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  My Story

  by WeatherLover in

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  i'm a 4th generation jw.

  i started to realize it wasn't the truth over 2 years ago in late october/early november 2014. i don't know how exactly it happened.

  i remember i had just heard about confirmation bias, and it hit me: i realized that i would be guilty of confirmation bias if i didn't look at the other side.

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  Landy

  I am overly empathetic when it comes to not upsetting my family, I really can't stand the thought of bringing my mom to tears.

  That's a nice quality. If possible try to avoid any confrontations with her. I think you'll find that once you start college the fade will happen naturally.

  Also be careful talking to your aunt. She's not going to tell you anything you don't already know and she may feel that she has to approach your mother about it. Keep your cards close to your chest, don't get caught in what they term 'gross sin', and live your life. The rest will happen naturally.

  Good luck.
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  We deserve to die

  by elfgoblin in

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  at the meeting today, we were reading the watchtower and this elder apologetically said to such a degree in regards to romans 5:12 that "we humans are not worthy of any mercy from jehovah.

  we shouldn't even have free will because we can't possibly do anything good enough to please jehovah.

  we don't even deserve life because of sin.

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  Landy

  I've seen a few, younger crowd, as I do often, just looking up other stuff on my tablet while the meeting is going on.

  I wish we had tablets and internet access when I was a teenager there - we had to make do with drawing semi rude pictures in the watchtower margins or reading the other articles in the awake.
  
  
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  If you had the power ....

  by Landy in

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  ...would you choose to ban the jw religion?.

  if you wouldn't ban them what, if any, changes would you force upon them?.

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  Donald Trump, is that you?

  Not at all - there's a lot of people on here have been hurt by the WTS and I was curious as to what their thinking would be. It's nice to see a lot of the suggestions are reasonable.

  For me, and as previously mentioned, I would go with suspending their charitable status until their safeguarding issues are sorted out and all in positions of authority are DBS checked and even given proper safeguarding training. I would also expand that safeguarding (somehow) to cover making it illegal to attempt to withhold life saving medical treatment for minors.

  Child baptism also leaves me uncomfortable because of the possible consequences in that particular religion so there would be a minimum age of 18 for baptism.

  And, when you're sat in your niftys at 9.30 on a Sunday morning munching on toast watching Star Trek and enjoying some peace while the rest are of the family are still snoring, if they knock on the door it should be entirely legal and reasonable to give them the mother of all wedgies before you send them on their way.
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  Always ask an Elder before sharing posts!

  by Tahoe in

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  lol.

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  Landy

  It could be a fake page I suppose but....

  https://en-gb.facebook.com/M-Stephen-Lett-737859476343764/
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  If you had the power ....

  by Landy in

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  ...would you choose to ban the jw religion?.

  if you wouldn't ban them what, if any, changes would you force upon them?.

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  Landy

  ...would you choose to ban the JW religion?

  If you wouldn't ban them what, if any, changes would you force upon them?
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  84 Lumber Commercial

  by azor in

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  just saw this commercial and was very impressed.

  hoping more companies start doing the same.

  most of us are immigrants.

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  Landy

  They are regulated to the extent they have virtually never been used in a crime or homicide since the Prohibition era.

  To be fair, Americans seem to be managing quite well to kill other Americans without them.
  
  
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  Always ask an Elder before sharing posts!

  by Tahoe in

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  lol.

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  Landy

  Ha - he really does have a facebook page!

  I thought FB was still officially frowned upon?
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  I am giving everyone on the board...

  by The Rebel in

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  a new commadment to the posting guidelines.

  we must love one another.. if i read the posting guidelines and saw the lurking presence of that new commadment " we must love one another" i would feel very uneasy about registering.

  it sounds more like a threat than an expression of love.

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  I gave you the like - and tbh after reading it a third time I started to see what you're getting at (I think).

  I've always been a big believer that it's fine not to see eye to eye with someone; to disagree with them and not particularly like them as a person. That's fine. That's life.

  That doesn't mean that basic human decency shouldn't be present though. If someone I didn't particularly like, my mother in law for instance ;), turned up on my doorstep in need of help I hope I would do my best to help her, as she would do for me I hope.
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  I am giving everyone on the board...

  by The Rebel in

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  a new commadment to the posting guidelines.

  we must love one another.. if i read the posting guidelines and saw the lurking presence of that new commadment " we must love one another" i would feel very uneasy about registering.

  it sounds more like a threat than an expression of love.

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  Landy

  I think there's a rule about posting gibberish as well.

  Just sayin ....
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  Watchtower alternative fact - JWs were among the first to expose concentration camps

  by slimboyfat in

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  i am currently reading the new history of the holocaust by british historian laurence rees and it reminded me of a comment in the awake!

  magazine i read years ago and trusted as factual.

  i quote both passages without comment.

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  Landy

  Yes, I don't think it's ever been a secret that the concentration camps were known about - despite what the Awake says.

  i haven't read Rees' new one but I have got his Auschwitz - The Nazis and the final solution and it's really good.

  if you've never been to Auschwitz and Birkenau and you get the chance you should go. It's a place that should never be forgotten.

  Krakow is a beautiful city and well worth a visit and Schindler's museum is there as well.