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  My Final Goodbye

  by Lady Lee in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  i want to start by saying i will not participate in discussion here about my resignation as a moderator at jwn.. simon please consider this as my resignation from that position.. i have been posting on this board for almost 12 years.

  i know some of you a lot, others a little and some not very well at all.

  i have remained here for those of you who have needed support as you make the transition out of the wts, who needed someone to listen to your experiences of abuse at the hands of jehovah's witnesses, and to both laugh and cry with you as you progress out of the watchtower society.. we know that we have all experienced the cruelty of abuse of one kind or another.

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  " I never thought LL would be silly enough to let Cedars manipulate her like this to be honest. "

  Comments like that get me angry because that's a pretty big leap Slim...exactly how would you know that's what took place?

  Does LL strike you as silly? Easily manipulated?

  Therapists teach us to OWN our expressions when we want to communicate in healthy ways. If a person says, "It seems as if LL is being manipulated and being silly and here's why..." I have no problem with that.

  But to make an assertion like the one above speaks for itself.
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  If you aren't part of the SOLUTION you may be the CAUSE of the PROBLEM

  by Terry in

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  2. friends

  this is a forum of people seeking refuge from bullying, taunts, oppression and mind games.. how do you heal such wounds if your own brothers-in-banishment treat you with cold, heartless contempt?.

  it doesn't cost any poster here one shiny penny to be respectful when disagreeing with their wounded comrades.. there is really just no excuse, in my opinion for getting personal.. .

  personal means actually naming a person and referring to them in a way that provokes a defense on their part to a perceived insult.. a general statement such as "the rich" or "the poor" or "democrats" or "republicans" is quite different from a statement about "joe", "mary", "jose" or that places them in a disparaging context.. example: "republicans are racist" is quite different from "joe is racist.

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  BTTT
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  If you aren't part of the SOLUTION you may be the CAUSE of the PROBLEM

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is a forum of people seeking refuge from bullying, taunts, oppression and mind games.. how do you heal such wounds if your own brothers-in-banishment treat you with cold, heartless contempt?.

  it doesn't cost any poster here one shiny penny to be respectful when disagreeing with their wounded comrades.. there is really just no excuse, in my opinion for getting personal.. .

  personal means actually naming a person and referring to them in a way that provokes a defense on their part to a perceived insult.. a general statement such as "the rich" or "the poor" or "democrats" or "republicans" is quite different from a statement about "joe", "mary", "jose" or that places them in a disparaging context.. example: "republicans are racist" is quite different from "joe is racist.

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  Terry you suck I hate this idea and you are a lame poster here and your breath stinks also...

  PANKRATION THAT!

  

  (OK JUST KIDDING DUDE YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU RIGHT? Great idea!)
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  MIL letter to my wife

  by AggieNostic in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  background: my wife and i are inactive, we stopped attending in 2005. raised as jws, were pioneers, i was elder etc... .

  our kids are in college, also inactive but are baptised.

  my wife went back to college, getting her degree this month at age 48!

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  Sick sad letter. After examining all these great ideas for a response in hidef and 3D (in my mind lol) I think the best way to win...is not to play the game...

  
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  kurtbethel -- have you heard from our LouBell

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  2. friends

  we are worried about louise.

  have you seen this thread?.

  so tired of life23.

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  Go Team LouBelle!
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  Question about convention speaker procedure

  by JeffT in

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  2. friends

  so i know they have someone monitoring everything that gets said from the platform.

  what happens if the speaker gets way off script?

  for example, one of our fading elders decides to just start saying what he knows.

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  Good solid comments on this topic. I can confirm much of it; when I gave DC parts they monitored all outlines in the chairman's office I watched them doing it, and yes, after my parts they would always bring me back to the chairman's office for a possible de-brief. I never had anything said to me other than "atta boy" myself but I knew of a couple brothers that got talked to about some infraction usually going overtime.
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  New Video On Youtube About Shunning

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2hsoolwac4.

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  @ Flipper - Getting media coverage of WT Shunning is one of the main efforts atm. The video was meant to reach the mainstream populace and press, to educate them about this destructive practice.

  As for buying airtime, I have purchased air for clients before and the cost depends on the area but can be as little as $10 per 30 seconds on small cable channels and as much as tens of thousands on other venues so I doubt that will happen anytime soon. But who knows if people donate and the funds are there it would be great.
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  So tired of life

  by LouBelle in

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  2. friends

  i am so tired of waking up without hope.

  so tired of fighting one more day...i just want it to end as painless as possible.

  i truly don't have the willpower or strength anymore..

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  Loubelle so many of us here are thinknig about you right now...I am near tears thinkikng about the suffering you are going through at the moment.

  I don't know what it's like to be you...But I do know that I like you! I have sent you a PM sis...
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  New Video On Youtube About Shunning

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2hsoolwac4.

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  It's amazing too how many other YouTubers and bloggers are posting about this now...WT Shunning is trending...I love it!
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  Public Awareness of extreme Shunning Practice of the Watchtower.

  by blindnomore in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses practices an inhumane policy of shunning.

  their leaders, the governing body, promote and enforce extreme shunning among their members to the point of cutting off the tie of family bond in the name of jehovah, well, really for the watchtower since no where in the bible promotes such practice.. .

  in the contrast to the watchtower's teaching, the bible teaches love that "covers multitude of sins".

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  Great quote BNM- Thank you!