Daughter (15) recently told my wife and I that she has a huge crush on this boy (17) from school who’s hanging out with her friend group a lot these days. She said he can’t date because he’s a Jehovah’s Witness. All wife & I knew before is that they’re some Christian group. From what we read online they seem to be pretty radical & abstract stuff like 144000 (?), Armageddon. They even get called a cult.

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    13 days ago

    Looks like they have two: “Awake” and “Watchtower”: https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/

    In London in recent years I’ve only seen Awake. Maybe Watchtower is American or only in Kingdom halls?

    they clarified that it was 11 tribes and one “lost tribe”

    As far as I’m aware there are 10 lost tribes. Only Judah and Benjamin were not regarded as lost. They might have a different view on that of course…

    They agreed that it’s the gospel and many people weren’t good enough Christians

    They don’t see the “vast multitude” (who are believers besides the 144,000) as having a bad deal in any way. They get to live on the restored earth which is basically Eden paradise. That’s why all their magazines / tracts have pictures of an idyllic life in a park / nature type setting