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If Someone Mocks Jehovah's Witnesses Does That Bother You?
by minimus inevery once in a while i hear people purposely make fun of jws, calling them hovas, jeehoovers, etc.
i don't think that's a good way to reach them..
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Author McEwan condemns Jehovah's Witnesses as 'perverse and inhumane'
by Watchtower-Free inhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10728126/mcewan-condemns-perverse-and-inhumane-decisions-of-religious-parents.html.
non religious people are better at making reasonable, compassionate judgements, ian mcewan argues, as he condemns the "utterly perverse and inhumane" decision of religious parents allowing their children to die.. mcewan, the author of atonement, on chesil beach and enduring love, said he believed religion to be "distinctly unhelpful" in making rational choices.. his new book, the children's act, will explore the issues of the family courts, and the heartbreaking decisions faced when parents insist their child must die for religious reasons.. speaking at the oxford literary festival, mcewan used the examples of jehovah's witnesses who refused a blood transfusion for their son, and catholic parents who insisted their conjoined twins must not be separated.. his plot, finished only last week, will follow the judge's decision on whether to save the stronger twin at the expense of his dying brother.. .
when asked whether he had learned anything from his time observing medical decisions in the family courts, he said: "i found generally that religion was distinctly unhelpful in making compassionate, reasonable judgments about people's lives.. "on the whole, the secular mind seems far superior in making reasonable judgments.. "especially with the jehovah's witness, where parents allow their children to die because of some theological line invented in 1945 by a committee, seems to be utterly perverse and inhumane.".
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Non religious people are better at making reasonable, compassionate judgements, Ian McEwan argues, as he condemns the "utterly perverse and inhumane" decision of religious parents allowing their children to die.
McEwan, the author of Atonement, On Chesil Beach and Enduring Love, said he believed religion to be "distinctly unhelpful" in making rational choices.
His new book, The Children's Act, will explore the issues of the family courts, and the heartbreaking decisions faced when parents insist their child must die for religious reasons.
Speaking at the Oxford Literary Festival, McEwan used the examples of Jehovah's Witnesses who refused a blood transfusion for their son, and Catholic parents who insisted their conjoined twins must not be separated.
His plot, finished only last week, will follow the judge's decision on whether to save the stronger twin at the expense of his dying brother.
When asked whether he had learned anything from his time observing medical decisions in the family courts, he said: "I found generally that religion was distinctly unhelpful in making compassionate, reasonable judgments about people's lives.
"On the whole, the secular mind seems far superior in making reasonable judgments.
"Especially with the Jehovah's Witness, where parents allow their children to die because of some theological line invented in 1945 by a committee, seems to be utterly perverse and inhumane."
His new novella, finished only last week, was inspired in part by real life cases presided over by his own friends who worked as judges.
Speaking of his research in the family courts, McEwan told an audience he now believed the selfishness of some modern parents was ruining the interests of the children in their care.
Referring to divorce, custody, and abuse cases, he said: "There is human tragedy unfolding every day in a rather commonplace way.
"There's an almost consumerist notion that the pursuit of individual happiness cuts across the interests of children."
An extract of the novel will reference children as "counters in a game, bargaining chips for use by mothers, objects of financial or emotional neglect by fathers", as well as the victims of "real, fantasised or cynically-invented charges of abuse usually by mothers, sometimes by fathers".
The novel also describes "greedy husbands vs greedy wives, manoeuvring like nations at the end of a war, grabbing from the ruins what spoils they could before the final withdrawal".
The title of the novel refers to the real Children's Act, which McEwan called a "remarkable and civilised piece of legislation".
It rules: "When a court determines any questions with respect to the upbringing of a child, the child's welfare shall be the court's paramount consideration."
In 1999, McEwan was the subject of a scandalous custody battle with his first wife over his two children. He was eventually awarded sole custody, after his estranged wife ran away with one of his sons to France in defiance of a court ruling and was fined for defamation.
This is not the first time McEwan has shared his thoughts on the influence of religion on medical decisions.
In 2011, he called for an overhaul of suicide laws to allow terminally ill patients to receive medical help to die. At the time, he urged Prime Minister David Cameron to ignore the "supernatural beliefs" of Christians and introduce new laws to end "unnecessary suffering".
The novel, The Children's Act, is due out this autumn.
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Letter to Governing Body .Recorded conversations with Elders
by Watchtower-Free ini found this on youtube...very good example of twisted reasoning by elders.. .
recorded conversations with elders by a former pioneer....a series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw8amuphqis.
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Messed up bible stories cartoons! so funny, yet disturbingly we beleived this stuff
by stuckinarut2 inthanks to darth frosty (in another thread on noah) for drawing our attention to this series of clips on youtube called "messed up bible stories".
the youtube name is 'ebolaworld'.
if you havent yet watched them, they are so well presented and so chillingly accurate.
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Darkmatter2525 also has great videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6DnujiVCwo&list=UULhtZqdkjshgq8TqwIjMdCQ
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Thinking about meeting with the elders...might record, any tips for hiding a recorder?
by Jon Preston inive been speaking with my wife and she feels that its the honest thing to do and just meet with the elders and tell them my thoughts and doubts.
not to rejoin but da if i want.
she brought out that its rude of us for them to expect us to do parts and think alls well, and the.
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I have made my decision
by Brother Mike ini'm sure most of you have read bits and pieces of my story throughout the last year being on this site.
i've decided as a human being, and as an adult, i'm going to make the decision on whether to stay with the jw religion or leave it.
i of course have many doubts about the organization which has lead me to do research.
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You are now free to love and respect the rest of humanity .
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Ex-Jehovah's Witness success story
by Watchtower-Free inthis was just posted to facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/xjwrg3/10152073176825835/?comment_id=10152073536380835¬if_t=group_comment_reply.
by christina jones.
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Not my story . It was recently posted to Facebook
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There are still JW's calling the masturbation video as fake and apostate propaganda
by EndofMysteries in10 hours ago, " another malicious propaganda against jehova's witnesse!!".
"he is not a jehova's witness!!
!thois a big lie against jehova's witnesses!
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Its not easy to find
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Ex-Jehovah's Witness success story
by Watchtower-Free inthis was just posted to facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/xjwrg3/10152073176825835/?comment_id=10152073536380835¬if_t=group_comment_reply.
by christina jones.
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This was just posted to FaceBook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/xjwrg3/10152073176825835/?comment_id=10152073536380835¬if_t=group_comment_reply
By Christina Jones
My story is typical, raised as a JW, high school drop out, married at 18, and a mom before I was 20. I'll spare all the details now, but long story short left the JW world because I couldn't bare the thought of raising my children in this cult. My "great JW" husband walks away from me and our children and moves out of state. No child support ..nothing.
Now I was a single mom at which point I realized I was uneducated, poor, broken, and had not a single family member around to help me or even care. According to them they were doing the most loving thing they could do, which was to shun me so I would repent. Anyway, I decided I wasn't going to be a victim any longer, and my children will never know conditional love.
I was determined to break the cycle. My entire life I had always told my parents that I wanted to be a school teacher, and was always told how that would be a very worldly notion and college was out of the question. In fact I was encouraged to drop out of high school and "pioneer" instead.
So to celebrate my new found freedom. I immediately enrolled in an adult Ed program to earn my high school diploma. The following year, I enrolled in college, 7 years later I had earned a Bachelors and a Masters degree and was a certified teacher. I was hired right out of college and began my teaching career. Freedom
Never felt better!
I was finally able to support my children on my own, and I laughed in the face of every Jw that swore I was going to live a miserable life outside the confines of their organization. That was almost 10 years ago, and this school year is my first time ever having a student who is a JW. I feel like I have come full circle. I teach 5th grade, so my students are in the 10-11 age range.
Nobody has any idea that I am a DA's ex JW as I live in a completely different State now. I always care for each and everyone of my students and always form a strong connection with them. However, this student in particular is someone who has really tugged at my heart strings. She reminds me so much of myself at her age, a good girl who just wants to please and is always guilty over every little thing that she might do to loose Jehovah's favor.
This week I had one of the most rewarding things happen to me as a teacher. After spending several weeks teaching my class how to write a persuasive essay, and stressing the importance of how a strong argument always shows both sides of an issue and uses multiple sources to back up their opinion, the following transpires. My JW student turns in her essay on the issue of why she thinks Christians shouldn't celebrate birthdays and is prepared to read this out loud to the class, essentially "witnessing" to my class. So I look at her sources and she does have multiple sources (which was one of the requirements) but the problem is they are all from watchtower and awake magazines, just different years, etc. After praising her for all the "excellent" research she had already accumulated, I helped her think critically by showing her that even though she had several resources, they really came from one single source.
I challenged her that she needed to do research that came from a different source other than just the "WTBTS". I also encouraged her to show the opposite opinion, as this gives your writing a fairer balance and can actually strengthen your own position. A week later she comes to me in tears and says the following "I did all my research like you said, and I have two new sources now" to which I reply "that's fantastic, I am so proud of you, but why the tears?" This is the response I get "because I don't think it's bad to celebrate my birthday anymore, I tried and tried to prove what I thought but when you said we had to have different sources to prove it, I couldn't find any good proof. I am sad because it makes me feel like what if more stuff I thought was true isn't? " I hugged her and reassured her that she is learning a life long skill of thinking critically. I reassured her that even adults are constantly learning and changing their minds on things all the time, and reminded her that learning is a life long process and we should always question and challenge ourselves and our beliefs all the time. She wiped her tears and said "thank you so much, I will always remember what you taught me."
She walked out of my classroom, and I seriously just sat there dazed! I couldn't believe what just happened. I just sat there alone and literally cried. They were happy tears though. I really hope she remembers what she learned, and will one day use those critical thinking skills to escape from the jw world. I am not sure what kind of ramifications there will be with her parents, who are very active. From what I've gathered mom is probably a pioneer and dad is an elder. I will keep you posted.
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Jehovah's Witnesses want to put up a semi-permenent literature stand in this town
by Watchtower-Free injehovah's witnesses want to put up a semi-permenent .
literature stand in this town.
if you wish send them a message about what jws are really about.
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Jehovah's Witnesses want to put up a semi-permenent
literature stand in this town
If you wish send them a message about what JWs are really about.
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2014/03/27/news/local/793648.txt
Links to the town of Sharon CT
http://www.sharonct.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=40%3Aelected-town-officers&id=68%3Aselecmen&Itemid=62
http://www.townofsharon.net/selectmen
https://www.facebook.com/groups/412860422165071/
Brent M. Colley-First Selectman
https://www.facebook.com/BrentforSharon?ref=br_tf
Sharon, CT 06069
email - brent_c@sharon-ct.org
(860) 364-5789 phone
