Posts by oppostate

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To all former Elders – what are your thoughts

by Tallon in

if you were part of a judicial committee, and knowing what you know now, what was it like for you to sit on jc’s?

how did you feel if someone was reproved or df’d?

were you ever on a jc and you disagreed with someone being reproved or df’d and were overruled – how did you feel?

oppostate

JC's and kowtowing aren't things I'm proud of. All I can say is that once I woke up all those things sickened me and I had to "step down."

I see the value of continuing on as a mole. But I just couldn't do it. My mouth has gotten me in trouble for "criticizing the Society," "not being loyal to the 0rganization," and being "unyielding" to the local BOE.

My only wish is that I may have been able to wake up sooner than middle age with decades of servitude to a high control religion that only seems to care about money and power over people's lives. By their love "of filthy-lucre" you will know them. I wish I hadn't known them and I regret having been their tool for supporting their control locally, of people that I was close to and spent the most productive years of my life wasting for the benefit of the WT.

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What is "marked"?

by LifesNotOver in

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friends

i've been curious for a while ... what is it when people type "marked" in their posts?

what does it mean and how does it work?

thanks..

oppostate

@Diogenesister

I also thought that when someone says "marked" it was like saying "this thread interests me and I'll be going back to it to read more".

Also there'e the "bump" which basically just brings that post up on the list of latest topics.

The search on the forum is not something I use a lot, so to go back to a post I just click the favorites/bookmark icon on my browser and keep interesting threads on a bookmark folder of favorite links. And there are quite a lot of nifty, eye-opening, and helpful threads on this forum to keep track of, that's for sure.

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Orange hard hat for boss, white hard hats for workers

by hoser in

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friends

the latest study watchtower december 2016 study article by undeserved kindness you were set free has a picture at paragraph 19 of some construction workers.

i always thought the foreman wore a white hard hat.

besides that i hate the term undeserved kindness.

oppostate

The JW's use "undeserved kindness" because Freddie Franz was too anti-historical-Christianity to use the term "grace".

grace (in Christian belief) = "the free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings."

Ask just about any Christian and they'll be able to explain what "grace" is then ask a JW what is "undeserved kindness" and you'll get anything but an official Watchtower definition because the WT has a habit of redefining words to suit the hierarchy of their sectarian/religious-cult organization.

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Hypocrisy of the governing body & abuse of J.W.'s

by The Searcher in

here is what the present "faithful & discreet slave" spewed out just a few years ago:.

w06 3/15 p. 24 par.

12 “each one will carry his own load” - "the source of pay and the location of the employment also enter into the picture.

oppostate

The filthy lucre loving hierarchy of the WTB&TS really know how to weigh people down with heavy burdens, but they themselves will not lift a finger to lighten their subjects' load.

( http://biblehub.com/luke/11-46.htm )

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This is not Happening-Kurt Metzger JW's witness Drama

by James Mixon in

it's funny folks , it's x rated..

oppostate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHjh6Dupolk

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Jw's and beards

by wannaexit in

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friends

without going into details.

it appears that new light might be coming down the pipes that beards are acceptable.

oppostate

Beards are everywhere at R&F level in the org. Go to any meeting or any assembly and you will see loads of them.

What??? Not on any assembly or convention, and definitely not in the congs I frequent, both English and Spanish. There may be some "worldly" who gets invited to a meeting and shows up with a beard. But if they make progress then sooner or later the beard comes off before they are an unbaptized publisher.

I'm In New England and there are lots of young men around town who are sporting a hipster beard, and older folk who have a beard also, (no women although I saw a heavy hint of a mustache and goatee on one female worker at a Dunkin Donuts, yeah I know, kinda creepy), but beards have always been regarded by witnesses as being a fashion of "the world" and counseled against.

Besides, a lot of these bearded hipsters like to wear tight pants, otherwise known as tightpants

--not to mention a man-bun.

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Harmagedon backpack... Are we retarded??

by sp74bb in

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friends

sorry for this matter has been already discussed.. i got shocked after watching this video:.

kingdom hall disaster demonstration.

this is really insane !!!

oppostate

Having survived several major earthquakes, in the 5 and 6, one in 7 and an 8 richter scale during my lifetime I can vouch for the necessity of knowing what to do and where to go, but this carrying of go-bags was never something our family did. the important thing was helping your neighbor and getting in touch with family.

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Incredible cover of book published in 1932

by Truthexplorer in

ok, i am reading through the book the watchtower and the masons by fritz spring meier which i am finding a fascinating read; and discovered that judge rutherford published the book 'cause of death'.

what is incredible is the book cover.

the book was published in 1932 which would have been a little bit more eye catching back then.

oppostate

I'm sure Rutherford sold a lot of those booklets to guys who were interested in finding out his interpretation of Genesis and the cause of death.

But, I think this booklet was found to cause blindness in a lot of farmers in upstate NY and VT, or so it's rumored.

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Britain Branch Relocation Project - 7 BOE's

by wifibandit in

2016-08-16 branch relocation project - key events.

2016-08-17 branch relocation project - personnel needs.

2016 key events programme.

oppostate

Wow!

Thanks Wifibandit.

Excellent.

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New York 1963

by Lincoln in

dear friends, "my story"?

i lost touch with jw 1991 (i was declared "not to be associated with") and shortly after became a "born again christian".

i was recovering a difficult divorce (my love for 10 years / we were both jw) and was recovering myself.

oppostate

"Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin'!"

No prob, Lincoln. I am a Christian, I do feel the gentle strength of the Holy Spirit guiding my life away from the JW cult. I started partaking almost ten years ago at the Memorial and been persecuted by the local elders for witnessing about Jesus mediatorship and being adopted as God's sons and daughters through faith in Christ Jesus.

What you are describing is a feeling of euphoria due to a heightened emotional climax, it is sort of a trance state. It can be found in many other religions and especially so animistic religions where shamans put themselves in such states as part of their rituals.

Babbling at the top of your voice and saying hah-hah-hah-hah sounds more like a shaman's trance incantation to the demons.

Remember what the fruit of the Spirit entails: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control. Those are the things that should evidence a Christian's faith in reliance of anointing by the Holy Spirit, are they not?