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Behold the face of indoctrination! My moms guilt tripping letter to me.

by BU2B in

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i wish i knew what it was like to have an unconditionally loving mother.

i know she loves me and cares about me, but only within her narrow wt spectrum.

if i do not meet her narrow expectations, i am a failure to her.

respectful_observer

I've been reflecting on the spiritual inheritance I have recieved from grandma. I appreciate her love and effort to help her 7 children to learn about Jehovah and how to serve him.
Your father and I have been able to pass that inheritance on to you.

I guess she was paying attention at the WT Study two weeks ago!

LOL...putting scriptures in handwritten letters. Are you sure you and I aren't siblings? My mom does the exact same thing, and as far as she knows I'm a good J-dub!

I've come to just laugh it off inside. I know she'll never change. This is who she is and she's happy with herself, so I'm not going to criticize her for it. If she wants to live in constant stress under the fear that all her kids will "fall out of the Truth", that's her choice. She's an adult. I just love her for who she is.

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Simon Cowell gets a new JW New World Translation Bible

by dozy in

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could he be the next "celebrity" jw?

:-) .

https://www.facebook.com/jwmediawatch/timeline.

respectful_observer

It's so funny that JW avoid being considered "part of the world", but the moment someone famous walks into a KH, assembly, accepts literature, or becomes a JW, the witnesses fall all over themselves to be seen with them, take their picture, post it all over Facebook, etc.

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Memorial Question?

by naazira in

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over the years, i've come to notice that some of the friends will not touch the plate with the bread or the cup of wine ,when the emblems are being passed around.

i remember a row of 3 people told the brother to skip over them.

every year i have noticed this behavior.

respectful_observer

Like, somehow, the fact that the servers have touched the plate or cup a couple dozen times while "serving" somehow "doesn't really count". They have to be seated and someone has to hand the plate/cup to them.

I'm pretty sure they're also supposed to wash up to their elbows beforehand. At least that's what the Pharisees tell me...

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JW.ORG advertising on game/app review program.

by WHATSGOINGON in

i don't know if any of you have seen the video posted by mike and kim regarding jw.org advertising on a thailand computer game review television show.

its interesting - check it out.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57nigmnim18.

the show is called game show social - i looked at a few of the videos and jw.org is on a lot of them.. at first i thought that it was a review of a jw.org app but when you look at other videos jw.org is on a lot of them as a sponsor as well as dell lg and others.. wgo..

respectful_observer

"That was one of the points I was trying to make, but I didn't do a good job at it. Anyone with computer skills can lift the logo and place it in that spot.
An apostate could have faked the entire thing just to rile people up online.

Haha...those people on JWtalk are beyond paranoid. They see apostates hiding behind every news story, clip, meme, picture, etc., that even slightly mocks the WT.

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Cases of fornication when only one of the involved individuals will confess

by Judge Rochefort in

what happens in cases of fornication between two jehovah's wintesses if one of them confesses but the other denies the facts?would there be a judicial committee to the one who confesses while the other individual would be left as if nothing had happened?i would love to know specially the opinions of elders or ex-elders.thank you!

respectful_observer

I've got friend who made the sad mistake of having a private make-out session with this woman who was infatuated with him.

When she found out he was interested in someone else months later, she ran to her elders and "confessed" to sleeping with him. Even claimed she took a pregnancy and STD test afterward.

He got blindsided one day after the meeting with the accusation. He confessed to the make-out session, but insisted it went no further. He asked that she provide proof (e.g., his "identifiable features"). The elders refused and said it didn't matter. "After all, why would she come forward and admit judicial action for something she never did??" Hmmm....maybe because she was CRAZY.

She was privately reproved by her elders, he was publicly reproved for "loose conduct" by his. He's barely been to meetings since.

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New donation arrangement in action locally

by respectful_observer in

recently they announced at my hall that a large donation had been made to the local congregation-- nearly $100,000.

they then proposed a resolution that we continue our new(ish) practice of only keeping enough money on hand locally for monthly expenses, and send the entire amount of this large donation to the watchtower society.

aside from the fact that our congregation has already sent well over a half-million dollars to the wt in the last 12 months, i don't understand the motive of the person who made the donation.

respectful_observer

Tax shelter.
Although you could also use the annuity arrangement and get a better long term tax plan.

Agreed, but you would get the same tax benefits whether the check is written to the local congregation or the WTS. All I can think, is maybe it's a periodic distribution from a trust where the sole named beneficiary is the local congregation and the trustee has no choice but to write the check out to the local congregation.

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New donation arrangement in action locally

by respectful_observer in

recently they announced at my hall that a large donation had been made to the local congregation-- nearly $100,000.

they then proposed a resolution that we continue our new(ish) practice of only keeping enough money on hand locally for monthly expenses, and send the entire amount of this large donation to the watchtower society.

aside from the fact that our congregation has already sent well over a half-million dollars to the wt in the last 12 months, i don't understand the motive of the person who made the donation.

respectful_observer

Recently they announced at my hall that a large donation had been made to the local congregation-- nearly $100,000. They then proposed a resolution that we continue our new(ish) practice of only keeping enough money on hand locally for monthly expenses, and send the entire amount of this large donation to the Watchtower Society.

Aside from the fact that our congregation has already sent well over a half-million dollars to the WT in the last 12 months, I don't understand the motive of the person who made the donation. Didn't they know it would just get sent along to the WT and disappear forever? Why bother giving it to the local congregation at all? Why not just pop a check in the mail to the branch and call it a day?

What's funny is that our KH is in desperate need of renovation (hence the previously large savings account). It's a historic building on prime piece of land in a wealthy community. We've been on the RBC/LDC "waiting list" for years now. It will be interesting to see the local reaction when, instead of renovating, the branch decides to sell the hall for a huge wad of cash and tells the congregation to move to the cheaper town next door and build a cheap new "standard" hall there. At that point the WT will have been able to suck several million dollars out of just one congregation.

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JW Cart's Family Photos. My Pusher stole my JWCart1975 I.D. but here I am!

by JWCart in

some of us ride, some of us roll.. .

family reunion of jw carts gathering together for missionary work, some people waste their time in liberia trying to help ebola victims, jehovah's organization spends all their time focused on meaningful endeavors by bringing them salvation.

pusher said "why bother helping when people are going to die anyway, focus on the big picture (joining jehovah's organization is the only way to eliminate homelessness, hunger and global issues", doctors waste their time in west africa when they could be pushing carts with literature and books, that's real healing", i still don't understand why we can't help the poor and sick but than again, i am just a jw cart!.

respectful_observer

Does anyone else find this photo ironic?

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Daily Mail: Married JW woman, 36, had sex with 15-year-old boy breaks down in tears as she is told she faces jail. Elders there for support

by AndersonsInfo in

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2976095/married-woman-36-sex-15-year-old-schoolboy-breaks-tears-told-faces-jail.html.

married woman, 36, who had sex with 15-year-old schoolboy breaks down in tears as she is told she faces jail .

married mother of two broke down in tears at merthyr tydfil crown court.

respectful_observer

A very similar thing happened in California a few years ago (Santa Barbara, I think). I heard the sister only got reproved and stayed in the hall while the lives of all the others involved (friends, family members) fell apart.

Edit: http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=80905&showcomments=T

Source: City of Goleta Police Department

Detectives have arrested a 41-year old woman from Goleta for having unlawful sex with a teenage boy in 2008.

On Monday, November 11, 2011, a man from Goleta came to the Sheriff's Headquarters to report that his, now adult, son had recently told him about a sexual relationship he had with a woman in her 30's when he was 17-years old.

The following investigation revealed that Lisa Ann Rowell (DOB 8/5/70) and the teenager were engaged in a sexual relationship in the spring of 2008.

Detectives arrested Rowell on Tuesday morning, February 7, 2012 and booked her into the Santa Barbara County Jail for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor (261.5 PC; 288a(b)(1) PC) on $50,000 bail.

Detectives continue to investigate the case. They encourage anyone who may have information regarding this or any other crime involving Lisa Rowell to contact them at (805) 681-4150 or the Sheriff's Anonymous Tip Line at (805) 681-4171.

Due to the victim's age at the time of the crime, there will be no more details released.

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March JW Broadcast: Once again disparaging Higher Education - this time in the Music Video.

by cappytan in

i will have the music video separated shortly.

will post the link once it's done..

respectful_observer

That guy must not be very good at his job if he can't keep up with the workload. Maybe he should've invested in a little extra education.

Once again the WTS implies that white collar jobs (read: jobs requiring a 4-year degree) will cause you to miss meetings. Every time a WTS publication talks about the danger of your secular work interfering with spiritual activities, the accompanying illustration is always of a white collar worker. They never show the self-employed roofer who has to skip the Sunday meeting to get that roof on in time, or the plumber who spends every other Saturday doing side jobs to collect a little extra cash on the side.

They seem to forget that the average white collar worker has no problem taking a paid day off to attend the Friday session of the convention, or never have to worry about working on the weekend instead of service, the meeting, or an assembly. Or that, since most white collar jobs are salaried, there's no incentive to work overtime for extra pay on a meeting night.

I would challenge anyone to find even one illustration or photograph in WT literature that shows someone putting their blue collar job ahead of spiritual activities.

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