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  Raising a teenager outside of “the truth”

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was raised as a jw and left the group as many of the teachings don’t align with my core values.

  now, forward almost 10 years, my wife and i are raising our kids through puberty and i have to admit, this challenge is not easy and seems to be even more difficult in that my own upbringing was very different.

  i find it hard to compare how i was raised with what i now must do for my own kids.

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  joe134cd

  It’s a question I’ve always battled. Weather a person who leaves the religion at an older age does better in the outside world compared to a person who leaves at a younger age. I also wonder if the reasons for leaving and dynamics are different as well,
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  Awake is back! India used in every illustration???

  by JWTom in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  as someone else noted.

  why is the new awake a setting in india in every illustration?.

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  Waton : I had a JWs friend who was a missionary in India. I recall him saying you had to be particularly discerning in who you witnessed to, as it didn’t take much for things to get physically out of hand.
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  Why did Lloyd Evans say in one of his latest video

  by mickbobcat in

  1. social
  2. current

  so i was watching an evans video he just put out where he was interviewing a man about how the cult treated his daughter who was rapped as a criminal.

  the man said his wife's first experience with an apostate site was here.

  i could tell by the look on his face he did not like that site and then could not help himself and said that he could not recommend going to this site.

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  I think he’s the type of guy you either love or hate. However, this I will say that his work was extremely influential in making my mind up to leave the JWs. I was PIMO at the time of Loyds arrival as an anonymous blogger John cedars.
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  My Update

  by James Jack in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just turned 62 and celebrated my first birthday at a local restaurant.

  nothing exotic, just draft beer and a burger.

  i've been using my spare time to make my community a better place to visit.

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  To be honest I think it fantastic not celebrating birthdays and Christmas. Best thing about bern a JW. Even now as I’m officially out it still puts.a smile on my face on Christmas Day day lying in bed not having to prove anything
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  Did you think this was it for the Watchtower-(Covid)- Well-They are coming back with even greater ZEAL!

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so you all probably heard that the awake magazine is back, .

  https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/?contentlanguagefilter=en&pubfilter=g&yearfilter=.

  and one of my jw relatives said they were told by some elders that meetings and field service will resume before the end of the year.. they said this covid virus was a test, like when the romans breached jerusalem and retreated, only to come back later and sack jerusalem.

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  If they go totally on line. It will be the end of them. There is simply no better substitute for face to face interaction. It’s how God designed us, and if wt thinks differently then they are dead wrong.
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  Remembering Rutherford

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.

  rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.

  [220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .

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  The guy was nothing more than a narcissistic drunken ass. He was a problem the wt would much rather choose to forget about.
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  Where there any cases where members should not have been at the meeting but still managed to attend?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  no matter if you are tired, sick, worked late, trudging through heavy snow, or any other reason, you were never to miss the meetings.

  missing meetings is frowned upon.. i once went to a 2 day assembly with 2 wisdom teeth pulled the day before.

  my gums were still bleeding.

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  This is a true story about a none witness guy I worked with. He was totally money driven and a total arse. Got married on the Saturday. Then on the Sunday was back at work because he could get over time. Hence during the brief period of 2 years that he was married. His then wife went on numerous trips overseas, and lived life to the fullest. Interestingly his father in law had also had numerous marriages as well. I guess all 3 of them deserved each other. I found out later that he had also been in a previous relationship that had strongly resembled his marriage. Sadly this guy had loads of money, both from inheritance and hard work, but was just an arse.
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  Governing Body; Villians or just Deluded?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  are you sometimes dumbfounded at the direction the governing body takes?.

  thousands of documents proving 607 bce is wrong, yet the gb sticks to the date, why?.

  the generation that would not die, yet they continue by introducing an overlapping generation.. disfellowshipping at a time when everyone is leaving, not a good idea, yet they continue to disfellowship.. here is a video that addresses these questions.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbgeqhp9o9i.

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  That’s an interesting way of putting it. “ Freddie dreamt it up and Nathan sold it to the world”. When those two died so did the religion they created.
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  Watchower and BMG agreed confidential settlement ?

  by keinlezard in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i just read that watchtower pennsylvania and bmg music ave agreed to a confidential settlement .

  about "listen,obey and be blessed" by aled jones ?

  anybody have more information ?

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  What I can’t understand is how BMG could of displayed such lack of over sight. What were they thinking. Surely they most of seen the hornets nest they would inevitably stir.
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  Will Jehovah’s Witnesses Go Back To Normal Activities?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  most every state has a plan to get back to normalcy.

  many countries also are ready to get their citizens on the road to recovery.. where does this leave the witnesses?

  will they ever go back to house to house ministry?

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  I think many - JWs and the general public- would be quite happy if the D2D work got canceled.