Posts by millie210

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Vomit inducing JW Broadcasting Music Video

by sieborg in

sorry in advance if you have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay5of0nxm44.

do not know how to put in a direct link.

millie210

So spend your time out in field service and then one day at an assembly a brother pushing a broom will spy a sister bundling trash and its true love?

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What TV shows were forbidden in your JW household?

by Funchback in

in the u.s., three's company was not allowed.

it was explained to me that it was an immoral show because a man and women lived together and no one was married.

the sister who gave this observation was a family friend and we were newbies to the religion.. at least i somehow managed to watch the benny hill show undetected..

millie210

Does anyone remember ET being mentioned in an Awake?

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What TV shows were forbidden in your JW household?

by Funchback in

in the u.s., three's company was not allowed.

it was explained to me that it was an immoral show because a man and women lived together and no one was married.

the sister who gave this observation was a family friend and we were newbies to the religion.. at least i somehow managed to watch the benny hill show undetected..

millie210

All of the above

and yet?

The Flying Nun was OK.

Go figure

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i was just reading through some posts and had a startling realization.. the comment that sparked this went something like this: why oh why when i started into this in 1989 did i not research the history of the wtbts?

etc....... i too was studying and moving towards baptism around that same time.

i got dunked in dec of 1990.. my thought.

millie210

And yet there is still no hard copy translation of the new Bible in the Spanish language?

Doesnt seem like a good way to take care of your most viable constituents.

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Saturday Morning Vibes

by freemindfade in

its saturday morning here on the east coast of america.

i haven't been out in service in probably getting close to two years.

i wake up every saturday extremely happy and thankful im not getting up to go f-ck up my morning and my neighbors morning, not today, not ever again.

millie210

I love reading all the comments and have savored Saturdays just like the ones you are all describing.

As I sit here on this sunny Sunday morning, I just wanted to add that this thread applies to Sundays also, doesnt it?

17

Intro

by hillfy333 in

hi, although i signed up two years ago, and filled out the "interview with an apostate" as hillfy54321, i have since only read various posts.

then purchased a new computer and lost my password, thus no new posts.

i have since reapplied, and now go under the handle of hillfy 333.. a little about myself.

millie210

Hi hilfy,

Your much more well read in your exit than I am but your story really resonates with me. A born in finding their way out finally.

Circumstances within the Org are actually conspiring with you to help your wife feel able to leave.

There is an apathy and disorganized feel within that is helping its members become more feeble and detached.

Really good to meet you!

40

Who Picks The Governing Body?

by millie210 in

hey everyone,.

just a simple straight forward question on exactly what the process is.

if a gb member died tomorrow, do the remaining ones choose who gets to be next?.

millie210

A look at how things got to where they are now...

The 1970 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses noted that the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania was the organization used to plan the activity of Jehovah's Witnesses and provide them with "spiritual food", then declared: "So really the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses is the board of directors of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania.

The Watchtower of December 15, 1971 was the first to unambiguously capitalize the term "Governing Body of Jehovah's witnesses" as the defined group leading the religion, with a series of articles explaining its role and its relationship with the Watch Tower Society.

After its formal establishment in 1971, the Governing Body met regularly but, according to Raymond Franz, only briefly; Franz claims meetings were sometimes as short as seven minutes.

The Governing Body voted in December 1975 to establish six operating committees to oversee the various administrative requirement of the organization's worldwide activities that formerly had been under the direction of the president; furthermore, each branch overseer was to be replaced by a branch committee of at least three members.

The change, which took effect on January 1, 1976, was described in the Watch Tower Society's 1993 history book, Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom, as "one of the most significant organizational readjustments in the modern-day history of Jehovah's Witnesses.

In 1980, dissent arose among members of the Governing Body regarding the significance of 1914 in Jehovah's Witnesses' doctrines.

Consequently, dissenting members were expelled from the Brooklyn headquarters staff in the same year.

In his 1997 study of the religion, Penton concluded that since Raymond Franz's expulsion in 1980, the Governing Body displayed an increased level of conservatism, sturdy resistance to changes of policy and doctrines, and an increased tendency to isolate dissidents within the organization by means of disfellowshipping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governing_Body_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses

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Hello Everybody

by Thomas the Bill Engine in

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friends

i didn't see an introduction forum anywhere but i thought it would be weird to start posting without first introducing myself so, here we are.

i'm 15, and i've been looking for a place to discuss my thoughts on the religion that i'm pretty much stuck in at the moment.

my mom and dad divorced over their different beliefs over a year ago (my mom is jw and my dad is an very knowledgeable apostate, so you can see how they would fight over it), and since then i've stopped believing altogether.. just thought i'd say hello.

millie210

Hi Thomas, nice to meet you!

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Who Picks The Governing Body?

by millie210 in

hey everyone,.

just a simple straight forward question on exactly what the process is.

if a gb member died tomorrow, do the remaining ones choose who gets to be next?.

millie210

I had heard that before Clarity but didnt have names to put to the scenario so thank you for that.

I am starting a document of things I want to keep for that fun day when I talk to my brother (hes a missionary with the extremely narrow range of thinking that you would expect to go along with that) and try to make my case.

I am not rushing it. I want to be prepared.

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Got in a bad wreck.....uuugh

by brandnew in

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friends

just happy to be alive....can barely move ☺.. a girl who just got her license , and a new suv....thought it might be cool to pass the person in front of her....at a curve......on a two way road!!!!!😠😠😠.

very mad puppy.

millie210

I signed off last night and you were headed to the E.R. !!

So.......coffee in hand, this was my first stop this morning to see how that went for you.

I am glad you are home...being sent home is good.

The funny thing about your type of accident is the bangs and bruises (and hematomas) are MORE painful than a simple broken bone.

remember...rest, ice, elevation, whiskey.....

I added the last one ...(FYI)