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  Window Washers

  by Nikki collins in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i know @hiddenpimo is going to laugh at me for this because we had several in our old congregation, but what is with all the window washing businesses owned/managed by jws???

  they are everywhere!

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  I had to get my windows washed recently (hadn't done it in years, outside only) and the hourly rate ended up being over $50.00 for the husband and wife team. Not bad.
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  my story...

  by Nikki collins in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  many of you have asked about my story, so here it is.

  it's a bit long lol.

  however i still loved jeremy but because he wasn’t a witness i knew i could never be with him and have my family.

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  Thank you for sharing your story Nikki. You've had quite a journey to getting out. Good luck.
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  Amber Scorah is on the Daily Show tonight.

  by I quit! in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just wanted to let everyone know that ex-jw amber scorch is on the daily show on comedy central tonight.

  it should very good.

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  I watched the video replay with Trevor Noah. He asked her some very good questions and she was very comfortable in front of the camera. Overall it was an awesome way to get words " Jehovahs Witnesses" and "Cult" out into the public conversation.
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  NWT Being the Most Accurate

  by VIII in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was going through my old files and came upon an email between some family that i was privy to.

  it is about the nwt bible and alex trebek asking what is the most accurate bible, etc.

  i am copying and pasting this (for nathan natas...) so he will have so fun data to carry with him with that jw bible as he goes door-to-door.

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  I was going through my old files and came upon an email between some family that I was privy to. It is about the NWT Bible and Alex Trebek asking what is the most accurate Bible, etc.

  I am copying and pasting this (for Nathan Natas...) so he will have so fun data to carry with him with that JW bible as he goes door-to-door.

  Recently (this was years ago apparently or never?) on Jeopardy, one of the answers was "*It's the most accurate translation of the Holy Scriptures?*" No one got the correct question, so*/ Alex Trebek said "What is the; New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, printed by the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society."/* *Book:/ "TRUTH IN TRANSLATION: ACCURACY AND BIAS IN ENGLIS TRANSLATIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT"/* Author: Jason David BeDuhn is the Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff*.

  I received this in an email from a JW relative touting the accuracy of the NWT. My other relative went off on a JW happy rant and then went into an Armageddon rant. Crazy! This was a few years ago. They are all so cray-cray it's astounding that they can walk in general society (see how I did that? ) and not get arrested for wanting to kill off civilization.
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  The Watchtower Tract Society doesn't print Bibles?

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after reading a few comments here, i thought it was time for me to get a copy of "the silver sword" for my own occasional research and occult practices.

  so i thought i would see if jw.org would offer a way that i could purchase a printed copy (not digital) of the new world translation.

  as i browsed, it occurred to me that i might also like to have a copy of the... what was it?

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  Wish I had kept the one I was sent a few years ago. I threw it out upon arrival. Now it's worth something. Who knew?
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  What your first realization of hypocrisy in this Religion?

  by days of future passed in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my mother became a witness when i was five and i believed that every witness followed what was said at the meetings and the instructions given.

  my naive belief carried on until maybe i was 10?

  at the old conventions, volunteers would come early and pack fruit into net bags so that it could be sold at lunch.

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  This thread struck a nerve.

  All of your examples above, I have seen or experienced on a personal level. The OPs opening post could have been written by me...I was 5 when my Mom got into the JWs gung ho (her family was in) and Armageddon was around the corner in 1975. She is the biggest hypocrite I have ever encountered. She speaks with a forked tongue and for a JW that seems normal.

  I knew the JWs were phucked up by the time I was 10ish. I was planning my exit as I was planning how to move out of the house. Those went hand in hand. I didn't care if I were shunned. Glory Be! That would be fine. Being shunned by a group of NUTZ is OK with me. Seriously.

  Oddly, my family is the oddsters who don't shun. I've fallen away (decades ago, married a Worldly, went to college, send holiday cards and all manner of Satan's Traps) and they still talk to me. Go figure.

  The hypocritical stuff they have done over the years would make Jesus tell them "Go Away Satan!".
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  Teenager Advice

  by Wagurl in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  what advice do you have for a teenager that is being raised as a witness but not baptized?

  everyone is pressuring her to get baptized how to avoid that till they are 18 and they are 16?

  how to stay sane in a household of religion you don´t believe in.

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  As advised, be evasive. Do what you have to do to remain in the parent's good graces and don't give them any reason to throw you out when you turn 18. (My sister was thrown out, literally when she turned 18, for fornication!)

  Any excuse the JW parents have to get rid of someone who is making them look bad to the other robots, er, members of the congregation, they will take and not look back.

  I got a job while in high school and used that as an excuse to fade away from going out in Field Service. I also fell back on "Since I'm earning money to pay for the car and college, what do you want me to do? Not go to work? I'm working and learning at the same time. Which is what you encouraged me to do...". This got me out of going door to door and lots of meetings. The logic worked with my Mother, your mileage may vary.

  Good luck. Please keep us informed. Clear your browser so they don't know you're on Apostate sites....
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  The Atlantic Magazine: A Secret Database of Child Abuse

  by Pants of Righteousness in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i haven't seen reference to this article on the forum, so would like to post a link to an article that was published by the atlantic on 22 march 2019.. .

  https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/03/the-secret-jehovahs-witness-database-of-child-molesters/584311/.

  only factual matter that i could correct is the number of gb members at the time of the australian royal commission - i'm pretty sure it was 7 at that time..

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  I just found this on the Daily Mail...

  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6847391/Jehovahs-Witnesses-kept-secret-database-tens-thousands-child-molesters.html
  

  I was reading an article on the Sharia Courts and stumbled upon this. Which led to the Atlantic article. Needs to be pushed.
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  Babies Who Are Not Dead From An Abortion

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a woman gets an abortion.

  the baby is supposed to die because of the abortion but doesn’t.

  should that living baby be put to death or should the baby be given medical help to survive?.

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  When you have a uterus, vagina and fallopian tubes you can an expert on abortion.

  A woman who is pregnant will feel that the baby start to move at about 9 weeks. If a woman's health is so compromised that she needs to end her pregnancy at near term she has an option-caesarian section. There are seemingly no logical reasons that I can see for her to have a live birth and have the doctor(s) kill her baby to save her. None.

  The doctors talking about it (Governor Northam of Virginia) like it is similar to getting a teeth cleaning are psychotic. They need to be examined for mental stability.

  I am a woman and it absolutely makes me ill that this country kills so many babies. We should be giving out birth control, explaining how it works, etc. However, we should also make adoption easier. White families are looking to adopt children and are being held back due to being white. That too is wrong. They will take those children and love them. Why abort them?
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  Part II: it's time

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  earlier i posted about the call from close family about that the end is expected in very short time.. today i had the opportunity to speak in person.. this is what is told to me:.

  - the gb speaks to us personality through broadcasting;.

  - the annual meeting was a very clear message from the gb;.

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  Talked with a dyed-in-the-wool, loony-toon JW relative today and she must have had her eyes rolling back in her head as she spoke about how things are so bad on earth; how terrible mankind has been to all the "creatures" and mankind has destroyed the planet because Jehovah didn't train Adam and Eve how to care for it. Then she launched into a "I can't wait for Armageddon to happen so Jehovah will wipe out all these evil doers and we will be in Paradise."

  I gotta say, listening to someone who is so completely insane makes you want to run outside and scream and then call a Psychiatrist and make 100 appointments to try to understand how anyone could wish death on all of mankind.

  I know it's a cult, I know she is brain-washed, etc. I know all of that. But, when you hear someone talk about that so coldly and just rattle off "I can't wait for all of mankind to be destroyed at Armageddon" it makes your blood run cold and makes you question how this person isn't locked up.