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in about fifty-two minutes time...
by zaphod in
1. social
2. entertainment
...my gran, who has been a jw since the 1950's will be reproved publicly for speaking to her grand-daughter who is disfellowshipped.

she is 77 years old and i am worried that it will be the death of her.

the"truth" has been her life for nearly fifty years and she is still a regular publisher.. if she continues to commit this gross sin she will be disfellowshipped.. her daughter and son in law are to be disfellowshipped for the terrible sin of allowing their daughter to live under their roof since she left her husband.
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not beards but...double standards?
by zaphod in
1. jw
2. friends
i saw a debate on here about why men cannot have beards in org and it kinda got me thinking.. if a sister decided that she wanted to go natural (as god intended) and not shave her legs or her armpits (let's leave lady beards - the poor cows have got enough on their plate without engaging in debate about it) would that be frowned upon?.

say, if a french or a german sister came to the congregation, looking like she was wearing afghan boots and had two fair sized hamsters nesting in her pits.

would the brothers have valid reason to counsel her?.
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if you went back...
by zaphod in
1. jw
2. friends
what would be the thing that you had most trouble giving up.. for me, apart from thinking, it would be swearing (that's cussin' for our american friends).

i absof*ck*nglutely love effing and blinding and i'm sure that i could not stop.

not even if my life depended on it.
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do i have any rights?
by zaphod in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i sent a letter to the elders before i got df'd and i would like it back.

i was not of sound mind (in my opinion) when i wrote it and foolishly disclosed stuff that i would rather was not in their hands.

does anyone know if i can get it back?
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un thingy
by zaphod in
1. jw
2. friends
i've been looking at past posting about the un scandal and was wondering what the r&f dub knows about the situation.. have they all been fed the line about the library card or has there been no official announcement and been dealt with only if particular publishers bring the subject up?.

is it an issue that has caused disquiet in the congrgation or is it still not known to a great extent by members?.

zaphod
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members only
by zaphod in
1. jw
2. friends
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i went to campaign strategies and had my access denied.. as it was in members only i checked that i was in the members directory and i am so why can't i get into it.. please don't tell me that the code of secrecy here is as bad as that of wts.. is this need to know info that i as a mere mortal do not need to know.

zaphod
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how can you stay?
by zaphod in
1. jw
2. experiences
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speaking as someone who believed it all right up until about a year after i was df'd i just cannot understand the reasoning of people who don't go out on field service, don't go to meetings, don't participate or believe and still stay in the organisation.. i know that it is hard to leave, it's made to be hard, but some of the postings on this site make me think that it must be harder still living a lie and keeping up the pretense.. if you don't believe, why would you want to conform to all the petty rules and subject yourself to men that you don't believe have any authority.. i really do hope that as soon as possible you can all take a deep breath and finally be true to yourself.. zaphod
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more weird reasoning
by zaphod in
1. watchtower
2. bible
a young brother was df'd for having sex with a young single mother with a young daughter who was studying with the congregation.. she got pregnant and they married.

she suffered with mental illness.. the brother sexually abused the young girl.

he was reproved but not disfellowshipped even though he did not go to the police voluntarily and at first denied the abuse.
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don't ya think it's a rotten trick?
by zaphod in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
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i've always thought that it was a rotten trick for god to create us with free will and then punish us for using it.. wha'd'ya think?
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weird reasoning...
by zaphod in
1. jw
2. friends
a cousin of mine was married to a brother at seventeen for two years.

they both pioneered and were, evidently, a happy spiritual couple.. my cousin realised that she had made a huge mistake marrying this brother, as they both were hormonally charged teenagers who had followed paul's advice to get married if they could not go without sex.

she just did not love him any more and she felt trapped by the jw stance on divorce.. this was her escape plan:.