Posts by Dagney

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2016 CA videos

by wifibandit in

download links (get 'em while they're hot!).

imitate jehovah-- morning.

imitate jehovah -- afternoon.

Wow. I skipped around these a bit. So familiar and yet seems so dreary!!! The stage, the podium...worse than I remember. Odd to see the phone and tablets...I guess it's to show you don't have to know anything really...just be able to research on jw.org.

My heart sinks a bit; most "seem" nice, deluded, wanting to do good. In reality, they are quite cruel in their stand for this religion. {{shiver}}

A "sister" who stayed good friends with me died last week from cancer, and I'm gutted. This Saturday I'm going back to the hall for the memorial. I'm trying to prepare myself for it.

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Australian Royal Commission Findings released

by Mephis in

will just post the general findings by counsel for the commission (angus stewart) - case specific ones are prior to them.

in short, absolutely damning.. not been through every submission myself yet.

available for download here: http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/636f01a5-50db-4b59-a35e-a24ae07fb0ad/case-study-29,-july-2015,-sydney.aspx.

Dagney

Bumping to read later. Scanned through it quickly...amazing. Just amazing.

They look really bad on paper. YAY!!

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Yeah, my parents plan to will everything to this parasitic organization and forsake their seed

by Phaedra in

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yeah, they'll leave it all, their home, savings, etc.. never mind helping out their struggling children who never had a chance.. fuck this organization and everything it stands for when its members think god will favor them more by willing everything to a corporation instead of their own struggling seed..

Dagney

As usual the WTBS picks and chooses the scriptures the want to beat the flock with. It is the scriptural counsel to provide inheritance to your own family.

I'm sorry Phaedra. It awful. My mother did the same, thinking she was doing something wonderful. It's so frustrating.

We hear you Phaedra.

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Are there any ex-missionaries here??

by fulano in

i have been a missionary in the dominican republic for almost 10 years and i was wondering if there were any ex-missionaries on this forum.. i am back in my country now for 3 years and totally inactive.. what i noticed in those missionary-years was the lack of spiritual interest among the missionaries.. discussions were about rooms, cars and greater responsibilities, the bad territory.

and the local c.o.s and d.os.. was this only in the dr or are there other experiences??.

ere other experiences?

Dagney

Don't know, could be. They were reg pioneers and went where it was warm half the year to pioneer. There were a bunch of them but was only close to two of them.

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Newly released 911 photos

by purplesofa in

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(cnn) -- newly released photographs show what a damaged world trade center tower and its collapse looked like from a new york police department helicopter as it flew nearby on september 11, 2001, in new york.. the aerial photos were obtained by abc news after it filed a freedom of information act request last year with the national institute of standards and technology, which had collected the images for its investigation into the towers' collapse.. a couple of the images show one of the twin towers burning after a hijacked airplane had flown into it.

others show it collapsing, and the rest show the clouds of debris and dust spreading below after the towers crumbled.. each of the 12 images offers a rare look at what the devastation looked like from above.. .

http://www.cnn.com/2010/us/02/10/world.trade.center.aerial/index.html.

Dagney

I miss Leo.

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Are there any ex-missionaries here??

by fulano in

i have been a missionary in the dominican republic for almost 10 years and i was wondering if there were any ex-missionaries on this forum.. i am back in my country now for 3 years and totally inactive.. what i noticed in those missionary-years was the lack of spiritual interest among the missionaries.. discussions were about rooms, cars and greater responsibilities, the bad territory.

and the local c.o.s and d.os.. was this only in the dr or are there other experiences??.

ere other experiences?

Dagney

I just looked at his FB page and Steve Lett via video dedicated an expansion and remodel of the Bethel home in August 2015. Business as usual I guess.

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Are there any ex-missionaries here??

by fulano in

i have been a missionary in the dominican republic for almost 10 years and i was wondering if there were any ex-missionaries on this forum.. i am back in my country now for 3 years and totally inactive.. what i noticed in those missionary-years was the lack of spiritual interest among the missionaries.. discussions were about rooms, cars and greater responsibilities, the bad territory.

and the local c.o.s and d.os.. was this only in the dr or are there other experiences??.

ere other experiences?

Dagney

Yes that's him. They got to live in the new Bethel home. Then they went to Azua. Or maybe it's vice versa, not sure now about the timeline anymore. Very very nice guy. We had very frank, honest convos about the issues with the WT and congregations. I was pretty done after the 1995 generation change. The wife used to be a good friend of mine before marrying. We had a lot of Swedes comes over to visit in the 80's.

I think of them whenever I hear about these reductions at the branches.

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Are there any ex-missionaries here??

by fulano in

i have been a missionary in the dominican republic for almost 10 years and i was wondering if there were any ex-missionaries on this forum.. i am back in my country now for 3 years and totally inactive.. what i noticed in those missionary-years was the lack of spiritual interest among the missionaries.. discussions were about rooms, cars and greater responsibilities, the bad territory.

and the local c.o.s and d.os.. was this only in the dr or are there other experiences??.

ere other experiences?

Dagney

What a story 3rdgen. Such is life. At least your cousins had enough independence to go their own way. Woulda shoulda coulda...lol.

I remember the name Trujillo as a kid, now that you mention it. The big talk was the countries where the JW's were banned. Big stuff...made the coming GT very real at the time...the message about governments turning on JW's. You forget about that craziness... xoxox

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Are there any ex-missionaries here??

by fulano in

i have been a missionary in the dominican republic for almost 10 years and i was wondering if there were any ex-missionaries on this forum.. i am back in my country now for 3 years and totally inactive.. what i noticed in those missionary-years was the lack of spiritual interest among the missionaries.. discussions were about rooms, cars and greater responsibilities, the bad territory.

and the local c.o.s and d.os.. was this only in the dr or are there other experiences??.

ere other experiences?

Dagney

Henry.

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Are there any ex-missionaries here??

by fulano in

i have been a missionary in the dominican republic for almost 10 years and i was wondering if there were any ex-missionaries on this forum.. i am back in my country now for 3 years and totally inactive.. what i noticed in those missionary-years was the lack of spiritual interest among the missionaries.. discussions were about rooms, cars and greater responsibilities, the bad territory.

and the local c.o.s and d.os.. was this only in the dr or are there other experiences??.

ere other experiences?

Dagney

Right, David and his wife Christine. I think he was from Mexico or one of the latin-american countries. I believe he was a need greater and met his wife who was also. There was a group of Swedes that worked 6 mths, then went to the DR or Chile to pioneer for 6 mths that I knew for years. They came out for an international assembly a few years ago and we met for dinner.

I still wonder if you know the other couple. He's been there for maybe 30 years and he is from CA.