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  Interesting piece about Stephen Lett and family: property developers

  by Diogenesister in

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  2. experiences

  another very well researched programme by the blue envelope exploring stephen lett's bio and his family interest in property.

  interestingly his parents were pioneering until the new service year 1975 , when they immediately changed tack and began investing in properties along the gulf coast.

  once again, highly recommended veiwing.. https://youtu.be/9qh0jbvsdrc.

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  Simon is it possible to correct the title to "Lett" for the benefit of those wishing to do a search on Stephen Lett please?
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  Interesting piece about Stephen Lett and family: property developers

  by Diogenesister in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  another very well researched programme by the blue envelope exploring stephen lett's bio and his family interest in property.

  interestingly his parents were pioneering until the new service year 1975 , when they immediately changed tack and began investing in properties along the gulf coast.

  once again, highly recommended veiwing.. https://youtu.be/9qh0jbvsdrc.

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  Another very well researched programme by the Blue Envelope exploring Stephen Lett's bio and his family interest in property. Interestingly his parents were pioneering until the new service year 1975 , when they immediately changed tack and began investing in properties along the Gulf Coast. Once again, highly recommended veiwing.

  https://youtu.be/9Qh0JBVSDrc
  
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  Donating Blood a Disfellowshipping Offense?

  by HiddenPimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i served as an elder i never heard of this scenario presenting itself - giving blood.. has anyone heard of a judicial case where a person donated and was disfellowshipped?

  are there any references to this in the jw publications, manuals, handbooks?.

  not so hiddenpimo :-).

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  Giving blood for testing is not a problem since it is thrown away once the tests are complete.

  The conundrum for witnesses is that fractions they are permitted, such as interferon, require several pints of blood donation...they need to be challenged with this piece of rank hipocrisy.
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  My first book: "APOSTATE – WHY I LEFT THE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES"

  by Antonio_Madaleno in

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  my first book: "apostate – why i left the jehovah's witnesses".

  it will be release on march in portugal by penguin random house.. .

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  It’s so very true, and so very sad, that witnesses give so much of their lives to an organization “they know so little about”. I also like the thought that responsible faith should awaken the conscience not atrophy it....what an incredible visualization of the witness mind, slowly atrophies as it attempts to use more and more the “Nuremberg defense” when they do things their authentic conscience forbids - I was only following orders from Watchtower.

  Congratulations!! NB did you previously have a tiger as your avatar, prior to using your real name at all?

  NB Gayle I hope to give this book to my neighbour, a young newly single mother born in Angola. She is fully bi lingual but the Portuguese witnesses have been targeting her.
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.

  latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.

  the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.

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  Multiply that ($25 x 2) per month with who knows how many others adopt the same attitude. She is even concerned about going to Walmart since so much of their stuff comes from China.

  Just to say The World Health Organization site states that the virus does not last long enough on outside surfaces etc for receiving parcels/buying goods etc sent from China to be any kind of a risk.
  
  
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  Circuit Overseer to Answer My Questions + Concerns...or Not

  by Research in

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  2. beliefs

  hello all, i'm 'researching', a jw who is in the first steps of taking a look at their beliefs.. i've semi-recently (about a couple weeks ago) heard about the sexual abuse cases (pennsylvania attorney general’s investigation request) and then the arc in 2015. this lead to a deep investigation, which lead to many questions arising.

  a jw friend of mine suggested i be careful (due to apostates) and ask the brothers.

  so i typed up my questions + concerns and emailed an elder my mother has known for a long time.

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  Are you aware that the Dutch govt is now investigating Watchtower due to child sex abuse? As is the British Independent Inquiry into child sexual Abuse conducting an investigation specifically aimed at Jehovah’s witnesses (Iicsa) Please read this article on the database of child molestors kept by Watchtower https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/03/the-secret-jehovahs-witness-database-of-child-molesters/584311/
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  Circuit Overseer to Answer My Questions + Concerns...or Not

  by Research in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello all, i'm 'researching', a jw who is in the first steps of taking a look at their beliefs.. i've semi-recently (about a couple weeks ago) heard about the sexual abuse cases (pennsylvania attorney general’s investigation request) and then the arc in 2015. this lead to a deep investigation, which lead to many questions arising.

  a jw friend of mine suggested i be careful (due to apostates) and ask the brothers.

  so i typed up my questions + concerns and emailed an elder my mother has known for a long time.

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  Research, how does you Dad feel about the religion? Did your mum marry your step dad and then get baptised? Or was she baptised before they married? Women have zero power in this religion and must needs get it from the men in their lives. With a non believing mate she will be very low on the pecking order without a son, in other words YOU, climbing the ranks. Her motives are not entirely pure.

  Is there any way you could show him JWfacts.com or some of John Cedars videos? Or JW support you tube videos? Or Susan Gaskins videos? Or exjw analyzer? Please try to get him on side, explain the way they use shunning as a control method.

  I know EXJW Reddit has a big list of country by country help sites for mental health issues.
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  Circuit Overseer to Answer My Questions + Concerns...or Not

  by Research in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello all, i'm 'researching', a jw who is in the first steps of taking a look at their beliefs.. i've semi-recently (about a couple weeks ago) heard about the sexual abuse cases (pennsylvania attorney general’s investigation request) and then the arc in 2015. this lead to a deep investigation, which lead to many questions arising.

  a jw friend of mine suggested i be careful (due to apostates) and ask the brothers.

  so i typed up my questions + concerns and emailed an elder my mother has known for a long time.

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  Hi Reserch. We have quite a number of elders on this site and we can at least put a couple of your questions to rest.

  The elders manual (there is also one for C.O.’s and Branch level} is called “Shepherd the Flock of God” you can find a copy of it Here

  What irritated me is that during the A.R.C. Proceedings, Watchtower employed an ‘expert Witness”(who was no such thing) called Monica Applewhite - yes a woman, and a Catholic - who was allowed to peruse this manual at her Leisure, that elders wives are not even permitted to ring bind for their husbands, let alone see it.

  Double standards?

  And yes, Watchtower does keep information on file, even after you are deceased, on everyone. The blue envelopes you refer to are definitely used, most notoriously in cases of CSA. Please refer to the “Shepherd” book for further info.
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  Corona beer sales vs coronavirus ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. social
  2. current

  i`m just curious as to whether the corona beer sales have plummeted since this coronavirus has spread in different parts of the world .. it wouldn`t surprise me if sales had a nose dive since this outbreak and just wondered if anybody has any information concerning this ?.

  word association plays a big part in many peoples lives..

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  There used to be a popular fizzy drink company called Corona when I was young.

  Boy I must be bored😝😂😂
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  Evil Wind Chimes

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i remember going door to door in the late 60's with my mother as a 5 or 6 year old.

  one time she caught me looking at the wind chimes on a porch.

  she told me they had pagan origins, were evil, and were somehow connected to demons.

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  The noise scares away demons. No mention of pretty noises attracting angels. Maybe we just like random melodies.

  AND to REALLY confuse us (as if things weren’t bad enough) I later discovered that Demons were Angels all along!!!....

  .....I didn’t have a hope in Gehenna, I later reasoned 😩