Posts by freddo

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Told a JW about ARC in August, finally got a reply - Return to Jehovah booklet!!
by Xanthippe in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
so i've mentioned this friend of my husband's who started writing to me out of the blue about three years ago, decades after we d'aed.

last august i wrote to her about the arc and jackson's summons.

i gave her the website details so she could see for herself.
freddo

Xanthippe, none so blind as those that will not see.
I don't know about you but as you are DA'd you could reply in quite a firm manner.
"Do you know what Sister X? Your cowardice astounds me. Take your self serving booklet, which you use to prop yourself up in the false belief you will be saved while 7 billion perish and set fire to it.
Perhaps the smell of its incense will strike the nostrils of your god and he'll stop the next JW pedophile from harming little Johnny and his baby sister.
But his track record isn't so good is it, hmmmmm?"
Don't think she'll be writing back mind!
21
Restructuring Bethel
by LaFrancia in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
an announcement to all congregation in italy :.

the project of a new bethel in italy was allocated .

the number of temporary special pioneers will be reduced significantly.
freddo

@DATA-DOG
That is funny!
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The Angels will guide a nuclear bomb away from the Governing Body!
by John Aquila in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this is one major reason why i dont try to wake up anyone anymore.

they need to take the first step, and then i will help---- if they ask.

otherwise i just listen and marvel at how some of them think.
freddo

What's frightening is that if the GB told him to kill babies he might actually do it.
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2015 10-20-BOE!
by Atlantis in
1. watchtower
2. bible
2015, 10/20/boe.. .. re: making wise use of printed magazines.. .. page 2: .

this postscript should neither be read to the congregation nor be posted .

on the information board.. .
freddo

@DATA - DOG - page 2
This is to encourage less placements of higher ticket items like books and 32/64 page brochures.
Sister mega-mag route pioneer doesn't need to place a bazillion mags each month. She can place tracts and "video showings" it still goes to her placements and looking good on her report.
It's all about saving the dosh.
THANK YOU SO MUCH ATLANTIS!
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new letter about cuts london
by rege brazzy in
1. jw
2. friends
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2015-10-29_boe-making_the_best_use_of_dedicated_funds.pdf source jwleaks.

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freddo

Old news. This was read out at our last service meeting. It's been PDF'd here for days.
And it's not even BOE only. It's to the congregation.
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Teaching Committee Helper blames weighed down feelings on "perspective"
by wifibandit in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
he mentions changes in assignment at 1:14 and 7:09.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1uufpx8jqk.
freddo

Don't urinate on my leg and tell me it's raining.
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I gave the elders some ammo to use
by atacrossroads in
1. jw
2. friends
i was having dinner at olive garden with my cousin who was disfellowshipped for apostacy.

a holier than thou pioneer couple saw us.

if that was not enough i saw her take a picture of me with my cousin.
freddo

You cannot (officially) be df'd for associating with DF'd - especially when it was an urgent and extremely private financial/business matter which it was of course!
But ... there is the "catch all" brazen conduct and causing divisions which can be wheeled out by zealot elders to back up their action by stating you are disturbing the peace of the congregation. You will also get stick for publicly meeting and eating with said df'd person.
If you want to tell'em to do one and take the consequences of shunning and initial loneliness (it can hit you like a ton of wet sand especially if you haven't really prepared for it) then fine but if you want to play the long game then DO NOT MEET WITH THEM and tell any enquirer you are not prepared to discuss "a private financial/business" meeting under any circumstances. You might also be a little contrite and say yes maybe I shouldn't have met in public but It needed to be done.
Any twinges of guilt can be suppressed by remembering you are playing the theocratic warfare game back at them.
Best wishes.
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Letter to be read at meeting this week about the downsize
by dropoffyourkeylee in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a family member who is a bethelite informed me today that there is a letter to be read soon ( this week or next) concerning the downsizing.

so probably someone who has their midweek meeting early in the week will be able to fill in the details.
freddo

@jwleaks
In your first post where you have typed the content you have missed out the important paragraph at the top of page 2.
It is there in your later post in the PDF on PAGE 2 which does contains the important bit about reducing the bethel families and how "heartwarming" their response has been!
This has been read out at our meeting this past week.
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Acronyms
by Distracted in
1. jw
2. friends
reading through a lot of the forum posts and wondered what tatt stands for (?).

any more acronyms that are special to this site?
freddo

Borg = The Organization (As in you will be assimilated from Star Trek)
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The Shit Has Just Started Hitting The Fan For The WT Corporation, Nightmare Stage!
by Brokeback Watchtower in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
as with any course which is based on pure wishful thinking(which is the wt corporation based on) has different stages.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wishful_thinking.

some psychologists believe that positive thinking is able to positively influence behavior and so bring about better results.

this is called "pygmalion effect".
freddo

@DarioKehl
You forgot the "don't let deaf people wank" video.
Oh, and we have the Jan 2016 WT study article with more "if you think you're anointed your nuts" stuff and the February 2016 WT "rat on your mate for smiling on facebook" study article.