Xanthippe

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  They've given themselves a out for refusing to give you your data if you ask for it

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  from the jw.org global data page.

  "upon receipt of your written request, after you provide sufficient evidence of your identity and enough information to permit us to identify your personal data, the applicable data controller will fairly consider granting the request by balancing the interests of the individual in gaining access to data or correcting or deleting data against the legitimate interests of the organization, including whether granting the request would endanger the organization’s right to religious freedom and practice.

  we will also notify any third-party recipients of the necessary changes.. please note that your data may not be erased if processing is required by law or if the data may be kept on other legal bases.

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  Xanthippe

  The GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation that comes into force in the EU on May 25 is the biggest change in data collection and storage for many years. My experience in local government is that most organizations are shitting themselves about this because the fines for failing to hold data correctly are enormous.

  Really, I can't give you the details but it's getting beyond a joke the lengths we are going to in my department to prepare for this. It's about being fined an arm and a leg for failing spot inspections after May 25, 2018. I think this is all it's about with the WTS in Europe.
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  The older I get the more angry I become!

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i did some self-reflection today trying to determine why, with every passing day, i become angrier against the watchtower company.

  i am in my 70's and my health is failing.

  at first, i thought it was because "worldly" people couldn't care less about jdubs and the little world they live in even though the witlesses think that the earth revolves around them and their desert god who was originally worshipped by the cainites.

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  Xanthippe

  Is it so small a thing
  To have enjoy'd the sun,
  To have lived light in the spring,
  To have loved, to have thought, to have done?

  Matthew Arnold

  It's no small thing to learn to enjoy life after our past, it's a victory! It's a victory for honesty and integrity. Live light in the spring sour grapes. Enjoy the sun.
  
  
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  Where is Jehovah?

  by sinboi in

  1. social
  2. humour

  many years back, my younger brother and i were the most mischievous kids in the kingdom hall.

  we would mischievously take away things like the bible , study magazines, etc from meeting attendees.

  soon, they will suspect us if anything went missing.. our parents were annoyed with our conduct and behaviour.. they requested an elder to talk to us.

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  Xanthippe

  Haven't heard that one before sinboi, made me laugh, thanks.
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  The older I get the more angry I become!

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i did some self-reflection today trying to determine why, with every passing day, i become angrier against the watchtower company.

  i am in my 70's and my health is failing.

  at first, i thought it was because "worldly" people couldn't care less about jdubs and the little world they live in even though the witlesses think that the earth revolves around them and their desert god who was originally worshipped by the cainites.

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  Xanthippe

  Seems a shame to waste our one moment on earth feeling angry and regretting our lives. Life's a bitch and then you die but in the meantime ........
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  Christ's sacrifice

  by dogisgod in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, i am having lunch with a group of women with varying backgrounds.

  i asked the circle how many believed in the story of adam and eve and the snake.

  no one believed it literally.

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  Xanthippe

  Always struggled with this teaching as a teenager. It's very monetary isn't it, Adam lost perfection, Jesus died to get it back. Very legalistic. I always though it was weird we had to be grateful to God for torturing his son to death when he made the wacky bargain anyway. He was living by his own weird rules.
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  What is CT Russell's motive?

  by sinboi in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is russell's motive when he started examining the bible with a group of bible students?

  did he intend to form a cult and to mislead others?

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  Xanthippe

  What was CT Russell's motive?

  Perhaps he was just a poor little rich boy trying to find himself. His family was wealthy enough for him to be able to afford the luxury of existential angst. Unfortunately he was a man of his time, with no internet he turned to the Bible and religion.

  Too early for a library card, Carnegie was still making his fortune. If only Russell had read Origin of Species instead of Bible commentaries, how different his life and ours would be.
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  Which post has he just read, and what's he thinking?

  by Fay Dehr in

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  Xanthippe

  Tomorrow I'm flying business class and staying in a five star hotel being treated like a king by the local congregation........but first I have to talk to these idiots.
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  Motives Matter

  by AllTimeJeff in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is a difference between the leadership of the borg (gb 2.5, is that what they're on now?

  ) and the sheeples, that for a variety of reasons, stick with this nonsense.. not every jw publisher believes this stuff.

  the gb knows this.

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  Xanthippe

  The motives of the ordinary folk who looked to people like Russell in the nineteenth century may have been genuine, desperate for answers for the reasons I gave but are the r+f JWs genuine now? Or are they just too lazy and too cowardly to leave? In the information rich world we live in how can anyone be so ignorant?
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  Motives Matter

  by AllTimeJeff in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is a difference between the leadership of the borg (gb 2.5, is that what they're on now?

  ) and the sheeples, that for a variety of reasons, stick with this nonsense.. not every jw publisher believes this stuff.

  the gb knows this.

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  Xanthippe

  Life was hard in the 1870s even in Western countries. A lot of poverty, misery and sickness around. Heck people could die from complications from a cold, no antibiotics. So people were searching for answers and a lot of cults sprang up.

  Do we need them now? No! We have answers, we have science, medicine, wonderful food from all over the world, technology that was beyond belief in the nineteenth century. They are anachronistic nonsense, these religions, be done with them.
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  How do you deal with the loneliness after leaving?

  by Whynot in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm having one of those days where i feel lonely and wish i had someone to just hang out with.

  my husband got disfellowshipped 3 years ago and even though i didn't do anything wrong i was pushed away.

  my so called "friends" decided to avoid me.

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  There is a co-worker that wants to hangout and I would really like to. How do I push this endoctrination out of my head that it's not fine to be friends with someone who is not a JW? I feel like a big mess bleh.

  That sounds great, just don't get too heavy about it, keep it light, no need to tell your life story, just hang out. If you don't enjoy hanging out with this person just don't accept further invitations. Don't worry about it. People in the real world don't shun you if you just don't want to hang out.