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  Modern JW Org

  by Infowarrior in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzaw1xe8q70.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvqru9keiw4.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlsfyfiyzgg.

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  They told me all rock'n'roll music was Satanic..

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q4gQl7U3gE
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  The Complete Scammer's Guide - by "Pastor" Russell (New Light!)

  by Focus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  most of us are reasonably familiar with reports of scandalous goings-on of that old jellyfish lecher, the founder of the watchtower cult, the one and only charles taze russell.. but, are these stories true?.

  this thread is going to be devoted to his allegedly scurrilous activities.

  so, bookmark it, please, bro' focus is in possession of noo light, and we're going to explore russell like you've never seen him explored before.. we're approaching his 100th death anniversary, and for all i know this virtual exhumation may lead to a real one.

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  Blimey you guys are something else!
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  Name Some Things That JWs Look Down Upon That Normal People Wouldn't Even Think About?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jws look down on others for saying, "bless you" if someone sneezes.

  it has something to do with the demons.

  another example is that it is considered satanic if a man took his hat off for a lady!

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  A year before going back to meetings I shot the celeb filled birthday celebrations of Nobel Prize winner and ex Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

  For months after I got emails from elders brothers and sisters from different congregations scolding me for doing it and telling me never to contact them again.

  Bizarre considering I was not even in any way involved with the witnesses when I did that.
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  2014 God's Kingdom Rules PDF!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2014 god's kingdom rules pdf!

  we would like to thank cedars who contacted a friend who sent us the book to scan.

  the sender was promised that the book would be rerurned to them unharmed.

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  Viviane:

  FYI, when I downloaded this, three different virus and malware scanners picked up adware embedded.

  Documents with text only are harmless. Some documents can be enriched with active content, like scripts. These scripts are run by the rendering software, like your PDF reader. If the script is malicious and your software vulnerable to the code written in script and executed, then your system might be compromised.
  
  Solutions:
  
  Disable scripting in PDF software.
  Use Foxit Reader rather than Acrobat Reader.
  
  Try Foxit. It's 1.5MB versus 150MB of Acrobat, does not install 700 useless registry keys, 10 times faster, 10 times smoother, no vulnerabilities, no need to reboot to upgrade.
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  Who Buy's Food From the Food Bank? Would the Watchtower Permit This?

  by BucketShopBill in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  hello everyone on jwn, allow me to introduce some of the qualifed agenices who legally use our services provided by the food bank.

  as a fading jw i am trying to find ways to fill up the time i wasted in field circus and try to make this world a better place.

  the food bank is used by our judicial system, we get lots of low-level criminals doing community service, every other day i hear "what did you do?

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  No one buys food from food banks.. the food they provide is free no? In the UK it is.

  The watchtower does absolutely nothing to help the poor or homesless anywhere on this earth. When it comes to money and charity and giving to those in need and to strangers I have never see such a group of utterly closed fisted individuals as I have seen among the witnesses.
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  The benefits of being out of the Organisation..

  by Dis-Member in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

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  Me describing what took place is hardly me being cruel. It's simply stating the facts. That's what happened.

  Mad adjective mentally ill; insane.

  synonyms:

  insane, mentally ill, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, sick in the head, not together, crazy, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, psychotic,

  I like to call a spade a spade. What do you call it? An implement for disturbing the earth?

  Seems like you also want to blame me for how their lives have turned out. Interesting.
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  Online Higher Education

  by SonoftheTrinity in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  since the faithful and discreet slave class now opposes higher education because it allegedly brings with it 'bad association', i wonder what their take is on online education.

  let's remember that distance education was pioneered by fundamentalist saudi arabia and apartheid south africa for the very reasons that the jehovah's witnesses criticize higher education.

  my wife is one of the faithful and i fear for our kids future, that they will see no point in keeping their grades up.

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  Education noun noun: education ; 1. the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university. " a course of education "

  synonyms:

  teaching, schooling, tuition, tutoring, instruction, pedagogy, andragogy, coaching, training, tutelage, drilling, preparation, guidance, indoctrination, inculcation, enlightenment, edification, cultivation, development, improvement, bettering

  I understand what you mean villagegirl, there are no exams, no tutoring, diplomas etc. But I think it qualifies.

  It's how most of us here got our knowledge of the TATT. Online distance learning. Teaching oneself by using the incredible resources that are available online on any and every subject is most defintely educational.

  I became a professioanal photographer by completely teaching myself. Before that I was a professional musician again entirely self taught.

  Believe in yourself.
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  The benefits of being out of the Organisation..

  by Dis-Member in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

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  I wish ill on no one. Depsite how much damage and hurt they caused me when I was young, sensitive and impressionable, I wish them no ill.

  I blame the organisaiton for what happened to me.. and eventually over time all these people too. Seems some of them ended up worse off. It's all so sad and tragic the way this religion can utterly destroy lives.

  It's clearly not the spritual paradise of healing love they describe it to be.
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  37 years later, I finally got the CULT thing

  by Freedom77 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi all, just happened to come across this site again after 10 or 12 years - i see some old posts of mine under a diff username (can't reopen the account, forgot the freakin' password).

  i left the borg in 1977, age 21, haven't looked back but every now and then i am amazed to find there's some old, old attitude from the jw days that i find is still clinging to my pants leg like a stray sticker.. looking over some of the posts here and some linked ex-jw sites yesterday it finally hit me - it is an effing cult.

  when i was in, we were always accused of being that, so naturally we totally spouted the society's line and got all defensive, etc.

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  Londo111 said:

  Even when I was first learning TTATT, I denied it was a cult..

  That fact is only just really dawning on me too right now and the serious harm and abuse this does to one's mind, heart and spirit. That damage goes very deep and can take years if not decades to wash it from one's system. I think I would do well to read Steven Hassan's book again.
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  To understand cults we need to start understanding ourselves

  by paranoia agent in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  there are books out there that talk about why it is so difficult to convince someone that they are wrong.

  hassan and singer specifically address destructive cults.

  hassan refers to cult members under mind control and singer under thought reform.

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  The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. ~Thales~