Posts by freddo

Actually - putting my mean head on - I can use this wedding service as a bit of ammunition because I know a few elders' wives got together to watch it. Service and all.

So if I choose to watch Harry Potter or Saving Private Ryan or listen to some "music that debases" then I get counsel ...

But sisters snooty and righteous can watch five different clergy share in giving a wedding service in a church the size of a cathedral with "worldly hymns" ?

OKKKAAAAAAAAYYYYYY ...

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Did You Care About The Royal Wedding?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i don’t get it.

who really cares?

in the usa, it’s such a huge newsworthy event.

freddo

We Brits know how to put on a show don't we? And for me the American Bishop was brilliant. If you are going to preach "Christian Love" then do it with passion and style.

I enjoyed watching William and Kate's marriage - she's lovely too - but he is the future King and it had to be a bit more formal and "British stiff upper lip" - this one was more human which I think reflected the personalities of the couple and because Harry is very unlikely to become King he can throw himself into charitable good stuff. Meghan Markle is lovely as well!

The two lads - having lost their mother at tender ages and who actually have done good things - are much more normal, connected, accepted and real than Charles (Old duffer who talks to plants), Anne (two legged horse) and Andrew (Buffoon).

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Consequences for having a non religious wedding ceraminy?

by Addison0998 in

hey i was wondering if maybe someone who is an ex elder or who knows a lot about these things could help me.

my dad is an elder but i need to be cautious with questions i ask.

now that i’ve been woken up from my brainwashed love of this corrupt corporation and from my belief in the bible, and my fiancé is starting to wake up as well, i really don’t want to have the sexist, overused, impersonal talk outline used for my wedding ceremony by some elder who is trying to show off his talk giving skills.

freddo

I think your main worry will be close family and their attitudes.

I know of a couple who I believe are still jw's who eloped in the middle of the night in the early 1980's, went to Gretna Green and married in a civil ceromony and came back to the hall. Fait Accompli.

I know another jw couple who did the same but went off to Paris!

All they got was a verbal bollocking but no reproof or anything. The last couple - he became a pioneer a year later and then a few years after that MS then Elder.

As far as anyone knows the above couples had "clean" courtships in jw terms too. Just didn't want the hassle of a formal jw wedding.

Also I knew of couples who were "dealt with" by elders for sex before marriage and so not allowed to use the KH and so had a civil non-religious ceremony.

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I just bought a John Deere 6130R tractor!

by silentbuddha in

you may be thinking, "so, what... it's just a tractor" right.

yes, it is just a tractor.

however, for me it was the last step in me actually realizing my dream of becoming a farmer.

freddo

https://youtu.be/tb63PdPweDc

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Evening gala/ball

by Researchedandenlightened in

jw
friends

can anyone tell me when, and why jehovahs witnesses hold evening gala,s / ball with full tuxedo,s and evening gowns ?

is it uk only as i have heard family throughout the uk attend these events (jw only) of course !.

what is the purpose of these events and how long have the dubs being doing so ?

freddo

Never been to one but have a now married friend who used to on occasion. They seem to largely be singles and divorcees often not "appointed as E/MS" - maybe a few married with no kids who like to socialise and my friend would travel quite long distances (in UK terms) to go - sort of 50 - 100 miles - as they tended to be held in the catchment areas of London, Birmingham, Manchester or some other major city.

Dunno about Scotland - maybe they put on a kilt and dance round swords!

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Active witnesses? Please help?

by Ahava in

hi,i'm lost and a little sad.

i actually like the jw faith.

some might call this faith cold, strict, dogmatic but they're just trying to follow rules and give back to god.

freddo

Welcome!

Maybe start with Luke 21 v 8 and 2 Thessalonians 2 v 2.

Do these two scriptures not show that JW's should not be constantly talking about impending doom all the time?

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Ryde ( I o Wight UK ) KH now a vets.

by stan livedeath in

was:.

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now:.

freddo

Just to clarify PE - it's now five congregations in three halls.

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Seeking info - murder suicide in WA Australia - were they Witnesses?

by iwasblind in

hey guys.

a grandfather murdered his wife, daughter and 4 grandkids.. the father says his kids are in a "new system" and says his god is "jehovah".

the grandparents lived on a farm and called it their "foreever farm".

freddo

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5085269649784832/australian-family-murder-suicide-jw-connection

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who has been out the longest?

by stan livedeath in

who has been out of the cult the longest ?.

i'll start--i resigned in 1971, but attended occasionally as a non-interested husband to keep the wife sweet, untill my last circuit assembly in autumn 1980. no connection with the cult since then.

so--its either 47 or 38 years, depending on how you see it.. which begs the question--why am i on this site now ?.

freddo

When you say you're still in "stillin" - do you still put in a report?