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  One of the big reasons I left the JW Cult

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  he would love to see you.

  i would tell them please come out anyway he would just love to see you.

  i saw the lack of love and could not believe it.

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  SAHS

  Let me garnish the most important word in the above post from “LisaRose” with the bold and italics which it deserves – here it is:

  “Love.”

  I just had to do that, as that particular word, as simple and seemingly ubiquitous as it is, really is most profound. When you think of it, not clinking glasses, not throwing rice/confetti at weddings, not celebrating Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, not saying “lucky” or “good luck,” not masturbating (practicing “self abuse”), not running for class president in school, not buying a lottery ticket, not growing a beard, etc., etc., etc., . . . . none of all those petty, childish, ridiculous things can hold a candle or a piss in a category F5 hurricane in comparison to the very positive and mutually-beneficial – and scriptural – concept of you know what: L-O-V-E. The Watchtower corporation (organization) should go back to the ABC’s of Christianity and ‘learn what that means,’ along with mercy. As Jesus Christ would agree, that’s the real McCoy!
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  Women in the WT world - International Womens Day

  by JWdaughter in

  1. watchtower
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  so, reading the articles about outstanding women in religion who are notable during this international day of women i noticed that among the episcolpalians, the catholics, muslims, buddhists, wiccans, mormons and bahais (and other random religous leaders that happen to be female) there is not one jw woman mentioned as holding a significant position.

  do you think any of them will look at the list(s) and wonder?

  while barbara anderson is significant in a ministry regarding the wt, she is not listed, nor is she a jw.

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  SAHS

  Blondie, you forgot about an influential female author: Miss Ann Eliza Brainerd, later known as Mrs. J. G. Smith, who wrote the novel Seola published in 1878. Her book was highly regarded by Watchtower President Charles Taze Russell. When it was revised and published in 1924 under the name Angels and Women, it was promoted by Watchtower Society President Joseph Franklin Rutherford. More recently, Angels and Women has been endorsed by Governing Body member Samuel Herd.

  Who knows just how much of the earlier writing of the Watchtower literature was influenced by Mrs. Smith’s book. It’s interesting that President Russell thought that Jehovah God actually resides in the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters. Perhaps there is more influence of women in the Watchtower’s history than they would care to divulge.
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  One of the big reasons I left the JW Cult

  by Still Totally ADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  he would love to see you.

  i would tell them please come out anyway he would just love to see you.

  i saw the lack of love and could not believe it.

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  SAHS

  “Still Totally ADD”: Sorry to hear about your loss, and also for the cold and harrowing ordeal you had to go through in your treatment by the JWs (the one and only true religion, don’t you know!).

  If the gentleman who passed away had been someone in a notable position in the WT hierarchy, such as a presiding overseer, circuit overseer, district overseer, or top-ranking lawyer in the WT legal department, then you can bet your boots and saddle that the “loving” organization (corporation) would have made a fuss over him, spreading the news, donating flowers, and having a very professional funeral program composed and run on a press, complete with a four-color photograph. But us simple rank-and-file folk are just considered the PaperMate, Kraft Dinner, Polaroid, Volkswagen/Hyundai brands of the WT organization’s corporate machine. And those of us who no longer have any real “use” to the corporation are just easily forgotten and thrown by the wayside. It truly is like a pecking order among wolves.
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  Hello

  by GoUnion in

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  2. friends

  hello everyone it's nice to finally be able to post i had trouble getting emails last month and was never able to sign up.

  this has been a very informative site which has really helped me grow and to think for myself.

  please allow me to introduce myself.. i was born into a witness family and was baptized at a young age an was part of a small kingdom hall.

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  SAHS

  Glad to see you here, “GoUnion”! You’re one of many, many people, growing every day, who are learning the real truth about the Watchtower religion.

  Our biggest and most effective tools are facts and logic. These to the Watchtower Corporation are like daylight and holy water to a vampire. They cause both of them to crawl back into the dank corner they came from. Use them well, my friend.
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  Head covering for women--how did you feel about this? Men? Women?

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  thinking about how this felt awkward to some of us women when a bible student noticed something was "up" if a baptised brother sat in on a study.

  had to reference 1 cor.

  11:1-16.. i wonder if this irked any while you were still in?.

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  I’ve always been quite bothered by the head covering rule. All this horseshit about women being put under the male (corporate) iron thumb is really an idea based on ancient times when a man was considered to be a woman’s owner as property, or chattel. It is so far removed from today’s progressive social and legal society that it isn’t even funny; it’s ridiculous!

  The thing that really gets me angry and disturbed is that a woman can work at a job as the leader of a large company or even a major politician during the day, but then at the Kingdom Hall she is barred from even the most simple and mundane tasks such as working behind the literature counter, handling the microphones, operating the sound system, opening the doors and greeting visitors, or escorting latecomers to their seats! It doesn’t even make any logical sense. (Not too much does in the JWs’ little world, when you think of it. Blood, beards, birthdays, on and on . . . .)

  Basically the only thing a woman can do there is clean the toilets and scrub the floor, and with the way they’re viewed by the WTS it’s a wonder they aren’t required to wear a head covering to do that too. Even the orthodox Jews and Muslims are more progressive in a lot of ways than the JWs.

  That’s why I think that everybody in the community should be aware of all these nonsensical and controlling rules and tactics of the Watchtower religion so they will be educated and prepared before they get that seemingly benign visit from the JWs on Saturday morning. People should be able to know what they’re getting into. If people out there know all this stuff beforehand, then very few would want to join, whether man or woman.
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  my letter to my JW brothers

  by never a jw in

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  i know, it's in spanish.

  i need to test your skills with a foreign language.

  it's very late now.

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  SAHS

  Maybe there should be just a couple of links at the bottom of the letter to Web sites such as http://www.jwfacts.com/ or http://www.quotes-watchtower.co.uk in the hopes that perhaps someone might make a mental note to check those sites sometime when they are alone. It’s always worth it to plant such references, as they would have a lot of effect if someone actually checked and saw them for themselves. Just look how effective and eye-opening such sites have been on ourselves.
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  Stupid Generalizations

  by EmptyInside in

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  i've learned my lesson.

  i just keep my mouth shut around jw family.

  and my mother knows better than that.

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  SAHS

  The biggest stupid generalization the JWs make is, “So-and-so is in ‘the truth’ ” – so, therefore, it is supposed to be understood that So-and-so is among the one and only group/class of people who are automatically enlightened above everyone else (i.e., the rest of humanity; you know, “the world”) and deemed worthy of God’s (Jehovah’s) approval and salvation. . . . Yep. . . . “The TRUTH” . . . (thus the irony!).
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  JWs no longer taking the Governing Body seriously.

  by kneehighmiah in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the recent letter being us to come to detroit shows that jws are beginning not to take the gb seriously anymore.

  the buzz following the meeting was that the letter was unprecedented in its tone.

  this coming from long time jws of 30 years plus.

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  “Magnum”: “Now I know that gb members just guess, and I feel that they sometimes just make up stuff to suit their purpose or agenda.”

  Ding ding ding ding. Magnum gets the cigar on this one!
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  Bible is inspired of God??????

  by Crazyguy in

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  is there anything in the bible that makes you believe that some or all the writings in the bible are inspired from god?.

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  SAHS

  I do believe in a variation of the Bible being inspired of God – I believe that it was inspired but only by men, not God.
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  Was There Anything A JW Said That Made You Raise Your Eyebrows?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  we had an elderly pioneer/ms in our hall and he used to like to rattle the elders.

  he liked using the "n" word in his comments.

  he one time started to comment about the "ni##er pool" that he would observe among the poorer blacks.

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  SAHS

  When they always say at a JW wedding that “the bride and groom have requested that there be no throwing of any rice or confetti,” it always bothers me because, for starters, it’s really dishonest because I’m sure no bride or groom actually passes on such a specific request – in reality it’s a standard announcement to be made at all JW weddings just because throwing rice or confetti would be considered to be one of the zillion things from “false religion” (I guess they don’t care about the wedding rings!) – and secondly, because it’s yet another example of how profoundly legalistic and petty the WTS is about everything.

  It’s all the contrived and controlling rules about all the little things that get me, such as clinking glasses or proposing a toast being considered a kind of crime in JW land. And, of course, if you were to go outside the grounds during the noon break at a district convention to have lunch in a restaurant, or even if you were to just buy a hotdog from a vending stand that was on the convention grounds, you would be pretty well considered to have sinned against the holy spirit. (And don’t get me started about beards and birthdays.)

  Actually, all that silly corporate totalitarian stuff does affect my eyebrows – but it makes them cross downwards, not raise up. The only thing it raises is my temperature under the collar!