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Why Is A "Non-violent" People So Violent To Its Young?
by steve2 inone of the anomalies of the jehovah's witness worldview is that it "carries" its non-violence hand-in-hand with some fairly violent practices towards its young ones.
so, the jehovah's witness father or mother who would reject any involvement in the military or "turn the other cheek" if physically attacked in field service, has no qualms about yanking their noisy child out of the kingdom hall and giving that child a good thrashing (i.e., beating on the buttocks, legs, arms and back) and creating an even greater noise.
i am not a parent, but over the years of observing parents - and others - hitting children both inside and outside the kingdom hall, it slowly occurred to me just what a barbaric practice this was.
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What causes most JW's to lose the ability to reason?
by XBEHERE intake a look at this wt excerpt from another thread that i copied and pasted:.
*** g93 3/22 why so many false alarms?
jehovah?s witnesses, in their eagerness for jesus?
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What obligation do you feel towards your family who are still in?
by czarofmischief ineverybody's situation is different, of course, and everybody has their own choices to make.. but do you recall that when we were dubs, we were constantly urged to go out in service, because people needed to hear what we thought was the truth?
they would use that scripture by paul, "i consider myself a debtor to all men" etc.
to enforce the moral compulsion to go door to door.. now that we know the truth about the truth; how obliged are we to tell our family?
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What upset you about your past in the org?
by Nicolas inpersonnally, what upset me the most is all the wasted time.
i'm now 21 years old, you'll say that i'm still young but i know someone you were at the same elementary school than me and she's now in university.
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Awake article on friendship, good advice! Wish they'd take it!
by AlmostAtheist inthe awake of december 8, 2004 says in the article "good friends, bad friends" under the subheading "sizing up potential friends":.
"what opinion do mature and respectable people in the community have of him [the potential friend]?
in addition, it is wise to consider not only how potential friends treat us but also how they treat others, particularly those from whom they have nothing to gain.
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I Q
by stillajwexelder inalready got a thread on intelligence but any of you care to state what your measured iq is/was last time you checked 9had it checked)
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new here
by clementine ini've never been jw myself but my best friend is, so i'm very interested in this organization.
i'd like to talk about it with people who can understand me because they (or friends or family) were jw.
excuse my errors but i'm french
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Sex And Baal.
by Englishman ini was recalling yesterday with a newbie -ex how some dub folk liken the sex act to baal worship.. we had one chappie in our congregation who would forever be admonishing us that partaking in oral sex or anal sex (why are they always bracketed together by jw's?
) were in themselves an act of baal worship even if one was legally married to the initiator / recipient.. i don't get it.
(the point of view, not the sex) anyone else come across this one?.
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new to this site
by happy camper inhi, i am new to this site.
i have been an ex- jw for about 10years now, and this is the first time i have done this.
( trying to avoid the "apostate" label) haha i would love to hear from some ex- jw's, and see if they have and are going thru some of the same experiences that i am.
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my da letter---feedback welcomed
by min79 ini was thinking of sending this letter as my da letter to the society and to the kingdom hall i welcome feedback on it.
to the watchtower society,.
i am writing this letter to make a formal statement of disassociation.