Posts by Magwitch

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Ages of each user here?

by ukpimo in

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i'm interested to know the age demographics here.

it must be significantly different to other exjw forums.

it would be a damning report for watchtower if most of us appear to have left for decades.. you don't have to mention your exact age, you could always say "in my 50s".. i am in my 70s.

Wow! How the years have flown. I will be 60 very soon. I started regular pioneering at 17 years old and stopped when I was 30 to homeschool my two daughters. I homeschooled for 10 years and was happily disfellowshipped at 40. My 40s were spent combating alcoholism (as is the case with many of us that have had to escape this cult.) My 50s were spent in pure Bliss. I’ve been able to comfortably retire (thanks to an unexpected windfall) move up to the mountains and live off the grid with zero stress. Looking forward to my 60’s.

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Are the halls of the Kingdom filling up, are they the same as before the pandemic or are they emptying?

by LaFrancia in

i open a new topic, to find out how it's going in your area.

from what i see as a southern european in my constituency the situation is patchy.. the congregation where i am now has 30% old people on zoom but also young couples with almost all their cameras off.

no increase but a slight decrease in the total number of publishers.. circuit assemblies: before covid you couldn't find a free seat if you arrived 10 minutes before the start.

Magwitch

I recently moved to a small mountain town in Colorado (pop. 6000). There had been an active kingdom hall here for many years. I found out yesterday that the kingdom hall has been totally boarded up and closed permanently (happened during Covid). It is unclear what the witnesses in this area are doing because the closest Kingdom Hall is over an hour away and in the winter, the roads are pretty much impossible.

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Mass Shooting at Kingdom Hall in Hamburg, Germany

by EdenOne in

mass shooting at a kingdom hall in hamburg, germany this evening.

at least 6 or 7 killed, dozens injured.

single shooter on the run, police doesn't rule out more shooters.

Magwitch

BBC is reporting that one of the victims was pregnant. Absolutely heartbreaking.

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Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

by WingCommander in

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this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

this is not a joke.

anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

Magwitch

Hello all, it has been years since I’ve posted, but I am loving this thread.

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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