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  I have a deep seated hatred for the leadership of the JW Cult

  by mrquik in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i look back on my life & realize all major mistakes fall at the feet of the jw leadership.

  no college, no birthdays, basically no celebrations.

  lived my younger years as an outcast.

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  GrreatTeacher

  LHG, I definitely agree with you that there was a double standard for women vs. men about working. Quite a sexist religion right down to its core.

  I also feel that each congregation has its own standards and culture. My congregation was not particularly pioneer oriented. There was exactly one younger pioneer ( of course female ) who worked part time as a waitress. And one very old pioneer who never met with the group and worked on her own for all of her 100 hours per month. Weird.

  The rest were just not extraordinarily zealous, not that they didn't believe sincerely, but every single elder held a full time job and no one pressured young people to pioneer when they left school. Many young wives worked full time and there was no particular stigma. The stigma in that congregation was about having kids, not seen as smart to do so very close to the end. In other ways the congregation was very conservative, though, and not fun to grow up in.

  And then there was one congregation over that had half the congregation pioneering it seemed. And more than a dozen elders. And, yet they were more liberal. People often moved there deliberately.

  It's amazing how different the congregation cultures could be.

  Also, I'm sorry you went through that. Chained to a religion yet marginalized.
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  A TAWDRY history: WatchTower and Vaccines

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  do jehovah's witnesses have a common sense approach to science and medicine?the history of the watchtower religion will shock you in this regard.read on!clayton j. woodworth, co-author of the infamous seventh volume of studies in the scriptures, "the finished mystery" (1917).

  in 1919 he became editor of a magazine called "the golden age," which is now known as awake!.

  woodworth was, to be as fair as possible, the king of all looney birds.. the golden age became a forum for the most extravagant claims about science.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Why on earth would someone ask for medical advice from their religious minister?

  It's okay to be simple and unlearned, but educate yourself and do it by consulting the entity that is the expert.

  Medical questions go to medical doctors.

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  Also, I can always feel the devil rejoice when I pull out my old aluminum cookware. He's just smelling that sweet, pleasing aluminum smell.
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  I have a deep seated hatred for the leadership of the JW Cult

  by mrquik in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i look back on my life & realize all major mistakes fall at the feet of the jw leadership.

  no college, no birthdays, basically no celebrations.

  lived my younger years as an outcast.

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  GrreatTeacher

  It really is the internet that has saved a lot of young people. I complain about technology all the time, but, dang, all the information available now that wasn't available 30 years ago is just amazing.

  However, I did manage to get out without it 30 years ago. The religion just didn't pass the sniff test even if I couldn't put my finger on it. I was POMI for a few years, then the 1995 generation change absolutely sealed it for me.

  I had actually predicted the generation change when I saw the 80 year generation limit since 1914 looming. And those bastards did it. I think quite a few people got the hint then and left.

  Mrquik, I have to say that maybe it also depends on the congregation you are involved in, too?

  My dad is your age, was an elder, always held a full time job, invested and left work at 58 with a pension. Others did, too.

  Maybe the difference was that he came in as an adult in 1974?

  Anyhow, I love your avatar photo because I see you're by the water and look like you're happy. The water is my happy place, too. We all deserve one happy place where our troubles seem a little farther away.
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  Unraveling threads which expose WatchTower 

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  cults are famous for controlling information about people, places and events which are embarrassing to their self-myths.in my experience from the beginning of my personal contact with jehovah's witnesses - i knew next to nothing at all.

  i was in elementary school in the 6th grade, age 12. a school chum who was a jw befriended me and the indoctrination began straightaway!it took all of 6 years of studying and attending meetings before i agreed to be baptized on a date very easy to remember: it was november 23, 1963 - the day after president john f. kennedy was murdered a few miles away in dallas.

  (during the convention i attended - not a single mention of assassination or kennedy or his family was spoken.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Thanks for the info, Terry.

  Props for appropriate use of an apostrophe for the possessive form of a name ending in the letter S.

  (You know what I mean.)
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  "Great Reset" and the Borg

  by mikeflood in

  1. social
  2. current

  wow, just watched a video from the 'world economic forum' , a respectable organization by the way, not the usual conspiracy lunatic theorist.

  it says that by 2030 meat is gonna be a treat not widely available like today, that the us is not gonna be a global superpower anymore, instead a handful of countries will dominate and that people is not gonna own nothing but will be happy.. well, that would help the borg to keep the craziness going on.. thoughts?

  what's this great reset?.

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  GrreatTeacher

  I live on an island and I am counting on sea level rise to give me waterfront property.

  That would surely increase the property value.
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  Australia Update

  by Pants of Righteousness in

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  GrreatTeacher

  BTW, Pants of Righteousness is an awesome username!
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  Australia Update

  by Pants of Righteousness in

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  GrreatTeacher

  This is awesome!

  However, is it just the Branch and not individual congregations?
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  Class Envy In Action?

  by Bangalore in

  1. social
  2. current

  https://inthesetimes.com/article/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-mackenzie-scott-billionaire-union.

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  GrreatTeacher

  People who work in the warehouses complain that they treat the robots better than the people. The robots get pulled out of service after so many hours and get their tune-up. The people literally have to get out of the way of the robots and can't make a move or walk in a way that is not preprogrammed.

  Warehouse work can be tough physically, but people said it got much worse as soon as the robots came online. The laborsaving devices made it much worse for the meat laborers.
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  JW's and deciding which PAGAN traditions to follow or not to follow. Merry Christmas all!!

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  * first i would like to say.....i apologize to my son's everyday for getting them involved in this cult because i took so much from them as far as celebrating holidays go.

  they are now 22 and 17 great kids.

  they want nothing to do with the cult.

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  GrreatTeacher

  I love being the parent of a young adult boy. He's in college so I'm trying to back off and let him figure out classes, applications, term papers and projects.

  I listen to problems, sympathize, and only step in when I have to. It's a letting go type of parenting. And the point is the launch into independence!

  I'm working on the financial literacy part of life now. The kid works summers and one day a week during school and he wants to buy a used car. So, the parenting still is going on, just different.

  You are doing great with your own boys. Keep loving them unconditionally!

  And a merry Christmas to you too!
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  Was Jesus Born on December 25th?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we were told by watchtower that no way jesus was born on dec. 25th.

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  what do you think now?.

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  GrreatTeacher

  WTWiz, I'm with you on this one.

  I tend toward seasonal depression which gets triggered by the short daylight. I start feeling better in February as the days get longer.

  But, the actual day that you know is the shortest day is such a huge relief. And when you actually start noticing the days getting slightly longer round about Christmas day, it feels miraculous. It really does feel like your life force is coming back. I literally follow the sun around the house during the day. I sit on a sofa in the rear of my house right next to a window first thing in the morning. Then the sun moves to the bedrooms and bathrooms so I'll hang out cleaning or whatever in those rooms while they're sunny. About dinner time the sun moves around to the living room in the front and I hang out there and in the dining room in the evenings. It literally makes me feel sad when the sun goes down for the day.

  And, merry Christmas to those who celebrate the religious or secular Christmas in addition to the pagan sun worship!