Posts by Dagney

I remember listening to this a few years ago. The podcast was just re-released because the movie was just released on Netflix. Pretty amazing. A moment of clarity, a real "come to Jesus" moment to a guy deep deep within the Oral Roberts Pentecostal organization.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/304/heretics

Ira Glass says the movie covers much more than the podcast, giving more insight to the relationship with Roberts and the aftermath with all including his family. Pearson spent hours and hours with the screenwriters building the story. He calls out the Bible writers, God, hell you name it. That is a rare stand in that world.

Netflix movie produced by This American Life is called "Come Sunday," with an all star cast. I am going to watch it tonight.

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Major Article in Today's Philadelphia Inquirer on JW Child Abuse

by Room 215 in

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/jehovahs-witnesses-sexual-abuse-children-beliefs-rules.html.

Dagney

Hell of an article.

Thank you for posting.

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"The last DAYS?"

by eyeuse2badub in

i was asked last sunday, after a meeting that i attended with my wife, by a good friend if i believed that these were indeed the "last days".

what prompted his question was the public talk given by a young man that i have known since he was 7 years old and is now an elder at 30.. the talk made mention several times that we are 'definitely' living in the "last days".

i assume that the expression "last days" was prominent in the outline.. i hope that he way i answered my friend's question jump started his thinking.

Dagney

After all, a thousand years is but 1 day to jehober. And with all the "overlapping generations" (lol) and the "new light" (lol) yet to be revealed, I'm sure the sure that there is an explanation. (or an excuse)

Good one. And my .02. "Evidently ()Jehovah is waiting to destroy the most people he can by postponing the end. Must be one of the mysteries we were not meant to understand I guess."

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Judge Orders Jehovah's Witnesses to turn over Internal Documents re: Childhood Sexual Abuse

by AndersonsInfo in

https://nixlaw.com/news/judge-orders-jehovahs-witnesses-to-turn-over-internal-documents-related-to-childhood-sexual-abuse/.

judge orders jehovah’s witnesses to turn over internal documents related to childhood sexual abuse.

april 12, 2018. .

Dagney

I looked up the location and it's about 2 hours away from where my brother "serves" as a COBE. He made a point a few years ago that he didn't agree with the handling of the pedophile issue within the congregations. I didn't bite, because I wasn't sure if he was testing me or he was being honest.

As the area elders have their powwow's over this, I'm wondering how he will sort it out. We were in communication a few times a year, but lately it seems I am on the outs again. Whatever, lol.

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Early 70's JW POP Music: All Over, No wonder. By: The Great Crowd

by I quit! in

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going through a box of old records in my garage i came across this 45 by the great crowd.

it was given to me in the early 70's when i was living in crestline, ca.

i had no way of playing it because i haven't had a turntable in years so i googled it and found this link.

Dagney

I swear I have the worse memory. Absolutely the worse.

i remember that Disneyland concert. Lots of fun.

Waves to Frankie & B.

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2018 Courage Convention video invitation

by Listener in

the video invitation for the 2018 convention is just creepy.

i thought it was some parody at first as it seems 'dark'.it begins with a young man being pushed whilst standing at his locker and the voice over says that 'in critical times we need courage more than ever'.

next, comes a clip of a male putting his hand on the shoulder of a female worker, the look she gives him would be enough to give him nightmares for the next year.

Dagney

I was talking with my sister yesterday, and she was telling me another JW relative was giving her the fear talk. She kept responding on how things are better. To be fair, I so remember vividly seeing nothing good in the world...that we were one heartbeat away from the END.

Fear is an effective tool. And yeah, about the ship???

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Early 70's JW POP Music: All Over, No wonder. By: The Great Crowd

by I quit! in

jw
friends

going through a box of old records in my garage i came across this 45 by the great crowd.

it was given to me in the early 70's when i was living in crestline, ca.

i had no way of playing it because i haven't had a turntable in years so i googled it and found this link.

Dagney

Wow.

I remember us JW kids following a group called "The Great Crowd." Just at local weddings I think.

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What's Up with These Two-Week JW Preaching Junkets to Israel?

by Room 215 in

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friends

my wife just related experiences at the local kingdom hall of several locals having made two-week "need is greater" trips to israel, ostensibly to preach there... what's up with this nuttiness?.

Dagney

To keep people in the fold the corporation needs to convince them of their relevance, otherwise...why bother.

It's a great scheme. The faithful seem to need it...like that Netflix movie "Wild Country", they would rather stay in a cult than leave and think for themselves.

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You Know You're Starting To Wake Up When...

by pale.emperor in

you start listening to music deemed "unsuitable for christians".

you pretend to knock on the doors.

you explain a jw teaching to someone and realize how ridiculous it sounds.

Dagney

You Know You're Starting To Wake Up When...

The TMS overseer hands you a talk slip and you hand it back and say "Oh, I already graduated."