Posts by sparrowdown

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Reposting old posts as new

by steve2 in

i cannot find the report feature on the forum or has it been removed?.

in the past week or so poster jehovah lol appears to have re-posted as new his topic on jw talk.

i have checked and the posts are identical - perhaps not a big deal, but it's a little like internal spam.

Some more Nicholas King pics

by neat blue dog in

today we get to see nick hanging with his fellow watchtower movie star and chorus member,.

hitting the dance floor,.

taking a swig,.

sparrowdown

Yeah and in the choir. He was in the video warning against a career in the music industry.

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Some more Nicholas King pics

by neat blue dog in

today we get to see nick hanging with his fellow watchtower movie star and chorus member,.

hitting the dance floor,.

taking a swig,.

Some more Nicholas King pics

by neat blue dog in

today we get to see nick hanging with his fellow watchtower movie star and chorus member,.

hitting the dance floor,.

taking a swig,.

sparrowdown

What a fiiiiine upstanding actor oops I mean "brother".

Yeah, this guy has Jehovah's witness written all over him.

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Do you or did you experience too much intrusion into your personal life by the elders in your congregation?

by UnshackleTheChains in

i ask this question because i have personally experienced first hand the control and intrusion into my personal life by the elders at our hall; and for virtually trivial things or non issues!

what's more, i regularly hear of individuals moving to other halls because they were stumbled by the thought police....er, i mean these elders.. have you had any such experience?

have your elders been a bit ott over trivialities?.

sparrowdown

Amicabl - it seems every cong has it's "scapegoats". Very sad religion.

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gb, PLEASE, PLEASE UP THE ORGANIZATIONAL HARSHNESS IN 2018

by steve2 in

sometimes i have expressed a longing for jw organization to tone down its rhetoric and become, well, nicer and more loving.

i have not been alone in my hope.

some posters have even said that if a wave of kindness washed over jw organization and, say, the shunning doctrine was modified (e.g., left up to the individual's conscience without fear of retribution from elders), they'd go back.

sparrowdown

Speaking for myself, it's only when shit got really painful within my congregation that it finally forced me to look at the whole org more critically. Truth is if things had stayed "nice" and "lovely" I'd still be there. I wish I could say it was my superior intellect (lol) that was the catalyst for re-examination and subsequent change but it wasn't it was pain, the cold hard reality of pain that started the process and then my intellect got on board.

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Do you or did you experience too much intrusion into your personal life by the elders in your congregation?

by UnshackleTheChains in

i ask this question because i have personally experienced first hand the control and intrusion into my personal life by the elders at our hall; and for virtually trivial things or non issues!

what's more, i regularly hear of individuals moving to other halls because they were stumbled by the thought police....er, i mean these elders.. have you had any such experience?

have your elders been a bit ott over trivialities?.

sparrowdown

I've observed that how intrusive the elders are depends a lot on the individual elders and the individual JW. As Toesup said if you give them a firm "no, talk to the finger" when they try it on they jog on.

There are some people though that seem to be targeted by bodies of elders for the slightest infraction, they watch and wait for the person to screw up so they can df their arse out of there. While some other person, usually some smarmy suck-up with connections could be Jack the ripper himself and the elders would be completely blind, deaf and dumb to them.

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From enemies to friends: Did it really happen?

by StephaneLaliberte in

yesterday, they showed the story “from enemies to friends” at the kingdom hall.

my mother in law told me about it as she was touched by the story.

so then, later in the evening, i searched for the video and found it in the january 1st 2017 broadcast.

sparrowdown

Doesn't pass the sniff test to me - but none of their "experiences" do.

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Why do we speak out once we learn TTATT?? Because the Society TRAINED us to do so!

by stuckinarut2 in

i was just thinking about how the gb / society hates it when people like us dare to speak up or mention anything negative about the society.. they try and demean us, or colour witnesses view of anyone who leaves - especially if we speak up!

we know the sort of rhetoric they have been spewing forth over the last few years.. but the gb needs to face the fact that we speak out because we have been trained to do so by them!

they have used scriptural passages to encourage us repeatedly to "preach with boldness"(acts 4:29-31 eph 6:19).

sparrowdown

Truth sharing is a one-way street for them, JWs are all for "sharing" as long as it's them sharing their "truths" not the other way round.

I don't try to tell them anything, not because they won't like it but because it's a waste of my time and energy.

I will make an exception if I'm in an area where the cart people on duty don't know me then I may try to ask a few questions posing as a mildly curious person who knows nothing about them but even then they're pretty impervious to new information and very suspicius of anyone asking questions.

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"Are you humble enough to admit you were wrong?"

by stuckinarut2 in

that is a question i want to calmly and politely ask a witness next time i interact with them.

perhaps at a cart.. "the bible says we should be humble.

may i ask, are you humble enough to admit you were wrong on things you believe?

sparrowdown

Wouldn't they first need to admit they could be wrong? They know they're not wrong so why would they bother.

Worth a try though.