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  Jehovah's Witnesses 2015 Regional Convention Saturday PM experience parents shunning children

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  clip 3 minutes long.

  ron and brenda sutton ................warwick 3 children

  it was the missed association with family that brought them back.

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  JWdaughter

  Coming back for family. She wasn't "coming back to Jehovah", she was coming back to momma.

  Its amazing how some cling to abusive parents and toxic family relationships, isn't it?
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  Everything seems to be changing... why not birthdays?

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if we look at all doctrines, we see an overall effort to conserve unity and control.

  - assuming most birthdays, if allowed, would probably be oriented to children, then that means 40 celebrations per year.

  so all in all, this give a total potential attendance to a birthday of 30 families (120 attendance / 4 family members).

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  JWdaughter

  Isolation

  Control

  Persecution (everyone thinks they are wierd and hearing it makes them feel persecuted)

  Can you imagine all the issues at birthday parties? Drunk parents, inappropriate gifts (like the wizard Caleb loved), one-upping the elders kids parties. . . they'd be DFing folks right and left. Elders don't have time for all that drama!
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  Unscripturally Free To Be Married - the Contradications

  by Ohiamfree in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  so far i have worked out 2 challenges to this ridiculous, stupid cruel imposed rule that results in disfellowshipping.

  (1) if someone is still scriptually married after a divorce, and moved back in with their ex, they would be disfellowshipped.

  so then on what grounds did you ever mean someone was still married?

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  The ex was thanking God that he divorced before she met the JWs.

  I always thought that any divorce before baptism was considered a sin that didn't have to be dealt with. I think they deal with those who have KILLED people with more leniency-I remember reading some question of what if a guy confessed to murder before becoming a JW. I believe it just addressed the legal issues, not the moral ones, but basically the idea was that all was forgiven.
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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 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it 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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  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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  JW Elder Promoting His Business on YouTube

  by Samuel in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://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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  Boring video. He really needs a better ad, honestly.
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  WT is shorting literature orders by congregation with a problem contributing enough for literature $3500 just for mags

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at 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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  Less WT's in the world is a good thing.
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  What would happen if you drop a fake check or bill in the donation box?

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  page 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  an 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when 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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  JWdaughter

  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.