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  It's Carrots birthday

  by watersprout in

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  it's the big 3 0 for carrot today!.

  happy birthday you vegetable!.

  peace.

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  TotallyADD

  Happy birthday Carrot and many many more to come. Mr. and Mrs. Totally ADD
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  Scientologist "squirrel busters"

  by truthseeker in

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  think the wt will use this against apostates?.

  meet the scientologist 'squirrel busters': how teams with cameras fixed to their hats 'stalk' church defectorsby richard hartley-parkinson.

  last updated at 4:08 pm on 21st april 2011. .

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  When I was a kid downtown Clearwater FL was a fun place to go. The old capitol movie theater. Then all you can eat grouper at the bay drive in. Now all it is Sceientologist running all over the place. All dressed in navy uniforms. It is now their national headquarters. Totally ADD
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  If People Told you the JW's Would Change These Beliefs & Practices.....

  by flipper in

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  would you have believed it ?

  ( i give credit to the poster password protected for giving me the idea of this thread ) .. after exiting the witnesses in 2003 i have noticed many changes within the wt society which really surprised me but after analyzing the changes - they really have convinced me the wt society and jehovah's witnesses are a mind control cult intent on ruling people's lives.

  here are some i have noticed that have changed :.

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  A little known change in what is happening is they are moving towards using mostly Temp. workers at Bethel instead of Bethelites. That is one reason for the big purge a few years ago at Bethel. It's cheaper for them. The other big change is Reopened Mind and Me are no longer sitting at the KH being bored to death. LOL Totally ADD
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  Need awesome suggestions!

  by the_raisin in

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  for the last four days, every morning i take donut out for her walk, i always find jw's preaching door to door across the street.

  i always cross to them, and wait with dread at what i think is inevitable: they will try to preach to me.. but it never happens.

  four days, seen three diifferent groups, nothing.

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  Their actions toward you really shows they do not want to be out in service. For many this activity is very stressful and it shows on their faces. Pity them they do not know what they are doing. As the max said show true Christian qualitys. Totally ADD
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  there are 2 classes of ex Jehovahs witnesses

  by the max in

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  hi im part of a group of ex jh,s, we meet for drinks and dinner, go to football games.many of the guys do drugs,(i dont, i like sport) , most live very hedonistic lifestyles, lets leave it at that,(im happily married).

  my point is, when i left, i was honest, and got df,d.

  now im experiencing the same kind of shit that i experieced in the hall, the ex jw,s are just as judgemental, and stupid as when they were at the kingdom hall, for eg you were df,d we were not,it doesnt matter to them, that their doing coke and getting into group sex.

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  I totally agree with you on your 3rd. point Anony Mous. In our last congregation of 80 pub. we had 8 people with Bipolar. And many others who were a few blocks shy of a load. This woke me up to the major problem the WT has. Most people who are coming in are suffering with these mental disabilites. I personally see the WT is close to a breaking point in dealing with these people as a whole. The elders are not trained in dealing with this. Good point you made. Totally ADD
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  Your Age at Baptism (into JWs, not Catholics or Baptists - duh)

  by undercover in

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  leavingwt mentioned on another thread the age of his wife when she was baptized.

  she was a child.

  how can you expect a child to make such a decision?.

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  All come on Reopened Mind you loved being married at 21. Became a pub. at 6 gave my first talk a bible reading at 8. I was baptised at 16. To young for all those adult things. At 16 I didn't even know what I wanted to do with my life. And at 6 and 8 all I cared about was fishing, Bugs bunny and playing outside. Totally ADD
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  there are 2 classes of ex Jehovahs witnesses

  by the max in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  hi im part of a group of ex jh,s, we meet for drinks and dinner, go to football games.many of the guys do drugs,(i dont, i like sport) , most live very hedonistic lifestyles, lets leave it at that,(im happily married).

  my point is, when i left, i was honest, and got df,d.

  now im experiencing the same kind of shit that i experieced in the hall, the ex jw,s are just as judgemental, and stupid as when they were at the kingdom hall, for eg you were df,d we were not,it doesnt matter to them, that their doing coke and getting into group sex.

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  I have to agree with Outlaw. The GB does cause 99% of their problems. When I was a elder I learned more about imoral sex than I ever learned at work on a construction site. Also many people whom become JW come from very disfunctional back grounds such as "drugs, sex addication, drinking, grambling, being very violent and so on." Then many who are born-ins are raised by such people who may try their best to bring up their kids but don't have the right skillful tools to do so. With that and much more in mind the GB in their WT or KM give counsel to them on don't do this and don't do that. Always bringing up these things. Its like you have a friend who is a alcoholic who been on the wagon for many years. Every time your friends comes over to see you all you talk about is how bad it is to drink. What effect do you think it has on this person who is fighting alcoholism. This is the same with what goes on in WT land. I remember when I was 17 years old they had a talk on the service meeting about oral copulation. Most did'nt have a idea what they were talking about except younger married couples. With that thought fresh in their heads guess what happen that night in bed. All of us who leave this cult are adults. As adults we have to work hard on making right choices to govern our lifes. Whatever the choice is we have to pay the consequnces for that decision we made. Are there two classes of ex JW? There are probably even more of various shades. The important thing is what choices are we personally going to make with our new lives? Totally ADD
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  How HIGH did you climb the ranks as a JW? Did you like the STATUS?

  by unshackled in

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  so what were your biggest jw accomplishments as a rank & file?

  curious as to what level you climbed the r&f ladder while in the org, or if you still are in.. did you regular pioneer, or auxiliary pioneer?

  bethel?

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  MS for 11 years. Duties were terriority, maz., maintenance. Elder 24 years. Duties book study conductor, WT overseer, Service overseer, PO , RBC, Temp work at bethel. No I never wanted status for the most part I truly wanted to help people. But all they did was run you down. The WT all they did was but more burden on you. True their was elders who looked for status by greening the hand of the CO. I was not one of them. I always told the CO do not give me parts because I give you a gift. Only had 2 parts in my life at a CA that was the morning text. They love beating a dead horse. I truly believe status was bad maybe if I thought it was good and went after things I would have been more happy. Now I know its a cult I am gald I did not do that. Totally ADD
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  Did you ever "love" the organization?

  by slimboyfat in

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  i am catching up on this july 15th study watchtower everyone is talking about.

  it's perhaps a bit more intense in its vitriol than has been published in the watchtower in a long while (since the early 1980s apostate witch hunt) but it's stuff we've all heard before, even down to comparing apostasy to an illness and calling apostates mentally diseased.. but the phrase that stuck out for me was this:.

  they may arise from within the congregation.

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  I never loved the Dish network orgaization and I let people know. I was not just content to leave. That makes about as much sense as what the WT is saying. Being in the Borg most of my life I was taught God=organization. It is just one of those cult thinking tools they use. The thing is most witnesses don't even realize what they are saying. Totally ADD
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  As The Governing Body Tightens its Grip...

  by passwordprotected in

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  two and a half years ago i predicted that the governing body was going to have to tighten its grip on the rank and file witnesses.. "it's time to get in the compound, brothers and sisters...." it's classic sleight of hand.

  distract your audience.

  pull off the trick.

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  Guest with Questions. Hello I just got back to my computer and saw your comment. Most here who have been witnesses know that most witnesses have a core belief. Which goes closely along with what the GB has to say. But when it comes to some of the more obscure teaching such as "Jesus is not the mediator for the Great Crowd only the anointed ones". Then many don't know what they believe. Also most do not know the history of their own reglion. Only the sanitized version the WT gives. The problem you have with witnesses is they are controled in what they think and because of the many changes through the years they sometimes get confused at exactly the new teaching is. The point I was trying to make is most witnesses will see this new WT of July 15th as a reason not to trust those who may say something they feel is against the GB teaching. Which will cause many to become even more paranoid. At least in our hall we used to go to many already had a wall built up around them and looked at others who were not walking in step with them as being someone not to trust. If you want to feel what it is like to be a JW watch the History Channel show on the rise and fall of the 3rd Reich. You will see how a whole nation got duped into the Hilter Cult and how they acted. I hope this answer your question. Totally ADD

  P.S. My wife and I are moving to PA next week. Thank you passwordprotected for the good thread.