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  I Was Told That The Elders Have Not Gone After Me Because They Hope I Will Return!

  by minimus in

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  the elders told my mom they obviously could have come after me but are holding hope that i will return to jehovah and be reunited to the congregation.. isnt that nice?.

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  millie210

  minimus
  I have always kept a low public profile. I understand the mentality.

  Words of wisdom. I am trying to do this myself.
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  New letter, re: Fully Utilizing Kingdom Hall Auditoriums

  by suavojr in

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  let the merging begin!!!.

  to all bodies of elders in the united states branch territory.

  re: fully utilizing kingdom hall auditoriums.

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  millie210

  For the past while it seemed like the Org wanted to keep dividing the Halls. We were told locally that the criteria was 100-140 pubs/10 elders = divide.

  This was the C.O.s advice. They split our Hall but there was a lot of input by certain elders and their families and wanting to be with their friends so even though the numbers looked even the weight bearing members were not.

  Both Halls started out with 70 pubs, 5 elders, 7 pioneers.

  Now, one Hall is down to about 40 pubs and they have removed some elders and others have left supposedly to do other things where the need is "greater" rather than stick with that dead horse.

  The other Hall is dwindling more slowly but dwindling...it has the nit picky elders who are slowly driving folks away. There are probably less half the pioneers that there were before the split, 3 in one Hall and 4 in another.
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  I Was Told That The Elders Have Not Gone After Me Because They Hope I Will Return!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the elders told my mom they obviously could have come after me but are holding hope that i will return to jehovah and be reunited to the congregation.. isnt that nice?.

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  millie210

  What would they "go after" you for?

  I realize this could be anything from something you actually did that was none of their business to something they have invented.

  Just curious what is in their minds and what they are saying to your mother.
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  Just two weeks in our new home and the knock at the door happens!!

  by truthseekeriam in

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  just relaxing with my morning coffee enjoying looking at the pictures fipper shared of the camping trip when the dreaded knock came.

  of course the dogs beat me to the door followed by my daughter trying to catch them, she looks through the giant peep hole and waves me away saying "its them.

  " i almost just walked away from the door when i saw the sweet face of a 5/6 year old little boy with his mom and dad and couldn't resist talking to them.. i opened the door and smiled and said jehovah's witnesses?

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  millie210

  Wow you really made your point and you did so with dignity and class.

  Great job!
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  New letter, re: Fully Utilizing Kingdom Hall Auditoriums

  by suavojr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  let the merging begin!!!.

  to all bodies of elders in the united states branch territory.

  re: fully utilizing kingdom hall auditoriums.

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  millie210

  From the letter:

  Could a congregation relocate to an auditorium with sufficient parking and seating?

  
  

  Sufficient parking and seating is a trying to cast a positive light on not enough people

  Is their writing getting more transparent or do I just see it now? Thiey are so obvious in the spin, trying to make it sound like a positive.

  What is really being said:

  Could a congregation that has shrunk relocate to another small congregation since there is obviously plenty of room for parking and seating?
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  How I feel

  by wellshii in

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  heres a something i hope you feel,.

  i hope he hears when we kneel,.

  i hope this life isn't the real deal,.

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  millie210

  Nicely done and welcome!
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  Creative Ways To Get DFed For "Brazen Conduct"

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. social
  2. humour

  okay, so here's the idea let's try come up with some creative ways to get dfed under the new "brazen conduct" rule.

  i'll start:.

  continuously schedule get togethers at your house on the same night as the meeting, invite the entire congregation and see who shows up.. go to the memorial and drink the entire glass of wine but don't eat the bread.. regularly go to nude beaches and tell people that's what adam and eve would do.. get a jw.org tattoo on your neck and tell people you count hours anytime somebody sees it.. when a preteen brother or sister gets baptized tell them they are also ready to start driving.

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  millie210

  Stay in the C.O.s apartment while he is gone on his personal 2 week paid vacation that they all get,

  Sleep in his cushy bed, use his wireless, eat all the donated food in the fridge.

  When they come to arrest you for breaking and entering - tell them you built it and you paid for it so you dont see the problem.
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  Disfellowshipping Votes

  by sloppyjoe2 in

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  for current and former elders.. when sitting on a judicial committee, was a unanimous vote required in order to df?

  if the answer to above is "no", what happened when 2 were for df and one wasn't?

  what happened when 1 was for df and 2 werent?.

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  millie210

  Not only their democracy Vidiot, they are also the weirdest in their nepotism, their exclusivity and their (cough, cough) "theocracy".

  Come to think of it, in what line of thought are they not weird?
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  Article on the JWs in The Guardian

  by scotsman in

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  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/14/jehovahs-witnesses-evangelism-church-god-armageddon.

  poor jane schofield, she was rather fabulous..

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  millie210

  “We’re very ahead with technology,” says O’Malley, pulling up today’s set scripture on his smartphone. Later, he says: “We’re like Google – we’ve mapped the world.”

  Since they were very late in the game to take advantage of already existing technology how can they even think this???
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  My introduction and confession

  by elderINewton in

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  2. friends

  well another big bad elder here just wanting to say sorry.. i'm sorry that so many were treated like crap, and shown that god's love is not to be found around jehovah's witnesses.

  i'm sorry that inadvertently i've likely taught many to judge and as such see that racism permeates every corner of the jw world, else why else would someone be of the world, or even inactive.

  i'm sorry i sat in on a jc, and voted to df.

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  millie210

  Do what you need to do and keep reading and posting here while you do it.

  This place can help you stay sand and realize it is NOT you that has the problem.

  Thanks for saying your sorry for things done as an elder. You sound like one of the good guys.