Julia Orwell

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  Do You Miss Your Evil Family JW?

  by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

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  to keep friends with some of my family, i had to expose myself to chronic alcoholics and watch filthy movies they enjoyed.

  to keep my jw family happy, i had to pretend i was stupid and watch my vocabulary.

  i had to hide the fact i was working on a advanced degree because it showed i had a lack of faith.. .

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  I don't have a story to top that because my family are all non-jws and the finest people I've ever known. I'm proud to say I never let the WT come between me and them! Now I have a better relationship with them than ever.

  For lies though, I whitewashed everything about JWs. My family could see what whackos a lot of them are, but I'd whitewash it and keep most of the beliefs away from them unless they asked, but then when Dad did, something came over me and I clammed right up about it and wouldn't talk about it. When I was studying as a teen though, it was a bit of that teen rebelliousness when I loudly decried and disrespected hallowed traditions such as Xmas and Anzac Day. What a douche I was!
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  People who pioneer on government assistance

  by ilikecheese in

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  i had a chat with my boyfriend about this, and he said that he knows quite a few pioneers who are capable of working but prefer to pioneer with government assistance.

  his thought was, "well, it's kind of bad, but at least they're doing something useful/good with their time.

  " i know from reading this board that it's a pretty widespread thing.

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  WOW the FLDS (Fundametalist Mormons) called that practice "bleeding the beast." I could never, as a Christian, behave in that way. It's against what Jesus said about being faithful in least, no matter how you justify it. It's terrible! Our tax dollars supporting their coffee breaks.
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  broken hearted

  by recovering in

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  9:05am may 12i just got this facebook message from my niece.

  i had always thought she was smarter than this.

  she is a college educated woman in her 50's .

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  It is not a black or white question, and you are creating a logical fallacy to frame it that way. A far better choice would have been to not join a high control, fear based religion... Few religions take such a hard stance as JWs on shunning, devoting a life to making money for the religion, following the leadership without question, avoiding education, and looking on everyone else as worldly and wicked.

  *like* from me, JW Facts. Jesus never advocated an organisation. He advocated a way of life, and his followers then organised themselves into groups. Like birds organise themselves into flocks- they stick together because of common belief, not because of fear or coercion.

  And sorry for posting off-topic, so now I'll get on topic: I'm a teacher, and I meet JW kids who want to get baptised and go to Bethel. I can't tell them TTATT though, so I just watch these sweet little middle school kids go off to the slaughter. It's sad. I imagine it's worse if you're really close with your niece.
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  Your worst convention experience.

  by zeb in

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  by a split second rescuing our handicapped son from being pushed down the stairs by a flood of sisters rushing out to see as the drama had started.. the main offender being a special pioneer..

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  I once lived 5 hours away from the convention and was so wiped out Thurday night I decided to drive down in the morning. I was also very jittery because I'd been robbed that week and was very frightened of everything. Well, I drove the 5 hour trip, and got there at about 11:30 to a town I'd never been to, totally tired and flustered, and found a seat somewhere.

  Well afterwards, people from my cong said, "Oh we saw you looking for a seat during the session." I thought, "Why didn't any of you come down and call me over?" I mean, everyone in the congregation knew I was the single sister from another region who was all by myself! Most people were pretty cool though because they knew my situation and said, "It's great that you even made it." But 100 of those nice comments got washed away by one nasty one: "Well you missed the first session. Why didn't you leave last night? Why didn't you leave earlier?" Huh?! HUH!?

  That deflated me, but being used to going things alone, I got over it.
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  People who pioneer on government assistance

  by ilikecheese in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i had a chat with my boyfriend about this, and he said that he knows quite a few pioneers who are capable of working but prefer to pioneer with government assistance.

  his thought was, "well, it's kind of bad, but at least they're doing something useful/good with their time.

  " i know from reading this board that it's a pretty widespread thing.

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  I never had a problem being a government employee. Heaps of JWs I've known are/were public servants, teachers, builders, cooks etc for the government. I guess the Australian government is not that satanic. They never make you swear allegiance to them.
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  I am one of the Anointed

  by Crazyguy in

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  i realise now that all true christians that believe in christ and get baptized are anointed with holy spirit, making me one of the anointed.

  i also believe the symbolic number of 144k are the first-fruits that will be pick by yehovah but no distinction until then (romans chapter 3).

  so since there's a scripture in 1john i think that says the anointed will not need to be taught by others and will have understanding, i'm thinking of telling the elders 'do to the fact that i'm now anointed i no longer need to go to their meetings.

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  Research some fade methods. It's saved me heaps of problems with elders. You can't reason with them so best to avoid them. Glad you found Jesus! Jesus is really what it's all about.
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  Russell and the Miracle Wheat Scandal

  by Wild_Thing in

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  he truly was a crook, wasn't he?!?

  i found this article on the brookly daily eagle website reminiscing about this scandal.

  evidently, the newspaper outed him on this scheme and printed a cartoon of russell and his miracle wheat, and so russell sued them and lost!

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  Looks like something from an old Tintin!
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  Russell and the Miracle Wheat Scandal

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
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  he truly was a crook, wasn't he?!?

  i found this article on the brookly daily eagle website reminiscing about this scandal.

  evidently, the newspaper outed him on this scheme and printed a cartoon of russell and his miracle wheat, and so russell sued them and lost!

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  The Truth of the Matter Is.......

  by Este in

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  it's the end of the world does anyone disagree?.

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  Yeah I disagree. They used to say it was the end of the world in 1000 AD and every other century since. But I suppose it has to end sometime. Human greed is wrecking the environment.
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  July Watchtower Should You Trust Religion?

  by piztjw in

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  i had great sport reading this and applying the questions to the jw's.

  "similarly, it is wise to examine religion carefully.

  if you belong to a religious organization, you are, in effect, putting your spiritual life in its hands.

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  LOL like Stalin and Hitler? Yes, and their ilk. Jesus did say all would go before the judgement seat and be judged according to their deeds, so that's comforting for believers.

  The WT take on other religions is the old rafters and straws thing: they don't see their whopping great rafter, and if you point it out, you're meat.