Hadriel

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  Hey ya'll! My first post. Please help. In need of advice/comfort.

  by Stepford Wife in

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  hey ya'll!

  i have been lurking for years on this site and others but never had the courage to post anything.

  actually i was afraid of posting on an apostate site in the event i was wrong.

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  Hadriel

  @Konceptual99 makes a great point regarding discussing things with your husband. They should and most likely will respect that.

  Can be a parachute of sorts.
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  Any ExJw Millenials here? If not which Gen do you fall under?

  by Hidethevelociraptors in

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  if anyone had to guess, what do you think the average age of the community actually is?.

  are more millennials actually waking up or is it pretty even amongst previous generations as well?

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  Hadriel

  @Crappytan my apologies but my opinions are based on fact not allegiance.

  Your comment is a bit typical of what I'm describing though. You call me classless yet support a person who blatantly says they'll break the law.

  In all seriousness you just made my case.
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  Hey ya'll! My first post. Please help. In need of advice/comfort.

  by Stepford Wife in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey ya'll!

  i have been lurking for years on this site and others but never had the courage to post anything.

  actually i was afraid of posting on an apostate site in the event i was wrong.

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  Hadriel

  @StepfordWife no they won't notify other halls. Only the next hall you move to if/when that were to happen.

  The will absolutely remove him if you do not start reporting time again.

  Don't see that as a bad thing as it might help him along in the grand scheme of things.

  Just a suggestion as I literally just went through the whole ordeal myself. Try not to argue. Pose questions instead. For example you might say "husband it hurts my heart that thousands have died because they refused blood fractions, then the next year (or short time after) those fractions are allowed. I've never seen an apology in the WT how must those families feel?"

  There are many more questions such as this that simply can't be explained reasonably other than they got it wrong and didn't apologize.

  Have him watch the testimony of governing body member Geoffrey Jackson from the Royal Commission. There's nothing apostate about it. He's under oath in court. Why wouldn't he be honest? Yet he says some highly questionable things that your husband will find difficult to reconcile.
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  Any ExJw Millenials here? If not which Gen do you fall under?

  by Hidethevelociraptors in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if anyone had to guess, what do you think the average age of the community actually is?.

  are more millennials actually waking up or is it pretty even amongst previous generations as well?

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  Hadriel

  In my experience the ExJW Reddit sub is a complete sham with more moderator abuse than I've ever seen on a sub. Been on Reddit long before any of them knew what it was.

  They promote piracy (see below) disparaging the hard work of others. In general a band of apologists for a specific individual. The sub doesn't remotely represent Ex'ers as a whole.

  
  

  Rather it represents the typical keyboard cowboys that lack meaningful lives or the ability to think for themselves.

  So there's your fair warning do with it what you will.
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  Apocalypse Delayed By M. James Penton

  by Number1Anarchist in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  click on preview book.

  you can review the entire book it looks like.

  has alot of good information.

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  Hadriel

  What I really think is needed is a book written from the perspective of the Generation X'ers. I say that as those are the folks rapidly awaking at the moment. The baby boomers to a large degree are along in years makes it very difficult for them to leave.

  I think the older history is important but at this point there's tons of it out there. Maybe this exists already, I could be uninformed. Pretty new to all of this so feel free to enlighten me, but the point is the GenX perspective would be ideal at this current point in time. Just so many seems daily.
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  Apocalypse Delayed By M. James Penton

  by Number1Anarchist in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  click on preview book.

  you can review the entire book it looks like.

  has alot of good information.

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  Hadriel

  Disclosure: I've not read this book but just in perusing due to the recommendations here I notice that he openly discloses source, well at least on this occasion. Wasn't even looking for it just happened to be in one of the first few paragraphs I read. so there's that...

  
  
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  Thought control - sexual fantasizing is wrong - May 2016 Watchtower

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  >>the bible reveals that jehovah issaddened when people pursue a wick-ed course and ‘the inclination of theirthoughts is only bad all the time.’ (readgenesis 6:5, 6.

  ) from this we can per-ceive that sexual fantasizing is wrongbecause it can lead to serious sin that isforbidden in the scriptures and is out ofharmony with jehovah’s way of think-ing.the disciple james wrote: “the wis-dom from above is first of all pure, thenpeaceable, reasonable, ready to obey,full of mercy and good fruits, impar-tial, not hypocritical.” (jas.

  3:17) beingaware of this, we should be moved toreject entertainment that fuels impurethoughts and inclinations.

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  Hadriel

  @Talesin I can't un see that LOL
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  Log-on security

  by GoodGuyGreg in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  just a suggestion from old paranoid me: the logon process on this forum evaluates the username and password parts of the credentials separately, from what i see.

  giving clues to valid usernames opens up a couple of nasty and probably unwanted attack vectors (including searching for suspected members by their known mail addresses).

  i do understand that it simplifies the interaction with less computer literate users, though.. if the current process is there by design, or if i've misunderstood it, i'll just shut my mouth, but at least i want to have warned against it.

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  Hadriel

  Use an alias email address.

  Change your passwords frequently.

  I understand your question and in general I tend to code it in such a manner that you simply get back "username password mismatch" or something to that effect. Additionally when you recover an account all posts are successful. You don't know if it recognizes your email or not. All by design for the reasons you describe.

  ALL that said the two things I mention above are pretty important. The bottom line, for a skilled person, if they have the time and reason they're going to get it. So if we do our parts it helps devs like myself tremendously. What I mean is and I'm not trying to scare folks here, its just that it helps if you remove the target! Hopefully I'm making my point right.

  You may want to ask Simon he may have something in the hopper for this. Sites such as this are labors of love. They are constantly in flux, understandably I might add.
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  I need some advise

  by Lost his mind in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  following is a letter i am going to send to the entire family both jw and non.

  i would like to get your advice on whether i should do it.

  my husband has told me before to voice my complaints but i have yet.

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  Hadriel

  @cangie makes great point on headship. If done tactfully it tends to make JWs back off. It's like saying you're messing with theocratic order you're outta line without actually saying it. Great call Cangie!
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  I need some advise

  by Lost his mind in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  following is a letter i am going to send to the entire family both jw and non.

  i would like to get your advice on whether i should do it.

  my husband has told me before to voice my complaints but i have yet.

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  Hadriel

  Very reluctant when it comes to marriage advice. I'll say this though if the issue is your husband speaking with them really your family is irrelevant. Got to the source.

  Husband "this isn't working when there's interference, can we please politely ask them to stick to pleasantries and no religion for a while and see if we can't just work on ourselves for a while? I care about our promise to one another and would like this opportunity.".
  

  I agree with others in that asking them to stop will only put up red flags causing them to call into action the JW family members as they'll feel they need to attempt to get your husband to return to Jehovah.

  Best to petition him Put the onus on him so that the two of you have the opportunity to make it right between yourselves.

  Wish you the best.