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  Season 1 Episode 1 A&E Cults and Extreme Belief (Video)

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.aetv.com/shows/cults-and-extreme-belief/season-1it will post soon on site..

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  OnTheWayOut

  I watched the program after the fact from the internet. I appreciated it. I also used the opportunity to ping my wife's cognitive dissonance. I told her how there was a program from A&E that does a good job of explaining how Watchtower has a huge pedophile problem and that they mostly covered it up like the Catholic Church did so as to not put their organization in a negative light. I then said, "I know you won't watch it, but I want you to be clear that if they insist you get all your information from 'them' only, then you are not getting the entire truth."
  
  I was met with absolute silence until she said something about another subject.
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  Ten years ago - Our congregation held a leaving party for us

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ten years ago, truthseeker and his family and other witnesses who were moving to different congregations were given a congregation leaving party at a community hall in new jersey.

  i had been planning my slow fade from the congregation for a while.

  i grew up in the south coast of england as a third generation jw and moved to america in july 2001. .

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  OnTheWayOut

  Writing about it was so therapeutic to me. Thanks for sharing. I hope to read your book.
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  Season 1 Episode 1 A&E Cults and Extreme Belief (Video)

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.aetv.com/shows/cults-and-extreme-belief/season-1it will post soon on site..

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  OnTheWayOut

  I'm hopefully able to view this tomorrow. Thanks for the link.
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  EXJW Tattoo

  by blownaway in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if anyone has any ideas or pictures of a tattoo that would sum up being an ex jw please share.

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  OnTheWayOut

  A general tattoo could be something like a chain breaking.
  
  A specific one that demonstrates something about being an ex-JW might be a Watchtower symbol with the red circle around it and the slash through the middle.
  
  Perhaps a BORG from Star Trek with "Resistence is NOT Futile"
  
  .....or the three letters "XJW" in some cool way.
  
  .....or a Smurf
  
  
  
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  Can someone please explain James 5:14 for me

  by preymanchis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i cant seem to understand this text actually, can someone please explain it to me.

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  OnTheWayOut

  JW's would say "Spiritual." I think the intent was that of a faith-healer. Physical sickness- have them pray and pour oil on ya, and you should get better.
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  What Should I Say?

  by cookiemaster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i need a bit of advice.

  i've been pimo for a long time and fading more and more.

  i occasionally attend for family but never give any answers or actively participate in any way.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Seriously, NEVER meet elders/CO at your home. It's too hard to get rid of them. Better to talk at the Hall where you can say "I gotta go now."
  
  "I am far too busy to schedule a meeting that week. If he wants to talk, I can spare some time after the mid-week meeting." If they keep you waiting too long, say you have to leave AND LEAVE. If they meet you right away, look for the opportunity to say, "Oh, all is good with me, gotta go now, BYE."
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  Upcoming Tidal Wave of Media Onslaught targeting Jehovah's Witnesses ahead...

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  at least three media venues have undertaken the daunting task of unpacking the insidious dark side of jehovah's witnesses' organization.1.

  douglas quenqua is a writer based in new york.

  his work has appeared in the new york times, wired, redbook, and cnbc.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Oh my, THREE strikes at true worship AND a current ban in Russia with all that nonsense in Australia, plus North Korea not fully cooperating with USA's President and there are earthquakes with the volcano in Hawaii.
  
  Surely, this is the (beginning of the very) end.
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  Banned words in the organization

  by Addison0998 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was talking to my sister in law the other day about death, and i mentioned something about the afterlife, i don’t remember what i said but it was nothing shocking .

  but she squealed, “we don’t believe in the afterlife!

  !” and i reasoned, well we kinda do...life after death is the after life..and she just insisted no no it’s not the same thing.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Oh, get a JW rolling if you want- call them a "Doomsday Unitarian Religion that uses the Protestant Bible."
  
  Unitarian- A Christian who rejects the Trinity
  Doomsday- the end of the world as we know it
  Protestant Bible- 39 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New Testament for a total of 66 books, the same ones JW's use.
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  Material such as the film at the end of this years convention confirms that I was right to take my kids out the religion

  by jambon1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it’s quite affirming to see the horrific material that they’re serving up at the convention this year.

  aside from blatant homophobia, the scenes at the end of the convention that are discussed on another thread stoop to new levels of fear mongering.

  it seems to occur to nobody inside the organisation that this kind of material could trigger fear, deprsssion, anxiety, stress.

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  OnTheWayOut

  I get that people like my wife have to be ready on their own to get out of the religion.
  But I have to fully agree with the idea of the opening post. If I had kids, I would do whatever was necessary to get them out of this dangerous mind-control cult.
  
  The video clearly tells viewers: Stand up for JW teachings no matter how difficult that is and the heavenly army will save you when attacked at the horrible time right around the next corner.
  
  That is just so much pressure on people, based on their lie of over a hundred years now.
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  "World conditions have never been as bad as they are now"

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i went to a funeral yesterday and ran into a jdub.

  of course, he approached me and it didn't take more than a minute into the conversation for him to get into the jdub gloom and doom mode.

  he said that world conditions have never been as bad as they are now.. i looked straight into his eyes and said, "i think that world conditions were a lot worse during world war two.".

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  OnTheWayOut

  Europe during the Black Death of 1340's. 200 million deaths across Europe and Asia. It took 300 years for world population to get back to the same level.
  
  The Americas during early colonization. An unknown number of "Native Americans" between 10 and 100 million people were alive prior to colonization. European diseases spread across the land and killed entire communities, if not outright, then because caring for the very sick allowed not enough people to hunt or gather. Possibly 90 percent of the population was wiped out, and if so, this was worse than the Black Death by percentage. The remainder was much easier to defeat by warfare and economic methods.
  
  Many remember growing up to hear about starvation in China. Well, in the 1950's and 60's, they were changing from an agricultural society to an industrial one, the change being forced by the Communist rulers. Between the change and natural disasters, millions starved to death.
  
  There are horrible times in history.