FLDS are horrible. The many wives, and often has been required to marry underage girls. They throw out the young boys (lost boys), so the old farts can get the young girls. Etc.
Posts by Gayle
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Steve Hassan Interviews XJW elder, Roberto di Stefano, at ICSA Conference in Italy
by AndersonsInfo intrieste, italy - icsa conference - july 6, 2013. both roberto di stefano and steve hassan were speakers at the conference.
you can see the hassan interview on his website.
here's the link:http://freedomofmind.com/media/video.php?id=59.
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Gayle
Thank you, Barbara for letting us/JWN know about this. And thanks so much for your work always!!
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Active Witness Reading Combatting Cult Mind Control
by BU2B ini have gotten a thought about how to wake active witnesses up.
since the book does not mention jws specifically, if you could get a active jw to read ccmc, what do you think their reaction would be?
could they clearly see how jws fit in as a cult?, or would the average jw be blinded to the obvious and just see how other groups like mormons, moonies, scientology, etc fit the mold?
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Gayle
Worth a try, since he is a "reader." Hopefully, something clicks.
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Why do the GB need a new Bethel compound if the end is so close? Here is the "official" answer
by sir82 inas most of us know, the society is spending 10's of millions of dollars on a giant, state of the art, secluded bunker country club headquarters in very remote, isolated warwick ny.. the question that "some" have is, why?
if armageddon is coming "very soon", why go to all that time & effort & expense?
why have thousands of jws dedicating their time to this massive effort instead of the "lifesaving ministry"?.
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Gayle
ugh,, all the other 7 million JWs must wait for their "beautiful" home and "paradisaic" yards till Armageddon and 'eke' by till then.
Where's their faith that God can protect them? What about all of the thousands of JWs in New York & surrounding metro and all the other cities in the world, etc.?! They'll have to supposedly clean up the mess of all those cities that their god destroys.
The GB is choosing to have their Paradise 'now.' Wish the followers would/could see that!
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Former Longtime Elder : Contributions
by James Jackson infor a year now, i have been handling the accounts.
we have 6 elders and 7 ms, and none of them ( i am not serving), want to do the accounts, so they asked me to do it.
here is what i have noticed.. 4 elderly sisters cover the whole congregation in donations monthly!
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Gayle
I left early/mid '80s.
When did the additional contribution boxes start? There are 3 now? Please specify what goes to what? CO expense? Missionaries trips back home? Additional KH contruction funds (would that go for all their new NY building funds)?
If the local KH got more than necessary for expenses, would they put it automatically into the "Worldwide" one (is that for literature? plus?) Seems that there are so many additional costs.
Seems most would want to contribute the most/primarily for local Kingdom Hall.
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BOE Letter: Re: Safety precautions when attending spiritual programs
by pixel ini know atlatis will bring this letter to the forum.
i just wanted to paste it here and bold the most hilarious, weird thing fro the letter.
the bold part that i added made me lol.. .
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Gayle
Since their percentage of members are aging, getting decent seats must be a nightmare. Falls will be frequent in such areas. By nature of reality, crowds and aging people is extremely difficult.
Also, for large families, that have to split up for seating for the few days, is not convenient either.
The WTS is mostly concerned about lawsuits toward them.
I expect the trend of the 'large' district conventions to downsize even more. Rumors, seem to indicate even starting for 2014?
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Governing Body Conduct Anonymous Cofidential Polling of Bethelites On New Light Acceptance, Currant Biblical Chronology, And Faith In Corporation CEOs
by frankiespeakin inwhat do you think they would find?
even with assurance that all data collected would not be traceable to the individual many would still not have the courage to answer any nagging doubts?
as corporation ceos they have to know what the morale of their employees really is, if they don't they are driving this corporation blindly.
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Gayle
Tension is growing at head quarters and they are not aware of how badly many feel about this New Governing Body.
How do you know this?
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Marathon service days before Sept 1
by gbrn inso my wife showed me her instagram and one of her friends posted a picture of herself and a couple other pioneers with the title "20 hours in so far on our 24 hour day of service!
" mind you they were all sitting in starbucks.
this just made me want to scream!!
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Gayle
August is the month they try to round up and add any possible inactive publishers and any additional hours or minutes that weren't reported in any past months. This is the last month of their 2013 (fiscal ?) year so they can hype up any increases possible for their Annual Worldwide Report.
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Article: It's Time to Outlaw Extreme Shunning in Modern Society
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://gilmermirror.com/bookmark/23272594/article-extreme%20shunning#.ufwjurllscm.facebook.
extreme shunningthe gilmer mirror.
its time to outlaw extreme shunning in modern society by: richard e. kelly .
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Gayle
Yikes!
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INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS!!! A LOVING PROVISION FROM THE GB!
by DATA-DOG ineveryone is thrilled at the reading of the latest letters on "international conventions", just ecstatic!!
why, you msy ask?
if you are jw who is exemplary ( that leaves me out, i assume.
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Gayle
What percentage of JWs really go to these out of country Internationals? 1% or less? Most can't afford them, and probably most don't want to even go.