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  New ANTI-GAY video for Kids on jw.org

  by ttdtt in

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  https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/one-man-one-woman-marriage/.

  disgusting!.

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  Xanthippe

  When the mother gives the reasons it has to be one man and one woman, it seems to be all about getting in to the paradise. So you have to be straight because Jehovah says so or he'll kill you. Is that what they've come down to, not even trying to think of a reason? What a tyrant they worship and profess to love.

  Poor little girl being expected to tell her school friend that she shouldn't have gay parents, no pressure then. Poor JW kids. It was bad enough being a little girl being made to sit outside school assembly or refuse to make Xmas cards. Now these kids are being encouraged to take part in what could in the UK be interpreted as a hate incident.
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  Loyalty? Today's WT The RC. It's a fix!

  by Slidin Fast in

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  today's wt has the below scripture as it's theme.

  friday of the rc has the same as it's theme.

  the silver nwt is alone in using the word loyalty in this verse.

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  I have started to look at other references to "loyal, loyalty" and their treatment in the silver ghost bible. The results are disturbing. The terms mercy and kindness seem to have disappeared in favour of loyalty.

  They are shooting themselves in the foot with this. Verses of the Bible are like songs they stick in your mind for decades. When I start to read a scripture on this forum I know how it should end even though I left in 1989 and haven't picked up a Bible since.

  This will be happening to active JWs when they are told to look at a scripture in a talk or Watchtower study. Their minds will go straight to the old reading of the verse. Some will think, wait, what! This will wake some people up. Especially if they're replacing them all with 'loyalty'. The penny will drop for some.

  
  

  
  
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  My son has a very significant interview today..

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

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  he is just days away from graduation with his bachelor's in english, and today, he has an interview with a recruiter for an agency that help with finding teaching positions in south korea.. i took it upon myself to research the company and his interviewer, and it's been high marks all around on both of them.

  so that's a great ease on my mind.i just hope the interview (over the phone) goes well, and results in the next steps to getting a position.my son spent a month in seoul last summer, an loved the place.

  he has friends out there as well, including a young man that he attended classes with here in the states, so i think that's a real plus in taking this very giant leap.when i was his age, i was slowly working my way through a two year degree, still living at home, and aspiring to nothing more than a job as a repairman.

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  Wishing your son the best of luck, I hope he gets the job! My daughter graduates with a BA in English this summer too.
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  Loyalty? Today's WT The RC. It's a fix!

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  today's wt has the below scripture as it's theme.

  friday of the rc has the same as it's theme.

  the silver nwt is alone in using the word loyalty in this verse.

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  Xanthippe

  My god, I remember it as 'to love kindness' and I haven't been for years. What about the people who also remember it, doesn't it bother them the way it's been changed?
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  No Birthday cards

  by Xanthippe in

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  so no cards again yesterday from my daughter's uncle and aunts, my jw siblings, for her 21st birthday.

  😀 no i didn't expect any but i just wonder if they even know she's twenty-one now.

  do her cousins, one of whom has a baby of his own now?

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  Thank you Giordano. I can look back at all the mistakes I made, pioneering for years and making myself ill, but at least I got out in time to raise my daughter outside of the cult and give her a normal life. If I do nothing else for the rest of my life I achieved that.

  I've learnt so much from her you know. She's taught me what it's like to grow up normally, make friends at school and be interested in the world instead of being afraid of it. She's always accepted people for what they are but she's not naive. I am enjoying watching her grow, you're right.
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  No Birthday cards

  by Xanthippe in

  1. watchtower
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  so no cards again yesterday from my daughter's uncle and aunts, my jw siblings, for her 21st birthday.

  😀 no i didn't expect any but i just wonder if they even know she's twenty-one now.

  do her cousins, one of whom has a baby of his own now?

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  Xanthippe

  Oh thank you I didn't realise there were replies on here, you're all very kind.
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  A big thanks to all you good good people

  by aboveusonlysky in

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  "when the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies" jefferson airplane.

  until that is you find websites like this!

  i want to say a big thank you to all of you for everything i've learned here, as well as jwfacts, jwsurvey, coc, isocf etc.. i'm a born in and i spent more than two decades of my adult life in full time 'service' for the (b)org.

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  Welcome AUOS. Emotional abuse of children, you're so right. It's taken so many of us years to recover from it.
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  Waking up - introduction

  by Dreamerdude in

  1. jw
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  i am a male, born into the jw cult(ure), baptized as a teen, now mid fifties.

  most of my life i dreamed of hugging pandas and lions, punctuated at times by nightmares of armageddon or jw drama and politics.

  still going through the motions for still-in wife.

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  Another welcome from the UK here Dreamerdude. Thanks for letting us know that ridiculous tight pants talk woke you up. I have hope it's done the same for others. I'm glad the ARC made your wife want to stop contributing, that's a very good sign.
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  Evolution is a Fact #36 - Mass Extinctions

  by cofty in

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  250 million years ago a plume of molten basalt gushed up from the earth's core.

  it erupted in an area now known as the siberian traps - back then it was part of the supercontinent pangaea.

  a curtain of lava a mile high and hundreds of miles long lit up the sky.

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  When you think humankind could become extinct through flooding and famine due to global warming; the antimicrobial resistance crisis or from a meteorite, beliefs of any kind all seem rather pointless.
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  Why are witnesses all so highly stressed?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  witnesses are so anxious, stressed, highly strung..... so much for ones who are supposed to be "the happiest people"..... thoughts?.

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  Xanthippe

  We once had a CO visit and in one of his talks he asked what are priorities for true Christians and what are optional if we get time. Yeah one of those blackboard, line down the middle things. When he said recreation, is that a priority, no hands at all. Then I put mine up, I never could be a good quiet girl and STFU. How can recreation be optional!! No wonder they're all ill.