Julia Orwell

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  A demon possessed hoime, allegations of infedelity, slander and other cool stuff

  by confusedandalone in

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  ok so i am sure some of you saw th eletter my mom wrote.

  i simply responded with:.

  mom,.

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  Julia Orwell

  You're never going to get her to reason, CAA. I'm sorry to say this and I think you're a better person than I am for even trying, but I believe she's nailed the lid shut on this one. I'm sorry you have a mother like this, and believe me, there are more than just JW mums like this too. I know a guy in Idaho whose mum is a Christian Scientist and is very similar to yours. You just can't reason with people like that.
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  The Memorial campaign: What question from a householder would have made you think?

  by Faithful Witness in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know that soon, the jws in our area will be out in full force, on their hit and run campaign with invitations to the memorial.

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  did you ever encounter a householder during this campaign, that made you stop and think about what you were doing?

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  Julia Orwell

  Good! Then you can avoid wasting your time.
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  Kingdom Melodies for Kids on JW.org

  by Imminent1975 in

  1. watchtower
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  http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/songs/.

  wow, jw.org thinks it is now disney.

  unbelievable..

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  Yeah but notice the arrangements of those songs are totally wimpy? Nothing with a beat you can even tap your foot to. Kids like poppy sort of music they can wiggle and clap to. That music makes me visualise children in Pyongyang twirling in synch in front of a great big statue of the Dear Leader.
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  When Camels fly, anachronisms in the Bible

  by designs in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  little details in the bible tell us the various authors wrote of past events but used features current to their day.. instruments mentioned in daniel, and recent carbon dating of camels places their domestication around the 10th century bce.

  yet genesis says they accompained abraham on his journey.. www.smithsonian.com.

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  Julia Orwell

  Also a place mentioned in Exodus was not even built when Moses and his mob were supposedly wandering around!
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  The Memorial campaign: What question from a householder would have made you think?

  by Faithful Witness in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know that soon, the jws in our area will be out in full force, on their hit and run campaign with invitations to the memorial.

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  did you ever encounter a householder during this campaign, that made you stop and think about what you were doing?

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  Julia Orwell

  Ima hope I won't be home. My husband will hole up and pretend he doesn't hear them if he's home by himself.

  It's hard to ask just one question that will get a JW thinking. I know for me, it was years of questions and reading and then finally JWfacts and JWsurvey to help me put it all together. Still, if you come up with just one thing, it could be a small piece of an overall load that will get them thinking. One thing said to me in a campaign like this was by a Christian man who told me that he knows a lot of JWs who are good eggs, but doesn't sense the 'spirit' in them. Perhaps he was referring to their lacklustre stares that come from years of mind numbing cult activities, or a general hollowness of soul. It made me think that maybe God works through others, not just JWs.
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  Are You Comfortable With Who You Now Are?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  many jws are misfits and many that were raised as jws find it difficult to be "normal".

  are you comfortable with yourself at this point in time?.

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  Julia Orwell

  I'm a bit afraid of my authentic self. It's slowly reemerging and it's not all good. I'm happier that I can express myself and do things I like, but it has been difficult to renegotiate my opinions about things I only had the wt opinion on, such as gay marriage, politics and that. My authentic personality is very blunt and quite overbearing at times, something tempered by my years as a jw. Also I learned to deal with my anger management issues as a jw, and even now I have to consciously keep it in check.

  Overall though I am happier because I am me and don't have to feel bad about decisions that work for me, rather than the cookie cutter wt prescribed decisions.I can now openly admit what I kept secret during my jw years, that I was damn proud of my brother and what he achieved in the military. Holding my own opinions definitely puts me in a better space, but I am worried about the negative aspects of my authentic self emerging.
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  Dating

  by d in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  as a ex jw i am cyncial to dating perhaps because i did not do much dating as a jw.

  do any of you still feel this way?

  i am not against dating but i am still that dating and getting yourself emontionallt attached is sort of a way of being in chains..

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  Julia Orwell

  JWs view dating as a prelude to marriage, which puts a lot of pressure on you. When deciding to date someone (if you can get interest as a JW) the first thing is, "Could I marry this person down the track?" Even though the purpose is to see if you would like to marry them (you haven't made the decision) that pressure is always there from the beginning. This could be part of why you are afraid of it.
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  2014 April Our Kingdom Ministry

  by WatchTower87 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2014 april our kingdom ministry.

  pdf version : press next and download.

  http://adf.ly/dr101.

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  I reckon it's just to keep them busy and drum up enthusiasm and count more auxilliary pioneers. It's also used as an opportunity to push shy kids into becoming publishers.
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  A Purpose

  by DeWandelaar in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "everything in life has a purpose" is something a lot of (religious) people tend to say.

  i used to believe that too... but i have always been wandering about animals, bacteria and everthing around us.

  what purpose is there?

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  Julia Orwell

  I wondered as a JW, what was the purpose of ticks, fleas, tapeworms, viruses, liver flukes, botflies, mozzies, and all those other nasty parasites? Why did Jehovah create them? Well, I don't think they have a purpose. They just are.
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  1914 - "A Turning Point In History"?

  by Bobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the february 2014 public wt has a cover series of articles dealing with world war i, and by inference 1914. the articles describe wwi as 'causing the world to be changed' and as "a turning point in history.".

  setting the wt's defective 1914 chronology aside for a minute, how do these statements about wwi coincide with the view of the nt?.

  certainly wwi was a big war.

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  Julia Orwell

  I believe it was, but not because of anything biblical. It was the beginning of the era of mechanized warfare and the beginning of the end of European imperial dominance. It was an abrupt about turn of established order in Europe. It was definitely a European historic turn point. Yet, it is not the only turning point in modern history as jws would say. 9/11 was one too, and there have been many in the centuries past like 1517, when Martin Luther sparked the reformation. It's just with jws prophecy, well they got one close to half right. If you throw enough rocks into a crowd, eventually you'll hit someone.