Olivia Wilde

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  Has anybody seen the movie "The Danish Girl " ?

  by smiddy in

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  i watched it today and i truly enjoyed it .to me it was truly an emotional journey for what this young man went through .. i had tears rolling down my face for half the movie which goes for 2 hours.

  eddie redmayne deserves an oscar for his performance and so does the woman playing his wife alicia vikander , based on a true story.. in my heyday as a witness i probably would have turned it off and banned it from my home .. it`s an amazing journey life takes you after exiting a cult religion .. smiddy.

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  I haven't watched it either but also plan to... also the Revenant is great, I think Leonardo should take the win, it's just awesome the way his acting was in that movie
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  If anyone who decides to have a meetup around LA/Orange County in southern Ca!!!

  by Olivia Wilde in

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  if anyone is up for a meetup in a public place anytime soon around southern california let me know.

  i am not a good organizer of these things but if anyone wants to organize a meetup i am all for it, it can be near disneyland or surroundings!

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  Azor: I will be there, hope others can make it too!!
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  Our fade-gossip-elders calling

  by All for show in

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  looking back we had been fading without even realizing it.

  life happened...and we weren't regular.

  then we woke up and have actively been fading for 9 months.

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  @leaving_quietly: your situation is similar to me but I'm a female, i stop going to FS in June, any calls? Nope, I stopped going to weekly mtg in Oct, any calls, contact from elders? Nope, I rarely attend the WT mtg since Nov, any calls, texts? Nope, nothing, nada.... They just don't care honestly, it's all about performance & show to them, do good, show good or we don't care for you.... now I see how much their "love of sheparding the sheep" really is .... oh but wait!! if they hear a rumor of "wrong doing" they won't hesitate to get a hold of you & harass you to meet with them ASAP... "by their fruits you will know them" .... definitely true....
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  If anyone who decides to have a meetup around LA/Orange County in southern Ca!!!

  by Olivia Wilde in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  if anyone is up for a meetup in a public place anytime soon around southern california let me know.

  i am not a good organizer of these things but if anyone wants to organize a meetup i am all for it, it can be near disneyland or surroundings!

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  Yes the 21st will be great for me & early lunch sounds great!! Thank you azor!
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  If anyone who decides to have a meetup around LA/Orange County in southern Ca!!!

  by Olivia Wilde in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  if anyone is up for a meetup in a public place anytime soon around southern california let me know.

  i am not a good organizer of these things but if anyone wants to organize a meetup i am all for it, it can be near disneyland or surroundings!

  !

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  If anyone is up for a meetup in a public place anytime soon around southern California let me know. I am not a good organizer of these things but if anyone wants to organize a meetup I am all for it, it can be near disneyland or surroundings!!
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  Is it true? Heard a rumor WT postphones Disfellowshipping until further notice!!??

  by Olivia Wilde in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am not sure if it's true but i heard from a good source that wt has given instructions to elders to postponed disfellowshipping members from wrong doing/gross sin until further instructions given by headquarters.

  i heard some jws were just reproved either privately or publically.

  has anyone else heard anything like this recently?

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  KateWild: A elder (who knows TTATT and is slowly fading) who has a high up ranking relative at Bethel. This elder I've known since the late 90s when I was 17 and I just started going to mtgs, he is 3rd generation born in and all his family was in. Very respected elder because the family he came from, he is now about 60s.. He started having doubts with the overlapping generations, if you were in his group at book study he you couldn't go into it without studying or doing research, always into prophecies, facts and logical person. He made sure you came prepared to your book study, he would give us questions to do research for next book study. Ran into him a few months back at the grocery store and I already knew TTATT so I knew how reasonable and logical of a man he is I asked him what he thought about the overlapping generation teachings. That is when I discover he wasn't buying it. So I ran into him again recently.

  That congregation at one point had like 17 elders in it and 8 Ms. for only 110 publishers. We were the only English congregation in a predominate Spanish speaking territory.

  Not sure but it seems they are taking a lighter approach towards sins committed by JWs, elders not quick to DF anymore.
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  Is it true? Heard a rumor WT postphones Disfellowshipping until further notice!!??

  by Olivia Wilde in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am not sure if it's true but i heard from a good source that wt has given instructions to elders to postponed disfellowshipping members from wrong doing/gross sin until further instructions given by headquarters.

  i heard some jws were just reproved either privately or publically.

  has anyone else heard anything like this recently?

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  I am not sure if it's true but I heard from a good source that WT has given instructions to elders to postponed disfellowshipping members from wrong doing/gross sin until further instructions given by headquarters. I heard some JWs were just reproved either privately or publically. Has anyone else heard anything like this recently?
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  WT Mtg "read scriptures" are only to be read by a 1 brother???

  by Olivia Wilde in

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  we had co visit recently & it appears that the co told the elders of the congregation that the scriptures indicated on the wt to be "read" on the watchtower study are only to be read by 1 brother in the entire study.... the elder conducting the watchtower announced that at the wt mtg... i was like what???

  only men?....

  has anyone else had this occur in their congregation?

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  @Dunedain: yes you are correct that's how the WT mtg is conducted, do you remember the WT also having scriptures cited on the paragraphs? Well they are still there but now some say "read Luke 21:8" for i.e. meaning the scripture needs to be read whereas before it was left it up to the conductor to decide which ones he wanted to have read by whoever raises their hand & hrs choses bro/sis or a child... there are other scriptures that don't say "read" & normally the conductor doesn't have anyone read them.... hopefully that makes since.
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  What is the Real Financial Cost of a Circuit Assembly?

  by FairMind in

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  2. friends

  my congregation along with about thirty others attends circuit assemblies at a facility that is owned by the organization (a converted school).

  this building also has a section that serves as a kh for three local congregations.

  i have noticed that when the financial reports are read at the assemblies that the expense (which is not detailed) is always around $4,000.

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  Wow the last assembly we had in summer the expense was 11k it always goes between 11,000- 13,0000 per day, we are usually 2300 in attendance, i also don't understand why soo much & this last time I noticed a drop in attendance because normally we are around 3300, i wonder if they decreased the # of congregations per circuit now...
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  WT Mtg "read scriptures" are only to be read by a 1 brother???

  by Olivia Wilde in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we had co visit recently & it appears that the co told the elders of the congregation that the scriptures indicated on the wt to be "read" on the watchtower study are only to be read by 1 brother in the entire study.... the elder conducting the watchtower announced that at the wt mtg... i was like what???

  only men?....

  has anyone else had this occur in their congregation?

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  Divergent: yes I thought it was good to have different readers just because it's just not males doing it, i wonder if this is another case of woman not have much of a role... don't think it even makes sense in their 144k doctrine either since it's made up of male & woman & only bros have a final say?? Crazy changes it finally got caught up at our hall now