Posts by besty

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Letter I wrote to the person the caused me to be disfellowshipped

by jwfacts in

a thread on another forum reminded me of a letter i wrote to the person that went to the elders and started the proceedings to have me disfellowshipped.

i stopped believing in the religion when i was 25 but continued going for about ten years.

i finally started to fade at 35, but about 6 months after i had stopped going to meetings, a person wrote a letter to the elders about my website, which at the time was anonymous.

besty

I've been reading Nicolas Taleb's book

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile:_Things_That_Gain_from_Disorder

The concept of anti-fragile definitely applies to disfellowshipping. Although on the face of it, it appears to be a disturbing negative event, and one that JW's believe to be disciplinary in nature - in fact it frequently has a strengthening effect opposite to the intended outcome.

If you have benefited from being DF'd - you are anti-fragile. An attempt to break you has failed AND has improved you as a person.

Thank you Watch Tower :-)

(and thanks Paul - again)

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Jehovah's Witness church elders who refused to comment on a child abuse scandal did not "try to prevent a prosecution."

by Sol Reform in

http://tyneandwear.sky.com/news/article/90520/police-chiefs-letter-ignites-fresh-jehovahs-witness-child-abuse.

police chief's letter ignites fresh jehovah's witness child abuse rowby kevin donald location: washington.

gordon leighton.

besty

The story is do Jehovah's Witnesses put the interests of the victim, including the right to justice, before the interests of the Watch Tower corporation?

If they truly had the interests of the victim at heart, they wouldn't need a Judge to order them to give evidence.

"did not try to prevent a prosecution" is quite different in meaning to "proactively trying to bring an alledged paedophile to justice"

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Quotes to discourage JWs from researching WT history?

by JWOP in

are there any direct quotes from the watchtower's literature that discourages investigation into their past doctrines and practices?.

besty

'keeping pace with Jehovahs chariot' is a euphemism for don't read old literature

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New Outline: ELDERS MEET WITH REGULAR PIONEERS

by pixel in

the outline for the annual meeting with pioneers is out.

it talks about the gb and fds a lot.. look at this:.

those taking the lead have shown that they are not sentimentally attached to material things.. they are willing to move the world headquarters to warwick, new york, because it will advance kingdom interests.

besty

Jesus has placed a weighty responsibility on the Governing Body. That responsibility includes overseeing material assets, the preaching activity, assembly and convention programs, and the production of Bible literature for use in the field ministry and in personal and congregation study

the time-tested scam of converting Jesus into cash and property using the gullible as raw materials for the machine.

I wonder if they might go down the mega-church route in urban areas?

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