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  Is the Earth really that great?

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i enjoy watching nature documentaries; david attenborough being my favorite host and narrator.

  that being said, i’ve come to the conclusion that contrary to xianity’s teaching, the earth is not “perfectly placed/designed for life.” .

  when you actually observe the world at large, without blinders, it’s a wonder that life even exists.

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  Tennyson wrote about 'nature red in tooth and claw' about the time Darwin discovered natural selection. The earth isn't perfect at all, we have a battle for survival and no damn positive mental attitude will change that.
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  Women and Children First Still!

  by Charles Gillette in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  at a time when women fly combat aircraft, when they are grant equality in education,in employment,in government,in athletics,etc.

  what entitles women to the status of children still?.

  women and children first when it comes to emergency situations.

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  My Norwegian wife would be angry at the idea that she could not or should not accept her fate with the same courage as a man. (Actually there would be a charred, smoking hole in the ceiling where she went through it... -TD

  So Charles Gillette this is how modern women like myself and TD's wife feel about this archaic attitude. We are certainly not alone I know.
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  Pregnant JW has "come to Jesus" moment

  by Lee Elder in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  a pregnant jehovah's witness rethinks watchtower's transfusion policy .

  after one simple question from her hematologist.

  read her story in this .

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  Great article, thanks. This conversation she had with her doctor struck me,

  "She asked me to double check with my elders or leaders about my alternative options for treatment since I really had trouble explaining myself"

  This is the problem with most JWs they have no idea what blood fractions are and yet they are prepared to give their lives for this belief system.

  Well done to this woman for doing her own research to protect herself and her unborn child.

  I can relate to the feelings of guilt she had and that she said she had to pace herself while doing the research whilst asking Jehovah for his understanding. It's so exhausting finding out TTATT it's good to take your time and find whatever way works to heal the guilt. Good result for this woman, she's on her way!

  
  
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  Women and Children First Still!

  by Charles Gillette in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  at a time when women fly combat aircraft, when they are grant equality in education,in employment,in government,in athletics,etc.

  what entitles women to the status of children still?.

  women and children first when it comes to emergency situations.

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  I don't know who is saying women and children first. Do you have a specific example. When my colleagues and I evacuate the public building where I work if there is a fire, bomb threat etc, we evacuate everyone. Where do people get these ideas that women are still doing this that and the other, what the heck do you mean? Who is saying women and children first?
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  Evangelicals and Unbelievers

  by Boredposter in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been noticing a distinct difference in reaction to those who leave christianity among evangelicals and jehovah's witnesses.

  when i left jwism there wasn't much effort to correct me.

  i know this is not a surprise to any of you.

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  Surely your link is to a Christian site and article about Christianity. Why are you talking about apologists trying to bring people back to Christianity? You've lost me. I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Explain why you are happy if you believe there is no afterlife vs when you joined JW's

  by Bad_Wolf in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  one thing that has intrigued me are so many who have left, who are wholly convinced everything in existence is merely by chance now, also claim they wouldn't want to live forever, and perfectly fine if this is the only life.

  now, i would understand that if you were raised into the religion.

  i was raised into it.

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  I am happy if there's an afterlife and if there isn't I won't know anything about it. I would love to live forever, people who say it would be boring amaze me. Perhaps they're bored now.

  I also don't agree that believing in the possibility of an afterlife destroys your enjoyment of the present and postpones happiness. That only happens if you're in a religion that won't let you enjoy life and makes you work to appease a deity and earn an afterlife.

  Religions don't have anything to do with our existence on this planet or anything that may be beyond. They're selling tickets for a gig they don't know the way to.
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  The Latest Thing Waking People Up...

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  since i woke up and left i've been contacted by others i knew from my youth who've also left the cult.

  also people around the world on facebook adding me out of the blue because we have mutual friends and they occasionally ask me stuff or share their story.. what i've noticed in the vast majority of cases, is that people are waking up not because of the arc or doctrine but apathy.

  active jws are becoming less and less interested, less and less bothered.

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  It was all very well when you were living within an actual generation of 1914, well the one they give, three score and ten. But when it's been 104 years and they're still telling you to do more, it's just around the corner, come on!

  Thats good news by the way that people are just leaving because they're fed up, PE. Very good news.
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  Chaunte Cardwell – from Near Death to Freedom

  by Lee Elder in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  we have just published a new experience about the near death of a pregnant jw who found her way to freedom with the help of ajwrb.

  http://ajwrb.org/chaunte-cardwell-from-near-death-to-freedomchaunte cardwell – from near death to freedom.

  chaunte cardwell – ogden, utah – 1986. .

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  Great experience.
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  Screwed up sexually

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was thinking about how the borg screws up and sexually neuters their flock by telling them when single to "deaden their body" and then boom as soon as there's a ring on the finger to not be denying eachother.. do any of you know of jws who have been screwed up by these teachings?

  i know 2, 1 elder came back from honeymoon having a nervous breakdown unable to cope with the cd that sex produced in his head.

  and the other called up her parents while on honeymoon, crying and begging for themto come and get her, since she was so shocked that sex hurt.

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  When you get married to a guy you love more than life but he has been an enforced virgin for 27 years. He wants to make love three time a day and that's fine because I was only twenty-two but after a few months you get tired when you're pioneering and going to work as well. All the housework too, my privilege of course. You just want to take a night off occasionally and sleep, you know! He can't though, because masturbation is forbidden, even in marriage. Arrrggh!! Stupid cult.
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  Check out the JW tchotchkes on Etsy

  by exjwlemming in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i'm interested in seeing what jw trinket on etsy is the most appalling to the exjw community.

  go to www.etsy.com and just search jw.

  just when i thought that i found the most disturbing item, another comes along to top it.

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  For poor people who haven't lived yet