I remember a guy I knew in a congregation I used to go to who was an MS. Married an elder's daughter. Was the perfect Jdub in everyones eyes. On course to being the perfect JW elder. That is till he got the hots for a young girl in the congregation and ran off with her. I believe she was 16 at the time. So much for that theory.
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Does having priveleges in the congregation mean you will have a successful marriage?
by hoser inafter reading about tight pant tony's rant about sisters only marrying ministerial servants lest their marriage will be a failure what anecdotal evidence do you have to support this.
the divorces that i am familiar with in the congregation show me that having priveledges in the congregation do not improve the odds of a better marriage.
i would say about 60% of the divorces had at least one spouse who was a pioneer, elder or ministerial servant.
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Elders are going to the CO on me
by cognac ini celebrated halloween and my birthday and the elders have been told.
husband told the elders i've called the religion a cult.
they said i'm "heading down a road to be an apostate.
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Good job Cognac. By "domineering personality" they mean someone they can't control. They don't like that. You're supposed to live in fear of ever displeasing them. Once the fear of them is gone they've lost you.
With all the court cases and all the information on the internet it is getting harder for them to hide the fact that they are a dangerous mind control cult. I hope the courts are beginning to see that and will take that into consideration in divorce cases.
BTW my wife was the one that ratted me out also. I knew once I told her it would all come down very quick so I already had my letter of dissociation in the mail to them. I never held it against her because in her mind I was god organization.
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I have two take aways from the zoned out meeting
by Sour Grapes inout of three hours only two things really caught my attention.
i was surprised there was no special annoucements or more new light.
the first thing is that we know that the org is having a difficult time having young males reach out to be a ministerial servents to carry microphones and adjust the height of the podium.
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Well there you go. Not wasting anyones time at this meeting. They gave life saving information about what color of socks not to wear. And some breaking news that there are gay men in the fashion industry...who'd have thunk it. It looks like some in high places in the dark tower is having a little bit of a personal problem dealing with men in tight pants.
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November 8th Special Meeting
by Chris Tann inanyone have any leaks on this three hour meeting we are having early november?.
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Marilyn Penton passes
by designs ini saw in the periodical the new creation that jim penton's family lost marilyn, ontario canada, july 23rd, 2014.. jim has written some excellent authoritative works on the history of the watchtower.. condolences.
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I'm very sorry to hear that. My condolences to Jim and family.
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Happy Thanksgiving Canada
by I quit! injust wanted to wish everyone in canada a happy thanksgiving day.. .
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Just wanted to wish everyone in Canada a Happy Thanksgiving Day.
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01/15/2016 Watchtower Study "Keeping Loyal Despite So Many Quitters, With The Power of the Widow's Mite"
by frankiespeakin ini'm sure there will come a day when attandence just keeps plummenting, and the the kingdom hall crowd are just a bunch of aged old timers/retirees complaining about how all the young people are forgetting about jehovah and are going after all that satan's world has to offer.
what would the wt study articles look like to keep this aged non wage earning crowd putting some of their social security benefits in the contribution box?.
i offer the theme: "keeping loyal despite so many quitters, with the power of the widow's mite".
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With a lot of them I think the boys in the tower could say anything they want and still maintain their loyal support. I see old (probably retired) dubs in my area out wasting the day standing on the corner working on their time card when the be out playing golf or something. I think they could tell these guys that jehovah will return in 2020 as a large cabbage god and they would believe it and fork over more money.
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Hi Everyone!
by poopsiecakes ini haven't been here in quite a while and thought i'd pop by.
i do lurk at times, i confess lol.
after reading the recent publications at the new golden calf (jw.org), my mind is kind of blown that jw's are still not seeing through the constant adjustments, clarifications, new light and reversals.
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Hi Poopsiecakes. Glad to hear you're doing so well. Like BizzyBee I've been out a long time and can't believe that many of the people I knew are still dubs. What an unbelievable waste of their lives.
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How much meaning are the rank and file putting on October 2014?
by JimmyPage init's definitely on their minds.
i attended a funeral recently and a jw told me that the person who died almost made it to the 100 year anniversary of the birth of the kingdom.. curious what comments like this you've heard in your area?.
(and can't wait for november!).
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I think it at least deserves a t-shirt or an anniversary book bag. Shot glass?
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The epitome of cognitive dissonance
by sir82 init is rare to get such a startling, sparkling, perfect example of this.. here is a snippet of a conversion going on at jwtalk.net regarding israel/gaza:.
http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/16268-peace-security-news/.
every one who is in the world today and dies tomorrow is in line for a ressurection.this is their best way of being in the new world.
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And if as they say "God knows the heart" then why would he bother to resurrect them if he knows that he is just going to have to kill them all over again. Why not just resurrect the nice one? The ones that will fit in.