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  New member

  by saorean in

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  this is the first of many posts from me.

  i'm pimo, an overseer, somewhere in africa.

  i'll hold of giving further details until i've executed my plan to leave the organization.

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  carla

  Welcome!
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  How Does It Make You Feel Kids?

  by neat blue dog in

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  2. beliefs

  a recent printable kids activity asks kids to describe their feelings when marketing various jwdotorg products:.

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  meanwhile, here's a recent public post from harvest inn's social media profile:.

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  carla

  Poor kid, looks miserable. Pictures of my grandkids are pure joy, laughter and childish shenanigans! as it should be.
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  Ever Wondered What People Think of Not-at-home Letters and Obit Letters?

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thefreethinker/2019/10/op-ed-intruders/.

  here are some excerpts of a man who was called on by 2 young female jws, received a not-at-home letter as well, and what he thought about them.

  i encourage you to read the whole thing, it is worth the laugh.. "it wasn’t pompeo knocking but he would have beamed approval on the two young women on the doorstep.

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  carla

  "But it really isn't. It's opportunistic and predatory." - YES!!!!!

  How jw's do not see themselves as just plain weird is beyond me. It is one thing to say, "you are in my prayers" and quite another to get a personal note from a complete stranger after a loved one has died. One that the jw has no clue about and has never met attempting to tell you what to believe about the afterlife and that of your loved one.

  I think part of the problem is that jw's do not grieve in the same way others do. I don't know, that's all I can think of. "Yep, they are dead so sad, now let's get out in service so we can get over it and not think of such unpleasantness."

  Makes 'em sound rather like cold callous s.o.b.'s doesn't it?
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  Jw`s know where you live , You now need to know where they live .

  by smiddy3 in

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  2. friends

  they come uninvited to your door step and try to discuss bible/wt doctrines with you, and many times or on occasion you do so.. you may even exchange first names with each other , and that is fine if you are happy with that but do you know where they live ?.

  but they have an advantage over you .they know your name and where you live .!.

  you may know there first name but you don`t know where they live .that is the advantage they have over you.. does it really matter ?

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  carla

  In the US they still keep all the records and comments about the doors.

  I agree, they should have to supply name, etc...
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  A deeper examination of The New World Translation

  by Terry in

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  2. bible

  shorturl.at/ouakr.

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  carla

  Looks interesting, thanks for posting.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Announce Plans to Build Giant Media Center

  by iwantoutnow in

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  2. bible

  omg!

  this has to be more of "keeping the flock busy and excited" so as not to notice whats going on.. how did i miss this?????

  the jehovah's witnesses announced plans to build a 1.5 million-square-foot audio-visual production center in upstate new york, two miles away from the witnesses' headquarters in warwick.

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  carla

  I wish I had video of my jw when he used to complain about tele-evangelists! Boy! could he go on and on about how God would not like it at all and was not a good way to preach the Word.
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  Sisters

  by truthlover123 in

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  during the first talk tonight, the brother giving the talk indicated that now comments were to include sisters!

  previously mostly only brothers were mentioned in most prayers or comments - has anyone else heard this tonight?.

  the meeting seemed to be positioned directly to and about sisters.

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  carla

  Thanks to everybody for clearing it up for me. Some things I had forgotten.

  Amazing what you can put out of your mind when you try!
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  Sisters

  by truthlover123 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  during the first talk tonight, the brother giving the talk indicated that now comments were to include sisters!

  previously mostly only brothers were mentioned in most prayers or comments - has anyone else heard this tonight?.

  the meeting seemed to be positioned directly to and about sisters.

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  carla

  I always thought it was just plain dumb to say women don't teach in dubland. If the women are commenting they are in essence 'teaching'. What about at the doors or their so called 'bible studies'? They are already teaching.

  How about all those female pioneers running around the country side, they are attempting to teach the masses as well.

  I guess the only place they don't actually teach is at the carts where they do all they can not to make eye contact or speak with anybody.
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  Listen to be saved--Not a peep about wt doctrine

  by waton in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the 10-20 wt study "how to save relatives".

  according to wt writers, it is the unique beliefs, doctrines are what saves people at armageddon.

  but not a peep about them, instead it is love bombing.

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  carla

  Bluesbrother said, "Your relatives may be saved IF they listen to you. But what if they don't?

  Dubs must accept that the god they love will deliberately target these people, who they also love, with death and destruction. How can they live with that idea?

  How did we once live with that idea? I don't know....?."

  I tell my jw's family of this belief and still they don't believe me! Not one of them have taken 5 minutes to research what the jw's actually believe.

  I'm not sure my own jw even truly believes this. I think he thinks that if he just good enough perhaps jah will look kindly on him and allow his evil family to make it into the new system and then we will all say, "yes! you were so right! of course we love jah and want to live in this eternal hell, err, umm, paradise with jw's"

  Not sure where that would put me seeing as his cong & elders know full well that I actively work against the borg when given the chance and even distributed anti jw literature. Guess I'm toast. Scratch that, I think the correct term was 'birdseed'.

  So if I get annihilated, zapped out existence, and his children somehow make it (which they wouldn't by jw standards), he will be 'blessed' with forgetfulness about me, won't he wonder for all eternity what his wife and mother of his children were like? Wouldn't you wonder about your own ability to judge people if your choice of mate and mother to your children was so awful she had to be forgotten for ever? That is their idea of paradise?

  no thanks.
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  Sisters

  by truthlover123 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  during the first talk tonight, the brother giving the talk indicated that now comments were to include sisters!

  previously mostly only brothers were mentioned in most prayers or comments - has anyone else heard this tonight?.

  the meeting seemed to be positioned directly to and about sisters.

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  carla

  I'm not a jw, never been to a meeting- don't the women usually raise their hand to comment? or was it always only men? Or are you specifically talking about praying for someone, men only? Then again I didn't think jw's prayed for any specific members of the cong. Can you clear this up for me? thanks.