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  Last act as an elder

  by silas hobbs in

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  i was just reminiscing about the last thing i did as an elder.

  after a painful awakening due to family matters,,deleted as an elder due to what i now have come to realize is normal children trying to be more than just zombie tag alongs who don't make problems for their parents and want to explore their talents and intellect.

  mistakes and difficulties arise in families but real families do not resort to draconian measures when hormonally influenced children want to take a different path.

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  The GB watchtower religion have no idea / nouse of what happens to youths developing into teenagers and what they are going through coming to terms with all of these conflicting emotions and hormonal changes they are going through .

  They are young and of course they will make mistakes ,however the religion expects them to be perfect and make no mistakes then DF them or publicly reproves them .making examples of them and shaming them in front of the congregation.

  Instead of helping them and guiding them through these troubling times they throw them under the bus.

  No wonder the JW youth are leaving in droves and are leading double lives .

  Then again maybe its a good thing providing the young ones see`s the lack of love and compassion and leaves the organization.
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  Canada CSA

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

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  by kristy woudstra.

  “i’ve given a lot of thought into how i should start this.

  i don’t really know if there is a good way to start it.

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  Fair enough ZNMD I didn`t realize it was taken from a Canadian newspaper article which you have taken the trouble to quote.

  My bad for just looking at the length of the post and making a comment.

  Looking at the link you provided gave me a different perspective thanks for posting it.

  Take care.
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  My mom

  by vienne in

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  2. experiences

  i'm annie, rachael's daughter.

  mom died yesterday.

  i can't find a way to delete her account here.

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  I`m sorry to hear this my sincerest condolences to you and your family
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  Canada CSA

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  by kristy woudstra.

  “i’ve given a lot of thought into how i should start this.

  i don’t really know if there is a good way to start it.

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  ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara

  I`m sorry my friend but their is no way many if any people are going to read such a long post and comment on it .

  break it down to just a couple of paragraphs and maybe over some time a day or two cover more of what you want to say .but nobody is going to wade through all of that in one hit .

  I just took one look at it and thought "holy hell"?

  Take care
  
  
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  Is social media to blame?

  by joey jojo in

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  2. friends

  i haven't seen any posts regarding the atrocity in christchurch and i just wanted to ask a question about social media's role.

  is it fair to blame social media giants for giving the offender a platform for his crime?

  what are the boundaries that they are expected to police?

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  I tend to agree joey what is the difference between the paparazzi news hounds and those who happen to be on the spot and film it on their phones ? In that sense .

  However do we differentiate between what happens in real life violence and tragedy`s as to what we let our kids view and participate in with violent games etc ?with the many forms they have access to ?

  Are we de-sensitising our children to violence and its consequences with the games that are available to our young ?

  Should we be worried ? THAT WE MAY REAP WHAT WE SOW ?

  The argument could be that social media have the same rights as the news media and vice versa.

  The whole issue is one that should be debated by society in general so that all can have an input .

  It is an important subject.
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  The ineffectiveness of the Watchtower Society preaching work

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how can the watchtower society claim effectiveness in their 140 years of preaching the ''good news''..... spending billions of hours in ''field service'', having the ''faithful and discreet slave'' lead the preaching work, passing out billions of watchtower literature since the 1870's, while the pentecostals have been more effective using other evangelical methods?

  congregations.

  119,954. members.

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  I don`t think anyone here would dispute the ineffectiveness of the preaching work of Jehovah`s Witnesses .

  If we mortal humans can see it then surely Jehovah God & Christ Jesus must be able to see it ?

  The statistics they themselves publish or used to publish in their yearbooks testify to that fact.?Does anybody have the latest statistics as to how many hours they preach and how many actual baptisms they have annually nowadays ?

  I would like to eliminate children of JW`s if possible because that would give a distorted figure.

  My personal opinion is if Jehovah /Christ Jesus look at the hours preached by JW`s to make disciples per year and the actual number of people baptized as a result of their preaching I would sack them for being incompetent .

  And give the job to somebody else .
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  Is my situation unique ?

  by Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so ubm here.

  i have a jw wife who in 10 years of marriage i have never seen actually read the bible, never given a witness to me, never had a biblical discussion.

  for a number of years now hardly even reads the magazines.

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  Well steel maybe your wife is more awake than you realize if she is willing to pay to further your sons education in college . Good for her .And I hope your son rewards both of you by having a productive lucrative career and is a successful person that you both can be proud of knowing he would never had got their if both of you had listened to the Governing Body .
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  17 October, 2018 Russia - Kerch College Massacre

  by Listener in

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  2. scandals

  sadly an 18 year old russian male shot and killed 20 people and injured another 70. this occurred last year on the 17th october, 2018. kim and mike (youtubers) reported this today.. the russian had been raised by his mother who is a jehovah's witness.

  his ex girlfriend said that he had been subject to bullying because he was seen as different by other school kids and believed the shooting may have been a form of revenge.further information can be found here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kerch_polytechnic_college_massacre.

  his mother belonged to the local jehovah's witnesses,[27][28][29][30] limited his social activity, searched his pockets and refused to allow him to go to the cinema or use a computer, only allowing the latter when he turned 16.

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  This topic was brought up by Pit123123 who some believe was a troll a couple of days ago ,not suggesting that this event didn`t happen but it was just the way he presented it .

  Maybe Mike & kim can give us a more balanced view.

  Is their a link to Mike & kims utube video available here ?
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  Refusing a blood transfusion

  by BourneIdentity in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello all, first post.

  i've been lurking for months and figured it was time to post a few things, i've been pimo for the last couple of years.. i was doing some thinking about an adult refusing a blood transfusion, especially one that has several children.

  when you married and had children, you signed up to take care of them, to love and protect them.

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  The soldiers of Saul disobeyed Gods dietary law against the eating of blood and they were not punished for it by Jehovah simply because there life was at stake and all they had to do was atone for their "sin" of disobeying his dietary law .1Sam.14: 31-35.
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  Is my situation unique ?

  by Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so ubm here.

  i have a jw wife who in 10 years of marriage i have never seen actually read the bible, never given a witness to me, never had a biblical discussion.

  for a number of years now hardly even reads the magazines.

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  My experience is that many religious people are mentally lazy and are quite content to let other people do their thinking for them as to what to believe . Sub consciously they probably think the burden is off of them and rests with those that taught them.

  Even when I was "in" I was surprised at how many Elders /MS did not want to discuss the Bible or religion outside of the meetings the common reason was "oh we get enough of that at our meetings this is our free time ."