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  Midweek meeting video

  by aboveusonlysky in

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  did anybody see the service meeting video this week?.

  australian sister was sexually abused as a child and thought of ending her life at 14 years old, sometime later jw's call on her father who accepts a study and eventually the whole family becomes witnesses, life gets much better as the sister immerses herself in pioneering etc, she still has some dark days but prayer along with going for walks and swimming has helped her cope with bad memories of child abuse, the new system (just around the corner) will completely fix everything......... i'm dumbfounded, the hypocrisy has literally rendered me speechless......comments anybody?.

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  The Royal commission in Australia hasn't been and gone. The WTS has it coming to them, and I think they know it. They will almost certainly be hurt financially and it still has the potential to be significant. These child abuse issues will nearly sink them and it's part of the reason they have been preparing for a substantial membership decline, a decline which has already started. They will scream persecution, and trim some fat at the same time.

  The religion will be a slow-motion train wreck over the next 20 years IMO.
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  Who writes Awake! ?

  by Drwho in

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  2. bible

  just a quick question.

  who actually writes the awake!

  and the watchtower publications ?

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  I believe they home a large group of Manatees in a giant tank, along with balls that have words etched on them. Some balls have scriptures and the Manatees just pick up balls at random. The words and scriptures found on the balls become the article that goes to print.

  This has always been the WTS method for forming the Awake!!! magazine.
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  I need to know more on why its a problem for me dating a JW girl.

  by seekinghelpp in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  ok not to throw no shade or no disrespect to the jw religion.

  which i truly do respect because my girlfriend is part of but i just don't understand, i have researched so much about it.

  so much about how its discouraged for her to be with me just cause of different religion.

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  not to throw no shade or no disrespect to the JW religion. which i truly do respect because my girlfriend is part of
  

  The JW religion deserves no respect. It's a filthy cult. Not to say your girlfriend isn't lovely, it's just she's a victim.

  Think daddy issues x1000, she is going to carry serious baggage from the cult.
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  Do you have / admire Charisma?

  by The Rebel in

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  2. friends

  "charisma is a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which the person is set apart from ordinary people and treated as exceptional".

  as a kid i was afraid of such charisma, as it was usually the quality i noticed elders, head masters, and parents had to exercise with unloving authority over me.. but now i think about it "charisma" doesn't need be only for people with authority.

  " charisma" is something even we can have?

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  I'm proud of my humility and very modest about my admirable charisma that oozes from me like a thick secretion.

  I never asked to be this good looking either.
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  September Is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

  by azor in

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  2. friends

  please donate.

  whether it's your time, money, or influence.

  the donation box at mcdonalds does go to an amazing charity.

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  MacDonalds in Australia also run a charity called Ronald McDonald House. They have entire facilities built so that family's with sick children have somewhere to stay right near the hospital, It is a really great thing.
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  A News Item from The Golden Age January 13, 1937

  by Nathan Natas in

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  What the??
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  meeting with elders about WT involvement in UN

  by LevelThePlayingField in

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  2. scandals

  i still go to the meetings because of my in wife and it came about that the elders knew of my pissed off attitude about the society getting involved in the un.

  so the elders said they could help me get over that and wanted to meet with me.

  now just to let you know, i have only told my wife and her mom so far about it, that's it.

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  I had a meeting with the elders that went much the same way.

  Addressed absolutely none of my concerns, answered no questions and refused to even look at information I tried to present them. One elder turned over a paper I handed him and refused to even look at it, sighting possible apostate sources as the cause for his hysterical reaction to the a4 page.

  I was warned not be critical of Gods org (I was suggesting that 607-1914 was in error), and given numerous WT articles that dealt with doubts and being critical of the Org.

  The whole meeting played out exactly like many on this site said it would, the same way these visits always do. I was asked if I still believed that Jehovah is directing the org and using the slave as his channel on earth today.

  I replied, "Yes, of course I do". Bold faced lie. That meeting was the nail in the coffin. They confirmed that they were all batshit crazy and I left.
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  My Favouite Inappropriate Watchtower Pictures

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. bible

  i'd love to see you're favorite wt illustrations/photo's that they think are fine to print - but are actually kind of creepy/wierd.. .

  here's my three fave from my book of bible stories (yes, a book for children!)..

  man gets his head nailed into the floor with a tent pin by a good jehovah worshipper:.

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  I can vividly recall almost every illustration from the My Book of Bible Porn.

  How harmfull is raising a child on that shit. It's playing Russian roulette with a child's mental health.
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  Caption Competition

  by Tallon in

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  "my dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking dom perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees fahrenheit.".

  over to you ....

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  "Ohhh yeah.... a little to the left...ahhhhh..."
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  JWs accused of pressuring Syrian refugees in Northern Greece to convert - so far, 40 have converted

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  i just received the following link to a video where some claim that jws are pressuring syrian refugees in northern greece to convert.

  fyi, i tried to locate the date of the video, but couldn't, so don't know if it is recent or not.

  https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/vb.407570359384477/791011651040344/?type=2&theater.

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  In the case of Islamic extremism, JW's could be a chemo for that cancer. Convert from a religion that has a potential to turn people into violent extremist to JW. Then the next step is learning TTATT. Then they are home free.
  

  Brilliant idea, those ISIS warlords would make wonderful elders.

  Andre, a former Isis warlord, tells us how he went from beheading infidels to standing behind a JW.org cart.