Julia Orwell

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  I can't believe how sexist the Borg is!!!

  by quellycatface in

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  just letting off a bit more steam.

  why can't sisters look after the library or the sound.

  what makes the brothers so damned special???.

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  I used to say to the brothers, "I'd be great at giving talks and managing the counter but unfortunately I wasn't born with a dick." It shocked the brothers to hear me put it like that, but I really think it highlights the crux of the matter and its absurdity.
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  AUTISM and JW children

  by apostatekate in

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  i was a jw kid.

  i remember having to sit still through long, boring meetings.

  i remember being taken to the book room for numerous spankings.

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  Our congregation had a few with special needs but they were older. The ones with Downs Syndrome seem to cope ok with crowds though, but we did have a girl with such severe retardation and autism combined she was more like (and I say this in the nicest possible way) like a cagey pet dog than a kid. She would identify you by sniffing you, needed to be brought into the hall through the back, and would totally freak when everyone stood up for the songs. She would yell out randomly during the meeting. People in the congregation were generally pretty ok as she was new: she had all the help she needed with the girl while she was a 'study' but after her baptism and then the study conductor who helped her a lot at the meetings moved away she just faded because it was too difficult.

  It also doesn't help that some JWs believe that vaccinations cause autism, so if you do bring your autistic kid to the meeting you might have guilt heaped on you from when you vaccinated your kids. I can imagine the guilt a person with a child with special needs has because they're constantly hearing do more, more more, and the woman in an iron lung who could pioneer and all that sort of thing, and here they are with full-time caring commitments. Many of the ones I've known with kids with special needs (physical or mental) have faded away, probably because the KH environment is intolerable for such families.
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  WT Study Article Counsels JW’s To Be Humane Towards Disfellowshiped Ones

  by baldeagle in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wt august 1, 1974 pp.

  467-468 maintaining a balanced viewpoint toward disfellowshiped ones.

  5 it is right to hate the wrong committed by the disfellowshiped one, but it is not right to hate the person nor is it right to treat such ones in an inhumane way.suppose, then, a member of a christian congregation boating on a lake were to see another boat containing a disfellowshiped person capsize, throwing the disfellowshiped one into the water where he struggled to stay afloat.

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  WTF is wrong with this organisation if people need to be told it's ok to save a drowning person?!
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  No more doubts for me! Good-bye JWN! We have THE TRUTH!

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i could go on and on about my personal journey over the last 2 years or so, but i don't need to.

  everything i needed to hear to finally lay my doubts to rest happened on one meeting night.

  it could only be divine providence.

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  He is isn't he? He been posting here since.
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  A New Lightbulb

  by wearewatchingyouman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "the truth" it seems to me like a lightbulb.. .

  when i think of "new light", i don't think of the sun or the moon or the stars.

  an ever present ray of light.

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  One goes out and on the other side of the room a new one goes on. The moths flock to it until it is switched off and one by the window goes on...it breaks and is replaced by another lightbulb, but they claim it's part of the other lightbulb since it was manufactured while the other one was screwed into the socket...and the moths go to it, and then another till all the moths are dizzy from the changes and fall into a heap on the floor or worse, fly into the blue lit bug zapper that just went on...
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  Closed WT Branches list.

  by Hecce in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one of the friends at extj forum provided this list of wt branches that have been closed so far, there is also a mention that two large ones are in the process of being dismantled, they are spain and argentina.

  posted for informational purposes and it seems to be accurate.. thanks for reading.

  1) alaska.

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  What's a p45 and how can we learn more about that twat's visit?
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  TTATT family blow out

  by redvip2000 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for those of you who have a minute to read this, here is a report from my family trip.. i was in florida for the holidays visiting my older sister and family, along with my parents which were also visiting.. although i've had conversations with my mother about the organization, my sister and her family had no idea of my position in regards to the (un)truth - perhaps because we live far away from each other.

  i knew the day was coming.... on my second day there, the whole family was sitting around bs-ing about different stuff, and as usual my mother starts with the "world is getting worse by the day" conversation, followed by approving nods and smart remarks from the rest of the family.

  i then politely told them that this was not true, that in fact the world has never been better.

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  Seeds are planted. They can't unhear what you said. Just keep showing them love and be there to answer any questions they might have as their beloved org screws them.
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  TTATT family blow out

  by redvip2000 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for those of you who have a minute to read this, here is a report from my family trip.. i was in florida for the holidays visiting my older sister and family, along with my parents which were also visiting.. although i've had conversations with my mother about the organization, my sister and her family had no idea of my position in regards to the (un)truth - perhaps because we live far away from each other.

  i knew the day was coming.... on my second day there, the whole family was sitting around bs-ing about different stuff, and as usual my mother starts with the "world is getting worse by the day" conversation, followed by approving nods and smart remarks from the rest of the family.

  i then politely told them that this was not true, that in fact the world has never been better.

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  Julia Orwell

  Seeds are planted. They can't unhear what you said. Just keep showing them love and be there to answer any questions they might have as their beloved org screws them.
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  The Haka

  by zeb in

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  has anyone been priviliged to see the maori haka performed live?.

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  Saw Maori kids do it when I was at school.
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  Tonight's preparation - Why bother if I am not going?

  by KateWild in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i cannot set foot in that toxic environment again, it's awful.

  but my son will be going tonight and i have noticed in the km they will be promoting children to go canvassing for the gb at the meeting with a nice demo of a cute ubp and a parent in "good standing" yuck!

  vomit!.

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  Ministry school? We used the term for witnessing or ms here.