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  Berkshire Circuit (UK)

  by Dont_Believe_The_Truth in

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  i'm hearing rumours of huge changes within the berkshire circuit here in the uk .

  congregations being dispanded and kingdom halls closing down and being sold off.... official announcements within the next month apparently .

  does anyone else have anymore info?.

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  Welcome DBTT , look forward to hearing more from you.

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  Hello Everyone!!!

  by Christian Gutierrez in

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  my name is christian and my wife is katja, and we have been out of the organization for a year and a half.

  we were both regular pioneers and i was a ministerial servant.

  we were very much happy to be witnesses and doing our best to do more for the organization.

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  Welcome Christian and Katja from Australia ,you are fortunate that you are both out together and being so young with the rest of your life ahead of you .I have enjoyed the freshness and young love that comes across in your videos ,enjoy your youth and live life to the full.

  But don`t waste more time than is necessary with this cult religion.

  smiddy
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  Happy Resurrection Sunday

  by Perry in

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  wishing everyone a happy resurrection sunday.... from my family to yours!.

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  Perry ,that is a nice family photo ,it reminds me of my family photo outside a KH with my wife and 2 sons about the same age as yours.

  Fast forward another ten years and then see the reality of what life brings.

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  What was jesus doing for the first 30 years of his life?

  by atomant in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  30 years is a long time in the life of a human yet little is written about this time frame,l wonder why?

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  smiddy

  If he was to be a corresponding ransom for Adam ,why was he born from an imperfect human in Mary ?

  And then spend the next thirty years growing up ? Without contributing anything to mankind ?

  Adam never had a childhood ,experienced puberty ,was nurtured by a mother ,or had a father figure as a role model .

  Neither did he have siblings or other people around him to gain life`s experiences that molds one`s personality .

  And he had no comprehension of consequences for disobedience to Jehovah`s requirements.

  Why wasn`t JESUS created out of the dust of the ground as an Adult like Adam was ? and then start his ministry ?

  That would be more of a comparison I could relate to .

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  July 2016 W T Article Gives Reassurance to Aging Publishers

  by BluesBrother in

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  congregations are full of older ones who were led to expect the end when they were still young enough to work ,and stay forever young.

  now these ones face a sparse old age with little provision set aside.

  the article ""do not be afraid .

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  The WTB&TS are registered as a charitable organization and yet their charity never extends to their own members in need. , Why is that ?

  As an example , Members of Bethel ,who have served as volunteers for in some cases decades .So they have no insurance , no savings , no superannuation ,nothing to look forward to in old age , because they were told they would never grow old in their lifetime.

  And when they do grow old ? and need assistance from the organization that has exploited them ? They pass the buck and put it on some unsuspecting Congregation to look after them.

  They have Millions , if not Billions of dollars $$$$$ from sales of Real Estate in New York and also Branch offices in many parts of the world , yet they do not provide for their elderly members who have served them for many , many years , who they then discard .They put the onus on Congregations to look after them without contributing a cent .for their welfare.

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  Hashtag "BESTLIFEEVER!!"

  by Lostwun in

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  is it just me or does it grind your gears when you see #bestlifeever hashtag after every damn jw post on fb and instagram?.

  i rarely get on instagram anymore because i dont want to deal with the jw propaganda but i swear sometimes i just want to comment on one of those pics 'jw life is the worst life ever wake up already'.

  does anyone else know what i'm talking about?

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  I got off FB because it seemed to me that everybody on it feigned that they were interested in everybody else`s post , while in reality it was all about me,me,me,and what i`m doing..

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  Swearing on the bible

  by Lost and adrift in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on the subject of truth.

  ..... i was always under the impression that one of the reasons jws couldn't do jury duty or go to court etc was that we were not allowed to swear on the bible.

  ..as in i swear to tell the truth the whole truth etc etc .

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  At the ARC we saw some W.T. representatives , G.B.member G.J.being one , swore on the Bible , while others , Elders , cited an affirmation to tell the truth , doesn`t that show you that the J.W.`s are confused as to how they should act in a court of law ?

  They certainly did not present a united front.

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  Another generation....

  by joey jojo in

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  it has been 21 years since the 1995 article that pretty much buried the idea of the '1914 generation'.. remember those guys?

  the ones born in 1914 that would still be alive when the end of the system arrived.. i'm glad i'm old enough to remember going from door to door, preaching this belief.

  the reason i say that is because i have a lot of 'still in' jw friends and family.

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  What other organization out their is so ashamed , embarrassed ,about their beginnings , early history that they go to such lengths to hide and bury the past.

  Normally , organizations are very proud of their early beginnings and like to showcase them off.

  Not Jehovah`s Witnesses

  And when you compare what the WTB&TS does say on occasion about their past , with what they actually published back then , it becomes very evident they are re-writing history

  It just doesn`t match up.

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  How My Husband Helped Me See TTATT

  by corruptgirl in

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  i wanted to write my experience on how my husband helped me see the ttatt (the truth about the truth).

  first, let me mention that he wrote his own experience a couple months ago under the name sanchy.

  for his story please click here….. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5148261828526080/walking-thin-line-resigning-elder

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  Welcome , you made a lovely 1st post , and the best news is neither of you will be bringing your children up in a cult.

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  Shunning: is it still practiced?

  by FinchAndWeston in

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  2. beliefs

  are df, da and apostates still shunned?

  are each treated differently?

  i heard a secondhand report that they seemed to have eased up on this practice ...

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  Didn`t the J.W .lawyer , Vin Toole , when asked about shunning state words to the effect "i`ve heard of the word but I`m not sure what it means " at the ARC and he was under oath when he said that.

  Vin Toole has been a J.W.for many ,many years here in Australia.,and he doesn`t know about the practice of shunning ? What a liar.

  And this years District Convention has a specific part on Shunning Unrepentant Wrongdoers , in other words Jehovah`s Witnesses who don`t agree with the Governing Body

  smiddy.