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  “The United Socialist States of America?”

  by Fisherman in

  1. social
  2. current

  when i was growing up, some people were on welfare but the vast majority were working people that paid their own rent, doctor’s bills, medicine, food, etc.

  —and saved money.

  so, a working person did not need financial help from the government if they didn’t have vices.

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  Biahi

  Maybe companies need to pay people more! Then they could pay their own way. Someone I know married a social worker (with a college degree). He never made more than $35,000 a year. Shameful. Even Walmart, with billions in profits, pay people a pittance. Full time workers needing government help. Also, though, some people need to learn how to handle the money they do make, and learn to live within their means. If you work at McDonalds, don’t buy designer purses!
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  Upbringing

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was brought up as a born-in(tm) here in the uk.

  it wasn't until i was 50 that the scales fell from my eyes, i woke up, got da'd from the cult and my wife was advised to leave me by the elders whom i had served with on the boe.

  one of which i know wanted to schtupf her.

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  Biahi

  Yes, you are perfectly normal. I feel the same, I had a lost childhood. And, all for nothing. And, I left at 23, not 50. Hugs to you, Punky. ☺️ We deserve 💵 from this evil cult.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  original reddit post (removed).

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  Biahi

  KIMSILVIO, hugs to you from the USA. 🥰
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  Latest jw broadcast referring to allegations of protecting pedophiles

  by jonahstourguide in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  hi folks.. i put this in abuse as i thought it relevant.. a physically in mentally out friend that considers our friendship greater than religion told me that on the latest broadcast steven lett alluded to satans voice being behind people that claim the organisation protects pedophiles.. my friend then went on to say they must be in damage control.. he added, but that is correct, they are hiding their internal records.

  is not that construed as protecting the accused?.

  if i get the inclination i may post a snippet of what was actually said.. sadly my friend is trying to protect his family relationships and so goes along with the charade.. his situation weighs on me but, as many of you here know, it can be a difficult road to travel.. jtg.

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  Biahi

  Darlene, you ask how moms can protect their kids. You can’t, in this organization. After it happens, everyone is just supposed to forgive and forget, and move on. And, never tell the authorities because it will “bring reproach on Jehovah’s name.” 💩🤮
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  Is This New?

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it is a very long time since i was an elder and the elders textbooks have changed multiple times since then.

  going back to when i was an elder, to the best of my knowledge the only way a spouse could divorce from his/her partner was porneia, if that person had sexual relations with a man, woman, child, or beast.

  but it had to be proven and that's the dubious 2 witness rule.. in fact, if it was not proven and the innocent party divorced and married someone else, then they could be hauled up in front of a judicial committee and be charged with committing adultery and disfellowshipped!

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  Biahi

  Pharisees! All of them. 🤮
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  How Many Of You Knew Something Was Really Wrong Growing Up JW? What was Your First Clue?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is directed to born-ins.

  around age 10 or 12 is when it first hit me.

  i started asking questions about how the world worked and i really wanted an honest opinion from my parents.

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  Biahi

  I don’t think it was a money thing, for some reason my parents were not out in service that day, I think that elder was trying to “teach me a lesson”, and he succeeded. But, it wasn’t the lesson he meant. Lol 🖕
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  How Many Of You Knew Something Was Really Wrong Growing Up JW? What was Your First Clue?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is directed to born-ins.

  around age 10 or 12 is when it first hit me.

  i started asking questions about how the world worked and i really wanted an honest opinion from my parents.

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  Biahi

  LongHairGal, thank you for your kind words.🥰 I could tell many more stories, I could write a book. Sometimes, I think I could write a whole comedy routine about these experiences, because if I couldn’t laugh about it, I’d cry.
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  How Many Of You Knew Something Was Really Wrong Growing Up JW? What was Your First Clue?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is directed to born-ins.

  around age 10 or 12 is when it first hit me.

  i started asking questions about how the world worked and i really wanted an honest opinion from my parents.

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  Biahi

  Many, many things, as I was growing up. The extreme lack of love was notable, even as a small kid. I could never understand why we couldn’t celebrate holidays, and I knew there was a scripture which said you could celebrate anything you wanted, let each one be convinced “in his own mind.” Yet, that scripture was ignored. At age 11, I was left out in the D2D ministry, in the winter, while everyone else in the group went out to a restaurant for a break. The asshole elder in charge, apologized to me afterward, claimed they “forgot” me, and I knew he was lying. The faces on the others in the group I will never forget. Then, once I turned about 13, the elders constantly picked on me for how I looked, yet they also admitted that I was dressed modestly. Yet, apparently I looked “too attractive “, and they had a problem with it. Fuck them. Then, I read a book that contained the line, “I’d rather be dead than not really be living.” I thought, that’s me. I’m not really living. The Bible does not say to put your life on hold now, don’t do anything but exist, and wait for the new system. I also vowed to myself that I would NEVER bring a child into the world, if I had to raise that child as a JW. Left for good at age 23, hard fade, never looked back.
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  refusing to go in service with someone

  by enoughisenough in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  did you ever refuse to go in service with someone?

  i did.... i went to the kh to meet for service and 3 brothers were there.

  i told the brother taking the lead, that when he made up the car groups to take note i had a plan of my own -the 3 brothers could go together and i would do my own thing.

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  Biahi

  And these people claim to be the only true Christians. 🤮 I have stories too.
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  Did the Watchtower Society ban Vaccinations and Organ Transplants?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  an avid wts supporter writes:.

  re: vaccinations: vaccinations have never been banned.

  if they were, then no representative of the wts would have been allowed to travel overseas when vaccines were compulsory around 1920 when vaccines was regularly in the news, there was both positive and negative information printed in the golden age (forerunner of the awake) but not from the staff writers, but from out side sources of article by medical doctors at the time and others that responded to those articles.. re: organ transplants: organ transplants were never forbidden by the society.

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  Biahi

  My mom (born in 1936) was not vaccinated, and got whooping cough, measles, etc. due to not being vaccinated. Also, expelled from school at least once over this issue. I was a little kid in the 1960’s, organ transplants were a no-no then. 🤷‍♀️😏