That didn't feel comfortable to me ever,,we were never to call any man "Father" (other than bio father/dad). how would it make sense to call any small group of men "mother" either. Crazy/weird.
Posts by Gayle
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29The Borg "our mother"? Good Grief!
by Roberta804 ini have heard it all now, or at least up to now, the borg never ceases to surprise me.
so when jesus was talking to his deciple from the cross (opps stake), "this is your mother" or something like that, was he talking about the borg?
lol.
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Weird rumor I heard - JWs in Sweden
by sir82 ini heard this from a "friend of a friend of a friend...." at least 3 or 4 intermediate steps before i heard it.. so it is likely distorted, but i'll throw it out there in case someone in or near sweden can clarify it.. .
i heard that the wts branch in sweden instructed all jws there to "get rid of" all (empahasized all) of their printed literature, and rely exclusively on the content of jw.org for their literature.. .
that's the entire extent of it - i also got a few speculations about "what it might mean" (the society is expecting persecution!
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Gayle
The "persecution" card helps to motivate the paranoid JWs to do anything and everything the WTS wants done.
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Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, Service Dept; Legal team,all Elders MS, are encouraged to watch the Documentary,' Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God'.
by Sol Reform ineach and every organization that deals with children should have its president, board, and all employees watch this film, and then read this column so that they can identify the players, the machinations, and the mistakes that institutions make when it comes to children and pedophiles.
december 3, 2012 marci a. hamilton.
a review of the documentary mea maxima culpa: silence in the house of god, which reveals the paradigm of institution-based child sex abuse.
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Gayle
I will watch for this in the future. I don't have HBO but eventually, it should become available elsewhere.
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Orangeburg Assembly Hall - designed to be sold as a future supermarket?
by cedars ini've just been watching a youtube video that reveals the new assembly hall in orangeburg, sc.. two things struck me when watching it.... firstly, everything is attributed to jehovah, right down to deciding the location where the hall is to be built.
"we examined over 300 properties," said one interviewee, "we were reminded that jehovah knew where the site was, we just had to keep looking and show him that we were persistent.
" other workers interviewed throughout the video attribute everything to god, as though it is impossible to build anything without divine direction.. here is the video.... .
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Gayle
In conclusion, will sell for so many millions of dollars, and funds back to headquarters.
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Another rumor about changes in Watchtower and Awake
by wannaexit init's only a rumor.
but we all know that sometimes rumors become a reality.. supposedly the public watchtower and awake magazines will be combined together and the two shall become one.. i wonder if the present 16 page "rags" are becoming an embarrassment.
they truly are rags of the lowest quality..
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Gayle
just the Awake, at the most, for door to door, or laudramats is sufficient to waste. Public Watchtower total waste, nobody reads that.
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So thankful! Would have never believed it possible!
by coffee_black inover 2 years ago, my daughter was diagnosed with end stage congestive heart failure.
she has come so far.... and even rides her bike 5 to 6 miles per day now.
here's how she looks today.
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Gayle
She is a beauiful, victorious survivor. Encouraging to all!
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Came clean to the wife and all is good!
by Comatose ini have been reading steven hassan's books as well studying like never before.
my wife has seen the amount studying i am doing, just hasnt known what all subjects instudy.
over the last few weeks i've slowly shared certain things.
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Gayle
That is awesome for you both! So many best wishes!
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First post / 1914 info
by whichway2go inmy first post here after about 6 months of lurking.
i will comment more and give some more info later, but i am still active, and looking for my way to exit.
i had a question that i'm hoping someone can help with.
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Gayle
Many of us were just young, when our parents went down a road with great promise, and the very hard parts there just gave promise of "soon" to endure it all. But we in time, too much time, knew this road as senseless and untruthful. We left, not knowing everything, but we sure knew where we had been.
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Big Shake-Up Among Jehovah's Witnesses
by JW GoneBad ini heard that there was a recent (january 2013) big shake up on the west coast in orange california.
i think it is a kingdom hall on taft street in orange that has a double hall.
anyway, i heard that there were 10 to 15 disfellowshiped, others given public reproof and several congregations broken up and new conregations started as a result.
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Gayle
several congregations broken up and new conregations started as a result.
Is this how "new" congregations are starting now-a-days.
JW New Year's Eve party? I can hardly wait till their "2014" New Year's Eve Party!!
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Scientologists break up families! Does this sound familiar?
by 00DAD ini just watched a 2008 nbc nightline special on scientology.
in it, there was an interview with ex-scientologist and former seaorg member astra woodcraft.. among other very interesting statements, she made this telling comment about scientology: .
"if they would just let people who wanted to be there, be there.
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Gayle
Interesting news video,,they have an "Ex-Scientologist kids.com" group. Maybe some day there will be an "ex-JW kids.com"
Kids growing up in a cult involves much more of their personality/psyche, than adult converts. Adults may have a 'base' of their real self, however, children in a cult don't get/have that base. To find that within themselves, takes more unraveling. It's going to be much more emotional and excruiating.