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  2018 Special Conventions

  by wifibandit in

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  september 7, 2017 to all congregations re: 2018 special conventions.

  september 9, 2017 to all bodies of elders re: 2018 special conventions—instructions for congregation secretaries.

  2018 special convention application.

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  sparrowdown

  So, small = special in borgspeak.

  Why do I get the feeling that the borg is becoming more and more "special" 😉 as time goes on.
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  Pale.Emperor And The Hypnotists

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  even as a jw i was fascinated with hypnosis and seeing people like derren brown putting people under almost instantly.

  in the last 2/3 years when i was a jw but beginning to wake up from the bullshit i read up on hypnosis, watched a few youtube demos and explanations etc.

  but never actually studied it seriously until about a year ago.

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  Interesting PE interested to know what's the story with Derrin Brown is he legit?

  Programs like that It seem so staged to me and so it's hard to take the subject seriously. But, I know there is more to it than just entertainment, for instance, don't we all go into a mild trance like state just watching TV?

  Call me crazy but I find the JWTV broadcasts very "hypnotic" the droning voices, the slow spinning of the globe in the background, the blue set all combine to lull you into a state perfect for suggestion - IF you allow yourself to switch off, go with it and stop thinking critically about what they are saying.
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  Why would Jehovah God write the Ten Commandments on two tablets of stone ,in the first place ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  i mean to say he is the creator of the universe isn`t he ?

  so why would he use such a method that is subject to crumbling over time ?.

  i remember a jw talk/mag.

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  Would have been way more impressive if a giant finger wrote them in the sky before the whole assembly.

  Otherwise you just got Larry Curly and Mo's word for it. I mean, what was that chiseling sound heard coming fom the mountain while Mo was gone...hmmm?
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  What is the watchtower going to do when

  by pepperheart in

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  2. bible

  all the old magazines that are on the carts now have gone ?.

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  Pff! WT Magazines? They're sooo last century, lol. They got devices to play videos now.
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  What really should be the role of Women in the congregations?

  by Old Navy in

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  2. beliefs

  the presumably "biblical" practice of limiting the way women participate in congregational matters of the wtborg cult inc. (as well as certain other sects of christendom) may be a gross mis-interpretation of what paul meant.

  i'm inclined to agree completely with this account of what paul really meant.. thoughts anyone?

  aren't women more deserving of greater participation and respect?.

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  Women's role as set out from the creation of Eve, in Jewish society and then reiterated by Paul is to be in subjection to men. A domestic slave, a property, and in the case of concubines a sex slave and an incubator.

  In many places across the world they are still treated this way and worse. I just wish the people that choose to defend religion from the relative safety and freedom of western worlds would remember this.
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  How much do you think the internet has hurt JW growth?

  by HereIgo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the internet is what helped bring me and so many others out of this evil organization or at least confirmed our doubts.

  i have to say, i have seen quite a few youtube videos recently of ex jw's secretly recording their interactions inside of different congregations, halls, etc and see how empty the halls are!

  so many people comment on how the attendance is so low, far more emptier than when i was in 6 years ago, even on a weekday meeting.

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  I know the internet hurt my own personal JW growth - oh it hurt...it hurt so gooood.
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  Assembly experiences that strech the truth

  by karter in

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  elder and his wife build a flash house.. they go on the stage at an assembly and give an experiences of how they sold the flash house to simplify their life so they can go pioneering.. the real story.. elder and wife can't afford the flash house and have to sell it he never goes pioneering she does until they are declared bankrupt.. why were they bankrupt?.

  the money leaft over from the flash house they invested in a yet to be build apartment and the developer goes bankrupt takeing their money.. just one of many.. karter..

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  WT experiences = Fake testamonials.
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  Gorby: shock from convention today

  by Gorbatchov in

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  gorby went for family reasons today, sunday, to the convention in switerbant, netherlands.. from the start it was clear, a fully media event.

  country, gospel and choir songs combined with socio emotional videos for tear teasing.

  some sisters danced with their hips.

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  The signs are all there folks of the wondrous transformation of JH's org taking place in front of our eyes.
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  As a JW how would you answer this if someone brought it up in the ministry?

  by NikL in

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  2. bible

  as a jw i pretty much just went along with what was taught from the platform i didn't do any real bible study.

  as a result, now that i am out of the org.

  i find scriptures that blow my mind.. i am not sure how i would have reacted if someone had pointed this out to me when i was a jw but now i can't believe i've never noticed this before.

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  This was one of my favourite scriptures back in my JW days.

  As a good little robot I would have said it means a "mighty god " ie in the role of and a "eternal father" figure ie in the role of - or some such thing. But, in my heart of hearts I would have thought naaah FT! Jesus is da man! I was a bit of a closet rebel like that. I had memorized official WT inerpretations but kept my private take on stuff, which probly explains why I ended up here.
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  JW critically injured after being electrocuted in assembly hall

  by Anders Andersen in

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  2. friends

  a newspaper reports that in bornem, belgium, a jw volunteer was critically injured after being electrocuted:.

  bornem - a man was electrocuted while performing maintenance on a high voltage installation in the assembly hall of jw in bornem friday afternoon.

  the man was critically injured.. possibly the man, who is a volunteer with the jw, tried to clean the installation with a vacuum cleaner.

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  sparrowdown

  Tragic! Wonder how the press got the story.

  Hope it prompts an investigation into WT's non existant health and safety protocols.

  I've been at KH renos where little kids were running around playing tag amongst people operating power tools like nail guns etc.

  Limbs being sawn off trees by Brothers without a clue how to go about it not even wearing hard hats whilst families and old people arriving for field service walking underneath.

  Large urns that dripped and spluttered boiling water for tea and coffee and children playing tea parties with the thing.