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  Growing up as a JW was a form of mental abuse for me

  by Miss Fitt in

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  biometrics

  Biometrics:

  A slight variation of the situation you describe was the beginning of the end for me. I was out in service with Dad and came to a door that was answered by one of my classmates. He was cool; he didn't tell anyone about it. But that day, I decided that I would never go out in service again. I never did, and shortly after I stopped going out in service, I stopped attending meetings as well.

  I had a slight variation on my car experience. When I was in year 5 at school I had a crush on this girl in my class. For months I avoided going witnessing near her house. Whenever a map of her area came out I would cringe. I even faked twisting my ankle once.

  I thought everyting was going well. I even got the courage to tell her I liked her (through a friend). And she said she liked me. I guess it must have been my first crush.

  One saturday I was in the field service a long way from her house. The house we knocked on was that of her (ugly, loud mouth) best friend. Monday at school, in front of everyone, she said in a loud voice "don't EVER come knocking at my door again. We don't want your religion ... And by the way [crush's name] doesn't like you". It was one of those moments that defines your life. Or what's left of it.
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  Growing up as a JW was a form of mental abuse for me

  by Miss Fitt in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

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  biometrics

  Torture: Going in the field service with brother X. Brother X sees a group of boys my age and proceeds to approach them. Winding down his car window, he asks if they go to the same school as me.

  Enough said.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses or Watchower's Witnesses?

  by biometrics in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've often thought about it.

  are these people witnessing jehovah or the watchtower.. in the abscense of solid proof that god is backing the watchtower they are only witnessing a group of men who beleive they have god's backing.. .

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  biometrics

  I've often thought about it. Are these people witnessing Jehovah or the Watchtower.

  In the abscense of solid proof that God is backing the Watchtower they are only witnessing a group of men who beleive they have God's backing.
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  1969 "fact": You will never grow old in this present system of things

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  awake!

  "if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.

  because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years... therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.

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  Stay alive till 75!

  Since that article was written my mum had four children, 14 grandchildren, and is now a great grandmother.
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  Who Taught You The Truth(tm) OR Who Counted Time, On You?

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my mom's lover would bring his handsome youngest son, to our house, and along with my dad, would study with my brother, sister and i. wed 7 pm.. next an elder's wife, who was a regular pioneer and worked part-time, who had a daughter my age, came to our house, after school wed. ruth was the head of the house and wore the pants.

  her husband was part of the 3 men who sat on all judicial committees in our congo and would tell ruth everything, which in turn ruth would tell the sister's.

  ruth was very pious but at the age of 15 gave birth to her only child, and beat on her daughter all the time, never letting her forget what "trouble" her only daughter caused her.

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  biometrics

  I grew up in a divided household. Mum was a JW. Dad beleived God existed but had no interest in being a JW. He did get along with them.

  After dad died I seemed to have an endless array of elders and brothers studying with me. I'm talking 2-3 hours study per week. Usually on weekend after the meeting or Saturday afternoon. Looknig back the only thing I gained from it was better reading skills. And I'm sure they were just doing it for the time.

  I'm sure if dad were around life would have been much different. I used to stay home with him rather than go to meetings, and never had any study indocrination lessons.

  One brother used to say "If we're wrong about the truth. At least I've lived a good clean life". He said it like living a clean life is not possible outside of the watchtower organisation.
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  JWStruggle post: Bethel Layoffs Reveal a Kingdom without Clothes

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.jwstruggle.com/2013/07/bethel-layoffs-reveal-a-kingdom-without-clothes/.

  despite everything, i still have a lingering admiration toward those who serve or have served in bethel.

  it is not that i believe it is gods organization in any way, shape, or form.

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  biometrics

  So why the lay-offs? It's not like they have to pay them, just food and shelter. And the Watchtower is swimming in funds from all the real estate deals.
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  In Case You Had Any Doubts About Dinosaurs

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/15/tyrannosaurus-rex-really-was-a-ferocious-hunter-new-finding-confirms/.

  nature red in tooth and claw.

  if jehovah is the creator of all, he made some very vicious, nasty stuff.

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  http://dinosaursneverexisted.com/
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  I get so tired of people complaining about everything President Obama says or does

  by booker-t in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for the past 4 1/2 years i have heard everything said about president obama and now the lastest "obama being the anti-christ" just have me laughing my head off.

  where do people get nonsense like this?

  do they just sit around the kitchen table and say "what are we going to say next about obama and michelle?

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  Praising Obama is like praising the captian of the Titanic, while it was sinking!
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  Zimmerman Not guilty

  by mouthy in

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  biometrics

  Good to see Zimmerman got off. He was defending himself.

  Pitty more attention isn't paid to the 1000s of black deaths caused by other blacks.
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  Pyramid - Common Knowledge?

  by NeverKnew in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was telling my extended family (also non-jws) about the pyramid near russell's grave i saw months ago.

  i showed them pictures of the four sides and the interesting inscriptions along with the pictures of the founder's grave.. there are a couple of jw women who come to see my cousin every once in a while.

  last week, she mentioned the pyramid.

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  biometrics

  I understand what you're saying, but respectfully, I disagree. My child has her own life but was born of my womb. Without me, she wouldn't exist.

  Without Seventh-day Adventists the International Bible Students possibly woudln't have existed either. And without the Bible neither would have existed ... you get the idea.

  My original point was there was a split early on, the IBSA went one way, and the "Jehovah's Witnesses" went another. Just like there was a split between CTR and Nelson Barbor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taze_Russell#Split_with_Barbour).

  Showing a current day Jehovah's Witness the Pyramid stuff would be like showing them Seventh-day Adventist documents from the late 1800s. They both mean nothing, and you'll probably get a blank stare and denial.

  In my opinion you'd be better off focusing on modern day Watchtower blunders, or doctrine that links to that era (i.e. pyramid lengths 'proving' the year 1914).