millie210
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3 words to describe.....
by punkofnice in..your experience with the watchtower corporation:.
i'll start...... bully boy elders.
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Special Pioneer Sister-in-Law and Husband just got their letter.
by cappytan inwell, my sister-in-law and her husband, special pioneers for only a couple of years, just got their letter.. her comment was along the lines of, "they're having to do this because they forgave all those kingdom hall loans a few years ago and the brothers aren't donating anymore.".
when my wife told me, i laughed so hard i farted.
;).
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millie210
Cappy, does she know about that big huge building they just bought near Walkill?
I wonder what she would think then?
Your post was so funny...thanks for the laugh!!!
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The Tale Of River Song
by River Song inhello all, thanks for all the warm welcomes this weekend.
there was some interest in my origins story so here goes.. i am a born in, never baptised.
my parents were immigrants who knew no one in a new town in a new country when they got love bombed into the cult.
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millie210
Hi River,
You were so smart when you were a teenager. Good for you and thanks for sharing your story.
Its nice to meet you!
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10 reasons why you should never have a religion
by tornapart ini found this great article.
it's rather long but a good read for anyone interested.
the 10 bullet points are:-.
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millie210
I liked it!
Does that make me an atheist? :relaxed:
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Heroes
by done4good inin jw land having such was verboten.
who are some of yours and why?.
1. nikola tesla - greatest inventor ever, and the only one i know of who was a true scientist as well.. 2. elon musk - there is a reason he chose the great inventor's name for his masterpiece work...also has a serious pair.... 3. jim morrison - brilliant and mad poet.. 4. mike krzyzewski - the epitome of success.. 5. maya angelou - brilliant humanistic poet and writer.. 6. albert einstein - do i actually have to qualify this?.
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millie210
I like the quiet heros, the ones that live on anyones street.
The ones that make you glad you know they are out there.
Great thread done4good.
I will go and think awhile about a hero anyone here might know and be back!
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CO Comes Up With A New Way To Be Judgemental...
by JW_Rogue inat the latest co visit something very strange happened.
during the meeting with the elders and servants he passed out a copy of a hypothetical publisher card and asked us what we could learn from it.
upon receiving it i saw that the average hours were pretty good, it had return visits and quite a few bible studies.
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millie210
Jw_Rogue, was this done at an elders meeting or a general meeting with publishers there?
Either way, its tacky and manipulative. I was just curious!
I had to laugh when I read this statement below- so true!
ZAPPA-ESQUE
So the "lay-it-on- heavy approach is making another orbit - -
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Breaking Heart Needs Help
by thankyou inwas happily married many yrs unconditional love till wife went heaven yr n half ago.
3 mos ago sun morn.
when i once asked her if she been abused, cause seems like it, she didn't ans just hung her head.
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millie210
Hi new poster thankyou,
It sounds like your connection to this woman was immediate and intense.
I can see that you are very sad and confused. You have really been through a lot emotionally lately with the death of your wife and now this. It looks like your emotions have been on a roller coaster that you didnt ask for or plan on.
If what you are seeking here is information on this woman, you probably wont find it here, People here are anonymous (like your posting name "thankyou").
If what you are hoping to find here is information about Jehovahs Witnesses and what they teach people and what their rules are, then you have come to the right place.
Im sorry you are hurting and I hope you enjoy your time at this forum.
Welcome and glad to have you here.
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jdub legal page
by pbrow inwas just checking out the jdub website and came across their "legal developements and human rights" page.. http://www.jw.org/en/news/legal/.
notice the glaring absence of one paticular kind of "legal developements"?
pbrow.
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millie210
Their web page is designed in North Korea. -
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Something interesting!
by John Aquila ini was invited to a small get-together by a long time friend.
we both served as elders for years.
he is in his late 70s.
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millie210
jwleaks
There is also a group in Australia, same age (generation), partakers of the emblems, that feel the same way and operate similarly.
Earlier this year they sent a representative to Brooklyn to resolve certain doctrinal issues with the governing body.Very interesting. What was the end result of that meeting?
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The writing department
by tornapart ini don't go to many meetings now.
i still feel the need to go every now and again for my husband's sake.
i usually go on a sunday, maybe once a month or so and i look at the wt article under discussion to see if i can stomach it before i go, a lot of the time i feel i just can't do it.
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millie210
There was a Sunday study article a year or so back (when I was still going) that made a point about the need to recognize how very hard it is on some to make meetings or to do anything at all spiritually speaking.
The article said to just make a meeting can be more of an effort for some than pioneering for someone who has better circumstances.
It also said to look at the efforts of others in that light.
I sat there thinking, amen! Of course the reason it was "hard" for me was because I had just had enough of the rhetoric and the spinning but still, they had the part about it being hard to be there right!
As it turns out, that was my last Sunday appearance at a Kingdom Hall. I left that day thinking that they had made a good point in that study article but it was really too little too late in my case.
Besides, for every one thing they say that borders on kind or "normal" there are at least 3 xs as many articles written in such a way that it makes you want to slap your forehead in disbelief.
I feel for you tornapart. I held on as long as I could too. Some of us have a lot to weigh out family wise, thats for sure!