Okay I guess there's no welcome for reasonable discussion or honest feedback here. My bad, forget I said anything.
slimboyfat
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Listen to Terri O'Sullivan XJW on Croydon Radio !
by Phizzy interri o'sullivan was interviewed by croydon radio for a programme called "leap of faith", it was broadcast on sunday.. she does a great job of showing how wacky and weird the jw beliefs and practices are, the interviewer asks perceptive questions, either he was well briefed by terri or he is an ex jw !.
she also gives info.
on her meetup group for xjw's, great fun !.
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Listen to Terri O'Sullivan XJW on Croydon Radio !
by Phizzy interri o'sullivan was interviewed by croydon radio for a programme called "leap of faith", it was broadcast on sunday.. she does a great job of showing how wacky and weird the jw beliefs and practices are, the interviewer asks perceptive questions, either he was well briefed by terri or he is an ex jw !.
she also gives info.
on her meetup group for xjw's, great fun !.
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slimboyfat
Totally agree and understand it's reasonable not to share everything. But the point was actually emphasised that the reason for being thrown out and totally shunned was missing just two meetings and coming home late once. That makes JWs seem even more crazy than I have experienced them to be. It does seem a bit incredible to be honest. It should be possible to keep private details private without going out of the way to make JWs appear even more extreme than they are.
But I enjoyed the interview and Terri did a really good job.
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Listen to Terri O'Sullivan XJW on Croydon Radio !
by Phizzy interri o'sullivan was interviewed by croydon radio for a programme called "leap of faith", it was broadcast on sunday.. she does a great job of showing how wacky and weird the jw beliefs and practices are, the interviewer asks perceptive questions, either he was well briefed by terri or he is an ex jw !.
she also gives info.
on her meetup group for xjw's, great fun !.
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slimboyfat
She comes across really sensible and measured. Well done.
But I must admit some of the story is hard to understand. She was a pioneer for years but she was bored with meetings in her early 20s. Her JW mum threw her and her sister out of the house after she missed just two meetings and came home late once. She reported 90 hours field service the month before, but the elders told everyone to ignore her because she came home late and missed two meetings. Then she moved into the spare room of a male colleague she had never spent time with outside work before. That's a pretty sudden and extreme sequence of events.
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Russellites ----> Bible Students ----> Jehovah's Witnesses
by Wild_Thing inin my experience, the jws always seemed to shy away from much association from the term "russellites".
most are wiling to accept that bible students took on the name jehovah's witnesses, but they seem to disavow much association with the term "russellites".. is this perception true?
does anyone know if there is anything in their literature after 1931 where they admit they are the same group as the russellites?
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slimboyfat
I don't think they ever accepted the term, in any period. Russellsm is similar pejorative, used by outsiders only.
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anyone else had this following convention
by freeandcontent inso my mam visited today.
she recently went to convention in north east england, newcastle i think they still have them at.
before she left she said (this is her exact words btw) "you have put me in a difficult position and i can't come to see you anymore".. she told me that as i live with my partner and we are unmarried that she can't visit anymore.
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slimboyfat
BluesBrother it seems the sanction has been expanded from "anyone called a brother" to include anyone who is inactive, in other words anyone who has ever been baptised, regardless of how they are currently viewed.
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CoC Promotion BUS at the gate of District Convention in Seoul, Korea
by intropist in.
our korean brothers are very shy.
they reacted as the above ^^;;.
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slimboyfat
As in Crisis of Conscience? Is it available in Korean? Is it even available in English these days?
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anyone else had this following convention
by freeandcontent inso my mam visited today.
she recently went to convention in north east england, newcastle i think they still have them at.
before she left she said (this is her exact words btw) "you have put me in a difficult position and i can't come to see you anymore".. she told me that as i live with my partner and we are unmarried that she can't visit anymore.
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slimboyfat
YOU have put me in a difficult position
What an awful twisted religion. And what self-righteous imbeciles it attracts.
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Jehovah's Witnesses and racial prejudice by Werner Cohn
by slimboyfat inrace is asserting itself as a problematic issue united states once more.
i always thought jws had a relatively good track record on race.
they preach a world without prejudice after all.
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slimboyfat
The counsel against inter-racial marriage was definitely in print. Until very recently they still advised against inter-racial marriage. I'm not even sure if they officially renounced their earlier comments or stand by them in an "at the time it made sense" kind of justification.
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Jehovah's Witnesses and racial prejudice by Werner Cohn
by slimboyfat inrace is asserting itself as a problematic issue united states once more.
i always thought jws had a relatively good track record on race.
they preach a world without prejudice after all.
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slimboyfat
I did wonder if the information was entirely accurate. I'd like to see some corroborating evidence. It's easy to get carried away because Cohn's style is easy to follow and his viewpoints are easy to agree with, especially his concluding comments about the disadvantages of the Witness dreamland approach to life.
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If you could speak to your former self, what would you say?
by LoveUniHateExams inif you, knowing ttatt, could go back in time and speak to your former jw self, what would you say to wake yourself up from the wt religion?.
i would speak to my unbaptised publisher self.
at that stage, i believed.
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