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  I am having some reservations about Barbara Anderson

  by JWoods in

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  2. friends

  recently, there was a very nice thread in which one of our posters apologized for having the temerity to challenge barbara anderson.. i thought it was very nice to see that they made up and put the personal stuff aside.. however, i felt the need to call it like i really feel it - i was very put off by the barbara anderson reply in which she plugged her new promotional meeting.

  it brought back memories of that horrid little affair from a couple of years back when she kept posting up "the greatest new thing about blood which will bring down the watchtower society is just around the corner -- and i could tell you but then i would have to kill you, etc."..

  just like another jehovah's witnesses prophecy about the coming of the lord in our time.. i am beginning to wonder if perhaps the siren song of self-promotion is getting a little too strong for real life.. ok. i said it.. james - and saying it was not the easiest thing that i have ever done.

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  Barb, please don't go anywhere...You are SO needed!!!! Thank you for having more balls than a whole MTS graduating class.
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  Small Steps

  by cantleave in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just to let you all know how my extremely gradual fade is going.

  you have to remember that i have spent all my life right in the centre of the congregation, i never missed meetings, except when necessary.

  my service average has been between 10 -15 hrs per month and i would spend vacations auxillary pioneering.

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  I remember another poster a while back said, "There is no wrong way to leave a cult." I think you are doing great. Heaven knows, you seem to be moving faster than moi. But everyone is in a different situation. The most important part is having your mind free...
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  Tightening of the Cult Handcuffs.

  by passwordprotected in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been saying for almost a year that the wts can only go one way, and that's to be come more hardline and more cultish by tightening their grip on the r&f.. if the recent rumours seen here (and one of them was actually banded about last year) are going to pan out, then the wts is well on it's way to become more cult-ish.. changes to the disfellowshipping arrangement.

  moving away from judicial action, leaning more towards the person disassociating themselves due to their actions, either of commission or ommission.

  or, and i think this is less likely, they have a stand-alone study edition meeting, perhaps later on a sunday?

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  Jimmy: Highly unlikely they'd ever be able to successfully drag the freed masses back to the KH for another night, but watch for the material to be presented as fodder for Family Night at home--maybe the WT study, maybe something else, maybe a combo...
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  The Gnostic Gospel of Bartholomew

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  http://www.amazon.com/gnostic-gospel-bartholomew-robert-hitchcock/dp/1430302992.

  the gnostic gospel of bartholomew (paperback).

  by rev.

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  Thank you, Leo, for once more flourishing your intellectual whip and slashing away the goatgrass of pseudo-pseudepigraphy! I agree with Nark--the publisher's notes ain't doing Hitchcock any favors.
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  Tightening of the Cult Handcuffs.

  by passwordprotected in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been saying for almost a year that the wts can only go one way, and that's to be come more hardline and more cultish by tightening their grip on the r&f.. if the recent rumours seen here (and one of them was actually banded about last year) are going to pan out, then the wts is well on it's way to become more cult-ish.. changes to the disfellowshipping arrangement.

  moving away from judicial action, leaning more towards the person disassociating themselves due to their actions, either of commission or ommission.

  or, and i think this is less likely, they have a stand-alone study edition meeting, perhaps later on a sunday?

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  I agree--watch for a set (read: mandatory) program for FWN, presented of course, as a Loving Spiritual Provisions Just When We Need It!
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  Unusual "Experience" at the DC yesterday - Apostasy & Honor Killing

  by Ultimate Reality in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  during the concluding part on sunday's dc at the stanley theater, a missionary was interviewed and asked to give an encouraging experience from his assignment in an african country.. he started off by saying his "experience was bitter-sweet".

  it was about a woman in her mid-20's that became a witness.

  but she was a muslim and her mother had her hunted down and murdered as an honor-killing.

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  Villa: Yikes! How's that for making you want to stay with such a warm, loving organization????
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  A question for the faders on here

  by JWinprotest in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the other day our meeting was cancelled and we didn't even get a call from the elders to advise us.

  i take that as a sign that our fade is working.

  the next step i would like to implement is not turning in a field service report.

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  JW: I'm in the same boat, wondering the same thing.

  Only problem is (and maybe some of the ex elders can help me out here) I'm an elder's wife. Yup, that's right. And my wonderful husband (and he is, really) is still going strong. I'm worried that if I officially go inactive, it'll have repercussions on his and honestly, I'd hate for that to happen. He has to come to the truth about the "truth" on his own, though I have been sharing eye-opening nuggets for him here and there. I've been turning in an hour or two for about a year now, haven't been out in service for about a year and am slowly fading on the meetings. Down to just Sundays. I'd like to stop altogether but, like I said, I don't want to rock his boat. He's been super good and reasonable with my new perspective and we have an excellent marriage all round.

  Sorry if I hijacked your thread...
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  It's WT leaders, not elders, who are responsible for all the harm. My Geneva, Switz. lecture posted here for new ones & Sola Scriptura to read

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  keep it secret has been wts child abuse policy for years.

  he said the policy that jehovah's witnesses have on how to handle cases of child abuse is without equal in the religious community.

  why keep these forms secret?.

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  Wow. Thank you for sharing this and thank you for taking the courageous action that you did. You have paid a very high price.
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  Besty Unplugged - My Life Story Part IV

  by besty in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  << part iii.

  part iv how to meet a wife in six weeks.

  i mentioned a while back my dad had a pretty bad accident when he was a kid.

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  Okay, great story but PLEASE--can we see the wedding pic of all those kiltz????
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  Roll call - How many here fake being a "good Jehovah's Witness"....like me!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  there is no truth...i know that.

  to please my mum while she's alive and wife i go to meetings and the 3 day convention coming up.

  i would rather go to the dentist.

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  It's a fine line to walk...I'm doing a slow fade and sometimes its fine and sometimes it's horrid. But the pain I'll be causing my family is horrid to think about...It's more about keeping one's mouth shut than being a hypocrite.