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  Call for investigation into JW child abuse in the Netherlands

  by Anders Andersen in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  after yesterday's newspaper articles about how jw (mis)handle child abuse cases, today the newspaper reports that both members of the national house of representatives, and the national commissioner on human trafficking and sexual violence against children are petitioning the minister / secretary of state to launch an investigation into jw and other closed religious communities.. the newspaper article (in dutch).

  the newspaper also published the personal story of a victim, and how he fought for justice within jw to no avail.this story is from my home town (just few years before i move there), different congregation in the same hall..

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  never a jw

  Sounds good. Actually scratch that. I have no idea what the heck they are saying in the radio. Not one word. Could you give us the gist of it?
  
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  Verifiable proof of Jesus' existance outside the Bible

  by unsure in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  thought i'd start a separate discussion on the subject.. those who know me know i'm struggling with faith; i want to believe, some days i do but it becomes difficult.. many believers say there is verifiable proof of jesus' existence outside of the bible.. please post this proof..

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  never a jw

  You seem to want to believe that Jesus existed. Not much evidence, but most experts believe that he did. Now the important question is, was he divine? For that question the evidence is a big ZERO, but two billion people believe it today. It's a matter of faith, or if I use a synonymous sentence, it's a matter of gullibility. Faith is put in our heads at a time when we are the most gullible, when we are children, so most of us were subject to religious indoctrination and evidence was never offered. Faith, humility, hope, obedience are not virtues. They are tools other humans use to control you.
  
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  10 years on.....

  by snare&racket in

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  i was a window cleaner, i was at the time unemployed, homeless.

  i had no education to be proud of (high school one a two b's rest c's) i was a jehovahs witness.

  i had been a pioneer.

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  never a jw

  Snare,

  Nice to hear from you again. I know you are busy doing the heavy-lifting to keep humanity healthy, but come back from time to time and inspire us with your story.
  
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  McEnroe Puts Serena at About 700 on Men's Tour

  by cofty in

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  2. current

  john mcenroe was challenged by npr reporter lulu garcia-navarro to amend his comments about serena williams in his new book in which he rates her as the best women's player of all time.

  lulu suggested he should not call her the best "women's" player but simply the best player of all time.

  mcenroe was taken aback and explained that the men's and women's tours were very different and that serena would be around 700th on in the men's game.

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  never a jw

  few prayers to Jehovah God, some steroids, and a generous donation to the true religion would move her up to top 100
  
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  Monica Richardson - "[Evolution] was something I never doubted; it was taught as a scientific fact."

  by cognisonance in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so i found another piece in the no 4.

  2017 awake attacking evolution.

  wow two attacks in the same article!anyway richardson is a physician the jws are cherry picking to support the idea even intelligent people can think evolution is nonsense.

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  Orphan crow,

  Isn't interesting how the WT disparages higher education, well that is until they need to sound credible.

  Amazing how those otherwise smart people can fall for the overlapping generation and other bullshit of the GB. Just amazing!
  
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  JW Losses Civil Case Against Hospital

  by John Davis in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  jw family loses a civil case against a pa hospital where the mother died after bleeding following child birth.

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  http://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/2017/1838-eda-2015.html.

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  never a jw

  the loss of lives, the waste of resources provided by hospitals, government, courts and taxpayers. All of it just because people want to live inn the dark, in ignorance. JW's leaders are the ones who should get sued, not the good people who make every effort to save lives, but have to put with the GB bullshit.
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  Watchtower says: if your unbelieving relatives think you are in a cult, try to see things from their point of view

  by cognisonance in

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  2. bible

  12 have empathy for unbelieving relatives.

  while we may be overjoyed about the bible truths we have learned, our relatives may mistakenly believe that we have been tricked or have become part of a cult.

  we should show empathy by trying to see things from their viewpoint and by listening carefully to discern their real concerns.

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  never a jw

  It's the 1980's again. Back then, during and after the great purge, "apostates" (R. Franz and COJ) wrote books showing the lies and negative aspects of the JW's. Shortly after (around 1993), damage control gets into action by inoculating the JW's with the Proclaimers book, which "candidly" admits the criticisms in two words and treats them as if they were insignificant errors. This way the JW's could fend off the attacks by saying "I know, I know, the proclaimers book candidly informs us".

  So now the apostates and the press are using the word cult when referring to JW's, then damage control decides it's inoculation time again. One caveat, the 1980's were a time when JW's could only find out about the real truth of their own religion through books. Fast forward to 2017 and you have an entirely different ball game. Now information through the internet is instantly accessible to even a two or three year old. No reading or typing skills needed, as long as he/she can say Spiderman into the cell phone, he/she will get Spiderman youtube videos.
  
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  Some Good News About Me (Although Anthony Morris Will Be Furious)

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just wanted to share with you some good news i'm really excited about.

  i have been accepted for university to study psychology and counseling.

  my goal is to become a counselor and, in time, to specialize on treating those who have left high control relationships/groups like we all did.. it'll take a few years before im qualified but studying in university has been a dream of mine since i was 12, which was systematically dashed to pieces by watchtower.. .

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  never a jw

  Wonderful choice. You have the experience of being a victim of a cult. Now you are going to arm yourself with the tools to put your life experience to great use, to help other. Be proud of yourself!
  
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  More than 75% of the human genome may be 'junk' DNA.

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  making little or no difference to our daily lives, comes the claim that most of our human genome is not functional.. dan graur an (evolutionary) biologist at the university of houston and other academics made the claim in a paper published in an online journal, genome biology and evolution.. the group's calculations suggest that not more than 25% of the human genome is functional - the rest is seen as 'junk' dna,.

  see science dailys coverage of the report at: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170714140234.htm .

  coverage of similar research at the uk's oxford university (reported in the guardian aust.

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  Perry,

  How can you be so blind or hypocritical? Every time you try to pose a challenge to evolution you are forced to use information that has been discovered and provided by scientist. If it weren't for scientists you and your ilk wouldn't know about the existence of DNA or molecules, or anything in an elementary science book, let alone in any higher level books. You may argue that some religious people have made contributions to science, but we owe their contributions to their observations of the physical world and their use of the scientific method, not to praying. Christianity and the Bible have contributed zero, nothing, zilch to any discovery or invention that we enjoy today. The level of cognizant dissonance are at incredible levels in your brain. It's extremely frustrating that millions today actually believe your dishonest and fallacious arguments.
  
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  More than 75% of the human genome may be 'junk' DNA.

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  making little or no difference to our daily lives, comes the claim that most of our human genome is not functional.. dan graur an (evolutionary) biologist at the university of houston and other academics made the claim in a paper published in an online journal, genome biology and evolution.. the group's calculations suggest that not more than 25% of the human genome is functional - the rest is seen as 'junk' dna,.

  see science dailys coverage of the report at: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170714140234.htm .

  coverage of similar research at the uk's oxford university (reported in the guardian aust.

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  Perry: "80 percent of the genome has a “biochemical function"

  80%, 10 % or 100%, what difference does it make? It's a DNA that has been forming gradually for more than 3 billion years. Whether there's a creator or not behind this long process, the Bible can't offer a reliable account of anything, especially about the beginnings of human life.