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  Funny News From My Old Congragation - Elder Fight!

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
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  i haven't stopped laughing since i heard this.

  a pimo in my last congregation told me that an elder has been removed from his elder position.

  apparently he grabbed another elder by the throat, put him up against a wall in the back room and punched him in on the nose... during an elders meeting on thursday evening after the meeting.. the congregation were running round like headless chickens wondering what to do?

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  An elders (P.O.) wife and daughter, due to nerves, would rarely do KMS items or answer up. One elder didn’t like this decided to ask them from the platform to read a verse ..... it was awkward and intentional. “Maybe sister X would like to read this .....” after the meeting those two elders were eye to eye down the front of the hall shouting at each other. It was embarrassing.

  I have never met an elder who acted like he had the lives of 100 people in his care, it matters because it means they never REALLY believed they did. That’s not how you behave or treat each other if you believe that.
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  Can anyone name a single incident when bethel has fed the poor ever ?

  by Chook in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  charity is lacking from the house of god.

  i remember reading once about some young pioneer sisters who needed emergency accommodation and where turn away from brooklyn because they weren’t special pioneers.

  charity begins at home..

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  Every bethel meal ......
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  Big Questions

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  big questionslook at the entire history of humanity on earth and ask:"what is it people really want?

  "on the flip side: "what is it which keeps holding us back?

  "______no matter how bad or good our life is at any one moment we can imagine a better life.we can imagine a place "over there" greener, more beautiful, with rivers of purest water; a land of milk and honey.but wait--before you turn away with a yawn.... one more thing.. that gap--that space--between here and there, demands of us an irresistible passion to cross over.. we seek: a better life.. we find a "bridge" to buy which promises us a guarantee: whether it is god or utopia or diet and meditation--we each, in our own way, find: the answer.. the lowest form of human consciousness?.

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  Of course I read it carefully.

  Are you not conscious when your genetics tell you to eat, to sleep, to love, to protect, to care for..... this is genetics in action, conscious and very deliberate in its guidance for survival.
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  Big Questions

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  big questionslook at the entire history of humanity on earth and ask:"what is it people really want?

  "on the flip side: "what is it which keeps holding us back?

  "______no matter how bad or good our life is at any one moment we can imagine a better life.we can imagine a place "over there" greener, more beautiful, with rivers of purest water; a land of milk and honey.but wait--before you turn away with a yawn.... one more thing.. that gap--that space--between here and there, demands of us an irresistible passion to cross over.. we seek: a better life.. we find a "bridge" to buy which promises us a guarantee: whether it is god or utopia or diet and meditation--we each, in our own way, find: the answer.. the lowest form of human consciousness?.

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  If you don’t think you have ever been motivated by genetics to do anything....

  Then I’m out of this conversation, because current human knowledge says otherwise, has evidence for otherwise and a logical explanation as to how and why.

  Deal wit the material before you consider the ethereal.
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  Motorcycle talk: run what you brung

  by _Morpheus in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  so i saw vander posted a pic of himself on his bike and recently pm’d with another member who rides (i will let him speak for himself if he wishes) and it seems like a thing for some of us, so... whatcha got?

  post a pic of your ride.....

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  CBR 600F ..... rebuilt by me (broken by me)

  i miss her 😭

  
  
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  Big Questions

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  big questionslook at the entire history of humanity on earth and ask:"what is it people really want?

  "on the flip side: "what is it which keeps holding us back?

  "______no matter how bad or good our life is at any one moment we can imagine a better life.we can imagine a place "over there" greener, more beautiful, with rivers of purest water; a land of milk and honey.but wait--before you turn away with a yawn.... one more thing.. that gap--that space--between here and there, demands of us an irresistible passion to cross over.. we seek: a better life.. we find a "bridge" to buy which promises us a guarantee: whether it is god or utopia or diet and meditation--we each, in our own way, find: the answer.. the lowest form of human consciousness?.

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  What does everyone want? To pass on their genetics to the next generation.

  what holds us back? Competition and comparison of self with others.

  Thats all.
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  $5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.

  it was sold a couple of years ago.

  we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.

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  You could always send repeated freedom of information requests to see how the money was transferred and spent.

  They can’t punish you for that, they may try to buy the legal system would be on your side if they did.
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  Fear of Dying

  by SplaneThisToMe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  did anyone else develop a weird fear of dying and death after leaving jw?

  i recently left and have realized for the first time in my life that i’m not going to live forever.

  anyone else have these same feelings toward discovering your own mortality?

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  Try these thoughts ....

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE7_YcNm53M

  and especially these...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE7_YcNm53M
  
  
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  They still manage to find me.

  by blisterfeet in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i grew up a jw, left at about 17 years old..(i'm 33 now) a little over a year ago i moved 1000 miles away from where i grew up.

  today i "ran" into someone in the same congregation as my dad... like how is that even possible?!?!?

  he was very kind, mentioned the borg but only in ways that related to his life.. his daughter is a pioneer, my dad gives "the best" comments at the meetings, my sister is awesome.. blah blah blah... .

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  I once sat next to someone in Manchester airport who was also flying to the same country....county.... street.... next door! More that that my relatives owed the neighbouring bungalow and ran it as a B&B.

  We wildly misunderstand and underestimate probability as humans.

  As for the comments I have literally has the exact ones said to me. On finding out I had completed a degree and was in a profession, one ex elder insisted on telling me how well all my relatives were doing in the KH, like it was a competition. I just thought of all the wasted hours, days, weeks, months, years they lost and continue to lose.
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  Keeping Good Records.

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  have you seen this in the news tonight?

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  http://www.dw.com/en/jehovahs-witness-note-taking-challenged-at-eus-top-court/a-42408206.

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  I always felt it was wrong the s-8 forms were stopped to protect WT but we were asked to continue them in our own notebooks, exposing us legally as individuals.

  Then they ignored the repeated tally of RV’s / Bible studies etc without consent,

  They think they are above the law and had a flagrant disregard for data protection...,....unless you abuse children.