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  "Have You Heard The Latest?"

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as a jehovah's witness, that's the question that was always raised.

  jws love to gossip.

  they love to know what goes on in the business of another witness or family.

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  Off to a JW "Gathering"

  by treadnh2o in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have not been to a meeting this year.

  yet i was invited to a witness "gathering" through my wife and kids.. i really don't want to go.. however, if my reason for not going is because of someones religion, i am really no different than they are.. guess i need to go based on principal.. i won't change my mind, but am interested in your take on this situation.. .

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  What really matters to the elders- Podcast 9 Judicial Hearing

  by Hobo Ken in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is the next part of the story, when the judicial hearings begin.

  click on the link here to listen...deathorobedience.blogspot.com.

  also free on itunes here.

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  Haven't been to a meeting in 3 years...

  by dudeson in

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  2. friends

  first off i'd like to say hello to everyone on this forum, especially those who clicked on my topic.. i was baptized on sept 9, 2000 when i was 15. looking back i only did it because i had been studying with the same brother for 2 years and it seemed like the next logical step.i have 3 half siblings who at one point were all going to the meetings but were never baptized.

  none are in any way affiliated with any congregation at all and live a long way from myself and my mom.. my mother and i are the only ones in my family who have been baptized and as of dec. 2008 i moved into my own place because things were just too tense between us.

  i figured it would be beneficial for our stress levels if i moved out.. when i became inactive my mom kept asking why.

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  I hope this news is true!

  by wozadummy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i've mentioned before here that in my old congo that there is a pedophile who has been there for some years.

  just to re-cap - he was an elder in a congo more south from my old congo for some years and stopped being an elder there for unknown reasons to us when he and his wife moved to our congo when we attended.. in time it came out ,from an elderly pioneer who was close to my wife, that he had been df'd before for adultery or some such.. now in our congregation he got df'd again and because the pioneer sister used to get a lift to meetings from them ,she was told by the pedo's wife that he had been accused of molesting his girls when they were kids.

  of course the stupid woman was actually defending her husband to the pioneer - this is her daughters this animal molested!!.

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  Mere Children who are Disfellowshipped

  by BabaYaga in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  this was inspired by another thread, where freetosee told of a young witness baptised at the tender age of 9, and disfellowshipped at age 12!!!

  the mind goes wild at what a 12-year-old should ever be disfellowshipped for.

  how would a kid be so unrepentant they would deserve losing their family and friends?

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  A Challange to Def'd.....

  by AK - Jeff in

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  2. friends

  i, and many other well meaning posters here, have asked you dozens of questions.

  you have dodged them all for the most part and spent your replies on personal attacks, or just plain refusal to address the questions posed.

  your favorite retort is typically ad hominen attacks or a red-herring thown in for good measure.

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  AUSSIES: PLEASE READ THIS - Is JW accountant Australia's top tax fraud?

  by ozziepost in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  appearing in the current issue of australia's brw ("business review weekly") magazine is the cover story of the australian taxation office's cracking down on tax fraud.

  two high fliers are singled out, a former assistant tax commisiioner and...... a cpa (public accountant) well known to jws in sydney.

  because the practice is staffed and run by jws, some of them quite prominent in dub circles!.

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  Seeker4's 500th Post - My letter to the Elders (2nd Posting)

  by Seeker4 in

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  2. friends

  here's the letter i wrote to the body of elders i served with for decades, when they invited me to a judicial committee meeting two months ago.

  i have not heard a word from them since i wrote this.

  i posted this monday night (may 30, 2005) to celebrate my 500th post, but it ended up in the "heated debates" section, when i intended it to go in this area.

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  1975 - Lest We Forget

  by GetBusyLiving in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i find the topic of the 1975 end of the world scenario facinating, especially since i never lived through it.

  do you old schoolers ever feel concerned that people will one day forget about what really went down?

  with whitewashed tripe like the 'proclaimers' book informing dubs that it was just the false expectations of over enthusiastic apostates, are you at all concerned that the legacy of bullshit that is 1975 will be a forgotten moment in history blamed on you instead where the blame really belongs?

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