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  Another brother steps back

  by konceptual99 in

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  so at the meeting this week it was announced that a certain brother was no longer serving as a ministerial servant.. this is a guy who was brought up in a different country as his family went to serve where the need was greater.

  this is a guy who was home schooled and went straight into pioneering.

  he then went and worked on building projects in various places in europe and africa.

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  freddo

  Excellent post K99.

  Did he sit through the announcement?
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  I'm gonna sue those f€$¥kers

  by moley in

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  2. child-abuse

  well the ball has started rolling, gonna sue, can't go into to much detail.

  time for some payback .

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  freddo

  Best of luck. Be careful what you post here, their lackeys may be watching especially if the slightest slip on your part will save them $$$.
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  Signs of Toxic Personalities

  by Simon in

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  came across this and found it rather interesting:.

  http://facthacker.com/18-signs-of-toxic-people/.

  it's always good to be able to identify when we may be exhibiting some of these behaviors or, hopefully more likely, to spot the behaviors in others and help avoid the impact they can have.

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  @RubaDub

  American English dictionaries don't have the words "gullible" or "humour" (as in sense of humour) in them.
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  The Last Supper

  by Teddy in

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  2. beliefs

  i have been studying with the jw since june of 2016 and they say only the ones who make up the 144.

  000 and can partake of the bread and cup.

  is this true?.

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  freddo

  Hello Teddy - welcome.

  Virtually the whole of Revelation is - according to the JW's - "symbolic". And yet the 144,000 of Revelation CH 7 and Ch 14 is supposedly "literal" even though it is made up of 12 x 12,000 from symbolic tribes of Israel.

  Without wishing to be disrespectful the opinion of this poster (who was baptised as a JW 40 years ago and who was dumb enough to be an elder for over 20 of those years until I realised it was a croc) is that it is "all bollocks."

  I would further encourage you to "run Forrest run" as far away as you can from this self serving little cult.
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  JW over-rode our Choice of Funeral music

  by snugglebunny in

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  a few years on and the funeral of my jw momma still galls me.

  she left instructions for which kingdom songs to be sung and we gladly abided by her wishes.

  the funeral was held in a public crematorium, not a kingdom hall.

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  freddo

  I know they brought in a rule some years back that Kingdom Mal-adies only are allowed at the KH but in the UK at the crematorium there is no reason at all why other dignified music couldn't be played.

  Having said that, most dubbies have K/M's but on occasion I have heard other stuff.
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  Finally found a friend I can talk to

  by StarTrekAngel in

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  he is an old friend that used to attend my congo.

  he moved away closer to his parents at some point and we lost touch.

  for a couple of years i did not hear anything from him.

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  freddo

  So why did he shave his beard? There must be some desire on his part to be compliant to jw social mores?
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  The Humbling of Anthony

  by Duncan in

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  i didn’t really care for anthony very much.

  at the time of this story he was 13 or 14 years old, a clever and precocious kid down the hall.

  he was extremely zealous about the truth and took it, and himself, very seriously.

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  freddo

  Resurrected for all to enjoy Duncan's sublime story-telling.
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  Just a little anecdote illustrating how out of touch the typical JW is

  by sir82 in

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  this weeks book study lesson was on martha, the sister of lazarus.

  the chapter in the "imitate their faith" book praised her for being "industrious".. the conductor at our congregation meeting was just positively gushing about how "industrious" modern-day jw women are.. he was so exciting, he could barely get the words out.

  following is not an exact quote, but conveys the gist:.

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  freddo

  And of course Lazarus being dead an' all means there was no chaperone. Disgraceful.
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  Syllabus

  by Duncan in

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  haven't posted in years, but thought i would today, since something reminded me of this story..

  it's 1970 in our london-suburb congregation and it's the circuit overseer visit.

  as part of his talk on the saturday night this co - john anderson, anyone remember him?

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  freddo

  Remember "step-by-step progress"? That was a little buzz word/phrase for a while.
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  Just a little anecdote illustrating how out of touch the typical JW is

  by sir82 in

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  2. friends

  this weeks book study lesson was on martha, the sister of lazarus.

  the chapter in the "imitate their faith" book praised her for being "industrious".. the conductor at our congregation meeting was just positively gushing about how "industrious" modern-day jw women are.. he was so exciting, he could barely get the words out.

  following is not an exact quote, but conveys the gist:.

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  Back here in the UK of course we have recently had our second female Prime Minister take office.

  Meanwhile back in the Kingdom Hall women cannot run a microphone, wear trousers or read for the congregation.

  Jeez!