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  GB Update #2, March 2024: Women allowed to wear pants, no ties/coats required if not giving a talk, & now able to greet DF ones in the KH!

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you heard me correct, this is not a joke, and it is not april fools day!

  the asl portion of the governing body updated #2 (march 2024) has been released a bit early and someone caught it.

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  LongHairGal

  LAS MALVINAS..:

  You’re probably right that this is a serious attempt to keep the younger generations from leaving.

  You are also probably right that Boomers and older would be angry because they lived their entire lives under these rules. I ‘Faded’ in 2001 and kept my job until retirement. When I heard they dropped the reporting of time at the 2023 annual meeting, I felt justified and relieved that I never quit my job to be in the ministry!!! …I can only imagine how angry and betrayed any other Boomers must feel if they DID do this.

  How must they feel about all these other changes and whatever else may be coming? They must think their precious religion sold out and I’ll bet it doesn’t give a sh#t about them.. While I can imagine how they must feel, you have to remember these people criticized me for working - so there isn’t much sympathy on my part.
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  New light on shunning?

  by Mikejw in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one theory why tony was booted out was because he was a stickler for not changing the shunning doctrine.

  he actually said the words we will never ever change it.. they are slowly deleting all of tony’s videos and now losing court cases and losing government hand outs in places like norway.. it’s looking very likely they will release new light on shunning policy after losing this latest one in norway.. .

  what are the odds they coincidentally get new light from jehovah and lighten up their shunning policy ?.

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  Even if with all these changes there is Nu-Lite on ‘Shunning’ and they are a little softer on minor children - I still think shunning will be practiced to some degree on adults!

  Old habits die hard and the judgmental attitude is far too ingrained in the Jehovah’s Witness personality to allow them to totally get rid of this practice that has been around since forever… I was soft-shunned because I was an independent working woman. I could never do right in some people’s eyes there.

  One time I was in a deli waiting for my order and I noticed a woman staring at me. I smiled because I am friendly. She didn’t smile back but had a peculiar look on her face. I later realized she was a woman in a congregation I used to attend.

  Because time had passed I didn’t recognize her. A funny thought occurred to me. What are judgmental Witnesses to do when they are in a public place and see a person they should shun - but that person doesn’t recognize them? Should they go up to Sister or Brother Shunned and re-introduce themselves? 🤣 After all, the shunning routine does not work without an audience. A person who doesn’t remember you is No audience.

  See the absurdity of the whole damned thing?
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  Lawsuits for shunning for decades

  by jehovaxx in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  now they suddenly examine the context of these scriptures and have come to the conclusion that it only applies to apostates and those who continue in serious sin???????.

  there are families torn apart by their shunning policies and some have said the gb are wrong and these scriptures only apply to those carrying on in serious sin?

  but no for the last several decades families have been ripped apart for lifelong shunning just because some don’t want to be jws anymore.. the lawsuits that are to come will not make up for life long relationships being ruined.

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  LongHairGal

  JEHOVAXX:

  Typo above:..It should not read ‘count’ but should read ‘could there be justice?’ I might also add would there ever be justice? This remains to be seen.

  Also, with regard to what is said about serious sin: the JW religion probably also defines serious sin as somebody who doesn’t believe in them. By that standard anybody living can fall into this category.
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  Lawsuits for shunning for decades

  by jehovaxx in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  now they suddenly examine the context of these scriptures and have come to the conclusion that it only applies to apostates and those who continue in serious sin???????.

  there are families torn apart by their shunning policies and some have said the gb are wrong and these scriptures only apply to those carrying on in serious sin?

  but no for the last several decades families have been ripped apart for lifelong shunning just because some don’t want to be jws anymore.. the lawsuits that are to come will not make up for life long relationships being ruined.

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  JEHOVAXX:

  Somebody downvoted your post. I made sure I upvoted it.

  I am so grateful to God that I was not raised in this religion - nor did I listen to everything they said.. I’m a longtime ‘Fader’ and my experience does not compare to what many people on here have gone through. I got a few ‘bruises’ along the way.. The only shunning I may experience is from aging Witness Baby Boomers who I could barely recognize if I saw them in the store!

  These recent shocking changes and those yet to come in the religion are an about-face to what they’ve believed for many decades - and only proves what they taught was NOT from the Bible but merely opinions of arrogant men who have no regard for anybody.

  Who knows what’s going to happen with regard to any lawsuits? As you said, surely nothing would make up for decades of lost time and the thousands of ruined family relationships in many places.. We won’t even go into the suicides. Count there ever be justice?

  Again, I’m Glad to be long out of the JWs and best regards to everybody!
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  GB Update #2, March 2024: Women allowed to wear pants, no ties/coats required if not giving a talk, & now able to greet DF ones in the KH!

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you heard me correct, this is not a joke, and it is not april fools day!

  the asl portion of the governing body updated #2 (march 2024) has been released a bit early and someone caught it.

  summary: .

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  LongHairGal

  HALCON:

  I like crosses and wear one occasionally.

  But, then again, maybe you can’t take the Catholic out of somebody.. This was another JW teaching I didn’t quite accept.
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  NEW LIGHTS regarding d/f'd JW's!

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jw's can now talk to disfellowshipped friends & relatives, in order to encourage them back to the k.h.

  and to welcome any d/f'd ones who turn up at the k.h.. https://www.jw.borg/download/?docid=1112024005&langwritten=asl.

  remove the b in the borg.

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  LongHairGal

  Yes, everybody. But this is all too little and too late.

  It is too late to make a good impression. Countless JWs had ruined lives because of policies.. I might be a little impressed if the religion said it was going to open a food pantry or something similar - to help some JWs in dire straits for following bad advice not to get careers! I said a ‘little’ impressed. There is no making whole the countless JWs who went to their graves!

  But, I’m just daydreaming because I doubt THIS particular change would ever come about.. Somebody tell me if it ever does.
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  GB Update #2, March 2024: Women allowed to wear pants, no ties/coats required if not giving a talk, & now able to greet DF ones in the KH!

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you heard me correct, this is not a joke, and it is not april fools day!

  the asl portion of the governing body updated #2 (march 2024) has been released a bit early and someone caught it.

  summary: .

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  LongHairGal

  VIDIOT:

  Is that the Grinch who stole Christmas??

  Maybe he stole the JWs’ Paradise as well.
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  GB Update #2, March 2024: Women allowed to wear pants, no ties/coats required if not giving a talk, & now able to greet DF ones in the KH!

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you heard me correct, this is not a joke, and it is not april fools day!

  the asl portion of the governing body updated #2 (march 2024) has been released a bit early and someone caught it.

  summary: .

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  LongHairGal

  WING COMMANDER:

  Maybe others feel differently, but I’m not attracted in the slightest! It wouldn’t matter what things the Witnesses got rid of.

  The fact of the matter is that it’s too late to try to make a good impression. Some people’s lives were impacted for the worse and ruined in some cases.. I’m lucky I never listened and escaped with just a few ‘bruises’.

  I am sure die-hard JWs are freaking out wondering what is happening.

  I believe some of this is probably a reaction to what happened in Norway and maybe other changes will happen.. While it might keep some in, other JWs will be headed for the door anyway. Good riddance to it.
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  Forget 1914, the 1975 generation are now passing away!

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we still have quite a few elderly here that came in as young families in the late 1960's-early 70's because soon, yes very soon they would enter the new system and never grow old.

  it's now one year away from 50 years since 1975. just in the last couple years i've seen them come down with alzheimer's, cancer, brain tumors, becoming invalid etc.

  the children of them that are now around 60 are just so distraught at seeing their parents deteriorate.

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  LongHairGal

  NOW WHAT?

  Exercise patience?! Yeah, they have their nerve.. I guess the religion doesn’t want to hear complaining or murmuring since they can’t deliver the ‘paradise’ they promised everybody - especially those who never planned for their senior years.

  I ‘Faded’ years ago so I’m not affected by what goes on there.. And I’m thankful that whatever youth I had left wasn’t spent in some Kingdom Hall.. It must be terrible to be sitting there waiting on promises and growing old. To be honest, I don’t think I ever truly believed their talk about how people wouldn’t get old.

  These now elderly JWs from the ‘75 era are probably the ones propping up the religion. Them and the rest of the younger baby boomers will be hanging on til the end.
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  What you think consequences gonna be for watchtower if they lose the court appeal in Norway?

  by Hellothere in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  personally i think they gonna realise god's not backing org.

  that idea gonna get even more established in their minds.

  i think the real selling of kingdom hall gonna start then.

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  LongHairGal

  NOT FORMER:

  How things have changed over the decades!

  The nature of the cases now is that the Witnesses are not the victims anymore! No, now it appears they are in the role of ‘bad guy’ and trampling somebody else’s human rights.

  If this religion was running the whole show there would be a world-wide dictatorship.