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  latest jw community podcast has THE best interview

  by cobweb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  no really, its golden stuff.

  i just listened to it and it contains an amazing interview with an australian activist who i only vaguely have heard of called steven unthank.

  he is one of the best guests i've heard on that show, competing with the governing body helper they interviewed once.

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  Guardian interview with Apostasy director

  by cobweb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is a really long article about the film apostasy and interview with the director about his story and how he came to make the film.

  apostasy director: ‘it was liberating to leave the jehovah’s witnesses’.

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/15/apostasy-director-daniel-kokotajlo-liberating-to-leave-jehovahs-witnesses-interview?cmp=share_androidapp_copy_to_clipboard.

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  Leah Remini to do episode on JW's

  by cobweb in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  saw this on reddit so this is a bit of a copy/paste jobie but i thought there would be people here excited about this as i am.

  i've enjoyed her show on scientology and seems like in season 3 she is branching out with jw's getting the first episode.

  https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/leah-remini-returning-to-ae-to-investigate-other-cult-like-religions/.

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  do you tell doc ur father doesn't want blood

  by cobweb in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  here's a hypothetical: you find your elderly jw father - a lifelong witness, unconscious in his home - you are alone with him.

  you ring an ambulance.

  at the hospital the doc says they need to give him a blood transfusion straight away or he'll die.

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  Where to go for the 'Deep Things'?

  by cobweb in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  as someone who has been out a while, i wondered what publications a jw would turn to now if they want to do serious bible research.

  are there any meaty jw publications left?

  i haven't heard of the insight books being revised.

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  Judge orders Jehovah’s Witness to release molestation files

  by cobweb in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/aug/30/citylights-judge-orders-jehovahs-witness-release/#.

  judge orders jehovah’s witness to release molestation files.

  eighteen years of horror in linda vista.

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  Cross-dressing Jehovah's Witness raped and molested girl

  by cobweb in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/cross-dressing-jehovahs-witness-raped-13311020.

  a cross-dressing jehovah’s witness raped and molested a girl while making her wear adult women’s clothes.. david fuge, 69, wore dresses and silky underwear when he repeatedly abused his blindfolded victim from the age of eight to 19.. .

  liverpool crown court heard he gagged her and on one occasion tied a belt around her neck and left her hanging from a hook in a room.. he photographed the child naked, made her read pornographic magazines, beat her with a piece of wood and abused her at a golf course.. .

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  book advice about the 'jw experience'

  by cobweb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm looking for a book recommendation about the jw experience for the audience of a non-jw friend.. here is a scenario: you have recently left the jw religion and have made a friend who has little knowledge about your old religion.

  you would like them to understand more about you but at this point you feel awkward about explaining your religious background and don't feel confident that you can make them 'get it'.

  you decide you would like to give them a book that will do the grunt work of explaining it all; one that will give them a deeper insight into your former world than you feel able to provide, which will additionally explain why it is that you are now in the position you are, friendless, unsure of many things and adrift at an age where most people have got their life sorted.. if someone were in this situation and needed such a book, what you recommend?.

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  JW's vs Evangelicals

  by cobweb in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  someone on my twitter timeline has retweeted posts that contain the hashtag youdon'tknowevangelicals.

  it surprised me how familiar a lot of the comments felt to me and i was struck that some of what i think of as jw behavior, mindset and attitude is shared by evangelicals.

  there are differences too of course by read the list of tweets below and see if these sound familiar.

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  A new Scientology Channel?

  by cobweb in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  this popped up in my google news feed.

  if tom cruise and kirsty alley really do create a scientology channel and tom presents a variety show, how bizarre would that be.

  i don't know how seriously i can take it, its hard to imagine anyone watching other than as a car crash.