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  My Grandmother has died today

  by GermanXJW in

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  this morning, my grandmother died at age 92. she was a jw and i never told her that i quit years ago (but i guess my father told her).

  fortunately, i had a chance to see her a last time this tuesday when i tried to see her and learnt she was in hospital.

  my father had not told me that she was in hospital.

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  This morning, my grandmother died at age 92. She was a JW and I never told her that I quit years ago (but I guess my father told her). Fortunately, I had a chance to see her a last time this Tuesday when I tried to see her and learnt she was in hospital. My father had not told me that she was in hospital. He was busy auxiliary pioneering. At least, I got the call today that she died. It was an uncompassionate call just stating the fact and then stopping the call. I am sad and angry about my parents' bahavior.
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  I took the '1914 Generation' prophecy seriously, did you? Do you even remember it?!

  by nicolaou in

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  i was born in 1964, 50 years after 1914. even in my teens i was doing the sums.

  i had a worse case scenario figured out - if the 1914 generation could apply to babies and even if they lived to be a 120, i would still only be about 70 years old after they'd all died!

  i figured i was part of the first wave of 'jehovah's people' that really would live to see the new order - guaranteed!!

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  This was a very important teaching for my father and so it was for me. I took it seriously. I even told this crap to my working collegues. My father had also fallen for the 1975 bait before. He is still in and this month an auxilliary pionieer. For me, it was one of the main changes that convinced me that it was not the way to go.
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  WT to shut down printing operations in Madrid Bethel branch

  by sir82 in

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  originally posted about here:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/173648/1/sales-of-bethel-premises-and-transfer-of-millions-to-brooklyn.

  ...but i thought it deserved its own thread.. there is a letter from the madrid bethel branch to all spanish congregations posted here (written in spanish, of course):.

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  GermanXJW

  Any risk this letter dated April 1st is an All Fools Day joke?
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  Sales of Bethel premises and transfer of millions to Brooklyn ?

  by Nick! in

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  sales of bethel premises and transfer of millions to brooklyn ?.

  just heard a very surprising and unbelievable news which i want to share with you and ask whoever has the right connections higher up in the borg, if this kind of news can be double checked for reliability.. .

  the source of the information is believed to be reliable as it seems to be intimately related to some officials of the branch.

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  They may refer to the GB to give this unpopular decision the strongest support. If it was just another comitee there (even personally known to some people) there might be questioning. But if it is the GB it must be from Jehovah.
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  My Latest Freeminds Blog

  by AllTimeJeff in

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  jehovahs witnesses (jw) are taught to never listen to a word, or read an article by those who have left their former faith.

  any critical information is viewed as poisonous to your faith.

  it will kill your faith.

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  GermanXJW

  I also see many JW-parallels in the Matrix-movies.

  I like this quote very much:

  Neo: I can’t go back, can I?
  Morpheous: No. But if you could, would you really want to?
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  Governing body member comments about new anointed

  by Kosonen in

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  http://www.jwbrothers.org/play_audio.php?audio=612.

  i listened to the talk of samuel herd, a governing body member.

  he says something like, many new anointed are real trouble-makers in the congregations.

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  GermanXJW

  I find the Bible reading at 9:25 most disturbing.

  BTW, the comments say this is not Herd but Brown or someone else.
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  illuminati game cards from 1995

  by ninja in

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  GermanXJW

  Who tells you it is from 1995?
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  Is there anyone from Holland?

  by dutchstef in

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  i became a member just a couple of days ago, and now i wonder if i'm the only one from holland?.

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  Avengers is from Holland.
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  CURSE GOD AND DIE...

  by Mary in

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  ever feel like you just wanna give up?

  i'm losing my job at the end of this month.

  because of the financial situation in the world, there's a hiring freeze on both internally and externally and hardly any positions are coming up.

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  Sorry to hear that. From your appearance here you seem to be a rather intelligent person so I trust you will have another job, soon. But the times are tough at the moment.
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  A question for you guys who edited your own "Revelation Climax (AntiClimax) Books

  by Alpaca in

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  i left in 1997 so i didn't enjoy the privilege of editing my personal copy of the book.. there was a thread on here a few years ago about it but i was left with the impression that it was just a few marginal notes.. now, on another thread there are comments about cutting and pasting stuff into the book.. just how extensive were the edits?.

  i cannot believe the borg (sorry, yes i can) would direct such a bizarre exercise for publishers.

  how many of you said wtf?.

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  GermanXJW

  Also in the old days this was common practice. As a fourth-gen-JW I remember some of the older books in our family library that had larger parts put into books from the publishers, with scissors and glue.