Verdict on the 2025 convention

by gavindlt 18 Replies latest jw experiences

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  HiddlesWife

  EVERYONE on various Ex-Dub platforms is UPSET-TO-PISSED OFF about this info that WT is recently spewing out. The following is my take on no doubt WHY they went this HEINOUS route⬇

  #️⃣1️⃣➡ The GB was very recently SUBPOENED by the federal courts regarding their policies and practices, which are harmful and hurtful to their members. Not only are they being required to appear in court, but also these personnel: The Writing Committee, The Legal Department, The Business Department, The Helpers, AND ANTMO himself. I was informed that it would be between 60 - 100 individuals from WT who are scheduled to be there.

  #️⃣2️⃣➡ There was a LETTER-WRITING CAMPAIGN established as far back as sometime in 2024. Differing groups of Ex-Dubs [in addition to PIMOs, PIMQs, & VZs (Visitors: Persons who used to study but declined to get baptized)] wrote info to many of the world's governments, informing their officials about The Borg's policies and practices, specifically: CSAs, Shunnings, & The Blood Ban. WT might've discovered this and made a concerted effort to tighten the reins on the current followers, INSTILLING FEAR TACTICS for them to adhere.

  This cultporation is tremendously desperate to hold on to the present members, regardless and irregardless if families and close friendships are DISMANTLED/DESTROYED. They are UNHINGED, totally‼☝😡
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  blondie

  HiddiesWife, do you any links to that? I'd like to be able to share with others who need more proof. I don't doubt it, I wonder if they did that with the child sexual abuse WT cases in court.
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  Dagney

  My $.02.

  After reflecting on these observations and thinking back, when you are in and attending any convention, it is less about the material, especially if you have been in for years, and more about being in a group of like minded people and seeing old friends and going to dinner afterwards.

  You know it is the same message over and over and over and over again for decades, but so is everything they put out. Yes there has been some "NUUUU Light", but the overall message is not changed..."you are undeserved and one heart beat away from destruction if you miss the secret meeting." The end is close, the world/relatives/faders etc. are all bad and out to get you so you need to be strong to fight these evils.

  When you out looking in, you see the control by fear of these repetitive messages magazine after magazine, meeting after meeting, convention after convention. It's numbing when you are in for most, but when you are out the hairs on our neck stand up and the trigger words infuriating.

  I need to catch the video when I'm home, I'm at work. I see a relative's JW memorial in my near future and I like to have a clue what I'm walking into. I've given my word I'd be there.
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  LongHairGal

  DAGNEY:

  I also have a few good memories from years ago of going out to eat with some people after the assembly/convention.

  I also agree that I certainly didn’t remember all that was said at the conventions.. Only the highlights of a particular talk were remembered.

  But, what I find particularly false about what is being said lately is that ‘Faders’ are supposedly out to get everybody and drag JWs out of their precious religion!.. They must be getting desperate to say things like this.. It simply is not true.. When I did my ‘Fade’ years ago I was only interested in getting myself Out of this toxic religion that wasted my time.

  I had No interest in what any other Witness there did or did not do.
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  Dagney

  But, what I find particularly false about what is being said lately is that ‘Faders’ are supposedly out to get everybody and drag JWs out of their precious religion!.. This is not true.

  
  

  Hi LHG! Absolutely not true. Faders just want O-U-T!!!! Again they love to demonize everybody and everything to instill fear over absolutely nothing.
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  mikeflood

  kudos for taking your time for checking on it....
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  Ugot2bekiddingme1

  If I had to go to the Con vention, I would have to consume large amounts of alcohol and marijuana just get me to sit though that crap.
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  Phizzy

  Even before I woke up, I used to fall asleep, and snore !

  What a Borefest those things have been , for decades !
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  HiddlesWife

  @blondie➡ Firstly, the link I'm posting below⬇ is to a few YOUTUBE videos about the subpoenas:

  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=JW+GOVERNING+BODY+SUBPOENAED

  Secondly, the Letter Writing Campaign from ExDubs was spoken about on the SIX SCREENS OF THE WATCHTOWER podcast show. I searched and searched for a link, but unfortunately, I couldn't locate one. Sorry.