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  Girls can't do maths

  by Laika in

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  a story from my days as the accounts servant (not verbatim).

  me: hello, [brother] here's your copy of the money slip for this meeting, i just finished the count.. cong.

  secretary: thanks... who counter signed that there?.

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  and the r&f just accept this kind of thing.
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  Consperiacy or am I seeing things?

  by dogon in

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  2. experiences

  my wifes family has not really kept in contact with her after we left the cult.

  i am the main reason but she never was a strong believer she just went with the flow as to not cause problems.

  she has not heard much from her mother since the death of her brother 3 years ago.

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  my mother gave me a wt a while ago. I flicked through it but realised that it made me feel physically sick. Really!

  What did your wife do with them?
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  Were the JW Judicial Instructional Videos Leaked on Purpose?

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  2. friends

  i am just putting this out there.

  notice how they repeatedly stress that the proceedings are not a trial or legal proceeding?

  is this their way of putting out their position so that they have a legal defense against challenges of those disfellowshipped?

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  maybe protecting the corporation against over zealous elders. or " if theres a problem, your on your own."
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  no Valentiene's Day stress - there is one benefit to being married to a Witness

  by Frazzled UBM in

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  2. beliefs

  but i plan to buy her a gift and a blank card in a week or two to show appreciation to her as wife and mother in substitution for valentine's day and mother's day.

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  Mrs P ( a Catholic) says she isn't bothered about special days, and usually I dont do anything.

  But today, I decided to get a box of chocolates, specially made in a small family business.

  As she will not be expecting anything, that WILL be special, and I will feel good too.

  Enjoy life. jlp
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  Newbee

  by DullBookworm in

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  2. friends

  i have not been a sister for the past 19 years, i asked to be da'd as i had started smoking aged 12 and at 19 no longer wanted people to think badly of the jw's over my conduct.. for 19 years my father, an elder, has tried his damndest to bring me back.

  he kept contact sometimes more, sometimes less, always under the threat to stop the contact alltogether.

  at one point he managed to not speak to me for several months.

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  I find myself asking myself if I could EVER stop talking to my daughter because she smoked? completely unthinkable. Its scarey just what this religion can make people do
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  Newbee

  by DullBookworm in

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  i have not been a sister for the past 19 years, i asked to be da'd as i had started smoking aged 12 and at 19 no longer wanted people to think badly of the jw's over my conduct.. for 19 years my father, an elder, has tried his damndest to bring me back.

  he kept contact sometimes more, sometimes less, always under the threat to stop the contact alltogether.

  at one point he managed to not speak to me for several months.

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  Welcome Bookworm (I'm sure you're not dull).

  Been there too. My mother didnt speak to me for 4 years. It was she that came back to me.

  There's no garantee, of course, that that will be the case for you. But all things are possible.

  Its they who dont have the time ( the end is so close and all that). We do have the time to wait. Be patient with him.

  In the meantime, you'll find a hearing ear at jwn, 24 hours a day.

  jlp
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  Disfellowshipped daughter not told of father's death

  by dozy in

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  2. friends

  my wife was informed by her father that an old jw friend had died so she decided to text his daughter ( who lives abroad & is disfellowshipped ) her condolences.

  immediately the daughter phoned my wife in great anguish as she hadnt been informed that her father had died ( bearing in mind this event had happened 3 days previously.

  ) of course any chance that she might have had for coming over for the funeral had past.. her two brothers are elders and her sister is a regular pioneer but not one of them had thought to let their sister know.

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  Just wondering:

  is there an inheritance involved?
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  Parallels to North Korea

  by ForbiddenFruit in

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  2. beliefs

  no, i'm not just talking about the totalitarian regime that is the organisation.

  i'm talking about how the jw's will fall, and how it links to north korea.

  basically, last night i was watching a documentary on north korea.

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  I have often made this comparison too. A journalist from my country made a documentary there, a few years ago.

  At that time it was next to impossible to speak to North Koreans. They were taught that westerners wanted to harm them: so they ran away.

  They " knew" it was a hard life in their country, but that it was soooo much better than the "outside world".

  I think that information technology is already shaking the Borg. However, I dont think that it will bring it tumbling down.

  There has always been apercentage of people gullible enough to believe anything, without proof. or are maybe

  just too scared to question, because after all, all totalitarian

  powers control people through fear.
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  Awake October 8 1972 False Alarm About "Peace and Security"

  by scotoma in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the watchtower study yesterday made it clear that the cry of peace and security has not occurred yet.. what they don't mention is their false alarm that they falsely pointed to events in 1972 as the cry of peace and security.

  that was 42 years ago.. they did this with a special awake in october of 1972. they devoted the full issue to the subject.

  it rivals the infamous "is it later than you think" special awake of october 8 1968 in its grandiose predictions.. the october 8 issue of awake 1972 is must reading in view of the latest discussion of peace and security.. here are a few exerpts with the grandiose statements in red.

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  thank you for this reminder.

  interesting how they played on the fear of ''all out nuclear war'' which was quite common at that time.

  funny but i'd forgotten all of that. their prohesies really dont stand the test of time.
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  "Is my life now more meaningful, and am I happier?"

  by Julia Orwell in

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  2. friends

  so the question is posed in this week's watchtower study at our former cult's houses of indoctrination.

  i should like to answer it, and i should like to hear your answers too.. the question is in two parts, and i shall address each one in turn.. q. is my life more meaningful?.

  my life is more meaningful.

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  I'm very pleased for you. Enjoy.