Posts by Amelia Ashton

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Fraud

by lovecoogee in

my friend was a jw and gave signatuory rights to her business accounts to her good friend, sue, a regular pioneer.

sue is married to a much older man, john and they have two boys.

my friend was welcomed into their home and lived with them for 4 years.

Amelia Ashton

I cannot believe that this elder knows of the wrongdoings and has admitted this couple are a law unto their own and he will do nothing to stop this.

Sadly, I can believe the elder knows of wrongdoing and is not prepared to do anything to support the innocent party. I feel for your friend because I too believed JWs were honest until I learned personally and the hard way that some most defnitely are not.

When the corrupt elder changed congregations and almost immediately was made an elder again in his new one I realised it was either possible to fool the holy spirit or holy spirit had no part in the appointment of elders.

It leaves a very nasty taste once you have got over the initial disbelief that it even happened in the first place.

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Hate Crime against Members of a Congregation

by cantleave in

jw
friends

i recieved this email from an active witness regarding "hate crimes" against members of the congregation he/she attends.

it is interesting as to how the elders are dealing with it.. .

for some time our hall has been suffering minor vandalism.

Amelia Ashton

This is horrendous. Where is the love?

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Seven Thousand Year Creative Day still being taught (as of 2005)

by VM44 in

here is a photo of a gilead instructor (br.

liverance) teaching a class on chronology.. the photo appears in a blog entry dated 5-21-2005.. note the "6,000" and "1,000" periods in the timeline drawn on the whiteboard.. i thought the 7,000 year creative day was no longer taught, but apparently it still is at gilead, at least in the year 2005.. (picture cannot be embedded here for some reason, so here is the link to it).

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ydnht0xya-4/sbukuolyzei/aaaaaaaaacs/t-rgxaammbg/s1600-h/chronology+%28br.+liverance%29.jpg.

Amelia Ashton

When ancient men wrote the Bible they knew very little of what we know today hence

(Genesis 1:3-5) 3?And God proceeded to say: “Let light come to be.” Then there came to be light. 4?After that God saw that the light was good, and God brought about a division between the light and the darkness. 5?And God began calling the light Day, but the darkness he called Night. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a first day.

6?And God went on to say: “Let an expanse come to be in between the waters and let a dividing occur between the waters and the waters.” 7?Then God proceeded to make the expanse and to make a division between the waters that should be beneath the expanse and the waters that should be above the expanse. And it came to be so. 8?And God began to call the expanse Heaven. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a second day.

Anything taught since is just spin.

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March 2013 KM in our cong.....are BLUE

by monkeyman in

jw
friends

download from this site is pink.

is this a sneaky way to ferret out those who get theirs from this site?.

Amelia Ashton

Ours were black and white in Spain

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Millions Now Living: Part Deux Sept. 2012

by pixel in

ok, so i was check this out from the watchtower study edition september 2012 page 11 paragraph 14:.

the bible points to the time when as the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing.

(1 cor.

Amelia Ashton

They should have said "may" not "will". Don't they ever learn?

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The bible is a letter to the 144,000

by sosoconfused in

jw
friends

i don't really remember where i heard this... either at a public talk or a district convention or c.o.

visit or something.. .

my question is, has anyone else in there time with the org heard that said?

Amelia Ashton

I heard the bible was only for the 144,000 too. I couldn't understand why us non anointed used the words "through Christ" if he was only mediator for anointed ones.

Shouldn't we have been ending our prayers through the "faithful and discreet slave" if we are only saved by hanging onto their coat-tails?

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Hello

by newdawnfades in

jw
friends

i am a long time lurker who has finally decided to post.

i am still in along with my wife, kids and extended family.

i am in my 40s and was raised in the org.

Amelia Ashton

Welcome

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Argo

by TD in

so, who liked it?

--or not?.

Amelia Ashton

I saw this movie last month. I had completely forgotten about it until I saw this thread.

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Who of you ever lied on your field service reports?

by Julia Orwell in

jw
friends

i've read a few people mention making up the figures for the field service reports, and i want to find out how common it is.

i never lied on my report.

sometimes i'd round up 15 minutes if i'd mentioned jw stuff to my brother that month, but that wasn't falsifying.

Amelia Ashton

I used to be so worried about "cheating" I used to round down my hours.

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Could the JWs sway you back...?

by new22day in

op based on mr. freeze's topic - could attending the meetings/studying again sway any of you back to the org.

hearing the propaganda over and over again is pretty powerful i'm sure.

(i'm a non-jw, non-christian (no offense), stubborn as a bull and even i had moments of pause based on some of the doctrine (lasted 30 seconds) but i never had family/friends at stake or a background in this.

Amelia Ashton

No way even if they had "the truth" because there was no love amongst them.

I value the company of all my exjw friends too much to lose them to the fake friendship on offer at a KH.