And the first thing I thought of when I saw this cover:
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Anybody else notice the NWT bible on the cover of June 1, 2018 Newsweek?
by Wild_Thing init was supposed to be a striking image to portray how persecuted they are.
it looks like just another elder using his bible to me.. read more about it, here: http://www.newsweek.com/behind-scenes-newsweeks-international-june-1-cover-art-960456.
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My son graduated last Friday
by Captain Schmideo2 ini have talked about him before on this forum.
he is now a graduate from mit!.
it was a lovely weekend.. i got to meet some of the friends he has made in the past four years, and some of their families.. they were very nice, decent, friendly, and enjoyable people.
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Xanthippe: You got that right! I decided to break the cycle with my kids. I love my parents, but I really feel they held me back, and didn't aggressively pursue higher ed for me like they could have. I could have gotten scholarships, I had the grades to be at the top of my class in High School, but that Witness mentality and that fear of other people's opinions in the congregation pretty much ensured that I would never meet my full potential as a student.
Ironically, both parents are now inactive, and those "friends" of theirs never call. So, there ya go!
I made it my goal that as long as I had it in my power, I would make sure that both of my sons got the opportunities I never did. Now they both have Bachelor degrees, my oldest lives in China teaching English, and seems to have a real calling for it. His company likes him enough to keep renewing his contract, with raises, so he must be doing something right.
The downside is that we don't get to see them in person as much, and that saddens us at times (I also think that is a reason why most JW parents don't want their kids to get too far from the nest. And why you see so many "clans" of JW's in so many Halls). But, I am so proud of the adults they are becoming! -
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My son graduated last Friday
by Captain Schmideo2 ini have talked about him before on this forum.
he is now a graduate from mit!.
it was a lovely weekend.. i got to meet some of the friends he has made in the past four years, and some of their families.. they were very nice, decent, friendly, and enjoyable people.
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I have talked about him before on this forum.
He is now a graduate from MIT!It was a lovely weekend.
I got to meet some of the friends he has made in the past four years, and some of their families.
They were very nice, decent, friendly, and enjoyable people. Spent an evening at a parents house for an outdoor meal and the weather and surroundings were great.
One chapter of my son's life ends, and a new one begins (well, sort of. He is going for his Masters now, so he is still in school). But, I feel certain that he will continue to grow, to seek out companions that are a positive influence in his life, and he is an adult that I am glad and proud to know!
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JW Parents in bad shape with no retirement.
by blownaway inmy wife's parents are in very bad shape.
they are both 2nd gen jws.
my father in law worked for a large american manufacturing company in the 60s and early 70s.
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"A few grand" sounds like less than 5k. One medical emergency later, that money is wiped out, and it didn't even pay for the aspirin at the hospital.
Many of us, even with decent paying jobs, will never be able to really retire. Not even on Social Security, since the a$$holes in Congress want to get there hands on that and hand it over to their cronies on Wall Street. But, for those that worked as minimally as possible, people like my Mother In Law, who never worked, never contributed to SSI, whose monthly maintenance is solely dependent on the fact that her husband (not a Witness) gets a pretty big check based on his past earnings. If he goes first, she is going to get a very harsh reality. But, quoting her,"I don't need money, I have Jehovah!" (Who, while he loves taking money in, never seems to dish any of it back out to his faithful "sheep".) -
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I just watched the final video from this years convention. OMG!!!
by NikL ini am shaking all over right now.
i think it's worse that the bunker video.. i used to think there was no way that these people would actually "drink the cool aid" if you get my drift, but seeing this video i am now not sure it could never happen.. having a wife who i love dearly trapped in this cult is really freaking me out right now...
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I think it's meant to be metaphorical, in the same way that many of the illustrations are.
However, dubbies, like Drax the Destroyer, do not "get" metaphors. So many of them will see this video and translate it into their fevered minds as God's Literal Truth. -
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Movie Apostacy
by blownaway inwhere can i watch this?
i saw it was limited release last sept. but it should be out now.
anyone know?
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For all you "Downton Abbey" fans out there, the mother in this movie is played by the same actress that played "O'Brien", the maid to Lady Crawley. She looks much different here!
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Material such as the film at the end of this years convention confirms that I was right to take my kids out the religion
by jambon1 init’s quite affirming to see the horrific material that they’re serving up at the convention this year.
aside from blatant homophobia, the scenes at the end of the convention that are discussed on another thread stoop to new levels of fear mongering.
it seems to occur to nobody inside the organisation that this kind of material could trigger fear, deprsssion, anxiety, stress.
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Another screen cap:
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Material such as the film at the end of this years convention confirms that I was right to take my kids out the religion
by jambon1 init’s quite affirming to see the horrific material that they’re serving up at the convention this year.
aside from blatant homophobia, the scenes at the end of the convention that are discussed on another thread stoop to new levels of fear mongering.
it seems to occur to nobody inside the organisation that this kind of material could trigger fear, deprsssion, anxiety, stress.
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Captain Schmideo2
StephaneLaliberte:
No. The are wearing military camo, and wearing balaclavas.
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Material such as the film at the end of this years convention confirms that I was right to take my kids out the religion
by jambon1 init’s quite affirming to see the horrific material that they’re serving up at the convention this year.
aside from blatant homophobia, the scenes at the end of the convention that are discussed on another thread stoop to new levels of fear mongering.
it seems to occur to nobody inside the organisation that this kind of material could trigger fear, deprsssion, anxiety, stress.
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I know a very PIMI that flatly states that "homophopia" is a totally made up word. So, I guess the actual term would be (bad Greek here) homomiseo, or hatred of homosexuality. Anyway you slice it, gays are not welcome in the city limits of Paradise...
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Material such as the film at the end of this years convention confirms that I was right to take my kids out the religion
by jambon1 init’s quite affirming to see the horrific material that they’re serving up at the convention this year.
aside from blatant homophobia, the scenes at the end of the convention that are discussed on another thread stoop to new levels of fear mongering.
it seems to occur to nobody inside the organisation that this kind of material could trigger fear, deprsssion, anxiety, stress.
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Captain Schmideo2
Alex DeLarge, actually. I should know; see my avatar!