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  Childless elders need to piss off

  by Steel in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  anyone else think it's wrong to ask a women with small children to volunteer there time, ask if they like to come to a potential study etc etc?.

  my wife just spent an entire day helping with a kingdom hall reno while i babysat.

  i latter stepped out and saw half the elders having coffee because they had so many people show up, they were tripping over each other.. i also have no idea what tangible skill my wife offered or why it is important she needs to be there.. i just wish these men would man up and be men, instead of just wasting everyone's time on purpose.

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  Steel

  Yeah

  I forgot. It's called being a parent now, not babysitting.

  Still the point is childless weirdos placing time constraints on young families.

  It's pretty classless.
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  Childless elders need to piss off

  by Steel in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  anyone else think it's wrong to ask a women with small children to volunteer there time, ask if they like to come to a potential study etc etc?.

  my wife just spent an entire day helping with a kingdom hall reno while i babysat.

  i latter stepped out and saw half the elders having coffee because they had so many people show up, they were tripping over each other.. i also have no idea what tangible skill my wife offered or why it is important she needs to be there.. i just wish these men would man up and be men, instead of just wasting everyone's time on purpose.

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  Steel

  Anyone else think it's wrong to ask a women with small children to volunteer there time, ask if they like to come to a potential study etc etc?

  My wife just spent an entire day helping with a kingdom hall reno while I babysat. I latter stepped out and saw half the elders having coffee because they had so many people show up, they were tripping over each other.

  I also have no idea what tangible skill my wife offered or why it is important she needs to be there.

  I just wish these men would man up and be men, instead of just wasting everyone's time on purpose.
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  Has anyone else seen this video on JW Broadcasting?

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i was checking out the website to see what the february broadcast was all about before i watched it with my jw wife.. on the front page was this video.... https://tv.jw.org/#en/video/vodbible/pub-jwbai_201607_1_video.

  i watched it and pretended i had never been a jw.. if you pretend you don't understand their particular language it makes for a interesting (if not vague) watch.. btw i've seen several of the actors before.

  jw version of movie stars?

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  About 10 years ago we had this women in our hall commit suicide. She came from a super Uber family.

  She was 45 years old. I think officially her fertility ended and she was in grief. Spent an entire lifetime handling out magazine instead of finding a mate and having children. It's all she really wanted.

  It all starts with crap like that video.
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  Has anyone else seen this video on JW Broadcasting?

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i was checking out the website to see what the february broadcast was all about before i watched it with my jw wife.. on the front page was this video.... https://tv.jw.org/#en/video/vodbible/pub-jwbai_201607_1_video.

  i watched it and pretended i had never been a jw.. if you pretend you don't understand their particular language it makes for a interesting (if not vague) watch.. btw i've seen several of the actors before.

  jw version of movie stars?

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  I got married at 35 and became a first time father at the age of 40. Yeah it takes a few years and a lot of work to get pregnant after a certain age.

  My parents were married at 20 and had me at 21.

  I look at the challenges I have and how old I will be when my son let's say finishes high school and wish I would have tried sooner.

  I see videos like this and see lives wasted. You are suppose to date in your teens and get married and have babies in your early 20s. It's the way nature intended.
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  2017 Circuit Assembly: Lesbians at school demonstration

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  steve2: is there some way this can be presented so that it is crystal clear what was actually in the demonstrations and what was added?

  i guess some will think it should be obvious - but this is where misunderstandings arise because we end up wrongly attributing something to jw organization that was never said.. circuit assembly theme: maintain love for jehovah!.

  note to speaker: warmly encourage young ones to prove their friendship with jehovah by observing his commandments and defending his standards.

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  Maybe they should print " live Lesbian demonstration " on the next awake magazine and see how strange faces show up at the assembly.

  Boy would they be in for a let down.
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  JW Convention 2017

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

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  I guess boring is better than disgusting like the loyalty assembly.

  Still I think last summer did more to waking people up than scaring them to stay. I was kind of hoping for another batshit Jonestown episode.
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  Which Religions Forbid Outside Research?

  by AnonVet in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my definition of a cult is just this:if you are not allowed to research outside of your religion's published sources, you are in a cult.what other religions (cults) are there that absolutely forbid outside research on threat of punishment / shunning?

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  Today me and my wife visited one of her friends from the Kingdom Hall who is about 90 years old.

  She kept going on and on about this book she was reading about the second coming of christ. She then showed us and it wasnt anything printed by the WTS. It was actually an evangelical book.

  I laughed . I wasnt sure if she was losing her marbles or just didnt care anymore. Anywho i told my wife to keep her mouth shut about it. I think one of her studys in the old folks home might be converting her.
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  Cyprus JW's Military Service

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i work with a nurse who served for 2 years in the army of cyprus as is compulsory in that country.

  i happened to ask about jw's and their consequential punishment for not doing it.

  he laughed and stated that since 2009 they have to do it and that he personally knew several that 'served.

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  Cypress offers alternative service for objecters. All of Europe is moving away from conscription.
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  Watchtower No.3 2017 - The Four Horesmen

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is the first time i've read through a watchtower magazine in about a year.

  although i've been our only 8 months it really git me how crazy i must have sounded when i was a jw talking to non jws.. while other bible based religions talk about the 4 horsemen and back up their theories with other scriptures or historical evidence, the watchtower have taken so such steps.

  1914 is thrown in there as if it's universally agreed that jesus started ruling since then.. even when i was a jw i never really understood why, if the pale horse represents jesus, why is he first?

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  I always thought the four horsemen were Rick Flair, Arn Anderson, Tully Blandard and Lex Luger?
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  Not very zealous as before

  by anointed1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what i sense from the conversations of my family members and relatives who are jws is that at least some jws are not as zealous before with regard to the major subjects such as “sanctification of god’s name,” “vindication of his sovereignty” etc.

  they begin to feel that such subjects are imaginary issues.. this is a good sign.

  it shows people are worried about their own day-to-day worries.

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  Steel

  What i have found kind of strange is how little evidence of dubs being dubs on there facebook accounts.