hi all.. i didn't want to post this in private because i want all to see what i saw.. the protest at the melbourne convention went superbly in my opinion.
the protesters and their banners were more than eloquent and succinct.
you could feel the emotion they all conveyed.
They need a JWFacts.com banner.
Hi Bandicoot they did have one. If you check out You tuber “Goatlike Personality”’s channel he’s made a few short videos at the protest. Came all the way from Norway for it. He showed that there were some JWfacts.com posters there. They actually made mention of Paul Grundy too.
i am writing an essay on jehovas witness and i have a question for you.
what does a normal day of a jehovas witness consist of?
how is your day different from other's?
Hi Balder and welcome!
I’m guessing it would be useful for you to have the weekly schedule of a JW who is roughly your age? If so...
Presently they have two meetings per week which you absolutely must attend. The Sunday one includes a public talk followed by the watchtower study (Watchtower and Awake are the two magazines published by the watchtower bible and tract society who essentially run the Jehovah’s Witness organisation. You are expected to read both magazines).
The midweek meeting is called our Christian life and ministry and is essentially a session given over to perfecting your ministry or preaching work.
Most families have a family Worship session usually on Fridays and will go out in the preaching work for a few hours on a Saturday. This is the minimum requirement for any baptised Jehovah’s Witness, known as a ‘publisher’. If you were to do less than this you would be known as ‘bad association’.
Young Jehovah’s witnesses are discouraged from pursuing further education and any hobbies or after school activities that are likely to take them away from the preaching work.
Jehovahs witnesses are also discouraged from befriending non-Jehovah’s witnesses, known as ‘worldly people’ because those considered part of the world are seen as being under the influence of Satan the devil.
Jehovahs witnesses believe the bible is the literal word of god and that their religion is the only true religion. They also have many rules they must abide by, which are stated in the watchtower magazine. Despite the fact JWs claim they live by bible standards, Many of these rules are not found in the bible - such as the no beards rule and the ban on higher education and the no voting in elections rule.
Academics and experts consider the Jehovah’s Witnesses as a cult, and indeed they fit the B.i.T.E. Model of a cult (which is worth looking up).
i really like calling myself a watchtower survivor.
it is not demeaning to other people and is not a negative statement.
when a jdub sees that term it may make them think about why i would call myself a survivor.
I agree. Especially given the abuse many Watchtower raised kids go through. Kids are less than nothing in the Kingdom Hall, treated as freaks at school. You have no education and have no provision in your old age. Shunned by family and friends and made to feel as if you are a worthless human you end up with zero self worth.
A survivor is absolutely the correct term.
so apparently, not only can people identify as men or women, regardless of reality, but they've now declared that people can identify as black or white as well!
no word yet from rachel dolezal, who will no doubt be declared a visionary, and sadly michael jackson didn't live long enough to celebrate.. i must say, now that i am a black woman, my views on reparations have completely changed.
y'all owe me some reparations bitches to make up for slavery yo.
If you are born a poor white you have privilege which anyone with a brain [this excludes democraps] knows is BS.
I couldn’t disagree more.
There is no one and I mean NO ONE as disadvantaged these days as a POOR white male. Especially if they aren’t very academic. Every other minority catches a break, but a poor white male gets none. *
P.S. and Im slightly to the left of Trotsky but even I can see what’s happening.
so apparently, not only can people identify as men or women, regardless of reality, but they've now declared that people can identify as black or white as well!
no word yet from rachel dolezal, who will no doubt be declared a visionary, and sadly michael jackson didn't live long enough to celebrate.. i must say, now that i am a black woman, my views on reparations have completely changed.
y'all owe me some reparations bitches to make up for slavery yo.
LUHE identify as a rich man. That's my gender, 'rich'.
You see, I'm a rich man born into a poor man's body.
phew, finally.......I’m a tall girl born into a short girls body!!!!
And a full head of hair ....
Esse quam oh yes...I forgot, my hair identifies as Asian. My hair is long, thick, luxurious dark Asian hair by the way.
here are some visuals to help show what is going on with the jw numbers game.
i am not a numbers guy and there maybe a few errors (info directly from grand total pages on jw.borg).
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2015 was the worst year. No surprise, ARC came like a sledgehammer. I'll never forget that summer!
Me too Red Pill2 the jig was up for me with that.
I also think a lot of people who came back in for 2014 100 year anniversary, just in case of Armageddon, left by the back door in 2015, too!!😉
this last week i stopped at an antique store that i go to now and then.
the lady who owns it is about 62 and very nice.
i was looking at a vintage 1963 ouija board.
Based on this story...I don’t buy it.
why?🤔
”Brazen conduct” basically gives the elders carte blanche. An engagement is considered as seriously as the marriage contract and you’d better have a damn good reason to break it off.....come to think of it there isn’t one.
Accepting a Christmas gift, if someone wanted to make problems for you, could be more than enough to get given your cards.🤨
i was seeing a jw man for about a year and a half until l broke it off with him last week.
we met on a dating site.
he shouldn’t have been on there, of course, but he was lonely.
ProbablyShouldRun Like your friend, his character isn't suited to being a JW so then it becomes A cycle of "I'm broken and unworthy, the JW are the only ones that understand me." And then they make him feel like crap and he wants to leave.
This is the classic sad life of the P.O.M.i. (physically out mentally in). Cults know you will 'mess up'(read: be a normal human) and once they do members are programmed to be wracked with guilt. Indoctrinated with Fear and obligation, they come crawling back to the cult. It's an abusive relationship; with Watchtower effectively saying to its victim "you're nothing without me!" And so the cycle of abuse continues.
P.S.R. I don't believe in missionary (position) dating and converting people soooooo,,,,
This is a brilliant new exjw term for our cultural list "missionary dating"!!! It's bang on and what so many lonely jws do....date worldlies and tell themselves their partner will study and convert. This rarely happens because of a little thing called the internet.
here's a new article that came out:.
do jehovah’s witnesses baptize infants?no.
the bible does not endorse infant baptism.
zoos A fourteen-year-old baptized now as a JW would have been born in 2006
2005. The 2006 cohort will turn 14 next year LOL
source: 2005 models x2 have one careful lady owner (me), a little sluggish getting started on the cold mornings (except weekends for some reason), scrubs up surprisingly nicely after a good rub with a chammy😉
just looking at the pictures in tomorrow's wt study makes me think of the nightmares i used to have as a child.
and nowadays the pictures are sometimes more realistic, so for any who are truly mentally in, this has a terrible effect on them and even their life choices.
looking in as a pimo or pomo it seems almost comical that adults would believe in this sci-fi bible fan-fiction, but it's not funny when we remember that all ages of the r&f are being manipulated by the gb by these cheap and evil means.. .
Not mentioning the guilt, the anger, being afraid, not be able to feel worthy of love, or sometimes living.
Do you know this affected me sooo much more than the fear of the big A. I just wanted it over with. When I was little I just thought “good. I’m so evil it will be a better world without me”. It’s awful. To make an innocent little child feel that way.
