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  The Kingdom Halls are empty

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my jw spies tell me that the kingdom halls are empty compared to how they used to be, since i left 5 years ago.

  not saying they're empty because of me though.. is that what you are hearing?.

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  Hello, is there anybody in here? Echo - Hello, is there anybody...

  
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  Remember the two elderly sisters?

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  about a month ago i posted what had happened to two elderly sisters who were reprimanded by a couple of elders for crying because the jw broadcasting was going to be stopped at the kingdom hall and it was up to each publisher to learn how to use the internet.

  if you recall the sisters got together with my mom and talked about it and it resulted in all of them declining to make meals for the pioneers.

  here is the link.

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  JW to SDA anyone do it ?

  by Introvert 2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a couple friends pointed me to some info on the sabbath and i just plain like it, being the workaholic i am it's a lifesaver for me and gives me the motivation to be more balanced about my business and work schedule.

  so from there i looked into the adventists and found a hall near my place and went last week.

  i honestly enjoyed myself and the meeting time is not disruptive and the people were great and pretty laid back.

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  barry:

  "There are also evangelicals and liberal Adventists. The liberals may believe in Gay marriage, evolution etc."

  It seems that almost every religion and denomination develops a spectrum of beliefs amongst their members ranging from strict conservatives (Bible thumpers) to liberals. Jehovah's Witnesses would appear to be the exception but that's because of their being totally controlled by their hierarchy.
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  "I am Happy to be Controlled" - Edinburgh Elder on Cult Cart

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so my wife and i were up in edinburgh for the weekend for the international festival - we had a great weekend including going to see the military tattoo at the castle.. we were walking up the royal mile watching the street performers among hundreds of thousands of others from all over the world when i spotted the cult cart in it's usual spot being universally ignored.

  feeling confident after my confrontation a couple of weeks ago we decided to go and have a chat with the two men.

  i asked them if they were keeping up with the events in australia and proceeded to share lots of information with them.

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  Reminds me of something that Ray Franz wrote in one of his books about an elder who said that he was proud to be "a parrot" of the organization.
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  Please reach out to Te New Yorker

  by Jonathan Drake in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i have found an article on their website that moved me to contact them.

  i share it here hoping more will contact in a similar vein and maybe we can raise awareness and tear down this propaganda.

  i'm writing regarding an article about jehovah's witnesses and their blood transfusion doctrine, found here:http://tinyurl.com/pxku9dgit is clear to me, reading this article, that it's writer is either profoundly ignorant or profoundly biased.

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  Email the front cover page of that Awake magazine that had a couple dozen children's pictures who died from rejecting blood.
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  I am traveling long way to meet stephen lett in sacramento would you like me to lgive message to him

  by poopie in

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  2. friends

  this weekend

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  "I am traveling long way to meet stephen lett in sacramento would you like me to lgive message to him"

  Last time I posted a similar type of message Simon removed it from my post. Hint: One finger salute.
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  Article- Child checks for all religious leaders, inquiry recommends

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/child-checks-for-all-religious-leaders-inquiry-recommends/story-fngburq5-1227486717033.

  by: rick morton .

  from: the australian .

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  Does the Watchtower still hold that their rank and file members are "ministers"? If so then such a law would have to include every JW male.
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  JW to SDA anyone do it ?

  by Introvert 2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a couple friends pointed me to some info on the sabbath and i just plain like it, being the workaholic i am it's a lifesaver for me and gives me the motivation to be more balanced about my business and work schedule.

  so from there i looked into the adventists and found a hall near my place and went last week.

  i honestly enjoyed myself and the meeting time is not disruptive and the people were great and pretty laid back.

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  quincemyles:

  “When a person has been removed from church membership, the church should, where possible, maintain contact and manifest the spirit of friendship and love, endeavouring to win him/her back to the fold.” – Offical SDA Church Manual (p199, 17th edition)

  Sounds too much like Watchtowerese. "The Church" mentioned is probably an indirect reference to the "elders". I would compare that statement to the JW "Return to Jehovah" flyer which says:

  "Jehovah never forgets his worshippers who stray from the fold. On the contrary, he reaches out to them—often doing so through their fellow believers."
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  badly handled from Elders

  by Olivia Wilde in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am still attending the kh, i actually recently became aware of the ttatt, what i believed came as a huge surprised for me, i wasn't raised as a jw and have been for about 15 years.

  i have always been a very open minded individual all my life always seeing both sides of any situation with logic and common sense and so i believe discovering all of the doctrines i have been taught sense 16 years of age, wasn't extremely hard for me to realize in my heart it was a lie.

  well it was me discovering the watchtower society being a ngo member of the un nations for 10 years, after that the snowball just got bigger for me.

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  Welcome Olivia Wilde.
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  JW to SDA anyone do it ?

  by Introvert 2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a couple friends pointed me to some info on the sabbath and i just plain like it, being the workaholic i am it's a lifesaver for me and gives me the motivation to be more balanced about my business and work schedule.

  so from there i looked into the adventists and found a hall near my place and went last week.

  i honestly enjoyed myself and the meeting time is not disruptive and the people were great and pretty laid back.

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  quincemyles:

  "I want to believe that the beauty of SDA is in that there is no shunning, the laity can openly challenge pastors and elders on administrative and doctrinal matters."

  Not quite.