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  JW Parents and kicking out their children

  by NJ501 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is it a common practice for jw parents to kick their children out of the home, if the child doesn't want to be a jw.

  (even though their not disfellowshipped they will still get kicked out for not going to meetings etc.??).

  do other religions encourage kicking family members out this as well?

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  problemaddict 2

  JW parents are encouraged to shun their disfellowshipped children. If they are minors living at home, they do not ask them to be kicked out, and allow normal conversation "not related to spiritual things".

  So that is the policy, but some parents extreme or liberal. As an adult, I have family that does speak to me, and others that don't. I'm not disfellowshipped, s some have taken it upon themselves to shun me on their own.

  Its important to note, if the child no longer lives at home, then they are required to shun them the way they would anyone else. "The spiritual relationship comes before the physical one", is what we would have said.
  
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  Believers: How do you know your view of your chosen holy book is the correct one?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  don't start fighting, darlings.

  i am genuinely curious.

  after all i was a jobo 50 years and thought the wbt$ was 100% correct.. i ask this because i see that, for example, christian denominations (or whatever), likely have differing interpretations of the same writing.

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  James....God here.

  Nope. No hints. I realize my chosen path might be on the other side of the globe, or might be in the place where a naughty servant of mine just touched you funny.....but no hints. No backsies. No sneaky reveals.

  Figure it out. Make sure you are right though because its death if yo don't (or hell, or bad reincarnation, or eternal nothingness......see......you thought you had me there didn't you.)
  
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  Spiritual headship question

  by charity7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  non jw here married to a jw.

  i was told by two witnesses that if a woman jw were to marry a non jw that she would have no say whatsoever in what their children would believe or go to church if he was of a different religious belief and he enforced it.

  from what i've read in different threads this is actually not the case.

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  The JWs teach the man is the head of the household. I don't think it gets much more specific in regard to what you are asking. You are saying a JW woman would have no say if she marries a non-JW man? Well not to state the obvious.....but wouldn't that be between them?
  
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  Refuting Jehovah's Witnesses Governing Body - Mike Felker

  by ToesUp in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i found this video very well done.. mike felker is the chapter director of ratio christi at georgia state university.

  check out this video on youtube:.

  https://youtu.be/grs8m6tdq9g.

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  There has to be a way to refute it in less than 90 minutes. :)
  
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  What should i do

  by Akid48 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have my meeting tomorrow and i dont know if i should act like im having a good time or not.. from akid48 .

  read my last post i made to know whats going on in my life.

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  You are 13. You can be good at whatever you want! Really start killing school. Find a sport to play. Figure out your passions, and then fight for them. its hard for a parent to see their child excited and working towards something, and deny them of it. Just say you will "make up" the meeting or something. give them a way out.

  Keep on learning. Anyone here if they could go back to 13......wow! :)
  
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  They lied about methuselah tree at convention

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there was a part about pine trees in california mountains at regional convention.

  the brother/organization lied about how old they are.

  he said oldest tree is 4200 years old when it is actually 5000 years old.

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  So they are contradicting themselves with that article. Its too hilarious. Whoever wrote it didn't even think about the flood!

  Unless of course they actually believe this tree made it through a global flood and survived under water for what....30 days? That valley isn't very high. Wouldn't exactly be the first to see the sky after a flood. Lol.
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  What in the flying F....????

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  2. friends

  https://www.facebook.com/tupuebloesmipueblojehova/videos/578539175868967/?hc_ref=arrvbqq6myd5outlusr6zufmvffwsvr_duxl_fdriuhhniiuesiylhi43gybtziknxwthis video gave me cancer..

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  Reminded me of Yub Nub for some reason.

  Maybe because of the puppets.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np6vAuS0KNs
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  Magistrate says Jehovah's Witnesses are complicit because they failed to report to authorities

  by jw news 2017 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  "former jehovah's witness jailed for historical sex offences against young sisters... .

  sentencing magistrate bernadette boss noted it was "most unfortunate" that once again a church had failed to notify the authorities about an allegation of sexual abuse.. that made the church complicit in the matters and "appears to have exacerbated the effect on the victims of the offence," dr boss said...".

  quoted text from the web page :.

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  Doubtful.....WOW!

  Thank you for sharing that. I think we have all done things we now look back at and are ashamed of. I am glad you were honest with the authorities.

  May I ask, that honesty and admittance that you felt not all that could have been done.....was done, has that affected your relationship with those elders? Are you openly out?
  
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  My mums dying she refuses blood transfusion...the horror.

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  mum has a mild form of lukeimia if she took blood like normal people she could live to be 100. but no, anointed sisters dont compromise jehovah wont allow it.

  so here i am moving to sydney for one month going to hospital everyday putting my life on hold to watch my mother die slowly.

  watching her gasp for air, struggle to breath.

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  Ugh. I hate to hear of it. Of course the narrative is that this sort of thing just never happens anymore. Blood is never really "necessary" anymore, and is dangerous.

  Anyway to speak to the guys coming around about the real deal?
  
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  I'm writing a letter to my country's branch

  by Ray Frankz in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi everyone.. well, i have some good news.

  after having a terrible moment arguing with my mom about the 1914 teaching and all it evolves (she get really upset and i felt great regret for starting the argument) she came to me next day and started talking with a much more open mind, and she talked about a lot of concerns too.. she and my father naivily expressed the wish to write to bethel to ask about 607bc.

  i told in all the possible ways it wouldn't work.

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  JB - Prepare to get disfellowshipped.

  I almost did a spit take here. Haha. Anyways, I was thinking the same thing. I almost sent a letter about blood (it was 9 pages long), then I learned from people on here, that letter would just go to my elders and they would be referred to deal with me. Well.....I already knew they weren't able to have an intelligent conversation about it so I didn't send it. I am not DF'd probably for only that reason.