Posts by SnakesInTheTower

WT should quit printing everything and go all digital. Issue WTFire tablets that the dubs can download everything. Then, when "New Light" expires and becomes "Old Light", WT can just sync their WT approved tablet and "update" to "New Light 17.4" and remove "Old Light 17.3."

Just a thought.

Snakes (Rich)

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Two well dressed young men came knocking

by Hairtrigger in

here's my experience in the last 15 minutes.

it's about 6 p.m and i'm home alone watching tv when someone knocks loudly on the door.

i open and there, like an apparation, stand two of j smith's disciples -smart looking , well dressed ( they used to wear black ties only a few years ago) clean cut.. i inform them that i'm an ex-j witness and they are quiet for a moment.

SnakesInTheTower

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Laake.

From Heretic to Housewife, 1981

http://www.amazon.com/Housewife-Heretic-Sonia-Johnson/dp/0385174934/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1403412109&sr=1-3&keywords=sonia+johnson

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What happens after you get the registered letter?

by paul from cleveland in

my friend's daughter, who was baptized at 14, has decided to leave the witnesses.

she's in her early 20's.

she's stopped going to meeting a while ago and moved in with her father who is disfellowshipped.

SnakesInTheTower

I put the word out that if my name was ever mentioned from the platform dfing me without stating the real reason (that jw/WT is a cult and i left) i would sue individual elders for slander and defamation of chsracter, and that WTBTS would not represent them in court, they would have to pay for it themselves.

Guess who hasn't bothered me? ANY elders.

I only care because it would break my 70 yr old jw mom's heart if i was officially DF.

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You can now get into debt using credit cards to donation to the JW's

by life is to short in

i knew this was coming but to actually see it was another thing.. i am a huge dave ramsey follower where he hates debt and charging on credit cards.

he totally feels everyone should be out of debt and pay cash only.

that everyone needs to do plastic plastic surgery to cut up their credit cards.

SnakesInTheTower

First time i seen cc machines was while a delegate to an International CONvention in Hamburg Germany back in 2006. That was probably one more thing to add to my growing list of concerns regarding the Organization. I was removed as an elder a few months later, and completely jumped ship summer of 07. Sooooo glad I dont have to deal with that anymore. I am with Dave Ramsey... nomore cc. I get mine paid off....no more. How about,that financial AND religious freedom?

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Any dave ramsey fans here?

by c5 in

jw
friends

hey!

long time since i have been here.

lots and lots of new posters.

SnakesInTheTower

Bump... i ran across dave ramsey recently. Despite my aversion to all things religious now that i am out of the JW cult, and even though ramsey is an Evangelical, i rather like his system. Wonder if the original posters stayed with dave ramsey system? And now he is streaming his radio show in HD video...

Snakes

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JWStruggle post: Bethel Layoffs Reveal a Kingdom without Clothes

by Londo111 in

http://www.jwstruggle.com/2013/07/bethel-layoffs-reveal-a-kingdom-without-clothes/.

despite everything, i still have a lingering admiration toward those who serve or have served in bethel.

it is not that i believe it is gods organization in any way, shape, or form.

SnakesInTheTower

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JWs still in that believe and are lurking

by cognac in

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friends

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.

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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friends

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 !.

SnakesInTheTower

You might be a redneck... I mean apostate if...

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Tech49 on HOURS, TIME, and REPORTS

by Tech49 in

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.

SnakesInTheTower

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