Posts by Amelia Ashton

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Any thoughts on the real reasons for droppng the 'school"

by sparrowdown in

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my thoughts are.

1. they want to avoid being made to comply with any laws that come with anything classed as a "school" especially a school with children enrolled.. 2. the mid-week meeting has been dying in the ass for years and needs a revival.

i predict happy -clappy-sing-a-longs to be included in the program.. anyone else have any thoughts ??

Amelia Ashton

I wonder if it is to avoid DBS (used to be CRB) checks which surely must be necessary with the word school in the title. Any convicted paedophile within the congregation would fail and therefore not be permitted to attend that meeting. I don't believe it is the cost of the check because there is no way the society would pay members would.

Whatever the reason it is was the most boring of all the meetings and you knew who had a part because with certain people it was the only time they turned up.

Our meetings in Spain were invariably shorter because there were not enough bros to take the parts and even though small congs were allowed to use sisters they never did.

Whatever the reason it will be to benefit the society the most or to inconvenience it the least in complying with secular authority.

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Is the WT SLOW-ly Changing the importance of the Door to Door preaching work to something more profitable?

by John Aquila in

its been a couple of weeks since a new c.o.

was appointed to the circuit and im starting to hear tidbits of his talks..

one brother told me that in one of his talks he asked the question; .

Amelia Ashton

They need money so I agree property development and sales is where the big money is.

Also, for every hour spent with a trolley or on d2d is an hour not making money in a secular job to be able to donate to the society. This attitude of working part-time in order to spend more time on the ministry and pioneer I believe will be "adjusted" although it will be a loving provision that full-time work will become a blessing.

I think there has to be a push for the donations from those still in to increase as any-one not JW would not give their hard-earned cash to a a cult.

A new book used to be a million dollar best seller as 7 million were needed upon release but with downloads which can be shared even that avenue of revenue will be gone soon.

There are not many options left for them and with increasing lawsuits for paedophilia and subsequent massive payouts I have a hope for their demise within a generation or perhaps no more than one overlapping one.

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Did anyone learn the truth from having their prayers answered by a knock at the door and then eventually leave the JWs?

by truthseeker in

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i know of one person who had a difficult life, prayed for help, got the knock at the door, got baptized and eventually left the jws believing they were a cult.. has this happened to any of you?

and if so, did you still feel your prayers were answered at that time?.

Amelia Ashton

I no longer believe in God but I do believe in coincidences.

I was a depressed and struggling single Mum. The witness that knocked on my door knew me as a child when I lived in Norway as my dad was his boss when they were both serving in the British Royal Navy in Oslo.

I thought it was a sign as I had bought a Bible only that week and was struggling to comprehend the rubbish I was reading. Brothers having sex with their sisters, daughters with their father!

I was convinced by them back then in 1984 but woke up 2009.

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Just had a former elder friend tell me, “This Overlapping generation is crap.

by John Aquila in

last night i ran into a former elder friend, he is in his late 70s.

he asked how i was doing and i asked how he was doing.

then out of the blue he tells me; .

Amelia Ashton

I wish I knew who to give credit to but I think this explains the generation changes very well.

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Participate In The EX-JW Personality Test!

by C0ntr013r in

first of all; i must admit that i'm not a huge fan of putting people in boxes like this, it is not an exact science.

but i still think the data can be quite interesting and i intend to collect it and share it in a structured way with you guys.

so without future ado here are the details.. link to test: .

Amelia Ashton

ISTJ-T here :)

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Ray Franz was an Idiot

by vinman in

ray franz who gave us insight into the gb due to a crisis of conscience was an absolute moron, with absolutely no critical thinking skills whatsoever like all of us have.

i mean, to have a conscience based on some magic man in the sky.. how stupid can you be?

in search of christian freedom?

Amelia Ashton

Without Ray Franz book Crisis Of Conscience how many of us would be out the JW programme but still living with the guilt and fear?

I had so many doubts and had stopped going to meetings but was still researching and still believing a lot of it.

Then I read Crisis Of Conscience. That was when I became fully able to let go the words of those men in America who had controlled my thoughts, my emotions, my behaviour and the information I badly needed to be truly free of their control I was now no longer too afraid to read.

He did the best thing he could at that time to make amends. He wrote a book exposing the practices behind the curtain so the rest of us could make an informed choice and that book has helped me and many many more escape that insidious and sly and devious paedophile protecting organisation.

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Brother who works on JW Broadcasting gave a 20 minute talk, said something big is coming next month.

by wifibandit in

via /r/exjw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7vhu8l88k.

Amelia Ashton

A change in their sexual abuse policy?

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Geoffrey Jackson's Golden Apple watch INVESTIGATED

by C0ntr013r in

i went through the original footage to get a good look at the watch.. from these pictures we can probably say that it is a apple watch and that it has a golden color.

the color on the pin is black, and the band is white, grey, silvery or beige.. .

the pin is in the exact place for it to be a apple watch.. only apple watch edition have the gold color.

Amelia Ashton

Rutherford in his day always had top of the range cars to be transported in and claimed they were all gifts.

TV evangelisers all seem to be extremely rich and live in mansions and travel in private jets.

Teaching modesty in all things seems to be a mantra they quote but as a "do as I say not as I do" one. Hardly Christ like or leading by example.

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Child Abuse - "I don't care. I haven't got any children".

by cofty in

earlier this week i bumped into a couple of jws who i recognised from the cult cart.

a few months ago i had a long conversation with him one of them and found him to be quite friendly.

he is new to the area in the years since i left.. this time he was very defensive and said he wasn't allowed to talk to me.

Amelia Ashton

This attitude is sadly not just within the JW org.

My youngest daughter was lured into a van by a paedophile who was someone we had all trusted as he visited our little gated community every week delivering water.

One of my neighbour's who also happened to be a Policewoman managed to get him barred from our section but one couple stated he hadn't hurt them so they would still be letting him in to their side of estate to deliver their water.

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"Mentally Diseased" comment makes news

by freemindfade in

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/985479.

i know it's old but i never saw this one before.

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Amelia Ashton

What was also said by the Policeman was that if one of us was called "mentally diseased" to our faces that would be an offence and should be reported but calling us mentally diseased in a magazine, no.

However, the term "mentally diseased" has been removed from their latest Silver Sword Bible so I like to think perhaps we had a hand in the term being changed.