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  "Your bad attitude is evident, because you don't bring a meeting bag to the meetings anymore!"

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. beliefs

  yes friends.....this is the comment said to me by an elder!.

  "your bad attitude is evident because you don't bring your meeting bag anymore!".

  i calmly replied: "but everything i need is on the tablet now......".

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  Zombie dub - I know an older m.s. who would drive his car and a younger female pioneer who would drive her car to visit an elderly couple in a nursing home. They left the hall parking lot together and met up at the nursing home parking lot together, but they couldn't ride together. Because, of course, the only option for traveling across town on busy streets without a chaperone is to pull over and perform inappropriate sexual acts right there on the side of the road...

  Nuttiest religion ever invented.
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  2015 Convention Reminders Video!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  credit goes to mike & kim.. .. https://youtu.be/yj3x6wjrsaq .

  .. .. atlantis!.

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  cultBgone

  As someone wisely pointed out in the YouTube comments, why do these folks even need to be told not to shove elderly ones out of the way? Really, any of these "reminders" should be unnecessary for any "religious" group.

  And the the opening line about "Yes, another year has gone by" should be followed by "and STILL no Armageddon, so we are subjecting you to another in our endless stream of boring conventions where we try to distract you from the fact that we are just a big bunch of hypocritical money grabbers like those your Jesus tossed from the temple."
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  Apostasy Trial - Part 2 - Satan is Using Google

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=373zbncuuoq

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  Painful as it was to hear these men stubbornly refuse to entertain any logical thought, this just reaffirmed how right I was to get out of jwackoville.
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  I have a serious problem

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have a serious problem that i cannot solve on my own.

  i was born-in but am only in by a thread at this point.

  i quit the tms a few weeks ago and wrote a post on it.

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  cultBgone

  MyName...nothing is more important than your son and his future. Please don't take a backseat by saying "they are controlling the situation". Your son certainly notices when you don't stand up to protect him, and if you allow another man to take charge (and it is your choice)...your son will respect the other man instead of you.

  It really is your choice to decide how this plays out.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses video slammed for threatening kids with death for not paying attention in church

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  here is the link to a recent news article.

  maybe it was commented before, but today was the first i had seen it.. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jehovah-witnesses-video-slammed-threats-kids-article-1.2116873.

  i guess caleb is getting around.

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  Good to some media coverage is being given to the fear-mongering that amounts to emotional child abuse.
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  How is Joe Publisher reacting to all the TV coverage on the abuse cases?

  by 4thgen in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  please pardon if this a repeated topic.

  i have had virtually no contact with any witnesses beside my mother for the past few years.

  she watches tv constantly and claims she has never seen anything on the watchtower abuse cases.

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  Wasn't the Nightline or PBS special on Candace Conti's case aired after midnight in the US? No wonder they dont' know about it.
  
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  Why do religious people make claims and then refuse to back them up?

  by Viviane in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  several times over the past few months i have had conversations, both here and in real life, with religious people making all sorts of interesting and conflicting claims.

  i like to know how things work, so generally i will ask questions to net out what i am being told and see if it can be explained and make sense.. for instance, if someone said 2+2=4 and i asked how, there are a variety of ways that could be shown to me, a number line, physical objects being put together, counting on fingers and toes, etc.

  indeed, in my personal life, i often have to explain how certain technologies work, sometimes planned, sometimes off the cuff, from a variety of group sizes to a varying degree of technical expertise.

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  Have to agree with Maat on this one...many folks are content with their lives as jdubs. They might have the skills to reason, but they are not in a position where they WANT to use those skills. Some folks need to belong to a group, and are not unhappy about being labeled as JW.

  Who are we to disagree?

  Just because we don't agree, and it doesn't make sense to us (and maybe not even to them), it is their choice.

  Life is much better spent with a smile on our face and with a happy heart rather than being in turmoil over the choices of others. If they want to live a different lifestyle, they'll decide to do it when they are ready...just like we did.
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  Nightline program with segment on JWs has been changed until tomorrow night.

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was at a criminal trial all day in murfreesboro, tn, involving the notorious jw who i call "mommy molester," angela montgomery.

  this is the reason i didn't know until this evening that the nightline program with the segment on jws was changed until tomorrow night.

  (i forgot my phone.

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  Nice of them to hide it when hardly anyone will view it...wonder how much pressure the gb's legal team put on abc?
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  Do you feel bad throwing away literature?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so do you feel bad throwing away your old literature?.

  what about your old song book or bible from your early days in the org?.

  if so, is it because of sentimentality, monetary cost or because it might be 'sacred' ?.

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  At first I felt somewhat guilty but then it turned to pride that they had no control over me anymore.

  The only thing I now regret about tossing it is that I had lots of older books which they've hidden from view, but would be so useful to prove how dramatically they've twisted and turned their "teachings".
  
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  An anthropologist visits a JW community in Santa María Zapotitlán, Mexico

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  dr. jena barchas-lichtenstein is an anthropologist who received her doctorate through ucla.. https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jena-barchas-lichtenstein/43/427/702.

  in 2013, barchas-lichtenstein submitted the paper "when the dead are resurrected, how are we going to speak to them?

  ": jehovah's witnesses and the use of indigenous languages in the globalizing textual community as a partial submission for her doctoral dissertation..

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  cultBgone

  Blondie, I remember hearing that same statement.  Along those lines we were told that it would be much too confusing for those who lived centuries ago to suddenly be thrust into the world with electricity, airplanes and automobiles.  Yet I never saw those things in wt renderings of "paradise" so that didn't make sense.
  

  Sometimes I think they have new ideas in a few talks to see if they stick.  If not, you don't hear them again, they just try something else that doesn't raise so many questions.