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  Just thought I'd share. New up coming apostate

  by joe134cd in

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  just listened to this delightful young irish lass and just thought i'd share.

  a pleasure to listen to her.

  well spoken and presents a good argument.. https://youtu.be/qitwc2qumgs.

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  scratchme1010

  Thank you.
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  Russia is Smart

  by Kohanic in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhnseocpffq.

  so according to the law department's meeting in feb 2016, russia has been studying the linguistics of the watchtower articles and discovered its brainwashing abilities!.

  lol it's funny now that i'm on the russian side of this debate now, ban them all!.

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  Lol it's funny now that I'm on the Russian side of this debate now, ban them all!
  

  Indeed.
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  Jehovahs Witnesses and mental illness

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i came across this video, which looks at mental illness among jws.. it is an old video, but really hits the nail right on the head as to the reasons why there is such a high level of mental illness among the jw's.. https://youtu.be/co-b65w-zqs.

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  I've seen it. I had forgotten about it. Thanks.
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  The new world we live in

  by JaniceA in

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  2. family

  so, i'm in a starbucks.

  it's 5:45 pm.

  this kid who is maybe 6 years old yells, "mom, my tablet is fully charged any my phone is at 84%!".

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  Is anyone else frequently bemused at the ways in which the world and childhood had changed? My nephew has cheap phones for his one and two year olds to watch cartoons in the car.
  

  I am bemused too. The way we live today have both good and bad things. At 6 I did know about percentages and had the capacity to learn and know more, but I'm glad that kids have better access to information today. What people decide to do with what they have, that's another story.
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  Hello from Scotland - it has been ages....

  by The Scotsman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well how the devil is everyone?

  i have not been here for a long time........totally lost track of what is going on in jw land, apart from the little bits i hear from family members still in.

  (they say everything is swell and that armageddon is just round the corner).... :).was hearing that anniesland congregation in glasgow has been (or is about to be) disbanded.

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  scratchme1010

  Well how the devil is everyone?
  

  Not sure if I met you, but welcome back.
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  Anxiety, OCD, Hoarding, and the JWs

  by Spiral in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm noticing what seems to be a higher incidence of the above among the local jws than in the "general" (read: worldly) population.

  i don't say this lightly, my wanderings around the fringes of jw society locally is revealing an alarming trend here.

  the poverty doesn't help (there are good jobs, but you need a degree or qualifications to get one).. anyone else see this?

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  Anyone else see this?
  

  Yes, especially eating disorders. Remember, food is the one an only pleasurable thing that they don't attack.

  Also, seeing so many people with so many different mental health issues in the last congregation I went to was one of the most influential factors that made me decide to leave. It was heart breaking (in some instances) seeing and noticing people in pain waiting for their magic Jehovah to make their issues go away.
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  Silly Bible Stories we once believed

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  these bible stories are too silly to be true.

  take off your rose colored glasses and you will begin to see some great imagination, exaggeration and great story telling!.

  telling !.

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  The entire bible.
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  Since leaving the JW Organization, who is believing?

  by Issa in

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  2. friends

  i left the jw organization last year during summer.

  maybe some of you can relate.

  who of you are agnostic or an atheist?

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  scratchme1010

  Who of you are agnostic or an atheist? I am agnostic for a couple of months now.
  

  I'm neither. I guess I'm an I-can't-care-less-one-way-or-another-ist.
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  Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution

  by dubstepped in

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  so i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.

  i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.

  i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.

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  Look at the National Geographic Library. They have quite a lot of information and references to reliable sources of information.
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  Child abuse

  by Jrjw in

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  2. child-abuse

  i was talking to a jdub yesterday about child abuse in the organisation and this was his response:.

  "it has been known for kids to make stuff up.

  we have to trust the society on these things, also the legal process is there.

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  I'm disgusted at how lightly they take it.
  

  I would have questioned that person about (s)he being a pedophile. I'd would have said something along the lines that those are the words of people who have something to hide.

  If that person felt disgusted by my accusation, then I did my job.