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  Chapter 37 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  chapter 37. passing it down line.

  how did i rationalized everything i had experienced growing up and what i saw at bethel?

  no one wants to believe their whole life is a lie.

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  There is prob a lot of truth in that, wing. I ate lunch at the bossert (this is when laundry was in furman st). Seating was “open” and we always had a “laundry” table (all sat together). We told the waiters in advance , every day, we were going to wear them out... i could see it being different in other dining rooms
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  Chapter 37 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  chapter 37. passing it down line.

  how did i rationalized everything i had experienced growing up and what i saw at bethel?

  no one wants to believe their whole life is a lie.

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  New boy, once again i share and see so much of myself in your experiances... thankfully i was so disillusioned by my time in brooklyn i discouraged my son fmbirth against going to bethel. I would overhear him from time to time telling other kids why he would never go.. small satisfaction on my part ;)

  @diog- food is plentiful and its all you can eat. I was hungry at times because after the evening meal (5pm) you have to save food for a snack and i didnt often do that... but it wasnt bethels idea to starve you per say, just logistics of prep and cleaning. Cant serve food 24/7
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  Faced with the reality of mortality

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. experiences

  how have you all coped with facing the reality of our mortality?.

  most of us were raised to firmly believe we would never get old or die... so here we are now having to face the reality that are getting older... we are going to die.. sometimes it really pisses me off that we were never helped to comprehend this most basic of facts.

  we were given a utopian dream as a "fact", and hence never taught how to face our inevitable futures.... thoughts?.

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  Yes. I went through a really bad phase when i realized i would die and that there was no panda petting paradise.

  It also felt like, knowing there was no resurrection, that i had lost every friend and loved one all over again.

  It got better. I learned how to deal with it and now appreciate life more than ever
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  can you still record the talks at assemblies?

  by greenhornet in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  years ago my parents would record these talks and play them back all the time.

  when they both died, we cleaned out the house and found 50 plus cassette tapes of recorded talks and they were labeled the year and the speaker at the time.

  that was in the year 2000. we just gave them to there jw friends because i did not want to keep them for recording of music.

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  Interesting fact, pale:

  bro mac is the one who caused the recording of talks to be shut down. He got world wide jw fame as a speaker and here on the east coast of the usa he had GROUPIES, honest to god fucking groupies, who would follow him around. He gave a talk at our hall.. attendance wemt from a norm of 110 ish to an astounding 250+!!!! We had to turn people away, including regular congregation members. It was awful.

  Long and short, eventually bethel heavies got tired of his following and mac himself crossed the line: he started autographing CD’s. They called it “worship of men” and shut him down and started comming down hard on the recording of talks. He eventually was allowed to start giving talks again of course....
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  252 Congregations have closed in Germany since 2015

  by LevelThePlayingField in

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  2. beliefs

  this is a video from down with the tower.

  it's excellent.

  enjoy.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0lvvy2qurm.

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  The desert god has nothing to do with it. The internet had killed them as has their everchanging date oriented theology.
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  252 Congregations have closed in Germany since 2015

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. watchtower
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  this is a video from down with the tower.

  it's excellent.

  enjoy.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0lvvy2qurm.

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  I think that basic ratio applies accross the board. Fewer jw’s overall and packing congregations
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  I wonder if their are any parents of theses children on here now .May 22 1994

  by smiddy3 in

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  2. beliefs

  i know it could be a sensitive subject however we were all once firm believers and could have very well let one of our loved ones die due to what we once believed.. and not to be judgemental on what we would have done or did do in the past ,i sometime wonder if any of the parents or even one parent of the children of the may 22nd 1994 magazine of "youths who put god first " have now regretted their decision to let their children make this decision on their own.. after all these years i find it hard to believe that not one of them have no regrets to what happened to their child.. i can also accept that it would be extremely hard to admit that you allowed your child to make a decision to die on a belief you instilled in them that you no longer now believe in.

  i think that would be very hard to live with and come to terms with.. if any of you are here my heart goes out to you because you have gone through hell and my thoughts/vibes are with you..

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  Jesus eye..... my god.....
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  No other religion is as guilty as JW religion—you know why?

  by venus in

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  2. beliefs

  all other religions have myths that show satan as inferior to god almighty.

  but only jw religion portrays satan more powerful than god through their teaching of “issue of sovereignty” which implies god almighty needs validation from satan as though he waits till satan is satisfied which has not happened even after killing of jesus 2000 years ago and things like ethnic cleansing, spilling of oceans of blood ….

  etc..

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  But indeed it does arise. If, as other religions teach, god is good and all poweful, why hasnt he acted? Is not good? Is he not all poweful? It besmirches god to teach he COULD act but dosent.
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  No other religion is as guilty as JW religion—you know why?

  by venus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  all other religions have myths that show satan as inferior to god almighty.

  but only jw religion portrays satan more powerful than god through their teaching of “issue of sovereignty” which implies god almighty needs validation from satan as though he waits till satan is satisfied which has not happened even after killing of jesus 2000 years ago and things like ethnic cleansing, spilling of oceans of blood ….

  etc..

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  *yawn* then why, pray tell, in the mythos of other religions, hasnt god acted ?
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  JW Broadcasting: Russian Convention Travel Report w/Mark Sanderson

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. bible

  https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-jwb_201709_12_video.

  a few things about this video:.

  it's very nice that they managed to host a convention for the russian brothers and sisters, and that they all got fed.

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  _Morpheus

  Reminds me of anlther thread from some time ago, regarding their god being a god of parking lots:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/225059/jehovah-god-parking-lots