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  "Honour" Killing in Pakistan

  by cofty in

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  25 year old farzana iqbal was stoned to death by a crowd led by her own father and two of her brothers outside the high court in lahore yesterday.. her crime was to reject her cousin, who her family had decided she should marry, and fall in love with a man of her own choosing.. thousands of women are murdered every year in so-called "honour killings" but convictions are very rare.

  pakistani law permits victim's families to forgive a murderer, but in these cases the killers are family members who are nominated to carry out the execution by the rest of the family.. this is what happens when you allow a mysogynistic religion to influence secular law.. reuters report...l.

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  How can christians see this and be disgusted? Their favourite book is full of the same laws. Sharia law isn't so different from mosaic law.
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  Can White JWs Have Mustaches?

  by Space Madness in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  someone mentioned in another thread that white jws can't have mustaches but black jws can.

  i noticed that the only governing body member with a mustache is black.

  can anyone confirm that this is an official policy?

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  I'm pretty sure it's a requirement in my neck of the woods to be an elder. Serve-us hours? Check. full stache from nose to lip? Check... He's in!
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  Awful experience: I threw my WT library out!

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yes, i threw my wt library out: my recycle bin was full.

  even if i had imagined this experience to be similar to a prisoner getting rid of his chains, this was not so.. instead, it brought up all the memories i had shared with my family where we were excited about the release of the revelation book; the clear feeling of ultimate knowledge when we showed the live forever book, the questions i had practiced with my family in the organized book, my cousins who got baptized as well.

  somehow, all i could think of was only the good memories i had shared with my family and almost cried about it.. and then, i started to think of the division, the hatred and the pain that became prevalent in my family as some were disfellowshipped and thus, ostracized.

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  So you joined the forum in 07, did you wake up then and are still in the grieving process?
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  Did other JWs judge you? What for?

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  some judged me for going/having gone to university.

  some judged me for being 'too smart.

  ' some judged my non jw brother for being in the army.

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  Captain Obvious

  They DO. For:

  missing meetings for work

  having a good job/income/house/vehicle

  "allowing" my wife to work when she doesn't need to

  never commenting

  never going in service

  skipping meetings for weeks at a time

  always showing up after the song/prayer

  wearing a beard most of the time

  shall I go on? My wife also feels the cold, judgmental shoulder from our local cong. She thinks it's just the locals, but soon she will see it is all JWs.
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  Relationship with Jehovah?

  by Batman89 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when you were a devout jw.

  did you feel that you had an actual "relationship" with jehovah/god just from praying to him and reading the wt or bible?.

  or that this was actually even possible deep down?.

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  Nope
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  Dinosaurs.

  by bobert in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as a jw i always believed that dinosaurs at one point existed.

  my whole family did, almost all the jws i knew did.

  one time i was out for dinner, and one of the people with us was convinced that they never existed.

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  As a JW there was no difficulty understanding that the earth was billions of years old, or that dinos ruled the earth one time. What did cause some difficulty was the obvious fact that there were carnivores and herbivores. As a 9 year old kid, like most boys that age, I was obsessed with dinosaurs. At that time I didn't know that bible loving crazies actually thought that before the flood no creature ate meat... Riiiiight....

  I can't name a single current JW who doesn't believe that the earth is 4.65 billion yrs old or that the dinosaurs went extinct 65m years ago. It's unfortunate, though that the science that proves the human race evolved more than 6k years ago or that the flood never happened is just ignored by the average JW. If it disagrees with the GB's current opinion then it's automatically wrong.

  So sad
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  Raising kids - JW mother, agnostic father

  by Zana in

  1. social
  2. family

  my wife and i have two wonderful children aged 1 and 3. i was raised as a lutheran but stopped believing in my late teen years.

  my wife is what i would call a liberal jw (yes, i believe such people exist .

  sooner or later our children will have questions about religion and the differences mom and dad show towards it.

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  Roberto, what did your wife do or say to your kids when they told her they don't believe in god? at what age did she no longer force the kids to go to the KH?

  Very curious. It worked out for you very well that she didn't force them Forever. Most JWs say they would force the kids to go until 18 or something. They believe that just sitting in the chairs at the KH will save them from armageddon. Some also believe that just hearing the "truth" will make someone believe.

  Thanks for sharing your experience.
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  2014 DC Release (Unofficial Rumors)

  by WatchTower87 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  mi first prophecy:.

  friday afternoon: 4:20 teach your children to love gods kingdom!

  new book/brochure for children based on the articles "teach your children" (appeared in watchtower public edition).

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  Who here will be at the earliest DC? Unfortunately I'll be there second weekend of June.
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  JWs and the idea of a cult

  by dabster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as i've been chatting with a jw neighbour he has said, "heck, some people think we are a cult!

  " and scoffs at very idea.

  how ludicrous (he thinks)!

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  If you have an article in your magazine explaining that you're not in a cult... You're in a cult.
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  A serving elder's take on the new "tithing" arrangement

  by TTATTelder in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the gb can kiss my ass.. i'm writing "0" on the little slip of paper they pass out.. hey here's a thought:.

  you know that "widow's might" stuff they're always talking about?

  well i'm pretty dang sure that the lady was giving from the heart not because she filled out some dumba$$ piece of paper pledging two small coins several months previous!.

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  Captain Obvious

  TTATT elder... They asked how much each could reasonably afford each month? What about those of us who could reasonably afford to carry the whole hall every month? What if it were taken the wrong way?

  The elder giving the local needs last night was very sheepish, red faced. Eventually he just said he would step off the stage before he was asked more questions he couldn't answer.

  Immediately after the meeting was over I tossed the slip in the garbage by the door. Left it right on top, in plain view.