Posts by TonusOH

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

TonusOH

Atheism wouldn't require much of a tweak. Humans are social animals, and we seek out groups based on one or more similar interests/features. For many people who were religious, the 'atheist community' becomes a seemingly logical way to fill that role, so it becomes a surrogate religious community for them. Some will break away from that once they recognize it. I didn't want to get back into a religious community, I was happy to be free of it. I'd spent far too long proselytizing for a religion. The last thing I wanted to do was proselytize to get people out of religion.

You can see from some of Evans's posts that he is still in that part of it. He is still actively rejecting religion, instead of being free of it. He's also embracing the political side of the 'atheist community.' If you're not pandering to the extreme left, you can have a pretty rough time of it, so he's gone all-in. Whether that will be enough for them to overlook his treatment of women... let's just say he may be in for a bit of disappointment.

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Rosemont Cemetery II

by RolRod in

okay, so here's a follow-up to my post a while back regarding the society tearing down the pyramid monument.

they cleared the area and this is what they did.

notice ... nothing about the watchtower connected to it, just slabs of cheap concrete..

TonusOH

I think this is how they have finished discarding Charles Taze Russell. Just a name on a stone, now.

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Privacy commissioner orders North Okanagan Jehovah's Witnesses to hand over private records

by yalbmert99 in

in b.c.

, canada, a victory for ex-jws.

https://infotel.ca/newsitem/privacy-commissioner-orders-north-okanagan-jehovahs-witnesses-to-hand-over-private-records/it92596.

TonusOH

"(Jehovah’s Witness) elders share a deeply-held religious conviction that disclosing the records would violate their religious conscience and hinder their ability to spiritually shepherd congregants," the decision reads.

Well... if they did their jobs the way they claim they do, they would have no reason to fear having the records handed over. One can only imagine what the notes would reveal.

I'm betting that the WTS will tell them to resist the orders, no matter what. They will probably work the legal system in any way they can, and if they lose they will simply refuse to turn over the records. The real question is, what can the Privacy Commissioner do to them to force compliance? Fine them? Anything else?

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Throwing rice at wedding banned! J.W don't want you to have kids!

by Witness 007 in

rutherford in his last book in 1942 ironic that it was called "children" told witnesses don't have any kids!!!

armageddon is just afew years away.

2022 many witnesses still live by this ideal...i have no kids at 50 years old because of this idiot!.

TonusOH

This is what happened to Raymond Franz also, wasn't it? Between their work abroad and waiting for Paradise, they did not have children. There must be many JWs and exJWs in that boat. I never married or had kids myself, but I am not haunted by those decisions. Still, it is a reminder of just how large an impact (and not always for the better) the WTS has on the personal lives of so many people.

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I never had a happy birthday this year 5/7

by smiddy3 in

jw
friends

my wife had a hip replacement on june the 17th and while the op itself was apparently succesful ,she has had a reaction to the anesthetic ?

and has suffered delirium and is still in hospital with no apparent improvement.. its been very distressing for me to say the least.

sorry if i sound a bit morbid but i just had to share,.

TonusOH

Sorry to hear it, Smiddy. Several years ago, my mother had a triple bypass and one of the medications they gave her made her paranoid and quite salty for around 36 hours. She was okay after that, though. I hope your wife recovers soon!

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2022-07-01--Additional Contribution Box!

by Atlantis in

jw
friends

the watchtower wants more money!.

https://we.tl/t-jyt0susog5.

atlantis!.

TonusOH

Phizzy: Jehoober OWNS the Universe, all of it, including this tiny, insignificant Blue Planet, therefore, how come he cannot simply direct Funds and Wealth to his chosen Org. ? He did it for King Solomon.

And Russell had made it clear in the early days of the WTS, that he felt that God was the source of the organization's funding. That if the money ever dried up, it was God's way of telling the organization that their work was done. The organization now has more money and wealth than he ever did, but they are the ones who keep asking for more.

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New Translation Record as 13 Bibles Are Released in One Weekend

by Wonderment in

new translation record as 13 bibles are released in one weekend:.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/global/new-translation-record-as-13-bibles-are-released-in-one-weekend/.

TonusOH

Edit: Oh, it isn't new editions of it, it's translations into 13 new languages. Impressive, to be honest.

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

TonusOH

Hmmm, it would be pronounced Bore-us Evans. I like it!

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Fascinating Quotations of The Faithful Slave

by Vanderhoven7 in

do you have any amazing quotations that have been produced by the faithful slave over the years?.

remember it's important that we should learn to love and value truth for it’s own sake; to respect and honor it by owning and acknowledging it wherever we find it and by whomever presented.

a truth presented by the faithful slave himself is just as true as a truth stated by god.. share some of those amazing quotations that have fascinated you.

TonusOH

My mother is still an active JW. She turned 85 back in May. Her mother was a JW, and two of her sisters are, as well as several of her nieces. My dad was in for a short period, but he did that mostly to try and hold the marriage together and it didn't work, so he left both the organization and the home back in the 80s. He passed away in 2001. One of his sisters is still a JW, as far as I know. She would be in her 80s as well. I doubt her sons are still JWs, they did not seem like the type to stay, heh.

My sisters and I are all out, we either left or faded over a long period of time. My older sister was a regular pioneer for a few years before she left (I later learned that she pioneered on the advice of some elders to deal with some issue she was having- it didn't work). I was a ministerial servant for about a year in the mid-90s. It felt like the culmination of a lot of hard work to get there, but by then my heart really wasn't in it and I lost that 'privilege' and that accelerated my fade (though I would never have thought I was fading at the time).

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Fascinating Quotations of The Faithful Slave

by Vanderhoven7 in

do you have any amazing quotations that have been produced by the faithful slave over the years?.

remember it's important that we should learn to love and value truth for it’s own sake; to respect and honor it by owning and acknowledging it wherever we find it and by whomever presented.

a truth presented by the faithful slave himself is just as true as a truth stated by god.. share some of those amazing quotations that have fascinated you.

TonusOH

I can remember that my mother was concerned about my interest in computers and IT, and did not approve of my taking advantage of an opportunity at my job (where I was a mail clerk- standard JW career track) to start building a network and become an IT admin.

She stopped complaining when my pay increased by some 50% in just 18 months, and more than doubled over the next few years. Funny, that-- once we stopped struggling and had some level of financial security, she wasn't so concerned about it.