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  ex jws have you ever been helped by an active jw?

  by Crazyguy in

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  just wondering if anyone here that has left, faded away, no longer active in the congregation but not dfd, needed help, money, car, food etc.

  and recieved some from an active jw?.

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  compound complex

  I wonder if it's just a matter of being good at heart despite the organization. Ray Franz said that about Robert Lang:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/142719/1/A-Man-in-Spite-of-the-Organization-ISOCF

  I have been dealt with kindly and generously by most of my JW friends and family. We have all helped each other over the decades. To see me, to hear me talk, it is evident that I am by no means a cookie-cutter Witness. One dear, loving JW wants my help on a Bible study 'when I start going out in service again.'

  Not all Jehovah's Witnesses are shallow and strictly adherent to the ever-changing thought and behavioral cult controls.

  How it is here.

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  JW.bore invades my vacation?!?

  by darth frosty in

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  just got back from a cruise and dubs were walking around the boat faithfully wearing their jw.bore pins smdh.

  than at cozumel i saw these lovely sisters.

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  compound complex

  Read a FB comment on the same subject, i.e., lit carts dockside in Mexico.
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  JW.bore invades my vacation?!?

  by darth frosty in

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  just got back from a cruise and dubs were walking around the boat faithfully wearing their jw.bore pins smdh.

  than at cozumel i saw these lovely sisters.

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  compound complex

  Thanks, Darth!

  That helps, And Cozumel is a location . . .

  I, too, shake my head. Times are so different, even in JW Land.

  Hope you had a good time.

  When I pioneered 45 years ago in the midwest USA, we drove hours a day between farm communities and isolated homes on rural highways. I asked outr CO, Harold Lackey, how to count time because there were stretches of time when we talked to no one. He said that if we started at 9 AM and finished at 5 PM, subtract one hour for lunch and count 7 hours FST.

  I liked that man.

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  JW.bore invades my vacation?!?

  by darth frosty in

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  just got back from a cruise and dubs were walking around the boat faithfully wearing their jw.bore pins smdh.

  than at cozumel i saw these lovely sisters.

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  compound complex

  Good morning, Darth:

  Kindly enlarge upon this:

  SMDH than at cozumel I saw these lovely sisters

  I don't get it.

  Thanks!

  CoCo
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  so, what ARE society 'approved' jobs anyway?

  by sowhatnow in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  obviously they feel a window washer job is a job anyone can do anywhere in he world .

  and makes great money, yea right.. so what are all those 'approved jobs?'.

  add to the list of any and all building skills, cleaning type jobs.

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  One sister's story was told in AWAKE! She sold her thriving daycare business because she loved it too much. The point made was that her heart was in her work.

  You cannot love both Jehovah and your job.
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  Caleb talks to his mother about the new system.

  by LogCon in

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  2. beliefs

  mom: yes?.

  you dont want to make jehovah sad, do you mom?.

  mom: okay.. .

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  Precocious child -- must be his native genius in combination with his avid ingesting of spiritual food, all at the proper time, of course.
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  Truth Be Told documentary available for pre-order

  by RayPublisher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  gregorio smith's feature film, "truth be told" is available for digital delivery and streaming download on 12-19-2014 and pre-orders are being taken.

  now anyone that wants to see the film can do so, and i know a lot of you have been asking about it over the last year or so since he started screening it all over the world in major cities.. check it out here:.

  http://www.hereliesthetruth.com/.

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  Excellent interview.

  Gregorio is well spoken and has, with intelligence and good intentions, composed this documentary. He contacted Bethel's PR department (at about 20 minutes), and they said they were not interested and hung up.

  Some 1000 individuals connected to JWs replied to his call, about 1/3 being active Witnesses. None of that group agreed to be onscreen though their identity would have been protected.

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  too nice and polite

  by Phaedra in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  anyone finding themselves being labeled as "too nice" or "polite" after being a lifelong jw and integrating into the "new world" of realistic beings?.

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  Dearest Millie210:

  May peace and love reign supreme for you and yours today and for all your tomorrows . . .

  CoCo
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  too nice and polite

  by Phaedra in

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  anyone finding themselves being labeled as "too nice" or "polite" after being a lifelong jw and integrating into the "new world" of realistic beings?.

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  compound complex

  Greetings, Phaedra:

  I've always had my head in the clouds, almost literally. "What are you staring at up there?" curious bystanders would ask.

  Well, along with that existed an undue deference toward others. Because my heart and mind were wrapped up in the world of fantasy -- aided and abetted by WT theology and iconography -- it really took me a while to become grounded in the real world, a harsh, no-nonsense world intolerant of my retreats into Wonderland.

  Never aggressive, yet I have become mildly assertive when it's necessary to be so. My "no" has, truly, become NO! Gently stated, of course.

  I've come a long way, Baby . . .

  Et tu?

  CoCo
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  One of my main problems with the WT: A very irresponsible organization

  by Hidden-Window in

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  2. friends

  one of my main problems with the watch tower and, more specifically, with the governing body is the level of irresponsibility seen when lives of people are involved and their unapologetical attitude when people suffer due to their absurd policies.. how many people were imprisoned or killed for refusing to perform civil service in exchange for military service?.

  we do not know, but it does not matter, because the society does not even apologize for the harm their blinking light caused.. how many people died or contracted illnesses due to the prohibition of vaccines?.

  we might never know, but an apology is not on the menu.. how many people died for refusing (or disfellowshipped for accepting) fractions of blood when it was against the rules?.

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  compound complex

  Thanks, Apognothos!

  As I reread it, what you have stated makes it very clear.

  Best.

  CoCo