Posts by LoveUniHateExams

The main thing is freedom of information and, following that, freedom to draw my own conclusions and think and say pretty much whatever I like. People don't have to agree with me or like what I say and that's fine, too.

Other things: sexual freedom, freedom to choose my career.

TIME is a great thing, too. I'm not wasting my time (3 meetings a week plus field service) on the cult.

There are probably more things but I can't think of them right now.

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Do You Think Disfellowshipping Is The Worst Thing About Jehovah’s Witnesses?

by minimus in

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the longer i’m out the more i feel that disfellowshipping is cruel.

i understand the organization tells parents to not even accept emails or texts from their disfellowshipped children.

while i was a witness they tried to discourage families from association but there was some leeway if it was considered necessary business to interact.

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The two-witness rule is applied to everything and everyone equally and it should not have exception for child sex abuse cases

^^^ unbelievable comment right there.

Many children from a JW background have been abused and are still waiting for justice. Abused JW kids are treated worse in the cult than abused kids are treated in 'the world'.

Go watch the Australian Royal Commission, among other things.

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According to the Old Testament aren`t YHWH God and the then Nation of Israel guilty of War crimes by today`s standards? ?

by smiddy3 in

just going by memory here with regard to the "old testament' when god promised the land he chose for the jews ,flowing with milk and honey ?.

their is no record in the bible of god ever giving an option to all the nations that already lived their to move on and he would compensate them at a new destination.?.

apparently without warning he just charged up the israelite`s for war with these nations to evict them from this territory that they had resided in for who knows how long.. not only that ,they apparently spared no one in their conquests killing man,woman and even dashing children to pieces ,and not feeling sorry for anyone.. don`t people think that this is a bit barbaric ?.

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Yes, the OT and the biblical nation of Israel are guilty of war crimes - genocide, stoning of gays, adulteresses, apostates, etc.

But this issue isn't really pressing because there aren't radical Jews today calling for the restoration of Mosaic law, as far as I'm aware.

The world's only Jewish state, Israel, is a Western democracy with an annual Gay Pride march in Tel Aviv.

(If you're gay and Arab, the best place to live in the Middle East is Israel, no doubt.)

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Do You Think Disfellowshipping Is The Worst Thing About Jehovah’s Witnesses?

by minimus in

jw
friends

the longer i’m out the more i feel that disfellowshipping is cruel.

i understand the organization tells parents to not even accept emails or texts from their disfellowshipped children.

while i was a witness they tried to discourage families from association but there was some leeway if it was considered necessary business to interact.

LoveUniHateExams

Disfellowshipping and shunning are very bad but I don't think they're the worst of JWdom.

For me, it has to be the two-witness rule applied to child sex abuse.

The blood doctrine is also very dangerous.

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Convention 2019: Children told don't form emotional attachment to pets!

by Nathan R. Koppe in

i have just heard from a visitor to the jehovah's witnesses convention for 2019, that they have been told; 'not to form an emotional attachment to their pets, as animals don't have feelings anyway'.. well, that should break a few children hearts!👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 🥴 😭 💔.

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LoveUniHateExams

Children told not to form bonds with their pets? - WTF?!

Hopefully this cultish nonsense will wake up even more JWs and start their journey out the cult.

It's natural and perfectly normal to form bonds with pets.

You even have 'mental health dogs' (sorry, can't think of their real name) touring hospitals and helping sick or depressed people just by visiting them.

“When humans attempt to elevate animals to a human level they are, in fact, degrading themselves ..." - this is very strange reasoning. Most people love their pets, that's kinda the whole idea.

And it obviously doesn't mean people are elevating their pets to the level of humans or are putting pets above humans.

there is need for caution with regard to the pets we may have. We may note that a wrong attitude toward the animal creation was involved in the first woman’s fall into rebellion against God - shoe-horning the Genesis story in here is absolutely ridiculous. XD

'not to form an emotional attachment to their pets, as animals don't have feelings anyway' - animals don't have feelings? How do they know this? How can anyone claim to know the answer to this?

Pets certainly have nerve cells, so they can obviously feel physical pain.

Maybe at least some animals can have emotions and feel emotional pain?