I hope all the best for your effort of helping your wife to think for herself. I only hope it will last... my wife has had maybe 2 or 3 brief periods of "lucidity" in the past year or so, when she snaps out of the mind control and has a moment of "OMG we are in a cult". She can even miss a meeting or two. But then she always relapses and goes back to the same old brain-numbing routine of meetings, ministry, meetings, ministry... and believes in JW.org even stronger than before.
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Wife is FOR SURE waking up
by cappytan inwell, this is a new development.
she broached the subject of ttatt tonight.
said i was right about the flood.
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Good Netflix shows to watch
by Simon inin the long winter nights you need some good tv shows to watch while you wait for the eternity between seasons of game of thrones.. we've watched marco polo (pretty good) and have just started watching orange is the new black which is not at all what i imagined (didn't know it was funny!).
house of cards is on the list too as we've heard good things about that.. anyone have any others that are worth seeing?.
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I'm a big fan of spy/espionage tv shows. My favorites:
- HomelandÂ
- The Americans (about cold war era "illegals", sometimes a lot like being a fader who knows TTATT ;))
- Spooks (UK version, not the cut up us version)
IDK if they are on netflix but if you can get them from, ahem, somewhere, then do. They are very good.
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Finland
by zeb inhas anyone an update on the move by finish authority to investigate wt 'committees?
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Nothing much actually happened, apart from a lot of negative publicity in the media for JWs.This was featured in all major news channels, and the internet, for quite a time last summer.
The "investigation" was like this: The Finnish Minister of Interior and Minister of Justice met with three top dogs from the Finnish Bethel, and apparently, they managed to convince them everything is fine.
The Ministers issued a press release saying, in essence, that Jehovah's Witnesses Judicial Committees are not a judicial system competing with the Finnish judicial system, and the JC's can be likened to disciplinary measures taken by any non-profit against its own members. And if somebody feels like a crime has been committed against them, they should go to the appropriate authorities.
Here is the official statement from the Ministry of Justice (sorry - Google translation).
The Finnish Branch sent a letter to all congregations about the investigation, an effort to calm the flock down in the middle of the media circus (The letter, google translation). Notice how the letter fails to mention the Bethel Heavies gave the Ministers also the Shepherding the Flock book - the second paragraph from the official statement from the Ministry of Justice says they received the so-called Elders book of Jehovah's Witnesses...
A slap on the wrist, nothing more...
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Another angry Hitler video
by TableForOne ini never get tired of these youtube videos.. this one is called 'hitler leaves the jehovah's witnesses'.. he wakes up to ttatt when he cannot accept the 'overlapping generation' teaching.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvhhy62toy4.
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Back to top, just ran into this today at Youtube. Too funny! I did not know Hitler was a need-greater at one point!
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Trained to Exploit Emotionally Vulnerable People?
by dontplaceliterature ini don't post here much anymore, but i am working on a project with a few academics from my area who are in the psychology field.
we are looking for printed evidence in their literature that jehovah's witnesses train their publishers/pioneers to target people who are suceptible to being recruited - i.e.
people who have experienced a loss, or who are emotionally vulnerable.
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Do you have Watchtower Library CD-ROM? It can be downloaded from internet as ISO file, at Mega.co.nz .
Pioneer manual PDF is at Sendspace.
Here's one sample presentation from KM last year (The one about starting bible studies).
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Tv.jw.org - Average Jdub reaction? I'm getting NOTHING but Silence!
by 4thgen inhello all, as you know, when jw tv was announced, our board went wild.
many comments, much speculation and alot of negative feedback on the quality, etc.
well, what has me concerned is that i have not heard a peep from any of my connections left in kingdom-land.
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@BU2B: Sent you a PM
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Tv.jw.org - Average Jdub reaction? I'm getting NOTHING but Silence!
by 4thgen inhello all, as you know, when jw tv was announced, our board went wild.
many comments, much speculation and alot of negative feedback on the quality, etc.
well, what has me concerned is that i have not heard a peep from any of my connections left in kingdom-land.
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@BU2B: I know! There is still hope for my wife! She is seen by the congregation as a super pioneer though, and it is because she is actually very good at it, and it is something she really loves, unfortunately. But sometimes she IS able to think on her own - even critically about the WT - but then she usually relapses back into increased activity, study etc. She's not there yet, but maybe someday she will be. I won't rat her out to elders about GoT though :)
@DOC: Maybe it's bit too early to say what the general consensus will be, it was just announced and it's all in english, probably many haven't watched it yet. You are right, it's pretty well done now that I watched it a bit. But I still think watching Lett and his gold rings will make european witnesses cringe, at least subconcisously. But JWs won't say anything negative about "Dubflix" publicly of course.
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Tv.jw.org - Average Jdub reaction? I'm getting NOTHING but Silence!
by 4thgen inhello all, as you know, when jw tv was announced, our board went wild.
many comments, much speculation and alot of negative feedback on the quality, etc.
well, what has me concerned is that i have not heard a peep from any of my connections left in kingdom-land.
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A letter about tv.jw.org was read in our congo (well, I read it). Obligatory clapping. After the meeting NOTHING. Not one word from anybody, and I was like the last ones to leave.
My elder dad's first reaction was: "So, we have our own teleevangelists now, then?". We are in europe, and people here see TV preachers as something of an example of American commercialization of religion. I thing most dubs are very embarrassed about JWtv, as they should be!
My super pioneer wife has not even once opened JWtv. But, we have watched every episode of The Walking Dead, and she is asking every week when Game of Thrones is starting again :) Maybe GB should learn something from this, how to make interesting TV!
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WARNING - DON'T SIGN IN TO JW LANGUAGE APP
by cultBgone inunless you are willing to have all your movements tracked on the internet and your files opened to the watchtower, don't sign in.
here's what will happen:.
to install the app - you will give the jw-app access to:.
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I noticed that too. Didn't install yet.
Why on earth would a language learning app need to know what websites I visited last?
Do we have any Android hackers here? Is it possible to somehow run an app in a sandbox to check exactly what information it accesses and sends over the internet?
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Another PR / marketing website for a JW international convention - this time Seattle
by sir82 inhere is the link: http://seattledelegates.org/.
i would guess this is the wave of the future.
a secondary channel of business revenue for the wts - compensation for recommending restaurants, tours, etc.
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One more, Indianapolis International Convention:
The delegates get this information via email.