Well the nice little nugget in all of this is the JWs have reinforced whatever doubts the woman had after her online doubt came up.
She got out in the nick of time and there is always another place to live.
millie210
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Is this something new?
by Butyoucanneverleave injust heard from a friend who keeps in touch with the jw's.
a person who has been studying found out some things on line about the witnesses and decided to not get baptized and stopped attending the meetings.
she lives with a witness.
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Another one bites the dust
by stillin ina close-by young brother, actually your basic, garden-variety, sexually-repressed, 40-year old virgin in the congregation has been charged with sexual misconduct with a minor.
i've known this guy since he was a kid and he has always been strange, in a nerdy kind of way.
he always wants to sound knowledgeable and wise when he comments at meetings, but i think he is bi-polar and depressed about who he is in life.
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millie210
Ah...my apologies. The article linked in this thread is about a different person then I am assuming?
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Another one bites the dust
by stillin ina close-by young brother, actually your basic, garden-variety, sexually-repressed, 40-year old virgin in the congregation has been charged with sexual misconduct with a minor.
i've known this guy since he was a kid and he has always been strange, in a nerdy kind of way.
he always wants to sound knowledgeable and wise when he comments at meetings, but i think he is bi-polar and depressed about who he is in life.
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millie210
Thank you for sharing this local experience stillin.
I don't think you sound like your sympathies are with the man being charged. Rather, it sounds like you are trying to examine all the factors in his life that could have led up to where things are now.
In my area of the world, we define a pedophile as one who has a sexual interest in pre-pubescent children.
This man was accused of sexual assault on a minor. I am thinking that would be someone under the age of 18?
A different category of offender.
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As a JW Did You Prefer a “Stricter” Congregation or a More Liberal One?
by minimus inin my experience, there were three types of witnesses.
some were barely witnesses while others were extremely conservative types who followed the letter of the law.
and then you had those in the middle who just went with the flow.. i knew many witnesses who “felt safe” being in a stricter environment.they were actually proud that they belonged to such and such congregation because it was filled with strict bethelites..
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millie210
Even the liberal JWs are stricter than life needs to be but interestingly enough, I was in a stricter congo and preferred it.
The liberal congregation in the next town over was looked down on circuit wide. I think the JW leadership encourages that kind of congregation snobbery. People get a kick out of trying to "outrighteous" one another.
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I finally did it
by paradiseseeker init's done.. during the last month i've been talking with my closest friends about leaving the org and yesterday i finally talked with my parents.. it's been almost 5 months after i said that i would do it, but i think that this extra time has been beneficial.
i've said several times that i would opt for sending a resignation letter, but after talking to my best friends some of them suggested me becoming inactive and blocking my congregation's elders.
i've changed my mind and i will do that because the people that i care the most now know what's going on so they won't be worrying about me not attending the meetings.
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millie210
Good for you!
Everyone has said all the things above I would say so just know that I am happy for you. If you have any minor set backs just come here and get advice from people who care about you for all the right reasons.
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2019 Shepherd The Flock Of God and More!
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https://we.tl/t-rex13nnhax atlantis!
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millie210
Isn't it wonderful that they advise a woman with PPH (postpartum hemorrhage) to have a hysterectomy rather than take a blood transfusion that would leave her and her life intact?
Wonder what the genius governing body would say if their options were remove a testicle or take a pint of blood?
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New Kingdom Hall at Flowery Branch, Georgia USA
by darkspilver inexternal photos have previously been posted here.
4442 j m turk road, flowery branch ga 30542. from the gainesville times:.
jehovah's witnesses open new kingdom hall in flowery branch.
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millie210
Remember when there was a quick build almost every weekend?
Now when someplace named "Flowery" gets a hall it makes the news and we even start a thread about it!
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See you in a couple weeks
by Biahi inleaving today for rome, and then a mediterranean cruise.
will not be online, i will miss you all.
hopefully, when i get back, the wt will have declared bankruptcy.
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millie210
Have an epic trip!
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leonard cohen
by peacefulpete ini admit i have a soft spot for leonard cohen's music.
i had a customer come in who sings for funerals, he just told me his most requested is cohen's "hallelujah".
a good friend used to sing it at christmas in her church!
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millie210
I love Leonard Cohen's music - that song (Hallelujah) especially.
I think in its original form it has many verses that are not commonly sung.
It's a hard song to sing and not very many can really do it justice.
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Annual Meeting
by Lynnie inmy uber cousin and wife are going back to wallkill this weekend for the annual meeting since they have a daughter and son in law in the inner sanctum so they are always invited.
cousin said it was going to be broadcast from patterson to wallkill.
anyone hear anything else about subject matter etc?.
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millie210
I forgot it was that time of year!
Check your socks everyone!