Posts by Vidiot

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Former Elders Please - Disbeliever recently married to a JW

by doasthouwilt in

jw
friends

i recently married my best friend of 32 years.

she is a life-long jw and once an active pioneer, i am a 'worldly' person through-and-through, always will be.

we married because it was the only way we could find a way of staying together while giving her a path back to her religion ultimately, which she does not want to (or cannot) let go of.

Vidiot

How the hell does a JW loyalist maintain a close thirty-year friendship with a “worldly” person?

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God Has Only One Visible Organization on Earth!

by Vanderhoven7 in

why is it important to some that god only have one visible organization to represent him on earth?

why is it important to jehovah's witnesses that people recognize their organization as such?

what makes a witness more moral or righteous or save-worthy if they accept that it is his one and only organization?

Vidiot

Honestly, I think it’s even simpler.

At this point (despite what any loyalist will insist), the everyday, mundane, boots-on-the-ground aspects of being a JW aren’t particularly appealing.

Affiliation with “God’s Exclusive Earthly Organization” is really the only half-tangible incentive left.

Case in point; how many of us here started planning our WTexit (consciously or otherwise) the moment we realized it wasn’t?

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Hobbies

by peacefulpete in

jw
friends

i think it's been a while since this was asked.

tell us your hobbies, interests, pastimes, whatever you find enjoyable as a diversion from work and school.

i am lucky enough to live in a small cabin on a lake, i enjoy rowing my old boat and fishing, i play with car projects, and we travel as much as we can.

How get out of watchtower?

by Hellothere in

how do you get out of watchtower?

am i supposed to write letter to bethel or local congregation telling them i don't want to be a jw anymore?

how are the steps.

Vidiot

If you happen to move, don’t tell ‘em or leave any kind of forwarding address.

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Why isn't this forum growing like reddit exjw??

by nowwhat? in

admittedly it 90% crap over there but still they are up to 80k in subscribers.

over here it's the same half dozen or so that posts something, including myself.

why is that?.

Sexual abuse and Jehovah's witnesses- the gift that keep on giving

by wannaexit in

there seems to be no end to the many jw's who sexually abused minors.

here is another story:.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pa-jehovahs-witnesses-sex-assault-attorney-general-shapiro-20221027.html.

Vidiot

What Thomas and Phizzy said.

A cornerstone of the WTS’s entire reason for existence is the fiction of “God’s Exclusive Earthly Organization”.

Undermine that too deeply, and that existence is threatened.

And nothing undermines it more than evidence - i.e. admission via their own internal correspondence - that sex crimes were repeatedly occurring and being swept under the rug, all the way up the Watchtower hierarchy, for decades…

…and that - most egregiously - the Org’s so-called “Biblical” policies for dealing with it were making the problem worse rather than better.

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Worldwide headline from the Org!!!!!!!!!

by BoogerMan in

unbelievable news: they've actually built a kingdom hall, and it was thanks to jehovah!!!!.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/canada/kingdom-hall-completed-in-canadas-place-of-many-fish/.

“from the logistics of getting the construction materials to the far north, to navigating how to solve unexpected supply problems, nothing could stand in jehovah’s way.