Amelia Ashton

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  Former Unbaptized Publisher, New Here

  by GloomySunday in

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  former unbaptized publisher, here.. i'm new to the forums and have hesitated for months to join this forum.

  i was raised in a jw family, and was never baptized, because one of my parents didn't think i should be baptized early.. my mother became inactive, but i eventually went back for social contact, eventually starting a study.

  i raised a few questions, only to find that the conductor would get irritated and defensive when my questions would get deeper into the topic.

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  Amelia Ashton

  A very warm welcome Gloomy Sunday.

  Well done for coming here before getting dunked.

  You have saved yourself a lifetime of pain and can live life free from their ridiculous restrictions.
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  Another Suicide

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  there wouldn't have been any good way to hear the news i suppose.

  it's just so strange to recall the conversation yesterday.

  my "still in" parents are with me and my inactive sister having a pleasant conversation.

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  Amelia Ashton

  So sorry for your loss, Billy.
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  WTS in trouble in Denmark

  by zed is dead in

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  http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/andre_sprog/english/2013/07/25/132435.htm.

  zed.

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  Amelia Ashton

  I have thought that for a while Rip.

  There has to be persecution to prove they are "the true vine".
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  The Mermaid Goes to the District Convention and this is what She Hears

  by Cadellin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  Amelia Ashton

  

  Name calling is all they have.
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  Here is an NBC story that discusses the Child Abuse Telememo

  by nonjwspouse in

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  2. child-abuse

  i am not sure which thread this was debated on, but in this memo: 'in reporting states, the form instructs officials to advise local elders to make an anonymous phone report from a neutral location, such as a phone booth '.

  http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21917798/ns/nbcnightlynews/t/new-evidence-jehovahs-witness-allegations/#slice-3.

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  Amelia Ashton

  It was in this thread from 3 years ago:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/180508/1/Its-WT-leaders-not-elders-who-are-responsible-for-all-the-harm-My-Geneva-Switz-lecture-posted-here-for-new-ones-Sola-Scriptura-to-read

  When local laws require elders to report allegations of child abuse, why has the Watchtower Society never disclosed to JWs that it directs elders to make the reports anonymously from public telephone booths? Why keep this information secret? If elders want to trumpet their moral stance, they should have proudly identified who they were and who the perpetrator was.

  I have a copy of the telememo which I showed to the Police because I was so disgusted and horrified by question #9 "How many elders felt that the victim was somewhat at fault or willingly participated in the act".
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  Isn`t it ludicrous women can be king/queen preists in heaven and rule with jesus in heaven,yet be silent and submissive to males in the congrgations ?

  by smiddy in

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  2. beliefs

  is this just another example of the bible being inconsistent/contradictory ?

  or is it screwed up wt.theology.. what`s your thoughts.

  smiddy.

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  Amelia Ashton

  This was on FB

  Why will there be no sisters in heaven?

  Because (reading Revelation 8.1) when the lamb opened the 7th seal there was silence in heaven for about a half an hour...
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  interesting Rumour

  by Slidin Fast in

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  i heard a rumour today to the effect that there is a new gb member in his late twenties/early thirties.

  i stress that this is unsubtantiated and requires confirmation or quashing.. can anyone confirm or definately deny it?.

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  Amelia Ashton

  A female member of the GB would surprise me.
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  Every so often I receive a very uncomplimentary email thru my website from a JW. Want to read it?

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  their email address is: xxxxx.

  and their message is:.

  you probably would say, 'i didn't abandon him, i can still serve him on my own.

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  Amelia Ashton

  A last ditch attempt to defend the troof before she finally wakes up herself, methinks. I hope so anyway.
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  Experience regarding Elders being spirit appointed

  by Comatose in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was told recently about a situation where an elder did not get recommended to serve upon moving to a new hall.

  i think he left for a job.

  but, something internal politics happened in the old hall and he was not recommended.

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  Amelia Ashton

  Holy Spirit can be fooled.
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  Charges made on JWs in Denmark due to incite to hatred

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  because of the strong wording and rhetoric of the talks at this summer`assembly, esp the talk on human apostasy, ex-witnesses in denmark have made charges against the jws.

  the media, tv, radio as welll as newspapers, have given this broad coverage.. http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/2013/07/25/173429.htm.

  http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/2013/07/25/140509.htm.

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  Amelia Ashton

  Here is one of them translated

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/257595/1/Jehovahs-Witnesses-calling-us-mentally-diseased-hits-Danish-media