Posts by Life is to short 2

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Your work is not in vain! Thank You!

by de-opresso-liber in

been lurking since early this year.

there are many of us out there (at least in this area, central u.s.) who are waking up and crossing the line to talk to each other about it.

in our area, several elders, ministerial servants and pioneers are actively and openly sharing info with each other daily.

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Welcome. There are so many times I honestly wonder if anyone is really thinking in the religion Here in the Northwest of the US it seems everyone is just going along and accepting every change that comes along without any questions.

There are a couple of married couples that are reaching out to go to the new school, the pioneer's seem to be growing, it's depressing to see knowing that they will not have children. One couple just sold their home and are loudly drinking the kool-aid.

I keep thinking how can they be so blind.

I hope that there are one's like you in my area and I just don't know it.

Thanks you have given me hope.

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2016 death of my father who told me don't come back if your a Witness...still hurts my soul! Warning you all!!

by Witness 007 in

i last spoke to my father in march 1990. we finished a "quick build" kingdom hall and i had a 17 year old spiritual awakening and decided to drop high school to pioneer full time.

(yes i was a dumb ass) he was not happy since my parents were divorced he was catholic.

we had a arguement and he said stay in school get a degree...and dont come back if your a witness!!

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Words fail me right now, I am just so sorry for your pain. It breaks my heart. my thoughts are with you.

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"Don't you want our kids to have what we had?"

by schnell in

my wife just asked me this.

my answer, in no uncertain terms, is no.

we both grew up in the dub religion.

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I finally was able to watch the video and it is well done thanks for posting it.

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Selloff Hinted At Assembly

by thedepressedsoul in

the last talk at the assembly made an interesting statement, "we can show faith by following direction if we're asked to move to another kingdom hall for better use of dedicated christian funds".

this statement has everyone talking.

i spoke to multiple individuals and they heard the same thing at different assembly's.. i know they have been "evaluating" all kingdom halls the last year or two.

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It was mentioned at the one day where I live two weeks ago.

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An old Kingdom hall now a church?

by HereIgo in

have any of you heard of anything like this.

i remember an ex jw from ohio taking video of a former kingdom hall that is now a church.

apparently the society sold it to the church.

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There are at least three in the city I live in that were sold to church's.

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JW Carts Cause Thousands to Start Studying!!!

by Drifting Away in

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i would love to know the stats of how many hours were spent, standing by a cart, or sitting at a local town fair with jw table tent set up, compared to the number of bible studies started that led to baptism since the inception of the carts.

anyone have any idea?

if i had to guess i would say thousands of hours pent standing by a cart, and maybe less then 5 that actually got baptized.

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Stuckinarut isn't that what Jonah did with the bottle gourd plant and how did it work out for him according to the GB. I never thought of it that way before.

Where I live they were trying to stand in front of the post offices and that got stopped. I saw one elder doing it before they stopped it and he was on his cell phone the whole time. Whenever anyone came near him he turned his back on them with his phone to his ear.

One of the latest JWTV things say that in San Francisco they have started 100rds of studies this way.

Not where I live they are not starting studies this way. At the local fair this year they also had this huge booth, it would have cost at least a lot per day for the 14 dsys the fair ran. I saw no one go to it, expect JW's

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Advanced Warning I - WT August 2016 "Study" articles re "Reaching Out"

by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

the brief outline for this item makes reference to the most recent wt on the subject of "reaching out" (august 2016 - pages 20 - 29) if you are a jehovah's witness and thinking about becoming a ministerial servant or elder, then please consider the following information prior to attending the kh for this week’s wt “study” and the week after.

first - if you hope to become an elder, in the uk you will also become a charitable trustee.

you will not be given any training for this part of your role.

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As an elder's wife I can atest to what the opening post said, we never had a marriage. It was amazing how RUDE and down right spiteful some of the JW"s can be.

One time I had a work function that I needed my husband to attend with me, it could have cost me my job. Well this needy sister called the night before and told me that she needed my husband to come over and hold her hand the next day right at the time of my function. I really tried to be calm and nice and explanded that he was going to be busy but could come afterwards. She started to scream at me that she didn't give a care about me and that as an elder my husband had better be there the next day or else.

Now my husband had spent day's and day's and day's with this sister leaving me home alone, but I knew that if he found out she wanted him the next day he would still blow me off and go running to her. I unplugged the phones and didn't tell him she called.

Stuff like that happened all the time.

Also as anelder's wife here in the US I never knew the elder's are called independent agent's, which translated means that they can be sued and the powers to be in Bethel will not help them out. It would have been good to know as the state I live in if my husband's sued, it would totally affect me and I would lose everything.

Something that even a lot of elders don't even know.

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Front cover of the 2017 Watchtower - unbelievable!

by freddo in

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study edition.

january 2017.

(can someone put up a link please?).

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So where are the people that they are bringing their life saving massage to?

I see no homes just wilderness, when I was first married we were assigned to where the need was great, all we did was drive and drive and drive. I could be out for 10 hour's and maybe get out ofthe car 3 or 4 times.

I hated it, it was beyond depressing and of course you could never say that you had to always say that it was a life saving work. One time when I dared to say it was totally crazy I wastotally rebuked and was told even if we didn't speak to anyone the Angles were watching and were happy we were doing the best we could? What? The Angles would have to thought we were idiot's.

We also made just $200.00 a month and spent well over 100.00 in car gas. It was so crazy, just this last Friday my husband started to brag about that time and how Jehovah blessed us, this time I didn't stay quite like I have in the past and I said that was totally crazy and even through Jehovah blessed my husband He didn't bless me as I got a ton of flack from the other JW's who belittled me for our lack of money. Thus I started working 35 hours a week plus put in 90 a month pioneering. Funny all of thoes who criticized me all, of a sudden their cars were not field service worthy and they would pile 5 to 6 people in our Honda Civic.

Sparky 1 as far as using the bathroom we sister's were supposed to pee behind a bush in plan view of the car group. I just couldn't do it so was again mocked for being a prude.

I hated every minute of it.

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Answer these 25 questions to find out if you are in a cult or high control group

by Faith after Deception in

1) do your studies or training in the group seem to be endless?.

2) did you have to give up things that you liked doing in order to be accepted into the group?

music, places you used to go, clothes, family life, celebrations, etc.).

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Very interesting, I answered yes to every question, at least for me that's the way it was.

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Today's Text: A Whole Lot Of Bull****!!!

by Divergent in

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friday, september 30. one thing i have asked from jehovah—it is what i will look for—that i may dwell in the house of jehovah all the days of my life.—ps.

27:4.. as part of jehovah’s organization, what joy we now have in telling others about god’s promised new world!

(2 pet.

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Divergent

After 8 year's of not going to meetings and thinking I had fadded, they came at me out of the blue, this elder who was super defending pedophiles called mad. Totally blindsided me.

The child abouse problem still makes me see red and I will not back down, if they want to keep fighting its just really hard for me to back down.