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  LEGO DUBTOWN - PILLOWGATE

  by Kevin McFree in

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  https://youtu.be/ckexqj26mzs.

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  I love these videos and the different voices and accents, and I suck at understanding accents. I'm a big fan of "Wah-juh" (Roger).
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  The Red Headed League

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

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  i am sitting here watching my pioneering wife get service time ‘writing letters’ to not-at-homes.

  she has a long list of names and addressees where the jws in field service never got anyone home.

  the letter is simply a word for word copy, handwritten on note paper, then sent in the usmail.

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  Couldn't she just print it on the computer? Or copy one handwritten note? Oh that's right, like everything else it's about stretching time. Taking the long way to a return visit. Driving to the farthest territory. Running errands out in service. Rounding time up. How much of their reported time is actually just busy work, not to mention all of the doors knocked on with no answer.
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  Episode Seven - Part 2 - Sexual Abuse and Jehovah's Witnesses - David's Story

  by dubstepped in

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  episode 7 - part 2 - sexual abuse and jehovah's witnesses - david's story.

  trigger warning: sexual abuse discussion.

  in part 2 you will learn more about steve b. and his interactions with david.

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  Hope you got something out of it. Part 2 was a long listen, but a wild ride. David was very brave to tell his story like that.
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  $5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.

  it was sold a couple of years ago.

  we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.

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  I don't think that any news organization or even Leah Remini would care about this whatsoever. It is hard enough to get coverage of things like child abuse. The only people that care here are us exjws that find this interesting and the local people that just got fleeced, and let's face it, most of them won't even care.

  I also don't think this is indicative of some collapse. It's just like Grreat Teacher said above, they're just pushing the envelope like any good abuser.
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  How to start a Website?

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. jw
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  does anyone know the best way to start a website?

  is wordpress good?

  there’s going to be lots of things being sold on this site.

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  Crazyguy - If your going to do something anti JW have your hosting company in an offshore place like Iceland.

  Uh, no. They have gone after some people that hosted copyrighted materials but not just anti-JW sites. You wouldn't need some super secret offshore hosting unless you were doing something like that.
  
  
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  How to start a Website?

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does anyone know the best way to start a website?

  is wordpress good?

  there’s going to be lots of things being sold on this site.

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  Oh, something else to consider depending on what you're selling is how are you going to get traffic to the site? If you aren't well versed in SEO or paid ads online or you don't have some sort of offline marketing strategy to drive traffic then you might build a website for nothing. Again, depending on what you're talking about here, it might behoove you to forego a website and build a following on an existing platform like eBay, Amazon, etsy, etc. Or if you wanted to do something like t-shirts there are sites where you can design online and sell through them without having to touch anything.
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  How to start a Website?

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. jw
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  does anyone know the best way to start a website?

  is wordpress good?

  there’s going to be lots of things being sold on this site.

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  I've built sites but not e-commerce sites. Wordpress is great and my builder of choice, but honestly if you know little to nothing I think you'd do better starting off somewhere like Squarespace. They have everything in one package with customer support. Wordpress has so many ways to customize it, but it's like piecing together a bunch of cobbled together things to try to make things work and you're more on your own (though there are lots of video tutorials and sites out there to help).
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  Celebrations?

  by Freedom rocks in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone celebrate valentines day since leaving the borg?

  and which other celebrations if any do you now take part in?.

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  The cult freedom day is what we call our "shunniversary".

  The first year I tried to get a bunch of local exjws together and it bombed. Only one showed up.

  Last year I started the "shunned" podcast on my second Shunniversary.

  Aside from that, we don't do Valentines Day because my wife hates how forced and all about women it is.

  We do the rest though. We love Halloween, Thanksgiving, have a very secular Christmas, New Years, even fireworks on the 4th of July. A friend has an adult Easter egg hunt and we did that last year. Have fun and enjoy these little things to look forward to throughout the year.
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  Episode Seven - Part 2 - Sexual Abuse and Jehovah's Witnesses - David's Story

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  episode 7 - part 2 - sexual abuse and jehovah's witnesses - david's story.

  trigger warning: sexual abuse discussion.

  in part 2 you will learn more about steve b. and his interactions with david.

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  Episode 7 - Part 2 - Sexual Abuse and Jehovah's Witnesses - David's Story

  
  

  Trigger Warning: Sexual Abuse Discussion

  
  

  In Part 2 you will learn more about Steve B. and his interactions with David. You will see how relationships impacted David, both for the good and the bad as years went by. You will see how the “loving spiritual shepherds”, the elders in the congregations, treat those that are shunned and trying to come back to their flock. You will learn about David’s eventual path out of the cult of Jehovah’s Witnesses and his new life as he is shunned. This episode is intense and raw and real, and I thank David for being so vulnerable and putting the truth out there even though it isn't easy to do. It helps others to realize that they are not alone.

  
  

  Listen on iTunes (Apple Podcasts), Google Play, wherever you get podcasts, or at shunnedpodcast.com. Leave a supportive comment for David on his episode at shunnedpodcast.com.
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  $5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.

  it was sold a couple of years ago.

  we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.

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  dubstepped

  That ^^^^^^ was a nice place, though it bothered me at first to find out that it was a former church.