at the end of my rope. I don't see how a two day per week schedule with a three student per teacher ratio can be more difficult than the default status quo. I have contempt for the condition of the school system which is no one person's fault, but I have the greatest respect for the teachers and administrators who persevere while straitjacketed to that system. He might not get into the school, but I just can't settle for a dysfunctional overcrowded middle school with gangs and bullies. My wife is only now beginning to understand the importance of choosing the right school for each child within a big school district. My child does what he is told most of the time, but he is too shy to ask for help. He needs a good student teacher ratio more than school every day, especially with his mother compounding his work load with family bible interrogations.