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  Anthony Morris wants former Jehovah's Witnesses DEAD

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in a disgusting new video, anthony morris iii talks about apostates, and brings to mind his 'hot dog' talk all over again as he anticipates the demise of ex-jehovah's witnesses.

  i don't know if you're familiar with maggots, but when you see a whole bunch of them it's not a pleasant sight.. .

  what a fitting picture of the final end of all of god's enemies.

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  He sounds eerily just like Hitler talking about the jews.
  
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  How do you switch off the thoughts of being raised JW and feelings of anger

  by Zeds Dead in

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  2. experiences

  raised as a jo blow and married into it.

  37 years in it and now last 7 years out of it which feels great.. have memories of being a kid in school in the uk and just hating everything about being the jw kid.

  bullied, embarrassed in front of others and self-esteem went into the toilet.wished i was born into a different family.. what angers me is the messaging i would receive at home when i talked about being bullied.

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  I'm glad I'm not the only one with this. I call it The Mindchatter. Like you cant stop thinking about it, arguing the theology in your head? First thing you think of in the morning?

  Mine eased off when I found an outlet to explain the JW world to outsiders. (I chose a Q&A website Quora).

  I found laughing at it helped to. Making fun of the GB, making jokes about the pictures in JW literature and basically making whole comedy scripts off the bizzare-ness of the JW world.

  Maybe it'll never disappear entirely.
  
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  Privileges

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for me, outside the jw context, that word seems to relate to something like a prison setting, where you're allowed to do certain things based on good behavior.

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  Isnt it funny how the "privilages" were always something nobody in the real world would want to do? Smack the label "privilage" onto it and it suddenly becomes a good thing.

  • Cleaning toilets
  • Mopping up vomit at a convention
  • Being a human microphone stand
  • Sitting away from your family to run the sound desk
  • Door knocking for 70 hours without pay
  • Cooking the CO a meal
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  You Know You're A Jehovah's Witness When...

  by pale.emperor in

  1. social
  2. humour

  you know you're a jehovah's witness when.... being offered a scholarship to a good university is considered a bad thing.. when you see a house you like you claim it for after your god kills the owner.. you recieve spiritual guidence from a bus driver and a window washer.. you're engaged to a person you only met 3 months ago.. your widowed mother is marrying a man she met at the convention who she's known for 2 weeks.. there's jehovah's witnesses meeting in your house on a saturday morning to talk about going out knocking on doors on a saturday morning.. a lie in on a weekend happens about twice a year.. you dont talk to your own parents/children because they have a different opinion about a magazine.. you're not quite sure what you're supposed to believe anymore.. when someone criticizes your a magazine you feel like you're being attacked.. your 3yo son owns a suit.. if you're not married by the age of 30 you're considered to be gay or something wrong with you.. (for girls) if you havent married the first or second person you've dated you're considered promiscuous or something wrong with you.. you get your scientific knowledge from a magazine written by people who've never been to college and have never actually read the source they claim to be citing.. you get excited if there's a storm or natural disaster.. you get excited when there's a terrorist attack.. you get excited when there's a pandemic.. your version of tinder is the lunch break at a convention.. your girlfriend dresses like her grandmother.. your grandparents, despite being in the same religion as you, died believing totally a different belief system..

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  I was discussing this with another sister once. She said the men in the religion have ‘pick of the litter’ because there were so many women..but sisters are expected to accept ‘ugly goons’ because there are so few men and the decent ones are already taken.

  I always found the prettiest JW girls were already snapped up by age 20. But I should have bided my time, they were usually divorced by 30!
  
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  You Know You're A Jehovah's Witness When...

  by pale.emperor in

  1. social
  2. humour

  you know you're a jehovah's witness when.... being offered a scholarship to a good university is considered a bad thing.. when you see a house you like you claim it for after your god kills the owner.. you recieve spiritual guidence from a bus driver and a window washer.. you're engaged to a person you only met 3 months ago.. your widowed mother is marrying a man she met at the convention who she's known for 2 weeks.. there's jehovah's witnesses meeting in your house on a saturday morning to talk about going out knocking on doors on a saturday morning.. a lie in on a weekend happens about twice a year.. you dont talk to your own parents/children because they have a different opinion about a magazine.. you're not quite sure what you're supposed to believe anymore.. when someone criticizes your a magazine you feel like you're being attacked.. your 3yo son owns a suit.. if you're not married by the age of 30 you're considered to be gay or something wrong with you.. (for girls) if you havent married the first or second person you've dated you're considered promiscuous or something wrong with you.. you get your scientific knowledge from a magazine written by people who've never been to college and have never actually read the source they claim to be citing.. you get excited if there's a storm or natural disaster.. you get excited when there's a terrorist attack.. you get excited when there's a pandemic.. your version of tinder is the lunch break at a convention.. your girlfriend dresses like her grandmother.. your grandparents, despite being in the same religion as you, died believing totally a different belief system..

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  When the chairman of a Zoom meeting tells you to stand up and sing a song....

  ...you actually friggin' stand...

  ...even though you are alone in your house and people watching the 1 inch x inch video clip of you have no idea if you are standing or not.

  They really tell you to stand? LMAO!!
  I heard they told them to still wear convention badges too.
  
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  You Know You're A Jehovah's Witness When...

  by pale.emperor in

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  you know you're a jehovah's witness when.... being offered a scholarship to a good university is considered a bad thing.. when you see a house you like you claim it for after your god kills the owner.. you recieve spiritual guidence from a bus driver and a window washer.. you're engaged to a person you only met 3 months ago.. your widowed mother is marrying a man she met at the convention who she's known for 2 weeks.. there's jehovah's witnesses meeting in your house on a saturday morning to talk about going out knocking on doors on a saturday morning.. a lie in on a weekend happens about twice a year.. you dont talk to your own parents/children because they have a different opinion about a magazine.. you're not quite sure what you're supposed to believe anymore.. when someone criticizes your a magazine you feel like you're being attacked.. your 3yo son owns a suit.. if you're not married by the age of 30 you're considered to be gay or something wrong with you.. (for girls) if you havent married the first or second person you've dated you're considered promiscuous or something wrong with you.. you get your scientific knowledge from a magazine written by people who've never been to college and have never actually read the source they claim to be citing.. you get excited if there's a storm or natural disaster.. you get excited when there's a terrorist attack.. you get excited when there's a pandemic.. your version of tinder is the lunch break at a convention.. your girlfriend dresses like her grandmother.. your grandparents, despite being in the same religion as you, died believing totally a different belief system..

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  You Know You're A Jehovah's Witness When...

  • Being offered a scholarship to a good university is considered a bad thing.
    
  • When you see a house you like you claim it for after your god kills the owner.
  • You recieve spiritual guidence from a bus driver and a window washer.
  • You're engaged to a person you only met 3 months ago.
  • Your widowed mother is marrying a man she met at the convention who she's known for 2 weeks.
  • There's Jehovah's Witnesses meeting in your house on a Saturday morning to talk about going out knocking on doors on a Saturday morning.
  • A lie in on a weekend happens about twice a year.
  • You dont talk to your own parents/children because they have a different opinion about a magazine.
  • You're not quite sure what you're supposed to believe anymore.
  • When someone criticizes your a magazine you feel like you're being attacked.
  • Your 3yo son owns a suit.
  • If you're not married by the age of 30 you're considered to be gay or something wrong with you.
  • (For girls) If you havent married the first or second person you've dated you're considered promiscuous or something wrong with you.
  • You get your scientific knowledge from a magazine written by people who've never been to college and have never actually read the source they claim to be citing.
  • You get excited if there's a storm or natural disaster.
  • You get excited when there's a terrorist attack.
  • You get excited when there's a pandemic.
  • Your version of Tinder is the lunch break at a convention.
  • Your girlfriend dresses like her grandmother.
  • Your grandparents, despite being in the same religion as you, died believing totally a different belief system.
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  Why it's good to discuss politics (but if you don't want to, you don't have to)

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was reading through this site the other day and came across several posts by different posters lamenting this site, saying what a shame it has gone from debating jw believers to talking politics and current affairs.. there are a few issues i have with these kind of posts.. first, discussing politics is actually a good thing.

  well, in case you haven't noticed, we in the west are going through a culture war.

  certain groups of far-leftists are trying - and sometimes succeeding - to shut down free discussion.

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  I asked on here a while ago what this disdained word "liberal" means in political context. Genuine quesiton.

  Just asking that resulted in downvotes.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5741464981078016/lloyd-evans-exploitation-videos
  

  Now I have the term "far-Leftists" to try and decypher.

  Left, Far-left, Liberal? What are we referring to?

  What are we calling people who believe in equality and live and let live attittude? Is there a box for me?
  
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  My Prediction: Trump Wins Big

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a month ago it might have been questionable.

  not now.

  after bader’s death and biden’s inability, this shouldn’t be close.

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  It never ceases to amaze me that there on people on here that take Trump seriously.

  When asked about immigration policy he says things like:
  

  “I have broken more Elton John records. He seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No, we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record. Because you know, look, I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don’t need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really, we do it without, like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical – the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth, right? The brain. More important than the mouth is the brain. The brain is much more important.” - Donald Trump 5 July 2018

  Damn.

  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-mouth-musical-instrument/
  
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  1914 Dropped

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i was observing an online conversation between a jw and a former-jw.

  the non-jw pointed out that wwi cant have had anything to do with satan supposedly being "cast out of heaven" because wwi was already well under way in oct 1914.. the jw proceeds to explain that satan was actually thrown down to the earth in 1915 and that he started to wreak havock on the earth from heaven knowing he was about to be cast out.. so 1914 is officially old light now?

  does anyone have a source for that or was this brother lying through his teeth?.

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  So I was observing an online conversation between a JW and a former-JW. The non-JW pointed out that WWI cant have had anything to do with Satan supposedly being "cast out of heaven" because WWI was already well under way in Oct 1914.

  The JW proceeds to explain that Satan was actually thrown down to the earth in 1915 and that he started to wreak havock on the earth from heaven knowing he was about to be cast out.

  So 1914 is officially old light now? Does anyone have a source for that or was this brother lying through his teeth?

  Check the comments to this answer to see what I mean: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-evidence-that-a-group-of-Christians-who-would-later-become-Jehovahs-witnesses-were-chosen-by-Jesus-as-Gods-channel-in-the-year-1919/answer/Helge-K%C3%A5re-Fauskanger
  

  JW: The Bible doesn't say that Satan will be cast down to the earth before he begins to wreak havoc upon it. It appears that Satan began to wreak havoc on earth when it became clear to him that he wasn't going to be ruling it much longer; a sort of “rule or ruin” scheme. That was of course before Jesus was enthroned, and before his expulsion from heaven. Whatever the case, he didn't have to wait until Jesus’ enthronement, or until his eviction, before beginning his destructive campaign. The latest article that discussed this question says that we cannot know for certain when Satan was cast down to the earth, but it was soon after 1914.

  Non-JW: I’m simply pointing out that many JWs (myself included when I was one) would point out that Watchtower’s claim of Satan being thrown down to earth in 1914 was backed up by the start of WW1 in that same year. That’s all.

  JW: Yes. That's true. The WW1 was proof of something. Although we used to believe that Satan was cast out of heaven in 1914, further research has shown that his expulsion was, not in that year, but after that year. Apparently, Satan's rule or ruin scheme made him feel that: “if I won't rule the world, I might as well destroy it.” Knowing fully well that God's Kingdom was the agency that would destroy him and all his accomplishments, he was determined to thwart it's establishment. So, when it became clear to him that Jesus would be enthroned and there was nothing he could do about it, he began his campaign of worldwide destruction. If he was really reasoning along these lines, you see that he didn't have to wait until he was evicted from heaven before tearing the world apart.
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  The Spiritual Food Box!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the spiritual food box.. .

  https://www.jw.org/en/library/series/how-your-donations-are-used/a-small-box-that-delivers-spiritual-food/.

  petra!.

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  pale.emperor

  It's very telling that they let the congregation know how much they're charging they cost the society.

  $75

  $4

  Then casually add a link to donate, then thanking them for donating - hint, hint.

  Can you hear that? It's Bro. Russel turning in his grave.