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Pioneer Hours Update
by Bartolomeo in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
regular pioneers: 600 per year, 50 on average per month.auxiliary pioneers: 30 hours per monthauxiliary pioneers in march and april: fee reduced to 15 hours.
Listener

How can this be? Aren’t JWs living “in the final part of the last days, undoubtedly the final part of the final part of the last days, shortly before the last day of the last days.”.
Even in the years approaching 1975 there was more of an urgency.
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Lawsuit: I said GB member Barr that my Bethelite stepfather abused me; he did nothing
by Corney in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
here's an excerpt from the recent lawsuit deborah hines v. watchtower bible and tract society of new york et al (paragraphs 158-180), one of 29 known cases brought against the org pursuant to the ny child victims act.

what should be kept in mind is that gerrit lösch apparently worked in europe (the austrian branch and eastern europe) at the time when the abuse was allegedly reported to him (not a gb member then).. plaintiff was raised a member of the jehovah’s witnesses.

she primarily attended meetings at various congregations in arizona.
Listener

Awake 92
The expression “free from accusation” is rendered from the Greek word a·negʹkle·tos. Commenting on this word, The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology states: “Anenklētos belongs to the legal setting of accusationin court, and connotes behaviour which is irreproachable, against which no accusation can be made.” Thus, a man’s record must be clean before he is appointed an elder; he could not be under reproach, or subject to accusation. And only if he remained free from legitimate accusation could an elder continue in office.—Compare 1 Timothy 3:10.
By settling the legal case, they have hindered any possibility of being free from accusation making those accusations remain. They are JW men in high positions and were given the opportunity to have others bare witness but chose not to. I gather they have removed no accused men from office.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Listener

I thought he claimed in his video that he didn't have any relationships with females and satisfied his urges by paying sex workers.
Later he claims he was dating the sex worker in Thailand, meaning he was doing both.
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Happy New Year!
by Vanderhoven7 in
1. jw
2. experiences
may 2023 bring you happiness health and love!.

what are you thinking will happen in 2023....positive or otherwise?.
Listener

Thanks and a Happy New Year to you too and everyone else on JWN.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Listener

Forever Alone, what did you study?
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Listener

I grew up in Victoria and went to congregations in Dandenong and Ocean Grove. I left shortly after being baptized. That was about 40 years ago.
Since then I've been lucky enough to have lived in Adelaide, Hobart and Perth. Mostly Perth where I am now.
I am so happy that there is now a lot of support for those wanting to leave or who have been dfd. I never knew such loneliness as when I left home as a teenager feeling I had no choice.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Listener

In Australia an Arts Degree was chosen by students who were slackers, not interested in anything meaningful and where their parents were eager to support them through Uni. It was a standing joke really.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Listener

Evans admits to making a wrong judgement call only because people didn't behave the way he was expecting.
He says if he had even an inkling as to how they would behave he would have behaved differently also.
Therefore, it's other people that makes him behave the way he does and he has no idea as to how they will behave in the first place.
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2022-12-19--Vaccination Requirement!
by Atlantis in
1. jw
2. friends
2022-12-19--vaccination requirement.. .

click image to enlarge.. .

https://postimg.cc/xxvbcwdv .
Listener

Thank you Atlantis. I hope you have a Merry Christmas and great New Year as well.
Were having gone made Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting. I've been perfecting the recipe over the year and there's a slice with your name on it.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Listener

LMSA recounting from Lloyds book that he acknowledges as far back as 2009 that he needed help to fight powerful inner urges.
Ten years later he seeks help by dating a sex worker in Thailand. Now living alone, he realises that didn't work.