Topics Started by ThinkerBelle

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Breaking: PIMI wife getting food basket from farms to table via WT society
by goingthruthemotions in
1. jw
2. experiences
bottom line is this.

she came in from the weekly meeting, we sitting and talking and she said.

the society is giving us some food.
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Leaked WT Elder Training Video
by Vanderhoven7 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
https://youtu.be/2nacvosx8n0.

good to see the caring brothers help establish depth of guilt..
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JW vs. Mormon with regards to homosexuality
by Downtowner in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i find it ironic that jw.org publishes an article about homosexuality on the day i received july 2020 issue if the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints magazine "ensign" which also has an article on same-sex attraction.

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regardless, the lds article comes across as more caring than the jw article although in the end members in good standing cannot act upon their same-sex attraction in either religion..
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JW Response to COVID
by optimisticskeptic in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i haven't been on here in quite some time so i apologize if i missed a similar thread already (i did look for one :) ) anyways, just to be clear i think the jw response to covid in general has been really positive and proactive and they've done really well trying to educate people on covid, doing zoom meetings, etc to prevent spread within the congregations.

the part that i find interesting is how compliant and non-apocalyptic the branch has been during all of this.

even as someone who's a bit of a skeptic i found myself wondering if this might be the beginning of the end between covid, economic upheaval, and blm.
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Huge JW storyline (blood) on Chicago Med (US TV Show)
by tresdecu in
1. jw
2. friends
anyone else watch chicago med last night??

one of the writers had a bone to pick...made the dubs look like a cult.

(not hard to do, i know) very realistic, and they got all the lingo right.
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Did you EVER falsify your report card ?
by Chook in
1. jw
2. experiences
every single watchtower soldier lied to god out of fear of the brooklyn popes..
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07 21 2019 Blondie's First Thoughts (Study WT May 2019 pages 14-19) COMFORT FOR ABUSE VICTIMS?
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
blondie’s first thoughts review 7-21-2019 wt study (may 2019, pages 14-19 (comfort abuse victims!?).

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-may-2019/comfort-victims-of-abuse/.

excellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .
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Why do CO's refuse to strip Elders of their position?
by Tenacious in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in several congregations i attended many elders were downright evil and flat out drunk with power.. many times i personally knew of things done by them that would have been a disfellowshipping offense had they not been elders.

and even though many times these issues and spiritual atrocities were reported to the co's and hq they would many times (if not all the time), get off with a mere slap on the wrist or a forced apology.. why do you believe elders are so protected?.

my theory is the authority integrity within the congregation.
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Kids being disfellowshipped
by Nikki collins in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so some ex-jws and i were at dinner last night talking about how some of the ones baptized this year were so young.

a few under the age of 10!!

can you imagine if a kid got dfd at that age.... would the congregation shun them?
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Do You Have A Negative Outlook Because You Were Once A JW?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
it could be argued that exjws have issues in life simply because they were jehovah’s witnesses at a point in their lives.

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do you think you or we are fairly normal considering we were jehovah’s witnesses or do you think we have a lot of baggage because we are a bit messed up ( even if we don’t even know it)?.