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  Daniel Kokotajlo’s Apostasy enters UK Top 15 box office films

  by steve2 in

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  2. friends

  fantastic news just in: daniel kokotajlo’s film apostasy about a jw family facing the blood issue and - ahem - a daughter who apostatises - was released late last week in the united kingdom.

  even though it received limited release in its first weekend and is going to be in more cinemas this weekend, it has entered the top 15 films at no.

  12 - a magnificent result for a highly acclaimed film made on a shoe string.

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  It's never one thing that wakes someone up anyway, it's many things big and small over a period of time that accumulate in the back of someones mind until a tipping point is reached. And yes it's often that one thing that is seen, heard or happens on top of the pile of other things that becomes the tipping point.

  I see the mindset of "don't bother this will never work " in exJWs to be one of the vestiges of our JW daze when anything that took away from from dub duties that required extended time or effort was ever worth it.

  This movie is interesting because more normies than JWs will see it and be educated on how culty JWs are.

  The public need to wake up to JWs as well.
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  elder bags.

  by blownaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  not sure if this was every where or just our area, but you could always tell who was big shit top dog in the hall elders by the size of their bag.

  my dad used to call them elder bags.

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  The Elder's bags? In our cong they were known as the wives.

  Ooooh you said elder bags sorry my bad 😀

  Yeah they all had hideous big-ass bags for all their secret elder info.
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  WT productions - suggestions for a name???

  by sparrowdown in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how bout ..... jehollywood or just jollywood.

  mad sacred cow productions.

  big brother productions.

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  sparrowdown

  How bout ....

  Jehollywood or just Jollywood

  Mad Sacred Cow Productions

  Big Brother Productions
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  Cart work faces headwinds.

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  my little bethel bird has whispered in my ear some encouraging news.

  it has been reported to the canadian branch that some witnesses doing cart work had police stop them from carting in public parks.

  the direction sent to the southern ontario congregations is to cease carting until further notice.. this is no joke.. have a jw-free day..

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  Cart work is the JW equivalent of an elitist sport, you have to qualify to be worthy enough to do it. The idea of cart work as a replacement for d2d doesn't fly unless everyone in the cong has a cart and that just ain't gonna happen ever.

  My theory about the carts is that the GB introduced them as a new carrot to dangle, an outward tangible show of "change" to boost moral and to convince the mindless masses that the chariot is indeed moving forward innovating new preaching methods etc etc blah blah.

  But, in reality the cart work is just meant to be a distraction from the fact that they are changing the way they exist as a religion in such a major way that they now will freak people out and they do not want to spook the people too much before the new WT is complete and will is gradually revealed.
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  Cart work faces headwinds.

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  my little bethel bird has whispered in my ear some encouraging news.

  it has been reported to the canadian branch that some witnesses doing cart work had police stop them from carting in public parks.

  the direction sent to the southern ontario congregations is to cease carting until further notice.. this is no joke.. have a jw-free day..

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  It would'nt take much to vanish the JW "presence" in the area I live, two miserable little carts one manned most of the time by disabled geriatrics (no offense to the disabled or to Geri and the Atrics) in folding chairs and knee blankies.

  And the other by a 40 ish guy and his 8-10 year old kid.

  So either the local cong has no corporate witness pioneer looking types to man the carts or the corporate witness types don't want to.
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  How many wrongs make a right?

  by eyeuse2badub in

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  2. beliefs

  came across this little gem while my wife was "digging for bible gems" in her weekly meeting preparation.

  nothing new but i gently pointed it out to her as a reminder that bible reading can be hazardous to your mental health!.

  do 2 (or 3, or 4) wrongs, make a right?

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  There are some bible characters WT really has an erection for that simply cannot do any wrong even when they do wrong and David the adulterating murderer is one of them.
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  JW joke from social media

  by neat blue dog in

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  saw this posted today:.

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  The CO says to the six year old "call me in a year or two honey, when you're baptized 😉"
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  JW culture of "informers" is very similar to Communist China under Mao

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  2. friends

  first, let's look at what counsel is published by the watchtower and required as proper behavior in the congregation.. *** g88 9/8 p. 20 should i tell on my friend?

  ***understandably, you may not feel you have the spiritual qualifications to readjust an erring friend.

  but would it not make sense to see to it that the matter is reported to someone who is qualified to help?

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  The Borg using behavior control tactics as used by authoritarian regimes...Hmmm what a coincidence.

  Same shit different assholes as George Carlin would say. The level of control only varies by degree.

  Reminded me of the book 1984 the children would spy on and report the adults even their own parents and praised for it.
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  Forgiveness

  by Freedom rocks in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if someone does the same things over and over again and says sorry and then does it again and you point out that their apologies don't mean anything anymore, then they accuse you of not being forgiving enough, who is in the wrong?

  (i mean as in constantly over a long period of time).

  im trying to work out whether it was just part of the persons mental/ emotional manipulation tactics or whether i have the wrong view and i'm not forgiving enough.

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  Sounds like a narcissist.

  Not much you can do with them except protect yourself.
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  Loose Conduct

  by Hangin_on in

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  2. beliefs

  my friend has been married 25 years.

  he works with another jw.

  they kissed and he touched her nipples but did not have sex with her.

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  Oh and btw who the fuck apart from highschool children goes around saying "hey nice weather, what about that game on sunday and see that person over there I touched their nipples" !!!