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  Watchtower potentially receives at least $2.1 Billion a year in revenue by prohibiting holidays, etc...

  by Calebs Airplane in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so we all know that the main reason the watchtower corporation prohibits holidays, extra-curricular sports, higher education, etc.

  is that this money could potentially become "voluntary donations" with just a little guilting and manipulation.

  in the minds of the brooklyn brass, money that isn't spent on all this worldly stuff is potential liquid revenue (at least some of it anyway).. now let's go extremely conservative for a minute and say that the average "worldly" person only spends a total of $300 a year on christmas, birthdays, st. valentines, father's day, mother's day, extracurricular school sports, higher education, and all the other stuff that the wt frowns upon.... we all know that the real number is much higher than $300.

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  Isolation is the key...think about it, if you celebrate birthdays you would have a party, you would go to others kids parties. This could easily be upwards of 30 parties a year when kids are young. That's means hours & hours of worldly fun & association. Same with sports.

  Once kids know that you don't celebrate birthdays, or Xmas, or Easter, and you can't join the netball team, or go to their house after school, and no it's not ok for their mum to pick you up etc etc friends dry up pretty fast........you have years & years of aloneness with only the KH for company.

  its a miserable thing to do to a child.
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  May 2013 Awake suggests screaming to thwart sexual assault

  by ParadiseCircus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  they just can't let it go.... .

  they also provide this tip to avoid being raped: "react quickly.

  scream.

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  Pickler

  Thank you lady lee I didn't know that about the third response.
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  Your most DISTURBING WATCHTOWER Bethel/Branch experience? (No full names please)

  by Balaamsass in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  ok.. you 70 plus bethelite members.... this is your chance to share stories!

  inquiring minds want to know !no full names please..follow t.o.s.

  to avoid borg libel lawsuits).. i will start the ball rolling with week one.

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  Pickler

  I'm thinking a prostitute at bethel could make a lot of money very easily!
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  I am miserable...am I crazy?

  by Cagefighter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as a born in jw my outlet was always music.

  my parents let me do piano lessons (from another sister) and when i was 14 i lobbied hard enough for a guitar.

  i formed a decent punk/emo type in high school behind my parents back.

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  Pickler

  Hi Cage, 35 is not that old! I'm 40 and I regret some of the decisions I've made where I let practicalities determine what I would do.

  basically being raised JW can be soul destroying, you are trained to ignore/push down any natural inclinations.

  then, even though you are out, you can still do this to yourself, years later? Why? Conditioning I suppose.

  you are lucky to have music. Get playing again. My son always has a guitar over his shoulders & follows me around the house playing. I pay $78 for a 1 hour piano lesson a week, so you can't tell me there's not money to be made in music, if you are happy to teach!

  I am finally learning to accept who I really am, not what I think I should be! I'm not that practical, or materialistic. Im a dreamer & reader, i love yoga, art, music & I am an introvert. Never want to dress up, don't care about money/status.

  Im married a man that is social, career focussed & Succesful corporate manager.

  tried to be like him, but.....it's just not me. So he earns big money & works crazy hours.....but I have to be who I am, and it's not that.

  i hear you, you are miserable now, try & move back to who you really are....you sound pretty cool to me!
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  JGnat Says Hi

  by jgnat in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have been wandering around the board for a while now, and have decided it is time to contribute a bit of my history.

  i have described my involvement with the witnesses as being from the outside looking in.

  my sweet honey has been trying for two years to get reinstated.

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  Thanks for telling your story jgnat, there are so many good writers on this forum.

  I love the countryside that surrounds you, looks so beautiful!
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  What to do with a passed out drunk girl on your couch.

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.upworthy.com/the-shortest-psa-on-how-to-handle-drunk-girls-passed-out-on-your-couch-ever?c=ufb1.

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  Pickler

  Sad that it needs to be explained in a video.....but it does.

  Some men are opportunists and whilst they wouldn't go out and drag a woman off the street, they would take advantage of an incapacitated woman.
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  JW`s, volunteers spreading WT material Vs. Commercial Advertising material by people in letterbox drops

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  people who deliver advertising material for distributors are in no way an employee of the distributor.the deliverer is an independant contractor.. what i am talking about here is dropping off advertising material for businesses in letter boxes house to house.the wording is such that in no way can a person who may be injured ,one way or another ,has any claim on the distributor .

  so my question is : isn`t this the same stance that the wtb&ts takes with each and every jehovahs witness who goes from door to door pedalling their message distributing their literature ?.

  they are not employees of the wtb&ts , they are volunteers who do this of their own violition and we have no obligation to be accountabile for anything that may happen to them in the course of their volunteering .

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  Smiddy, I remember years ago being told (very firmly!) to never slip mags or tracts under doors.

  apparently someone had done this & then it rained & colours ran onto the homeowners carpet. I heard that the WTBTS had to pay for carpet cleaning or replacement. This was somewhere in Australia in 80s or early 90s.
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  Declined Memorial Invitation, Stating, "I Would Feel Like a Hypocrite."

  by rubadubdub in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have lunch monthly with my only friend left in the borg.

  today was the day, so i have been reading the threads on planting seeds and asking questions in preparation.

  we talked for about two hours.

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  Rubadubdub, you've made me cry with this post.

  Its where you said you wouldn't shun your son, about your daughter, your return visit. What you are saying to your friend is that you love your family, and an imperfect organisation is not going to dictate to you how you treat them.

  Just letting you know it gives me a great deal of comfort reading this.

  I love how you are thinking it through & then acting in accordance with what you think & feel NOT with how someone has told you to think/feel.

  bravo!!!!!
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  Tips for my Job interview today

  by whathehadas in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i got a interview for today a few days ago.

  the interview is for orkin, a pest control company.

  i haven't had a interview in a while and hopefully i don't get nervous.

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  Good luck to you, I hope you get the job.

  My son just got a job at KFC yesterday (he's 15!)
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  New magazine cover from the religion that calls former believers "mentally diseased"....

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  apparently "prejudice" applies only to racial equality and has nothing to do with diverse sexual orientation or religious beliefs.

  it's news to me, but that's the only way i can explain this latest cover from the society.. http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/86/wp_e_20130601.pdf.

  cedars.

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  "Showing a group of guys of mixed races and colours working and laughing together as though it is something really unusual and remarkable"

  Ambersun this is even more hilarious when you consider it's magazine is printed in New York!? Is it unusual to see mixed racial socialising in New York?

  Have they ever looked outside their own world?

  also, if that's a garage where's the dirty magazines?