Wonderful post SIAM,
I find it especially telling that none of the JWs in your hotel felt inclined at all to "share" their marvelous religion with you.
millie210
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My thoughts on the shunning part at the convention
by stuckinamovement inthe wts has gone off the rails and is "unrepentantly" hateful.
they are blatantly requiring mothers and fathers to disown/hate their own children that they have loved and cared for since birth simply because they don't comply with the orgs demands.
how is this love?
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It's now okay to applaud when someone is reinstated?
by eyeuse2badub inanyone else notice that in the video where the sister was reinstated after many years of freedom, that the congregation applauded at the announcement of her reinstatement?
it been a few years since i was an elder, but when i was, we were instructed by the co that it was "not appropriate" to applaud when the announcement of a reinstatement is made from the platform.
his words, "because the one being reinstated is only doing what they should be doing!".
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millie210
I know DF announcements used to not be made during a C.O.s visit.
How about reinstatements?
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It's now okay to applaud when someone is reinstated?
by eyeuse2badub inanyone else notice that in the video where the sister was reinstated after many years of freedom, that the congregation applauded at the announcement of her reinstatement?
it been a few years since i was an elder, but when i was, we were instructed by the co that it was "not appropriate" to applaud when the announcement of a reinstatement is made from the platform.
his words, "because the one being reinstated is only doing what they should be doing!".
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millie210
I swear, a JW should invent an app for all the flip flops over tiny little rules like this.
Then a good Jw would know what they are allowed to do and not do this month.
And did they really write an article giving permission for spontaneous clapping?
Sadly and surreally, yes they did.
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Detroit TV station expose' on JWs
by Emma inhere's a link to a brief but good, four-minute piece on jehovah's witnesses.
wdiv in detroit filmed it.
there's a place for comments so please add helpful info.
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millie210
Saving to watch the link....
Thanks Emma!
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Feeling Sad After Uncovering TTATT
by pale.emperor inmy initial pangs of unease and doubt led me to research some things.
well, a lot of things really.
i've never felt comfortable using the bible to try to calculate dates (1914).
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millie210
This is the hardest part. It wont get any worse as far as feelings than it is for you right now.
Its like learning the most valuable things are lies. Lots of underpinnings in your psyche falling away.
There is life after this stage for sure. We are all in various ways, proof of that.
How you proceed and how you frame this out is up to you, It is within your control.
I can say that if you are still grieving give yourself time.
A slow deliberate fade is working for me as far as not losing people I value in the Org.
A couple are even making their own way out.
My plan is to get as many family members out as I can and each Bible study that got baptized because of me is going to have a hand of help extended by me. If they want to accept it, I will help them.
hugs Pale.
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"It's Like North Korea..."
by pale.emperor in"it's like north korea..." is a phrase i use often to describe this life to outsiders.
think of the situation in north korea, sound similar?
in north korea:.
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millie210
Can you wear what you want in N. Korea? Grow a beard?
Perhaps N. Korea is more lenient...
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millie210
I noticed that they clapped too when the reinstatement was read.
Remember when that was a no no? And now its ok?
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Article: Witnesses Portfolio ‘Better Maintained Than The White House.’
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://www.bisnow.com/new-york/news/commercial-real-estate/what-makes-the-jehovahs-witnesses-portfolio-special-and-what-the-latest-property-to-hit-the-market-could-become-60632 .
“i’ve never seen any properties kept in better shape,” tim says.
“anyone who buys them will be happy that they did and they won’t need to spend a dime on upgrades to infrastructure.” tim, who tells us he attended a breakfast at the white house about a decade ago, goes as far as to say the buildings are better maintained than the presidential residence..
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Prince and addictive drugs…a possible loophole?
by Londo111 inaccording to the elder's rulebook, there is this addendum in the chapter on the grounds for judicial committee and the section: "misuse of addictive drugs":.
please note: the use of addictive drugs under medical supervision, such as for pain management, would not necessarily require judicial review.
when questions arise, consult with the branch office.. .
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millie210
Hi, nonjwspouse!
I agree!
Yes that rule for pilots has changed for the reasons you mentioned above., it was ruled archaic and now pilots can take what they need to have.
I only have one area where I feel strongly on this and that is when an elder goes in to a back room and sits in judgement on a young person (or any person).
They dont need their lives altered in any way by someone who is struggling in their own life, or whose mental clarity is impaired by a medications side effects or the impairment of needing a medication that they are not taking.
This dilemma, cuts both ways.
Just one more way we know for sure that there is no "holy spirit" attending these meetings.
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"Where Is Jehovah In All of This?" My Wife, July of '93
by TMS inthe title above is a question asked by my wife seemingly hundreds of times in 1993, the year our only child was disfellowshipped.
the entire story exceeds the reasonable limits of this forum and i have to suppress the urge to write it.
instead, i will give little snippets, what a certain elder said at this or that point, how jehovah's organization treated us, how we handled our gradual awakening to, yes, "the truth about the truth.
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millie210
There is nothing that can rip your heart out faster than helplessly watching a young person man handled by a judicial committee.
When that young person is "your" young person, it becomes the biggest nightmare a parent can experience.
There are most definitely some of us here that will see ourselves in your words and your experience I am sure.
Your wifes question was very heartfelt and poignant to read.