Topics Started by Nathan Natas

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4 Year old JW has suicidal ideations?
by usualusername1 in
1. jw
2. friends
today i made a post on linkedin about having suicidal thoughts since the age of 8. had lots of supportive comments.

one lady said her son was suicidal from the age of 4. i was freaked out.

then she sent me the message below.. i hope she was counting her time!.
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Historian and former JW Jim Penton dies
by slimboyfat in
1. social
2. current
i don’t know a lot about james penton but i think he deserves a better thread than the one currently on offer.

james penton, who died recently, grew up in a jw family in canada and served as an elder.

unusually for a jw, he studied liberal arts at university and became a history professor.
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Why do most Ex jW W‘s seem to be liberal?
by JaredScott-1977 in
1. social
2. current
i’m just curious about this dynamic i don’t care personally one way or the other but i do have friends who have chosen to be conservatives and they get totally destroyed on social media pages for their choice.

it’s almost like a lot of ex jw w become as toxic and his judgmental as jehovah’s witnesses themselves what’s up with that?

i also know conservative ex jw’s that can do the same so again i’m not leaning one way or the other i’m just noticing factual observations.
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Dr. James Penton - goin' up yonder dirt nap
by Nathan Natas in
1. jw
2. friends
i saw a post on reddit by "big_routine1112" announcing that james penton died.. well, there's always the resurrec... oh, nevermind.. as always, the person expressing the most profound grief and dismay wins!.

"he was my friend" .

"there will never be another of his ilk".
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JW WOMAN VOLUNTEER CRUSHED BY A WALL AT A KINGDOM HALL PROJECT
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://youtu.be/1skm8riz7qc?si=ww3ej9orl_91db4w.

the construction of a new jehovah’s witnesses kingdom hall in cybinka, poland, has once again shed light on the watchtower organization’s relentless drive to expand its real estate empire on the backs of unpaid, vulnerable volunteers.

every day, around 40 jehovah’s witnesses show up at the construction site, some traveling long distances, not for pay or proper protection, but to fulfill a sense of “spiritual duty” instilled by the organization.
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End within 2 years (again)
by road to nowhere in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
an old elder friend from out of town stopped to see my ailing wife.

more than the locals do.

he said elder school emphasized 2 years and the existing body will be the leaders through persecution and tribulation.
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PRESIDENTIAL predictions...let the prognosticators have their say!
by Terry in
1. jw
2. friends
my only prowess in making predictions stems from my 77-years of life in the united statesgrowing up under president truman, eisenhower, kennedy, nixon, .....etc.

etc.i was a widdle kid sitting in front of a tiny black and white tv set when the very first broadcastsof political conventions, deal-making, debates (nixon vs kennedy), assassinations (jfk, rfk, martin luther king, etc.

) i grew up with duck and cover under my elementary schooldesk, the cold war, the iron curtain, the korean war, the vietnam war and i went to federal prisonas a jw conscientious objector while hippies, flower children, political activists protested and universitystudents were fired up on by troops.i grew up reading newspapers (2 of them).
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Atheist philosopher Philip Goff becomes a Christian
by slimboyfat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
philip goff, professor of philosophy at durham university, in the past few weeks has said that he has become a christian of a fairly liberal and perhaps somewhat heretical variety.

it’s been a long journey from staunch atheism in his teens, to questioning the basis of his atheism and a purely materialist conception of reality as a professor of philosophy specialising in consciousness, to now considering himself a christian.

he says it’s the result of coming to terms with the fact that atheists and theists both have good arguments and looking for a middle ground that accommodates the best arguments of both.
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PROCLAMATORE CONSAPEVOLE
by wantingtruth in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
proclamatore consapevole.

.....dai nostri frattelli italiani...... https://proclamatoreconsapevole2.blogspot.com/2024/10/adunanza-annuale-2024.html?showcomment=1728805024924#c657186278083234964.
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Ages of each user here?
by ukpimo in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm interested to know the age demographics here.

it must be significantly different to other exjw forums.

it would be a damning report for watchtower if most of us appear to have left for decades.. you don't have to mention your exact age, you could always say "in my 50s".. i am in my 70s.