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  Brooklyn Bethel Tours Through The Roof

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
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  was speaking with someone last night who just recently toured the us bethel's.

  the brooklyn tour i heard was awful, very limited and disappointing and conducted by a local pioneer and not even a bethelite.

  well from what they are telling the folks on the tour since the tm3 bit encouraging (guilting) people about going to disneyland on vacation when you haven't visited bethel, monthly tours went from 6000 to 16000!

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  WasOnceBlind

  Only a matter of time until they open "Calebs Kindom Park" complete with 10 dollar refreshments.
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  Tampa Bay Times: Jehovah's Witnesses still going door-to-door in a closed-door world

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
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  http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/workinglife/jehovahs-witnesses-still-going-door-to-door-in-a-closed-door-world/2231499.

  st. petersburg like any group of spirited salesmen, this crew swaps stories about the big scores, those times when people couldn't wait to buy what they were selling..

  "we were out in service on sept. 11," remembers power-suited jonathan burns, his colleagues nodding.

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  Is this a real paper or a parody site?
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  Google Earth the Bethels and you can see the Tennis Courts, Swimming Pools, but Austerity measures still continue

  by Quarterback in

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  what's to become of these little luxuries enjoyed at bethel now that some departments have closed down such as housekeeping, laundry, meals, etc....

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  WasOnceBlind

  how do i google earth it?
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  Possible crack in the door that I can expose

  by WasOnceBlind in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so on monday when i went to pick up my son from my mom i noticed a framed print out of a poem on my moms living room.

  it was in spanish but i read it and i was kind of surprised at what it said.

  i don't remember it verbatim but i would go as far as to say it had some apostate factors in there.

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  Yes, I dont think my mom believes that either. My grandfather died about two years ago, she would alway try preaching to him but he never became a witness. He was a good person thought. She always talks about seeing him again in paradise. I don't have the heart to tell her, "well according to WT teachings...he won't be there"
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  "Friends" are gone

  by BeautifulMind in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have (well had) an extremely small circle of jw friends.

  lots of acquaintances and associates but 2 or 3 i would consider my true friends.

  that list is now 0. yup, once i told them i no longer believe in the org and haven't for a long time, and their attempts to encourage me thru jw lingo and terminologies to "rely on jehovah" and not to "stray away" failed that was pretty much it.

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  I have gone thru a similar experience, I have one friend who is a JW who still hangs out with me, we have been best friends since little. He isn't what I would consider even remotely "spiritual" but for some reason he just wont wake up. I think it's mostly the social club aspect of it, anyways, he is single right now and will only date JW. I have no doubt that when he marries a JW not only will I not be invited to his wedding, but he will probably stop hanging out. Sad how this cult works.
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  Possible crack in the door that I can expose

  by WasOnceBlind in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so on monday when i went to pick up my son from my mom i noticed a framed print out of a poem on my moms living room.

  it was in spanish but i read it and i was kind of surprised at what it said.

  i don't remember it verbatim but i would go as far as to say it had some apostate factors in there.

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  WasOnceBlind

  So on Monday when I went to pick up my son from my mom I noticed a framed print out of a poem on my moms living room. It was in spanish but I read it and I was kind of surprised at what it said. I don't remember it verbatim but I would go as far as to say it had some apostate factors in there. The poem was about a man who has been resurrected after armageddon, it tells the story about him looking for relatives or others he knew and expected to see. However, he keeps finding people he never expected to see there. The point of the poem was that only God truly knows who will be resurrected.

  What caught my attention was a line in the poem where this man sees this woman he didn't expect to see there because every time he went knocking at her door to preach she would reject the witnesses.....WHAT?! I could have sworn one of their doctrines stated that they are the only way to salvation, and that those who reject them are doomed to die in armageddon. Couldn't this line be taken as apostasy? It is in direct contradiction of that teaching.
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  evolution

  by piledriver in

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  2. beliefs

  can enyone explane why someone who's dissfelowshipt said they now belve in evolution has anyone heard this explane please

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  WasOnceBlind

  @ piledriver - I now believe in evolution. I don't believe in the fact that something started from nothing, or that we evolved from apes but I do believe organism evolve and adapt.
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  evolution

  by piledriver in

  1. watchtower
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  can enyone explane why someone who's dissfelowshipt said they now belve in evolution has anyone heard this explane please

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  WasOnceBlind

  what is wrong with believing in evolution?
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  New Watchtower Propaganda and hate speech destroying families (Feb 2016 WT)

  by Daniel1555 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the following is a paragraph from the new february study watchtower article "learn from jehovah's loyal servants.".

  7 a conflict of loyalties may arise when a close relative is disfellowshipped.

  for example, a sister named anne [1] received a telephone call from her disfellowshipped mother.

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  I've never agreed with this policy and I never followed it. I have had two close childhood friends DF'ed as well as my sister. Always kept talking to them, even at the hall, I would sit with them at conventions, and hang out with them. The elders never told me anything, I think because they knew I wouldn't listen anyways. I wasn't allowed to have privileges because of my immigration status at the time so they couldn't really take anything away from me. Last time my mother asked when I was returning to the org, I told her when they stop practicing shunning. I know that will never happen or droves of people would leave. Half the people in my congregation were there for the social club aspect of it.
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  I'm Catholic and madly in love with a Jehovah Witness...

  by Luge62 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we are madly in love with each other and she is in the process of being divorced.

  let me make one thing clear i'm not the reason for the divorce.

  she attempted to reconcile with him but to no avail.

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  WasOnceBlind

  OR.......she might end up like me!

  I married a catholic girl while being a JW, I was marked, everyone except my childhood best friend starting treating me different and pretty much shunning me. It was one of the factors in realizing it was a BS cult, I stopped attending and never missed those hypocrites.