It's a strange practice to watch people getting dunked whilst eating lunch. These people have already dedicated themselves to God and are getting baptized in front of a public audience to show that dedication publicly and that audience just sits there, eating their lunch. It's very disrespectful and makes a mockery of the purpose of their baptism.
Maybe they should have everyone bring their own dinner to the memorial and the anointed can sit on the stage to partake.
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'Strange' Australian Melbourne Baptisms
by darkspilver innot seen this before, or at least haven't registered it before.
maybe it's just a traditional style?.
i mean it's basically a glorified cattle trough?
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Jw's and beards
by wannaexit inwithout going into details.
it appears that new light might be coming down the pipes that beards are acceptable.
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There is a discussion on this recent article on this forum and Barold Bonds is correct. The article is not difinitive on the issue.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4899598015397888/beards-september-2016-watchtower
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Craziest meeting in last 10 years let's compare
by Chook inhi guys ,i'm new here 27 in 1 year out.. ive escaped 2 judicially by changing congs in rapid escape .i will tell my last dodged bullet.i swear these word as gospel honest.6 years ago in oz i'm in cong only about a year and tensions were running high due to a crazy old european bro ex elder who took no shit from the 10 apostles.i like him i don't know if it was the rebel in me or underdog syndrome but good guy 74years old he was.we just had this big sense the razor were getting sharpened.we arrive at thursday's night meeting my wife was at home so another big boring night i thought,was i wrong.the body has every mongrel breed.the three main characters were the italian dutch german,service committee.we start with song prayer ,the dutchy get up and says we are making adjustments to meeting tonight the arrogant bastard says only bible reading tonight then there agender.dutchy says.what is most amazing is these 10 idiots agreed to this changing of meeting program.
(these words are true)"we have a korah influence in cong and the 10 apostles have established an open judicial committee,the elders said there was evil in our mist .so to root out the evil if anyone has heard a bro say anything against any elders recently the are to report to the three stooges.well dutchy dims light and play the old prehistoric korah movie to the cong ,the bloody creation movie by russell was higher quality.
30 mins later german takes to the stage for the circus to begin.he repeats the dutch mantra ,well the publishers were looking at each other like it was north korea ,could have heard a pin drop,we are all thinking to ourselves we are all guilty of bitchin about the bastards .before meeting had finished halfway thru movie i rang my mate to tell him about "the burning "as the meeting became affectionately known.get home tell wife she don't believe me,within 2 days she believed.it was the talk of area.i had never rang bethel previously because i believed it was heaven and it didn't need my voice.next morning ring service desk in sydney and all i said i was concerned what took place at meeting last night .
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Welcome Chook, nice to hear from you.
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Ex JW Reddit numbers going crazy
by Crazyguy ini don't know what the membership increase is like here but over at reddit their getting 20 plus newbies daily if not more.
it's crazy how much thier growing 2000 or more since i signed up and that wasn't that long ago.
looks like the loyalty conventions didn't stem the tide.
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I get the impression that there are a lot of users who register more than once. Some posters will be open about this.
This is from a poster today -<<PS Speaking of not using your real name, I might change mine here soon. I'm growing a bit paranoid...>>
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what a wonderful site!
by scruffmcbuff inive been reading through this forum for a while and thought i should contribute!.
so im df, i was very involved regular pioneer for several years and i slowly started to wake up.. my exprience of leaving is horendous and contains alot of shocking (but apparently not that rare in the orgs) judicials and various encounters with the elders.. ive been out 10 years now and at 27 loving life!
running a succesful business and dont all thay materialistic stuff thata frowned apon, like providing my wife and kids with a nice car and house!
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Welcome Scruffmcbuff, looking forward to reading your stories.
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NEWS 5 INVESTIGATES: Sex offender going door-to-door
by OrphanCrow inhttp://www.koaa.com/story/32799137/news-5-investigates-sex-offender-going-door-to-door.
by carlos vergara, investigative reporter.
colorado springs -66 year old waymon ivery is re-living a nightmare that happened more than two decades ago.
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It's surprising to see Ivery agree to an interview. They approached him at his home and he refused an interview but two days later, agreed to one. Did the Watchtower suggest he do this?
It is Ivery who says it is Watchtowers policy to go door to door in two's, maybe he was referring to a policy that applies to pedos.
He says he will no longer be going door to door, again, whether this was his choice or not, he doesn't say but he does say that some criminals are under more JW restrictions than him. As he's not an Elder, that would not be common knowledge.
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Britain Branch Relocation Project - 7 BOE's
by wifibandit in2016-08-16 branch relocation project - key events.
2016-08-17 branch relocation project - personnel needs.
2016 key events programme.
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Today I went to a JW cult meeting . Still recovering
by Watchtower-Free intoday i went to a jw cult meeting .
still recovering.
congo i was raised in.
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You guys do a fantastic job.:)
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No more printing of WT and Awake in my country.. Shit just got real
by cognitivedizzy inguys .
a letter was just read in out kh stating that all printing of wt and awake is ceased for the coming year and we will just place tracts on fs, countries which were cared by our branch will be cared by other countries...along with this they read the new fs form and stuff about reporting links of videos wtf..lol.
i can't tell which country perhaps that will give away a lot, any one with a similar information.
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They are still on the JW org site as providing tours and with details of their printing work in India. There shouldn't be any reason why they don't continue to translate in that many Indic languages and provide it on JW org.
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Monday to Friday
8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., and 3:00 p.m.
Duration 1.5 hours
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Hello all
by WhiskeySix ini am new to this site and wanted to say hi.
my wife and i are recently disassociated.
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Welcome Whiskey Six, good to see that you were able to get out as a couple.