Cadellin

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  2021 Regional Convention (will be prerecorded again)

  by Designer Stubble in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  **announcement october 28, 2020 for congregations** .

  [read after the watchtower study the week of october 26, 2020.\] 2021 regional convention: many have expressed great appreciation for the special arrangement to benefit from the 2020 regional convention during this coronavirus pandemic.

  because of the uncertainty of holding large gatherings in 2021 and the evidence of jehovah’s blessing on this year’s convention program, the governing body recently approved the following arrangements for the 2021 regional convention program.

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  For me, it was sitting by a contribution box. Got to make eye contact with all the cute guys walking past...
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  2021 Regional Convention (will be prerecorded again)

  by Designer Stubble in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  **announcement october 28, 2020 for congregations** .

  [read after the watchtower study the week of october 26, 2020.\] 2021 regional convention: many have expressed great appreciation for the special arrangement to benefit from the 2020 regional convention during this coronavirus pandemic.

  because of the uncertainty of holding large gatherings in 2021 and the evidence of jehovah’s blessing on this year’s convention program, the governing body recently approved the following arrangements for the 2021 regional convention program.

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  Cadellin

  Watch for ensuing uptick in singles shacking up and/or marrying a nonJW. After all, it was always at the conventions that you could scope out potential romances.
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  HELP!! Just Woken Up - Fanatical Mom wants to report me

  by Scarlett_Martin in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've just been introduced to this site by a pimo friend of mine.

  this will be my first post on this website.

  i need help, and he told me you guys are a very supportive community.. i'm a female in my mid twenties.

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  Cadellin

  First of all, stop beating yourself up. You are having NORMAL feelings to an ABNORMAL situation. You are not alone. There is nothing wrong with you. Your range of feelings right now are totally NORMAL and they will, eventually, pass. Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Get help there, seriously. DO NOT take such drastic action. There is light at the end of the tunnel.

  You haven't actually done anything wrong at this point, certainly nothing worthy of judicial action. Having doubts is not a disfellowshipping offence. If elders want to talk, you can then play the "Oh, no, she misunderstood me," and "I am dealing with depression" card. That will probably not lead to judicial action, especially if you say that you're taking it to Jehovah in prayer and you want to do the right thing, etc. etc. That will keep a roof over your head and buy you time to figure out where to go.

  Let me add--there is no wrong way to leave a cult. I think Steven Hassan said that and it brought me enormous comfort when I was going through your situation. And you're young--you have your whole life in front of you, free from all of the false hopes that would otherwise drag you down.
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  Always Obey

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the life story in the latest wt has a running theme that keeps popping up: if the organization tells you to do something, you do it.

  this culminates in the following anecdote:.

  we were staying in abrother’s home right next to a kingdom hall.. .

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  I thought that anecdote was EXTREMELY odd all the way around...
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  Anthony Morris depicts ex-members as ''Despicable Apostates''

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is one of the many commandments jesus instructed his twelve apostles to keep, follow, and obey!.

  here is anthony morris ( supposedly selected by jehovah to keep, follow and obey the sayings of jesus ) name-calling and condemning enemies!

  the pharisees used to label people as well.

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  One of the last conventions I attended had a 13 min. part on apostates. In that short time, the speaker (who I presume was using an outline supplied by the WTS) used more than 60 derogatory terms for apostates, including "mentally diseased" and others. I kept track--I wrote them all down as fast as I could! What made it all the more stark is that I was reading Ray Franz's Crisis of Conscience around that time, in which he speaks of the GB with restraint and human decency, even though he had grounds to use stronger terms against them. The contrast was startling. Who has real love?
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  2020-10-12--Year End Report! (as of 2020-10-14)

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2020-october-12th.. re: 2020 year end report.

  reply below for the link and a milkshake back in the pm section.. https://www.legendairymilkshakebar.com/.

  petra!.

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  Cadellin

  Please send in the PM for me as well. Thank you so much.

  OMG, those milkshakes...
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  Everyone Around Trump Is Getting The Virus Including Joint Chief if Staff ...what’s going on???

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is this just a coincidence?

  is trump a “super spreader”?

  is this a republican payback?

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  There's no conspiracy here, folks. Just plain old-fashioned science. Minimize your exposure (though PROVEN means like masks, social distancing, and washing your hands) and your chances of getting sick are reduced. Not gone, just reduced. Avoid those things and guess what? Your chances of getting the virus are increased. Not a certainty, just increased.

  Trump and his circle shrugged off these very simple steps while, by contrast, Biden and his circle followed them religiously. Not hard to do the math here...
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  Apostasy

  by frozen2018 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone seen the 2017 movie apostasy?

  set in britain, the story is about a family, a single mom and her two daughters, who are jehovah's witnesses.

  i'm not going to give away too much of the plot, but holy moly!

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  Cadellin

  It looks amazing--thanks for letting me know about it. Also, I think the mother is the same actress that played the ladies maid on Downtown Abbey. Can't remember her name. Cool.
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  UC Berkeley Study on Disaffiliation from JW

  by emmayataco in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm a uc berkeley student researching the effects of disaffiliation from the jehovah's witnesses.

  i'm not ex-jw but i am ex-mormon and as your cousin i can sympathize with the struggles we face when we question/leave the religion.. i currently have a survey open which closes on sunday the 20th at 11pm.. if you meet the criteria i encourage you to take the 20-30 minute survey.

  -be at least 18 years old-born/raised jw (born in or family converted when you were minor)-"left" at least 6 months ago (left=inactive and questioning/non-believing).

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  It is not a scam. The consent/information form is standard wording from university institutional review boards.
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  2021- Circuit Assembly

  by bats in the belfry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is it just me, or do they really have increased the number of speakers of color?.

  gearing up for more increase in africa perhaps?

  (hint: jw box).

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  Cadellin

  STill overwhelmingly white GB (and male, too, but that's another topic.)