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  Tattoos?

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if seems to be quite fashionable nowadays for ex-jws to get a tattoo or a series of tattoos to symbolize either their time spent in the watchtower or their escape, and i kind of don't get it.

  i don't understand why someone would want a constant reminder on their body of such a horrible period in their life.

  on another forum, one woman shared that she was getting 25 bees tattooed all over her body to represent the 25 years she spent in the org.

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  GrreatTeacher

  I had thought about getting one after I admired the demure wreath a friend had tattooed around her belly button.

  Then she got pregnant...
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  What to Do....Please Help. Awakening JW for a very long time

  by CovertsadJW in

  1. social
  2. family

  good afternoon , .

  i have been having doubts for many years and as most jw's i have certainly not done myself a favor by suppressing all of my critical thinking.

  i am married with 3 kids and my wife and i are inactive, but my wife has made it very clear in speech and action that she wants to go to all meetings, field service, and indoctrinate our kids.

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  I worry about your kids growing up around all of that screaming, yelling, and verbal abuse. I would hate for them growing up thinking that communicating that way is normal and acceptable.

  I was glad to hear you stand up for yourself and reject verbal abuse by saying,"Don't talk down to me." That creates a boundary of respect around your communications.

  I would respond to any loud, shrill, out of control, or swearing type speech with, "You may not speak to me like this. When you get yourself together, and can speak respectfully, then we can continue this conversation.

  Set a boundary around basic respectful speech in conversations. All that yelling, screaming and cursing: You don't deserve it, your kids don't deserve it, and they shouldn't grow up thinking that this is normal and acceptable behavior.

  I think that might be a great place to start carving out some basic communication ground rules.
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  Just a story I found of how one family left.

  by days of future passed in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while wandering on youtube, i came across a user named trueface.

  perhaps you have already watched it.

  i liked it because they describe their thoughts on how events and research led them to leave the wt.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Great video. Bump for Sunday evening surfers.

  Watch to see how the local congregation treated one of its loyal longtime members upon her decline due to dementia and subsequent death.
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  My final topic

  by pomo6780 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have noted that the irritable part of me got the better of me when posting about j f rutherford.

  i acknowledge that a few on here have pointed out flaws in my reasoning and the way i reason.

  and i agree with them.

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  No, silly. I was talking to PORNO. Apoarently he's on number 6780. I guess he's now off to #6781.

  Kevin's always late.
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  My final topic

  by pomo6780 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have noted that the irritable part of me got the better of me when posting about j f rutherford.

  i acknowledge that a few on here have pointed out flaws in my reasoning and the way i reason.

  and i agree with them.

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  Is that you, Kevin??
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  Are You Spending More Money This Year With The Economy Being Better?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i see more people this year in an optimistic mood because of the economy.

  will you be spending more money 💰 this year, or less or about the same as last year?.

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  Ah, I bought a new car last year, so I'm spending plenty of money on car payments for 4 more years.

  Somewhat ironically, my first payment disappeared out of my account on Christmas day last year. It made me kind of dislike automated payments.
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  I am grateful for leaving the watchtower corporation. Innit!

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i dislike long topics......so here it is.. i suffered for my religion, now it's your turn.. when i first left the corporation my life exploded into a suicidal chaos.. my family broke up.

  i lost my so called friends.. luckily, i had worldly friends from all walks of life that supported me, even though they had no idea why i was so suicidal.

  in as much as they hadn't left cults.. i went from the corporation to a baptist church.

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  I know I'm a weirdo, but I kinda enjoy the fact that life's meaningless.

  It frees me from the struggle of trying to find meaning in everything; trying to make all the pieces fit.

  I'm no longer interested in even creating a coherent meaningful story to explain the events in the arc of my life.

  Yeah, work sucks. It's work, it's supposed to. But, my weekends are mine and if I don't have anything more meaningful to do than look forward to a good cup of coffee in the morning and a perusal of the internet in the afternoon, then that's fine by me.

  Oh, and some good quality laundry time. God, I love the smell of laundry soap and bleach!
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  Another reason Watchtower may be hurting financially

  by shepherdless in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't think anyone else has raised this point.

  below i set out the case that the jw demographic in usa has a steadily decreasing combined income, and as a consequence, has less money to donate.

  not only is the flock not growing, the flock is producing less wool for the borg to fleece.

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  Does Watchtower somehow aggregate financial data about its members?

  It would make sense that they should if they are depending on donations now rather than the sales of literature.

  Any good corporation would have information on the demographics of its customers in order to market to them and adjust their business model.

  So, my question is: does Watchtower know how much income its members have and the liklihood of their spending some of it on WT?

  Does anybody know?
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  Another boa, another pig!

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was just thinking about the way dubs are required to swallow huge indigestible lumps of “spiritual” food without question like a boa swallows a pig.. our batch had the "overlapping generation" presented amongst many other travesties.

  the gb looked us in the eye and dared us not to swallow it whole, don’t complain about indigestion just take it.. can you imagine though being told, post 1914, that the awaited kingdom, christ in all his glory had already happened.

  it happened just as foretold.

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  I like this metaphor.

  A lump in yer belly.
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  Why do some British journalists ...

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ... go full retard whenever an arabic name appears on the autocue, and 'give it the full arabic', so to speak?.

  rageh omar is a british somali of sunni muslim heritage so it's understandable when he pronounces arabic names with an arabic pronunciation/accent.. but what about people who have nothing to do with arabic - huw edwards, emily maitlis, moira stewart, etc.?

  they don't speak arabic, do they?.

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  Strange. The American city of La Jolla is pronounced the Spanish way: La Hoya, but the city of Amarillo is pronounced the English way with the l's enunciated rather than "ama reeyo" as it would be pronounced in Spanish.

  I don't know the reason behind that.