wow, this is news to me. back in the '90s, there was no kingdom hall funerals for inactive, suicides....it had to be done at a rec center or somewhere, and there was the compassionate, yet reluctant elder who had to stick his neck out and probably got a hand slap for doing the service.
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Weak JW Commits Suicide, Elders Reluctantly Have a Memorial at the Kingdom Hall
by OnTheWayOut inso my mother calls me on thanksgiving thursday and tells me about a fellow in her kh that i knew quite well.
he grew a beard years ago and stopped field recruiting, but kept going to the kh several times a month as his wife was still active.
the elders never really tried to show concern for his depression, but always bugged him about the beard.
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JW teens question
by mutinyinheaven ini've been out for 11 years and working on an assignment of what jw teens are into now, stuff that's seen as borderline where they can participate, but only to an extent.. an example pre-internet: we could skateboard, but couldn't be punk rock, so we hung out with the punk rockers at skate ramps and our parents didn't know.. what are the jws saying regarding:.
facebook.
internet porn.
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mutinyinheaven
yes, we hid our punk rock from our parents in the '80s, that was definitely the devil's music back then. black flag, no way. :)
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alcoholics anonymous and jws
by mutinyinheaven inhey there,.
is there any conflict with jws and aa or other 12 step recovery programs?.
was there in the past, if there isn't conflict today?.
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mutinyinheaven
hey there,
is there any conflict with jws and AA or other 12 step recovery programs?
was there in the past, if there isn't conflict today?
concerns that AA is a cult, etc.
thanks,
tony
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JW teens question
by mutinyinheaven ini've been out for 11 years and working on an assignment of what jw teens are into now, stuff that's seen as borderline where they can participate, but only to an extent.. an example pre-internet: we could skateboard, but couldn't be punk rock, so we hung out with the punk rockers at skate ramps and our parents didn't know.. what are the jws saying regarding:.
facebook.
internet porn.
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mutinyinheaven
i'll poke around with the search re: facebook, etc.
thanks for the answers so far, any other thoughts feel free to bring them up.
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JW teens question
by mutinyinheaven ini've been out for 11 years and working on an assignment of what jw teens are into now, stuff that's seen as borderline where they can participate, but only to an extent.. an example pre-internet: we could skateboard, but couldn't be punk rock, so we hung out with the punk rockers at skate ramps and our parents didn't know.. what are the jws saying regarding:.
facebook.
internet porn.
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mutinyinheaven
I've been out for 11 years and working on an assignment of what JW teens are into now, stuff that's seen as borderline where they can participate, but only to an extent.
An example pre-internet: we could skateboard, but couldn't be punk rock, so we hung out with the punk rockers at skate ramps and our parents didn't know.
What are the JWs saying regarding:
Facebook
Internet porn
Video Games
Sports, Skateboarding now, x-games type stuff
MusicOh, please don't make me go to a meeting or convention to find out, i'll end up in the psych hospital again.
thanks,
Tony
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Jehovah's Witnesses Are Funny!
by mutinyinheaven inhere's a great review of confessions of a teenage jesus jerk:.
http://open.salon.com/blog/jd_sugar/2010/09/04/jehovahs_witnesses_are_funny_at_least_this_former_one_is.
the writer either really did his research or has some jw experience.. .
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mutinyinheaven
Here's a great review of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk:
The writer either really did his research or has some JW experience.
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family guy - evil monkey jehovah's witness
by mutinyinheaven inthis may have been brought up here before, but it's hilarious:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzhz-f2dym0.
i love how they use an apocalypse illustration on the watchtower, the look on the monkey's face..
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mutinyinheaven
this may have been brought up here before, but it's hilarious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZHz-f2dym0
i love how they use an apocalypse illustration on the watchtower, the look on the monkey's face.
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The Governing Body and the Sept 15, 2010 WT
by Ultimate Reality inthere have been a few threads on this magazine already.
but i cannot recall a wt that has so many references to the gb and its authority throughout the articles as this one.
the grip of authority and control is tightening.
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mutinyinheaven
great point.
do they have an exit strategy when those 8 old farts die?
"whelp, thanks for the housing, health care, free world travel and that high we get when speaking to thousands of people (and getting free meals after while nubile young jws clamour at every word we say), and performing our greatest hits from over the years."
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Incoming communication from Borg elder
by sd-7 ini guess it's about time to post on what happened over the weekend.
i was telling my old pal jamiebowers about it and she thought it was hilarious.
thought i might retell the tale on a thread of its own.. so, i dropped my wife off at the kh for her cult recruitment activities.
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mutinyinheaven
i left over 10 years ago. i used to drive my ex-wife to meetings, be friendly with the jws, etc.
2 years ago she cheated on me, then to tone down her cheating on me, she brought up the book that i had written and was trying to sell. she played it up as apostasy and everyone, anyone, who was ever friendly, who came over to our house over the passed 10 years and got drunk with the "worldly" friends we had, and watched r-rated movies, and were jack-jws turned against me in the most hatefull horrific ways.
now i realize that everyone was trying to stay cool with the congregation and point the finger at me so they wouldn't get busted.
we divorced, well, after she realized she couldn't divorce me and i could forgive her, but i wanted completely out of the madness, of the utter socio-pathic and hypocritcal humans that call themselves jehovah's witnesses, so i pursued the divorce, even though i was faithful to her, drove her to meetings, made sure she had everything she needed to keep up what she thought was truth....even hiding things in our house when her over-righteous family came over.
i was never dfed. a last try was launched at me by so-called friends from years back, writing me friendly emails months before my book was released, chumming up, until almost all of them asked at the same time if i considered myself apostate or if i believed in jehovah's organization. i knew this was coming from the elders and they were looking for a way to df me before my novel came out. i told them all to never contact me again and get out of my life forever.
it's hard. for me it was the only solution. it takes years to get strong again. to feel okay. if i had a choice, i wish i had done it sooner.
that's my experience. they love to use the word theocratic warfare when tearing down a human they want gone.
my ex-wife never read my novel before it was published. i let no jw read my novel before it was published. not even to "justify" myself, that is was a love story set inside the jws and written with care and love for the characters....and that story was more important than smearing jws.
i'm lucky to be on the other side.
they haven't dfed me. they're welcome to as i'll use it for publicity for the novel.
forget the elders, is your wife with you?
that's all that matters. from my experience, it's best to find out earlier than later.
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Brother Prince
by serenitynow! inprince is in the july issue of ebony.
in the article they called him a devout if questioning jw.
i dont see what he was questioning.
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mutinyinheaven
oh, from first post it looks like the editors tagged it as that. celeb mags be damned, but i'll have to check it out.