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  New Spiritually Weak Label: Not Using Tablet/iPhone

  by Doubtfully Yours in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  with last night's meeting it became official: here in the states is a must to keep up with 'jehovah's org' that one fully jumps on board with this tablet/iphone crap.. so, now, all of us that up to this point have refused to follow the wtbts in their electronic/wireless revolution will deal with the browbeating from the 'spiritual' ones.. already receiving lots of grief from hubby and rest of the family/close friends when seen at the meetings with paper publications.

  damn it!!!

  am i alone in this resistance???!!!.

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  iPad, eh?

  I remember JWs saying that iPad was an acronym for Internet Pornography Access Device.
  
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  New ANTI-GAY video for Kids on jw.org

  by ttdtt in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/one-man-one-woman-marriage/.

  disgusting!.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  konceptual99, that funny link deserves a repeat. Some of the comments afterward are pretty good, too: http://wonkette.com/601364/jehovahs-witnesses-will-learn-you-how-to-be-the-cutest-lil-homophobe-ever

  Love the title:

  why oh why was Prince part of this organization?

  Jehovah’s Witnesses Will Learn You How To Be The Cutest Lil’ Homophobe EVER
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  JWs sell 124 Columbia Heights to Florida Panthers owner

  by betterdaze in

  1. social
  2. current

  jehovah's witnesses sell 124 columbia heights to florida panthers owner vincent violavirtu ceo vincent viola pays $105m for jehovah’s witnesses building in bk heights.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  124 and 107 are different buildings.

  Whatever the case, this is a lot of money disappearing down the WT rabbithole.
  
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  New ANTI-GAY video for Kids on jw.org

  by ttdtt in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/one-man-one-woman-marriage/.

  disgusting!.

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  This JW Mom advised Sophie to talk to the girl with two Moms about the hope of paradise and playing with animals.

  This JW Mom did NOT advise Sophie to talk to the girl about her two Moms - especially about Jehovah's view of their marriage.

  Maybe Sophia isn't like my niece. If you said anything in front of her, be prepared for everyone to hear all about it. She had no filter as a child, even now in her twenties we have to be prepared to shush her up and change the subject. Even if you swore her to secrecy, "oops, I forgot the party was supposed to be a surprise." I could easily have seen her in this case go back to school and tell Karrie all about the paradise, the animals, and the resurrection... and then continue the conversation with how she couldn't live there because she has two mommies who are trying to sneak bombs onto airplanes.

  Makes me wonder how the conversation between Caleb and his friend that gave him the Sparlock toy was supposed to have gone down. "I threw it away because I didn't want to make Satan happy."
  
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  New ANTI-GAY video for Kids on jw.org

  by ttdtt in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/one-man-one-woman-marriage/.

  disgusting!.

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  Zero homosexual JW's can find a mate.

  There have been plenty of gay JWs that have married a JW of the opposite sex. As Sophia's mom explains, "...he (Jehovah) knows how we can be happiest. That's why he invented marriage the way he did.... And you know what? People can change!" Pretty straightforward here that marriage (one man and one woman marriage, that is) is supposed to guarantee happiness. And Sophia's mom says plainly that a person's sexual orientation can change. Makes it pretty clear that as far as she is concerned, whether she's with a man or a woman doesn't matter to her, but she married a dude because Jehovah said it would make her happy and get her into paradise. Maybe she had to dump a girlfriend in order to get through the Kingdumb Haul gaydar detector.
  

  So now Sophia is supposed to start recruiting her little classmate so those two mommies will get gay divorced and marry a couple of fine JW brothers, perhaps also gay divorced. Homosexual JWs marrying a JW of the opposite sex in order to change their desires? Homer Simpson was more accurate when he explained, "I guess some people never change. Or, they quickly change, and then quickly change back."
  
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  New ANTI-GAY video for Kids on jw.org

  by ttdtt in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/one-man-one-woman-marriage/.

  disgusting!.

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  It would seem from this video that the only reason JWs get married is because it makes Hojovah happy. Mom made no statements about how much she enjoyed being married to her husband and how wonderful the "one man and one woman" marriage and "biblical" family arrangement was.

  Nope. No personal testimony from Sophia's mom about the wonderfulness of heterosexuality. Rather, she made it sound like homosexuality was something that everyone had to give up in order to please god. You know, like birthday parties and Christmas presents and Halloween costumes and Easter candy and after-school sports and music and a university education and a hundred other fun and potentially beneficial activities.

  So, it's not that people really want to be straight. It's just that they have to give up being gay or being "two moms" in order to please Hojovah.

  I suspect that the parents of Caleb and Sophia may have a sham marriage.
  
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  Waking up - introduction

  by Dreamerdude in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am a male, born into the jw cult(ure), baptized as a teen, now mid fifties.

  most of my life i dreamed of hugging pandas and lions, punctuated at times by nightmares of armageddon or jw drama and politics.

  still going through the motions for still-in wife.

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  Welcome Dreamerdude!

  That's what woke my wife briefly, until she was able to rationalize that he is just an imperfect human.

  And that is now a line you can repeat after anything they say or publish, "the GB are just imperfect humans."

  I was slapped wide awake by the notorious Tony Tight Pants Rant at the Annual Meeting.

  With all the problems in the world and in the organization, Tony addressed this as problem #1 that deserved attention. In honor of the fact that this was what slapped you awake, I suggest this as your exJW theme song:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv7Ts4v5_Bs
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLUvOtqTmYM
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qdNy_vz-gM

  "I was talking to Tony Morris the other day and he declared my pants the tightest in all the land!"
  
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  Are JWs now encouraged to volunteer?

  by Athanasius in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  after i retired i volunteered for several community service programs, including working with the local food bank.

  every fourth thursday of each month i help out in distributing food to needy families at the local veterans building.

  i've been helping out for five years now.

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  Do they have to do volunteer work as a condition of their probation?
  
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  Today's Study - Shun Disfellowshipped Family, Don't Marry Outsiders, Tell On Others!

  by Divergent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  urghhh... what a disgusting study!7 a conflict of loyalties may arise when a close relative is disfellowshipped.

  for example, a sister named anne received a telephone call from her disfellowshipped mother.

  the mother wanted to visit anne because she felt pained by her isolation from the family.

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  Anne wrote and kindly reminded her mother that she had cut herself off from the family by her wrongdoing and unrepentant attitude. “The only way you can relieve your pain is by returning to Jehovah,” Anne wrote.

  The writers that come up with this stuff live in the isolated world of bethel. When living in a like-minded hive of WT drones, disfellowshipping sounds beneficial to all concerned.

  But out in the real world where ordinary JWs have to work with and live around nonJWs, the disfellowshipping practice screams "cult!"

  The situation described in this article would easily be surrounded by nonJW family members, neighbors, friends, coworkers, acquaintances, and onlookers. Although WT can issue the command that nobody ask any questions about the judicial meeting and that nobody talk to the dfd, that certainly doesn't apply to all those nonJWs. And when the mother in this WT story recounts what has transpired and shows what the daughter wrote in the letter to any nonJW, what are they going to think? "What a bitch of a daughter in a stupid church. Poor mother."
  

  I've talked to fellow students, coworkers, and my therapist about this JC and df practice. Of course they find it disgusting and lose any respect for JWs that they previously had. So the GB can keep ordering the sheeple to preach, but I know plenty of people that will never listen because they are aware of this unloving practice of this captive cult.

  Daniel later married a fine Christian sister and now serves as a circuit overseer.

  As if "just marry a JW and you'll enjoy a wonderful life". Plenty of "fine Christians" married... and later divorced. After I became an elder and found out how many of these "fine Christian" couples and families were really a wreck, I lost my desire to marry. I'm still trying to recover from some of the stuff I "witnessed".

  loyalty to God should move you to report the matter to the elders.

  This is the type of thing that created this problem of the crime of child molestation being reported to the elders WHEN IT SHOULD BE REPORTED TO THE POLICE! If there is no confession or witness besides the victim, the "loyal" congregation leaves a molester free to strike again. Meanwhile, if an engaged couple confesses that they got a little touchy-feely, the elders bring down the hammer and publicly humiliate them.

  I was an elder in a congregation where this tattle-tale spirit got absolutely out of control. As if there weren't enough real problems, there were some teenage girls and their mothers that started a war of accusations against one another. It was a mess with a quarter of the congregation not on speaking terms with another quarter and they were trying to drag the rest of us into the battle. I sure don't miss that kind of "fine Christian" sh!t.
  
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  Polish branch committee member (former chairman) brought into court!

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  polish branch committee member (former chairman) brought into court!.

  see also: polish forums..

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Now with the current WT to serve as evidence, the org can't weasel out with their usual lies about their manipulation and control through shunning.