#jwlife

[jwmeditate]

Baptism symbolises burial and resurrection

Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead. Col 2:12

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Ex JW books/movies

Apostasy (movie): A faithful Jehovah’s Witness is forced to shun her own sister because of a religious transgression. As the separation draws out, she starts to question the meaning of God’s love.

I’m Perfect, You’re Doomed: Tales From A Jehovah’s Witness Upbringing (book): the story of Kyria Abrahams’s coming-of-age as a Jehovah’s Witness – a doorbell-ringing “Pioneer of the Lord.”

Worlds Apart (movie): The daughter of a Jehovah’s Witness is forced to choose between religion and love when she falls for someone outside her faith.

Crisis of Conscience (book): a biographical book by Raymond Franz, a former member of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses, written in 1983, three years after his expulsion from the Jehovah’s Witnesses religion.

The Children Act (book): A judge must decide if a seventeen-year-old Jehovah’s Witness should be forced to have a lifesaving blood transfusion. Has also been made into a movie.

Watch How We Walk (book): Alternating between Emily's life as a child and her adult life in the city, Watch How We Walk offers a haunting, cutting exploration of "disfellowshipping," proselytization, and cultural abstinence, as well as the Jehovah's Witness attitude towards the "worldlings" outside of their faith

The Watchtower Society, Organizational Misbehavior (book): Like Crisis of Conscience but apparently better written and more expensive. Debunks teachings.

Truth Be Told (documentary): Former Jehovah's Witnesses discuss first-hand life experiences inside the organization including the impact the religion had on their childhood and family, schooling, adolescence, and approaches to dating and marriage. The film also explores how being raised a Jehovah's Witness religion has shaped their current spiritual beliefs and attitudes.

I haven’t personally been able to go through most of these because of still living at home so I can’t say anything as to their quality. Most of the descriptions were directly copy pasted, and the list is in no particular order. You can consider it incomplete, as I’m probably going to add to it later on

[christianandnerdy]

Jehovah's witnesses need to understand their organization's history #Repost @_jwhistory ・・・ A #jehovahwitness will say that the Watchtower never predicted the end of the world before. In the mind of a brainwashed JW that is true. Witnesses do not look outside the organization and are told not to look at older Watchtower literature. Now that Watchtower is slowly moving away from Publishing literature, soon there won’t be any proof of all the Watchtower failed predictions. PROOF! ☝️ #jw #jwdoctrine #annualmeeting2017 #jwwitnesses #jwhistory #jah #jwinternational #jwbrotherhood #jwassembly #jwfriends #jwlove #jwbest #jehovah #jw_photographers #jworganization #jworg #jwlife #jwdoctrine #jwfilm #jwpioneers #jwbible #regionalconvention2017 #education #cultawareness #jwbrothers #christiancongregation #westpalmbeach #dontgiveupconvention #jwcourage

[christianfreedom1-blog]

The Meme Group for Ex Jehovah’s Witnesses (Facebook…com/groups/Excult) jw.org

[some-jw-things]

Let me drown myself in rainbows and wash away the pain with positivity and submerge myself in the love that will undo your hate

[some-jw-things]

religious trauma is gay culture

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Take a shot every time I explain to my mother that this isn’t a phase or some angsty teenage rebellion

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I like wearing suits to formal events because wearing a dress makes me feel like I’m going to meeting