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  Crisis of Conscience- World Wide Cease & Desist

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.commentarypress.com/copyright/.

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  https://youtu.be/fdzzl453drq.

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  TheListener

  Funny, I never knew any of this stuff. I have no idea who the people are that are being discussed. I just read the thread because it had lots of pages, and that meant it probably had some excitement going on.

  Ok. back to being a wallflower.
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  My daughter surprised me last night.

  by Driving Force in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i started my fade a the beginning of 2015, took counseling form a psychiatrist, and worked hard to get my family away from the cult.

  my marriage split and i now live alone with my 15 year old daughter.. she came to me last night and we started talking about jws.

  she told me that the subject they are discussing at the moment in philosophy is "cults".

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  TheListener

  Awesome job and great conversation DrivingForce. I'm so glad that you were able to maintain a good relationship with your daughter and that she now sees the dubs for what they really are - a cult.
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  I need some friends!!

  by BlackWolf in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i literally have 0 friends, actually i've never had any close friends.

  its really started to get to me.

  i homeschool and my parents keep me super isolated and all the other kids at my hall are complete a**holes!!

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  TheListener

  You're not alone BlackWolf, I don't have friends either. Well, I had a couple worldly friends that I made at work but those have sort of died out.
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  My beautiful 7th grade daughter just finished her Christmas Concert tonight.

  by PaintedToeNail in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my lovely daughter played in her orchestra's concert tonight, in spite of her father who tried to make her feel guilty about it.

  he went to the kh tonight, while my youngest child and i went to listen to joyous music played by the local kids at our town's school.

  my girl was front and center and she did a great job.

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  TheListener

  Yay!!! Love to hear positive stories. I remember my kids first christmas play and musicals.
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  Sundays without the indoctrination session...

  by Tornintwo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what are you doing instead of the meeting?.

  i'm ordering cool personalised pressies for all of my non jw family online, whilst listening to some great 80's classics (currently fade to grey, visage).

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  TheListener

  I'm a bit late but I relaxed and watched some sports and then went xmas card and gift shopping for the few non-dub friends I have plus my kids.

  Sooo nice.
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  25-30 Columbia Heights headquarters up for sale

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/12/3/breaking-news-jehovahs-witnesses-put-brooklyn-heights-headquarters-sale.

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  TheListener

  Money aside it seems that selling those buildings would have a negative effect on the morale of the older ones in the hall. The younger ones won't care but the older ones may. Not enough to leave but just another straw on the camels back.
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  25-30 Columbia Heights headquarters up for sale

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/12/3/breaking-news-jehovahs-witnesses-put-brooklyn-heights-headquarters-sale.

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  TheListener

  but their money is tied up in real estate and it's not liquid. And maybe they borrowed against those properties already. Which could leave them still broke even though they own expensive property.

  I don't know this stuff very well but it seems they could still be broke.
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  Just put on ARC website: submissions of senior counsel

  by Tornintwo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/downloadfile.ashx?guid=359d7249-0d4f-4c51-9265-1c40aa6b3b21&type=transcriptpdf&filename=submissions-of-senior-counsel-assisting-the-royal-commission&fileextension=pdf.

  just having a quick read through, the findings are damning.

  mr toole is being reported to the law society of australia.... a few highlights so far:.

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  TheListener

  Wow! Love it!!
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  The new me and DE shaving

  by PlatinumFix in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i haven't seen a thread quite on the same subject so weren't sure where to file it :) so 2016 will be the start of the new me.

  i've nearly cleared my small amount of debt.

  i'm going to get some new clothes and stuff as a single person.

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  TheListener

  PlatinumFix, it sounds like you are doing good. Keep up the hard work.

  As far as shaving goes I never tried the double edged but I did try straight edge. It was just too time consuming for me. It gave a super close shave but it took me too long. Maybe if I kept it up I could have gotten better at it and faster.
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  Is the elevated tone of the G.B disappearing..

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  and with it the language in the w.t loosing its authority?.

  i ask the question because, with the g.b now appearing before members on their social media, and reluctantly on royal commissions my opinion is :-.

  a) the g.b can no longer hide like wells's invisible man.

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  TheListener

  I think the fact that the GB put up those videos on their website specifically talking about the overlapping generations and whether there has been a slave for 1900 years shows that they are continually getting negative feedback.

  They even said at the end of one of those videos that now you don't need to write in with questions. I guess because they figured all questions were now answered.