Topics Started by aboveusonlysky

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Latest awake on JW.org
by aboveusonlysky in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the latest awake (no 3 2020) on jw.org is just breathtaking, it's about prejudice and gives the following 3 examples which i will one by one attemp to debunk.. awake - some employers have mistakenly believed that women are unqualified for scientific or technical jobs.. erm... women are not only forbidden from elder or m/s appointment, they're not even considered qualified enough to adjust the height of a brother's microphone, you were saying?.....

awake - in medieval europe, jews were falsely accused of poisoning wells and spreading disease.

during nazi rule, jews were again slandered.
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Could a petition to make shunning illegal work?
by aboveusonlysky in
1. jw
2. friends
we're currently watching leah remini's series about scientology and the main thing she seems to focus on is the shunning policies of the scientology organization which let's face it are very similar to jw procedure.. i was wondering with all that's in the media recently about bullying could a petition be put together to get the goverment to consider making religiously mandated shunning illegal?

has such a thing been tried before?.

https://petition.parliament.uk/help says the following - .
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The day after Armageddon
by Pronger1 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
jws are scattered across the globe.

a few million people left, pretty isolated from each other.. telephone lines and power goes down since the people who supported the infrastructure are dead.

communication across town, state, country, etc is cut off.
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My first Christmas with my son
by Funchback in
1. jw
2. experiences
after i left the jws, i began to live a normal and mentally healthy life (i'm still working on living a physically healthy one) .

anyway, in 2011, i met the woman of my life and we have been together ever since.

and now we have a beautiful son who will turn 1 in january.
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A history of global living conditions in 5 charts
by Simon in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
great article with charts showing how the world is getting better, despite the attempts of the news and certain religious groups to say it ain't so (or try and make it not).. https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts/.

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How the Watchtower Could Grow In Numbers
by Sour Grapes in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
if i were running the watchtower there are things that i would do to increase the numbers and increase donations.

since so many older witnesses are realizing that the false hope they had of not growing old and not having to die is fading away like a frost on a sunny autumn morning, the watchtower needs to shift gears.. as it has been stated on this forum, the emphasis needs to shift from not dying to the glorious hope of the resurrection, the gateway to paradise.

they need to deemphasize armageddon and emphasize "the way of life" that witnesses have.
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Has waking up ever made you physically ill?
by fizzle in
1. jw
2. friends
has waking up ever made you physically ill?

perhaps because of the emotional strain etc..?.

if if so what were / are the symptoms?.
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Do you believe that Jehovah is using the Organization today?
by Iamallcool in
1. jw
2. friends
any elder has never asked me that question so far but i want to be prepared to answer that question if any of them ask me that question in the future.

i hope that they will never ask me that question.

any suggestions on how to answer that question would be very much appreciated.
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New documentary on pedophilia with english subtitles
by yalbmert99 in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
new documentary on pedophilia that aired december 1st, 2016 on radio-canada(cbc) in quebec in french now with english subtitles.

note : activate subtitles on youtube.. enquête : les «sales» du royaume (translation).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk2uc5u8eis&index=1&list=plrdybk064vz82j5ysa5qkajwnf3szrnpi.
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Have the Elders ever been instructed by their bethel to call the police for abuse?
by StephaneLaliberte in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
right now, there are a lot of talks on this topic in quebec and, at the mid week meeting, they are reading the letter sent in 2002 where it states that the elders will call the authorities if the law forces them to.

the strange thing is, it looks like even when there are laws to that effect, jws seem to believe that it does not apply to them.

for instance, i know that they do not report anything in quebec, even if it is the law!