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by stephanie61092 21 minutes ago 0 Replies latest 21 minutes ago   jw experiences
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stephanie61092 21 minutes ago

Hello friends,
I was on he ex JW Reddit page the other day and came across a posting from a woman who has become a successful author. She was raised a JW in New York and pioneered at one point in her life. She currently writing a memoir of her experiences little by little and sharing them on her website. They've been easy and enjoyable reads and I am always excited to see when she has posted the next "part". I haven't seen anyone talk about them on here yet so I thought I would pass it along :smile:
https://mylifeasiknewitblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/my-short-lived-life-at-being-perfect-part-1-a-little-insight-into-briannas-background/

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by wannaexit 17 hours ago 13 Replies latest 26 minutes ago   jw friends
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wannaexit
wannaexit 17 hours ago

I wanted to share the dateline about a JW murder. But noticed that Barb Anderson had started the topic

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6293807029026816/yesterday-colorado-jw-ralph-candelario-found-guilty-murdering-his-jw-wife-on-all-counts-tampering-w-evidence





 
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LevelThePlayingField
LevelThePlayingField 16 hours ago
Yeah, I saw this on Dateline just about a week and half ago or so. JW's are no different than anyone else for the most part. Yeah, there are some pretty nice ones. But they can snap, just like anyone else.
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wannaexit
wannaexit 16 hours ago
@Barrolds glad you are all up-to-date. I only watched it today.

 
LisaRose
LisaRose 15 hours ago

I think many JWs are convinced that "the truth" has the miraculous ability to change people. The reality is that JWs are no different than people in other religions, or even people in no religion. You can brainwash people into going to all the meetings, doing the study, going out in service, even earnestly praying to God, but it doesn't change what people are, not really.
Most people have a tendency to minimize their bad behavior and justify it in their own mind, but then there are some people who are just evil and it doesn't matter how many hours they spend at the Kingdom Hall, they are going to do what they are going to do. The sad part is they usually get away with it because most JWs live in denial and don't recognize evil when they see it because it wears a suit and says all the right things. That's why child molesters get away with it so often and for so long.



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smiddy
smiddy 13 hours ago

wannaexit
Google " Crimes committed by Jehovah`s Witnesses" , you will find that every conceivable crime has been committed by Jehovah`s witnesses in good standing , from petty crimes to murder and everything in between .
I once made this comment to an Elder and his reply was that if they did these crimes they were not really Jehovah`s Witnesses .
I replied , by that reasoning their are no Catholics in jails anywhere either.
.....All I got was a blank stare

smiddy
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steve2
steve2 11 hours ago

Sounds like the mother was "free" to remarry and the JW daughters did not shun her - have I got that part right?
This reflects so badly on the JWs and I get impression none of the "survivors" remain active JWs.
 
joe134cd
joe134cd 10 hours ago
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Lieu
Lieu 8 hours ago

I'm surprised doesn't happen more often. Particularly when men are told they pretty much own their wives and wives are told to be submissive like slaves.
Had a case in Maryland some years ago where the husband killed his wife right outside the courthouse after an ex parte hearing.
 

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by wannaexit 17 hours ago 13 Replies latest 28 minutes ago   jw friends
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Doubtfully Yours
Doubtfully Yours 6 hours ago

ALL type of things happen within the WTBTS; lead by and filled with ALL imperfect people, nothing that happens there should be surprising whatsoever.
Rumor has it of young couples in the Spanish congs around here exchanging spouses and horrible entanglements relating to who the real father is for certain of the ladies in the ring who became pregnant, which lead to big cover-ups.
Pure evidence that no crazy religious belief can counter our sinful, sexual, imperfect human condition.
DY
 
steve2
steve2 2 hours ago

If Witnesses heard of this kind of convoluted, love triangle debacle happening in other churches/ religions they'd use it as a basis for denouncing the other churches/ religions as false and of Satan.
Funny how it never crosses the minds of those in the video that all the shenanigans in the private lives of local JWs simply shows theirs is just another religion, despite the lofty claims.
 
Vidiot
Vidiot 2 hours ago

Here's a novel thought...
x
...if bad things happen in a "spiritual paradise", it's not a spiritual paradise.
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steve2 28 minutes ago

I notice that the (apparently still active) JWs in the program sound a little on the superficial side in terms of relationships.
The young JW woman who meets and falls in love with the young JW man and who learn - just before their own marriage - that her JW mother and his JW father have "eloped" and married expressed no more than the level of surprise you'd see in non-Witnesses. No expressed concern over the older couple bringing reproach on Jehovah's name.
This young couple then marry and within two years they have separated and eventually divorce - and no mention of Scriptural grounds for divorce and/or elders investigation. How did this happen?
Then as this young JW woman talks about her now murdered mother she talks fondly of re-establishing her relationship with her mother with no evidence whatsoever that the mother had repented and returned to the organization.
From a strictly JW view, how could the young woman re-establish contact with her mother who evidently had divorced her first husband on unscriptural grounds?
Unexplained also is how this young woman's murdered mother went from insisting on home schooling for her children in the recent past to simply walking out of her marriage - and taking everyone by surprise (even her ex-husband who wasn't a JW could not account for her leaving).
It sounds like some retrospective glossing-over occurs in the program. Either that or the protagonists were "only" superficially identified as JWs. And what stands out is the way in which they young adults come across as superficial as they air their dirty laundry in public.
I have a feeling that JWs in good standing who watch this will be left feeling very awkward by and judgemental of the calibre of individuals who participated in this sensationalist dirty-laundry program.
 

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i bumped in this story this afternoon.
it's about a family of jw's.
it's an unbelievable story of murder that took place in 2014.. so much for spiritual paradise.. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dateline+tangled.



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hello friends,.

i was on he ex jw reddit page the other day and came across a posting from a woman who has become a successful author.

she was raised a jw in new york and pioneered at one point in her life.

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i bumped in this story this afternoon.

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