So, kids in the world don't know how or want to work hard. JW kids don't know how or want to work hard. So how are JW parents raising better kids than the worldly parents? And yes, JW kids tend to be so sheltered that they cannot cope with normal pressure when they grow up. They are doubly-screwed because they cannot get a good education that will allow them not to have to perform hard manual labor.
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Cotton wool jws
by purrpurr inthere was a talk i heard recently given by a top bethel bro, he was complaining that the type of young jws that have been joining bethel in recent years has been totally unfit for work or even life.
he called them "cotton wool jws" as he says that the parents of these young ones have kept them so sheltered from life that by the time they are of age to strike out on their own they are completely unable to cope socially, emotionally, mentally and that they have no practical life's skills or instincts of common sense or responsibility.
he said that the brothers at bethel have to work at peeling off the layers of cotton wool these ones have come wrapped in and that often when exposed to the reality of life away from mummy they quite literally go running back home.. for once i actually agree with a brother on the platform, i've met many a young teen or young adult whose life has been one long warm bath as it were.
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Debates
by MeanMrMustard insimon,.
i heard you are working on a new forum.
based on your recent discussion with @recovering, what do you think about debate threads?
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charonsdog
Could we somehow get notifications when someone comments on our post, or responds to our comment using our name? I find it quite unwieldy having to go back through many posts to see what comments may or may not have been made in my absence. Or do I just have no clue how to use this site? That's a good possibility. Because I also cannot figure out how to cut and paste from someone else's comment and put it in yellow like everyone else does.
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JWTALK?
by charonsdog ini just got my first peek at jwtalk via a link posted elsewhere.
i have been hearing about this forum for a while now, but never checked it out.
my question is this: is this site sanctioned by the wbts/gb/fds/yhwh?
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charonsdog
I just got my first peek at JWTalk via a link posted elsewhere. I have been hearing about this forum for a while now, but never checked it out. My question is this: Is this site sanctioned by the WBTS/GB/FDS/YHWH? Seriously? Even with the vetting and the moderating that happens, I cannot believe that the organization would willingly allow this to go on. They are all about control (The Watchtower tells you all you need to know about living by blah blah blah...). Maybe I'm wrong. If so, this group is completely unrecognizable to me after being gone for five years. But then, it was a lot different from when I started, too.
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Female JW parking "attendants"
by neat blue dog ini was shocked recently to see on social media a couple pictures of jw sisters at a convention working as parking "attendants".
i put that title in quotation marks because they still don't get the official attendant badge like the male parking attendants do, only the reflective vest.
has anybody else heard of this .
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charonsdog
I remember back in the 80's when I was free labor at WTF, the entire waiter staff in the dining rooms was male. Same as in Brooklyn, and possibly at all worldwide branches. After I left, I heard that they had begun using sisters as waitstaff in addition to the men. I remember being offended by this because I was still (mostly) brainwashed and did not want to believe that it would happen. What a tool I was!
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Happy Anniversary, Mom and Dad
by charonsdog intoday, july 1, i wrote what has become my annual contact with my parents.
it is their 51st wedding anniversary.
i e-mail them from across the world where i now live to let them know that i haven't forgotten them, i still love them, and that i'm doing okay.
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charonsdog
Today, July 1, I wrote what has become my annual contact with my parents. It is their 51st wedding anniversary. I e-mail them from across the world where I now live to let them know that I haven't forgotten them, I still love them, and that I'm doing okay. I know that they wonder. And as usual, I get the brief reply: 'Thank you. Glad you are okay. Praying for your return to Jehovah- who forgives in a large way... Love you'
I have no regrets about leaving the cult. But like many of you have experienced, it comes at such a high price. I don't have any relationship with my parents, who are getting up in age. My daughter (who sometimes still contacts me on the sly) is getting married, and I won't be in attendance. From her, I have found out that I'm soon to be a grandfather, as my son and his wife are expecting. I'll possibly never hear the news from him. And I'll have no part in my grandson's life.
It's sad to see that my parents are still such true believers. They have had ample opportunity in the last 46 years to see that the organization is not leading God's people. It breaks my heart to see my kids still involved, and I feel a big sense of guilt, because I am responsible for their upbringing. I ignored my own doubts while I dutifully impressed upon them the need to "stick close to Jehovah". I hope that they can see through the veil of lies at some point.
My girlfriend tries to be supportive of me when I feel down about my loss, but she cannot possibly understand what I have gone through, so her platitudes just end up making me angry. I prefer not to talk about it with her. I'm pretty open about my past as a JW if anyone over here asks about my history. Some of them are sympathetic, but again, they really cannot fathom what it's really like to have your entire life ripped away when you finally decide that you won't live with the lies and deception anymore. Not being understood is a lonely place.
Until next year, Mom and Dad.
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The biggest news of the year for Mr. and Mrs. Totally ADD
by Still Totally ADD inthis is bigger than christmas and birthdays wrap into one.
thanks to the australian royal commission our youngest son has woke up.
we received a e-mail from him tonight where he apologized to us for shunning us all these years, how bad he felt for doing this.
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charonsdog
Outstanding news! Happy for you! Hopefully many more wake up because of this.
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baptism photo
by stan livedeath ini found this photo on a facebook group--just had to grab and share.......look at the name sign in the background!.
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charonsdog
Yeah. Used to go to the Nutter Center in Dayton for the convention myself.
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LEAK: 3000 buildings to liquidate. How to choose? (Watchtower propaganda video)
by Fay Dehr inhttps://youtu.be/pzdxen9rvw0.
as the leaked financial meetings show, watchtower (by it's own admission) has to liquidate 3000+ properties quickly.
how do they choose?
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charonsdog
OMG! Gary Breaux makes me want to vomit!!!
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Things to do when im at the new 2018 convention
by Akid48 inwell, its that time where i have to go to the boring convention.
so, i wanted to know if anyone had any good ideas on how too pass the time (i cant just try and listen i fall will asleep and i cant let that happen).. (only got a few weeks before i have to go its going too kill me but i got too do it).
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charonsdog
Thinking back on what I used to do when I was stuck in the boring prison seats...
When I was a kid, I used to put both of my arms on the armrests, pretend it was the command chair on the deck of the Starship Enterprise. I'd blast things with proton laser beams and shit. Then I'd bank right, left, up, down... sometimes it even felt like I was moving. Other times I'd imagine that I was a ventriloquist, and think about putting words in someone else's mouth. Even better, imagining the ability to "ventriloquize" farts, and make other corners of the KH or assembly hall smell bad so I could watch reactions.
As I grew out of that, (who am I kidding? I never outgrew that) I'd play a personal game of "Fuck, Marry, Kill" with the audience. Or stare at the back of people's heads to see if I could make them uneasy. In the large arenas where the conventions were held, I'd look up in the rafters and use my acrophobia to give myself vertigo. Sometimes it really scared me.
As an adult, I'd volunteer for assignments to get out of having to sit in my seat. Anything was better than having to be in the auditorium. Good luck to you.
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Why Do People Oppose Jehovah's Witnesses?
by BlackSpirit injesus christ, the son of the most high god, jehovah has this to say: "if the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
if you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own.
now because you are no part of the world, but i have chosen you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
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charonsdog
Jesus H. Christ! Trotting out that sad bunch of hooey claiming that the Bible must have been inspired by God or how else would the writer know that the earth was a circle, blah blah blah.
Your organization is so friggin' Eurocentric in its thinking. They really believe that Galileo was the first to discover that the earth was round? There are so many ancient civilizations that were highly advanced in their knowledge of time and space before they went into decline or were destroyed. For all we know, there were just as many peoples who believed in a solar system as there were believing that the globe was being carried around by a turtle.
The lack of critical thinking ability on the part of the JWs is astounding. But, then, that's exactly why we were practically forbidden to get a university education. "Keep 'em stupid."