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  A fresh start

  by FormerlySandL in

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  2. experiences

  after the worst introduction i could ever make on the forum i would like to reintroduce myself and make a fresh start on the forum and hopefully over time i will be able to redeem myself.

  i have changed my user name which was over dramatic and ridiculous in the cold light of day but for transparency and to show i am not trying to hide anything i have adapted the original name and it now has a more positive feel.

  after reading a lot of posts on this forum i am feeling more optimistic about my future.

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  freddo

  Yes... if you get the forum members you PM'd with to confirm that they have had PM correspondence with you.
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  GoFundMe - JW Pioneer & LDC Couple

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  jerry jones on youtube exposed a jw couple who were begging for money on gofundme.

  this is his youtube .

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feohxtbml2c.

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  freddo

  2 Thess. 3 v 10
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  Does anyone know the themes of this year's circuit and district conventions?

  by mamacita29 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm trying to get a jump ahead for my colleague.

  i am making progress though and she is now willing to listen to logic.

  logic and reasoning is like kryptonite to jw's.

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  freddo

  Welcome to the

  "Dunk'em Young Circuit Assembly!"

  1. Song & Prayer

  2. Experiences - interviews of those who were baptised as soon as they were out of nappies and who remain confident in their old age that Jehovah's promises of paradise are true. (Wheelchair users may remain seated during their interviews)

  3. Announcement

  The Circuit Assembly deficit is £_________________

  4. Financial Needs of the Local Circuit

  Give Us Yer Lolly. (And Ice Cream Money)

  5. Baptism Talk -

  Are you over five years of age? Not baptised? No toy cars for you, then!

  The baptism candidate (singular) will wave her teddy bear and say "Yes Mummy" to acknowledge she agrees with the "Two QUESTIONS".

  Lunch time and upbuilding association with any anonymous pedophiles in the audience.

  6. Symposium. Return To Jehovah!

  A) Return To Jehovah With Your WALLET.

  B) Having Returned, Will You Praise Jah With Your Valuable Things?

  C) If You Have Returned, Have a Penis and Long Trousers - Then Reach Out For Privileges!

  D) Return with a clean shaven face.

  7. Explaining "The Generation" that Overlaps and It's Grand Climax at Hand!"

  8. Announcement "The Deficit is still £________________________" Give More!

  9. Beware of Apostate Lies about Child Abuse

  Interview a repentant child molester and have him explain why Angus Stewart and Justice McLellan are tools of Satan.

  Song (Would Jesus Wear a Rolex?) and Prayer
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  I am leaving the JW's . I am alone and scared. Advice and help needed please

  by scared and lonely in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am sorry that on my first post i am asking for help and advice but i am at my wits end.

  i have been brought up a witness all my life and it is all i know.

  i am an ex-elder and pioneer and i don't know anybody outside of the congregation.. i have been unhappy for so long and wanted to leave.

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  freddo

  S&L said he'd PM'd three forum members.

  Well let's see if any of the three receivers of PM's gives us a heads up.

  I haven't received a pm as of yet ...

  The horses are running ...
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  I am leaving the JW's . I am alone and scared. Advice and help needed please

  by scared and lonely in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am sorry that on my first post i am asking for help and advice but i am at my wits end.

  i have been brought up a witness all my life and it is all i know.

  i am an ex-elder and pioneer and i don't know anybody outside of the congregation.. i have been unhappy for so long and wanted to leave.

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  freddo

  My advice.

  Calm down and give us some proof as to your bona fides. We will help mightily if you are genuine. But we won't send you cash and you need to earn trust.

  I still sometimes call the WT Overseer "the WT conductor" in colloquial terms and the rest of your posts seem to fit terminology.

  Here is what doesn't fit: convince me.

  You sound so, so, so dependent and panicky from someone at least old enough to be an elder.

  So here is what I would like to hear.

  1. The area of the UK you are from; describe your country and town or city - it's geographical features - what the climate is like - the things it is known for. That will give me a clue if you really live in the UK. How long have you lived there?

  2. Your approx age.

  3. Your parents attitude - is one more lenient than the other? Siblings?

  4. What the elders and you have actually discussed - detail.

  Some guidance for you.

  There is plenty of work for hard-working cleaners in the UK. There are even websites offering jobs to refugees as cleaners. You could have a job within a week. Do that immediately. There is no reason why you couldn't earn £10 an hour in London and £7/8 per hour elsewhere.

  If the brother who employs you doesn't fire you immediately you have time to look. If he does fire you just because you are DF'd then I would feel no guilt in "taking" clients for my self and cleaning direct. I would tell them that you have been fired for leaving your religion and need work. If you are good some will want you to clean for them.

  I do not believe you would be fired on the spot - employment laws and safeguards are in place. You will probably have at least a month's notice. If the brother likes you he might even say work is "necessary business" and you can stay until you find something else.

  If you can provide those things we can help. If you run around panicking, we can't.

  If you answer my questions convincingly I am happy to P.M. - but only on things that would otherwise reveal your (and my own) identity. As an ex-elder myself with much experience of jw procedures and ways to stall investigations I believe I can help.

  Freddo
  

  
  

  
  
  
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  Seven Trumpets of Revelation

  by Zico in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i read on here that the society teaches that the seven trumpets of revelation are representative of seven conventions held in america in the 1920. is this actually true?

  is it old light?

  i asked some witnesses but they all gave me a look like i was weird and said it couldn't be right, and i can't check the watchtower library as i can't get it on my computer (apparently the society doesn't think mac users are worthy of the 'good news') i mean... it would be a bit...odd, wouldn't it?

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  The Revelation book is certainly still on the 2014 WT CD ROM - p 173 box with it's trumpet blasts and all!
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  only 90

  by pepperheart in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  shucks only 90 teaching books trashed last week still there is a new week starting lol

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  freddo

  Fair enough pepperheart.

  How do you go about it? Do you go up to carts in different towns? Do you take a book and ask for a couple for your family?
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  Un-****ing-Believable

  by OneFingerSalute in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just a few observations from this morning.

  .. this morning as i was trying to choke back the bile that kept wanting to come up during the wt study one comment in particular screamed cult.. towards the very end as comments were being made about "counseling" others with "gracious" words one of the uber-dub minstral-serpents made this comment, "we see in the last image that the brother is holding a bible as he counsels the other brother.

  we look closely at the picture and we can know exactly what he is counseling the brother about.

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  freddo

  Bravo, OFS!
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  1950 Watchtower Bound Volume now Complete!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the 1950 september 15th watchtower is now complete and this will finish the 1950 watchtower bound volume.

  a big thank you to jaydee for all of his hard work of scanning the watchtowers into jpg files which i received and converted into pdf files and made them searchable.

  jaydee worked day and night to get these files finished for us and i really appreciate his kindness... we only had to darken out one name on one shipping label.

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  freddo

  @The Old Hippie

  Because "they" can and do change embarrassing stuff on a CD rom, jworgasm and they can deny "they" wrote it.
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  This is Just getting Ridiculous and out of hand with the Borg

  by MrsR-Awaken in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  saw this on reddit it was posted by user morgan_sparlock .

  to me honestly this would of been prohibited 10 years ago, but now every dub is obsessed with this website, it's everywhere even a damn iphone cover... ooh they don't approve of idolatry ooh no they don't accept cross veneration thats bullshit to me!!!

  its getting to a point that they are venerating this website (company logo) it's their version of the cross.

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  freddo

  @makemean

  Actually I think many Jehovah's Witnesses are confusing "advertising with veneration".

  Perhaps even conflating homage and idolization?