I wrote an essay about this ethical dilemma for JW health care workers, when I was in nursing school.
Posts by Scully
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33Has anyone been outed by jw health care workers?
by purrpurr incarrying on from audespare thread.
i was wondering how common it is for a sinner/apostate to be outed by a babbling jw care worker?
say you went to your dr because you were pregnant and unmarried or wanting counseling for having to live a double life as a pretend jw... and a jw secretary at the drs office saw this on your file and went tattling to the elders?.
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I'm getting baptized
by BlackWolf ini know i've started similar topics before but this time i'm serious.
my parents have been constantly pressuring me and after yesterday's watchtower study they asked me if i was going to be baptized this summer... and i said yes.
i probably should have thought about it more before making a final decision, but they're pretty much forcing me to do it anyway.
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Scully
Are you old enough to get a driver's licence? No.
Are you old enough to vote? No.
Are you old enough to open a bank account without needing your parents to co-sign for you? Probably not.
Are you old enough to get married without your parents' permission? No.
Are you old enough to join the military? No.
Are you old enough to sign a contract? No.
Are you old enough to get a job? Maybe, but maybe not.
My point is this: The law of the land does not permit *children* to undertake certain adult activities, and for a very good reason: a child's power of reasoning and critical thinking is not fully developed. Unscrupulous people prey on young people like yourself and trap them in situations that can cause irreparable damage to the young person. Why do you think so many kids start smoking or trying drugs when they are teenagers? It's because they really want to be accepted by peers, despite what they have been taught about the dangers of these behaviours.
If the Watchtower Society had your best interests at heart, why would they need to put so much pressure on young people to forego higher education, or limit association outside the Congregation™, or get Baptized™ before they are old enough to really truly understand the consequences of being Baptized™?
If your parents are reasonable, they would allow you to complete your high school education in a Public School. If they are reasonable, they will allow you to wait to get Baptized™ until you are an adult (like Jesus did). If they are reasonable, they will allow you to go to community college or vocational school to learn a trade so that you can support yourself if and when you wish to Pioneer™ (like the Apostle Paul did). The Bible™ says that "overseers" should be "reasonable" (1 Timothy 3:1-3) and that Christians should "let your reasonableness become known to all men" (Philippians 4:5).
Only people (and Organizations™) who are unreasonable would try to force a person who is not legally an adult, to make adult-sized commitments. If someone was trying to get you to sign a contract or force you to get married or recruit you into a gang at your age, they would be committing an illegal act. I believe in my heart of hearts that coercing or strongly persuading or using threats to get children to commit to a religion should be punishable by law, particularly if leaving that religion in adulthood results in severe negative consequences for that person.
PLEASE WAIT. Peer pressure is still peer pressure, whether it's from kids at school or kids at the KH or even family members. You DON'T HAVE TO DO THIS.
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21 May Branch Visit by Reino Kesk in Italy...........ohohohoho!!
by LaFrancia innews from the bethel of italy very soon ?.
the properties in rome, will be sold ?
will remain only germany bethel in selters and in italy will remain only.
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Scully
Reno Kesk was our CO when I was a kid. He always said to think of Draino Desk to help remember his name.
Apparently it worked. lol
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Connect with people in Nova Scotia?
by Nicodemus Kathoplizo inmy family and i have recently awakened after watching the arc, reading coc etc.
we are feeling quite alone out here, and are looking for a group for bible study.
we now identify as christians, and are looking for some association with exjws out here.. thanks.
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Scully
Welcome.
It's been a long time since I've lived in NS, but I would be interested in hearing your family's story of learning The Truth About The Truth™.
cheers,
Scully
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JWs sell 124 Columbia Heights to Florida Panthers owner
by betterdaze injehovah's witnesses sell 124 columbia heights to florida panthers owner vincent violavirtu ceo vincent viola pays $105m for jehovah’s witnesses building in bk heights.
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Scully
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Why did Jehovah want to kill Moses?
by Doug Mason inon the way, at a place where they spent the night, the lord met him and tried to kill him.
but zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, and touched moses' feet with it, and said, "truly you are a bridegroom of blood to me!
it was then she said, "a bridegroom of blood by circumcision.
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Scully
It was because Moses broke the Abrahamic covenant - the one that required males to be circumcised on the 8th day of life - by (1) marrying outside the tribes and (2) allowing his wife, Zipporah, to carry on with her family traditions, which did not, apparently, include circumcision of the male children.
PS - I inquired about this scripture to one of the Elders™ when I was 14 or 15. His answer? "Why don't you do some research and tell me what you find." I guess he didn't know how to say "I really don't know."
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Japanese sister woke up with this Watchtower article !
by nakanozzi ina japanese sister who recently woke up revealed me that she became extremely suspicious about the organization after reading watchtower article .oct.15 2015page31.
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Scully
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ToMo has a New Soulmate - Toronto woman wakes up to raccoon sex
by berrygerry in“i found it gross and disgusting.".
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/04/09/toronto-woman-wakes-up-to-raccoon-sex.
- if you see this balcony rockin’, don’t come knockin’.it was too early thursday morning for ava kwinter to unsee what she describes as a “traumatic” start to her day.as she passed by her door leading to the second-floor balcony just before 7 a.m., she saw two shadowy figures locked in an embrace.“the sun was already coming up but it was still dark,” she said.
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Scully
It was so "gross and disgusting" that she took pictures of them en flagrante and watched them go at it with her daughter, went to have breakfast, and then went and watched some more. Voyeur is more like it.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
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"But WHY would you want to know those things??"
by stuckinarut2 ini ran into an older sister who has always been very sweet.. it was a friendly chat...yet she pushed for a reason why my family have been missing from meetings for some time.
the question was deflected, until it just had to be said: "well, there have been some troubling and disturbing issues about the society especially the way things were handled during the royal commission, as well as many other issues".. she quickly cut in and said "but why would you want to know these things?
its best not to research and look at those sort of things - so we don't get upset!".
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Scully
"And why don't *you* want to know if there's a child molester sitting next to children at the Kingdom Hall™? That's the more disturbing question..." -
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Is downloading Jw application dangerous?
by nakanozzi inhi, everybody.. romor has it that here in japan, downloading jw application is dangerous because once.
you download it, borg will know your every activity on the internet.. is this true?.
does anybody know about that kind of thing?.
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Scully
Everybody should go to a pornsite for a minute before visiting the WTBS website. That would give them something to investigate.
Or a JW Match site... to show them how desperate for marriage/sex their followers are.