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  I've been invited to go on a habitat for humanity build

  by hoser in

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  i've been invited to go to central america for a week on a global village project.

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  are there any possible issues that the congregation might have with me doing this?.

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  hoser

  I can go on vacation to the same place swim, snorkel enjoy some shows, drink until I puke my face off and it would be overlooked but if I swing a hammer so a poor person can have a house I could be in trouble with the congregation
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  I've been invited to go on a habitat for humanity build

  by hoser in

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  2. friends

  i've been invited to go to central america for a week on a global village project.

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  are there any possible issues that the congregation might have with me doing this?.

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  hoser

  My cult training kicked in and I reactively said no. It is not until next year. I might talk it over with mrs hoser tonight.
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  I've been invited to go on a habitat for humanity build

  by hoser in

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  2. friends

  i've been invited to go to central america for a week on a global village project.

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  are there any possible issues that the congregation might have with me doing this?.

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  hoser

  I've been invited to go to Central America for a week on a global village project.

  Are there any possible issues that the congregation might have with me doing this?
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  Hot topic in congregations: having a beard/goatee

  by nevaagain in

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  i am starting this topic because i was wondering, i see many who leave "the truth" are glad because they can finally have a beard.

  is having a beard really a no go in congregations?

  how is / was it in your congregation?.

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  hoser

  I was hauled into the back room and pretty well ordered to trim, thin, and shorten my mustache, or else.

  
  

  Onefingersalute:

  You should have come to the next meeting with a hitler stash and see what those bozos would say.
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  Lett briefly addresses the child abuse issues in new JW.org video

  by Richard_I in

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  i just read about this on the ex-jw subreddit.

  link to the video (10m06s).. skip to 7:35 where he says: "another way we can contribute to the oneness - rejecting false stories that are designed to separate us from jehovah's organization.

  as an example, think about the apostate-driven lies and 'dishonesties' that jehovah's organization is permissive toward pedophiles.

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  hoser

  He gets angry when he talks about apostates. You can see it in his face.
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  What exactly is encouragement?

  by naazira in

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  when elders want to meet with an inactive person to encourage them, what does this really mean?

  encouragement is a term thrown around by the organisation.

  does this encouragement usually consist of prying into the inactive one's lifestyle?.

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  hoser

  OneEyedJoea day ago

  Encouragement (n) -

  1. Passive-aggressive social pressure intended to get you to become more involved with the cult.

  Yep
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  Is this what the society imagines will be above that 'secret hiding room' in the basement?

  by Esse quam videri in

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  hoser

  More fear mongering. I guess if it's worked for 130 years , why not continue?
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  Excited about the CO visit

  by StarTrekAngel in

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  during the many years of being a jw, i could never really bring myself to be exited about the co's visit.

  this has been an issue that always kept me wondering back to religions.

  why could not feel the same happiness that made everyone around me cry during the sunday service?

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  hoser

  As for others being excited about the circuit overseer I think it is all a pretense. They are expected to be excited so they are excited.
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  would it have been different if we knew why?

  by sowhatnow in

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  i always took issue with the idea of no one knowing why a person got df.. i know im not alone.. i complained to my mother about this when i was younger, explaining that how do we know what it is that gets a person df if no one knows what they did?

  my moms answer was , .

  'if people knew a persons personal faults and what they did , others would not be so forgiving when they were reinstated, because we'd always view them with that view, so in other words, if when so n so, committed fornication, and the whole cong would know it, if they announced from the platform then his/her reputation would be permanently stained' .

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  , 'bro poorhouse is DF because hes a hoarder'. [yes i know someone who was DF for having a 'dirty' object packed house. they died being DF.]

  Disfellowshipping someone with a mental illness related to OCD. What's next disfellowshipping because a person is in a wheelchair?
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  Patterson vs Walkill vs Warwick

  by Magnum in

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  i understand that warwick is to be the new world headquarters of jws, patterson is an educational complex, and walkill is a literature production center.

  will patterson continue to be used as it is now after the completion of warwick?

  if not, what will happen to it?

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  hoser

  They print the magazines for North America in canada.