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  Awake! March 22, 1993

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  does anyone happen to have a copy of the awake for march 22, 1993. .

  i'm especially interested in pages 3 and 4 of an article about false teachers..

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  In 1993 the Watchtower society was so much different.

  I remember this Awake!

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  The toxic JW Worldview

  by TD in

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  2. friends

  sometimes i forget how small-minded, petty, provincial, mean-spirited ignorant and judgemental it was and still is.... then i sit down with a jw relative, hoping to have a normal conversation and realize there is literally nothing to talk about.. nothing..... current events?

  hobbies?

  your job?

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  @Phizzy, you are right! It's a one way communication. They send. Others have to listen.

  This was the first time that some family, visiting, didn't act like visitors. They act like my nice, park style backyard was a battleground for free speech.

  So, new guest list the next summer 😆

  I type this smiley, but i am still flabbergasted about it. It was so extreme and so loud, al these sect speech.

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  Mandatory Donations??? Is This Accurate?

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  does the information about mandatory donations in this post sound accurate to you?.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/i1gews/new_letter_1000_donations_are_mandatory_now/ petra!

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  I think this was already taken place since +/- 20 years.

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  And this isn't a cult? Wife put on name tag for zoom assembly

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  and this isn't a cult?

  just saw my wife put on her name tag for the zoom assembly.... what the what?

  i thought these things werent even live.

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  It's sad to see family, people you like and love, switched off their rational thinking.

  It's like they are in a stream, a wild river, trying to keep their head above the water.

  Instead of taking some rest in this difficult times, they are in full sect mode, and they don't know it.

  Sect!!!

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  The toxic JW Worldview

  by TD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sometimes i forget how small-minded, petty, provincial, mean-spirited ignorant and judgemental it was and still is.... then i sit down with a jw relative, hoping to have a normal conversation and realize there is literally nothing to talk about.. nothing..... current events?

  hobbies?

  your job?

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  Gorbatchov

  My great irration this year was my jw family in our backyard, talking loud using words "The Watchtower, Jehovah and Jesus" and the most idiot story's.

  I asked please can you level your voice, but the answer was "we have nothing to be ashamed off".

  Then they begon talking louder about the pioneer school, the Zoom meetings and that we are in the end of the end times.

  I asked again, "no believe and no politics in our backyard" and then they began beeing angry "we are free to say what we want".

  So this was the last summer with jw family in our backyard. Most bizar was they did not listen to my request. They did not respect me. This was for the first time. And the last!

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  BOE Update! (as of 2020-07-31)

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  body of elder letters, announcements, and so forth will be next to "none" unless more elders decide to contact us and help out.. atlantis has lost three elders in the past two years.

  two elders were disfellowshipped, and one disassociated and walk away a month ago.. when this happens receiving confidential documents is severed.

  the last announcement we received was 2020-07-23. i was not about to send out a childish letter on "mold" in the kingdom halls.. there are people out there out of work and concerned about what they will eat tomorrow, and the watchtower is concerned with mold!.

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  Thanks for all and take care.

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  The Black Goat in the JW Covid-19 Report - 2020 Governing Body Update #5

  by Oh-my-God in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  did you notice this?

  2020 governing body update #5. https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/docid-702020307_1_video.

  why do they show the black goat in the picture?

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  I think such a symbol can influence people in indirect thinking. Maybe the message of a "beast" stays in mind.

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  Jehovah's house for Sale?

  by JohnTron72 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  when i drive by the kingdom hall i grew up attending at but, was sold directly to a church, i get angry.

  the elders who handled the sale didn't even remove the watchtower shaped bricks on each side of the sign near the street so, now they advertise for a baptist church.

  how many times as i grew up i heard things like: you should not do work ( such as clean carpets for a church) you wouldn't want to work at a cigarette making plant or a facility that makes bombs for the military.

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  The ibsa property link shows the professional property investor, jw.org has become.

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  Trump suggests postponing the elections ... I'm not making this up

  by RubaDub in

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  2. friends

  elections have been held per the us constitution during many difficult times; us civil war, ww i, ww ii, whatever.

  i just put on the pro-trump fox news and even they are saying ... oooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. this is really scary.

  are we headed towards a dictatorship?

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  This is a known Soviet style manouvre.

  T. has his Moscow advisors.

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  Using gods name

  by Gorbatchov in

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  i've never thought about it before, but isn't it some sort of blasphemy and extremism to use a god's name in the official name of your religion?.

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  I've never thought about it before, but isn't it some sort of blasphemy and extremism to use a god's name in the official name of your religion?

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