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  From house to house...from door 2 door....JW rapist goes

  by Lee Elder in

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  waymon chandler ivery - a convicted 1st degree child sex offender caught red handed and lying about it.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=popk1fq0sdkhttp://www.homefacts.com/offender-detail/cox00245011020160419/waymon-chandler-ivery.html.

  someone's knockin' at the door....somebody ringin' the bell.

  do your kids a favor...don't let em in..

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  scratchme1010

  Thank you for sharing this. Sadly, we can only know about the ones who get caught.
  
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  Young JW's attitudes

  by Phizzy in

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  2. experiences

  i met an old friend last evening, a great guy, an xjw for longer than me.. during a conversation about our experiences since fading (neither of us are da'd or anything) we got to talking about the young jw's.. his wife is still in, and he has two lovely daughters who he is trying to teach the art of critical thinking so that they can make the right choice in the future.. what worries him though is that he is convinced almost all young jw's do not give a "proverbial" if it is the truth or not, they simply wish to remain in it because of the social aspects, loads of friends and activities that they feel safe partaking in etc etc.. so how do you convince these young people that they would have a better life if they left ?.

  they see it as losing all their friends, and being alone and trying to build new relationships, which is mostly true.. how do we convince them to make the leap ?.

  should they ?.

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  I think it is a matter of them learning their own way. The best to do is to have them always aware that they have other choices than what they have in the congregation. As soon as one of them gets "in trouble" and they see the consequences, and as soon as they realize that there is a lot more to life than the JW activities, they can use the outside support and awareness that some of us didn't have.

  But it has to come from them. The same than with adults.
  
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  Paranormal Warning

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've heard some weird stories coming from jws about the paranormal.

  i know about the warnings about items that come from unbelievers -- those don't interest me as much.

  what i am interested in are actual experiences in stories of the paranormal you've heard or experienced yourself.

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  Are there any urban legends that tend to circulate primarily among JWs, or have you actually experienced any strange or inexplicable things that you would label the paranormal? For those born into the religion, do you think the Society's emphasis on the paranormal or on demons affect your religious beliefs when you were young or tended to assist the Society in exerting control on your beliefs? Do you think it made you more fearful as a child or as an adult?

  There are a few events in my life that have happened that I cannot explain. However I tend to not pay much attention or try to dwell on it.

  Today I'm not really very religious at all, and I don't affirm nor subscribe to any belief (or lack of). Most of my self-help work after leaving the JWs has been about reducing its influence from my life to the minimum possible.

  Back when I was a JW it never made sense to me to think that some book or computer or artifact is supposed to have demos attached because of its previous owner. I've always thought it's stupid to think that the last known owner of a given object has the capacity to have demos lingering around it, as opposed to any other people who has been in touch with such object during its manufacturing, distribution, selling and delivery. Why thinking about the last person who owned something before me, and not all the other people who have been in touch with it before? Besides, will that rationale make the opposite true, that is, will objects owned by JWs have angels attached to them? The whole thing sounded stupid to me from day one. Never made sense.

  Also, as a child I'd always find a flaw or at least simple mindedness every time that I was hearing one of those stupid "demon" stories. Not to mention that some of those stories were just downright a lie. Also, I grew more fearful of the adults I was supposed to trust in the congregation and in my family than some abstract concept of bad beings out there trying to harm me. The tangible, human ones around me were doing a wonderful work at that without their help.
  
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  Exit therapist

  by Beachlover in

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  2. friends

  i am having quite a bit of trouble leaving and fading.

  does anyone have recommendations of an exit therapist?

  it doesn't matter where they are located, i need to get out physically, mentally, and emotionally.

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  I know a couple who are both therapists who specialize in exit counseling and support for current and former members of organizations like the WT.

  Their names are Bill and Lorna Goldberg. Their website is www.blgoldberg.com

  They do private individual therapy, but also have a support group (the group is free to attend).

  I hope this helps.
  
  
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  Are hot springs and saunas approved by the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  satan’s snares today.

  in the main, satan’s tricks have not changed over the centuries.

  in order for christians living in the corrupt city of corinth not to be “overreached by satan,” the apostle paul gave them strong counsel.

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  Satan tries to entice God’s servants by means of worldly leisure activities.
  

  Wordly, satanic, dirty, disgusting leisure activities! How dare they think of leisure.

  Anyway, my point with this kind of crap from them is that they are the real perverts. They are the ones adding morality to something as natural and simple as the human body and cleaning it.
  
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  Thankfully not many publishers remind " me" of Troy.

  by The Rebel in

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  2. friends

  i took my son to the watford football club family day,-and the highlight- troy deeney.

  he stayed until every last item was signed and every selfie was taken.

  we left way after the end of the event and he left after us.

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  How were you on the ministry, zelouse or lazy? Did you have any zelouse and successful publishers? I am sure that the large % of witnesses can't be bothered on the ministry, and this is why I was not surprised to discover no outsiders have been bought in to the congregation since I left.
  

  I think that because I was born with that organization shoved down my throat, I became both very zealous and dedicated. After all I had no other way of knowing life and as children we always manage to find a way of doing what children are supposed to do.

  Later as an adolescent was when i started noticing people slacking. I naively thought that every person was supposed to be as enthusiastic and devoted as I was. That started giving me ideas and I started being less into it. From that point all the way to my fade, I started becoming more and more disinterested, although I was always very, very good at preaching. I actually liked going to talk to people (maybe because that was the only real contact with the outside world I had). Sadly, I was never encouraged or praised for my good skills or devotion.
  
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  Can baptism be considered a legal verbal agreement?

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  based on the requirements set forth and the questions answered at the end.

  i believe this question has been asked before.

  the fact that you can only be expelled after having been put under this oath of allegiance and that you have witnesses to you making this agreement ( i remember my name was shout to the crowd when i entered the pool ).. if it can be considered so, would there be a legal ground to say minors can not enter this agreement?.

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  If it can be considered so, would there be a legal ground to say minors can not enter this agreement?
  

  Yes and no. Yes in the sense that they enter what is legally considered a fiduciary relationship, as they expect guidance and counseling from that organization. That is what has hold them legally responsible for covering sexual abuse of minors and not-so-minors too.

  No in the sense that as a religious organization it is based on a spiritual/religious belief, and therefore it's not a transaction what happens when a person joins.
  
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  BITE Model - Sound Familiar?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  researching cult mind control brought me to this site: https://www.freedomofmind.com/info/bite/bitemodel.php.

  it's like reading a gb mind control manual.

  it was my intention to make bold only the ones that the borg do... but they do 98% of them!!!.

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  The major question (I think) is why people choose to submit themselves to that? I am born in, so I didn't choose to join. So it always baffles me to know that there are people out there who choose all that.
  
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  This generation will by no means pass away

  by Darryl in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  good morning i hope everyone is having a wonderful day.

  there has been a lot of talk about the "new light" concerning the generation teaching.

  it's been a major part of the prophecy concerning the last days and of course since jws are the only ones able to decipher and understand prophecy it is of great importance to get this main prophecy right.

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  There has been a lot of talk about the "new light" concerning the generation teaching.
  

  AGAIN? Who cares, they have always gotten it wrong and they will always get it wrong. They have absolutely no saying about the future, period.
  
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  Feel like starting a New Ministry! True Bible Students

  by SonoftheTrinity in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i think studying the king james bible, and the jacobean flavored translations of the apocrypha and pseudipigrapha, whether you believe in them or not, is an essential part of being a culturally rooted english speaker.

  i used to belong to an organization that advocated reading a chapter a day, but had no actual faith requirement to be a member.

  20c a week and read the kjv a chapter a day, no lifestyle requirement, no doctrinal litmus test.

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  I feel like putting on a stupid suit, or at least a dressy Guayabera for the summer heat, and going from house to house to spread that message, so that I can fellowship with people who care about truth with no definite article or capital T, because I believe in that with as much conviction as much as any brain dead dub.
  

  Why on Earth? As much as you love it, doesn't change the attitude and desire not to be bothered that people have. I understand feeling strongly about whatever you choose to believe the Bible is or should be, but why bothering other people with it?