Posts by lurkernomore

My wife and I went cold Turkey. I fully recommend it. It's been 16 months and we've had barely any bother. One Elder (our group overseer) that did call around a couple months later after my mum spoke with him when she found out we were no longer going to attend. He simply wanted to confirm the rumor for himself. I said i had no problem with anyone and my absence had nothing to do with anyone at the hall. I also made it clear I had no intention of discussing my issues with anyone. He said 'fair enough' and that's the last we've seen of him.

I also recently went for a pint with a friend from my old hall whose a couple years older than me and was made up to Elder status shortly before we stopped going. I made it clear beforehand that I was happy to go for a drink but would not go into anything.

I'm a firm believer that you've got to draw a line in the sand and keep full control of every situation that arises.

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Could Wt afford to proselytise in China if they were allowed in.

by joe134cd in

i was just thinking today if china opened it doors to wt, and there was the surge of interest as was the the case with the european eastern block countries when communism 1st fell.

what would be wt reaction toward it.

could wt even afford to proselytise in china.

lurkernomore

There are already an estimated 12 million Catholics in China so the wtbs will have plenty of catching up to do.

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Samuel Herd: a woman saying "if she were a man....." is borderline being a homosexual

by Khaleesi in

not sure if this was posted before... but apparently for the wt a woman's smaller cranium than a man's shows she was designed to be in submission to the man!!

unbelievable he dared to say such things!.

https://youtu.be/wqzc2m8_mba.

lurkernomore

Did you also notice that IF (lol) the woman is 'sharper of mind' than her husband, she should still show submissiveness by not letting on she's smarter. Maybe his wife has let him know a few too many times and this is his passive aggressive way of telling her to stop 😅

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Survey: How long were you in the cult vs what year you were baptized

by ILoveTTATT2 in

jw
friends

hi people,.

i want as much data as possible on the effect of the internet on the time captured by the cult.. please answer the three following questions about yourself or about someone you know (for example, if your parents or grandparents were jw's and left).

1) were you raised as a jw, or did you convert?.

lurkernomore

1) Raised in

2) March 2000 (age 14)

3) August 2014

Total years between baptism and leaving: 14 years

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Why designated hotels?

by punkofnice in

does anyone know why the congregations are urged to use only recommended hotels for a$$mbies?

lurkernomore

From my experience it was NEVER cheaper to book through the Org, so I never did. It's definitely a scam for free rooms as others have mentioned

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Despite a 'number' of similar projects being pulled, the Chelmsford Project will continue...

by NeverKnew in

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friends

this article suggests that there are projects being halted, but chelmsford isn't one of them.

can someone from the uk tell me if this article was written by a reputable and known publisher?

plans for huge jehovah's witnesses hq continues.

lurkernomore

Sliding that's exactly what this couple were doing there. He runs his own Health and Safety consultancy business, so was there for that reason and that reason alone.

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Despite a 'number' of similar projects being pulled, the Chelmsford Project will continue...

by NeverKnew in

jw
friends

this article suggests that there are projects being halted, but chelmsford isn't one of them.

can someone from the uk tell me if this article was written by a reputable and known publisher?

plans for huge jehovah's witnesses hq continues.

lurkernomore

I just spoke to a young elder a couple weeks ago, whose parents had been working on the Chelmsford project for the last six months. They are being sent home within the next couple of weeks. His brother had only just started volunteering there last month and is now being told he'll only be needed as and when (approximately once a fortnight apparently). As you can imagine this is adding to his personal expenditure.

And to top it off they're putting it all down to the urgency of the times and how they've been told to spend the time they would have used for the build to go out in service 😞

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JW sisters reaction to the cutbacks

by umbertoecho in

i had gone away for a rest and came back to pick my animals up.

(yes we share one common thing.

the love of animals).

lurkernomore

Umber, I do believe there is a level of discontent but it simply isn't being aired. I overheard some elderly ladies from the local KH (I still do work for a couple older ones) discuss how they didn't think they'd still be in this system of things at this stage in they're lives. The sad thing is that is what they were promised but the promise was never fulfilled

The last time I had a chat about the way I feel about everything JW I jokingly told my mum, whose in her late fifties, "let's hope your wrong!" Rather than say yeah let hope so for your sake, she said yeah

"let's hope so or I will have wasted my life!"

I think this perfectly sums up how a large proportion of JW's feel inside, especially people my mum's age. Sadly they're too scared to look behind the curtain.