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  May 15th WT - Wives Should be Obedient, Submissive & Not Disagree

  by flipper in

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  2. friends

  once again we received the may 15th " witness only " wt from our lurking jw friend.

  even though i've been out for over 7 years and haven't attended in that long - i never cease to be amazed at the arrogance of this patriarchal man pleasing wt society in it's dismissive attitude towards women .

  it's horrible.

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  daringhart13

  They say that stuff......but you're delusional if you think that women don't run the congregation.

  I've NEVER been in a congregation or served on any level where the women weren't dragging their husbands around by their noses. The WORST were elders wives. Some of them flat out made jokes about never having sex and "to bad for him"...... some of the worst women I've ever known.

  So ....yes....this is mysogynist council......but as someone that served for 17 years.... you can forget telling me these women are subservient.... they are the epitome of bad women.
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  Andres' Example In the March 1,2010 Watchtower

  by EmptyInside in

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  well, i never really paid attention before,until it was brought to my attention here on jwn,but andre sure has a lot going on in his life.. i happened to see in the march 1,2010 watchtower on page 21, the box on remarriage,the article is about the death of a marriage mate,andres,was against his father remarrying.

  but,then, he realized marriage cheered his father up again.. i think finding andre is a new fun game and makes it even worth glancing through the magazines again.

  lol.

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  daringhart13

  I'm crying I'm lauging so hard.......

  Unbelievable
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  The Loving Disfellowshipping Arrangement

  by headisspinning in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my youngest sister is the only person in my jw family who has had any real contact with my husband and i and our baby.

  for the first year she cut us off too but then after a while she seemed to realize how horrible it was and she opened up to us.. well, she is very easily influenced by the family and so she cut us off again.

  she tried to feed me the line about it being for our own good blah, blah, blah.. here is an excerpt from how i replied:.

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  daringhart13

  Letters, emails.....anything resembling a compilation of scriptures will go totally ignored.

  If there is one thing I could share with people, it's this: don't bother writing the Society or anyone else. They throw it in the garbage.
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 03-27-11 WT Study (DISCOURAGEMENT)

  by blondie in

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  cope with discouragement.

  when holy spirit.

  (b) what can power from jehovah help.

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  daringhart13

  Its not so much that some of the principles or points in these types of studies aren't valid.....

  Its that you will get ZERO help from an elder or anyone else in this organization. If people heard what elders say in the "B school" during elder meetings, they would never go to them. Most of them could care less.
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  another family destroyed by jehovahs happy organization

  by Evidently Apostate in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as i sit down and type this i have realized that if i could have seen into the future and known that this post would need to be created (for my own peace of mind anyway) i know i would have never given the jws a minute of my time.

  a little background: i have been a jw for 20 years and found a wonderful woman in the religion she was a pioneer when i met her, an elders girl but that did not matter to me , it was and always has been her compassion and love for people that endeared me to her and we have been happily married for almost my 20 year tenure as a jw.

  we have several children one of them is a teenage boy.

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  daringhart13

  My heart bleeds for you my friend.

  I have to also confess that my heart is permanently destroyed because I was an elder for 11 years...... I saw this sort of stuff all the time. I went into the night to get the PO's son who was attempting suicide (his parents threw him out for backing out of being an unbaptized publisher), I've listened to children tell they elder fathers never studied with them, that they knew nothing..... I've gone out on hunts to find other elders daughters in men's apartments...... the list goes on.

  Its so sick that this religion treats children this way...... it gives me raging anger.

  Imagine Jesus treating the woman at the well in John 4 this way. Or Mary Magdalene......or the woman with the flow of blood in Mark 5.

  Somehow this crazy cult gets rational people to become crazed haters of their own family. I'm truly sorry.
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  Be honest...What movie star do you look like?

  by Botzwana in

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  i am curious as to what the members here look like.

  be totally honest now.

  not everyone looks like a knockout or mr. buff.... .

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  daringhart13

  I get George Cloony all the time

  
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  how important was the hope of the paradise to you? and what do you hope in now?

  by Curtains in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  many become and remain witnesses because of the hope of living in a paradise earth.

  for those who have left how did you cope with the loss of this hope?

  or do you still have this hope?.

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  daringhart13

  I struggle with it.

  I admittedly do not know what to believe.

  The Paradise was never my motive....however, the thought of it helped me make decisions that ultimately damaged me greatly.

  I do still believe the Bible and the example set by Christ.
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  Dinner With a Pioneer Couple Last Night

  by dontplaceliterature in

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  my wife and i had dinner with a pioneer couple last night that we've been friends with for a long time.

  they are both nice people, with the wife having a few dashes of pretentiousness mixed in.. usually when we are together, they always talk about pioneering, which makes some sense as it's the primary focus of thier lives.

  however, it has gotten progressively more dominate in conversation over the last couple of years, to the point of being annoying.

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  daringhart13

  The true story to pioneering is how many would do it without being called a "pioneer" and getting their name announced.

  Answer: almost zero to none.

  I've seen it. The motives are so messed up;.
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  No Tape Recorders at Elder Schools? WTS Hanging Elders Out to Dry

  by skeeter1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  elders are not allowed to bring tape recorders to elder school or elders-only type meetings.

  elders can only take hand notes, usually inside the wide margins inside the elder's book.

  i think the watch tower society is hanging the elders out to dry.. 1) being an elder is an important job, let's face it.

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  daringhart13

  Baltar,...

  I was shocked enough that I looked around the room at the other elders...........not one was acting surprised.

  I will never forget that moment. It blew my mind.
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  No Tape Recorders at Elder Schools? WTS Hanging Elders Out to Dry

  by skeeter1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  elders are not allowed to bring tape recorders to elder school or elders-only type meetings.

  elders can only take hand notes, usually inside the wide margins inside the elder's book.

  i think the watch tower society is hanging the elders out to dry.. 1) being an elder is an important job, let's face it.

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  daringhart13

  It was at my last KM School that a light bulb went on in my head.

  The brother from Bethel gave a talk where he related a story of meeting one of the Governing Body members in the elevator.....a conversation ensued......and the GB member said "..........you know we just guess at it all and see what happens?"

  He said it right from the stage.

  I remember closing my Flock book and just staring in disbelief.