Amelia Ashton

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  What was your crisis

  by JG in

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  2. friends

  what was your crisis of conscience, moment of clarity, epiphany or realization?

  i am so interested in what got you thinking.

  blessing to you,.

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  Amelia Ashton

  The reasoning was the Red Cross and the Spanish government would help these poor desperate women and their babies materially and we should leave that side of things to them.

  The children had no toys and the women had no handbags, make-up etc. or any "nice things" and what about friendship? Every-one needs a friend especially in a foreign country when to save your life you had to risk it in an unseaworthy vessel knowing 50% die trying.

  We weren't supposed to get too close or "care" about them. Some of these women and children had been set on fire by husbands who no longer wanted them.

  It was all very horrid and the WT attitude stank. IMO
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  What was your crisis

  by JG in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what was your crisis of conscience, moment of clarity, epiphany or realization?

  i am so interested in what got you thinking.

  blessing to you,.

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  Amelia Ashton

  My crisis of conscience happened in Spain after being counselled by an elder against helping African boat people (refugees, mainly women with babies).

  I was told not to offer material help but only Bible Studies as they might come into the truth for the wrong reasons.

  It was not an epiphaneous moment but it niggled and nagged until I allowed myself to know this was not Christ's messsage of love.
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  An official Jw.org YouTube channel.

  by His Excellency in

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  an official jw.org youtube channel.

  https://www.youtube.com/user/jehovahswitnessesen/videos,

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  Amelia Ashton

  Prior to getting Youtube to close certain person's accounts down they must have realised that 80,000 views on one of their videos in a week was way more coverage than knocking on doors could ever be.

  How long would it actually take for one publisher to reach 80,000 households?

  Closing accounts didn't work as their clips have been mirrored more times than they can keep up with so it was futile trying to shut us up.

  They are on dangerous ground now and are leaving themselves wide open to ridicule but perhaps a little bit more persecution is what they need to tighten the ranks.
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  Another non-JW reacts to Sparlock video

  by cedars in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ssv2nh0rc.

  and two weeks ago i highlighted another video where sparlock helped an ex-mormon.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmesmlhydru.

  though it still depresses me to think of all the young ones (including my own relatives) falling under the influence of this dangerous piece of propaganda, it's at least some small comfort that the sparlock video is backfiring so dramatically among thinking non-jws.. .

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  I like her attitude
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  An official Jw.org YouTube channel.

  by His Excellency in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  an official jw.org youtube channel.

  https://www.youtube.com/user/jehovahswitnessesen/videos,

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  Amelia Ashton

  Very low view counts and comments.

  I had thousands of views daily in the short time the Sparlock video was up on my account and 100s of comments many from JWs themselves accusing me of making the video myself amongst other things.

  Such a low view count is very odd.
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  I lost my pet today...

  by tooktheredpill in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  she was a 12 year old maltese.

  the best pet in the world.

  my wife and i never had kids, so she was our only daughter.

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  Amelia Ashton

  I am so sorry for your loss.

  Losing a pet is losing part of your family.
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  I've been duped!

  by truthhurts13 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so im sittin here lookin through these issues of watch/awake that a jaydub left me, and i just realized, she gave me old mags!!!!!

  these are like 2 years old!

  she used me as a dumping ground for her old trash, and then counted it on her timecard as placements i just know it.. i remember leaving stacks (30-40) mags at a time on laundry mat tables, and leaving 5 or 6 in a door was not a problem.

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  Amelia Ashton

  It doesn't matter how old the magazines are, the information contained in them never goes out of date.

  Do they have that in print anywhere?
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  Literature Display Stands... Turning JWs into stationary targets...

  by Calebs Airplane in

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  because of the membership retention issues that seem to continue getting worse, the watchtower corporation appears to be running out of ideas.

  in the past, when the numbers have dropped (membership, fs hours, rag placements, money, etc.

  ) they always came up with a "hook" that would give them a boost until the next drop in numbers (i.e.

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  I wonder if they will manufacture a new reason for people to persecute them as they are tolerated very well in the western world now.

  So well in fact no-one notices them and completely ignores them Lol
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  Do you think "Blondie" is addicted to reading Watchtowers and Awakes?

  by booker-t in

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  i remember when i was a "devout" jws i could not wait to get the new watchtowers and awakes from the wednesday nite theocratic ministry school.

  i would actually salivate thinking of the new information jehovah had in the magazines for us.

  i was "franatical" and i would go home still in my three piece suit and devour the magazines that very nite.

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  Amelia Ashton

  I love Blondie's comments and read them every week.

  I am not great at critical thinking (probably why I got sucked in so easily) and without these articles I would not have learned so much so quickly about how they operate to brainwash all their victims and twist scriptures etc.

  How can we help newbies without keeping up with their ridiculous changes in doctrines if we don't know what the changes are? If our knowledge of WT ended on the last day we attended a meeting anything we said to try and help some-one exit would be considered old light and dismissed without a discussion.

  Blondie is great and her work is needed and invaluable!
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  Talking to a JW extremist

  by Kool Jo in

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  so i had a conversation with a jw whom i communicate with via skype...the conversation went like this:.

  kool jo: hey there, how have you been keeping?.

  they're imperfect, but we need to obey them regardless.. kool jo: ok, i see.

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  Amelia Ashton

  I was told that even if we totally disagree with an instruction from either the GB, an elder or your husband but obeyed it any way even if they were proven to be wrong and the result was disasterous jehovah would bless you for your obedience later.

  Now you have no excuse not to obey!