Posts by Gayle

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"Follow the Money"

by Gayle in

https://www.metro.us/entertainment/tv/leah-remini-scientology-and-the-aftermath-season-3.

this season 3 about scientology by leah is to "follow the money.

" it will be interesting on how she goes about this.

Gayle

https://www.metro.us/entertainment/tv/leah-remini-scientology-and-the-aftermath-season-3

This season 3 about Scientology by Leah is to "Follow the Money." It will be interesting on how she goes about this. She wants to challenge the 'tax status' of Scientology. Will it be possible? Does the IRS have responsibility to verify such religions as being truly helpful to members and in what way? Can unsatisfied members/ex-members have a say about their treatment?

Will that be possible for the Watchtower to be challenged?

Why shouldn't all claiming religions be required to be transparent and honest about their money, receiving and expenses?

Could she accomplish such an event?

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Apostasy Movie - Available on Amazon Prime Video (plus Review)

by Simon in

in case anyone is looking for a way to watch it, it's on amazon prime video.. (apologies if it's already been mentioned).

Gayle

I watched on Amazon a few weeks ago. By the end of the movie, I felt the 'suffocation' of JW life. Sucks the life out of people.

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Apostasy Movie - Available on Amazon Prime Video (plus Review)

by Simon in

in case anyone is looking for a way to watch it, it's on amazon prime video.. (apologies if it's already been mentioned).

Gayle

I watched it a few weeks ago. I realized at the end I was hardly breathing. It showed the 'suffocation' of the JW life. Lifeless, empty.

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Maybe more will follow.

by Jayk in

in a nutshell.

a group of about 6 women who have been friends practically their whole lives that i personally know are leaving there jw husbands.

my understanding is they're starting to see the hypocrisy of the .org.

Gayle

If only it would be the wives of the GB!! Of course, they would all just disappear? like wife of Miscavige of Scientology?!

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In search of custody hearing advice ...

by dubstepped in

i don't have kids, but i recently found that someone with kids that lives in my town is also an ex-jw.

she just happened to post on an apostafest thread on facebook for an event that i attended, saw that we lived in the same place, and i met her for the first time tonight.

pretty cool.. she has a 14 year old boy that is super smart and very articulate.

Gayle

In Arizona, the judge gives "full" medical right/authority to the non-JW parent. Hopefully, the son is interested in extra-curricular activities at school and will have no time for JWism. Unfortunately, no doubt JW parent will have his right to take his son to JW meetings, but maybe not all, just on Sunday. In Arizona, the never JW mom was granted that the children can only have a Bible study only with JW father and no one else in JW cong. The never JW mom was counting on the father wouldn't really do a Bible study with kids for long, not a follow through type JW father.

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The Children Act - Emma Thompson - advertised on ITV One - prime time.

by freddo in

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friends

as you probably know "the children act" is a film starring emma thompson as a high court judge deciding whether or not to transfuse a teen jw.

it is due to be on general release in the uk on august 24th 2018. september 14th usa.. its shortened trailer is being advertised in the uk on the biggest independent tv channel - namely itv - at prime time.

just seen it in advertisment breaks between 6pm and 7pm uk time.. thought you might like to know..

Gayle

I just rented the movie "The Children Act." (Direct TV)The movie shows clearly the moral/court dilemma of the JW blood issue with JW teenagers. The Court ruling for "blood" for JW teenagers and how it can cause of self-destruct for the teenager. How the JW teenager has been programed against the blood transfusion. How does the JW kid deal with the control by the Courts without a flood of negativity or the defilement taught by JWisms. Who can they go to sort out this kinds of spiritual/emotional (?) depressions.

This movie is based on a novel which is inspired on a 'true' account. A judge did make a ruling for the blood transfusion for a young JW young man, underage, around 17. He visited the kid and the kid loved football and they talked a lot about that. The judge later after when the boy had the transfusion and was well, took the kid to a big game and introduced all the players. Seven or eight years later the young man, then of legal age, denied the transfusion and died.

http://www.thenationalstudent.com/Film/2018-08-19/ian_mcewan_and_the_filmmakers_behind_the_children_act_talk_the_challenges_of_getting_serious_films_off_the_ground.html#.W32g6vA-Dok.email

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why the watchtower is so short of money

by pepperheart in

the watchtower is so short of money because they have to pay for all the upkeep of so many branch offices around the world.because so many of the branch offices are in very poor countries and they are not balancing the budgets.

Gayle

"Here's a thought, if they were so poor why did they announce that they would let go of all Congregational loans for Kingdom Hall renovations ? ""

Possibly there was a legal glitch ,, maybe law said they can't do inner "loans" with congs.?? Against "religion" laws by gov.??

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MUST WATCH! Watchtower's Shocking Admissions

by Newly Enlightened in

watchtower's shocking admissions.

Gayle

So, 90 "peak" pubs per avg. cong. (2017 annual report)

What would be the 'average amount of chairs' in an avg. KH be?

The thing is, the Christians in first century were growing just fine in the first century apparently without "KHs" at all.

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Leaked video- Watchtower's Preaching Initiative SIFT

by Newly Enlightened in

watchtower's leaked video.... watchtower's preaching initiative sift.

Gayle

It makes sense to go door to door when people are at home. However, most JWs don't really want to talk to anyone much either anyway. Years (maybe decades ago) some ruling came out to go door to door prior to the "book study" night meeting (8pm) so to go about 6:30pm.(?) That lasted some weeks, but died out. I went with my dad but didn't like it at all, especially as it darkened in the winter by then.

In 1975, a circuit overseer made a ruling during one week, that everyone should work alone, so as to cover the "territory" better, faster because of end "so soon" then. The sisters mumbled to me how they didn't like it. I just settled them down that after the circuit overseer left that we can just go back to working together again. (I had just left Bethel some months prior and had lost some unquestioning spirit by then and was then in a long, unraveling process of questioning thousands of knots and tangles of JWdom.)

Anyway, most JWs don't like going door-to-door, not really.

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How to spot awake JW at a convention

by Akid48 in

i cant spot one to save my life, so i wanted to now if any one could me figure out how..

Gayle

My last convention, I felt like a spy in a foreign land. During the prayer, I looked around and was surprised how so many children were only goofing around (silently), including my children. Surprisingly, I caught several adults, wide-eyed looking around too.