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  "Isn't it disgusting?", a sister said to me in service today

  by Isambard Crater in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "sorry, what's disgusting?

  ", i replied.

  "that thing we've just called on", the sister said in response.

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  sparrowdown

  Hi, We're Jehovah's witnesses we are wrapped in a gossamer blanket of love and we hate your guts.
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  Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses launches worldwide campaign againt Russia

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  jehovah's witnesses mobilize global response to threat of ban in russia.

  march 21, 2017. https://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/russia/jw-mobilize-global-response-to-threat-of-ban/.

  new york—threatened with an imminent ban on their worship in russia, jehovah’s witnesses are responding with a direct appeal to kremlin and supreme court officials for relief through a global letter-writing campaign.

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  sparrowdown

  Well Rutherford writing to Hitler turned out sooo well!
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  "Isn't it disgusting?", a sister said to me in service today

  by Isambard Crater in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "sorry, what's disgusting?

  ", i replied.

  "that thing we've just called on", the sister said in response.

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  sparrowdown

  I don't know what was worse going from D2D and advertising for the borg or having to put up with the brothers and sisters and their "upbuilding convo" as you do it.
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  Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses launches worldwide campaign againt Russia

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  jehovah's witnesses mobilize global response to threat of ban in russia.

  march 21, 2017. https://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/russia/jw-mobilize-global-response-to-threat-of-ban/.

  new york—threatened with an imminent ban on their worship in russia, jehovah’s witnesses are responding with a direct appeal to kremlin and supreme court officials for relief through a global letter-writing campaign.

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  Maybe as a homage to Putin sending photos or photoshops of themselves horse riding topless might get them in his goodbooks and he will change his mind.
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  Observations From an Ex-Elder Part 3 - Searching for the Lost Sheep

  by doubtfull1799 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  "what man among you with 100 sheep, on losing one of them, will not leave the 99 behind in the wilderness and go after the lost one until he finds it?

  " - luke 15:4. disclaimer: by posting the following observations i am not complaining.

  i am happy to be left alone.

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  sparrowdown

  If anyone wants to find out how much you as a person or your years of service mean to these people just start missing meetings and field service. You are only worth something to them while you are giving. Any christian "love and concern" only went one way - from you to them.

  But, that is what bloodsucking cults do they use up people and then discard them. Channel the pain of this knowledge into healing and don't believe them when they treat you like you don't matter because you do and so did your years of sacrifice and service you just won't hear it from them. No gold watch at the end of a theocratic career.
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  Have you ever believed something that turned out to be wrong?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  apart, of course, from the obvious example of believing the evidence-free assertion of the governing body to be god's representatives on earth.

  not to side-step that issue, but i wonder if it might be interesting to relate that huge mistake to other things i've been wrong about and how they compare and contrast with the big one.

  a couple of examples of things i was wrong about:.

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  sparrowdown

  I believed WT when it said that the bible was ahead of modern science because of a scripture in Isaiah which refers to "the circle of the earth" now after a bit of research have found that the writer of Isaiah refers to a "ball" in chap 22 of the same book and "circle" as mentioned in the first example can be translated "disc." So the ancients who wrote Isaiah were calling the earth a circle not a ball and most definitley NOT in agreement with modern science.

  If WT were such pedants for the bible they would be pointing this out loudly and proudly because that's what the bible actually, really, truly says. No, they cherry-pick to suit their agenda like all other religions do.

  I used to think religion basically had good intent with the inevitable human factor of coruption creeping in.

  I now believe all religions to be different routes to the same end and that end has nothing to do with salvation, hope, charity but rather exploit people by making money out of their search for pupose and need for social connection and to control them.

  I now believe that if you want a purpose, to help people, to have a social or even so called "spiritual" connection you absoutely do NOT need to go through a religion to have those things. I don't think I will turn out to be wrong on this one.
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  How deep is the rot?

  by JeffT in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  by now it seems obvious that the gb and other leaders of the wtbs are corrupt.

  the pedo scandal and various financial schemes are sustained by either lack of concern or greed at the top.

  my question is how far down the food chain does this go?

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  Rotten to the core.

  Too much doublespeak, subtefuge and shell games to be otherwise.
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  Australian Congregations announce Child Safeguarding Policy is available upon request

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  this week all congregations in australia have been instructed to make the following announcement:.

  if a member of the congregation would like a copy of the child safeguarding policy of jehovah’s witnesses in australia, please see the coordinator of the body of elders or the secretary.. .

  childsafeguardingpolicy-eau.pdf.

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  sparrowdown

  So the CSP gets about as much if not less airtime as a hall cleaning announcement. They could devote a whole meeting part to the subject if they wanted to, they do so for

  "go bags"

  exiting the KH in an emergency

  blood cards

  convention reminders
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  ARC - Case Study 54 - All Exhibits have been released

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  all exhibits for case study 54, jehovah's witnesses and watchtower, have been released by the arc.. http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/exhibits/10908a67-70c5-4103-94cc-dac096fdb585/case-study-54,-march-2017,-sydney.

  exhibit list.

  joint statement of o'brien and spinks.

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  sparrowdown

  Lol @ punkofnice I mean Spidey.
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  ARC - Case Study 54 - All Exhibits have been released

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  all exhibits for case study 54, jehovah's witnesses and watchtower, have been released by the arc.. http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/exhibits/10908a67-70c5-4103-94cc-dac096fdb585/case-study-54,-march-2017,-sydney.

  exhibit list.

  joint statement of o'brien and spinks.

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  sparrowdown

  If RO is a gay non-JW and EdenOne is Dolly Parton then I want to be Scarlet Johansen.

  Who do you'll want to be?