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  Question for parents with a believing co-parent

  by Anony Mous in

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  my daughter is being raised in a pimi household and spends a significant time with me in a pomo household.

  i don’t pressure her to believe, so she is thinking/pressured about becoming a jw from the other end, so she is reluctant about celebrating holidays and birthdays, but as any kid, she loves the gifts and attention, so she will “not celebrate but still do things”.. she is becoming a teenager however, and showing interest in not-so-jw-things.

  her mother forbids star wars for violence and magic, but she wants to watch it, she wants a few horror video games, she wants to shoot things and go hunting but guns aren’t allowed, so i’ve compromised for archery.. what do parents of teenagers do?

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  My daughter is being raised in a PIMI household and spends a significant time with me in a POMO household. I don’t pressure her to believe, so she is thinking/pressured about becoming a JW from the other end, so she is reluctant about celebrating holidays and birthdays, but as any kid, she loves the gifts and attention, so she will “not celebrate but still do things”.

  She is becoming a teenager however, and showing interest in not-so-JW-things. Her mother forbids Star Wars for violence and magic, but she wants to watch it, she wants a few horror video games, she wants to shoot things and go hunting but guns aren’t allowed, so I’ve compromised for archery.

  What do parents of teenagers do? I have full legal right to do whatever I want with her as far as believes and healthcare according to the custody papers, so I won’t lose anything there. I want to ease her into the things she wants to do, on the other hand I don’t always want to compromise and choose a middle road. I also don’t want her to feel bad that she’s feeling like she has to hide things from her other family. I’ve tried to discuss “the deeper things” about the JW, but these days it seems they don’t teach all that much substance anymore, so there is little to latch onto since there is no logical buildup, just a statement of facts.

  Anyone navigate these waters before? It’s an entirely different experience from what I had as a child. What would you have liked as a child?
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  Before you judge anti-vaxxers

  by David.L.Henson in

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  @frozen: mRNA vaccines have been tested for nearly 3 decades, none have passed FDA approval. Having one that works would be a goldmine for companies that invested the last 50 years in mRNA research. Hence why we now have “special” vaccines when they could’ve just made regular century-old egg-based vaccines, they saw an opportunity and went for it.

  The drawbacks of mRNA treatment is also its strength. You can target specific viruses down to the variant, basically designer drugs that would be great for cancer treatment, you can target wayward cells that are very specific without making your body go completely autoimmune. But it means however in vaccines, as we now learned, that you have virtually no resistance against fast mutations and variants.
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  Before you judge anti-vaxxers

  by David.L.Henson in

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  @david no your employer does not have the right to fire you for not participating in their religious practices. The only concern of your employer should be whether you do your job, in the US, you cannot discriminate against perceived, past or future disability or health condition. Otherwise your employer could mandate that all women get abortions, or that all men that work with children have their genitals removed. If it’s safety that you want, then remove yourself from society altogether.

  Although, I do think stores should have the right to mandate things on their property, there are laws that say they cannot discriminate on a variety of reasons. If you want to mandate that stores service gays and transgender, they should be mandated to service those that aren’t woke.
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  Before you judge anti-vaxxers

  by David.L.Henson in

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  I was listening to a news report this morning where they interviewed a BLM activist.

  He said he didn’t take the vaccine because the government put extraordinary effort in trying to make sure black people got access to the vaccine first and thus it is racist.

  Oh, the logic of the left.

  
  

  @waton: you have no right to demand other people aren’t sick, that is not an enumerated right you have. You have the freedom to get vaccinated, which according to the latest research from Israel gives you a 30% chance not to get sick. You don’t get to demand other people follow your religious medical prescriptions.
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  Debating Disassociation

  by B_Deserter in

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  it's been about 10 years since i posted here.

  a lot's happened of course.

  but here's where i'm at right now.. i was never (to my knowledge) disfellowshipped.

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  I would not 'poke the bear' so to speak. To formally disassociate yourself is to give them recognition that their power has influence over you. If you successfully faded, keep it that way, you aren't being counted as a JW in their stats.

  If you believe your mother is a threat, then just be careful, it's unlikely at this point the JW will go hog-wild on the Armageddon stuff, the majority of the organization has tuned out to that.
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  On the current migrant crisis

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  thousands of migrants have come to england this year, already beating last year's total.. some may have fled syria and other war-torn countries; others are economic migrants.. let me try to get my head around this phenomenon: migrants are relatively safe in france and other countries.

  they then leave the relative safety of continental europe and risk their lives and that of their children by crossing the english channel in rubber dinghies.

  there's just no fixing stupid, is there .

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  @Simon: Or the US for that matter. Although in order to qualify for the benefits, as in the UK, you have to remain relatively (to the rest of the country) poor. That's when the disillusionment sets in and you have generations being raised in a systemic poverty.
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  On the current migrant crisis

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  thousands of migrants have come to england this year, already beating last year's total.. some may have fled syria and other war-torn countries; others are economic migrants.. let me try to get my head around this phenomenon: migrants are relatively safe in france and other countries.

  they then leave the relative safety of continental europe and risk their lives and that of their children by crossing the english channel in rubber dinghies.

  there's just no fixing stupid, is there .

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  Question: if Brexit was so bad for everyone, why is everyone still going to the UK when they are already in the EU and have a pick from Spain to Norway and Poland to France. Same for the US, if it’s a bad, racist country where police shoot colored people on sight, why do they go there and don’t just stay in Mexico or Brazil which aren’t countries in abject poverty.

  The answer is simple: every other country is an even more oppressive shithole. Go to Mexico or France or Germany or Canada and see how migrants are treated there. They lock them up in lead infested buildings and/or put them in tent cities as their oh so wonderful social systems can’t handle the load, while wagging the finger at everyone else that does the same thing and berating them for not having these progressive social systems.

  Economic migrants are looking for utopia, a promised land that doesn’t exist, where you don’t have to work and get free money and healthcare. They believe the false promises of progressives that this exists in the EU or the US under Democrat presidents, until they get there and realize those systems, same as their home countries, aren’t feasible, don’t really exist in the way they are presented and always result in a worse outcome.
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  Confidential Letter from the Watchtower to all full time servants.

  by pistolpete in

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  this is a confidential letter for all full time servants like cos, regular pioneers, bethel and branch workers so please don't tell anyone about this.. reminder 20,000 jws have died of covid and 99% of those who died or were hospitalized in the united states branch territory were not vaccinated, so whose fault is that???.

  my question, how did they get the information that all these 20,000 jws were not vaccinated?.

  hint; if you want to continue to share in spiritual privileges--------------------get vaccinated.

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  As with above comments, do they recommend certain specific vaccines as some vaccines and treatments are based around blood-based products (Plasma therapy and hyperimmune globulins) and some (AstraZeneca, SinoVac and J&J) vaccines are based around human or fetal stem cells (they are purified after growth culture).

  In the past they would’ve researched all this and given us reams of paper on all the vaccines and treatments in the world and which would and would not be acceptable.
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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

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  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  @Me.Wonderful: life isn’t quite that simple dear. People don’t pose a threat because they want to move and work, nobody is saying that. If you get your talking points from CNN, then you believe the wrong thing about libertarians like me and right-wingers in general. Please do some research before spouting such non-sense.

  All of us believe our own doctors, none of us are refusing blood transfusion based on Bible verses. There are questions to be raised, the fact that questions aren’t allowed on some topics as you seem to suggest, we should just accept what the Watchtower CDC (which is a political organization, not a scientific one) tells us, hits a raw nerve with many of us.

  We should be allowed to do our own risk assessments, we should be allowed to make decisions on our own health, we should be allowed to see the data.
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  The King of the North and the South, who are they now?

  by Anony Mous in

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  2. beliefs

  i know several wit-lesses that to date are researching these topics.. however i haven't heard much from any publications recently about it, i think the latest refresh was ~10 years ago.

  since then the power of the us has severely diminished (or at least the rhetorics about it has), russia is a small potato in modern era, the eu is a cowardly dog in the eyes of everyone and we have the rise of china which is as far as military might is concerned, a paper tiger.. we also have the rise of islam, especially since the end of the nato nation-building effort in afghanistan which is now in power in most of the middle east and africa, as well as regions of asia and growing strong in europe.. does anyone have noooo light about these developments.

  is islam the king of the south?

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  The problem with Russia is that they are about as powerful as Iran, after the USSR collapsed they lost most of the geographical benefits and most of their power as half their stuff was abandoned in new countries.

  China can rattle the cage but will get a run for its money in a war from a coalition between India, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan.

  I think the watchtower simply no longer has a clue about international issues and chooses to ignore these once-important (to them) topics.