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  How much money did you give the Watchtower?

  by Emery in

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  when you were a believer did you give large donations to the society?

  if so how much did you give?

  i know an elder who's a chiropractor and he generously gives $400-800 a month to the society.

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  tresdecu

  I was the accounts servant for about 3 years...I HATED that job, looked for every excuse to be done with it, finally got married and moved out of town for about 6 months...That did it! ;-)

  That being said...I hardly gave anything, a random 20 or 10 every now and then. I did feel guilty about it...but as many humans, I am a good rationalizer! So I talked myself out of feeling too guilty.

  Some brothers and sisters contributed the exact same amount to ea. fund seperately every month, like it was a bill that they budgeted for.

  Glad I never wasted too much money.
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  Tech49, James Jackson and Zophar and every other elder on JWN...

  by NeverKnew in

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  i have failed to welcome any of you individually so i wanted to make a thread to formally thank you.

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  i know that your presence, wisdom and the courage you're demonstrating by being here will help many.. .

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  tresdecu

  Welcome all you Ex-Gifts-in-Men....Ex-Shining-Stars. Happy to have experiences from current and former elders. Thanks for posting!
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  Worlds Apart - Danish Movie re: JW girl that falls in love with "evil" worldly guy.

  by tresdecu in

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  fyi to anyone who hasn't seen it.

  i noticed it is avilable to rent/own on itunes.

  i hoped it would be on netflix for free but i don't mind paying for a good movie.

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  FYI to anyone who hasn't seen it. I noticed it is avilable to rent/own on iTunes. I hoped it would be on netflix for free but I don't mind paying for a good movie. I am trying to slide it into our movie rotation so my wife can look at 'us' J-Dubs from the outside and see how cultish it all is. This is part of my 5-10 year plan to be out once and for all.

  Anyway, just wanted to mention in case there are lurkers and others who don't know or forgot about Worlds Apart.

  Are there any Danish (or Norweigan) JWs here who can tell us how this movie went over with the JW community in Denmark?
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  Dat da da da: Justitia Themis Law School Graduate

  by crmsicl in

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  congratulations to justitia themis on all her hard work at putting herself through law school.

  after being raised in the watchtower organization and having survived all of what that entails she has picked up the pieces, analyzed her strengths and has made choices to better herself and the community.. .

  i am so proud of her.

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  Wonderful!!! Congratulations, I can only imagine the hard work that goes into a law degree. I am so happy I now have a place to come not only to vent my JW frustrations...but also to get free legal advice!! haha ok just kidding. Those kind of people are so tacky.

  :-) Congrats Justitia T.!
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  Another Newbie

  by Skinnedsheep in

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  i recently came to the realization that the organization is corrupt and is false.

  my story is similar to many i think.

  i was raised in the religion, pioneered and served as an elder for a number of years.

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  Welcome! Former MS, almost Elder here....felt very similar to you. Still technically in, but very sporadic and borderline inactive. Alot of great people here, we even have a guy that thinks he's Jesus. ;-)

  look forward to reading some of your experiences as an elder.

  Take care bro!

  TD
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  Powerfully heart-wrenching experience by FORMER BETHLITE

  by Black Man in

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  just wanting to post an experience by a former bethelite.

  the first part was just published with the other two coming overt the next couple of weeks.

  click the link.

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  tresdecu

  Thanks for the link! Great Experience!!

  I googled her...looks like she is a talented and I hope very succesful photographer in Detroit.
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  Watchtower Wayback

  by Bangalore in

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  just found an interesting site containing old wt documents.. .

  http://www.watchtowerwayback.org/.

  bangalore.

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  tresdecu

  Why promote a site that 95% of people here can't read?
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  CO's comments about loved ones vs. JW.ORG

  by DATA-DOG in

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  this information is from a friends co visit.

  enjoy.. jw.org faq's.

  do you feel that you are the only people who will be saved?00:0000:00. no.

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  I wonder if he put his pinky finger up to the corner of his mouth and pursed is lips after he said it.

  If I had heard this even when "in" I would have thought him to be a Tool....I hate anyone with no compassion. This kind of S$%T needs to be advertised, advertised, advertised!
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  NEW video on Youtube MUST SEE! the elder's meeting is ridiculous!

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  brother of the hawk, newly enlightened & gojira, recorded an elder's meeting on 5/7/03.

  both does a great job of defending me and making the elders look foolish!.

  thank you raypublisher/jj and jwstruggle for the awesome job you did on it.. follow up story was not recorded but we will post it here hopefully over the weekend.. enjoy, it's pretty hilarious how they try to control us and come after me on a work of fiction!.

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  tresdecu

  marking for later...

  PS: Have you thought of sending an email to these bonehead elders so they know they are immortilised on youtube?! bet that would make them crap their pants a bit. hehehe
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  Freeminds 2.0 has launched

  by Dogpatch in

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  today we are launching freeminds2.org.

  this is stage 3 of a three part project spanning over 30 years since i left watchtower headquarters in 1980 and gave the 18 members of the then-governing body, including president nathan knorr and vice-president frederick w. franz.. the new site will be more blog/news oriented (and updated more often with articles, blogs and videos almost daily).. all of our previous sites, such as armageddonokies.com and watchtowerworld.org, randytv.com, exjws.net, and others will be incorporated into the previous freeminds site, which is currently being revised and converted from its joomla-based format to this wordpress format.

  i am sure you will find it much easier to search for words, people, articles, and subject very easy.

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  tresdecu

  Great work. Just some clarification though...maybe I am just reading the first sentance wrong, but this just didn't make sense to me.

  "... and gave the 18 members of the then-Governing Body, including President Nathan Knorr and Vice-President Frederick W. Franz."

  And gave them what?

  Thanks, just wanted to understand. Sorry if I'm missing the obvious.

  TD