Amelia Ashton

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  Bethel have just DENIED Jehovah's Witnesses shun ex members!!!

  by Amelia Ashton in

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  i can't believe it.

  probably haven't been out long enough to know they lie like this.

  now i just heard it with my own ears.

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  Amelia Ashton

  Yes he did.

  JWs see all exes and apostates as evil and having an axe to grind or mentally unhinged. The more normal, reasonable and articulate we are the more likely they are to take notice.
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  Bethel have just DENIED Jehovah's Witnesses shun ex members!!!

  by Amelia Ashton in

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  i can't believe it.

  probably haven't been out long enough to know they lie like this.

  now i just heard it with my own ears.

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  missed it as pranged cantleave's car and been sorting that out. can't catch it on listen again until after 12.

  Oh no! That would explain why he couldn't get hold of you and phoned me instead! Are you ok? Does he know yet?
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  Bethel have just DENIED Jehovah's Witnesses shun ex members!!!

  by Amelia Ashton in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i can't believe it.

  probably haven't been out long enough to know they lie like this.

  now i just heard it with my own ears.

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  Amelia Ashton

  The show finishes at 12 so after then it should be available to listen to again or record. Unfortunately I have no idea how to do that but I am sure there will someone here who can so that everyone can have a listen.
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  Bethel have just DENIED Jehovah's Witnesses shun ex members!!!

  by Amelia Ashton in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i can't believe it.

  probably haven't been out long enough to know they lie like this.

  now i just heard it with my own ears.

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  Amelia Ashton

  I can't believe it. Probably haven't been out long enough to know they lie like this. Now I just heard it with my own ears. Congrats to Angus. He did us all proud with his interview.
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  New Information On Blood?

  by EmptyInside in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've overheard from a couple of elders,that they are going to be getting some new information on the blood issue.

  now,i understand in the witness world,this could all be much ado about nothing.

  but, does anyone know what this info could be?.

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  Amelia Ashton

  All this talk about which fraction is or is not acceptable by the GB but no mention of any gratitude towards the people who gave it. Perhaps the jws should start donating instead of just take take take, especially as it seems more and more of the blood is becoming acceptable.
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  Made up field service experience at yesterday's Public Talk

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  remember the made up stories of witnesses in djibouti,africa where they had to walk 2 days in alligator infested waters with no shoes in the blazing sun to attend the meetings?

  they made it to the meetings in these terrible conditions.. talk about made up stories!

  here is a field service experience that was told at yesterday's public talk which would fall into the made up stories!.

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  Amelia Ashton

  I remember various accounts of "we got the literature through despite the fierce fighting/opposition/miles to be travelled on foot" type circumstances and it was these stories that started me waking up. Not enough to do anything for a couple of years or even openly question but just not be as "whole souled" about it all as I was.

  If Jehovah was blessing these efforts with success despite extreme conditions why couldn we never get our literature in Spain. We were not facing any oppositon/under ban/war torn/flooded or any other permutation of disaster recounted in the mags but our KMs were scanned and then emailed from some-ones old cong in UK and then photocopied again. Print quality always seem to come out slightly wobbly. The Days Text books didnt reach us until mid June and I never got a Calendar, Year Book or Watchtower cd rom the whole time I was there even tho we all requested them. A new Bible would take up to a year so any new studies never got their own personal copy of any literature to study they just had a copy for the duration of the study and then had to give it back.

  We quite often had to share books and Watchtowers at meetings that holiday makers very kindly brought out for us and yeah..... if the public talk was so important why did we only get 1 or 2 a month!
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  BBC news re Nathan Phillips xjw

  by Curtains in

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  http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/somerset/hi/people_and_places/religion_and_ethics/newsid_9367000/9367220.stm.

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  A private armageddon just for the watbits
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  BBC news re Nathan Phillips xjw

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  http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/somerset/hi/people_and_places/religion_and_ethics/newsid_9367000/9367220.stm.

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  Amelia Ashton

  We just say "S.S. D.D." in our house when bad things happen. Same s**t different day.

  Good Luck cantleave. Really looking forward to it.
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  Video and pictures just coming in from the world wide protest!

  by koolaid-man in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it was thrilling to participate in the world wide protest, jan, 21-23 2011 exposing the watchtower organization for their policies on deliberately breaking up up families.

  we thank all those involved this past weekend for their passion and commitment to help free those trapped in falsehood.

  i am aware that many on this forum do not believe in protesting against the watchtower society,and i respect their position.

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  Amelia Ashton

  If they are trying to "come back" then talking to others shows that they are not treating their df'ing with respect and it shows a rebellious attitude.

  I learn more and more every day from this website.
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  Where would a JW marry a non-JW? A KH?

  by InterestedOne in

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  2. beliefs

  am i correct that jw marrying a non-jw is frowned upon but not forbidden?

  if it's not forbidden, would the elders do the marriage in the kh?

  i know the jw is forbidden to attend a non-jw religious ceremony, so another church would be out.

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  Amelia Ashton

  I know of one sister who married outside the "troof". Daddy was a very rich elder so no probs at all. They got married at a Registry Office and 15 years later they are still together with 2 daughters. Another sister got her boyfriend to have a study, get baptised and they got married at the KH all in less than a year. He stopped going to meetings about 6 months after getting married! 3 years on and she still goes and as far as I know they are happy and now have a little boy.