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  Latest awake on JW.org

  by aboveusonlysky in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the latest awake (no 3 2020) on jw.org is just breathtaking, it's about prejudice and gives the following 3 examples which i will one by one attemp to debunk.. awake - some employers have mistakenly believed that women are unqualified for scientific or technical jobs.. erm... women are not only forbidden from elder or m/s appointment, they're not even considered qualified enough to adjust the height of a brother's microphone, you were saying?.....

  awake - in medieval europe, jews were falsely accused of poisoning wells and spreading disease.

  during nazi rule, jews were again slandered.

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  dozy

  Good spot.

  The comments about prejudice against Jews are somewhat ironic , considering Judge Rutherfords disastrous "Declaration of Facts" in 1933. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Facts

  It says , in part:

  " It has been the commercial Jews of the British-American empire that have built up and carried on Big Business as a means of exploiting and oppressing the peoples of many nations. This fact particularly applies to the cities of London and New York, the stronghold of Big Business. This fact is so manifest in America that there is a proverb concerning the city of New York which says: 'The Jews own it, the Irish Catholics rule it, and the Americans pay the bills.' "
  
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  The Black Goat in the JW Covid-19 Report - 2020 Governing Body Update #5

  by Oh-my-God in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  did you notice this?

  2020 governing body update #5. https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/docid-702020307_1_video.

  why do they show the black goat in the picture?

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  Is that the Angolan branch? Guess it will be closed soon anyway and sold off. Anybody want to buy a goat - sorry , ibex wooden figure?
  
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  Jehovah's house for Sale?

  by JohnTron72 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  when i drive by the kingdom hall i grew up attending at but, was sold directly to a church, i get angry.

  the elders who handled the sale didn't even remove the watchtower shaped bricks on each side of the sign near the street so, now they advertise for a baptist church.

  how many times as i grew up i heard things like: you should not do work ( such as clean carpets for a church) you wouldn't want to work at a cigarette making plant or a facility that makes bombs for the military.

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  dozy

  UK sales website

  https://ibsaproperty.com/
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  Another Unnecessary Early Death

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  a young man in somerset in england, under massive pressure from financial and relationship issues lapsed into mental illness.

  he was unlucky enough to have as his support system the local congregation of jehovah's witnesses.

  one of the symptoms of his illness was the use of tobacco.

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  dozy

  Sad story. Poor guy.

  There is another side to the "wonderful" scenes of friends hugging each other and people apparently experiencing ecstatic happiness often depicted in JW dot Org videos - for many , the assemblies are the most depressing times of the year , especially for those not in the in-crowd & cliques . For a few years I gave a lift to a middle aged single sister in our congregation and she often expressed how sad she found the whole event. Goodness knows how bad it is for a DFd JW.
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  Back here after almost 10 years

  by TresHappy2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i couldn't use my old name so i've come under treshappy2.

  i was thinking about cruzanheart and big tex.

  we lost touch and i don't even know if they are current on this forum.

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  dozy

  Welcome. Sadly - most of the posters from a decade ago have left. Either health reasons or just had enough of JW stuff and have moved on.
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  Where Is BLONDIE?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i might have missed this but blondie was always one of the best posters here.

  her analysis and commentary was spot on.. is everything ok with her?

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  Good luck Blondie if you are still checking in. You are appreciated here and always welcome if you want to check back and say hi.

  Your forensic examinations of Watchtower study articles really helped me as I was leaving. I think we all understand that after many years being an ex-JW , people usually want to move on eventually.
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  Just wanting confirmation on an unofficial JW experience

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just wondering if anyone can confirm or deny this unofficial jw experience that my father received by email.

  i’ve told him that it against wt rules to forward unofficial accounts.

  but of course he just puts that down to apostate driven lies.

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  she thanked him for keeping the basic 40minute plan free and how this was so different than other corporate greed that is seen in the world today.
  

  That's the model many companies use - nothing to do with "corporate greed.". Basic product for free - trade up for enhanced paid for version.
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  3 English and 3 Spanish Letters Arrived! (as of 2020-07-06)

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  3 english and 3 spanish letters arrived as of (2020-07-06).

  textos bíblicos y referencias para visitas de ánimo.

  scriptures and references for encouraging calls.

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  Hi Petra can you add me to your mailing list please.... Thanks .... :-)
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  How Could We Have Been So Heartless?

  by BluesBrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am addressing here those who, like me, spent decades in the organisation that we called “the truth”.

  perhaps like me you were brought up in it from an early age.

  looking back now i wonder that i could have been so heartless as to believe that the mass slaughter of billions of people was “good news”.

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  dozy

  This was one teaching I never really could rationalise - luckily I hardly ever remember any householder mentioning it when I was on the ministry as I would have really struggled to justify it.

  The teaching that all non-JWs will be annihilated at Armageddon together with not very active JWs who don't quite make the cut ( the so-called "Kevinly class") is still the Societies teaching , but there is no doubt that the rhetoric from the past is very much toned down.

  No longer do we see pictures of babies being thrown into chasms in the earth or husbands and wives desperately hugging each other awaiting their imminent violent deaths as Jesus and the angels go around killing people. The "wicked" being destroyed , if depicted at all , tend to be obvious baddies with knives or guns and beards and jeans!

  Note the official JW dot org response , which is rather disingenuous to say the least.

  https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/who-saved/
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  How far is this idiocy going to go?

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
  2. current

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53201667.

  the simpsons team - because of criticism over white actor hank azaria's voiceover of indian-american character apu - is terminating the caricature.

  people claimed that it "reinforced racial stereotypes.".

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  Are they deleting the actual character? Or is the actor who voices them no longer going to do the voice ( presumably to be replaced by someone of the same ethnicity )?

  Either way - it is getting really silly now. I have a friend who is a policeman in London and him & his colleagues are really afraid now of arresting anyone who is black. They were called out this week to a group of black youths "tagging" a train ( ie vandalising it ) but just decided not to bother and left them alone to get on with it. It is becoming a nightmare.