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  How Many Here Remember Hearing Details from the Platform on Why a Person was Reproved or DF'd ???

  by RubaDub in

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  i just had this flashback when commenting on another thread about how they used to announce reproof or dfing from the platform.

  at least in our congregation, it was a dramatic event (this is what i can remember from back in the mid-late 60's or early 70's when i was a kid).. at the end of the service meeting, just before singing the final song, the brother would announce, "we have a letter that must be read.

  the "congregation servant" (my grandfather or later my father) would then slowly walk from the back of the kh to the platform.

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  "Conduct unbecoming a Christian"....

  Probation was replaced with " reproof" that was announced...but no reasons given. That was all left up to the imaginations and enhanced by the gossips.
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  Is wifi sensitivity the new chemical sensitivity?

  by purrpurr in

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  several of the jws i know have recently graduated/incorporated wifi sensitivity into their (self) diagnosis of chemical sensitivity.

  they seem to be particularly terrified of the new 5g, with some even believing that it's the new 5g that's causing coronavirus in china.

  the fact that even though they maybe able to turn off their own wifi but will still have all the other wifi signals around them doesn't seem to occur to these jws.

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  This is in jest, correct?
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  the FULL EPISODE 'The Witnesses,' from 🇺🇸 US Oxygen

  by NRKoppe in

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  2. child-abuse

  the full episode 'the witnesses,' from 🇺🇸 us oxygen(viewable from 🧶 outside of the us!

  )https://www.facebook.com/jws4justice/videos/543483709706749/

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  I watched about half an hour last night and couldn't stomach anymore. Excellent expose of the cess pool that cult is. I am appalled and revolted that I, thanks to weak minded parents and a bizarre grandparent, was inveigled in this mire....and overwhelmed by it and the anxiety and lack of life skills it caused.

  Looking back at it from the perspective presented ...while no surprises...just reinforces what an awful cult it is...insidious too as they love to present that squeaky clean image. What a crock and how sad for those believing the lie.
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  Lili Dale: The American Town Jehovahs Witnesses will not preach in!

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there's a wonderful channel called "the blue envelope" and the vlogger does exjw topics, oftentimes from a very interesting and unusual perspective.

  a real treasure - he's a nerd's nerd!.

  anyway this ones subject is the western new york connection with jws.

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  Is it seriously true they wouldn't do field service there??? What about the bloodguilt should a sheep be missed?
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  Before cutting my hair my witness barber had to check with Bethel...really? Not a cult?

  by Witness 007 in

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  i was balding and grey so i asked my witness barber friend to "just shave it all off" many brothers were doing the comb over which looked friggin stupid.

  but oh no in the 1990's this was rebellious he had to call a brother we knew at bethel to see if it was ok. we got his ok to go ahead but at the time i could help thinking about the no beard rule and how controlled and cultish we were..

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  I recall a man with alopecia who came into the religion...probably in the 70's.....the elders had to meet and question and get input from the higher ups as to the appropriateness of allowing him to go in service ( okay so long as he kept a hat on) and if it was okay for him to sit anywhere but the back row at meetings.....
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  Will Armageddon Survivors Be Able to Marry?

  by Expanded-Mind in

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  2. friends

  hi blondie!.

  thirteen years ago you commented on an idea circulating among some jws prior to 1975, that there was a possibility that armageddon survivors might not be able to marry.. "these vows that honor god are used—not from the bible but the only ones sanctioned by the wts.. for as long as we both shall live together on earth according to god's marital arrangement.. when i was in my 20’s, many jws interpreted this to mean that at some point in the 'new system' marriage would end.

  since this was shortly before 1975, many jws rushed to get married worried that they would never have the chance (and never have the chance to have sex.

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  And another lunacy I recall....those who didn't reproduce prior to Armageddon in order to fully pursue kingdom interests, if they were past the age of childbearing on entry to the new world, it would be like Sarah and Abraham....their reproductive powers would be regenerated. But no sex for resurrected ones. Only for survivors and children born to them.... And....perhaps resurrected babies would be raised by childless survivors thus satisfying their parental desires.

  But...with former desires "passed away"....(from Isaiah).....the desire for sex could easily be relieved from the survivors psyche, a loving provision no doubt.....

  There also were calculations regarding how a gradual roll back resurrection could "logically" occur....with ample accomodations for all...but yes at the comfortable satiety of the planet, population would supposedly remain static. Or......the planetary mass could expand.....allowing further creatures......human and otherwise.
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  Former elders did you ever ?

  by Fadeaway1962 in

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  hi did any former elders ever suggest that bro & sis should go to the police?.

  there was a group of sis with various health conditions and on medications had a gathering and drank a lot wine , one of the sister physically assaulted another sis , myself and a another elder were assigned to deal with it after hearing what happened i said to the sis she could contact the police the other elder a lot older gave me a dirty look , the sis said i trust you bro to deal with it .. i think that's why witnesses don't get the police involved because we have been convinced that we can trust the elders and the organisation , and to trust and have faith that god knows all the facts and can read hearts and will deal with it in his time scale and encouraged to leave it with him and not to bring reproach on his name..

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  You must not bring reproach on Jehovah's organization. To go to secular authorities is not showing loyalty to Jehovah's loving arrangement.
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  Dumb things JWs believed

  by JimmyYoung in

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  i am not talking about the usual crap from the cult writings, but rather things idiots believed on their own.

  maybe even helped on by the cult but not directly taught.

  i knew an old man now long gone kunde in michigan.

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  Didn't some of these derive from quacky Awake articles? I'm pretty sure the aluminum one did.... Chiropractor adjustments were indeed popular. If it was not mainstream it was more acceptable apparently when it came to medicine and cures.

  The dinosaur theories get downright hilarious....we trod on dinosaur poop to this day.

  Pyramids AND pyramid schemes... Crystals ...special vitamin concoctions... And I recall one sister postulating that Armageddon would dissolve all marriages and survivors would re-mate.
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  Another silly Bible story....Joshua and the killing hailstones

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  ◄ joshua 10:11 ►.

  and it came to pass, as they fled from before israel, and were in the going down to bethhoron, that the lord cast down great stones from heaven on them to azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of israel slew with the sword.. .

  looks like the amorites came to the battle only wearing helmets.

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  Ahh...thanks RaR..., those battle or skirmish stories do sometimes seem a tad illogical?!?

  But given some of the stuff the cult puts out I thought perhaps theyd decided to do a comic book for kids and this was one of the frames.....
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  Another silly Bible story....Joshua and the killing hailstones

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ◄ joshua 10:11 ►.

  and it came to pass, as they fled from before israel, and were in the going down to bethhoron, that the lord cast down great stones from heaven on them to azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of israel slew with the sword.. .

  looks like the amorites came to the battle only wearing helmets.

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  Is that a picture from one of their publications or website? If so, quite bizarre.