Simon Morley

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  What Rumors Were Said About You Either While You Were In Or Were Out Of The Organization?

  by minimus in

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  when i slowly but surely departed, i heard that the love of money was what drew me out.

  (yeah, right)..

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  Recently a former JW texted me to ask why I was back at meetings! Aparently there is a rumour going around to that effect.
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  They are really begging for money again..

  by XBEHERE in

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  sorry i don't know how to post the actual letter but here is the text of it.

  lol.

  christian congregation of jehovahs witnesses 2821 route 22, patterson, ny 12563-2237 phone: (845) 306-1100.

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  Fiddler is right on the mark. consider one local example for me:

  * Alberta members of the CUPE Union donated $130,000 for flood relief (approx $4 per member)

  * United Chruch of Canada donated $110,000 for flood relief

  * Private and corporate donations for flood relief exceeded $5,400,000

  * Thousands who dontated fee time and goods out of their own pocket. My office was closed in calgary and 14 of the staff who could not work from home dontated their work time to the relife effort for over a week.

  I hate it when they say the world is selfish
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  Meanwhile in Canada...

  by jgnat in

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  canadian graffiti, and to kill a canadian: .

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  Ahhhh - the Canadian sense of humour - that's why I love living in Canada!
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  New 1975? Jan 1st WT 2014

  by notsurewheretogo in

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  this post was taken from reddit exjw but makes a very good point:.

  these are two paragraphs of the watchtower of january 1st 2014.... .

  i don't know about you guys, but in my mind, i'm seeing a deja vu of the articles before 1975 i've read.

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  Given the WTBS are masters at specious semantics and dubious word etimology it is even a bigger stretch when you look at the context around their 01/2014 "overlappers'. For one - the last I checked "group" means: "a number of people....that are located, gathered, or classed together". This pushes the event horizon of 1992 (Freddy Franz passing) even further back to (my guess) when at least three of Freddie's contemporaries (the "on hand" annointed) were still alive for the second (the "overlapper" annointed) group. Not sure of what that date would be but it sure would put Sanderson's credentials in question as he was in his late 20's in '92. It might also bring into question some of the other GB/FDS.

  "In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense" (Jarod Kintz)
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  What are you NOT allowed to say as a Jehovahs Witness?

  by The Quiet One in

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  "one of the bible study was listening and singing the song by jason mraz titled lucky with the chorus going like this;.

  quote.

  'i'm lucky i'm in love with my best friend.. lucky to have been where i have been.. lucky to be coming home again.. lucky we're in love in every way.. lucky to have stayed where we have stayed.. lucky to be coming home someday..'.

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  Charles Taze Russell was one of the faithful & discreet slave class.
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  Goodbye JWD/JWN (my last post)

  by slimboyfat in

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  after some considerable thought i have decided that i will no longer post on this forum because i want to return to jehovah.

  thank you for all the kindness and many interesting discussions over the years.

  i wish you all well in the future and the decisions you make.

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  SBF - people can change and problems can be overcome. I hope that you have not been fed empty promises - the elders may have asked for your forgiveness of them in how they dealt with you. They can promise you a lot and feign true love but it will be only a matter of time. Whatever happens, stay positive and remember that support is available here so you don't have to cope on your own all over again.

  I hope you find the peace your are looking for.
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  Any proof that more JW's are leaving in greater numbers then before?

  by Crazyguy in

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  or is it just wishful thinking on our parts?.

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  I think there will be a lot of internalized problems first before any exodus. Sadly the number who are heavily medicated, self medicate with alchol and food and those who become so desparate will commit suicide - these will be the palpable strains on the org. The conscious who then awaken after these events will be the ones to leave.
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  What was the "suggested contribution" for the NNWT?

  by Momma-Tossed-Me in

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  ...?....

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  I think it may be a grey area....
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  I suspect the WTS mut be feeling pretty good about their own internal security...

  by sir82 in

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  ...since it evidently was not confirmed in advance that the agm was going to be exclusively about releasing the rnwt.. i mean, we all kinda sorta expected it, but no one had a "smoking gun", as it were, officially confirming it.. in contrast, there was the leak, posted on this forum, of the july 15 2013 watchtower, a week or 2 before its official posting on jw.org.. .

  i'm sure the rnwt was a well-guarded secret - on the other hand, there has been a rnwt translation committee in existence for 5+ years.

  absolutely no one in the "apostate community" even hinted at this committee's existence.

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  May this be a lesson for us all about speculating in the future. Sir82 makes an excellent point, that despite (at times) our delusions of grandeur we do not, in fact, have anyone on the "inside". Those on the "inside" remain resolute to be faithfull at all costs - and for those that supposedly are speaking from the 'inside" they may well be here to continue their duplicity (at best) and infiltration (at worse) reporting back to their respective bethel elders who in turn pass along information to the cabal surrounding the GB.

  Unfortunately my family now has to deal with fall out from the RNWT (less than a week) where my nephew (unbatized, left home at 18) and gay has been shunned by his parents and told that unless he repents "his homosexual" ways that they will have nothing to do with him. So if some of those lurkers are reading this from bethel - if anything happens to my nephew (he is hugely traumatized) then it will be on their heads along with the group of men that supposedly represent our Creator here on earth. Now i am off to console him in the hopes he understands he is loved, cherished and understood by at least some of his family.
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  AGM Release: The New, Improved New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

  by Oubliette in

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  this just in from the annual meeting: a new release of the new, improved new world translation of the holy scriptures.

  (reposted from http://m.imgur.com/a/crap8):.

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  Grey cover for grey areas they have made even greyer. Grey is simply a tone (not a colour) caught anywhere between two tonal absolutes of black and white - how wholly appropriate and happifying!