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  History of Disfellowshipping

  by daringhart13 in

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  2. beliefs

  i'm looking to compile a real history of how this heinous practice came into existance.. i've read the 1947 article condemning it and i believe knorr instituted it in 1952 when frustrated with a wife swapping ordeal at columbia heights.. can someone confirm?

  post information?

  the more the better.......thanks!.

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  daringhart13

  Nothing on this folks??
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  History of Disfellowshipping

  by daringhart13 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm looking to compile a real history of how this heinous practice came into existance.. i've read the 1947 article condemning it and i believe knorr instituted it in 1952 when frustrated with a wife swapping ordeal at columbia heights.. can someone confirm?

  post information?

  the more the better.......thanks!.

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  daringhart13

  I'm looking to compile a REAL history of how this heinous practice came into existance.

  I've read the 1947 article condemning it and I believe Knorr instituted it in 1952 when frustrated with a wife swapping ordeal at Columbia Heights.

  Can someone confirm? post information? The more the better.......thanks!
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  School for Congregation Elders

  by C.O.B.E.Beef in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i attended the school late last year, and it was an emotional and mental rollercoaster for me.

  i was already divided in my heart to say the least.

  one of the instructors stayed in my home for the week, and my family genuinely enjoyed his company.

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  daringhart13

  I had a similar experience at the last elders school I attended. I didn't have to teach; so I just sat and listened.

  The Bethel speaker said the following: "while speaking with a member of the Governing Body in an elevator....he told me 'we just make some things up and wait to see what happens'.........."

  I sat there in AWE.........I closed my Flock Book......... I never took another note.....
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  School Overseer just passed out doing the school!

  by life is to short in

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  2. friends

  ok so i tie into the meeting just to hear if something new is being said during the announcements and i tied in early tonight.

  well the school overseer apparently just passed out 10 minutes ago.

  i thought my phone line had gone down but then the po's cboe's elder's son went on with the meeting.

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  Life is too short,

  I was an elder in the Portland area....what congregation did this happen in? Who was the School Overseer??
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  Elder School 2012 Letter

  by Anony Mous in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  here is a (transcribed) letter that all elders received regarding the elder school of 2012. the emphasis is not mine.. this letter is your invitation to attend the school for congregation elders at the location and dates shown below:.

  please acknowledge receipt and acceptance of this invitation by completing and returning the enclosed confirmation form to the school for congregation elders desk using the enclosed pre-addressed envelope.

  this should be returned no more than two weeks after receipt of this letter.

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  daringhart13

  I feel asleep just reading that letter.

  And to think I used to teach at that school....... ugh, so glad its over.
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  Any Mad Men fans?

  by Pandoras cat11 in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i can't believe that it took me this long to finally watch this show.

  what a well written program and the actors are great.

  um---jon hamm is something else!!!

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  daringhart13

  Love it.

  Such complex people.

  I love Don Draper.
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  How Did You Get Rid of Your Bound Volumes?

  by Eiben Scrood in

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  2. friends

  my town will no longer collect old books like that as trash and they're pretty hard to burn.

  my solution has been to include one in every bag of used cat litter when i clean the cat boxes.

  i've gotten rid of around 30 that way and i'm about halfway there.

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  daringhart13

  A giant dumpster inherited mine. Every now and then I will find another one.

  It too joins its brothers in the dumpster.

  Pure garbage.
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  onacruise - Craig Mills 1952-2011

  by Lady Lee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was given the link to a bit of information regarding on old poster/moderator of this forum.

  i was not sure of the validity of the information so have been trying to find out if it is true.. earlier today craig's estranged wife, kate, (bikerchic) confirmed that craig died at his home on aug 10, 2011.. i am sure that many people here remember craig's time here and how he went out of his way to offer support to posters, even calling them, to give whatever help he could as they adjusted to their post-jw lives.. i know many people here will grieve his loss.. --------------.

  ps i tried posting this earlier but the computer i was working with would not allow the posts.

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  daringhart13

  I'm devastated.

  I knew Craig personally having grown up in the congregation where his wife was cheating with the elder.

  I had no idea he was no longer a JW.

  Does anyone know if he ever wrote part 17 about 1994 and College???
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 08-28-2011 WT Study (REGARD)

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  comments you will not hear at the 08-28-11 wt study (june 15, 2011, pages 24-28)(regard).

  wt material from today's wt will be in black.

  hard among you.

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  daringhart13

  I was an elder for 11 years. I was the "popular" elder because I was young, a good speaker and actually completely bought in to loving people

  I can tell you that BY FAR the majority of my time was spent doing two things: dealing with miserable step-parent families and.....wait for it......wait for it........MY FELLOW ELDER'S KIDS!!!!!

  I kept several of the ELDERS KIDS from suicide, gave them money to eat when ignored by their owner 'elder' father, several told me they knew nothing about the Bible that 'my father has never studied with me and now I'm 20'..........the PO punched his kid in the face, the Secretary kept getting his daughter off after several boys had been in her pants, one elder's son was a notorious drunk, the same PO had a daughter that had a threesome with another sister and some guy they met at a club, .....on and on and on it goes.....I could spend a month typing this post.

  From time to time I read yet another poor soul on here asking what to do.....that "the elders want to visit me." I can only say this: WHY ARE YOU EVEN ANSWERING THEIR CALLS?????? These guys are some of the biggest creeps you will ever meet. In the majority of cases, they have massive marriage problems (oh yeah, I got to be the 'catch all' for their wives too), are addicted to porn, have never read the Bible, etc.

  The elder arrangement should be one of the biggest 'proofs' that this organization is a total train wreck. If I see an elder at now I just look them dead in the eye and they turn and run away......they won't get close...but it might be the look on my face that I'll rip their heads off.

  If publishers went to just ONE elders meeting and heard how they speak about you behind closed doors, you would NEVER even give them the time of day. I can't emphasize enough how DAMAGING it is to speak to these men..........they can destroy your belief in God, your self esteem and even your future..........and I emphasize this for young people.

  DO NOT SPEAK TO JW ELDERS!!!
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  with every new light....another false teaching is created...

  by oompa in

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  2. friends

  think about it....how simple.

  even my elder dad agreed that there was really no way to refute this.

  cause if dey been preaching da truuf for foty years and dey say...ahhh we have new light now.... then what does that make the old light of the past forty years???.

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  daringhart13

  Just ask them if it was okay with Jehovah that they taught UNTRUTH for almost a century and how that affected who was saved or not.

  Apparently God endorsed their 'old light'........

  Its all so stupid its hard to even laugh at....