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  Special Talk During the Meeting Today About the Bad Press in Canada

  by RobertT18 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i was invited to a congregation in ontario, canada today and as soon as the meeting opened the brother conducting the meeting said there was a very important statement coming from the borg.

  this talk replaced the two last parts of "living as a christian" section.

  he started reading a letter from the borg about how much they loved us.

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  NVR2L8

  Point taken...the letter has the JW "flavour".
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  Special Talk During the Meeting Today About the Bad Press in Canada

  by RobertT18 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i was invited to a congregation in ontario, canada today and as soon as the meeting opened the brother conducting the meeting said there was a very important statement coming from the borg.

  this talk replaced the two last parts of "living as a christian" section.

  he started reading a letter from the borg about how much they loved us.

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  NVR2L8

  I just read the letter and it is full of spelling mistakes...which is very unusual for any document issued by the WT.
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  Question for those that have been Disfellowshiped for apostasy VS succesfully fading

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are quite a few here who have been disfellowshipped for apostasy.. then there are those that have successfully faded.. why the different outcome?

  are the ones that got df more out spoken?

  or does the discrepancy lie with the elders?.

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  I stopped going to the meetings 7 years ago while my wife is still achive. Other than a courtesy visit from 2 elders after a full year out, they have left me alone. My younger brother is an elder in another congregation and I told him why I no longer believe in the WT and he said that nothing will ever change between us. To this day he has stuck to his word but that could change if I became openly critical of the WT and get disfellowshipped for apostasy. So fading works well for me .
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  My mother's treatment. Unreal.

  by quellycatface in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i disassociated myself 3 years ago but have never told my mother, as she lives quite a distance from me in the uk.

  i've have told her that i no longer go to meetings, neither does my son, who is 16.. i haven't seen her for 3 1/2 years.

  i offered to come visit this week but she was incredibly offhand with me and said she couldn't meet with me today as she was on the ministry!!

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  My younger brother called our 82 year old mother to arrange a visit so she could meet her newest grand child but she couldn't accommodate him since she is busy too busy with pioneering in the field ministry. My brother who was never baptized said he isn't about to convert to be able to spend quality time with his mom in the ministry....Then she complains that he never calls or visit.
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  You know it's time to give up the JW religion when your route call tells you to

  by jambon1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  lasting memory of the latter period of time in the organisation:.

  i had a route call with the magazines whom i'd called on for a number of years.

  eventually when i become a parent i became consumed with negativity, doubt (blood issue) & depression.

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  I love your account and how this mature womanwaited for the right moment to speak her mind out of concern for your well-being. I had a similar return visit who engaged me on doctrine only using the bible...I dismissed his reasoning by telling myself he was an apostate. Still what he said resonated in me and caused the doubts that led me to researching my beliefs...and here I am!
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  What age were you when you were counted as a publisher?

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the wts has always included minors and adults in the same categories - publisher and baptized.. i am interested in knowing how many minors, approximately, are included in the publisher count.

  and, at what age a person started publishing.

  what age was the youngest publisher reported?.

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  NVR2L8

  Publisher at 6 and baptized at 14.
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  JW Facebook puriven garbage

  by Lostandfound in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  below is an example of the pure cliche driven and meaningless posts by witnesses to witnesses on facebook .

  it was truly a blessing from jehovah that your original plans .....didn't work out, because instead our family was able to enjoy a spiritually filled morning with ,spiritual food and spiritual entertainment and singing praises to our glorious god, grand creator and loving heavenly father jehovah was a memorable gift.

  he has truly provided a perfect example of christian brotherly love through his son, our savior jesus christ.

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  I still have 2 JWs in my FB and I just can't follow one who constantly post about theocratic bullock and praises to the almighty Jehovah and the brotherhood. One selfie shows a car group smiling on the first day of the new service year...yeah!
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  So the Elders want to get together, and I kinda want to.

  by Darkknight757 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so the wife and i were uninvited to another jw get together which we didn't want to go to anyways.

  finally we find out that something on my facebook account is getting some people's in my old halls undies in a bunch.

  so i was thinking of meeting with them to at least clear my wife's name and give them some much needed hell.

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  The "divine" instruction is to obey the slave class even if they are imperfect individuals...so it does not matter if they're not inspired or if they err in their teaching. Jehovah always used flawed humans to guide his people. This is how all good JWs will react to this admission in the February 2017 mag.
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  Hold The Front Page! JWs Fold in Port Dover

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yes, it was front page news in simcoe...... .

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  http://www.simcoereformer.ca/2016/10/21/jehovahs-witnesses-fold-in-port-dover.

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  There's another hall for sale in Essex SW Ontario that's listed for $225000. It looks like it was used by the Spanish speaking congregation for Mexican migrant workers who come to work on the different vegetable and fruit farms. Would it be that they sent their hard earned money to their needy families rather than to the WT? How ingrateful of them after the WT has taken such good care of their spiritual needs ;-)
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  Disassociation revealed what type of man my father really is.

  by Paul Mooney in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i began my exit from the jehovah’s witness organization about 5 years.

  i was a 4th generation born-in, with all the baggage that comes with having the “spiritual heritage” attached to the group.

  i was an elder/bethelite/pioneer/whatever other useless privilege there was, i had no family or friends outside of the organization… my entire life was that org.

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  Welcome Paul.

  I am sitting in a plane shortly before take off to a short business trip to what used to be my home town. I am fighting back tears after reading your post. My dad used to secretly visit my never baptized unbeliever brother and he would cry when leaving. The morning of his death he confided something "disturbing" to my mom who will not tell us what it was about. I suspect that like your dad my father was held hostage in the cult. My mom is 83 and is still pioneering. I'm going home but I can't even reach out to her because all she cares about is the WT. I'm only inactive but she is already in autodefense mode...I am glad that you finally know how your father feels about you and I try to imagine my dad felt the same for me.