Posts by 1Averagejoe

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Hello Everyone

by MarieK in

i hope everyone is having a good saturday.

i've visited this many times in the past month or so, joined yesterday and finally got the nerve to post!

needless to say, i'm super nervous, being new to this whole experience.

Hi MarieK, welcome! I beat you in posting by a few weeks and it's great to be here. You will feel free to express your thoughts, doubts, rant and so on. Even as we now grow in our research we can still express our views, changes in thoughts, questioning as we go on. Yes am still in, by outward appearances still an elder for a short while. Phew I don't have to lie to the gullible from the platform again, but living a lie.

Gkad to hear your husband is "awake" too.

Waiting for the rest of your story. Hope you take things slow and easy in your fade...leaving ever so careful, gradual like.

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The lion king mufasa in today's WT?

by purrpurr in

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has no one else seen this illustration in today's watchtower?

i don't know how to post it on here perhaps someone will help?.

i swear its straight out of the lion king, the scene were scar throws mufasa into the stampede "long live the king" that scene.. i wonder how many jw kids will be picking up on this today?

1Averagejoe

Yes. Thought the same and showed it to some kids who were quick to see it too.

And yes we still do watch movies... It's a classic here.

Once more they have shown no originality in their art work... Not the first time they've copied and pasted. Perhaps too much brain washing has killed the artists' imagination skill.

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The lion king mufasa in today's WT?

by purrpurr in

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has no one else seen this illustration in today's watchtower?

i don't know how to post it on here perhaps someone will help?.

i swear its straight out of the lion king, the scene were scar throws mufasa into the stampede "long live the king" that scene.. i wonder how many jw kids will be picking up on this today?

1Averagejoe

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Belonging To The JW Club Makes JWs Feel Special!

by minimus in

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honestly, they really have nothing going for them except that they are in an exclusive club.

they are in a better place than anyone else.

they have it over everyone else because of their superiority.

1Averagejoe

No indept comments during the meeting from most, but after the meetings you hear their voices trying to catch up on the latest. Not single comment about what the meeting was about.

As time goes on you have to do more to "fit in" then when hard times hit or old age, and your useless, where the club? Where are my pips at?

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BBC Radio 4. The Report. ''Jehovah's Witnesses and Child Sexual Abuse''. Thursday 9th July 8pm.

by ThomasCovenant in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0612hjs

1Averagejoe

Thanks ScenicViewer for the extra info.

Lol. Left the meetings right after the congregation bible study in hopes to hear the anticipated broadcast, didnt know they had rescheduled it. Please keep us posted. I would love a download link it if possible.

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BBC Radio 4. The Report. ''Jehovah's Witnesses and Child Sexual Abuse''. Thursday 9th July 8pm.

by ThomasCovenant in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0612hjs

1Averagejoe

Thanks Thomascovenant. Perhaps knowledge of this upcoming broadcast has added heat to the GB concerning their history of mishandling child abuse cases, as noted in Morris' address in trying to wash their hands clean.

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Anthony Morris III goes on an eight minute rant over child abuse

by Richard_I in

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this is in the july 2015 monthly program on tv.jw.org cedars wrote about it too.. starting at around 42:30 in the video, morris talks about the child abuse situation for almost 10 minutes.

link to video.

i'm writing a transcript right now.

1Averagejoe

Kairos hopefully something big will happed.

Looking forward to hearing this reminder from another post by

ThomasCovenant2 days ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0612hjs

To be aired this thursday.

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Questions to ask after July broadcast

by scooterspank in

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just wondering what questions you might ask an active jw following the july broadcast and the 10 minutes addressing child sex abuse?

or is it even worth the trouble.

1Averagejoe

I will say as I have mentioned to some elders when we were having this subject discussed at the elders school that this is because it's prevalent and there have been cases of elders/bethelite being taken to court due to child abuse. I was a Bethelite so sometimes my comments are credited to knowing stuff due to that.

To one elder I had said we've been blaming christendom for the same thing thats been happening right among us.

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Laughing Lion??? Lastest study article

by dugout in

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sh##@t not funny no more.

comments please

1Averagejoe

Brothers we can conclude that since the bible never says Satan is joyous but that Jehovah is the happy God and Hosea 11:10 depics him as a lion.... Or Rev 5:5 Jesus the lion of the tribe of Judah, that this single brother is watching jw broadcasting or researching on how to remain single.

Show us what he is looking at already!

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JW's came to my door 6 weeks ago. I told them I was inactive.......

by Alchemist in

6 weeks ago some jws came to my door.

i've been inactive for 8 years.

after they gave their presentation i told them i was inactive.

1Averagejoe

Perhaps you may be as many of us were when we first got hooked, vunerable, dissapointed, no friends..e.t.c. Seems grass is greener there but you'll be meeting a lot of us on our way out, disappointed, drained worse than before we got involved with jdubs. You don't need everything to be fine in the world, just your world and what you make of it and where you focus. There are ups and downs wherever.

Make some new friends who are not judgemental and demanding. (as all youll find it in the organization are paper thin "friends" who when troubles hit you'll be on your own, especially since you've been inactive before).

Locally the circuit overseer discovered a three year old letter in the files written by a disappointed jdub who left and no elder has gone to check on her...and now even some months after the c.o asked them to. No exclamation mark.

They never came looking for you out of friendship or care before, even those who knew you. They may do so as now the organisation is directing them to.