Posts by clarity

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Is my friend on the way out of the organisation?

by The Rebel in

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friends

when i left the watchtower i realised it was best to put friendships on hold.

however i mentioned to my best friend that i didn't agree with how they handled child abuse issues and that was one of the reasons i left.. anyway as i am fortunate and own two rental apartments and he is a plumber so we have kept in contact, in that i email him when i require his services and he sends me the invoice.

anyway i am now dissociated, but yesterday i emailed him about a pluming problem, and he replied.. " sorry we missed going to the indian ( this was a comment made about us having a meal together about 9 months ago, which i backed out of because i felt he was too indoctrinated and i had not disassociated myself) anyway his email continued:-.

clarity

Not sure if you are male or female Rebel .... but if male, by all means meet-up, good friends are gold. If you are female .... I smell a rat!

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I Hate the Sound of the Word Jehovah

by cofty in

listening to clips of the latest manipulative video from the watchtower i realised how much i detest that word - jehovah.. sometimes i have thought it would be interesting to observe a meeting or part of a convention.

every time i heard that word i would be unable to stay in my seat.. i have a visceral reaction every time i hear it.

it stands for so much that i have contempt for.

clarity

Not only saying it but I hate typing it! Or even worse typing Joooooo's Wooooooos! aaaaahhhh

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Where are you from?

by BeautifulMind in

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friends

i know we are all anonymous for our own personal reasons, so i understand if you would rather not say.

but if you don't mind sharing that would be cool.

i currently live in georgia, usa.

clarity

Anyone remember a year or so ago, when Simon suggested having 'our' flag beside our names/avatar to show the country we were from?

I would love to see that happen.

clarity

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Where are you from?

by BeautifulMind in

jw
friends

i know we are all anonymous for our own personal reasons, so i understand if you would rather not say.

but if you don't mind sharing that would be cool.

i currently live in georgia, usa.

clarity

Wow no wonder you Brits have a lot of meet-ups!

A few from the beautiful West Coast of BC........ including me!

clarity.

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Introduction

by shattered_origins in

i joined the forum yesterday and made 2 angry posts which received encouraging replies.

i spent a good chunk of time today browsing various posts, and i can't get enough!

i'm doing things backwards now and taking a moment to introduce myself.

clarity

Shattered ....a quick hello & big welcome. You are so young, start living your life & drop the guilt & fear.....you don't owe those men anything. The only power they have is when a fool does what they say.

All the best

clarity

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New Watchtower Propaganda and hate speech destroying families (Feb 2016 WT)

by Daniel1555 in

the following is a paragraph from the new february study watchtower article "learn from jehovah's loyal servants.".

7 a conflict of loyalties may arise when a close relative is disfellowshipped.

for example, a sister named anne [1] received a telephone call from her disfellowshipped mother.

clarity

Cofty .......thanks for your come back ......a keeper!

"

Anne wrote and kindly reminded her mother that she had cut herself off from the family

Imagine an abusive husband who told his wife that if she left him he would hunt her down and kill her. She leaves and he carries out his threat.

In court the husband's defense is that the wife chose the outcome.

This is the twisted logic of shunning.

clarity

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Something interesting!

by John Aquila in

i was invited to a small get-together by a long time friend.

we both served as elders for years.

he is in his late 70s.

clarity

"My friend made it very plain when he invited me, that if I didn’t believe in the Bible and its promise of a New Earth, then this meeting wasn’t for me and I should look elsewhere."

I am getting the feeling that us oldies with a renegade spirit would fit much better in the younger groups, because if I had to believe in the bible & paradise, with or without the GB at the helm ...I would be out of there!

Thanks for putting this topic up John....very interesting.

Magnum are you in the UK ? I am in Canada.

clarity

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Something interesting!

by John Aquila in

i was invited to a small get-together by a long time friend.

we both served as elders for years.

he is in his late 70s.

clarity

Once the old remnants of the WT organization are GONE, then that will be the day when the WT will close its doors and open a NEW Religious organization

*I have felt for a long time that wt can't wait for us oldies to kick off! As long as we are here ..there is still a dangerous voice that knows where 'the bodies are buried'.

One problem is the pre shunning thing....... it scares us enough that we don't admit openly what we really think. On top of everything else our grandchildren are held over our heads. Big price to pay.

I am pretty open & am shunned for it ....no one has approached me except younger jdubs.

Would love to find a group who were in that day of blitzes & preparation before 1975, who sat in the hot bleachers for a whole week convention, who worked at d2d and only counted those exact minutes.

clarity

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