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  Any other teenagers on here?

  by BlackWolf in

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  2. friends

  i'm 16 and it seems like most the people on this forum are adults.

  i would think since most teenagers have tablets/smartphones there would be more on here but maybe not?

  it would be nice to meet some other young people.

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  Skedaddle

  I'm sure there's loads of teenage JW's out there like yourself BlackWolf looking to socialize with others the same age - why not start something up and bring them to you - that could be really popular?! Maybe you can find some younger ones on exjw reddit?
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  Very Weird Experience During Recent Special Talk After Memorial

  by Tenacious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hesitantly i attended this talk with my family and sat through it without batting an eye.. mentally i take myself out during the entire meeting some would describe this as daydreaming or zoning out.

  whatever the case may be, for some reason this particular speaker, whom i know of but not personally, got my attention the way he would say certain phrases.

  he cited some texts that directly advised the audience that faith in christ was the only way to salvation.

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  Skedaddle

  Sounds like he may be awake... interesting. Maybe you should make friends - tell him you enjoyed the talk and his prayer. See what comes of the conversation.
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  According to the Bible, GB is committing an unforgivable sin

  by elbib in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  “the soul that does something deliberately [footnote says “with uplifted hand”] whether he is native or an alien resident, he speaking abusively of jehovah’s word, in that case that soul should be cut off from among his people.” (numbers 15:30).

  according to this verse, acting with “high-handedness” and “speaking abusively of jehovah’s word” constitute disfellowshipping offence.

  1) “high-handedness” is something that jws themselves silently experience from jb, hence require no witness or proof.

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  3) By teaching that God Almighty felt ‘challenged and taunted’ by one of His own creatures is “sinning against holy spirit” which according to Jesus is an unforgivable sin in this system of things and in that to come. (Mathew 12:32)

  ''WOT?''

  
  
  
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  Last night's talk re sisters wearing head covering, puke making!

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  dear sisters,.

  when you are fortunate enough to be in the presence of a jw penis you must take care to show the proper respect for it!

  doesn't matter if said penis is prepubescent!

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  Skedaddle

  @purrpurr - thank you! I cried laughing!
  

  OP of the week!
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  Possible Cure/Treatment For All Neurologic Disease

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is a very deep, complicated article.

  that said it offers great hope for finding effective treaments for parkinsons, alzheimers, lou gerhrig's disease and huntington's.. it concerns autophagy - an internal housekeeping system used by cells to get rid of defective proteins.. more than the above, it could lead to a cure for aging itself!.

  http://www.nature.com/cdd/journal/v16/n1/full/cdd2008110a.html.

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  Skedaddle

  @smiddy - You might want to have a look on earthclinic.com for posts by 'Ted'. Ted's not well himself at the moment - he suffered a massive stroke last year so he can't respond to any comments as he's still in recovery but I see he's left information for someone else about Parkinson's. At the bottom of each page click the tab to go to next page. Here's the link;

  http://ted.earthclinic.com/cures/parkinsons.html

  Ted's got a lab and he treats patients - He worked in USA for a long time, now he's back home in Bangkok. He posts all his findings on there. He's legit. Let me know if you need help with anything... hope your wife's feeling better soon.

  @Stillin - Lost my faith a long time ago when the doc wanted me to drink radio-active fluid. Er, NO! I'll cure myself thanks! And I did! Poor doctors are being blindsided with their schooling! Never seen so much corruption in all my life as the state of the medical profession. It's a disgrace.
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  Survey: How long were you in the cult vs what year you were baptized

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi people,.

  i want as much data as possible on the effect of the internet on the time captured by the cult.. please answer the three following questions about yourself or about someone you know (for example, if your parents or grandparents were jw's and left).

  1) were you raised as a jw, or did you convert?.

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  Skedaddle

  1) Born-in/raised

  2) 1994 (Baptized aged 15yrs old but was born-in soo...)

  3) 1998 (I left in 1998 but wasn't fully mentally out until learning TTATT in 2008)

  4 years from Baptizm to leaving but 19 years from birth to leaving or 14 years from baptizm to learning TTATT or 30 years from birth to learning TTATT????

  (Sorry for all the info but it annoys me to write 4 years being a witness when really it destroyed 30 years of my life)
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  gb leadership

  by johnna colins in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  who are leading the governing body?

  who is in charge of them?

  i don't mean the shareholders.

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  Skedaddle

  Directors[edit]

  Current[edit]

  • Don Alden Adams, director since 2000, president since 2000
  • Danny L. Bland, director since 2000
  • William F. Malenfant, director since 2000, vice-president since 2000
  • Robert W. Wallen, director since 2000, vice-president since 2000
  • Philip D. Wilcox, director since 2000
  • John N. Wischuk, director since 2000

  These people run the mothership regarding all financials of the business and you can read about the set-up on this link;

  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Tower_Bible_and_Tract_Society_of_Pennsylvania

  Don Adams is one of, if not the longest serving witness out of the lot of them including the GB members who it appears are just seven puppets who front the cult. Don Adams is an interesting read... he seems to have held a very privileged position for a JW for a very long time. His brother is VP on another arm of the org. Apparently he likes to just zoom in and out about 5 times a year to the HQ. I'd love to know the size of his house and other details about his family connections but there's not much info at all online about him.
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  So how do we start a Scholorship for JW and EXJW Students?

  by Luther bertrand in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  it is my contention that jw children are intellectually abused by being brainwashed to not have the choice of pursuing higher education.

  so, how do we help these victims?

  would a jw/exjw offer some help?

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  Skedaddle

  While it's a lovely idea Luther, I would think it would make more sense to attack the anti-education policy of the org. We need a cure not a medicine for just the symptom. Maybe you can look into charities that are already working in this field and get some advice from them. Maybe a complaint to the child protection services or a petition? There's more accomplished by making the community aware of what it means to be a JW child. Or maybe you can look into government funding for some kind of foundation charity to help these kids?
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  Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't: Religious Shunning and the free exercise clause

  by defender of truth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the following link is to a pdf file found on the penn law legal scholarship repository website.. " the penn law legal scholarship repository is the institutional repository of the university of pennsylvania law school.

  its purpose is to collect and preserve the scholarly output of penn law.

  http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/.

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  Skedaddle

  Thank you defender, it made good reading.

  Seems to me the way forward is to do a multi-religion e-petition to the government. There's a number of religions practicing shunning and with the use of Youtube, it's easy to unite... so why aren't we making use of the e-petitions to change the law in our governments?

  Am I being naive? I know Cedars has this EU shunning petition going with some friends of his... what's happening in the US? I saw a thread from 4 years ago but 16 pages is a lot to read. Any update on that?
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  Years of GB members appointment

  by Lostandfound in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does anyone know the years of appointment to the gb of its current members please?

  is the longest serving member in any way the senior?

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  Skedaddle

  Lösch was appointed in '94 making him the longest serving. Scroll down to 'Governing body members' section on the link.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governing_Body_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses

  I don't know about Lösch being senior as GB members are supposed to be equal... or what info you're trying to get at but the money end is operated by the President of the 'Watchtower' (the President as of Adams appointment is now a non-GB position for the first time and that was made official off top of my head around 2000) and that is Don Alden Adams.

  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Alden_Adams

  Edit: Interestingly, Don's brother is vice president on another arm of the Watchtower. I'm of the mind that any digging for treasures should be done on this side as opposed to the GB... I see the GB as the smokescreen. Watchtower/the money side is where it's gonna be at!