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  Is going into a church really THAT bad?

  by Zana in

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  family background: my wife ("liberal" jw), me (ubm), two children aged 5 and 2.

  (want more details?

  -> http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/279456/raising-kids-jw-mother-agnostic-father).

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  Laika

  Every exJW should visit a church! (and/or other religious building) Just to challenge the phobia. In my opinion.
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  Brave New W0rld of Education - The Regressive Left

  by cofty in

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  2. current

  i found this to be a thought-provoking film on the trend in higher education.. oubliette drew my attention to a brilliant article recently called "the coddling of the american mind".

  please have a look at the film, click the link and check out the links in the article.

  i would love to hear your thoughts.. ...

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  I don't think empathy is regressive, of course people can take things too far, but white male privilege is a real thing, and to be blunt I think a lot of this pushback comes from people who are upset at having their privileges exposed...
  
  http://lithub.com/men-explain-lolita-to-me/
  
  

  There has been a lot said this year about college students—meaning female college students, black students, trans students—and how they’re hypersensitive and demanding that others be censored. That’s why The Atlantic, a strange publication that veers from progressive to regressive and back again like a weighty pendulum recently did a piece on “The Coddling of the American Mind.” It tells us that, “Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher have publicly condemned the oversensitivity of college students, saying too many of them can’t take a joke,” with the invocation of these two white guys as definitive authorities.

  But seriously, you know who can’t take a joke? White guys. Not if it implicates them and their universe, and when you see the rage, the pettiness, the meltdowns and fountains of male tears of fury, you’re seeing people who really expected to get their own way and be told they’re wonderful all through the days. And here, just for the record, let me clarify that I’m not saying that all of them can’t take it. Many white men—among whom I count many friends (and, naturally, family members nearly as pale as I)—have a sense of humor, that talent for seeing the gap between what things are supposed to be and what they are and for seeing beyond the limits of their own position. Some have deep empathy and insight and write as well as the rest of us. Some are champions of human rights.

  But there are also those other ones, and they do pop up and demand coddling. A group of black college students doesn’t like something and they ask for something different in a fairly civil way and they’re accused of needing coddling as though it’s needing nuclear arms. A group of white male gamers doesn’t like what a woman cultural critic says about misogyny in gaming and they spend a year or so persecuting her with an unending torrent of rape threats, death threats, bomb threats, doxxing, and eventually a threat of a massacre that cites Marc LePine, the Montreal misogynist who murdered 14 women in 1989, as a role model. I’m speaking, of course, about the case of Anita Sarkeesian and Gamergate. You could call those guys coddled. We should. And seriously, did they feel they were owed a world in which everyone thought everything they did and liked and made was awesome or just remained silent? Maybe, because they had it for a long time."
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  Why the Watchtower is not Christian

  by WireRider in

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  a simple factual statement.

  part of another thread but i thought i would offer it everyone.. jehovah witness are not christian.

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  Laika

  To be a Christian means to follow Christ, his teachings and life, in that sense JWs could do with a bit of work on loving their enemies, but they are not alone in this (take note Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr)
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  Good books to read?

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i read crisis on the conscience and i am about to start, "who wrote the bible?

  does anyone have a list or great books to read for anyone searching for the real truth?

  i've only ever seen the world through a jw lens and i am excited to see what other view points are out there!

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  Oh Slim, don't you know that Sam Harris is the most misrepresented man in history! ;P http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/09/sam-harriss-quantum-universe-or-how-to-say-one-thing-while-meaning-another/
  Thanks for the 'How to read Derrida' recommendation, I may check it out over Christmas when I'm off work...
  Depressedsoul, since different perspectives are good may I recommend David Bentley Hart's 'atheist delusions' as a counterpoint to the new atheist stuff. NT Wright has some good scholarly stuff from a more conservative/Christian perspective to Bart Ehrman if you'd be interested in that as well.
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  An elder bought my son a suit

  by Clambake in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i guess being two months old and coming to the kh in his onesee was kind of offensive .

  how rude of me.

  i am thinking about returning to him.

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  Has he tried it on yet? I bet he'd look adorable
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  JWs have more good points than bad

  by lsw1961 in

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  1) many who were on the destructive path have been transformed by their teachings (this includes me who was once vicious, and presumptuous and atheistic).

  2) equal monthly pay to all members of the bethel community regardless of whether they are bc members or sweepers.

  this is something that still remains as an unattainable dream for the world.

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  Laika

  Brahma Kumaris?
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  Jehovah's witnesses are the fastest growing religion.

  by hoser in

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  that is what the speaker said in his public talk this morning.

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  Laika

  Curiously JWs have actually gotten better at retaining their members in the Internet age. This is what's allowed them to maintain their growth despite a drop in baptisms.
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  Give Blood!

  by Laika in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  looking for a way to stick two fingers up to the watchtower and do something useful?.

  well, ever considered giving blood?

  if you're eligible to do so i would encourage everyone here to go for it, the world needs more blood donors, it's always nice to help out and given our history i find there's something very enjoyable about it.

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  Laika

  Great Phizzy! :)

  Hi Kate, good to be back, lots of exciting stuff going on in Watchtower world, have a lot to catch up on apparently!
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  How Jehovah's Witnesses could become a huge mainstream religion without harming people. Any thoughts?

  by JWchange in

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  2. beliefs

  if jws did the following, i believe they would grow exponentially and become one of the largest 'religions' on earth : .

  1. no more dfing or shunning......its up to your conscience who you like or don't like.

  in the same way if i was catholic living in ireland, i wouldn't hang out with my neighbor if she was a drunk fornicator, just had an abortion, had a taliban boyfriend and also supported liverpool soccer club.

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  Laika

  "also supported Liverpool Soccer club"

  Now this is a good reason to shun someone
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  Give Blood!

  by Laika in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  looking for a way to stick two fingers up to the watchtower and do something useful?.

  well, ever considered giving blood?

  if you're eligible to do so i would encourage everyone here to go for it, the world needs more blood donors, it's always nice to help out and given our history i find there's something very enjoyable about it.

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  Good on you for trying cappytan!