Posts by out4good4

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My 14-year-old niece is being disfellowshipped

by keyser soze in

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i was contacted by my ex sister-in-law yesterday.

she asked me if i wanted to spend some time with my niece, while she went to her sister's baby shower.

it turns out my niece can't go because she's about to be disfellowshipped at the ripe old age of 14. .

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Baptism is such a protection

From absolutely nothing. In the real world, the very idea of being submersed in bleached tap water as a symbol of anything other than getting wet is absurd.

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New K.Hall Design, Mansfield

by BluesBrother in

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not mansfield u k , but mansfield in u s a - it doesn't look much, does it?

in fact even the uber dubs on j w talk are not impressed (that must be a first!

this thread of theirs is publicly readable:.

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Looks like they're building for this discount grocery chain.

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Confused: What does the overlapping generation really mean?

by MicaSmith in

can someone help me understand how the wt came up with the overlapping generation theory?

i just don't understand it even though i read the information several times.

it's bewildering.

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The overlapping generation doctrine means that since 1995 the WTBTS has been making up shit as they go along.

They've been making shit up as they go along well before 1995.

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reading a report of an elder in a friends cong has been hiding and spying on the pioneers who seem to have a practise of dumping the cart and finding a local coffee shop, i've noticed that they do this in my local high street as well but this week they seemed to be all huddled around the cart, they've clearly been warned, a vast percentage of the time i see they seem to be more interested in fiddling with their mobile phones and gossiping, is just seems these carts are a means for the pioneers to turn in "easy time" i wonder what sort of figures show how much literature is being taken by the public?

i bet its very minimal.

naturally the gb would say they are a phenomenal success , we clearly know they are not.

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If I was still an active JW, I would much rather man a cart than bug people at their homes. I absolutely hated going door to door.

I have a relative that used to have a standing evening when she would go out with a group and do this cart work at a particular location. For some reason, this option and location was co-opted by a head honcho in the circuit under the guise that they could best serve the area by having a particular set of people with a certain skill set that they could manage.

She told me that the group cried about it on the last day.

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Disturbing/Puzzling Skit at JW Function Last Night Plus Odd Choice of Music

by Cadellin in

so i attended a fairly large jw gathering last night with my active, elder husband.

it was a good-by party for a former special pioneer couple who have been demoted to reg pios and have now moved to a larger city to find work.

anyway, there was music and skits.

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Out of the mouth of babes.....

I'll bet the irony was completely lost on all the die-hards.....

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Caitlyn Jenner has cognitive Dissonance

by sherrie11 in

i have just finished watching the latest episode of i am cait!

lol yes i watch it!!!

they were discussing politics.

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Here we go again.....

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jw family loves to ask df'd ones for money!

by Ghiagirl in

well it finally happened!

we have been waiting about a year for this, my dfd husbands family asked us for money.

even though his own father hasn't met our 8 month old son.

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Give them copies of the latest magazines.....

Then paraphrase James 2:16....

"Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled;"

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I dont know how i can leave my family!

by BlackWolf in

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my mom and i were talking today about how next summer i will be 18 and she said that just thinking about it might make her cry.

that made me think about how much more it would hurt her if i quit being a jw.

i really do love my parents, i know they are just being cruelly manipulated by a cult and that they really think they are doing what is best for me.

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If you're intent on living your life the way you want to, you're going to have to eventually hurt their feelings.

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Leaving jw propaganda all around the house, what to do?

by Crazyguy in

the wife leaves it all around, not sure if this is by design i don't think so since the return to jah brochure was never left out.

it drives me a bit nuts but haven't done anything about it.

looking for ideas on what i should do?

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She'd probably be pissed if you left lying around Crisis of Conscious or Combatting Cult Mind Control.

Two can play that game. It's your home too.

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Leaving jw propaganda all around the house, what to do?

by Crazyguy in

the wife leaves it all around, not sure if this is by design i don't think so since the return to jah brochure was never left out.

it drives me a bit nuts but haven't done anything about it.

looking for ideas on what i should do?

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One day I packed all of the pieces of litter-ature she had lying around the house and stacked it with all the junk mail to be thrown out.

She got the message.

I don't think for one minute that this activity is not by design. It's left out in the hopes that you'll pick something up and read it and perhaps spur you to getting back into organizational activity.