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  Starting University in 3 weeks...

  by MsGrowingGirl20 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm very excited!

  you all helped me to make this decision and stick to it and i thank you all.

  eve though my life(spiritual) hasn't been sorted yet...i'm really looking forward to this!

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  Congratulations, wise move. The mind once expanded will never return to it's previous state.
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  A Policy That Insures Failure: The Response of the Jehovah’s Witnesses to Child Sexual Abuse Carol J. Adams

  by JakeM2012 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  thought this was an interesting article from 2005: .

  "a policy that insures failure:the response of the jehovahs witnesses to child sexual abuse" by carol j. adams.

  link to this record (permalink):https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=sih&an=22042776&site=eds-liveto read the full article click the "full pdf" link in the upper left corner..

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  JakeM2012

  Thought this was an interesting article from 2005:

  "A Policy That Insures Failure:The Response of the Jehovah’s Witnesses to Child Sexual Abuse" by Carol J. Adams

  link to this record (Permalink):	https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=sih&AN=22042776&site=eds-live

  To read the full article click the "Full PDF" link in the upper left corner.
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  New girl in town here for support

  by joyfulfader in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi everyone here on jwn.

  i admit to being a lurker for quite some time before joining and now i am ready to post and i want to introduce myself.

  i am/was 3rd generation and daughter of the po (as it was termed at the time) for most of my life.

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  JakeM2012

  Welcome Joyful Fader. Nothing like the comfort and ease of a faded pair of jeans,.. augh, jw. Interesting story, I guess the org. always has to have the two witnesses, unless it's slander, malicious gossip, defrauding, lieing, lack of confidentiality, etc.

  I left in my later 40's and was bitter about the wasted time/life of being a born in. It hurts, feeling so stupid as to how or why I would buy into their lies.

  Look forward to getting to know you better, again welcome.
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  Sept. 15th WT - WT Society Hypocritically Disses " Materialistic " JW's

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as many of us are aware the wt society has done quite nicely in a material way for themselves.

  the sales of properties of the former " bethel " in brooklyn amassed them millions of more $$$$ .

  they have relocated into upstate new york and are building like wildmen.

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  Yep, Yep... Wanted to become a structural engineer/or/ architect and many brothers, including family mounted continual pressure on me to not go to the university. Funny after I buckled to the family/organizations pressure, it was like, "well, go over there and sweep the floor, idiot". Wt articles reasoned, "This system is not going to last long enough to even finish a four year program, your wasting your time."

  My family has been in the truth since the 1910's and has steadily gotten poorer through the decades. "Before the truth generation" were doctors, lawyers, engineers, successful businessmen. I have uncles that had it made at different companies and would have been running the company today if they stayed, but they quit because they couldn't get off for a seven day convention or other "spiritual obligation". Everytime they could start building duplexes or apartments, the brothers would pressure them that they were getting too involved in the world. After five "generations" of decendants bowing to wt's advise the results are: brother is living with mother, sister's broke, I'm broke but about to finish a bachelors degree.

  Mother-in-law is currently putting pressure on the children to not excell in school and start pioneering early. I take my daughter to McDonald's and stand and say, "look around here", Watch what the workers do. If you follow the advice you are given by Wt and Granny, welcome to your future. Needless to say, I do reprogram after in-laws visit. In fact, wife and I decided that precious young impressionable daughter was not to visit the grandparents alone ever again.

  If you are a jw youth reading here, do not trust wt's advice. If you stick around active in the truth you will be hounded until you conform. Remember, expect no check from the congregation, quickbuild, bethel, or wtb&ts when you are broke and too wore out to work.
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  Would you ever go back for the fake friends ?

  by Pitchess Co-Gen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  to quote the great rapper t.i this statement hit home : "never forget the people who stayed when everyone else left.. stay true to your team".

  i had a lot of people leave my side three years ago; because some of my "phony homies" began to listen to my ex-finance spreading rumors about me and my family.

  so to make a long story short i lost a lot of "friends" from my old way of life, but i picked up some true homies , and reconnected with a true homie in the long run.. i just had to ask that question because some of us were popular while we were in or we weren't the social butterflies.

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  I wasn't a social butterfly, but I did host alot of "get to gethers" at my house that included everyone from the congregation. We wrote invitations to everyone making sure that no one was left out, even inactive or irregular etc. That brought some criticism. I always paid the postage instead of giving the invitations out at the hall, I think it means more to people when they receive it in the mail anyway.

  My house and property could handle 200 + people and parking easy as we did it many times. These get to gethers cost me alot of money a hugh investment in labor to get things ready for a gathering, but I'm not complaining. I felt like it was my "elder statement" that I did not like clicks.

  When it comes to the phony friends, interesting that few invited us to their homes, not that I was looking for a revite. Since I moved from the city 7 years ago I haven't had anyone call to see or catch up etc.

  I'm still struggling because my social life was so centered on the my close and personal phony friends, and now that has been a drastic change to not having any friends. I have not given up on mankind, but it is a slow process to replant new friends, but I am slowing making headway.

  It is interesting how low you feel when you find out that your "friends" were not friends at all but just conditional associates, and I haven't even been DF'ed or dissed. Well that just means more cake for me, or maybe more wine.
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  New YouTube video - Anthony Morris warns us against the horrors of higher education

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzcneuuajvg.

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  JakeM2012

  Over 33 years ago Dad copied all the societies articles about higher education and gave them to me to read. One of the articles claimed that there was not enough time to even finish a 4 year program before armageddon. Then Dad informed me that I would have to move out if I wanted to go to college. Needless to say 33 years later and no armageddon.

  The advise that Brother Moron gives is just as bad as Dad's enforcement of wt education policy was 33+ years ago. With the decline in unions in first world countries the collective bargaining of the individual worker is destroyed, meaning lower and lower wages, unemployement, and dissatisfying jobs.

  Interesting that anthony demonizes education even more by claiming that your son/daughter will not just miss a few meetings but will become an evolutionist, (an unbeliever). Don't the scriptures also indicate that a man that does not provide for his own household is worse than an unbeliever?

  If you are a "youth" in "god's organization" and reading this, take my advise please, run as fast as you can from this destructive and self-serving oriented cult or at least ignore anthony morris advise on education.

  I've seen the young ones they are propping up on the circuit assembly stages as examples as they tell their story about how they were given a scholarship and the elders came over and talked with the family about what they would do, (as if it was any of their business). The young brothers and sisters telling their story on the stage are about to cry in an emotional breakdown because their inner voice is telling they made a mistake and they should ignore the bad advise. But they are forced like slaves to conform.

  Believe me, there has been many times that I wished that I would have just told dear old dad, "ok, if that's what it takes, I'm moving out". Oh, by the way, I am just a few credit's from getting my bachelors and I have appreciated all the help from the U.S. Government, the grants, the education tax savings. The world want their citizens to be self-sufficient just like Paul said, not dependent on wt for a better life some day.
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  CURIOSITY HAS TOUCHED DOWN ON MARS!!!

  by Quendi in

  1. social
  2. current

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  JakeM2012

  Landing on Mars is a myth. They staged the landing on movie sets with the help of Walt Disney and Pixar.
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  Financial Transparency of Billy Graham

  by JakeM2012 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  checking out the billy graham site i thought it was interesting that they post their filings with the irs, unlike wtbts, or at least i've never seen one on jw.org.. .

  dear friend,.

  as a tax-exempt organization, we are required to file a form 990 with the irs each year.

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  Checking out the Billy Graham site I thought it was interesting that they post their filings with the IRS, unlike wtbts, or at least I've never seen one on jw.org.

  Dear Friend,

  As a tax-exempt organization, we are required to file a Form 990 with the IRS each year. We are pleased to provide the most recent copy of that document online for anyone wishing to view it. As with many government forms, the 990 is lengthy and complicated; however, we’ve posted it here in its entirety.

  If you would like a more in-depth look at our ministry during the past year, we encourage you to read our Annual & Audit Report. It offers a clear summary of our outreaches across the globe.

  We are grateful to God for all that He has provided—last year and throughout our nearly 60 years of ministry—so that we may proclaim one simple yet powerful message: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16, NIV). If you have any questions about either our annual report or the Form 990, you may e-mail us at [email protected].

  Sincerely,
  
  Franklin Graham
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  Top 10 EASIEST WAYS TO FADE....lets use our new Code words ( I will do 2 of 10 )

  by dreamgolfer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  1. move out of your assigned congo territory - with gas going back to $ 4 a gallon, they wont come hunting for you.

  2. stop going to meetings because you:_______________________________________________.

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  You have a general anxiety disorder and you are uncomfortable around crowds and especially people sitting behind you.
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  The golden 3 step official Watchtower retirement plan

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if you have any of the following symptoms you may want to consider the golden retirement plan offered by the watchtower society of jehovah's witnesses.. .

  1.it's boring!!!

  every "new" book reads just exactly like the old ones.

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  Those boring meetings, it used to disgust me that at a service meeting where 99% of the congregation is a publisher already, the assignment was to study for 20 minutes in the OR book "why JW's go in the field service". If your at this meeting and you don't have a clue as to why you are going from door to door??? here's your sign.

  Give me three steps

  Give me three steps mister

  And you won't see me no more.