I have to say I really lucked out when I found my wife. Many women expect more from their man than he has the ability to give. They want him to be an elder( takes a lot of time), earn decent money(takes a lot of time) and complain that their man doesn’t spend enough time with them. There are only so many resources to go around. That’s why I’m glad I grabbed my woman before anyone else did. She is content, and doesn’t need social status in the congregation. That makes life a lot easier for the both of us.
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11Do JW women expect LESS from their man than Non-jw women?
by pistolpete innon-jw women usually expect their man to have some type of social status.
whether it's education, money, fame, etc.. these days, feminism also plays a role in a future, marriage.
(the man is not the head, maybe the women is the head).
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May JW Broaadcast - so bad, "it's not even wrong"
by FFGhost indon't know how many of y'all still watch it.. this month's topic is "the king of the north" - cook goes into monotonous detail over the jw interpretation about rome, germany, ussr, russia, etc.. leaving aside for other commentators the emotionally manipulative videos of jws in russian holding cells, the tearjerker interviews, the god-awful stiffness of cook (i suspect he has never genuinely smiled, much less laughed, in his 60+ years), just thought i'd comment on one topic.. the centerpiece of the program is a "morning worship" monologue from splane.
let's again just leave to the side the dude's pomposity, smugness, and inflated sense of his own genius, and think about this part of his monologue.. he was tracing the history of the "king of the north" and talked about how "britain" (not england, not the united kingdom, not great britain, but "britain" - no idea why they have that fixation - anyway...) became the kotn in the 19th century.. paraphrasing his comments: "britain would not have become kotn if france had its way.
france was much wealthier and more powerful, but at the battle of waterloo, britain defeated france.
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hoser
I’ll have to listen to that broadcast. Someone needs to splane to him that the United States won their independence from England 40 years BEFORE the battle of Waterloo.
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Jws failure to protect their vulnerable follower
by Fadeaway1962 inhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9545969/amp/jehovahs-witnesses-criticised-failing-stop-devout-followers-plan-stab-wife-49-times.html .
elder should face some kind of criminal prosecution..
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hoser
I was programmed this way to protect the org. I’m not proud of it now but was at the time.
Many have been hurt because of this kind of behaviour.
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Narrowly focused, sometimes illiterate
by vienne inthree of my sisters - there are five of us - were baptized as witnesses.
one of them has gone from reading voraciously to only reading her textbooks and watchtower publications.
this does not seem to be unusual among witnesses.
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hoser
I think the watchtower religion is good for motivating the illiterate to learn to read. I know one brother who couldn’t read that is now a ministerial servant. He isn’t a good enough reader to give public talks but he would do the announcements when they did that. I think there are a lot of undiagnosed disabilities out there that cause illiteracy. I don’t discriminate against the intellectually disabled because no one chooses this. It is the way they are born. Kudos to brothers who make the effort to learn to read. Maybe it will help them exit the cult.
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Why did Jehovah Kill all the animals in the flood? What purpose did it serve??
by pistolpete insome of my jw family that is waking up posed that question to my jw family that is still hanging on to jw belief.. the stepbrother that posed that question told me;.
"in all these years of being a jw, i actually never gave it much thought as to why jehovah had to kill millions of innocent animals that had nothing to do with mankind becoming evil.".
i keep picturing in my mind, all the baby puppies and kitties that were destroyed by jehovah.
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Yes the 5500 year old pine tree in the mountains of California that somehow survived the year long flood. I guess Jehovah didn’t make it rain long enough -
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Were You Affected By Weird Elders?
by minimus inwe all had some to deal with some.
you would ask yourself, “how the hell did this guy ever get to be an elder”???.
we had one elder originally from england that used to wear his pants belted up to his chest with typically a dirty spotted tie and shirt.
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hoser
The circuit overseer wanted to keep up with his skills and that was the only way he could unless he stayed at a brothers house that had a piano. Being a slave to the organization this was probably the only enjoyment he could get.
That’s the way I look at it anyway.
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Were You Affected By Weird Elders?
by minimus inwe all had some to deal with some.
you would ask yourself, “how the hell did this guy ever get to be an elder”???.
we had one elder originally from england that used to wear his pants belted up to his chest with typically a dirty spotted tie and shirt.
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hoser
Yes, there were more than one. A few weird circuit overseers as well.
But, hey we’re all weird in our own way. It’s all about adhering to social norms that are decided by the majority. The odd guy can’t figure out how to fit in due to autism or adhd or some other neurological disorder. I don’t hold it against anyone that is born with a disability.
The elders and circuit overseers that I truly despise are the normal ones that are abusive assholes.
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Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?
by minimus inthe president of the united states says we have to do something about this.
many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.
what’s your view of this?
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hoser
It’s all stratification of society and putting a label on an individual. Is it systemic? Maybe, maybe not
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Research question
by JeffT ini'm doing a little background research for a novel.
what is the craziest thing you heard a witness say was demonized, and what did they do about it?.
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hoser
I heard that the smurf toy at the Kingdom Hall bit a kid on the leg.
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"Criminal Minds" quote
by neat blue dog ini was just watching an old episode of criminal minds and there was this description of cults:.
"cults commonly have their own language.
they invent or redefine certain words only the cult members understand.
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hoser
Pioneer, publisher, LDC, RBC, and all the related jargon. The language also alerts higher up members to weak members that may negatively influence the core group. That’s why they change it up on a fairly regular basis. The society has change to the organization. Kingdom ministry to kingdom service back to kingdom ministry.