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  Want to read a surprising comment/complaint posted on my website about JW's encouraged not to have kids. Who would have thought!

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://watchtowerdocuments.org/did-you-know-having-children/#comment-474.

  here's the short article found in the "did you know?

  " series found on watchtower documents, and, underneath it, is the unusual comment:.

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  Doubtfully Yours

  They say a lot of stuff, then the normal, reasonable JW person picks and chooses carefully according to the life they want for themselves.

  As much as the WTBTS opposes higher education, all in our family and many others in the cong are all either attending college or making arrangements to attend once they graduate high school.

  As much as they rant on not attending prom, our graduates in my family are attending.

  Times are changing. The WTBTS is not as relevant, not many 'orthodox' JWs inside anymore. People are tired of nonsense.

  DY
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  what is the craziest book the dubbers ever published?

  by dogon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i was wondering what book is the nuttiest they ever printed?

  i know there are several in contention for first place but which is your vote for no 1?

  also if you don't mind post a bit of what is in the book you pick to show why you picked it.

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  Doubtfully Yours

  The book we study currently is pretty crazy: The Kingdom is ruling, but... invisibly.

  That is some pretty crazy shit! 🤔

  DY
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  Outraged After Watching The May 2017 Broadcast

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ok, so i've just put myself through another months broadcast so i can see what bull they're feeding my still in relatives.

  all was going fine... well, i say fine, i mean the usual cheesy videos, rehearsed reactions from jeffrey jackson (you remember him, the one who told half truths and lies at the royal commission) and propaganda from jw land.. the last feature brings up 9/11 and the paris 2015 attack at the bataclan.

  just as im thinking "how are they gonna spin this in their direction" i hear these words:.

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  Doubtfully Yours

  Watched May broadcast as well. No outrage here. Same old JW rhetoric.

  Cheesy video. However, understood it just fine: Orthodox JWs choose to keep company with their own whenever possible.

  Hey, if they find happiness living this way, then, let them.

  By the same measure, plenty of other JWs mix to a degree with non-JWs and are just as happy.

  Live and let live people! 😎

  DY
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  Want to read a surprising comment/complaint posted on my website about JW's encouraged not to have kids. Who would have thought!

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://watchtowerdocuments.org/did-you-know-having-children/#comment-474.

  here's the short article found in the "did you know?

  " series found on watchtower documents, and, underneath it, is the unusual comment:.

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  In the Spanish side, couples are having their kids. All of us JWs in the Cong are very happy for them and very nicely celebrated the proper baby showers.

  As a culture, we are not big in the WTBTS retorich of refraining from having a family. Blood relatives are paramount among Hispanics!!!

  DY
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  How can elders say how Jehovah feels?

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when we look at the total universe imagine a jar of sand.

  just one grain of sand would be our galaxy so we may be able to see our earth with an electron microscope.

  with that in mind, it always made we cringe when at the meetings an elder would say "jehovah has prepared a spiritual banquet for us tonight," or "it makes jehovah happy that we made the effort to attend the meeting tonight.

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  Doubtfully Yours

  Have you seen how extremely small earth is in relation to the vast universe?!!!

  We are a huge NOTHING!!! So, these biblical expressions that anything we flawed humans say or do make God happy or sad are just plain NUTS!!!

  DY
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  Do you find it therapeutic coming to this site?

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i read on another thread how this site has helped another user and that for them it has been a form of therapy.. for me yes, jwn has most certainly been a form of therapy.. i recall the days i first came to jwn (in 2004) and couldn't​ believe i had found people who were of the same opinion as myself in regards to the society.

  it was this site that led me to reading ray franz's book 'crisis of conscience' which i read twice within a week.

  it also led me to jw facts that goes into every nook and cranny regarding the society's​ teachings, policies and history.. note: i also visit many other sites and watch you tube videos a lot, but gravitate here most of the time.. coming here to express my inner most thoughts and feelings has helped me no end and allows me to overcome my frustrations.

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  Good for venting when I cannot air my frustrations about the WTBTS anywhere and with anyone else.

  Thanks Simon!

  DY
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  Site Updates

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  just a heads-up that i will be testing some updates this evening.. the nature of the changes means it's difficult to test every scenario in advance offline (translation: it's a lot more effort and i just can't be bothered) so i'm going to go with the "wing-it" approach:.

  deploy, check for errors, try to fix errors before anyone else notices them.. i can switch between the new and old version pretty quickly so if there are significant issues, i'll rollback and revert the changes while i work on the fixes.

  worse case is the pages won't display quite right (dates might be a giveaway) but a full page refresh should fix things.. http://www.refreshyourcache.com/en/home/.

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  Does anything ever drop off, even by the mere fact of being too old a post?

  DY
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  Site Updates

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  just a heads-up that i will be testing some updates this evening.. the nature of the changes means it's difficult to test every scenario in advance offline (translation: it's a lot more effort and i just can't be bothered) so i'm going to go with the "wing-it" approach:.

  deploy, check for errors, try to fix errors before anyone else notices them.. i can switch between the new and old version pretty quickly so if there are significant issues, i'll rollback and revert the changes while i work on the fixes.

  worse case is the pages won't display quite right (dates might be a giveaway) but a full page refresh should fix things.. http://www.refreshyourcache.com/en/home/.

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  Doubtfully Yours

  How about deleting old posts.

  Some of us have evolved and no longer see things as when we were new here and much younger.

  Any chance I could have all my posts older than 3 yrs permanently deleted?!

  DY
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  Jehovah has Evil Spirit ?

  by EverApostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  last weekend i was watching darkmatter2525 on youtube and came across this new thing in the bible.

  jehovah has evil spirit!!

  was just wondering how i didn’t come across this absurdity when i was a jw for 11 years.

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  Doubtfully Yours

  According to the Bible, we are created in God's image. So, he has ALL our traits, yes, evil too.

  DY
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  BBC Radio 4 feature on child Abuse

  by Isambard Crater in

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  2. friends

  on the radio this morning.

  here is the link:.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08njt79.

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  Doubtfully Yours

  Can't hardly wait until the kind of thing that happened in Australia comes to the U.S.

  I hope the media blows it out of proportion. Only so will they apologize publicly and change their reporting policies.

  DY