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  GB’s spring cleaning helps faders

  by wheelwithinwheel in

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  2. friends

  the gbs 2015 doctrinal spring cleaning is a gift to all faders.

  when we were fading they were grappling with the dying generation.

  their ensuing explanations made our diminishing meeting attendance and service easily explainable.

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  problemaddict 2

  I actually agree with WWW. But the caveate is that this is very subjective. It all has to do with your local BOE. My old hall, and the elders, and some people really gunning for me.....all leave me alone. Why? Because I left for reasons of conscience. I am "taking my life in my own hands" to them, bt to me I am taking my life back.

  Now if I wanted to put up Christmas lights, or post my sons birthday photo....that is a different deal. Maybe I will get there. But until i feel the urge, I haven't claimed depression, made excuses, or even been shunned by my close friends, despite my "stand".

  Maybe that is the key. Taking a principled stand while letting others live. Exactly what we WISHED JW's would do......we can do ourselves.
  
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  Anti-JW billboard going up in Texas

  by sunny23 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the first ever billboard has been crowd funded on reddit and will be going up.

  i'm curious to know if it will cause a spark in any jw's who already have questions or doubts and lead them to research into the child abuse cases and lead them to the thought that the wt and gb are not inspired or gods mouthpiece.

  at the very least it will provide people a topic of conversation and questions to the jw's who knock on their door: "so whats this whole sex abuse in kingdom halls thing about i saw on the billboard down the road?

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  This is a fine idea. It was crowd funded so nobody came out of pocket too much. The more negative messaging out there the better. The cost is the cost. Saying it may have been better used elsewhere is pointless. Its done, and it going to be seen by 70% of the people going to the convention at least by what I can tell. Many may not have even heard of such a thing. Maybe it will shock some enough to look, or their kids will google the link int he back seat on their phones.
  

  I do agree "kingdom hall" could be over the public s head.
  
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  Prayer with my son before lunch. Your advice / experiences needed!

  by Daniel1555 in

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  2. friends

  dear friends,.

  i would like to hear your comments or suggestions on the following:.

  a little background info.. i managed to fade completely.

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  I think you got great advise. I am sorry things are working out with your wife the way that they are. Your greatest weapon in court, and you should not shy away from it, is the open ended question of weather or not if a doctor required her son to receive a blood transfusion, she would allow it, or not.

  Don't tell them what she would do, make her say it. Some people find it so unbelievable that they don't take it seriously. This should get you all the visitation you want, and even custody if you really felt like it.
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  Kingdom Hall loans Cancelled? Lurkers...please read

  by ToesUp in

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  2. friends

  i hope that writing this, there will be some lurkers that i can shake.. if you have not listened to mays tv broadcast, please do.

  it may wake some up.. note @ around 21-22 minutes into the broadcast lett brings up the the kingdom halls/assembly hall loans have been cancelled and the congregation can now send in what they can afford.

  wow...how many banks would do that?.

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  The analog with a mortgage though may not touch base. the local hall would never have "owned" the hall anyways. Its ALWAYS the branches.
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  Having a hard time holding my tongue...

  by problemaddict 2 in

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  ...recently.. i'm normally pretty calculated.

  my fade is done, my wife is out, my family and friends know, i maintain quite abit of the friendships of those closest to me jw or not, my family isn't shunning, and the few people we have kept it from for other reasons we are calculating how to break it.

  (elderly matriarch that we are simply not going to tell so she doesn't die).. but.....all these facebook meme's and stupid feeds about reliance on jehovah, distraction, staying close to his organization, persevering against satan.....its driving me nuts.

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  Well said.

  Unfortunately the madness never seems to make past the outer layer of the brain before being filtered by the cult personality. It just kills me that so many are completely oblivious. People making little smart comments here and there to me recently has only fueled this.
  
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  Would you call JW HQ???

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a friend who is still in.

  this friend is a partaker, but has serious doubts about the org.

  this friend wants to stand up as a man, and wants to call wtbts hq.

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  I think your friend should do what he feels compelled to do. However, he will most likely get someone at the service desk, and NEVER speak to a member of the GB.

  Still.....I think even the attempt being refused, or stopped by a gatekeeper, seems to be agood thing at least for the possible freedom of mind your friend may be able to experience after this.

  I once felt idealistic about change. Staying for the sake of the good and feeling like as long as I was right, then Jehovah would make it work out.

  Now I know better, and so will he.
  
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  I want to carry the microphones"

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this was the reason that our 12 year old son gave us for wanting to be baptized.

  my wife and i actually agreed that he should wait a little longer, thank god!

  by the time he was 13 he was running wild.

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  stillin,

  I hope this comes off as respectful as it is intended, but as serious as it is intended to as well. You should not be shunning your daughter. You have no excuse to. You should NOT be joining your wife in this exercise. In fact if anything, you should be going out of your way to be with her and your grandchild with your wife knowing that this is important to you.

  By doing this you are enabling the situation, and your relationship with your daughter cannot be authentic. Have you spoken to her about what you know?
  
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  Am I the only "witness here besides the admins?

  by TheOnlyRealWittnessHere in

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  with all the negativity here i was wondering if i am the only one here that's a witness.

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  the topic pretty much says everything..

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  Watchers comments are very telling.

  One one had he/she basically says that the deciding factor as to weather or not someone is a servant of God, is weather or not they believe the governing body of Jehovahs Witnesses is a group referred to in a parable as the "faithful and discreet slave". I am sure Watcher basically assigns these people an extension of Jesus authority in scripture?

  Then not one page later the same person says they do what they want, and don't have to listen to the same group.

  You can't make this up.
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  Having a hard time holding my tongue...

  by problemaddict 2 in

  1. jw
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  ...recently.. i'm normally pretty calculated.

  my fade is done, my wife is out, my family and friends know, i maintain quite abit of the friendships of those closest to me jw or not, my family isn't shunning, and the few people we have kept it from for other reasons we are calculating how to break it.

  (elderly matriarch that we are simply not going to tell so she doesn't die).. but.....all these facebook meme's and stupid feeds about reliance on jehovah, distraction, staying close to his organization, persevering against satan.....its driving me nuts.

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  Your guys comments are fantastic.

  I'm still having a hard time with this recently. I'm wondering what switched in me to have such a short fuse recently. Its even gotten to where I WANT to bring it up. Sheesh.

  I had a family member upset at me for letting my kid watch schoolhouse rock......because of the three is a magic number song. This person is in their 20's! I just said "I hope you think about how bizarre and strange you sound right now. You really think this kind of nonsensical attention to minute things is the way to get me to think my former religion is NOT insane?"

  I just can't shut my trap all of a sudden.
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  Having a hard time holding my tongue...

  by problemaddict 2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ...recently.. i'm normally pretty calculated.

  my fade is done, my wife is out, my family and friends know, i maintain quite abit of the friendships of those closest to me jw or not, my family isn't shunning, and the few people we have kept it from for other reasons we are calculating how to break it.

  (elderly matriarch that we are simply not going to tell so she doesn't die).. but.....all these facebook meme's and stupid feeds about reliance on jehovah, distraction, staying close to his organization, persevering against satan.....its driving me nuts.

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  Its not about the posts.

  Its more just this kind of well of annoyance that feels like it will just explode at the wrong time. Like a premature faithjaculation if you will.

  Like some elder will pass me in the fruit aisle and say hi and I will throat chop him and tell him hes got the blood of thousands of people on his hands.

  You know......something not smart. Its just all of a sudden......I want to start yelling at my friends about this stuff.