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  Pshycos! - 2016 "Remain Loyal to Jehovah" Regional Convention Program

  by thedepressedsoul in

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  wow this is interesting!

  i think how much emphasis this puts on "loyalty" shows their is an issue.

  they're trying to plug the wholes as much and quickly as possible.

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  freddo

  What? No "Disloyal" Korah? I love Korah - old swallowy uppy earthquaky Korah.

  Pah. Lightweights.
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  My Personal Invitation to the Celebration of the Lord's Evening Meal

  by TMS in

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  by no means is this a heartwarming "experience" illustrating how an ex-jw skillfully "reached the heart" of a current jw, moving them to re-examine their belief system.

  that won't be my take on my half hour visit with an elder's wife last sunday.

  no one scored points here as is almost always the case in these interactions.. we live at the extreme southern tip of texas, on the u.s.-mexico border in a city of about 200,000. twenty years ago there were 20 spanish language congregations, 2 english.

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  freddo

  Trust me, her head will be spinning and what you said will "pop up" from time to time in the future. Whether her comfy well-ordered existence or her desire to see a dead loved one in paradise will be overcome by a crisis big enough for her to act at any time I don't know.

  I've heard it all before but your take on the only innocent in the David and Bathsheba situation being killed by Jehovah touched me ...
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  Well I spilled it to the elders (elder)

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

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  2. beliefs

  an elder came over for a visit the other night (he couldn't get a partner) personally i consider him a friend and have revieiled many things to him an figured the tie has come to step out of this religion slowly.. well i finally told him i have no believe in the bible (other then the confirmed history in it) or god.

  i did it slowly and tactfully and even non-agressive.. his response to learning i believe in evolution was that evolution doesn't happen now i respectfully disagreed and pointed out lactose and alcohol tolerance among the last thousand years as well as tibetian lung/hearts.

  he refused to believe it.

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  freddo

  If you're not ready to be df'd then be careful what you say; even alone to a lone second elder - actually, a lone second anybody - who will stand as a witness in a J/C against you.

  One is enough!
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  Is everything that doesnt add ud explained as a vision, a parable or a "poem" ?

  by Bolthof in

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  hi.. i meet up with a couple of jw once a week and it seems to me that every time i show them a verse that says something that contradicts their doctrine they say that it is a parable, a vision.. or a poem of some sort.

  what are your toughts about this ?.

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  freddo

  Tell 'em the "faithful and discreet slave" is just a parable too. That'll get'em jumping.
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  Article: "JWs door to door pamphlets are actually alright." Journalist's mistakes corrected in Comments by XJWs. Read his reaction.

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  https://www.the-newshub.com/general/jehovahs-witness-door-to-door-pamphlets-are-actually-alright#comment-section.

  jehovah's witness door to door pamphlets are actually alright.

  and their religion isn't that bad either.

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  freddo

  Good man. A rating of "2" would seem about right to me.
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  Child Abuse

  by MicaSmith in

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  2. child-abuse

  hello, i am new to forum.

  i want to thank you for allowing me to post my concerns.. you are a lively, intelligent, empathetic community.

  i have read many of your posts and comments.. i have two concerns that i would like to discuss here.

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  freddo

  Superb post MicaSmith. Welcome.

  You express yourself very cogently and what you have written chimes exactly with my beliefs about many JW's and the Governing Body. "Whitewashed graves" comes to mind.

  From your description your mother was/is a wicked self serving abuser. Look up Eunice Spry a jw from England who manipulated others and was even allowed to be a foster parent, so skilled was her manipulation, to see how this type of person behaves.

  Keep the toxic ones out of your life, even (especially) blood related ones!
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  Is Reading/Writing about Mythologies bad?

  by Messhy in

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  as the topic title says, is reading/writing about mythologies bad?

  i read alot of mythologies and enjoy it.

  should i stop?.

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  freddo

  @Messhy

  Welcome. Enjoy what you do.

  @Xanthippe.

  Homer is good but he spends too much time lazing around on the sofa for my liking.
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  Urgent assistance needed for Barbara and ARC!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. bible

  my contacts are assisting in this effort but the more people the better!.

  .. information needed in assisting barbara anderson with arc... barbara needed a boe for arc and i have already sent it to her so that problem is solved.

  however we are in need of the following information:.

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  freddo

  Atlantis - you have a pm.
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  2 Videos If You Want Them!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. bible

  some videos that just came in if you want them... you became so beloved to us.. .. http://we.tl/9parpjipfz.

  .. new instruction video.

  .. http://we.tl/bklkzuavfs.

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  freddo

  >oppostate

  I think many WT bethel drones are cowards - all they care about is their image and the God of their belly (and their board and lodging on the backs of the brothers and sisters).

  They're even eating themselves now and kicking out the older and less useful.

  Did you see the obsequious Andrew Tokley SC the WT lawyer grovelling in front of Peter McLellan at the Australian Royal Commission? I mean imagine standing before Christ and explaining that far from being the light of the world he helps his masters on the branch committee and governing body sanitize and cover over and hide child abuse from Caesar's "God appointed" representatives.

  How can they believe? Vomit is what they are.
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  Question for those still attending the Kingdom Hall

  by ToesUp in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this a question more out of curiosity, because we have not stepped foot in a kh in 3 years.. how is the attendance at the meetings/assemblies?

  i know the answer will vary due to location.. are you (especially elders) receiving any notification or communication from bethel or co's that there is an upsurge of people that are simply disappearing or out right dis associating?.

  thanks, in advance, for your feedback!

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  freddo

  Over the last two years, slightly lower attendances, slightly more lethargic attitude; lower baptisms this last year at circuit days. Young ones walking out the door by fading. One older lady faded. One older lady walking out by DA'ing.

  Our publisher count remains static but only because about 8 publishers have moved in.

  One baptism - a young lad who is now about 17 and he was baptised in the great flush of 2014 and is now not seen and on the way to inactivity!