Posts by maninthemiddle

I have been saying for a while now that you can walk away and be inactive, but as soon as you show you no longer believe they will pounce on any reason to Df you. the only reason I can think of is to keep people from asking questions. Even if you have been forgotten in action, they still remember your face, or house, and if a car group go by they have to gossip. If that gossip is about anything the org is against it stirs the hornet's nest and the only way to quit the congregants in to DF you so they can show that you can't get a way with it.

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Christmas police

by ctrwtf in

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just curious.

have any of you 'postates been accused of celebrating christmas?

how did/would you respond?.

maninthemiddle

I was DFd by the christmas police, although it finally happened at halloween the next year. But by then I was inactive 5 years.

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JW Bethel Video - long version

by Esse quam videri in

listener gave a link to a short version.

not taking away from that post but here is a more complete version, 2 minutes longer.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnbmyudrwgs.

maninthemiddle

A lot of these people are the temporary workers at Warwick. I think this may be propaganda to get more people to sign up for the project.

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Watchtower choir

by wannaexit in

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i think i've seen it all now.

nothing surprises me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpfzs7l_3sq.

maninthemiddle

I heard the word obey and had to go look up the lyrics, yup, in context it means obey the organization today.

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JW's Don't Really Believe Satan is Real ...

by TTATTelder in

if you walked up to any jw and said "i just spoke to satan" they would think you lost your mind.

while that reaction makes perfect sense in the real world, in wt land it doesn't add up.

here's why i say this -jw's are supposed to believe the following:.

maninthemiddle

Yet, if you told the circuit overseer you heard Jesus talk to you, you would get the same reaction.

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Why do Jehovah's Witnesses do this?

by runForever in

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why do jehovah's witnesses as individual members readily think that apostates are having a sweeping mass delusion?

if some jw's have known you for a long time do they really think you based everything on some random delusion you randomly had instead of confirming the information?.

it's quite retarded even the bible itself is contradicting them in jeremiah about the 70 years.. i know some know, and some choose not to know but what about the rest?.

maninthemiddle

Nor is it for quite a number of people here, so quit making these sweeping accusations.

In my group of about more than a dozen Ex-Jws I know, only a couple left because of "SEX" (OMG!!!), most for doctrine, myself included.

You speak of that which you do not know.

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Watchtower spiritual "retreat"

by Viva la Vida in

wt applied for tax exemption to the town of ramapo, ny, on the ground that they use the land as a "spiritual "retreat", including hiking trails to facilitate spiritual meditation in the natural contemplative setting of the wooded property and reflection on the creative works of the almighty".

tax authority didn't buy it and wt sued: one, two.

i didn't know they did this kind of meditation or spiritual retreats....

maninthemiddle

So it is the same. I guess they failed to get Lorterdan to repurchase the property.

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Watchtower spiritual "retreat"

by Viva la Vida in

wt applied for tax exemption to the town of ramapo, ny, on the ground that they use the land as a "spiritual "retreat", including hiking trails to facilitate spiritual meditation in the natural contemplative setting of the wooded property and reflection on the creative works of the almighty".

tax authority didn't buy it and wt sued: one, two.

i didn't know they did this kind of meditation or spiritual retreats....

maninthemiddle

is this the same property from a couple of years ago?

http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/7:2011cv03656/379925/39/