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  just a question

  by poopie in

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  what percentage would you say of all jehovah's witnesses really 100 percent follow the shunning decree to the letter just answer with a percent thank you

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  I think it depends how far up the popularity scale you are as to what you can do in lots of things including shunning. Make all the elders and their wives your best friend and you can get away with more including not shunning DF relatives because it is like everything, the more familiar people are with you, the harder it is to counsel and enforce the WT rules.

  I was so far down the pecking order, I had to do everything by the book or else. Now I am fading they don't care or bother because they never really knew me anyway. I served Jehovah and not them. They didn't really know I served Jehovah but I think they certainly knew I didn't revere them.
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  JW.Orgy......let's come up with slogans

  by AndDontCallMeShirley in

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  here are a couple suggestions for slogans:.

  missionary positions available".. 2.

  where jesus isn't the only one coming for a second time".. .. add yours to the list.

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  Welcome back Anddontcallmeshirley.

  Love everyones slogans.
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  How do stop myself getting too Bitter?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. friends

  you know, i always maintained that during this fading process, and while learning ttatt, i would not let myself get "bitter twisted and angry".... but, in all honesty, if i examine myself, i have become quite bitter toward the org, toward the false friends and the gb.. i have become angry as i see the extent of damage i feel being raised in "the truth" has done.... i feel hurt towards the lost opportunities in life etc.... how do i not allow myself to get too swallowed up by such bitterness?.

  i have always been a very happy, positive, selfless person.

  i can put people at ease, i am someone people feel comfortable chatting to.

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  Billy

  Next time you're there could you please put Tight Pants Tony under the water for me?

  Thanks!
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  Where did the Buzz go?

  by snugglebunny in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i recently came across the very first kingdom song i ever heard.

  twickenham, 1955. i was just a kid then of course, but i do recall the "buzz" that seemed to permeate everything, not dis-similar to that of an international rugby match.

  people were smiling while singing their hearts out, the lunch-time queues for the cafeteria full of old friends getting re-aquainted, young lads and lasses eyeing one another and blushing furiously, sessions 2 untl 4 then 7 until 9.30 giving folk plenty of time to socialise.. where did it all go wrong?.

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  All the above comments sum up how I feel or felt. It was exciting, we were happy and the convoys to assemblies did foster a feeling of camraderie. I know why they stopped supplying the food too but the preparation and lining up for it all made for meeting others, renewing old friendships, etc. We all huddled together in rain and wind in grandstands or fanned ourselves in the heat. We talked on the way to the car to others and if kids were lost, some kindly person would help. I can't remember anyone being disfellowshipped. Instead I have fond memories of elderly faithful remnant sisters who were all called Auntie.

  In fact it is all these memories that make me sad that my daughter can't experience what I experienced. It may not have been the truth, but it sure felt like it was or at least something special. I understand what attracted my parents to it in the 50's and many others too. I almost cried at the memory when I saw the cover of that old song book. I was very young when that book was in use but remember it like it was yesterday. I could not even read until the the pinky coloured one was released.

  The first convention I really remembered was Melbourne, Australia in 1969. We lived in Melbourne and had a house full of people staying, sleeping in the lounge room, out the back in a caravan, a family in my room and me in with mum and dad. It was fun, especially for an only child. I was only 6 at the time. I got presents from some of the people when they left, a plastic farm playset, a dot to dot activity book and an LP record of children's songs. Brother Knorr was at the assembly which was exciting for me. I did not really understand who he was but there was a buzz about it all.

  All those lovely Aunties are deceased now but are not forgotten. Auntie Eva, Auntie Ruth, Auntie Enid Duff and Auntie Ada Lewis. They all were unmarried, faithful sisters who gave their lives to Jehovah and I know that he will reward them in some way, if he hasn't already.

  It is stuff like this that makes it so hard to accept what is going on now and so hard to stay. It may have the same name but is not the same religion that I grew up in.
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  Why do we get TTATT and others don't?

  by quest81 in

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  i have thought about how ttatt came full circle for me.

  how the connecting the dots was simple and just made sense,.

  how silos of information are literally at our fingertips today.. why is it that the ones we love cannot get ttatt?.

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  OnTheWayOut

  What you just said is the perfect explanation for why some see TTATT and others don't. It comes down to personal experiences. Some people are not experiencing anything bad or maybe they are the ones dishing it out to others, so they do not need to find TTATT. Everyone on this forum has a story and it is the story they have, no matter what it is that planted seeds of doubt and therefore they were led in one way or another to research or study outside the blue square.
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  "jehovah loves all sorts of people"

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ok, so if you haven't as yet watched the new cartoon clip on the website, be prepared to throw up!.

  it is called "jehovah loves all sorts of people", and features an awful song about how "jehovah loves everyone" even "different colors", etc....yep...they actually say that!.

  huh??????.

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  When it can't get any worse, it does. I can't believe what I just saw. Who thinks up this stuff? No, don't answer that.
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  "Big Fish in small goldfish bowls"

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you know, the more we think about it, jehovah's witnesses are just like "big fish in small goldfish bowls".. yes, they may appear important, or "big" but this is only within a very small sphere of influence - yes only within a small and limited world.. to those outside of that small insular world, they are "no-bodies", unimportant, or at least insignificant in the real scheme of life.. so, the next time something from the witness world seems to be a big issue in our lives, step back and look at things from "outside of the goldfish bowl" .

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  Freemindfade, do you think the increase in young ones in the org being home schooled could be part of the problems you mentioned? Just a thought.
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  How is Joe Publisher reacting to all the TV coverage on the abuse cases?

  by 4thgen in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  please pardon if this a repeated topic.

  i have had virtually no contact with any witnesses beside my mother for the past few years.

  she watches tv constantly and claims she has never seen anything on the watchtower abuse cases.

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  We get Dr Phil in Australia too, so that would be great.
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  old fs bag

  by zeb in

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  2. experiences

  have been doing some tidying up and culling as we have rearranged the house.

  i threw out my old witnessing bag with song book less pens etc.was a rare feeling indeed.

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  It must be something in the air around memorial season.

  Mr Awake at last threw his meeting bag and field service bag away along with the contents just over a week ago.

  We also cleaned out all the videos, CD's and books. All we have left now is the large study Bible, the Interlinear Translation and a Silver Bullet Bible. EVERYTHING else is GONE GONE GONE. I was born in and am now 52. Never in my life have I had so much cupboard and bookshelf space and a feeling of a load being lifted from me. I can now make space for my new books, Crisis of Conscience, In search of Christian Freedom, Combatting Cult Mind Control and all my worldly novels.

  Happy Memorial Season to you all. I think I might toddle down to the supermarket and buy a packet or two of hot cross buns, mmm, and some of those nice fancy chocolate eggs wrapped in foil and a bunny shaped chocolate for Miss Awake at last. She was also eyeing off a plush hen with chickens and eggs.
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  Is the Watchtower is blind to Jesus' teachings?

  by Fernando in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jesus ate with common sinners declaring that they were in (matt 21:31).. jesus denounced religious leaders declaring that they were out (matt 23 esp v15).. still the watchtower persists in making their own determinations, according to their own rules, who is in and who is out (prov 17:15).

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  this is why the apostate watchtower ruling religious clergy class and hierarchy surreptitiously and contemptuously hate and obfuscate the unabridged gospel which teaches that a right and clean standing is imputed on the basis of grace (faith) and not merit (works).. are their similar instances that come to mind for you?.

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  In general, forgiveness needs to be shown much more readily than in the org. It is the overuse or misuse of punishment that needs to be looked at seriously. In the case of a child abuser, too much punishment is never enough.