Posts by ToesUp
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Branch in Rome is organizing a Pioneer School for Bethelites next year.
by Anakin inaccording to the italian website: proclamatori consapevoli (a independent website from jw's, proposing new reforms to the gb ), a trusted member, told that next year in 2016, the bethel in rome, will organize a pioneer school, for bethelites, who are asked to leave bethel, so that they could be equipped for their new assignments as regular pioneers in territory, they will be assigned.. .
if you choose, for the pioneer service, when asked to leave, then they are asked to assist at that pioneer school... personal note: i would make a good smile, and tell them on a diplomatic way like they did, with the bethelites they dumped), that i have other plans at this point of my life, and then leave, without regrets...
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ToesUp
In order to keep a "title". Initially many of them will except the pioneer assignments. Over time the reality and necessity to earn money will hit them. They will have to find employment in order to make ends meet. Unless they are financially subsidized (place to live, job provided by a JW, etc...) by friends and family. They will have to reduce their time pioneering or quit all together. As time passes, the congregation will forget that they were Bethelites. -
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Thrown out to the wolves!
by Pandx in(2. after offering prayer without the disfellow-shipped person present, invite him into the room.
) i needed answers to as why the elders would not pray when they talked to me in the room.
3 letters have been sent to get reinstated and all denied and forgotten!
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ToesUp
So sorry to hear you have been hurt. It's tough being kicked to the curb. I had it done by one of my closest family members. It sucks.
You have received some great advise on here. It's an eye opening experience to realize there is NO holy spirit and these guys just want power over you. It's a Mother may I game, getting reinstated. We had a family member DF'd for 2 years and she practically had to grovel to get reinstated.
Keep reading COC and learning what is behind the ugly curtain. This has been a great site for me. I don't feel all alone and it reassures me that I am not the only one feeling the way I do.
Keep us posted.
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HOMECOMING (The story of two people I met in a bar)
by Terry inhomecoming.
my good friend bob and i usually try to get together on friday to listen to live music someplace and decompress from the week's pressures.
robby knew betty back in high school.
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A question .....
by Landy inhi guys - new poster here.
i was brought up a jw in the uk and stopped going not long after i was married.
that was 20 years ago so i'm not really up to date with the current doctrinal flip flops or the new youtube obsessed gb.. came across this site while googling the name of a local elder who's just been convicted of possesion of a pc full of unpleasant pics of kids.. so, my question.
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I couldn't do it anymore. I could not sit in the Kingdom Hall for 1 more meeting but some on here have so many close by family members. I feel for those ones. It's tough to go through. The sad part is, that NO ONE should have to go through this. The most descriptive statement made by the Australian Royal Commission was...this is a captive organization. It is! -
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We would love to have you back
by NVR2L8 inone of the businesses i cover is owned by jws and the father and 2 sons knew me as an active brother until 3 years ago when i told one of them i no longer attend the meeting.
today the father and one of the sons asked me if i was still inactive.
i told them it has been more than 5 years since i last been at a meeting.
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ToesUp
"We would love to have you back. Oh yeah, and we accept, cash, checks, wills & Mastercard, Visa, American Express or debit cards." -
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Funny C3PO is a robot...how fitting. lol -
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We would love to have you back
by NVR2L8 inone of the businesses i cover is owned by jws and the father and 2 sons knew me as an active brother until 3 years ago when i told one of them i no longer attend the meeting.
today the father and one of the sons asked me if i was still inactive.
i told them it has been more than 5 years since i last been at a meeting.
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ToesUp
Tell them when the love returns, you will return. It will never happen. -
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Can somebody explain the songs and songbook obsession?
by careful ini've been out a while and have only put in a rare appearance at a memorial or brief visit at a convention/assembly to keep people off my back, so i haven't kept up on the songbook.
but one thing i've noticed that the org.
has been doing that they never did when i was in is all these "supplemental songs" that keep appearing.
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I believe each GB member has his own special project. David Splane seem to be in all the new song video's and even directing the chorus. What ever the case, the new songs are not very good. -
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Untrusted
by Esmeralda001 ingreetings,it seems that jw immediately assume that all "wordly" people (as they like to call it) are immoral and unworthy of their trust.
i sort of understand how it can be dangerous for a christian to have association with someone who doesn't share their values, but don't you think that some members take the conceal lied in corinthians 15:33 to the extreme?
what about romans 2:14?
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The JW's have the dirtiest minds. They think everything and everyone is evil and everyone will have sex with one another. They don't even trust other JW's.
If you are studying with these people...RUN! We were born in (50 plus years) and is just gets worse the longer you stay in.
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Our fade-gossip-elders calling
by All for show inlooking back we had been fading without even realizing it.
life happened...and we weren't regular.
then we woke up and have actively been fading for 9 months.
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ToesUp
I like Giordno's idea. Once you mention legal counsel they will run for the hills. Just say NO to bullying!
I also like the finger salute! lol