Posts by Diogenesister

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JWs have more good points than bad

by lsw1961 in

1) many who were on the destructive path have been transformed by their teachings (this includes me who was once vicious, and presumptuous and atheistic).

2) equal monthly pay to all members of the bethel community regardless of whether they are bc members or sweepers.

this is something that still remains as an unattainable dream for the world.

Diogenesister

See how correctly Albert Einstein identified the problem: “We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.” Bible too says: "Widen out."

Love that quote ISW 1961 thank you for sharing😀

Please please don't be offended by some posts here believe me they only fear for your physical & emotional safety💕❤❤❤

Lee Elder is/was a respected elder who, with other hospital Liason Commitee Jehovahs Witnesses started 'Associated Jehovahs witnesses for Reform On Blood' to lobby for change & to educate regarding the Watchtower confused dangerous doctrine on blood.

I urge you tocheck out their site. That witnesses may now use fractions is largely down to their ceaseless canvasing. Please take care & do not refuse blood transfusions for you or your family should it be nesessary! The command is to abstain from eating blood - transfusions are not nutrients, they are not food. White & red blood cells are exchanged between mother &baby via placenta too which is the reasoning behind why they accept some fractions - so why not red cells too?!

All the best & keep researching !

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Over-protective parent?

by GrownMidget in

i was something like 20-21 and there was this young sister, maybe 16 who i happened to like back in the day ... uh oh ...we met in the summer convention because i made the first move while she was playing board games with her friend.

we kept in touch via skype and text messages because lived kinda far from each other.

eventually her mother heard of the stuff and said to her daughter that the chatting must stop.... well, when two people have a little crush on one another, it sure doesn't.

Diogenesister

Agreed Dogone

Message to father of teenage girls - way to go to get them to hook up sneekily with someone unsuitable

Your daughters have a sex drive, get used to it

16 & 20? He spoke to her and gave her a gift (I will also say if a typical JW boy pretty naive i'm guessing) Peadophile, Really?

Good greif

I also note a lot of JW's marry folk younger than them is that because

1 limited supply of partners

2 age/looks unimportant/superficial

3 men like their jw women subservant & someone young is easier to mold

you tell me

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Billingham Congregation

by Researchedandenlightened in

http://theukdatabase.com/2015/11/12/ian-ross-billinghamsouthend/.

leading churchman caught with perverted images of girls as young as three.

a leading churchman has been ordered to go on a sex offenders programme after he was caught with child abuse images of the most serious level on his home computer.. highly respected jehovah witness ian ross, 65, had perverted images of girls as young as three engaged in sexual acts with adults.. he pleaded guilty to making indecent images of children between may 2013 and may last year..

Diogenesister

Making indecent images

Catagory A most dangerous, severe images

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Document Blood Transfusion Deaths - please help

by Lee Elder in

the vast majority of deaths from the blood policy are undocumented because they are simply not newsworthy.

if you know of a death or serious injury/disability related to the blood policy, please help us document it.

send as many details as you can recall.

Diogenesister

Emma Cough 22 died shrewsbury 2007

after delivering her twins she died bleeding from the placental bed

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Over-protective parent?

by GrownMidget in

i was something like 20-21 and there was this young sister, maybe 16 who i happened to like back in the day ... uh oh ...we met in the summer convention because i made the first move while she was playing board games with her friend.

we kept in touch via skype and text messages because lived kinda far from each other.

eventually her mother heard of the stuff and said to her daughter that the chatting must stop.... well, when two people have a little crush on one another, it sure doesn't.

Diogenesister

Two sheltered JW kids give each other the eye at an assemby - 16 and 20

Theproblem is that normally it would just be a stage , little crush whatever life goes on just use protection no problems

but in JW world they are forced to marry so naturally you have to keep the poor kids on a leash!!

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Happy Veterans Day! (America)

by freemindfade in

people have varied and strong feelings about politics and wars, but you can't deny the courage a sacrifice of our veterans.

too often they do not get the honor they deserve.

in this country once they come home their sacrifice and heroism is too quickly forgotten.

Diogenesister

Cappy tan that is out of order

Wow you dudes swing from one extreme to another!

However I will say that when I look back on my past I feel a great deal of shame for not giving our elder hell for way he was so disrespectful to my grandad for being a soldier.

Our big shot elder worked with my non jw grandad as a hospital porter and was his immediate superior. When he found out who was my grandad he was awful to me & looked down on me even more(not to mention his 'anointed' elderette dragon wife).

My grandad was a paratrooper at Arnem in WW2 with the yanks (as he was great at fixing tanks & trucks )and was badly injured. Well this elder didnt like it as my grandad (who never talked about it like all my uncles too)actually challenged him once about who was gonna stop the nazi's for your freedom of religon?Well he smoked too and hated religon so this elder was mean to him. Anyway all the patients loved my grandad and when he retired he volunteered at the hospital, an old psychiatric hospital, they put learning disabled peple there in the old days and he was kind to them.

My grandad basically thought the JW where hypocrites & a waste of space cos they didn't do practical kind things for the patients. Just looked down on every body like mr elder head porter.

Being a good JW I gave my uncle who flew a Lancaster over Germany hell for dropping bombs on Berlins innocent kids. Well all the men in my family were army or RAF.

Boy I was a royal pain in the ass pacifist.

Then I went to work at Woolwhich military hospital as a nurse and loved it, but wouldnt sign up because of my stupid JW beliefs even tho I had left by then but didn't know ttatt.

My boys are in the scouts & went to remembrance day service to represent the boy scouts who participated in 2 wwars. They are going to pashendale in Belgium soon & can put flowers on the menin gate for my great uncle who died at 28. I am glad they can have a more balanced view than I did. I was wrong.

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Raining before the Flood?

by GrownMidget in

i remember at my teen years when i was studying with a brother that he said to me that there was no rain before the flood.

instead there was this mist that you have.

never before or after this have i heard something like this.

Diogenesister

yes I was told in the 80's by a university graduate JW that there was no rain pre flood, just a mist that watered the ground.

That's why there was so much water to come down in the flood, silly!!!!

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Does the W.T have financial problems are are they just rebranding?

by The Rebel in

jw
friends

it is evident that the w.t has recently re-branded itself, and has become fairly modern in its marketing techniques.

so the organisation is in that respect forward thinking, and the former way of doing things has past.. .

but this rebranding has been done by marketing experts, who maybe realise progress is progress, and that with modernisation many bethelites " even as free volunteers" are possibly no longer required.

Diogenesister

I also think they are looking to isolate bethel workers even more. I've heard many stories of the trouble that those in the big cities would get in to. By moving to a more remote location, they will lower the number of incidences.

Timelord True true!I read somewhere cults like to retreat into the country at a certain point in their development

Boy, those ceebeegeebee stories outta brooklyn just wow, that place was sin city!!Soo jealous!!

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Does the W.T have financial problems are are they just rebranding?

by The Rebel in

jw
friends

it is evident that the w.t has recently re-branded itself, and has become fairly modern in its marketing techniques.

so the organisation is in that respect forward thinking, and the former way of doing things has past.. .

but this rebranding has been done by marketing experts, who maybe realise progress is progress, and that with modernisation many bethelites " even as free volunteers" are possibly no longer required.

Diogenesister

Maybe this new rebranding is a causative effect of realizing the doctrines this organization marketed and promoted are or were false ie. 1914 the end times , the last days , 1975. etc.

Now this is more like it!

Rebrand as JW org to get away from the Dark tower "millions now living will never die "1914 doctrine failure oh yes Finkybaby!!!!

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Over-protective parent?

by GrownMidget in

i was something like 20-21 and there was this young sister, maybe 16 who i happened to like back in the day ... uh oh ...we met in the summer convention because i made the first move while she was playing board games with her friend.

we kept in touch via skype and text messages because lived kinda far from each other.

eventually her mother heard of the stuff and said to her daughter that the chatting must stop.... well, when two people have a little crush on one another, it sure doesn't.

Diogenesister

When I was 17 I had a thing with a 21 yr old

We have been married nearly 20 yrs now I am 48 & he is 52

For goodness sakes you guys are over sensitized and a bit OTT