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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  As others have said, he's reached the point where continuing his activism becomes counter productive.

  Every video he uploads to YouTube will become a war zone between folks who want to expose him and his followers (sounds like a cult doesn't it?)

  JW's who see comments about Thai prostitutes and alleged grooming of 14 year olds will have all their indoctrination and biases confirmed. Of course that doesn't matter to him so long as his face is in front of the camera and the donations keep rolling in.

  He's a liability and a joke and others are starting to notice.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/suvh89/sex_abuse_advocate_gets_caught_in_a_prostitution/
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  nicolaou

  Kim Silvio has just issued a new statement. Very sensible advice in my opinion.

  
  
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  The apostat.es are coming!

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. links

  the new site at www.apostat.es will provide a few free tools to help us reach out to the jehovah's witnesses we still care about.

  podcasts can be hosted for free, as can blogs and articles.

  you can create your own store to sell your apostate tee shirts, posters calendars etc.. it will show jw's that apostates are normal, healthy folks who simply changed their minds about their former beliefs.

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  The situation many apostates find themselves in, shunned and isolated from their family and all the friends they grew up with, is as far from 'normal' as most folks could even imagine. It's a bullying and abusive situation.

  So this isn't for you? That's fine.
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  The apostat.es are coming!

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. links

  the new site at www.apostat.es will provide a few free tools to help us reach out to the jehovah's witnesses we still care about.

  podcasts can be hosted for free, as can blogs and articles.

  you can create your own store to sell your apostate tee shirts, posters calendars etc.. it will show jw's that apostates are normal, healthy folks who simply changed their minds about their former beliefs.

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  Thanks for starting this topic Simon, will keep the conversation here. But not now, it is Saturday night 😉
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  “You know how I know that they're finished out there? The carts.”

  by Athanasius in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the watchtower's many legal problems and the jws' use of carts in their preaching work, reminded me of a scene and dialog from the film patton.. in a scene where patton is viewing a battle site the morning after, he says to an aide about the nazis: “you know how i know that they're finished out there?

  in my dreams i saw the carts.

  they kept buzzing around in my head and i couldn't figure out why.

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  alanv: The large increase before 1975 had nothing to do with more JW children, it was because of people converting from other faiths.

  Easy claim to make, have you got the stats to back it up? My guess is that conversions were higher pre-'75 but that they have only ever been a fraction of the baptisms of born-ins.
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  “You know how I know that they're finished out there? The carts.”

  by Athanasius in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the watchtower's many legal problems and the jws' use of carts in their preaching work, reminded me of a scene and dialog from the film patton.. in a scene where patton is viewing a battle site the morning after, he says to an aide about the nazis: “you know how i know that they're finished out there?

  in my dreams i saw the carts.

  they kept buzzing around in my head and i couldn't figure out why.

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  nicolaou

  I was told by another practicing Christian of a different faith some 40 years ago that the JWS wont last due its false doctrines

  False doctrines didn't spell the end for Catholicism, Islam or any other reality denying religion you care to name.

  I'm not saying Jehovah's Witnesses will last that long or grow to that extent but if they do fail (and I think they will) it won't simply be because their doctrines have been debunked. How many of us here became JW's because of doctrine? Not many I'll bet. It happened because our parent/s raised us that way.

  That's the link that needs to be broken.
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  New Study Bible Photos!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  new study bible photos from reddit if you want them.

  these are a bit larger photos.

  see first page for info.. .

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  Hard to judge until you have a copy in your hands but it just seems like more infantilisation to me. That and a new revenue stream.
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  Why Register (R) jw dot org?

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, on paragraph 9 of last's week wt study (number 30), i see the are showing the registered symbol next to jw.borg.

  why would you register a website in that circusntance?

  i've never seem that before.

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  Because God doesn't protect their brand as well as a copyright does.
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  Sex before marriage.

  by nicolaou in

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  2. relationships

  mrs nic' and i were 16 and 18 years old respectively when we first met at a circuit assembly in corby.

  three years later we were married.

  we've had a great time, we're very lucky but looking back i can see how crazy it is to put that pressure to marry on teenagers.

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  Mrs Nic' and I were 16 and 18 years old respectively when we first met at a Circuit Assembly in Corby. Three years later we were married. We've had a great time, we're very lucky but looking back I can see how crazy it is to put that pressure to marry on teenagers.

  The 'no sex before marriage' thing is hardly unique to JW's but I wonder why they just refuse to see the problems it brings. Treating marriage as a hoop to jump through or ticket to be purchased before having sex seems to me to be devaluing marriage not elevating it.

  And yes, we were virgins on our wedding night!
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  Looking for Podcast recommendations.

  by nicolaou in

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  2. friends

  i'm a postman so i get 4 to 5 hours every day with my headphones on and i'm really chewing through some stuff.

  i'm after science (evolutionary biology and anthropology especially), history of religion and comedy.

  old sci-fi audio books are also a favourite.

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  Blondie: At first I thought you were going to start a podcast.

  I'm thinking of giving it a go. I think the exjw community needs more cranky, middle aged men telling them what's what. 😉

  Now here's one I do recommend.

  https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cDovL29yaWdpbnN0b3JpZXMubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M
  

  Origin Stories by The Leakey Foundation