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  Husband reading from the readers digest to our daughter...

  by nonjwspouse in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ...i could have sworn , hearing it from another room, that he was reading from a watchtower by the way he was talking!

  he used that jw cadence.

  slow reading with over emphasizing words.

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  scratchme1010

  I'm glad that at least you can share here, and we understand.

  He still really confuses me. I still have no real idea where he stands in his mind or emotions. How deep is his indoctrination at this point? I wish I knew. I still wait for the other shoe to drop, it's been 8 years, and it's exhausting beyond belief.
  

  Many people maintain certain things as force of habit, even when we don't necessarily think that there's anything remotely JW in what we do.

  As an example, I decided to join Toastmasters to learn public speaking. All the public speaking I had done up to that point was based on my training as JW and I was still sounding and coming across to audiences, even when I was teaching, as if I was preaching or proselytizing. There's nothing JW in me, but certain habits we tend to keep because that's how we learned to do things.

  I hope this may ease your uneasiness.
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  Review: 2018 "Be Courageous!" convention

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  friday and saturday were for the most part pretty light, not too culty or doctinal, could easily suck in the unsuspecting.

  there were a couple of hypocritical lines that i took note of however.

  at one point the speaker said, "if your boss fires everyone who disagrees with him but promotes everyone who agrees with him, you might be tempted to agree with him just to keep your job.

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  JW Survey revealed that she had a GoFundMe campaign to get her to a bloodless hospital in the US for $150,000.
  

  Thanks for the summary. Normally I don't read posts related their events, but for some reason I found this one interesting.

  Hmmm... There isn't such thing as a "bloodless hospital" in the US (that's not how the medical profession works), and if there was one, why would she need an additional $150,000 to use it?
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  Jesus with an iPad. Really?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at a local meeting, one of the elders said that if jesus were on the earth today 'you can be sure' he would be preaching by showing videos on a tablet.. i kid you not.. i wonder what videos he'd be playing?.

  obviously this was the elder's own pet theory.

  wasn't it?.

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  scratchme1010

  Jesus didn't even use an outline when he gave sermons. He had his beliefs inside of him and people beat a path to hear him talk.

  And you know that Jesus didn't even use an outline, how? And what's your point anyway? That was the methodology of the time.

  If a Witness says something ridiculous that demonstrates his thorough indoctrination, let "you people" have their laughs!

  I agree 100%, that is, as per your words, If a Witness says something ridiculous that demonstrates his thorough indoctrination. That's not the case in this one. In this instance, you people are the ones I'm laughing at. You are the ones showing indoctrination.

  BTW, this is yet another of those ridiculous hypothetical, never-will-happen scenarios that people in this forum for some reason get all worked up over them. There's no bigger sign of people being under the negative influence of the WT than this. Sad.
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  People will believe ANYthing no matter how insane

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i started watching this guy's videos and it was like trying to eat just one potato chip.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrdoao1_rf0______https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8447ks90dk_______https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jufm8rtq1d0.

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  I love that show. However, those are actors, they are not random people. In reality, Americans don't behave the way those actors do, so they use scripted actors posing as strangers.

  Lots of fun anyway.
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  On this Fathers Day...

  by babygirl30 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have never really spoken on social media about my jw family shunning me.

  i didnt even discuss or answer any questions about why they didnt come to my wedding, my birthday parties, why there are never any pics of them with me/us together.

  until today.... today i woke up and had this insane desire to be open.

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  TODAY I woke up and had this insane desire to be open. To tell people the truth about it all and to put it out there why on Fathers Day 2018, my father isnt in my life. Below is what I wrote...and let me say that although I have been crying most of today reading and re-reading my post. It is the the support I have gotten from everyone OUTSIDE my immediate family that resonates with me - through and through. Just wanted to show that I'm proud of my damn self today! #yayme
  

  I'm glad that you posted this. I'm sure that a lot of us can relate to your story. You do have a family on your own and have managed to live your life without them.

  Thank you for sharing this.
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  Reassigned, ...to complete erasure from memory and near poverty.

  by Lostandfound in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a complete scandal is the reassignment to nothing of the thousands (?

  ) of bethelites, over age cos etc, .

  out on the street atfter decades of unpaid service in very many cases.

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  The WT is the kind of cult that gets off by controlling and manipulating their people. I know that in the case of used and discarded bethelites and COs is more obvious, but your post applies to all JWs.

  All those people are left with are anecdotes to tell. Sad.
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  Jehovah is not the God of Jehovah’s Witnesses

  by Ireneus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in exodus 23:4 jehovah established this law: “if you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to take it back to him.”.

  if jws were really his people, jehovah would have ensured they never go wrong in their teaching which is in effect much more than mere “wandering.” if jehovah is concerned about wandering animals of enemies of his chosen people, much more concern should have been shown by him towards his modern-day chosen people.. yet the changes they have made are too many.

  (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1urjfnby6jlz8lsibve7vsrgihtxkwqbrluzihlgfh-e/edit).

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  Jehovah is not the God of Jehovah’s Witnesses
  

  Some of us know that well. What would you say is the object of their worship?
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  Jesus with an iPad. Really?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at a local meeting, one of the elders said that if jesus were on the earth today 'you can be sure' he would be preaching by showing videos on a tablet.. i kid you not.. i wonder what videos he'd be playing?.

  obviously this was the elder's own pet theory.

  wasn't it?.

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  scratchme1010

  Really? What latest methodology was that?
  

  Public speaking. That's all they had a t the time. And yes, not only do I believe that Jesus would have had his own Word Press website, Twitter account and Facebook page, but I also believe that people here would be making fun of "What would have Jesus used if he existed in the first century?"

  You people just want to make fun of elders and prove them wrong in anything and everything they say. You are still as brainwashed as you were as a JW. Just because it came from an elder, it doesn't mean that it doesn't make sense.

  My disdain for that organization doesn't blind me from using my own capacity of reasoning. I believe the elder is right, and the original poster is wrong.

  Stop looking for ways of proving the WT wrong at any expense and get a life.
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  Just went over 20,000 downloads, maybe this will help someone new here ...

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my original podcast where i told my story, this jw life, has now gone over 20,000 downloads.

  it is a 9 part series that i put out last year and people continue to find it and listen.

  if you have someone that needs help processing what they went through as a jw, if you have friends or family that don't understand that whole part of your life, then please have them listen to this.

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  Congratulations. I admire your work.
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  Jesus with an iPad. Really?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at a local meeting, one of the elders said that if jesus were on the earth today 'you can be sure' he would be preaching by showing videos on a tablet.. i kid you not.. i wonder what videos he'd be playing?.

  obviously this was the elder's own pet theory.

  wasn't it?.

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  Obviously this was the Elder's own pet theory. Wasn't it?
  

  I believe that. When he lived, he preached using the latest methodology available in his time. He'd have a very hard time talking to millennials without some kind of Twitter account. Not too far fetched. I'm with the JWs on that one.