freemindfadean hour agoI have already prophesied they will tithe under the guise of another name. Sounds like tithing.
I haven't been around for a while, but I thought this had been broached a few years ago?
MidwichCuckoo
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Pledge for Global Assistance Arrangement - $15 per publisher!
by nmthinker inlast night our congregation read a letter for the global assistance arrangement combined with the traveling overseer assistance arrangement.
the "recommended" amount was $15 per publisher, which was well over $1000 for our hall.. it seemed steep.
our congregation does not have this type of money.
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Elders are a “Secret Weapon”
by wifibandit inthis just in... elders are a secret weapon (2 chron.
29:2) ha ha!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxyd9-oszc.
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Don't they just love promoting their 'self-importance'....and he should be counselled for wearing that tie, lol. -
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Another brave girl tells of her Abuse by JW's !
by Phizzy inhttp://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/abused-brother-shunned-jehovahs-witnesses-10233281.
this poor girl was abused by her "non-jw" (never baptised ?
) brother, then was totally abused by the jw elders by their lack of care for her in any way, and then by her jw family, read the in-depth article, link above..
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MidwichCuckoo
They thrust a couple of Awake magazines in my hand and said there were stories of other sisters who had been through a similar situation of abuse, and that they had turned to Jehovah and prayed
So, in other words, it is so common and accepted within the Watchtower, it's just an unimportant and dismissive issue to the elders.
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Is The Bible REALLY The Word Of The FDS?
by MidwichCuckoo ini know this will have already been covered on the forums but ... upon visiting a jw relative in hospital, they requested i brought their bible in (the gideons bible supplied by the nhs clearly being inadequate and not supporting wt fantasy).
i dutifully went to their house and grabbed what i thought was a bible (an easy mistake to make assuming the nwt is actually a bible).
it seems i couldn't have got it more wrong, resulting in one horrified jw and one very confused (albeit gorgeous) midwich.
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Black shank? Silver shank? Blimey...speaking in tongues, lol... I assume the silver (as it looked grey). I took the green one in originally (shock, horror). Why on Earth are they keeping these out of date, apostalistic (is that a word?) Bibles? (green, black, silver) -
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Is The Bible REALLY The Word Of The FDS?
by MidwichCuckoo ini know this will have already been covered on the forums but ... upon visiting a jw relative in hospital, they requested i brought their bible in (the gideons bible supplied by the nhs clearly being inadequate and not supporting wt fantasy).
i dutifully went to their house and grabbed what i thought was a bible (an easy mistake to make assuming the nwt is actually a bible).
it seems i couldn't have got it more wrong, resulting in one horrified jw and one very confused (albeit gorgeous) midwich.
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I know this will have already been covered on the forums but ... upon visiting a JW relative in hospital, they requested I brought their Bible in (the Gideons Bible supplied by the NHS clearly being inadequate and not supporting WT fantasy). I dutifully went to their house and grabbed what I thought was a Bible (an easy mistake to make assuming the NWT is actually a Bible). It seems I couldn't have got it more wrong, resulting in one horrified JW and one very confused (albeit gorgeous) Midwich. It seems (and I know you all know this, but I've been out of the loop a while) a few bits have been changed (?) and I should have taken in the white Bible (looks light grey to me). I truly am a sinner. -
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I don't call this progress...
by MidwichCuckoo in...where communication/information has progressed vastly, the jw r&f have, in well over 100 years, progressed from sandwich boards to..errr..modernised sandwich boards as their up-to-date means of communicating.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2691254/how-jehovahs-witnesses-got-street-smart-believers-swap-infamous-doorstepping-standing-outside-train-stations-shops.html.
comments are open at bottom of page folks!.
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...where communication/information has progressed vastly, the JW R&F have, in well over 100 years, progressed from sandwich boards to..errr..modernised sandwich boards as their up-to-date means of communicating.
Comments are open at bottom of page folks!
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Jehovah's Witness whose wife died after refusing blood transfusion is jailed for 13 years over child sex abuse covered up by religion's elders
by ThomasCovenant inhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2400938/jehovahs-witness-wife-died-refusing-blood-transfusion-jailed-13-years-child-sex-abuse-covered-religions-elders.html .
a jehovah's witness who sexually abused a child and then had his wrongdoing covered up by the church has been jailed for 13 years.. gordon leighton, 53, admitted sexually abusing a child when he was confronted with the allegations by church elders at washington, tyne and wear.. the elders knew about the 53-year-old's admissions for three years but refused to co-operate with the criminal investigation, and said what they had heard was confidential.. leighton hit the headlines in the 1990s when his wife yvonne, 28, died after refusing a blood transfusion after childbirth on religious grounds.judge penny moreland said that he had subjected his victim to 'untold damage' as she sentenced him at newcastle crown court today.. the judge said: 'you manipulated her with a combination of affection and attention and violence and threats.
'the defendant was found guilty of two charges of indecency with a child and six of indecent assault after a trial.
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MidwichCuckoo
...I did post a comment on the Daily Mail article, but they didn't publish it, drat! Anyone else here try to comment? I imagine there have been many similar comments to mine which have been rejected as the few comments published are generally not well informed.
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Poor Lad
by MidwichCuckoo in...saw this article in newspaper last week - and, in addition to it being a horrid tragedy, i couldn't help but wonder...i know in england (at least when i was registering my kids) some names were 'forbidden', but, as it didn't apply to me, i don't know which...but i've never heard of a lad called this before.
anyone else?.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-19048362.
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...saw this article in newspaper last week - and, in addition to it being a horrid tragedy, I couldn't help but wonder...I know in England (at least when I was registering my kids) some names were 'forbidden', but, as it didn't apply to me, I don't know which...but I've never heard of a lad called this before. Anyone else?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-19048362
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New contribution box at the hall ?
by Poztate indo you think in view that they now have wt production videos.. (a costly endevour) that they might in addition to the www, local and literature donation boxes start a wt video productions box with special guilt laid on parents with small children to donate ?.
it does seem to be all about the money so it wouldn't suprise me...how about you.
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MidwichCuckoo
Last time I went to Kingdom Hall, there were only two collection boxes... ...just had a thought, if the WT are releasing a series of DVDs for children, then maybe a new (child friendly, lol) contribution box will appear at Kingdom Halls - at 'child height' and children will be encouraged to donate some of their pocket money (stress on parents the importance of encouraging them to get into habit of donating whilst young)
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The Jackson Family Circus -or- WE know whats really going on with Katherine Jackson vs her kids...
by Unlearn inso, i dont know if this has been posted/addressed here...but watching this whole jackson family thing play out in the public eye is surreal.. the press assume that the only reason mj's brothers and janet are contesting his will and want control of the kids, is money.. seriously...mj's bros and sisters dont need his money: his bros get paid everytime you hear a jackson 5 song.
they're all millionaires.. janet is loaded.
but, the media doesnt know what we know...so they assume that the only reason they'd want mj's kids is for the $$$$ that come along with them as part of the deal.. we know better.. i believe a big amount of respect is due to janet and jermaine and the rest of the gang...theyre trying to rescue those kids from a jw brainwashing fate.. i'd bet money on it.. they say janet was trying to convince paris to willingly leave her grandmothers home and come with them.. im telling you...they're trying to save those kids.. and as any of you who have close family still in the cult can attest to, we apostates are some of the most loving, long-suffering people on the planet...as many of us publicly hold our tongues repeatedly when it comes to that cult, because we dont want to hurt mom, or dad, or kids, or siblings.
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MidwichCuckoo
Yesterday the UK papers were reporting Janet slapping Paris...