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  Looking to Move in a few years?

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  my wife and i are thinking about moving to central tn somewhere between crossville and cookeville.

  maybe even as far west to lebanon or as far east to hariman.

  things have changes so much for us in the last 6 months we would like to live were it is a little warmer with lots of wild herbs for my wife who is a herbalist and for me so i can garden more.

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  Crossville and Cookeville are both pretty but they are on top of the Cumberland plateau.

  They get more snow than the towns down in the Tennessee Valley. A lot of snow sometimes.

  Harriman is nice but it gets a lot of snow, too.

  If you don't mind living a little more to the east, Oak Ridge is nice but you will be close to the nuclear facility.

  North Knoxville is pretty nice and not as much traffic as west Knoxville.

  Maryville is really great.

  Walland and Townsend are too but expect snow.

  Seymour is nice and small. It is about 15 miles south of the center of Knoxville.

  Do you need to work?
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  Elders removed in Northern PA. Congregation

  by ToesUp in

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  2. friends

  a close family member just informed me what happened during their last c.o.

  visit.

  this occurred 3 months ago.

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  We all know how the Watchtower throws elders under the bus when lawsuits against the organization are filed so it is probably a blessing in disguise for them as long as they haven't covered up acts of child molestation.
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  How did your family react when you made it known that you did not want to be a JW anymore?

  by Yondaime in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  please share your experiences..

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  Turned me into the elders who made many, many, TOO MANY visits over the course of 4 years.

  A MS and his uber spouse also visited many, many, TOO MANY times over the course of 4 years.

  When my spouse and I separated two elders started snooping around my home at night trying to catch me committing adultery.

  My sposue constantly violated an order of protection and did the same thing until one of my friends who is an officer in the local Sheriff's Department followed her as she pulled into my street.

  When I filed for divorce the BOE harssed me until I showed up at one of their fact finding meetings with a digital tape recorder.

  A month after my divorce was final I called the PO and told him that I had had enough of the cult and didn't want them to evre contact me.

  They haven't and I haven't had any contact with the few members of my family still in for over 10 years.

  The jaydubyas avoid me and run the other way when the see me in public.

  I like it that way.
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  local needs "are you spiritually grown up?"

  by sylvlef in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yesterday local needs was this theme.

  are you spiritually grown up.. summary: if you are between 18-35 and not ms or elder, you lazy idiot are like a child.

  at this age, especially if you grew up in "da trooooth" you have no issue with jw.org doctrine right (how do you know...?

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  Just Kidding:

  " Zoos, in many cases there IS young blood eager to reach out, but the fault-finding & over-critical elders do not give them a chance. That was what happened in my case, and it had the reverse effect on me. Instead of striving to do more and "reach out", I was discouraged to the point that I began to despise "reaching out." I felt that it was as if the elders were dangling a carrot on the end of a stick in front of me & that I was the donkey wasting effort in trying to reach that carrot. That discouragement led me to discover TTATT & here I am!"
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  What are the Core Teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by cultBgone in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  recently someone asked me to define what core teachings have such a hold on jdubs that they have trouble breaking free.

  trying to single out the driving force that keeps them in the borg, this is what popped into my head:.

  obviously there are lots and lots of wacky things the jdubs teach/believe/pretend to believe.

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  "What are the Core Teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses?"

  HERESIES and LIES
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  JW Parents – Safeguard your children

  by happy@last in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jehovahs-witnesses-destroyed-documents-showing-7340603.

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2816630/13-5m-award-jehovahs-witnesses-molest-case.html#ixzz3hn875cel.

  http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jehovahs-witnesses-sex-abuse-scandal-4422943#ixzz3fwm1uttl.

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  Thank you!
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  VISIBILITY

  by LostGeneration in

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  2. beliefs

  breakfast of champions mentioned this on the elder appointment thread and it struck a chord with me.. is this term big in bethel?

  obviously nothing in my bible says a thing about being 'seen' in serve-us or in other jw activities, but a long time bethelite went off on a visibility tirade that i remember distinctly during special servants/elders meeting when i was in.

  i remember at the time thinking that the big j-dog in the heavens sees everything, so why the big fuss over the rank and file seeing us do stuff for the big j-dog?.

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  likeabird says:

  It's all about appearances.

  All show and no substance.

  You just nailed the religion for what it is.
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  JW Parents – Safeguard your children

  by happy@last in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jehovahs-witnesses-destroyed-documents-showing-7340603.

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2816630/13-5m-award-jehovahs-witnesses-molest-case.html#ixzz3hn875cel.

  http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jehovahs-witnesses-sex-abuse-scandal-4422943#ixzz3fwm1uttl.

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  Honesty

  May I have your permission to post some of this information on another website?

  If so, do you mind if i attribute you as the sourec without mentioning JWD?

  Thank you.
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  I just had fun giving a talk!

  by OneEyedJoe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, unfortunately, i'm still on the tms and had a talk tonight (in front of a co, no less) and the talk was on the subject of adultery.

  in the source material there's reference to "spiritual adultery" i.e.

  idolotry or when israel had alliances with pagan nations.

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  I'm under no illusion that I might have affected anyone present, but it was really fun to stand up there condemning 60 people while they all sat there nodding their heads in agreement.

  Most of them don't know about the Watchtower riding the back of the wild beast for 9 years, and if they did they would say that the faithful slave knows what it is doing.

  Clueless and asleep.
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  Working on a Sunday morning!

  by lurkernomore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's coming up to 4 months since our last meeting.

  apart from three visits to the house in the first 4 weeks we've not heard a peep from anyone, except for two 'encouraging' cards from two older ladies in the local hall.. a couple self-righteous, not even exemplary witnesses, have taken it upon themselves to pre-emptively shun me on a couple occasions, which i found rather funny.. anyway my grandad needed some minor building work doing to the front of the house, which my brother and i happily agreed to do for him.

  his house is on a main road running up the hill to the kingdom hall.

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