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  JWs still in that believe and are lurking

  by cognac in

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  just wanted to say hi.

  i understand how you may feel.

  i remember lurking here years ago cause i didn't want to tell the elders on myself and have a judicial committee if i could figure a way out of it.

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  SnakesInTheTower

  Hi cogac...long time no see. I have been out since 2007, but lurked here ss an elder....

  So long ago

  Snakes...typing poorly on a tablet
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  Are you really an Apostate, according to the WT ?

  by Phizzy in

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  perusing the coverage of the 2013 dc spewings about apostates, the wt claims that apostates are "liars" and speak "twisted things".

  this is their definition of apostates.. now, the reality is that sites such as paul's excellent jwfacts.com, books like coc and isocf, by ray franz, the works of olaf jonsson, penton and others, all write what is true !.

  we are careful on here to present that which is true, at least i hope we are !.

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  You might be a redneck... I mean apostate if...
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  Tech49 on HOURS, TIME, and REPORTS

  by Tech49 in

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  i thought i would share some of my observations on counting field service time, reports, etc.

  and how those reports are viewed, to those that are still so fixated on numbers.. i served as secretary on the service committee for many years, and have seen it all!.

  i was really disheartened when wt changed the requirement for aux pioneering to allow for 30 hrs, instead of the 50 it has been for so long.

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  Marking for later
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  Anyone here been Dfd for 'apostacy'?

  by Julia Orwell in

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  just wanna know.

  i'm doing the fade but i reckon my big mouth could get me dfd.

  i know plenty who've been dfd for fornication/adultery, but never met one dfd for speaking the truth.

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  SnakesInTheTower

  Somewhere on this board, poster Donuthole and I have discussed the JC that I was on as an elder. He was accused of and DF for apostasy. It was a kangaroo court the whole time. I didn't agree but if I disagreed to much, then I was on the hot seat. Glad we are both out (him DF, me faded out.
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  The CO 'encourages' Julia to meet with THREE elders- the latest episode in the best-selling drama, The Fade of Julia Orwell.

  by Julia Orwell in

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  it was yesterday morning and hubby and i were having a huge sleep in.

  it was just after ten, and with me being a bit flu-ey i was quite capable of staying in bed longer.

  hubby was feeling it too, and we were pleasantly drifting in and out to the sounds of birds.. then suddenly, cloomp, cloomp, cloomp up the front stairs, then "rap-rap-rap" on the front screen door, that rapid-fire, strong knock of the practiced door-knocker.

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  Set up indeed. CO playing good cop to their bad cop. Classic. Not classy. I agree with Blondie, unannounced visits are rude. Will tell a story later about a recent set of visits we had..unannounced. watch out for these jokers. This is not the last of this.

  SnakesITT...(of the "nice snake" sheep class)
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  Who is supposed to do the "Separating Work" for the new magazines?

  by nochoice in

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  so, there is a bit of a fight going on in our hall between our pioneer sisters and our magazine servant.

  since the new magazines are boxed with two issues together, there is a bit of work to be done separating them.

  our magazine servant stacked them on the counter as usual, right out of the box.

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  SnakesInTheTower

  The Borg, back in the 70s when my dad was the lit servant, brought home a box or two of tracts. They needed a stamp on the back cover with the KH contact info before handing out to the publishers. He paid my brother and I (we were probably about 7-10 years old) to do it.

  so this has been going on for years.

  about 10 years ago I think, when this personalized tract thing started up again, I figured out how to print the info directly on the tracts by feeding them in the printer. I probably lost 20% of them to printer jams. I also toasted a whole toner cartridge. Unfortunately, it was my printer and toner, and worst of all, my time.

  The next campaign I printed out 1,000 labels separated the tracts, and put the labels on the tracts myself.

  The next campaign I printed out the labels but separated the tracts and gave them to the publishers with the labels to put on.

  The last time I was involved I just gave them bundles of tracts and thought "f*ck it"

  The next campaign.... oh wait... I left the borg for good summer of 2007.

  Ironically, I think I still have a partial box of address labels left from that nonsense.

  Snakes (Rich )
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  Who is supposed to do the "Separating Work" for the new magazines?

  by nochoice in

  1. jw
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  so, there is a bit of a fight going on in our hall between our pioneer sisters and our magazine servant.

  since the new magazines are boxed with two issues together, there is a bit of work to be done separating them.

  our magazine servant stacked them on the counter as usual, right out of the box.

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  SnakesInTheTower

  I am sure any day now the Governing Body® and its pharisaical Helpers™ will issue yet another mind numbing page and a half Letter to the Elders® describing in step by step detail how to handle this new Arrangement™ with an accompanying Announcement© to the Congregation™ to be read at the shortened Service Meeting® and then read again after the shortened Watchtower© Study, along with a postscript advising the Elders® to destroy all previous Letters to the Elders® and update the Index of Letters®© showing the new procedure will involve the Service Overseer©, and the Magazine Servant™ along with their assistants (in larger congregations) to meet on Saturday after Field Service™ to open the boxes and separate these smaller magazines tracts so that the Publishers® will more willingly offer them in the Magazine Tract work.

  Oh, I am sorry, did I forget paragraphs in my run on sentence.

  Snakes (Rich, of the formerly having lots of titles in the Borg Sheep Class)
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  Jehovah's Witnesses dismayed by new magazine format from Watchtower Society.

  by Balaamsass in

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  2. friends

  wow.

  i was surprised this week by calls from active jws complaining about the new magazine format, and more begging for money from the platform.. frankly i was surprized by this reaction since this is old news to jwn members.

  i guess actually shuffling to the bookroom and grabbing the new "awake tracts" minus the inside cover forward ...awakened many sleepy, catatonic, bored jws who never read the things or go on the internet anyway.. any feedback from other areas?.

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  SnakesInTheTower

  not just yet:

  Or just start Highlighting the info for us while printing it.

  Nah..... WT cannot do that. Two reasons a) yellow ink costs more and, more importantly b) the elders cannot look over your shoulder as they walk down the aisle to see if you "studied" (i.e., highlighted) your WT on Sunday.... esp true if DF and trying to get reinstated... proving you are coming back to being a good little mind numbed dubbie.

  my JW mom has not mentioned these new improvements to the wt and g! rags. Looks like the Golden Age of the Watchtower is over....

  Snakes (Rich ... of the "1 page is too many pages of The Watchtower" Sheep Class)
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  More disfellowshippings.

  by Chariklo in

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  it is eight months since i went to a meeting in a kingdom hall.

  in that time i've met one or two witnesses, including elders, as i've been out and about in this small town.

  some have been pleased to see me, some have avoided me.

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  SnakesInTheTower

  charikio---

  Chariklo: ... my name had been read out as being no longer an unbaptised publisher

  Huh? They fired you even though you never took the job? Did they forget to direct their blows so as not to be striking the air?

  you took the job, but just as a temp/independent contractor. They just let you go since you quit showing up for "Work." LOL

  Snakes (Rich )
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  Do the elders have "clear direction" that it's ok to use an ipad at meetings?

  by nochoice in

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  2. friends

  i read this post more than a year ago: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/212313/1/watchtower-publications-for-ipad.

  since i saw it, i've been waiting for the first brother or sister to show up at the hall with an ipad to see what happens.

  a little here and there at the conventions and assemblies.

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  SnakesInTheTower

  If I were on the platform giving a talk off of an Ipad, I guarantee you that I would have a paper back up underneath it. Gremlins and all. Do not ever trust electronics 100%.

  Rich (Snakes ... of the "glad I do not have to worry about 'giving talks' but want an Ipad® now" Sheep Class)