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  Merry Xmas / Happy Holidays & a Safe & Prosperous New year to all of you for 2020

  by smiddy3 in

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  2. experiences

  i was just looking at some happy holidays / xmas cards some of us sent each other at the close of 2016 of the cards i received only a few of them have your jwn name on them ,the other `s gave me their real names which i cant reveal here.. however this post is for everybody that is on this forum not just to the few i`m referring to.just to clarify .. and i was going to send greetings to you all this year for 2020.. one was from hawaii.

  milwaukee.

  berlin.

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  carla

  Merry Christmas!
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  Totally-NOT-Holiday parties

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  anybody else in congregations that have parties in october for kids to dress in costumes and pick pumpkins, parties in november with turkey, fixings and candles, and parties in december with red and green colors and baking similar looking snow-themed desserts?

  (not to mention the spiffy new wardrobes for easter.

  i mean memorial season.

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  carla

  I forgot to add, all jw's should be married to a ubm then they get the best of both worlds like my jw! yep, he gets to do holidays (if he is not feeling super dubby at the moment) just to 'keep the peace'. Though I never know if this holiday or that will be graced by his attendance. The rest of us just chuckle over the whole thing now and shake our heads. We don't say anything because we all still like him. (yeah, we love him and his quirky ways, everybody knows he is just horribly misguided by the cult)
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  Totally-NOT-Holiday parties

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  anybody else in congregations that have parties in october for kids to dress in costumes and pick pumpkins, parties in november with turkey, fixings and candles, and parties in december with red and green colors and baking similar looking snow-themed desserts?

  (not to mention the spiffy new wardrobes for easter.

  i mean memorial season.

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  carla

  I remember a story (I think on this board) of a newbie jw who was told she could not go to her non jw grandma's house for Thanksgiving. The elder invited her to his house. When she got there she found a turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberries, the whole nine yards along with many friends and family. Yet he wasn't celebrating Thanksgiving, the grandma died shortly thereafter. assholes.
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  Heart warming words from my 13 year old granddaughter during our Thanksgiving dinner

  by Still Totally ADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we had our first family thanksgiving gathering this last thursday with our youngest sons family.

  before we started to eat we went around the table saying what we were thankful for.

  what our granddaughter had to say brought tears to our eyes.

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  carla

  Aww! what a nice story!

  Imagine her telling her friends about this cult and how they will also tell others this story! jw's continue to be their own worst enemy.
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  How to make donations via the internet on JW.org

  by eyeuse2badub in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  holy shit!

  i went to the meeting on thursday night to hear my grandson and my daughter give their "talk" on the misery school!.

  the very first part on the next meeting that follows the misery school was a 15-20 minute part, with a video of course, on the many ways to donate money to the wt!

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  carla

  But they still don't pass the plate like evil Christendom- is what my jw would think.
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  Dropped my family off at the thought control assembly 🙄

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  well that's my family dropped off at the assembly for their mind control charge up.

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  from what my 2 sisters (non witnesses) in ireland said about my mother (pioneer) after her assembly, was that she seemed to more fanatical and that they couldn't change the subject as obsessed with the end etc.. i hope their mind control coercive talks don't have too much impact on my family.

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  carla

  Yes, it always seems like it takes awhile for the convention to wear off. Christmas is coming so they can bitch about that instead. Wait long enough and they always have some new negative thing to talk about. I shouldn't say new as it always just circles around anyway. They have seasons of negativity.
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  Anthony Morris looking for members with construction skills..Now and after Armageddon

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is a screenshot from a youtube video (521 and the circus continues) where anthony morris blasts post-secondary college & university education.

  ''we will not need doctors or lawyers after armageddon.

  so, anthony...what occupations do the society need '' today'' and after armageddon?

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  carla

  If the jw god can have a 'new system' in which everybody 'loves' one another, no fighting, no wars, etc... and there is no need for lawyers and doctors then why couldn't their god also just magically create places for these lucky few jw's to live without the need of muscle & sweat of hard work?

  Isn't the same God that they claim made the entire universe? He can't construct a building for few people? makes no sense.
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  Is a jw condemned for lack of belief.

  by Crazyguy2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if someone lacks belief is that somehow mean he’s done in their eyes and no way back?

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  carla

  If he doesn't tell anybody his personal beliefs and can still spout the company line he's all good. (from what previous posters have said)
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  Jehovah's house for Sale?

  by JohnTron72 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  when i drive by the kingdom hall i grew up attending at but, was sold directly to a church, i get angry.

  the elders who handled the sale didn't even remove the watchtower shaped bricks on each side of the sign near the street so, now they advertise for a baptist church.

  how many times as i grew up i heard things like: you should not do work ( such as clean carpets for a church) you wouldn't want to work at a cigarette making plant or a facility that makes bombs for the military.

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  carla

  What would Jesus say?-

  Hallelujah! one less building holding false prophets and teachers. One less place using my name to hide pedophiles, protect abusers, and one less to break up families with their ungodly shunning policies. And the list could go on........
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  Grace Gough ( RIP ) left the JW cult in her 70s and went on to help 1000s to escape the cult

  by Not_Culty in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj7ilnoxvu4.

  she helped me.

  sent me my first copy of crisis of conscience (free) grace has been featured on many talk shows, including sally jesse raphael, raising awareness of support for cult abuse survivors.

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  carla

  She sent me some tapes years ago and I sent them on to a cult ministry in Colorado. I think it was CO but I no longer remember the group, sorry.