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  Is Watchtower's stance against education only for North American witnesses

  by wannaexit in

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  i was reading on a european ex jw forum where some feel that watchtower's railing against higher education is primarily for north america issue.

  this is due that many in usa and canada leave home to leave on campus.

  it was mentioned that many young european jw attend universities and its not frowned on.. i found this odd because i heard what morris and losch said about education in italy.

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  maninthemiddle

  It is not just about living on campus. once the listen to this recent broadcast it is clear.

  Someone summed it up well.

  
  

  

  
  
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  No longer an MS! Hooray...finally!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  well, it's finally happened!.

  im no longer an ms.. as many would know from our chats via this forum, i've seen it coming for a while....and while the way it was done stinks, i'm really happy to finally be free!.

  (would love to share more details...i will do in time...or perhaps a pm would be best).

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  maninthemiddle

  Yikes, did happen by way of "the back room"?

  I'm happy for you, and happy that you're happy. Congratulations.

  
  
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  WTS leader rants against higher education

  by hoser in

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  on jw tv.

  anthony morris is ranting against higher education.

  he is blaming parents for enrolling their kids in college.

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  maninthemiddle

  In reply yo sir82, it has been talked about recently that just as they have recently been outsourcing highly skilled engineering work at Warwick, they are also hiring outside firms to assist in legal defense.
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  WTS leader rants against higher education

  by hoser in

  1. jw
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  on jw tv.

  anthony morris is ranting against higher education.

  he is blaming parents for enrolling their kids in college.

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  maninthemiddle

  Something that stuck me....These are the same "experiences", if you will, that he has told in other recorded talks.

  So that tells me he knows of THREE times going to university has caused problems. Out of 8 million people he should have HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS of examples if it is truly as bad as he wants to make it seem.
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  Did you ever hear yourself as a JW say something and think, did that just come out of my mouth?

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  i was driving with a long time non-witness friend when a song by supertramp came on the radio and i changed it.

  she asked "why did you do that?

  i like that song.

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  maninthemiddle

  Vidiot, funny you say that because I stayed away from evolution. I felt that the reasoning used by the society was not right, even though I didn't know about the misquoting. I didn't fell that I knew enough.

  I would say that in my later active years, I even may have believed in the catholic god guided type of evolution. The science made too much sense.
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  Did you ever hear yourself as a JW say something and think, did that just come out of my mouth?

  by Wasanelder Once in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was driving with a long time non-witness friend when a song by supertramp came on the radio and i changed it.

  she asked "why did you do that?

  i like that song.

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  maninthemiddle

  Yes, but one stands out, probably my awakening moment.

  I often shared conversations about religion especially the differences with a Mormon coworker.

  He asked me about birthdays, and after I gave him the "company line" on why birthdays were bad, it immediately hit me like a ton of bricks, just how stupid that argument was.

  The more I tried to argue, the worse I sounded to myself. That was the moment i let myself research other opinions.

  
  
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  Overlap what???

  by dugout in

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  just out of the blue i asked my wife whos been a jw for some 30 odd years can she explain the overlapping doctrine.

  she said to me she never heard of this and said she will have to look it up.

  i thought oh s#^%!.

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  maninthemiddle

  It's cruise control of the mind, most dubs go to the meetings, can defend things that are in the book they studied in, ie, "live forever" or "god's Love" but anything newer gets missed.

  Many JWs couldn't explain doctine if they needed to, it's just such a shallow understanding and a repeating of sound bites with no real concern for what they mean.
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  "Big Eyes" the story of artist Margaret Keane

  by designs in

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  the tim burton film is ready for release.. www.thewrap.com/big-eyes-premiere-finds-audience-howling-at-christoph-waltz-and-amy-adams-dueling-artists/.

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  yes, she was later in life, after the events of this movie.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Keane
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  Interesting advice column response

  by Brainfloss in

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  short read.

  http://aplus.com/a/the-most-amazing-ask-amy-response-you-ll-ever-read.

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  maninthemiddle

  Make you wonder...but great response by Amy.
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  My family has known I'm an apostate

  by cognac in

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  i found out that my husband has not only gone to the elders, but has been going to members of my family about me over a period of a few years.

  this piece of news is just so depressing.

  i've been wondering how my family knew i didn't go and thats why so many of them have becoming more and more distant.

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  maninthemiddle

  My dad did the same to my wife and I. He may be a jerk, but it is what they are taught to do.

  Certianly not everyone is this way. I don't believe my in-laws told anyone what they knew.