Billy the Ex-Bethelite

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  Fade update...

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have attended only one meeting in the past 3 weeks.

  i know there is no way to leave this cult fast enough, but is my fade too fast?

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  Are there others in the congregation that are also weak, faded, irregular, or otherwise occupying the eldurs' time?

  Some congregations have enough problems that they don't even notice if someone quietly stops attending.
  
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  November Study WT "Train You Child to Love Going Door 2 Door"

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  been catching up on some jw reading and found a gem in the november study wt in the first article, paragraph #11:.

  yet, you might look beyond the obvious and ask yourself, does my child enjoy the ministry or only the breaks?

  if you discern that the ministry could be more interesting or more rewarding for your children, set goals with them.

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  I was about that age when I started working doors by myself, and got cussed out by an angry householder for the first time.
  
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  Thrown out to the wolves!

  by Pandx in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  (2. after offering prayer without the disfellow-shipped person present, invite him into the room.

  ) i needed answers to as why the elders would not pray when they talked to me in the room.

  3 letters have been sent to get reinstated and all denied and forgotten!

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  Welcome Pandx!

  I thought that the elders were guided by holy spirit but so many things just didn't make sense

  You were indoctrinated to believe that the elders received magical, invisible guidance. They don't. It's all mind-control that empowers some and crushes others. It's foundation is a corporation directed by some dudes in Brooklyn who got their positions of authority by kissing all the right a$$es while nibbling crackers and sipping wine once each year. There's no "holy spirit" anywhere in that mess.
  
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  Blood Refusal Tragedy Sparks National Outrage

  by cookiemaster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, here's some news from my country.

  there was this 20 year old jw girl who was a rookie driver.

  she was in the car with her parents and for some reason decided to cross a railroad right before a train was coming.

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  the branch guy replied "What, did you expect me to tell the truth to the media?"

  They lies they'll tell for "theocratic warfare".
  
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  Can somebody explain the songs and songbook obsession?

  by careful in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been out a while and have only put in a rare appearance at a memorial or brief visit at a convention/assembly to keep people off my back, so i haven't kept up on the songbook.

  but one thing i've noticed that the org.

  has been doing that they never did when i was in is all these "supplemental songs" that keep appearing.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  It seems to be their latest brainwashing effort. The talks and other meeting material are all recycled over-and-over with rare nulite thrown in. The teachings are nothing to get excited about, so they change the names of the meetings and throw in some new songs. They need to keep the sheeple busy and coming back to the cult website, so these songs provide a distraction while the GB continues their attention on the money-grab.
  
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  Samuel Herd: a woman saying "if she were a man....." is borderline being a homosexual

  by Khaleesi in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  not sure if this was posted before... but apparently for the wt a woman's smaller cranium than a man's shows she was designed to be in submission to the man!!

  unbelievable he dared to say such things!.

  https://youtu.be/wqzc2m8_mba.

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  a woman saying "if she were a man....." is borderline being a homosexual

  That all depends on what the "....." is:

  • "If I were a man, I'd horsewhip every abuser that I found out about." -- not necessarily a lesbian.
  • "If I were a man, I'd have sex with every hot woman I could." -- may be a lesbian, but really needs to clarify that by saying "a smart, rich, hot man".

  Whatever the case, trying to make sense out of the crap coming out of his mouth is impossible. It's so totally sexist and devoid of any sense. WT Corp is doomed in the hands of idiots like this guy.
  
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  Our fade-gossip-elders calling

  by All for show in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  looking back we had been fading without even realizing it.

  life happened...and we weren't regular.

  then we woke up and have actively been fading for 9 months.

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  Last night my husband got an email from the elder who was his friend. They want to meet up because sisters, in another congregation saw him out to lunch with a women.... My husband, who isn't a born in, thinks its just ridiculous and with his career has no time to deal with it. Of course I am pissed!

  Lovely, the JW gossip mill is running full steam. When I was removed as an elder, I used that mill to expedite my fade and the elders have left me in peace since then. While the accusation against me was little, the fury of the gossip mill against the elders turned on with a passion after I spread my side. Here's a link to that thread:
  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/255058/exjw-psychology-103-lets-reconsider-confidentiality

  Who were these sisters and why didn't they follow the "Scriptural instruction" to clarify these matters with the supposed offender before spreading the story? If they saw him, they could have easily gone up and said hello and the matter could have been cleared up in a minute. Instead, they ran off to start feeding the slander machine that is designed to condemn him as an adulterer. Paul had plenty to say about such busy-body women in the congregation.
  

  Now you have the opportunity to go to everyone in the congregation and ask them if they started or spread this gossip/slander. And you can let them know that you're just not comfortable with the lack of love and scriptural obedience in these local congregations.
  
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  Merry Pantsmas Everyone!

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. social
  2. humour

  okay, i posted this in a thread that got locked and buried.

  since then i've been really busy and have overdosed on christmas music in the past week.

  so, i'm resurrecting this "holy day" holiday that most people will unknowingly be celebrating tomorrow.

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  It's the Happifyingest Time of the Year!!!!

  Trying to decide how to let your congregation know that you're now an ex-JW? Wear this to the Kingdumb Haul:
  

  
  

  ...although the pants could be a little tighter and the beard a little longer
  
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  A 'Paradise' for mice turned out not to be so

  by Petraglyph in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in this experiment, mice were given a perfect environment in which to live.

  for the mice you would think this was 'paradise'.

  but due to their nature it did not take long for this to become a horrible place to live.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z760xny4vm.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Perhaps that explains what's happened with the growth and then implosion of the bethel population.

  Bethel was supposed to be a paradise. Most of my housing conditions were very overcrowded. There was plenty of food, sometimes good, often more aptly described as "Bachelor Chow". I certainly had my tail chewed on plenty of times. Glad I escaped from that cage before I curled up and died.
  
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  $1.2 billion coming, still 12 properties to go

  by the girl next door in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  but still, they ask for more at every opportunity.

  send in that ice cream money kids!.

  http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/12/4/sales-watchtower-headquarters-and-two-other-jehovah%e2%80%99s-witnesses-properties-could.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  There's an old saying: "A fool and his money are soon parted."

  I'm old, and I'll add the saying, "The more the fools, the sooner the parting."