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  GB Member Guy Pierce Memorial Card

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  http://library.jw-wayback.org/jw-wb/photos-pictures/people/guy%20pierce%20(1934-2014).pdf.

  interesting to read his backstory.

  a little sad that they refer to his first marriage as "guy married a woman with 2 children".

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  "He experienced a divorce" translates as "through no fault of our dear righteous Brother."
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  The JW Fake News Engine

  by snugglebunny in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  apparently i'd been in prison, gone to wife-swapping parties and consorted with fortune tellers.

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  i guess they have to demonise those who leave less others too are tempted to stray.. what did they say about you?.

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  sparrowdown

  So "snugglebunny" 😉 was your prison name and doubled as your swinger name also.

  Cool. Hey man, to each his own.
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  First posting on here..Hello all

  by London Underground in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just wanted to say a big hello to everyone, my first post on here was actually yesterday but it was deleted.. so will keep this one short to save my precious time just in case its also deleted or lost.. got fed up with years of persecution from within the congregations.

  the lack of genuine friendship & lack of 'christian love'.

  having personally seen many a scandalous behaviour i began doing some research online some years ago.

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  sparrowdown

  Hi LU, welcome.
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  Tom Petty has passed away

  by sir82 in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a12766936/tom-petty-critical-condition-cardiac-arrest/.

  sad..

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  sparrowdown

  The lyrics to the song I Won't Back Down got me through my fading process.
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  Not A Day Goes By Without Me Thinking About Watchtower

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  although i consider myself completely "cured" from watchtower brainwashing, guilt tripping and propaganda, i realised today that there's not a day that goes by without me thinking of the cult we left.

  i think of my former family and what i'd like to say to them, what i'd try to explain and how i'd say it without them switching the "ignore" button and running away.. today on my instagram account my little step-brother "liked" a picture i posted.

  i didn't even know he was still on my friends list.

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  I know what you mean it's like a bungi-chord attached to the heart. There's only so far you can go before the chord yanks you back to the reality of the situation and of course it would, this is family, people who are supposed to love, care and support you over some publishing/real estate business.

  Reminds me of that eighties song "There's always something there to remind me..."
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  Watchtower Study Today from August 2017 issue " Wait Patiently"

  by BluesBrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  theme scripture , james 5 v 8 abbreviated to " you too, exercise patience".

  (i guess we know what to expect now) .

  " how long?

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  Apparently WT feels that "relatively perfect" babies have blond hair.
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  "... climate of disfellowshipping in Hull currently... " - Hull Daily Mail

  by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  article from the above news paper... .

  http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-jehovahs-witnesses-speak-out-444185.

  maybe boe in north east england having an attack of zealous fervour!

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  Is it just me or does Jehovah seem to have himself a self-important bunch of delicate little snowflake flower witnesses for himself these days. Every witness seems to be like:

  How dare these disfellowshipped people not like being shunned, make it stop Jehovah it's triggering me.
  

  How dare they ask questions that require truthful answers - that triggers me too! Waaaaaaa 😣.

  I don't mean to sound braggy but when I was in I always listened carefully and tried to talk kindly to anyone who was hurt or cranky by their experience with JWs in the hope they would know shit happens and not to let it ruin their faith in God.

  I figured if I had "the Truth" I needed to be the one to rise above any anger and counter it with love.

  Ha! What an idiot I was.
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  Need help understanding the Overlapping Generation teaching

  by Jules Saturn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so this is a topic that seriously boggles my mind and please correct me if i'm wrong.

  to me, the jw definition of the overlapping generation teaching is that the lives of the anointed from 1914 overlap with the lives of the anointed right now.

  david splane used the example of fred franz and how he finished his "earthly course" in 1992 but while he did, he had a lot of "contemporaries" that outlived him and are currently living today.

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  The overlapping generation crapola is just the interum teaching to dropping 1914.
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  Help! Mike & Kim videos all being deleted by Youtube

  by mrmagic in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  due to watchtower flagging the mike & kim videos on youtube for copyright, youtube is giving them 6 days before they are shutting down their entire youtube channel.

  can you help with a mass downloading program and then reuploading them on a mirror ?

  would hate to lose all those good videos!

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  Are the elders letters copyrighted? Because personally, I think the thing that would be pissing WT off the most about K&M is the reading out of the elder's letters. WT would absolutely hate that, it would be a matter of principle to them even though there's usually not that much damning info in elders letters that would be of interest to anyone other than ex-jws. They would hate their privacy protocols breached in such a way.

  I don't know I 'm just guessing.

  Agree with konceptual bout the double standards of WT.
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  "exjws" and money making Ponzi schemes.

  by Thisismein1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  ok i want to pose a question to those who care to discuss this.. imagine a scenario.

  you hear of a exjw writing a book, however, before writing this book this exjw is requesting money to publish said book.

  you go along with it and help to get this book out to the public as you think that it will be beneficial.

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  sparrowdown

  Lloyd does have some very devout "he can walk on water, we're not worthy" followers who act as a kind of goon squad to defend and follow wherever he goes.

  I just always took that as the unfortunate ex-jw propensity towards black and white thinking. People are either all good and you or anyone else cannot question them or criticize them or all bad and you must dislike and shun and them.

  Lloyd, like all of us has his good points his strengths and his not-so-good points his weaknesses. He puts his trousers on one leg at a time.

  But such is the way of social media. Sigh.