Posts by geevee

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Question for "apostate" couples.

by 3rdgen in

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hi everyone!

today i was reminded that just because both of us left the wtbt$ we are not always on the same page.. .

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geevee

It sounds like a lot of couples who have left are similar in that one checks things out still and they other isn't that bothered. We are the same, I drop in here every now and then to see what may be going on, I feel that it gives us a heads up as to what might be going on with our still IN relatives and why they are doing what they are doing or treating us coldly... My wife could go without hearing an ything.

It will be nice when it doesn't matter at all. We have been "out" nearly 10 years [faded] She was quick to see the crap, I had been working for about 20 years to be a ms then elder and it took a bit to back away from that... there were a few arguments then, but now no arguing about jw stuff.

Great comments, and thanks for the honesty by all the other posters on this topic....

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How old were you when baptized?

by Coded Logic in

i was baptized at the age of 11. like most of us, my commitment wasnt to honor god but rather i was gang pressed into the service of the wtbts.

and, at such a young age, it was impossible for me to appreciate the enormity of my actions.

honestly, how could i possibly have known any better?

geevee

I was 14. Mt father had had an affair and my mother was stuggling and it seemed logical that If I got baptized and if my parents split up, that I could help Mum with the other 3 children! On the day I was sick as a dog, and I spent most of the time before the session looking for the PO to tell him I wanted to postpone, but couldn't find him, so I was stuck and had to go through with it! Actually October the 4th 1974.... my 40th Anniversary coming up!

Took a long time to wake up, but we are nearly 10 years out!

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Does the President of the WT have any power?

by BU2B in

i thought about this after reading incognito's thread.

i was wondering if anyone here has any idea what the president of the wt actually does or if he truly has any real power, or if he is merely the gb puppet..

geevee

So it is a question of who heads the legal corporation and who heads the gb...?

It probably works like a body of elders, the one who dominates the discussions and forms cliques with other elders and who whines and presses the point and wont shut up until they get their own way is the leader, [that is the holy spirit at work brothers!] not the po or whatever they call him these days!

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The Watchtower 11/15/2014

by wifibandit in

http://bayfiles.net/file/1jpu5/qhxxxl/w_e20141115.pdf.

select "premium download".

(thanks breakfast of champions).

geevee

Hi all, i have skipped a couple of pages of comment. In 1974/5 my family was living in a small country town called Bordertown in South Australia. We had some hot shot elders moved in to "serve where the need was greater"....they had come down from Adelaide. One had this idea that we had to be prepared for this exact scenario as the quoted picture on page 1 of this post! We had to have our meeting in a shearing shed on a farm that someone was renting. We had to dress neatly but not fully borgarized, One "brother" would sneak out and then wait, then when we all forgot who was gone, he would come banging on the door and create a disturbance just like the "law" would. We had to try to hide all of our books etc. One bright spark had torn the pages out of his study book and brought them along, when the "police" knocked on the door, this guy stuck his pages in his mouth and chewed and swallowed them!!!!!!! Any wonder the locals thought we were weird! We were!!!!

After the meeting we would all have supper and a laugh, but we were "prepared". As well these hotshot elders had everyone assigned to meet with one or two families at secret locations just in case!!!!!!!! Maybe the gb would like to call me and I will discuss these vital arrangements from a practical point of view?

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Sick article in the WT library!!

by ILoveTTATT in

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this is one of the saddest articles in the wt library... just two years after the organ transplant ban... a jw decided to not donate a perfectly good kidney because of this doctrine... which was changed in 1980. .

*** w69 11/15 p. 701 appreciating jehovahs protection ***.

a difficult decision.

geevee

You could only hope that the doctor went ahead and used the kidney anyway and told this sanctimonious person that it had been destroyed!

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Seventeen-and-a-half glorious minutes with the irrepressible Mr Lett

by rory-ks in

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can't...tear...my...eyes...away.... .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx8db7m5mzq.

geevee

Could be he is using "critical factor by-pass" with all of his over done expressions and mannerisms. The veiwer can get so distracted by these that what he then says goes straight into the sub-conscious as fact! Veiwer beware!!! Jo Ho's know all about waking hypnosis..... just saying

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Is sex abuse in the Wt that big of a problem

by joe134cd in

before i start, i'm not a wt apologist and i am certainly not trying to minimise sex abuse.

i was looking at the amount of sex abuse cases in light of witness population.

just say wt ended up on paying out on 30,000 individual abuse cases.

geevee

The watchtower should have been on the front foot and not the back foot, after all they claim to be the only true religion, directed by the one and only true god..... he must have been having a nap when the press got hold of this!

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When I decided to no longer turn in time...

by SG098 in

being my 1st post i figured i should relate a personal experience.

a few months ago i decided to stop reporting time.

i'm mentally out of this cult now but still trapped because of family.

geevee

The widows mite... there is NO indication that the widow EVER became a follower of Christ! I also think that you could have the same amount of fun by turning in reports but have them believably exaggerated instead of not turning one in. I wish I could have done that before fading. Instead of trying to look like I was still carrying on business as usual, just fudge them..... But congratulations on your stand and welcome to this forum.

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True Stories from the Tower - Part 1 "From Anointed to Pedophile to Bethelite"

by BluePill2 in

before i dive into the actual write-up of this experience, let me put some things straight.. i have thought long and hard if i should write more about my experiences during the 10+ years at different branches.

during these years i worked from financial department, service department, home office and different it assignments.

as you can imagine one sees and hears and reads a lot of stuff going through different stations in different countries.

geevee

thanks for the info

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Appointed men & the 10 hour rule

by PlatinumFix in

dear all,.

could someone explain where it is written that mservants should be doing the congregation average/10 hours minimum?.

platinumfix.

geevee

Question for FastJehu

What do you mean by: DF / DA must be passed 5 years or more ?

As far as the original question is concerned, it is probably written is some elder manual. I am losing touch with the many rules that we "implied", could be a c/o said it. But You would think that if some one was trying to "lead" that they would set a "lead". Cong average or better!!

When I was there as an elder, we had a few who were not getting the cong average and the pressure was on by the more militant elders to get rid of them from the body. We tried to save them or soften it, but in the end they are no longer m/s as far as I know!