Good thing you are out. Good thing your children are out. Too bad bout your mom. I wonder if that was some sort of drunk JW call to prove to all the other JWs that she has indeed cut you out of her life? If there were others around her, it seems as if there may have been some peer pressure/alcohol involved?
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After 2 years my parents make contact. The end result is that I promise them to cryogenically preserve ONLY their heads
by paulmolark init has been 2 and a half years since my departure from the religion.
i was told by my parents from the start that i would never speak to them until i returned to jehovah dog.
a few months later they told people they hoped i died before the end came, then all of this culminating in them telling my inactive / fading sister that they don't consider me a child anymore and they have given me up to satan.
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JW Elder Promoting His Business on YouTube
by Samuel inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doizc34ilso.
the person appearing in this video was the presiding overseer of a congregation in which i was serving.
i had served in a lot of congregations over the years and had seen a lot of crazy goings on, but this particular elder was high up on the "crazy list".
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WT is shorting literature orders by congregation with a problem contributing enough for literature $3500 just for mags
by oppostate inat our meeting last night there was a talk about having run out of magazines for the last three months.
it's expected this will continue to happen.
the "branch" has not sent the requested number of magazines.
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What would happen if you drop a fake check or bill in the donation box?
by StarTrekAngel inwhat would happen if we started dropping fake check or bills inside the donation box of an assembly?
i know, is a crime, but so is pushing someone to not accept blood and die.
would it help skew the numbers enough if enough of us did it?.
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In the congregation, I foresee a local needs discussion about Annanias and Saphira.
Put in money that is clearly not legal tender, I guess. But why bother? I'd rather put in a folded up piece of paper (in every box) about why I am NOT donating. Very short and simple-one or two typed sentences at most.
There is no purpose to any kind of fraudulent activity-that just victimizes them and makes them feel persecuted. It can also result in federal criminal charges. Not worth it!
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WT September 2015 (Public edition) - We never petition for Money
by Designer Stubble inpage 6 of the september 2015 public wt, under the heading "how is our ministry financed"our work is supported entirely by voluntary donations.
(2 corinthians 9:7) in 1879, the second issue of this magazine stated: zions watch tower [as this magazine was then called] has, we believe jehovah for its backer, and while this is the case it will never beg nor petition men for support.
we have not wavered from that policy.
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TECHNICALLY speaking, it is no longer ZIONS WATCH TOWER.
So, that could be the defence.. . .
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Anybody have any experience with this?
by stillin inan elderly sister passed away recently.
family came to her memorial service from all over the country.
some of them, including grown-up, disfellowshipped children of hers, also came.
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I've heard of it before. Private gatherings can refuse entrance to whomever they please, I guess. I remember that others when faced with this gathered together the non-JWs and ex JWs for a separate family gathering.
Treating people like crap is a skill learned well in the borg.
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OMG, I’m gonna get Old and Die.
by John Aquila inwhen it finally clicked,.
and you realized there was no 1914, there was no generation that would see the end of a wicked system, there was no paradise around the corner, .
what went through you mind?.
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I got over the JW illusion decades ago. I have however hit the thoroughly mddle aged realization that I will really die. Not sure if there was some niggle of JW hope in there-id love to blame the Borg for my silliness, but I think mortality just hit me over the head. -
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Who I really am
by JWdaughter inthis is so stupid, but yesterday i was shopping and i saw this wild blouse and i thought-if i could dress how i really wanted to, i would buy that blouse.
i walked away and was thinking-why the hell shouldn't i dress how i want to?
because someone told me that orange paisley print is tacky?
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I am looking over my old posts and this is one of the earliest that I ever started a thread for. I saw the title and thought I would have had something very profound to say.
I had forgotten all about that blouse, but seeing the post I remembered it vividly and I wore it for a LONG time, I loved it. I still love orange and still love paisley.
Its funny how we let our upbringing and expectations shape how we feel about something like a shirt! Really, it was about me, and I am still a well bathed hippie chick at heart and am in fact now wearing an orange top with my jeans. . . so not much has changed. My ex husband probably didn't even care about that shirt. . . that was really all the JW upbringing talking and I haven't been JW since I was fifteen. My 49th birthday is in a few days, so go figure!
For all those who think I am a repressed, oppressed Muslim-Sorry. I'm wearing jeans and a orange blouse and my hair is making me WISH I wore a headcovering, because I am having a very bad hair day (curling all over).
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7 year old boy refused blood by Jehovah Witness parents to potentially save his life .Wouldn`t you take that chance ? To save his life ?
by smiddy inan article in the heraldsun.com.au sunday may31 2015 by reporter kay dibben.
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" a hospital has taken the extraordinary step of asking a court to allow a boy to be given a blood transfusion during a liver transplant,after his jehovah witnesses parents refused.. brisbane`s lady cilento children`s hospital has asked the supreme court to authorise medical staff to give any necessary lifesaving blood during and after the boys liver transplant.. the boy "j" aged 7 has been on a liver transplant for a year and his parents want him to have this operation but giving blood is against their religion.. the child... is small for his age has portal hypertension and a genetic condition that can affect multiple organs .. end of quote .
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I have learned that there is a pretty common understanding in some JW circles that once the court takes control that the JW parents are freed of responsibility and will often just quietly let done what needs to be done in the case of minor children. They'd rather have their kid than the notoriety of refusing blood andlosing their child to gain JW stature/martyrdom. Some more hardcores won't, but some just tell the doctor to have the court order in place so that the proper care will be given.
I am sure that this is a more sophisticated JW loophole that is not known or available to many JW families.
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Lett likes big butts, and he always lies.
by cappytan inthe parody video is being released before the "official" release on sunday!.
video being re-edited...stand by.. edit: here is the re-cut with wingcommander's excellent input.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5h1cj527s4.
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Somewhere there is a thread about a 'parody' of the Lett presentation (June). I gotta say, standing on its own, it didn't need any commentary to illustrate his supreme ridiculousness. Had I shown it to my mom before she saw it with her JW friends, she would have said it was an apostate lie.