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  Proof the earth can be flat

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "our perception of reality has more to do with what is going on in here (our brain) than what's going on out there (in the world).".

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g221y.

  is it a dark square or a light square?

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  Is a 3D movie flat on the screen or jumping out at you..... lmao
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  How do I handle this situation?

  by BarelyThere in

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  2. friends

  hey everyone.

  i'm sorry that this isn't a very thought provoking post but i could really use some advice on how to handle this.

  there isn't anyone else in my life i can ask right now because, being dfed, all of my friends are "worldly" and don't know how witnesses function.

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  Don't show your hand.
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  elders wife swapping question

  by unstopableravens in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i hear of these stories of elders swapping wives, i remember when i was young hearing of three elders in florida doing this and getting dfed.

  my question is this how is it possible to bring this up in conversation?

  it seems impossible, how can there be multi elders that know each other willing and the wives?

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  It was rampant 6 years ago in congregations on the west coast. Several elders in one congregation less than a year apart divorced and remarried. To non-JWs. A handful of others did the swapping game within their immediate or nearby congos, but then reconciled with slaps on the wrist only. It is why I am a firm believer that everyone should have at least 5 serious sexual relationships before committing to marriage. Yes sex really is just that important.
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  Why I like the Mormons and why they are so much nicer then the JWs.

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i never really knew any until recently.

  as a witness we all thought they were weird.

  but the two faiths are a lot alike, except the mormons are really so much nicer than the jws!.

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  I live 100 feet from a tabernacle and 75% of my neighbors are members of the CoLDS. Some of them are really nice and some are not. It is exactly the same ratio I found in congregations of JWs. What I can assure you is that the second you engage any of them in a deep discussion about the failings of their theology, they all turn into ogres. And they love the word "apostate" too and misuse it like their brethren in the kingdom halls.
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  GB members quotes

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for a future project i'm searching for remarkable quotes of current and former gb members.. i've two personal, validated quotes:.

  "sprechen sie deutsch?

  " "ah, ein bisschen!

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  I censored the post to avoid getting an NC 17 rating. ;)
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  GB members quotes

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for a future project i'm searching for remarkable quotes of current and former gb members.. i've two personal, validated quotes:.

  "sprechen sie deutsch?

  " "ah, ein bisschen!

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  Dan Sydlik to the new black brother at the table, "Boy pass me the potatoes." New brother says, "I am not your boy." Sydlik rebuttals, "NiXXer, pass me the potatoes."

  Or something like that. I just read it from one of the other posters who has been sharing Bethel stories recently.
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  The new service meeting

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i wanted to relate an experience that happened this morning.

  it is regarding the new format for the meeting on thursdays in my area.

  its not word for word but im summarizing what i heard, the best i can remember.

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  This is why I don't share any of the conversations I have with my JW mother and her friends. I don't believe them myself half the time. lmao
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  How this Jehovah’s Witness feels about the Australian Royal Commission

  by Simple Minds in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i know the arc is old news i know i am preaching to the converted but i had to express how i feel because most of my jw friends and family dont want to hear .

  so this is how i feel.

  i have faithfully served as a jehovahs witness for over 25 years..

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  How this Jehovah’s Witness feels about the Australian Royal Commission

  by Simple Minds in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i know the arc is old news i know i am preaching to the converted but i had to express how i feel because most of my jw friends and family dont want to hear .

  so this is how i feel.

  i have faithfully served as a jehovahs witness for over 25 years..

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  How this Jehovah’s Witness feels about the Australian Royal Commission

  by Simple Minds in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i know the arc is old news i know i am preaching to the converted but i had to express how i feel because most of my jw friends and family dont want to hear .

  so this is how i feel.

  i have faithfully served as a jehovahs witness for over 25 years..

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  A Statement by David Clohessy of SNAP
  
  For 25 years I’ve been the director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, the world’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. We have more than 15,000 members across the globe in all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. And we’ve helped victims, witnesses and whistleblowers in other institutional contexts too, like athletic programs and Scouting and summer camps.
  
  I can’t recall ever seeing a policy anywhere that is more predator-friendly and self-serving than the Watchtower’s “two witnesses” rule. On its face, it is dangerous and callous. If any crime is likely to have no witnesses, it is child sexual abuse. If the law enforcement community adopted this rule only a handful of child predators would be charged, convicted and imprisoned every year.
  
  One wonders if this rule means that Jehovah’s Witness officials do nothing even when they hear about another JW official admitting to molesting kids.
  
  This policy endangers kids and invites predators. It protects only one small group – the Jehovah’s Witness hierarchy. Even then, it protects them only in the short-term. Thankfully, more victims are finding the strength to report child sex crimes, more police are investigating them, more prosecutors are prosecuting them, and more lawyers are suing them.
  
  As Martin Luther King said “No lie lives forever” and “The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
  
  This rule will be revoked someday. The only question is how much moral authority and members will the Jehovah’s Witnesses have squandered and alienated – and how many kids and families will be devastated in the meantime.
  
  Outside of the Jehovah’s Witness hierarchy, virtually every other adult believes that we should all call police if we see or suspect child sex crimes. (Not everyone does this, of course. But nearly everyone believes this is the right course of action.) But the JW hierarchy is wrong on both fronts – policy and performance, belief and behavior.
  
  The “two witnesses” rule is a stunningly heartless and reckless policy that is guaranteed to cause more heinous crimes against children.
  
  About David Clohessy
  
  Since 1991, David Clohessy has served as SNAP’s national director, setting up local support groups and doing thousands of interviews (including Oprah, Sixty Minutes, the Phil Donahue Show, Good Morning America). He’s been a community organizer in poor neighborhoods and provided political and public relations consulting. David is married and has two sons.

  
  

  
  
  David Clohessy
  Executive Director, SNAP
  Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
  7234 Arsenal Street
  St. Louis MO 63143
  314 566 9790, [email protected]