Posts by Magwitch

They must have one hell of a PR staff at the society! When the door-to-door work came back, I was absolutely horrified, and checked out every single news source I could on the subject. The society got ahead of the story and posted a ‘Positive’ paragraph in every bleeping newspaper possible in this country. It was incomprehensible that I could not find a single news story on how this religious organization should not be knocking on peoples doors.

That this ‘Drunk’ was pretending to be one of the holiest men that has ever been born on the face of this earth, and influenced our loved ones in a horrific way. It is nothing short of pathetic and sad.

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TO ALL BODIES OF ELDERS "Handling Cases of Drug Abuse" September 1, 2018

by Not_Culty in

https://jwglossary.blogspot.com/2018/09/to-all-bodies-of-elders-handling-cases.html.

to all bodies of elders "handling cases of drug abuse".

september 1, 2018. to all bodies of elders re: handling cases of drug abusedear brothers: as noted below, the procedure for handling the misuse of marijuana and the abuse of medi- cal, illicit, or addictive drugs has been adjusted to harmonize with the procedure for handling the misuse of tobacco.

Magwitch

Marijuana is not addictive! They are such jackasses

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Do You Know Any “Gay” Jehovah’s Witnesses?

by minimus in

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of course the religion condemns homosexuality but did you know any gay witnesses?

i knew some bethelites that were very effeminate and i remember 4 women who were suspected of being lesbians by many in the congregation.

they eventually moved away and were very vocal against males, especially elders..

Magwitch

I had two room mates in Bethel that were gay. Anyone remember Joel Reed? or Jerry North (at the farm). I must say they were very nice and considerate. As with all my room mates I never spent any time with them. I wonder where they are now.

Joel Reed was my brother's roommate in Bethel for awhile and he was also Fred Franz's personal secretary. He was as gay as they came. Mann377, you can find him on Facebook (And believe me, Joel has come a long, long way since his Bethel days)

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In what decade was it clearly apparent that Watchtower was a high control religion?

by UnshackleTheChains in

i'm just curious to get people's views on this.. the bible students seem to start of as quite a liberal group under charles taze russell, albeit he had some whacky teachings going on.

obviously things began to change under rutherford.

but what decade did it become abundantly clear that the society was indeed high control religion or even labeled a cult?.

Magwitch

When this organization stopped letting people freely walk out the door, they then became a full blown cult.

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Current week long Elders school. Outlines / talks?

by stuckinarut2 in

so in my part of the world, they are currently holding the week long elders schools.

my father is attending one.

does anyone (hello wifi bandit?

Magwitch

I remember when my father went for two weeks in the early-mid 70's. He was the sole bread winner with five children at home. It really put a financial strain on our family.

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