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  Trolley Witnessing Saves Money?

  by TTATTelder in

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  i was just wondering, do you think the trolley cart stationary witnessing is to slow down the literature distribution at not-at-homes?.

  it basically traps several shifts of pioneers to a cart or table and keeps the placement count way down compared to leaving something at every door in a neighborhood.. is money the main motivation here?

  (besides staged facebook pics lol).

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  I personally do not think is a matter of money. It`s more desperation, the cult is dieing very slowly.

  I did the trolly thing once, and I thought at the time, this is stupid.
  
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  Specific Comments By R&F About May Broadcast

  by freemindfade in

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  i know there are many posts discussing the may money requesting televangalism...er... broadcast i mean!

  but i wanted to start one where anyone can put what they have heard any non-exjw, non-apostate witnesses say good or bad about the broadcast.

  i don't see how it can't rattle followers... but then again i might be surprised how they can twist things (2+2=5).

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  Driving Force

  Crazyguy. I feel for you, realizing that you have been misled and wanting to share this "truth" with your partner is a very upright thing to do, but the bOrg indoctrination is so strong. Your wife feeling so bad shows that CD is having an affect.
  

  My wife has moved into a different room in the house. She does not greet me in the mornings nor does she say goodnight. Trying to start a conversation about anything is not possible, not even about the weather. But anyway I am there for her, as you are there for your wife.

  As for me I am picking up the things I left 28 years ago, I restarted tae-kwon-do, and will restart gliding, things I did before being assimilated.
  
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  On the subject of Child Baptism - Video

  by cappytan in

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  so, the latest "kids" kingdom melody video is out.. here are some screenshots:.

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  yep, that's right, they showed a kid with a teddy bear getting baptized.. here's the video in full for documentation, if you can stomach it.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ellrtyj_maq.

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  Driving Force

  The snowman got me!
  
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  New arrangement from C.O.

  by Doctor Who in

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  i think most on here will be familiar with the caller hook up system that many congregations use.

  visit about 2 months ago.

  during our servant and elders meeting he was talking up the importance of meeting attendance and how we "gods spirit appointed men" must take the lead on making every meeting.

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  Driving Force

  In the congregation I belonged to, everybody can have the code, but everybody has a unique code so they know exactly who has called-in, or if the code has been abused by giving it to someone else.
  
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  Secret disfellowshipping

  by disillusioned 2 in

  1. watchtower
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  i always thought it was ridiculous that when a person was disfellowshipped they didn't tell us why.

  everybody would speculate, but we wouldn't know the real reason.

  also i thought they were only supposed to be disfellowshipped if they weren't repentant and wouldn't stop doing the wrong thing.

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  Driving Force

  About 25 years ago, a brother returned to Europe after living in the USA for much of his adult life, he was almost 70 when he returned, he wanted to spend the last few years of his life in the land of his birth. He was quite humble, but unpleasant in his appearance but I liked him. He started attending the congregation I was in but was not liked by the then PO, and he was viciously mobbed out of the congregation by this elder. He started attending another congregation some distance away, but because he was old and also had a disability he was more of a liability than an asset, and he was not really treaty very well in that congregation either.

  The older ones in any congregation really do need the support of the younger ones in the congregation, but he received none. I was in a different congregation and was not fully aware of his needs, and as I was a pioneer at the time I had little spare time. I did make an effort to visit him once a month, just to have a chat and see how he was, he never told me of the problems he was having.

  One interested person, a woman 25 years his junior, took pity on him and went to visit him 2-3 times a week, would clean his home and cook for him. Well the elders found out that she was visiting him regularly and did something about it. As she was not even an unbaptized publisher they could not do anything to her, so they form a JC and disfellowshipped the brother. He told me the next time I visited him and I listened to his story. Being a member of the bOrg collective I was obedient and stopped all contact with him. Not long after being disfellowshipped he died, with a broken heart after serving Jehovah almost all his life.
  Fast forward 20 years (last year), I was at the annual district convention and sitting in front of me was an elderly man belonging to the congregation where this brother had been a member. So I mentioned the old brother's name and this elderly man, an elder, started to explain to me why they disfellowshipped him, I did not ask why, I asked nothing. This elder demonstrated to be by the way he talked to me about the subject that the elders 20 years ago had no valid reason to disfellowship this older brother. What was his crime, he was old and required help and received it from someone 25 years his younger.
  What possible rule did this guy break?
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  Where Does Jehovah Live?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  when my niece was very little (over 20 years ago), barely walking or talking, my mother decided to teach her "where jehovah lives".

  she would coach her and say, "where does jehovah live?

  " in a sing-song voice.

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  I did not grow up in the bOrg collective, so my fear was the "Bogey Man".
  
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  JW's abandon Book Carts as Feminist Transvestite Attacks Random Men in Public

  by GodZoo in

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  2. entertainment

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiyjjyqb8hu.

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  Driving Force

  JK.

  You wasted 2 mins. 20 secs of your life watching that.
  
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  JW's abandon Book Carts as Feminist Transvestite Attacks Random Men in Public

  by GodZoo in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiyjjyqb8hu.

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  Driving Force

  Thats funny. Staged of course.
  
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  If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bull $hit

  by hoser in

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  2. beliefs

  i was thinking of this when i was sitting at the kingdom hall today.

  one of the paragraphs in the watchtower stated that the type/anti type teachings were too hard for some to understand.

  i could never figure them out never made sense to me.

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  Driving Force

  Well maybe they had to say it difficult to understand, because they do not understand it themselves, some of these teachings were before their time.
  
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  Organised Crime

  by Dominic in

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  i am not greatly familiar with the belief of jehovah's witness but am learning more through a school project.

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  what is the jehovah's witness view on organised crime?

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  Driving Force

  Dominic.
  

  It is nice that you have found this site, but to be honest I don't think this is the right site to ask such questions. But feel free to look at the views people have on this site have.

  There maybe someone on this site who can point you in the right direction, and I am sure they will show you the necessary respect.
  

  Whatever you find out on this subject make sure you compare the results of what JWs believe to what others believe. This is a right you have and nobody can take it away from you.