Posts by NVR2L8

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Were/Are you and Elder, MS, CO, Bethelite, etc.? (Please check in here)

by El_Guapo in

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i'm sure alot of you have noticed, the influx of new jwn members with "postitions within the cong" this is amazing, i myself am still an m.s.

working to get removed.

lol my wife (who has been really supportive throughout my fade) asked my why i am doing i decided to fade?.

NVR2L8

Brought in the cult at 5 years old, was a MS but never an elder...gave public talks and conducted a book study until this meeting was cancelled...stepped down 3 years ago and stopped going to the meetings after DC in 2010. I lurked on this site for at least a year before becoming a member and posting.

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Emergency preparedness?

by NoRegrets in

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anyone have any specific examples regarding recent instructions on having a backpack/bag ready for a sudden armageddon?

maybe a recent km article or boe letter?

i'd love a pdf.

NVR2L8

Received an email about this including which elder I should contact to let them know where we are. I haven't been to a meeting for well over 2 years and this elder is the last person I would ever ask help from...he is clueless and his only qualification is to be a company man. Even my JW wife agrees with me. By the way I deleted the email before my wife had a chance to see it. In the case of a disaster we will seek help from the trained civil authorities.

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A torso found in Kitchener

by mouthy in

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dumpster!!!

!if you heard it on the news.... i used to live in that very building.

scary!!!

NVR2L8

She was someone's better half...

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Why did you pick the name you have now

by label licker in

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just wondering if your name describes what you saw, how you were treated when you were "in" or now "out", maybe your personality, ect.... i'm label licker and the why i picked this name was because of all the licking up one side of elders and down the other to either be an elder or ministerial servant.

one time i was standing right in front of this brother who wasn't made an ms yet and he totally ignored me and talked right over my head speaking really loud trying to catch the co's attention.. got sick of watching the poor elderly sitting all alone or standing against the wall like a wall flower with noone to talk to and yet all these label lickers would take turns picking up the elders elderly parents and take them shopping and do their groceries at least four times a week while out in service, yet, there was noone there to take a meal to a sister who just got out of the hospital with a heart attack.

when i had shown up at her apartment with a meal she asked if i could wash her private and change her bandages.

NVR2L8

Never too late...NVR2L8...to break free from the cult...figured it out in my mid fifties. ..

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Should i go?

by MsGrowingGirl20 in

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so, a good friend of mine, a pentecostal christian, invited me to go to a retreat with her church.

we're the same age-19 years.

we were friends before i became a witness and she was always patient and caring with me especially throughout my arrogant spell as a witness.

NVR2L8

Attending another church (or organisation linked to another church) is considered as apostasy which is a disfellowshipping offence - and you would simply submit yourself to a different flavour of brainwashing...

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Love Thy Neighbor? Not my JW neighbors.

by jws in

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i live next to jw neighbors.

i was a jw 1000 miles away over 20 years ago, never here.

as far as i know, nobody here knows i once was, including the neighbors.. so there wouldn't be any reason for them to shun me.

NVR2L8

I use to do the snow removal at the Kingdom Hall which includes the sidewalk. On one side of the hall there is a home occupying the street corner lot and on the other side there is a church. Since we had a tractor with a snow blower I would clear the sidewalk along the home all the way to the street corner, so the neighbors didn't have to do it by hand. Then I would run the blower past the church to their driveway where I could easily turn around and drive back to the hall. I guess my replacement doesn't believe in being a good neighbor and he stops clearing the snow right on the property line on the side of the church while going all the way to the street corner on the opposite side...School kids use that sidewalk to get to school...that should be a good enough reason to extend the snow clearing past the church...Jehovah will not strike you to death for doing it...I'm the living proof!

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my elderly JW dad--continued

by bigmac in

some readers may recall a thread about my old dad coming to live with me.. after a short time he had to be hospitalised--and now he is in a care home.

ive taken over all his financial affairs--including selling his house.. ive been clearing out the house--and--needless to say--came across tons of wt books--years of old magazines--1000's of them--plus bound volumes going back to the year dot.

i asked him what he wanted me to do with them--and he said dispose of them!.

NVR2L8

I dumped my whole library in the dumpster...selling them on e-bay wasn't an option...50 years of peddling these worthless books was enough for me. In the wrong hands these books could turn a pefectly normal person into a brainwashed JW!

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