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  Jehovah's Witnesses - a religion of displaced people?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've had a theory for a long time that jws historically have appealed to people who have been displaced or find themselves in a new environment away from family and friends.

  i also read an article recently that suggested that internal migration in italy was a big boost for jw growth.

  more generally it has long been theorised that new religious movements are a phenomenon particularly associated with disruptive features of modernity, including the hyper-mobility of people in the modern age.

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  Nominal Christian refugees (using the refugee word loosely). Ripe pickings for the JW cult.

  I think Biblical childhood indoctrination is the keyest of ingredients.
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  Are you sad or angry?

  by raven in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  after exiting the org, i mean cult, how have each of you felt personally about the lies you had been taught, the hurt from feeling betrayed by these people, actual hopes of once believed false teachings, rose colored lenses of seemingly just and right doctrines that turned out to be a bunch of horse $#!+, the shunning of family and friends?

  right now i am going through the motions, i've just moved to a new home, which means hopefully no more elders searching for me at my previous address.. i can't help but feel sad though right now because of the fact that although i am not df'd ( maybe the elders will do it in absentia assuming i've been avoiding them and the 2 jc's they've invited me to as well as the last handwritten letter at my door before i moved ) my mom treats me as though i am dead to her, she says " i am living the life of a disfellowshipped person, and until i come back to jehovah this is how things will be because this was my choice to leave jehovah " ok i get it, but i don't- everyone has free will, so yes this was my choice but it is also her choice to shun me, especially after the "shun unrepentant wrongdoers" talk at the rc, funny how they come out with these talks to reel members back in.. she claims that she has an obligation to jehovah of which she promised to him after she was baptized not at 11, 13, or 17 ( young ages ) but fricken 26 years old.

  i absolutely hate this organization and everything that it is, it's taken away my family and most importantly my own mother.. i always thought that a mothers love was to be unconditional, but hers for me is only conditional.

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  I feel a spectrum of emotions. Sometimes I feel sorry for all of my friends a deep sense of pity. Sometimes, while I'm driving around the metro area, I pause a podcast and rant like a madman about something that is bothering me.

  It will get better for me soon. I just need to be patient. A recent major event has put me a lot closer to ending my fade.
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  Has anyone thought about if a General strike take place by undocumented immigrants.

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this would cripple the economy, don't know about other states in the union but it would.

  be devastating for the border states.

  here in california restaurants (no workers) closed, .

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  I currently employ an undocumented man. He has 7 American born kids and an American born wife, their mother. He's the best employee that I have (14 years), is a volunteer soccer coach, and one of the best people I know.

  I pay him handsomely and he pays his FICA and Social Security taxes like everyone else.
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  Lying In Wait At a Bed & Breakfast

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a few years ago while traveling in the northeast, my wife and i stopped in new haven, connecticut, at a b&b we'd reserved for the night.

  no sooner had we unpacked and moved into the living room for tea and treats, our hosts began to talk about religion, and we learned they were jehovah's witnesses.

  i didn't mind so much, but my wife was outraged that our hosts would use their place of business as a launching point to do missionary work.

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  My response would be:

  "Tell me more about that generation of 1914 thing."
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  Isaiah 7:14 is a prophecy about the messiah whose name is Immanuel, so why the name Jesus ?

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  maybe i`m getting old and senile , but i was thinking about something that used to nag at the back of my brain when i was "in" , wasn`t the messiah to be called immanuel ?

  according to isa.7:14 and not jesus ?.

  why was the name immanuel substituted with the name jesus .?.

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  Messy manic prophecy.
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  Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....

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  I finally figured it out! What Vidqun is saying is that intelligent design is like diarrhea, it runs in your genes.
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  The question no JW can answer without resorting to babbling

  by Crabby in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  let me ask you only one question.

  first i need to clarify a few things.

  in the new world translation, john 1:1 reads: “in [the] beginning the word was, and the word was with god, and the word was a god.” then in isaiah 9:6 (nwt) we read: “for there has been a child born to us, there has been a son given to us; and the princely rule will come to be upon his shoulder.

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  My ability to defeat Trinitarian arguments in high school is the reason I became a zealot JW. smh
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  The US government will track killings by police for the first time ever

  by OneGenTwoGroups in

  1. social
  2. current

  wow.

  i thought this was already happening.. https://news.vice.com/article/the-us-government-will-track-killings-by-police-for-the-first-time-ever.

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  Wow. I thought this was already happening.

  https://news.vice.com/article/the-us-government-will-track-killings-by-police-for-the-first-time-ever
  
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  Complaining over post dislikes / downvotes

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  let's be clear: people have the right to like or dislike what they want - that is why the option is there.

  as long as they are not doing it in a malicious way to retaliate or game the system, there is no policing the votes.

  if you get a down-vote, live with it.

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  Suggestion: Just the total ups and downs for the OP, should be shown on the homepage.
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  Suffering with "Bridge-over-River-Kwai-syndrome" while fading

  by OneGenTwoGroups in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've never liked being late for meetings, 10 minutes early has always been 5 minutes late for me.

  i'm a very punctual atheist at the meetings still.. when someone asks a simple question from the platform and not one dummy raises their hand, i still feel the need to raise my hand so that we don't all look like idiots.. my shoes still need to be clean and polished, my suits and ties match and are in good shape.

  i never wear them anywhere else.. i still feel like saying hello to people that are obviously being ignored by everyone else.. people not singing out still bugs me, lol.

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  Situation: zealot wife, mom, and dad. Parents are old and in extremely poor health. Have an IT project I'm trying to get off the ground with zealot JW friend. Once it's up and running, then I will stop going and try not to get dfd.

  I enjoy taking my mom out to lunch when I visit her, I don't want that to ever change.