In the late 80's our congregation bought land to build a new kingdom hall but the regional building committee had us renovate the old one. After the renovation the hall was still too small and it was decided to build a new one, but not on the land that was purchased and paid for a few years prior. The old hall was adjacent to a medical centre and we shared half of the parking lot. The owners of the medical building offered to buy the hall so they would be the sole owners of all the parking spaces. Instead the congregation sold the hall and parking rights to a Pentecostal church...I guess they were offering more for a hall that was conveniently renovated on our dime just before the sale...WT real estate business at its best.
Posts by NVR2L8
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10Hypocrisy of the governing body & abuse of J.W.'s
by The Searcher inhere is what the present "faithful & discreet slave" spewed out just a few years ago:.
w06 3/15 p. 24 par.
12 “each one will carry his own load” - "the source of pay and the location of the employment also enter into the picture.
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Those formula prayers. I want to scream
by stillin inwhen the co is visiting, i think i hear "thank you , jehovah, for this special week of activity" until i want to vomit.. also "jehovah, please remember those sick and afflicted.
we pray that they can make a recovery and be back with us.".
stale, canned, institutionalized garble.
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NVR2L8
A couple months back I had JW family visit us. Of course they know that I am inactive and asked if I minded them praying before the meal and I didn't object. Still when my brother thanked God for the food on the table I had to bite my tongue not to tell him that I was the provider of the said food and that if God had anything to do with us being well fed God must also be held accountable for those who are starving. How would God decide who is deserving or not of this basic necessity of life? Iniquity in the world's distribution of wealth is much easier to explain than the partiality of a supposedly loving and just God.
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Jw's and beards
by wannaexit inwithout going into details.
it appears that new light might be coming down the pipes that beards are acceptable.
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NVR2L8
Several years ago I worked on a KHALL project at an off-site location were all the woodwork, doors and cabinetry was being built. During that time I didn't shave and when it came time to go on site to install all we had built an elder told me I needed to shave if I wanted to work on site. Having a beard outweighed the weeks of hard work when it came to earning the privilege of working at the hall. Of course as a good JW I obeyed...
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Jw's and beards
by wannaexit inwithout going into details.
it appears that new light might be coming down the pipes that beards are acceptable.
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NVR2L8
Wannaexit it's funny you said that because a few weeks ago I ran into an old JW friend who was doing cart witnessing in my old home town. I was passing through while on vacation and I had been growing a beard. Not having seen him for about 20 years he is not aware of my fade so I said the beard was a vacation thing but the brother next to him said that I must be up with my reading of the latest magazines...Jan WT? Is there something on JW org? I personally never go on that site but others may have seen something?
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'Strange' Australian Melbourne Baptisms
by darkspilver innot seen this before, or at least haven't registered it before.
maybe it's just a traditional style?.
i mean it's basically a glorified cattle trough?
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NVR2L8
That's all you need if you are going to dunk 1 or 2 kids at the circuit assembly...the good ol' days of mass baptism are over.
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The Atheist Delusion
by looter inatheist delusion.
just want to know what the ex jw community thinks about this video and also offer my pov.
the video was actually an advertisement on here.
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NVR2L8
I believe in unicorns because there's no proof they don't exist...so they must exist!
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The Atheist Delusion
by looter inatheist delusion.
just want to know what the ex jw community thinks about this video and also offer my pov.
the video was actually an advertisement on here.
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NVR2L8
I don't want to believe in the boogie man so I can be free to go out at night without the fear of being taken...
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In love with a JW girl
by rastapau inneed advise.
i was in a relation with a jw girl for almost three years(im am not jw) and we are so inlove with each other until someone saw us from her congregation and she was disfellowed and that where the oddness happened.
her family and friends are not talking to her anymore, she wants me to stop seeing and talking to her anymore not until i became a baptized jw.
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Restapau
I faded from the JW 6 years ago but my wife is still active. Although I love her above anyone or anything else, her love and loyalty goes to the JW organization first. She blindly will follow their instructions and guidance even if it meant to walk into a fire. She unconditionally obeys them without thinking regardless of my feelings and it is absolutely impossible to reason with her on any matters that contradicts her JW views. We have been married for over 40 years and obviously she resents me for having left the path to everlasting life...but she doesn't understand or want to know why I just couldn't continue living under the mind control of the cult.
The only way your relationship can work is for you to totally surrender to the cult...but still your chances of a happy union will be tainted by a poor beginning in the critical eye of the JW community.
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Dealing with family
by G Skero ini'm in my mid 40's and recently started bible study and going to meetings.
my family is really having a hard time with this.
my kids that are over 18 are no longer speaking to me and won't have anything to do with me.
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NVR2L8
Don't let the JW tell you that the negative information about JW on the Internet is controlled by Satan and that you should expect to be persecuted because the devil doesn't want you to learn the "truth". Your family loves you and they don't want you to fall victim of a cult.
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Dealing with family
by G Skero ini'm in my mid 40's and recently started bible study and going to meetings.
my family is really having a hard time with this.
my kids that are over 18 are no longer speaking to me and won't have anything to do with me.
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NVR2L8
Welcome G Skero
Use Google and research the Watch Tower....maybe your family has and they are not blinded by the "niceness" of the JWs who are studying with you. As a JW you will no longer celebrate birthdays or holidays and you will replace your family with your new brothers and sisters and spend most of your time and resources supporting the WT organization. I was a slave of the WT for over 50 years and I could no longer let someone else decide what I should think or believe in. I left and lost all the conditional friends I had in the cult. Now I am trying to reconnect to the family members I ignored all that time because they didn't believe in the JW truth...