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  How would you/did you categorize the elders in YOUR hall!

  by Truthexplorer in

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  2. humour

  i would consider some of the elders in my hall genuine shepherds ( though g men) there are a couple others i would consider robotic/wooden (boring) but ok. then of course there is the complete knob (pharisee wannabe) who grinds my wife and i's gears.

  every hall seems to have one!!!

  so how do/did you view the elders in your hall?

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  Village Idiot

  There was the friendly psychopath who was always eager to disfellowship someone (including me).

  There was the nice guy who got disfellowshipped twice for prescription medicine abuse and, later on, for adultery. He said at my judicial committee that if I were in Israel I would be stoned and that I was the greatest hater of Jehovah's people since Nimrod (with reference to my "apostasy"). He also repeated that in his car after he graciously offered to give me a drive home.

  There was the aloof one whom I never had any dealings with.

  Then there was the young newbie elder who announced my disfellowshipping at the Hall. When he saw me sitting there he flinched.
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  I'm Catholic and madly in love with a Jehovah Witness...

  by Luge62 in

  1. jw
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  we are madly in love with each other and she is in the process of being divorced.

  let me make one thing clear i'm not the reason for the divorce.

  she attempted to reconcile with him but to no avail.

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  Luge, the best advise I can give you is to tell her that if she marries you she cannot stay in that religion and any children you two may have will NEVER participate in it. That unfortunately is a condition that most JWs will never abide by. Nonetheless that would leave the problem of her being shunned by her relatives.

  Her not trying to convince you to change your beliefs is irrelevant. That will not lessen the turmoil you'll face in the future.
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  Please help me understand 1919 they were 100 percent out of babylon the great

  by poopie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  acording to lett at annual meeting.

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  sir82: "If so, why didn't they stop celebrating Christmas until 1928?"

  Or have crosses illustrated in their image of a watchtower until the 1930s.
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  I have 5 Audible credits I need to use up. Recommendations?

  by nicolaou in

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  2. friends

  something to make me think or laugh.

  i've done the hitchens, dawkins, harris thing and as much as i rate them i'd like to move off at a tangent .

  always enjoy philosophy or even something with a theological bent.. i'm coming to the end of heretic by ayaan hirsi ali and can thoroughly recommend it.. c'mon guys, don't let me down .

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  What's an audible credit? Is it something that Amazon offers?
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  Hey everybody! Just droppin' in :)

  by macys in

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  it feels so good to be free from the jdub cult!

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  Village Idiot

  Two weeks?
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  Did you like hymns as a jw?

  by jean-luc picard in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was just explaining to mrs picard........ never a jw, and not english, how we used to celebrate the harvest festival, when i was 7 and younger, before my parents converted to jw'ism.. i loved to sing "we plough the fields and scatter".

  of course, singing such hymns is, to a jw, paramount to apostasy,with the death penalty like punishment the ensued.. how really stupid their harsh rules.. did you have any favourite hymns?.

  i think we would all agree, that they beat the pants off the "kingdom melodies".

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  Amazing Grace.
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  Headline: "Islamic Invasion: Europe now scrambles for guns." How true is this?

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a year to a year and a half ago, i would have taken this article at face value and believed it.. now, i realize this article comes from a dubious source.

  world news daily has a die-hard right-wing bias.

  so, in an effort to get real information, i'm asking my european exjw's, is this article all true?

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  Village Idiot

  macys:

  "But this whole situation, the way it suddenly appeared raises many questions which makes me think if this is a plot to break down the homogeneous European society."

  Conspiracy theories leads nowhere in explaining complex situations.

  "I mean the war in Syria, in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan has been going on for many years now but only now suddenly everyone decides to come all at once like they got an open invitation?"

  A campfire in a dry forest could burn for hours before a single spark sets the whole forest on fire.

  "And why are these people traveling 4000 miles to Europe when they can go 600 miles to Turkey or Qatar or Saudi Arabia or UAE where they already speak Arabic or Farsi and have similar customs and the same religion?"

  Qatar has 1.8 million people of which less than 300,000 are citizens with the rest being migrant workers. UAE is in a similar situation with a huge percentage of its population being expatriates working under horrible conditions. Then realize that those refugees will have to cross the border into Saudi Arabia or Iraq to make it into those pip squeak nations.

  Yet little Lebanon with 6 million people has allowed over 1 million refugees there.

  Those people are simply, out of pure desperation, going to wherever they can.
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  Headline: "Islamic Invasion: Europe now scrambles for guns." How true is this?

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
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  a year to a year and a half ago, i would have taken this article at face value and believed it.. now, i realize this article comes from a dubious source.

  world news daily has a die-hard right-wing bias.

  so, in an effort to get real information, i'm asking my european exjw's, is this article all true?

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  cappytan:

  "But sometimes, things that sound sensational turn out to be true which was why I was trying to get feedback from folks on the forum that are actually over there and may have their own perspective on it."

  Two sayings come to mind concerning anything the Right Wing has to say: "The boy who cried wolf" and "Even a broken clock is right once a day".
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  Hey everybody! Just droppin' in :)

  by macys in

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  it feels so good to be free from the jdub cult!

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  Village Idiot

  Welcome to the forum macys!
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  Update on Australian Royal Commission - Proposed Redress

  by Pants of Righteousness in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  apologies if this has been posted previously, but this news item has appeared today regarding the proposed redress for abuse victims following the australian royal commission:.

  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-27/labor-pledges-payments-for-sex-abuse-survivors/6886864.

  what's interesting is that in january it was proposed that the federal government contribute almost half of an estimated $4.3 billion redress scheme.

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  Village Idiot

  As far as I'm concerned they should seize all Kingdom Hall properties and use the proceeds to recompense the victims.