Hi great teacher, I can certainly relate in that the jw religion has permanently wrecked my mental health and impaired my ability to be a teacher. Still, you have your degree and whatever you do in the future, you can always fall back on that profession. I now work a minimum wage job (which I love) at a theme park and will do the odd day here and there as a relief teacher for a bit of extra cash and the academic rigour of engaging with students and curriculum. So even though I got my degree as a jw (one of the rare ones cuz my parents weren't jws) they still managed to screw up my career.
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How many of you followed the WTS direction on education years ago and have been screwed by it?
by Julia Orwell ini'm really interested in this question because i've heard for years that if you forgo further education and go pioneering, when you have a family down the track you will get a good job because jehovah will provide for you because you pioneered.
as long as i was a kool-aid drinker, even then, i thought, "how does pioneering pay your bills?
surely education should come first.
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How many of you followed the WTS direction on education years ago and have been screwed by it?
by Julia Orwell ini'm really interested in this question because i've heard for years that if you forgo further education and go pioneering, when you have a family down the track you will get a good job because jehovah will provide for you because you pioneered.
as long as i was a kool-aid drinker, even then, i thought, "how does pioneering pay your bills?
surely education should come first.
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Bumping! This after hearing about ex jws who were told all their lives university/college education was selfish and wicked and pointless, but are now old and slaving away at minimum wage jobs they'll be doing 10 years after they die...
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Demons - Possession - Dreams & Witnesses
by objectivetruth ini would like to get some opinions from you all.. .
have you known a lot of witnesses that have dealt with demon issues?
have you personally dealt with problems with demons?
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Julia Orwell
Of course I had demon experiences as a jw. As soon as I left and stopped believing in demons, I had no more demo experiences. A jw fears these imaginary critters, tells other jws all about them, and before you know it, smurfs are walking around in kingdom halls and the Jws are even more scared. Add to that those jw publications that are always rabbiting on about demons, and you've got a bunch of jittery, addled brains seeing things that aren't there.
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What is the "new" date JWs are "hinting" at for Armaggeddon?
by booker-t inafter the 1975 "we did not say point blank armaggeddon was coming we only suggested it might come" fiasco what is the new date jws are "hinting" at for armaggeddon?
i know now they do not point to any specific date but hint that maybe it might occur such as before 2000 the preaching work will be finished.
this is a suggestion not a prediction so they can wiggle out of this one.
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Julia Orwell
"Soon".
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Secret recording devices hidden in Kingdom Hall furniture...
by Focus inlet's pretend that a suspicious presiding overseer k. eepclean, alerted by a misbehaving microwave oven to an apostate infliltration of his flock, hides secret recording devices in kingdom hall furniture, and transcribes the conversations... .
since like most pos, mentally he's more than a few nickels short of a quarter, he needs help to figure out who said what.. so, please study this photo:.
here are the conversations:.
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Julia Orwell
Hey Focus, great game!! Do another!!
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Watchtower Oct 15 2014
by Listener inthe october watchtower 2014 is now up on jw org.
regarding the new covenant they write.
the governing body sets the scene in the first article by stating how they are like jesus and as humans they are sinless in god's eyes.. then on page 24 they state this.
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Julia Orwell
I recommend you read about dictators like Hitler and Stalin. As time went on, they inflicted more extreme and bizarre controls on their peoples. Gas chambers and gulags didn't happen over night. They were developed and refined over time. The people would have rebelled outright if they had been introduced suddenly. It's the frog in the pot scenario: turn up the heat in increments. I see these guys being far more conscious of what they're doing and far more deliberate than the leaders of the jw religion I converted to in the 90's.
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Watchtower Oct 15 2014
by Listener inthe october watchtower 2014 is now up on jw org.
regarding the new covenant they write.
the governing body sets the scene in the first article by stating how they are like jesus and as humans they are sinless in god's eyes.. then on page 24 they state this.
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Julia Orwell
Man they're becoming more cultish every day.
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Name Some Things That JWs Look Down Upon That Normal People Wouldn't Even Think About?
by minimus injws look down on others for saying, "bless you" if someone sneezes.
it has something to do with the demons.
another example is that it is considered satanic if a man took his hat off for a lady!
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One jw I knew looked down on another for liking Star Trek. He thought it was demonic cuz it assumes all the aliens evolved and as jws they should know there are no aliens.
Also, any other tiny personal choice a person makes. One jw friend of mine loves drawing celebrity portraits. Well her jw friends say it's idolatrous.
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"Thanks for showing an interest" - why I'd rather be completely shunned.
by Julia Orwell inan old jw friend of mine died on saturday, and i used to be best friends with her jw husband.
we were close friends for 14 years.
i was like his daughter.
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Julia Orwell
The memorial is tomorrow. I'm not going. My mum said it would do my head in if I did, and conveniently I have to work anyway.
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Full-time service is MORE IMPORTANT than taking care of elderly parents!!! It says so in the Sept 2014 WT
by EndofMysteries inparagraph 20 out of the article in the sept 2014 study wt about fulltime service says this.... .
"full-time servants age, and so do their parents.
when parents are witnesses, likely their fondest wish is for their children to stay in their assignments.
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I bet if they made it so you could count time for caring for the oldies there would be jws queuing at their doors. What a cruel cult. But then, cults are known for discarding members when they are too old or sick.