Posts by freddo

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GB worship on JW Talk

by Lemonp in

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freddo

Sounds like at least a part of them is trying to convince themselves. They obviously care.

The majority will just shrug and carry on. Some will get worried as they try to continue and become mentally stressed.

A few, an increasing few, will join the dots with this, the royal commission, money grabbing and other red flags and wake up.

Edited to add: Yes this looks to be possible sarcasm - (I paraphrase - "whatever the gb teach about the generation this year" and "simple and easy to understand like Jesus teachings" do seem unlikely phrases for the genuine believing jw's.) - I hope it is as it's fairly subtle.

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Three Elders with Same Victim - Is Poland Next?

by berrygerry in

from reddit:.

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3iipt9/its_happening_a_big_news_story_in_one_of_the/.

freddo

@Mad Irishman

I don't think that is true - 1006 reported cases in Australia belies that claim if you look at the ratios - but of course JW's hold themselves up to be the one true religion and like to project a clean and pure image (bit like a whitewashed grave) before everyone; which is why even when their procedures are pointedly shown to be woefully lacking (like the Royal Commission did) all they care about is protecting their image.

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For Those of You Who Still Serve... How Do You Do It?

by Kingdom Evader in

jw
friends

new here... been lurking for some time now.... i still serve... but with each passing day, it gets harder and harder.

i'm slowly... slowly working on my wife (i call her mrs. hardcore) and even my m-i-l (who taught my wife how to be hardcore).

making some amazing progress... they are still hardcore... but unrecognizable from a couple years ago!.

freddo

Choose the more generic outlines based on Christian fruits - Mercy, Love etc. Or jw doctrine you believe in perhaps - Hellfire/Trinity.

Shepherding calls - just go along the lines of "Do your best - well done."

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JW Only Employers

by DwainBowman in

http://www.getbatsout.com.

how many of us former jw's, know of companies that only hire jw's, and no one else?

well the one below, not only hires, just jw's, but only jw's that are, pioneers, ms's & elders.

freddo

They could go to Brooklyn where they've got "bats in the belfry".

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I'm back! And something I remembered...

by OneStepOut93 in

so, it's been a really long time since i've posted on here.

and even at the time i never really posted much.. to make my story short, my parents found out i was planning to move in with a worldly friend out of the blue and instead sent me to live with my jw grandmother.

this was almost 3 years ago.

freddo

Glad to have you back!

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In 3 and one half-hours time..

by snugglebunny in

jw
friends

in 3 and one half-hours time..queen elizabeth will become the longest reigning sovereign ever.. you go, girl!.

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freddo

Who put the "Royal" in Royal Commission?

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Elder's Meeting about ARC? No. Really?

by punkofnice in

as you may or may not know (or care), i live in the uk.

a jw spy of mine told me that an elder had metioned that attendance at the kingdom hells had seemed to have dropped off after the australian royal comission expose of paedophilia within the watchtower organisation.. the elders were said to have had this as an item or the subject of a local elder's meeting.. i was surprised they'd even heard of the arc over here but at the same time was delighted.

delighted that meeting attendance had dropped possibly....and i say possibly...as a result of the arc.. even an older dyed in the wool jw i know is getting sick of the gb worship within the organisation and had heard of the arc.. has anyone heard similar?.

freddo

Here in my part of the UK I know of two "heavy weight" elders (as in used on local assembly items and run an RBC department) who have expressed concern to a mutual contact about the ARC. One said he'd watched it "for hours" - It doesn't appear to have shaken them up but the fact that they have seen it and commented on it shows the wheels are turning in their heads.

I think more eyebrows are raised about the money grabbing in my corner of the field - one or two folk are quite vocal about it. One brother (ex MS who was beginning to "reach out") said he wasn't going to read the WT or offer prayers at the congregation meetings anymore and will wait on Jehovah to sort things out - good luck with that - before he reaches out again.

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Hero Movies

by jws in

i know this is a bit off the topic of religion, but i just got back from seeing ant man with my son.

i'm getting tired of the fact that hollywood (and in this case the action/hero genre) rarely seems to have an original thought.

has anybody noticed the same theme?.

freddo

Bread and Circuses.

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Korean news with my story...

by AntiEntropy in

i joined this site 12 years ago and i revisited it yesterday to get some information on coc's status.. .

frankly saying, i've tried to be a complete ex-ex-jw so that ex-jw things would not drive my life mad.

due to my linguistic barrier of writing in a foreign language, 12 years ago, i could not but read and read and read this site.