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  Ok, We Need To Talk About The Latest Caleb & Sophia Cartoon

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. beliefs

  (as of 10 sep 2020) there's a new caleb & sophia cartoon in which the org puts into the minds of children the idea that celebrating a birthday will cause jehovah to not want to be your friend anymore.. https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/trailer-jehovah-forgives/.

  can you imagine being 6 years old and thinking god himself is no longer your friend because you blew out a candle on a birthday cake or wished someone a happy birthday?.

  as bad as all this is, the birthday thing is just one of many jw rules that isnt even supported by scripure.

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  pale.emperor

  (As of 10 Sep 2020) there's a new Caleb & Sophia cartoon in which the org puts into the minds of children the idea that celebrating a birthday will cause Jehovah to not want to be your friend anymore.

  https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/trailer-jehovah-forgives/

  Can you imagine being 6 years old and thinking god himself is no longer your friend because you blew out a candle on a birthday cake or wished someone a happy birthday?

  

  

  

  As bad as all this is, the birthday thing is just one of many JW rules that isnt even supported by scripure.

  Watchtower constantly hits new low's. Dashing a child's self esteem or instilling guilt.
  
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  Oh How Far I've Come

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so this weekend my girlfriend and i will move into our own place together.

  it turns out that “a cord of three strands is stronger” is bullshit and two people in a relationship are perfectly capable of being happy without outside influence.

  what a journey i’ve had since leaving 3 and a half years ago!

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  I gotta ask though; how'd you get yourself pregnant? I thought you were a Dude? lol

  Hey, it's 2020 I can be a dude one day and a lady the next (joknig). I'm a dude and I have been since gestation.
  
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  I Dont Want My JW Family To Wake Up

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it's come to the point now, after being out almost 5 years, that i've come too far with my life, acheived the things i wanted (or i'm on the road to), did the things i wanted to do and have reached a happy and satisfactory life.. i did all this on my own apart from exjws such as yourselves online for support.

  after reaching a place where i finally dont think about wt everyday and stopped getting emotional or worked up about my former jw life i'm glad to simply live my life and let others get on with theirs.. but, if my family were to leave and get in touch i'd have to deal with all that shit again.

  i'd have to deal with people who's personality i deliberately removed from my life as i was building an authentic nonjw life.. my mother would likely still be closed minded and homophobic.. my sisters would likely still live for gossip and social media stalking.. my cousins would likely still put on a pretence of wealth to impress those around them.. i really cant be doing with such people.. it sounds bad, but i really hope they stay in.

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  It's come to the point now, after being out almost 5 years, that I've come too far with my life, acheived the things I wanted (or I'm on the road to), did the things I wanted to do and have reached a happy and satisfactory life.

  I did all this on my own apart from exJWs such as yourselves online for support. After reaching a place where I finally dont think about WT everyday and stopped getting emotional or worked up about my former JW life I'm glad to simply live my life and let others get on with theirs.

  But, if my family were to leave and get in touch I'd have to deal with all that shit again. I'd have to deal with people who's personality I deliberately removed from my life as I was building an authentic nonJW life.
  

  • My mother would likely still be closed minded and homophobic.
  • My sisters would likely still live for gossip and social media stalking.
  • My cousins would likely still put on a pretence of wealth to impress those around them.

  I really cant be doing with such people.

  It sounds bad, but I really hope they stay in. My mother might as well waste her life in a cult that gives her a reason to breathe (door knocking and magazine reading) than suddenly realizing at 70 years old that she had no savings, no pension and has spent 55 years reading magazines that kept changing their stance.

  Ironically, if she'd spent 55 years reading National Geographic or something she'd have a sharp mind. Unfortunately she chose Watchtower and Awake!
  
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  Governing Body members will no longer be with us on earth during ''the great tribulation''

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower—study edition | october 2019. .

  study article 41. stay faithful through the “great tribulation”.

  14 during the great tribulation, a change will take place regarding the brothers who take the lead on earth.

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  Has anyone else noticed that they've gradually started adopting fundimentalist evangelical Christianity beleifs?

  • Rapture
  • Televangelism
  • New World Order
    
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  The book "New Boy" is Free on Amazon For Down Load the Next 4 Days

  by 1234 in

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  2. friends

  a few people have posted that i wrote my book to "make money.

  "yes, i have made some money from this book but nothing to the comparison to the 11 years it took to write it and the cost to produce it.money was the last thing on my mind on my list of motivations/priorities in writing of this book.

  my thought was if i could circumvent the pain and suffering that the watchtower bible & tract society/ jehovah's witnesses has caused to just one person's life than the book has served its purpose.i'm happy to announce the book is free for down load on amazon for the next 5 days.enjoy my friends.keith casaronap.s if after reading it, if you could post a review on amazon i would greatly appreciate it.

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  I loved reading your posts on here as you were writing it. Will download and review.

  I dont know why some people dont like exJWs making money from writing about their experiences.
  
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  Another Unnecessary Early Death

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  a young man in somerset in england, under massive pressure from financial and relationship issues lapsed into mental illness.

  he was unlucky enough to have as his support system the local congregation of jehovah's witnesses.

  one of the symptoms of his illness was the use of tobacco.

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  So sad. Poor fella. A convert too. I wonder what his family are thinking about all of this?

  Slidin Fast: I don't blame the elders, as you say they have very little wriggle room. It's the unloving framework of pharisaic rules they work under that is reprehensible.

  You're right. How many times have we seen people with delusions or psychosis get disfellowshipped when their behaviour is clearly due to a mental imbalance?
  
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  Jesus Believed In Adam and Eve

  by Parker in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm new to the forum.

  i'm an ex-jw who actually faded from jws.

  i'm here to drop by every once in a while to ask a question or two.

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  Hi Parker and welcome.
  

  When I first woken up I wasnt interested about the origin of the human race. But I did have (and still do have) a fierce scrutiny to whatever is presented to me, regardless of who presents it.

  Visiting museums and letting the evidence speak for itself and watching YouTube video documentaries, reading etc and seeing what they actually prove was a lot of fun.

  Yes, we evolved. Yes that opens up more questions, but those questions are welcome in the scientific community, not shot down and ridiculed. When people talk about how "creation had it first" when it comes to the eye or sense of smell or the human foot - they're actually unwittingly talking about how well evolved we are for our enviroment.

  Ever wonder why we dont have the eyesight of a hawk or sonar like bats so we can navigate in the dark? If we really were created by an intelligent designer we'd have the best of everything surely?

  Hawks have excellent eyesight because the evolved in a different enviroment gradually over millions of years.

  Bats have sonar because the evolved in a different enviroment gradually over millions of years.

  The ones that didnt have the traits to survive in their enviroment died and didnt get to repoduce.
  

  When it comes to evolution belief is optional, participation is not.
  
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  I was wondering how this would play out in JW land.

  by wolverines in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a niece who is trying to get pregnant.

  she was telling me her husband had to go to a room with porn in it and masturbate into a cup to get tested.

  i never thought of this before but but how would a jw handle this.

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  Well considering that porn is verboten and wanking is verboten we can conclude that artificial insemination is also verboten.

  
  

  I remember a couple who conceived via IVF and the elders gave them hell about it because it "might" involve destroying some fertilized eggs if more than one is sucessful.

  The Watchtower - interfearing where it wasnt asked since 1879.
  
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  Your worst convention experience.

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  by a split second rescuing our handicapped son from being pushed down the stairs by a flood of sisters rushing out to see as the drama had started.. the main offender being a special pioneer..

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  My then father in law was the elder in charge of the cleaning. So I was always put on the list of "volenteers" despite the fact that he never asked me. So there I was, boiling hot day, spending my lunch hour cleaning up other people's vomit, piss and shit only to return to my seat during the afternoon session sweating due to all the work.

  Try and cool down in those indoor areas. It's impossible. AND THEN you'd have to clean up afterwards. Not going home until about 9pm each day.

  Hardly saw my 1yo child at all during the conventions. And associating with others? No chance. There's vomit to clean up - 5 attendants standing around it in their yellow jackets looking all important guarding it until I got there.
  
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  Unique Words and Expressions Of Jehovah’s Witnesses

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  system of things comes to mind.

  what does that mean to anyone not a jw?.

  how long have you been in the truth?

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  "Severing where the need is great". I fucking hated that one. Even when I was a JW drone I thought it sounded archaic and scripted.

  Why not say "preaching there's a need" ?

  "This is Brother Bob who's currently serving where the need is great" - oh do fuck off.