Photos on The Age iPad app today show boys who look like 15 and one who would be 13 at most all lining up to be baptised. How many of those will live to regret it? At that age you can barely figure out what job you're looking at let alone signing yourself up for life for a high-control cult.
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Heading to Melbourne International Convention right NOW Regular updates live here!
by Witness 007 in9.10 am on the train heading in..how late am i?
train is full of witnesses and comic book characters...they have a comic convention.
they seem to be having more fun.. .
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Melbourne's Herald Sun -- "confessions of a Jehovah's Witness"
by MrMonroe inall the dubs pouring into melbourne, australia for the international convention gonna choke on their cornflakes when they read this .... http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/former-jehovahs-witness-lifts-lid-on-stifling-doomobsessed-religion/story-fni0ffsx-1227092921890.
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All the Dubs pouring into Melbourne, Australia for the international convention gonna choke on their cornflakes when they read this ...
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Question for those converted to JW as adults
by DaleRivers inwhy did you become a jw, what particular teachings attracted you to 'the truth' ?.
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in my case (baptized at 20/21) it was the only religion i knew; my mom, her mom, and favorite sister were jw; and the teachings of no hellfire or immortal soul made sense to me.. .
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@Pams girl, there is far more honesty and genuine care, thought and expression on this website than there is in the Jehovah's Witnesses. This website has a few dogmatic pains in the butt as well, but that's just life. My wife and I were fortunate enough to stumble on to another couple who were ex-JWs ... and then another, and then another and we often meet up to share our thoughts and common experiences ... and just vent. It has made a huge difference in reclaiming our lives. I'm so very glad you found us here.
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Question for those converted to JW as adults
by DaleRivers inwhy did you become a jw, what particular teachings attracted you to 'the truth' ?.
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in my case (baptized at 20/21) it was the only religion i knew; my mom, her mom, and favorite sister were jw; and the teachings of no hellfire or immortal soul made sense to me.. .
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I was raised as an Anglican but stopped attending sunday school and church when I was about 10, but still believed in God. Around 28 years old I began to wonder if you could find the real God if you looked closely at Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism etc and bought a book called What Man Believes that examined all the major religions. JWs came to my door and raised the prospect of living forever -- it seemed reasonable that that was God's original purpose. I swallowed the selective scriptures the JWs provided.
It was 1985 and I was scared of nuclear war and I was reassured by the JWs' claim that God would never allow man to destroy the earth. I was also greatly persuaded by the "fact" that only JWs used "God's name" and that they alone were sharing the "good news".
Yup, I swallowed the lot. It was only later, reading books by Ray Franz and others, that I realised how easily those seemingly rock-solid reasonings could be refuted, or at least challenged with equally convincing arguments. Which is why, of course, the JWs warned (and still warn) against reading writings of "apostates": they want their people to hear only one side of the argument.
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Let's suggest some programs for tv.jw.org
by rebel8 inweekday afternoons: a soap opera featuring judicial committees, demon possessions, and wives clamoring to be the ones who host the circuit overseer's lunch.
saturday mornings: sparlock cartoon.
friday evenings: reality show featuring jw dating.
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Cheaters: Camera crews secretly follow pioneers wasting time while claiming to be "in the work", then bust in on them in a coffee shop to confront them with the evidence.
Truth or Travesty: Panel game in which players are presented with a selection of outrageous statements "that may be" from old Watchtowers, Awakes and WTS books. Can they spot the fake ones among the real ones?
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Let's suggest some programs for tv.jw.org
by rebel8 inweekday afternoons: a soap opera featuring judicial committees, demon possessions, and wives clamoring to be the ones who host the circuit overseer's lunch.
saturday mornings: sparlock cartoon.
friday evenings: reality show featuring jw dating.
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You Be the Judge
Live judicial committee hearing. Audience gets to vote on what "Jehovah's judgment" is: Keep, expel or counsel.
This Wicked World
Wrap-up of the day's news from around the world, featuring only wars, earthquakes, diseases and demonic attacks. Anchors sign off with "And, sadly, that's the way it was today. We'll be back tomorrow ... if Armageddon doesn't come first."
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JW talks herself into deep trouble on Melbourne's radio 3AW
by MrMonroe inhttp://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw-drive-blog-with-tom-elliott/tom-elliott-im-an-atheist-but-i-dont-shun-people/20141008-3hjws.html.
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Ray Franz was a GB member, so he was a "cop" too. He was a good cop who quit when he realised the force was corrupt and that the good cops never win.
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JWs in general are poor listeners. At the doors they "listen" to the householder only to detect verbal cues to respond with their "truth". They just don't give a s**t about anyone's opinions.
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Harsh, Oubliette. Raymond Franz was much the same as most sincere JWs, believing the lie, doing what he thought was best, and doing what he could to lighten people's burdens until he discovered it was all a lie. He deceived the R&F, but no more than I did in conducting bible studies with people I met at the door or giving meeting assignments.