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  New Inactive One Saying Hello to all

  by Lostwun in

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  2. friends

  lostwun here, i joined 2 months ago but am now just finding the courage after doing more research to formally introduce myself to the board and embrace my new beginnings as an ex-jw.

  i am a second-generation jw.

  i grew up with parents who are well known and very respected in many circuits.

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  Lostwun

  Play possum -- unspecified illness, nerves, breakdown, meds, -- tired, doctors appts, etc etc etc the list goes on.. there are so many on pills and anxiety levels are so high, sickness all around -- they are putting this information out in the mags now, so the pubs can read it for themselves -- as usual, they hint at things they don't want to mention off the platform and then say it pertains to the "world"......

  Take it slow, your faith is lost in the organization and the clicques- the smiles that are shown but behind that is gossip and jealousies.. and we are told to put on the NEW personality????
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  Will Australia force change in procedures

  by poopie in

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  what do you think

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  Its too bad there is not another way to get this information out to the RF.--. where they don't read anything but JW.org, they are happily content with the way the govt is handling the RC issues. Does anyone own a newspaper or would that be a privacy act thing in Canada? Just a big one pager stating Contis settlement, the hushed up payoffs prev to hers and what is coming down the pipe that wil have to be settled, In Canada, U S and Australia and Britain for starters.........

  It has to come out more boldly than it is now.
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  November 2015 Watchtower - More Money 'Begging'

  by jwleaks in

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  2. friends

  making donations to the worldwide work of jehovah's witnesses.

  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20151115/donations-worldwide-work/.

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  Nope - already started, read a letter Tuesday night for $4.50 per publisher for worldwide support -- this is the 3rd or 4th time this amount has been passed for different things, insce, ww work, etc... all raised their hands, incl me, and no dissenting hands -- who would?? So that's another $300 out of the coffers
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  Where is Everyone????

  by truthlover in

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  missing a lot of the oldies and goodies -- is this site so new, no one has signed on yet?

  i am confused... but then, i will have to wait and see what happens.. somehow - change is not the best option but we adjust..have most of the users gone to other locations?.

  tl.

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  Missing a lot of the oldies and goodies --  is this site so new, no one has  signed on yet?  I am confused... but then, I will have to wait and see what happens..   somehow -  change is not the best option but we adjust..have most of the  users gone to other locations?

  
  

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  JW.ORG REPORTS THE WATCHTOWER RESPONSE TO EBOLA

  by NAVYTOWN in

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  i just checked the jw.org website and noticed an article about the jw response to ebola.

  as i suspected, the entire focus was on alerting and educating jw members about ebola.just like in other disaster situations, the jw organization almost exclusively assists it's own members, ignoring the general public.

  it seems their main concern is keeping their members healthy so they can continue to spread the jw message door to door!!!

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  In the book - Our Ministry - I think it is - there are Q & A in the back of the book and one of those answers covers illnesses -that no one who love their brothers and sisters would come to a KH while contagious or sick.. wonder where that thought all went seeing that Ebola seems to be air borne now that the people getting sick and dont know how they caught it, seeing they were wearing hazmat type equipment and suited up.

  This will, no doubt, get out of hand in NA seeing that people make big mistakes, lie as to their travel arrangements- flying out of one ebola infested country to another " safe", clean country -- THEN coming into the NA continent.... hospitals and training is lax, in Canada, US, Mexico - and some who have been in contaminated areas see no wrong in walking among us without notifying medical personnell that they have been in contact with ebola or ebola patients. case in point is the U S news lady who refused to report to authorities and stayed in the public areas.

  What a way to wipe out an enemy????? and believe me -- I WOULD NOT be going D2d........
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  Anthony Morris III delivers judgement on Branch at Annual Meeting

  by Listener in

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  this is part of the speech that anthony morris iii gave during his time in the limelight at the 2014 annual meeting.. at 3.16.32 of the recorded meeting.

  "what role do those with an earthly hope play?

  oh oh ho veeeery important role, very important.

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  He didn't mention where the branch was, and I would imagine he has visited a lot, so now everyone is running around all the branches like chickens with their heads cust, off asking, "Was it us, was it us he was talking about??"

  Maybe that is what happened to the decine in the branches, Morris shut them out!
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  TV.JW.Org - Streamed to KHs via the New Projectors

  by passwordprotected in

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  2. friends

  i read here recently that the khs are being instructed to buy and install projector systems.. now that we've seen the launch of of tv.jw.org we can fully expect public talks to - on a monthly basis at least - be replaced by content streamed from the site to the screens in khs.. .

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  Rebel8

  Visited HQ last year and one of the instructors said " if you see one of the members of the GB, please do not approach or speak with them".... how is that for a smack in the face -- what a loving organization that keeps the sheep away from the shepherds....

  So now we will see them at arms length through a plasma tv -- what a joke!
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  Summary of WT Appeal Brief in Conti Case

  by Chaserious in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

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  if they were able to win on this ground, they could get out completely (although it could still be appealed to the ca supreme court).

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  As it seems in the appeal, the WTBTS is trying to put distance between them and the elders, DO's,CO's, etc... what about the April WT that shows the GB is directly receiving "spiritual light" from Jehovah himself--- sitting upon the Ezekiel vision, which in turn passes down to the rank and then to the congregatioon... wouldn't this show the courts that this is the thinking and they ARE responsible to the congregation to be either sued or found bloodguilty by members odf the congregation, if warning is not made to the congregation? Elders, Co's and DO's and the GB should be made aware of this - that they could lose their homes, savings, cars, etc. when found guilty of this misappropriation of trust and culpability for any information that could harm others in the congregations...

  Take a look at the picture in the last study article. Sh... rolls downhill.

  I could be off base but the picture is worth a thousand words
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  Elders- Have any of You faded Because of participating in a JC where the Arguments from the accused made sense to you?

  by truthlover in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i know the question is long, but it has occured to me that there are a lot of newbies here but before that, many ex elders, some co and do's that are no longer jw's.... did the publishers comments at a jc about the misconceptions,dates, and lack of holy spirit, etc.

  make sense to you and did you start thinking about the failed prophecies, fudging the "new light" etc.

  which caused you to slowly fade away.. .

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  Bump In case there are other elders, i e Winston Smith, etc. Winston Churchill --- etc. who would want to comment on their leaving the org due to involvement of judging others in a JC... So far, it seems that this is a devasting experience for those with emphathy towards those who have had to appear before a tribunal of "strangers" really - exposing their deepest embarassments Appreciate all the comments so far, thanks eveyone TL
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  Social aid and the Witnesses

  by Aaron Eldridge in

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  *** g 5/08 p. 21 is philanthropy the answer?

  ***by fully addressing the root causes of human suffering, god will accomplish what is well beyond all humans, individually and collectively.

  accordingly, rather than set up philanthropic organizations, jehovahs witnesses, in imitation of jesus christ, prefer to devote their time and financial resources to announcing the good news of [gods] kingdom.matthew 24:14; luke 4:43.. i have collected a few quotes like this one but could use some more.

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  I may be off base, but I do donate to the local fire hall, the local hospital, the animal shelters and volunteer on the phones for a health group.. and if someone needs somethin, I always, always give it to them - never have I sold anything to anyone who is in need.. TL