Topics Started by blubberyk9

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A Better View of Trauma
by Sea Breeze in
1. jw
2. friends
i ran across this short essay and thought it was worth passing along.

trauma is not your fault, but healing is your responsibility.

what happened to you was not your fault.. it was not something you asked for, it was not something you deserved.. what happened to you was not fair.. you were merely collateral damage on someone else’s warpath, an innocent bystander who got wrecked out of proximity.. we are all traumatized by life, some of us from egregious wrongdoings, others by unprocessed pain and sidelined emotions.
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Can't deny my JW's past
by StephaneLaliberte in
1. jw
2. experiences
today was a beautiful day and so, decided to drive by my old town with my wife.

at some point, she asked me to stop talking about jws to which i said: i'm talking about were i lived, what i did and who i knew.

its just that all of it was jws!
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My kids are watching Atheist Content on Youtube!
by Miriam in
1. social
2. family
i was looking at my children's watch history on youtube when i saw that they were watching atheist content!!!

what should i do?

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*WARNING SUICIDE RELATED POST
by Annamouse in
1. watchtower
2. medical
bit of background: a couple of years ago i was reproved after i slept with a brother that i was in love with but we were not married.

in fairness, the elders were kind and supportive.

the problem is, i had always been the model witness before that.
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Field service shit show
by solomon in
1. jw
2. friends
i just got back from field service.

i haven’t been out in a few months so now we don’t keep any written records and we don’t know which houses are do not calls.

i also noticed i was the only one with a book bag.
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Algebra
by HappyDad in
1. jw
2. friends
what the hell?

it's after 4 am here in minnesota and my brain just won't shut down.

of all things....in the middle of the night,algebra is bugging me.
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Article: What Is The Clergy-Penitent Privilege And How Can It Protect Sex Offenders?
by AndersonsInfo in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
https://www.oxygen.com/the-witnesses/crime-news/how-clergy-penitent-privilege-may-protect-sex-offenders.

how clergy-penitent privilege may protect sex offenders | crime news.

it’s a practice that is centuries old: confessing one’s sins to a trusted clergy member.
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Ever notice this about X JWs
by JimmyYoung in
1. jw
2. experiences
its not just x jws but religious people in general.

they feel free to post this crap on the internet about jesus is lord share this post, or some drivel but then if you post any thing that questions it you get jumped on like someone saying the earth is a globe at a flat earth convention.

they can say what ever they want but don't dare question it.
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Believers: How do you know your view of your chosen holy book is the correct one?
by punkofnice in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
don't start fighting, darlings.

i am genuinely curious.

after all i was a jobo 50 years and thought the wbt$ was 100% correct.. i ask this because i see that, for example, christian denominations (or whatever), likely have differing interpretations of the same writing.
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How many Christians were there in the 1st century?
by yaddayadda in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just been reading former long-time brooklyn bethelite tom cabeen's very encouraging article entitled "where is the body of christ?".

(can be found at http://divinetruth.homestead.com/bodyofchrist.pdf) .

in his article, tom says: "when john received the revelation around the end of the first century, there were hundreds of thousands of christians, even by conservative estimates.