Posts by letsslatejws

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JW's are not nice people

by Nickolas in

i cut and pasted the subject line from a comment made by one of this board's longtime members.

it got me wondering if this is the prevalent thinking in here.

for a very long time i believed that jw's and all fundamentalist christian folk are a cut above the norm.

letsslatejws

@ cantleave - JW social climbers

With polished ladders...... so that they could be Window Cleaners !!!!

Now the JW window cleaner I knew very well, spent much of his pre JW life in prison. He was banged up for GBH & armed robbery. He became a window cleaner because he knew that he would not get a job given his past record. He now lives in and around Bridgewater, Somerset (England)!

The WBTS actually used his life experience in an Awake article in the 90's. (The article had a mans face on it half of the image was clean cut whilst the other side of the face was unshaven and un-kempt so as to give an untidy or disheveled appearance....

Whilst he was a JW he used to beat his step daughter with a bicycle chain, amongst other things. He wouldnt permit her to shave her legs and she suffered a lot of emotional abuse .... Everyone in the congregation knew about it yet the elders brushed it under the carpet.. It was as though they thought his behaviour was normal and was necessary so as to keep the girl a JW !!!

I was too young & niave myself to recognise that this was wrong.....

(If this story rings a bell and your the girl on here PM me - Would LOVE to hear from you ...... )

Yes JW's are NOT nice people !!!!

I would hate for him to wake up to the BS because he would off the rails big time....

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Anyone know the reasons why not?

by letsslatejws in

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jews may not eat any blood, so all meats need to be salted and soaked in a special way to clear all blood.

letsslatejws

The JEW's accept blood transfusions! You are kidding me ..... What the hell are the JW's playing at

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Anyone know the reasons why not?

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jews may not eat any blood, so all meats need to be salted and soaked in a special way to clear all blood.

letsslatejws

Jews may not eat any blood, so all meats need to be salted and soaked in a special way to clear all blood. Why didnt the JW's take this on board too, when then are so fanatical about not taking blood transfusions? Any ideas guys?

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Can BibleTHUMPING be abusive?

by sabastious in

have you ever been around someone who can't not talk about the bible and what it has to say on whatever you are talking about?.

bible thumpers can sometimes be relelentless.. i would call it a love bomb but not in the good sense.. i think devout slaves of christ could use some more discretion of who they thump on the head with a bible verse.. -sab.

letsslatejws

Sounds like Dot Cotton on the TV Soap 'East Enders' - lol

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Do YOU Stereotype People?

by minimus in

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if you ever do, do you think it's wrong?.

letsslatejws

As a JW I had a JW midwife to deliver my baby. I didnt know her very well and on face value she looked so fierce and cold in personality that I was afraid to talk to her.

Either way I chose to have her as my midwife, so she was on the ball with the blood issue should it ever come up (Arrrghhhh not good now I realise but thats what happened)... I soon found out that she was a lovely lady, nothing like how she appeared to be, so it was hard not to warm to her.

She is the last person I ever stereo-typed because I soon learnt from there onwards to never judge a book by its cover....

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Anyone remember the stupidist of talks?

by letsslatejws in

i remember a talk being devoted to use of the correct grammatical pronunciation of words.

in fact any elder or brother for that matter who didnt use the correct pronunciation was viewed as illiterate and dorky so the congregation snubbed them.... i remember the word machinations (of the devil) and the emphasis that it should be pronounced mack in nations.... another one was.

behove was meant to be pronounced 'behoooved'.

letsslatejws

I remember a talk being devoted to use of the correct grammatical pronunciation of words. In fact any elder or brother for that matter who didnt use the correct pronunciation was viewed as illiterate and dorky so the congregation snubbed them...

I remember the word machinations (of the devil) and the emphasis that it should be pronounced mack in nations...

another one was

behove was meant to be pronounced 'behoooved'

This was 'Theocratic Correctness' at its Best -

Was this a localised thing or did it happen throughout the congregations?

Changing the manner to how these words were generally spoken used to really get on my nerves....

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JW Molesting a Boy is seen as nothing more than 'homosexual behaviour'

by iknowall558 in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-11575733.

letsslatejws

http://jehovahswitnessesrefuted.blogspot.com/

Ive tried to make this a clickable link, but unsure if Ive got it right. Apologies if after submitting this its still not clickable :0

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Psychic feelings anyone?

by 1Robinella in

i'm not sure what kind of response i will get from everyone, but i have to ask.

is their someone out their that was also raised a jw but grew up with "psychic feelings?

" from the youngest age i can remember having feelings of things or just knowing.

letsslatejws

Hmmm. Heres one that I never understood. Months into first studying with the JW's (and I was really going quite strong in such a short space of time) I seemed to have an uncanny ability to know exactly what peoples religious belief was.

For example I would look at a man/woman and just know that they were a Catholic, or say a Church of England. There was no visible evidence like a Cross or anything, but I just knew and was always accurate when I pressed them for information when preaching... At the time I just assumed it was normal, like I was personally being given divine insight, but looking back clearly it would have been considered wrong in the JW eyes and I simply have no other explanation for it. It was like I had a 6th sense....

Weird...

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Dating a JW for 3 yrs

by justbreathe825 in

my bf and i are thinking on getting married.

i posted a foum early this week on whether or not i should get baptized.

i decided not to.. now even though he says he "doesn't care" he got upset last night when i mentioned the subject and how confused i was.

letsslatejws

You need to get things straight with your b/f.

I would ask him point blank how he would feel, if you didnt get baptised and never went to another meeting again?

Depending on his response then you know you have some big decisions to make. What is more, I would also like to see how he reacts if you told him that you wish to inform his parents of your choices too.

You really need to put these questions to your future husband, otherwise whats a relationship if you simply cant be honest and straight. You need to be aware that he is happy with you what ever choices you make and he needs to be happy if his parents shun you. Not that, thats a great way to start a relationship but at least you will know where you stand.

This is your life & you need to be in your own driving seat making your own decisions....

If you husband wants to still attend the meetings then I would ditch right now. Its no relationship if you dont have a common ground. For one there are 4 / 5 meetings a week that he would be absent from home attending. Not to mention all the Hours he would be away on field ministry. You have to ask him what he forsees as the way of life for future children to...

Just these questions alone should help you decide your future. Unless he emotionally ditches them too, then this is no life for you. Get out now. It would be emotionally crippling, but you will get over him. Your young still, so there plenty of other fish in the sea.... :)

His love already seems conditional.... Not good....

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If We Were to Take the Flood Account Literally..

by Yan Bibiyan in

then i cant help but come to the conclusion that everyone who died (like 99.999% of humanity at the time) was doomed from the start.. if god directed noah to build a flotation device with very specific parameters, god must have known exactly how many people, animal species, plant etc, would be in it.. what if people actually listened to noah and thousands upon thousands turned up waiting to enter the ark?

god must have known that only so many people will listen and obey instructions.. no to mention that noahs message didnt really reach that many people.

at that time how many people could have heard it?

letsslatejws

Noah built this Ark... Id like to know how he expected all the remaining members of mankind to fit in it.... He had clearly judged them & made up his mind that nobody else other than his family of 8 would get on it. Maybe the fact that it couldnt possibly house all of the others stopped them from getting on it in the first place.... !

Just my mindless rabblings but it does make me wonder !