Topics Started by Heartsafire

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What Makes Someone Become a JW?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
my excuse is that i was born in the religion.

but if someone wasn’t, why would they become one?.
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JWs - Liberals or Conservatives?
by neat blue dog in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
where they stand is a strange mixture.

yes, they don't agree with abortion and homosexuality, they believe in the bible and wear skirts and ties to church .

but in many ways they're liberal.
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Out of the world, into the Truth
by apalro in
1. jw
2. experiences
for some background - i studied on & off as a child with a jehovah's witness who has been patiently working on lots of our family for more than a decade and never gave up on any of us.

as a middle-schooler and a highschooler, my love for jehovah and any association with my childhoood bible teacher... faded.

disappeared.
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What Simple Pleasures Do You Enjoy Since Leaving Watchtower?
by pale.emperor in
1. jw
2. experiences
what simple pleasures do you enjoy since leaving watchtower?

here's some of mine, in no particular order:.

a cigar: i dont smoke cigarettes at all, but i do enjoy a good cigar from time to time.
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2017 Convention Recording: JWs Applaud 10yo Girl For Shunning Her Own Sister
by pale.emperor in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this poor girl was baptized at 9yo.

.

she isnt old enough to buy alcohol, to vote, to decide her own medical treatment, to buy a pet, to travel alone... yet she was deemed old enough to dedicate her life to a religion that will cut her off from her family if she ever leaves.. here she is applauded for shunning her own sister who tried to keep in contact with her after waking up.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yzgnfda8ki.
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Dunkirk.
by zeb in
1. social
2. current
i have just seen the film "dunkirk".

do yourselves a big favour and go see it.

(not for kids).
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New Kingdom Halls in Strip Malls & Real Estate Listings
by 4thgen in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i met with a jw today and they showed me a picture of the new style kh build.

the building was located in a ***strip mall**** in florida.

i'm always amazed (and disgusted) at the new and inventive ways they think of expanding their real estate holdings.. along that vein...i recently discovered this: .
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My story...
by ironsnake656 in
1. jw
2. experiences
i would like to share my brief experience about my life from liberal jw to a ex-jw.

as i told you in my first post, i'm from juarez, mexico.

i'm second generation born-in, well not really... my mother knew jwland in 1968 and a year later, she got baptized.
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What's Linda Sarsour been up to recently?
by LoveUniHateExams in
1. social
2. current
just been reading about linda sarsour, the palestinian-american who is supposedly progressive but also happens to advocate sharia (- wtf?!).

she was co-chair of the wimmen's march against trump, although i don't think she wore a huge vulva-suit.

frontpagemag refers to the algemeiner: in february and march, sarsour and tarek el-messidi, founder of the non-profit islamic education organization celebrate mercy, partnered in an online campaign to raise money for vandalized or neglected jewish cemeteries.. the duo raised a total of raised $162,468, $50,000 of which was channeled to three cemeteries.
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So now the JW's are setting up carts/stands in our national and public parks!
by StoneWall in
1. social
2. current
thought i'd share this article i was sent today.

it's getting to where you can't go and take a leisurely stroll or hike without being bombarded with the stufff we want to get away from.http://www.citizen-times.com/story/sports/outdoors/girls-gone-outdoors/2017/07/06/proselytizing-blue-ridge-parkway/452390001/.