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  To kill or not to kill

  by Chook in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  how many jws would kill a violent rapist in there home or protect their family with lethal means .

  the one thing i love about the usa is the right to defend oneself with lethal force in their own home.

  it's not that i want to kill someone but better them dead than my children..

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  carla

  It depends on what the latest wt rag has said about it or the milieu of the current cong.

  I know this because over the years I have asked my jw that very question, would he, if needed protect me & our kids? if that was the only option? Sometimes the answer was, "well I would have to think about it" ( never mind that if someone is in the act of strangling/raping your wife or children there is not a whole lot of time to mull it over) other times it was, "yes, you are allowed to protect your family even if it involves deadly force". So there you have it, depends on what the wt has to say about at the moment. That was my experience anyway.
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  Has anyone on here referred to themselves as an apostate to fellow witnesses

  by Chook in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have it bodes well for a snap photo..

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  carla

  My jw thinks that people really would like to believe but they just can't live the lifestyle because they prefer to be 'sinners'. sigh. Ask a jw if they are sinners and they hem & haw and say things like they are not 'intentional sinners" like the rest of slobs. hmmm, I am rather negative today, yep, it is a meeting night.
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  Uh!oh! Serena - where to now?

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  appearing among other things that waste my time on the web today, was this vanity fair cover featuring a naked pregnant serena.

  surely evidence that she no longer sees herself as even a jw associate, what's more likely does not give a stuff what her fomer loving brothers and sisters may think.. .

  more info on the vf web-site: http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/06/serena-williams-cover-story.

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  carla

  All I can tell you is that I once, long ago, posted a pic to my jw about her and her, umm, well, lets just say her well endowed attributes, and my jw was appalled and accused me of sending him porn. It was a pic posted from a national news source, not porn, not photo shopped. At any rate he did not appreciate it!! to say the least. I imagine he would say she is not a 'real' jw anyway by the pic you posted. That is the stock answer I get when anything negative is viewed by a current jw.
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  The most dangerous congregations are the isolated ones that only have 1 or 2 elders

  by Chook in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the elders only have to fake it for cos visit, then the poor sheep get shorn for anther 6 months and just when publisher billy thinks the co will save their souls from these tyrants elders a new co comes onto the seen, and of course he is trained only to listen to the elders.

  so the vicious cycle of religious rape continues until billy and his mates burnout..

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  carla

  Aren't they all generally small congs? less than 140 or so? I have no clue, but that was my understanding. Naturally me & my jw have completely different view of just why the congs must be so small. Me, cults, him, so we can "know" the individuals in each cong etc.... me, quacks like a duck.............stopped beating my head against that wall long ago....
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  Deborah Layton - Jonestown Survivor

  by Tallon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  saw this on the exjw reddit forum - very thought provoking.. "when your own thoughts are forbidden, when your questions are not allowed and our doubts are punished, when contacts with friendships outside of the organisation are censored, we are being abused, for the ends never justify the means.. when our heart aches knowing we have made friendships and secret attachments that will be forever forbidden if we leave, we are in danger.. when we consider staying in a group because we cannot bear the loss, disappointment and sorrow our leaving will cause for ourselves and those we have come to love, we are in a cult .... when family and friends are used as a weapon in order to force us to stay in an organisation, something has gone terribly wrong".. deborah layton.

  seductive poison: a jonestown survivor's story of life and death in the people's temple.. .

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  carla

  Excellent quote!
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  The great tribulation is now coming VERY soon!

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  watchtower october 2017, par 11, page 28 - "very soon the political powers of satan’s world will form a coalition that is bent on the destruction of god’s people.

  's] have anything to fear?

  not at all!........at that critical moment during the great tribulation, the angelic soldiers of jehovah of armies will come together to protect god’s people..."[j.w.'s].

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  carla

  Is the Oct 2017 issue the worst in awhile?
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  WT - Study Ed, October 2017 - The Truth Brings, “Not Peace, But a Sword”

  by Sanchy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  another article analyzing how bad poor jw's have it when it comes to opposition from family.

  few interesting quotes:.

  parr 2:.

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  carla

  jw's should be honest at the doors and show the householder this issue of their rag.
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  New Tool To Help Cult Survivors.  From an EXJW

  by TTaTT4U in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

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  https://bonniezieman.com/2017/05/09/cracking-the-cult-code-for-therapists-what-cult-victims-want-their-therapist-to-know/.

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  carla

  More books about jw's the better! Hopefully more therapists will consider her work and implement their own style along with her information. Just having a (another) professional call it a cult is a good start and the fact that she is an ex jw would be more appealing to the ex jw community at large I would think.
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  Vegetarians in the "new system?"

  by Lynnie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i was looking on instagram and one of my former jw friends was showing pictures of his bbq ribs and saying something about well we better eat all the pigs we can now since we won't be eating meat in the new system of things?

  i don't seem to remember that teaching but does anyone else?

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  carla

  These posts always remind of a post from 12 yrs ago, too bad the image elsewhere made no longer shows!

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/89047/meat-tree
  
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  Disfellowshipped Brother Gives Public Talk in Kingdom Hall

  by The Searcher in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  absolutely beautiful!.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vbmfx4isku.

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  carla

  Wow! the part about salvation is what probably finally got their attention. I wish he would come to my jw's cong!