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  Jw meeting locator

  by Done in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was born in and a jw for about 40 years, most of it in the same state.

  im getting ready to move about an hour away and typed in my possible new zip code to the meeting locator to see who of my past contacts i will possibly run into.. when the locator gives you the list of nearest congos, is congo "a" the one that your address would be "assigned" to?

  the congo that works your territory?

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  Still shows the same location in the same order for me.

  Almost done with step one of the move. Took a few days off work to finish up.

  Amazing how much healthier, happier, wealthier i am since leaving the org and a bad marriage. This move is adding to it too. Kind of feels good knowing i probably wont even see anyone from this congo anymore. Small town, i see them at the post office with the cart every Saturday - changed when i get my mail. Pass someone in traffic - get this awefull ugh feeling. Drive by the hall or someone's house and ask myself why i waited so long to leave. All the constant reminders wil be gone. Chapter closed, no, book closed. Next.
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  Dietary Quirks Among JWs

  by millie210 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i recently had to accompany an older family member out of state to a family reunion.

  it was a big reunion and not much was overtly made of the fact that i am "misguided" and not attending meetings (lost soul that i am) which was nice.

  the thing i noticed that i was most struck by was all the dietary quirks in evidence during our 3 days together.

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  Mid 90s i was hosting the co and wife for midweek lunch. Got the 'special' diet list of the wife. Not only was it a special diet it listed what she wanted for lunch each day. I made exactly what she wanted. Co, wife, one elder and his wife show up for lunch. Co wife walks in a declares she doesnt want what was on the list, but changed her mind and wanted something else - that was on her unable to eat list!!!!!!!

  Elders wife and i are in the kitchen, she can clearly see the WTF look on my face. Spent hours shopping for and preparing exactly what she wanted and she changed her mind that morning. Elders wife told me, dont worry, it happens all the time, I'll make her something else....
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  Grounds for divorce and other questions

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  doing research for my book.

  since i no longer have any of of the watchtower bible and truck society publications.

  1. was it true (and believe it was) that in the nineteen sixties that even if one of the marriage mates was a homosexual that this was not concerned grounds for divorce?.

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  Phsical abuse is grounds for seperation on paper only.

  Seperate from your wife because she was violent (police called and charges pressed and convicted) and you will be taken in the back room and told how wrong your separation is.

  Seperate a second time from your violent wife because you feared for you life and locked yourself in the garage and she busted thru the door with a 10lb sledge hammer because she was 'going to make you see things my way' and you will get called into the back room with the violent person you are seperated from and told how wrong you are for seperating and how you make her behave violently and 'what is your problem '

  Sure, on paper violence is grounds for separation but get the local elders to remember that.

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  Looking back, i guess it work out ok for me. I left the org, filed for divorce. She made all kinds of accusations to anyone who would listen. Brought her new boyfriend to the next CA even before the divorce was complete. 3 months after the divorce was remarried and df'd. IDK why but can probably assume its the getting remarried without being scripturally free to remary - adultry. So now im free to remarry both legally and (not that it matters) scripturally.
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  October 1, 2017 TO ALL BOE IN NIGERIA Re: Local Needs For the Week of October 16-22

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  october 1, 2017 to all bodies of elders in nigeria re: local needs for the week of october 16-22.

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  The first sentence seems off to me.

  The letter doesnt seem like the normal letter or wording vs anything ive seen or heard in about 40 years in
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  GB Private Gazebo @ Warwick - Someone Proposed There & It Didn't Go Well...

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  at warwick there is a gazebo overlooking the lake.

  it's a nice peaceful setting.

  well someone had the bright idea they were going to propose while they were at warwick.

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  Private meetings weekly in an outdoor gazebo?

  Sounds like a perfect opportunity to setup a long range mic in some nearby tree and press record
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  Tutorial for Making Donations Electronically

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  tutorial for making donations electronically video will be considered the week of october 16, 2017.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_z32hlqw-0.

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  WTF!

  How many people need to know how to use a website!
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  The JW Fake News Engine

  by snugglebunny in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  apparently i'd been in prison, gone to wife-swapping parties and consorted with fortune tellers.

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  i guess they have to demonise those who leave less others too are tempted to stray.. what did they say about you?.

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  Got to think its something pretty bad. No elder visits in over a year, and only 2 in the first 1.5 years. Saw a sister at the grocery store, she wouldn't make eye contact and scurried away as fast as possible, not a word said.

  It been nice. I should get some more rumors going
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  Planning Your Exit

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  did you have a plan to leave the organization?

  i did.

  it took a couple of years but we did leave and never had a desire to go back!.

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  I knew for a few years I needed out. Didn't know what to do, just knew I needed out. Then a former jw I knew from childhood confided in me she was molested during teen years by someone still a jw, and had reported it to the elders and nothing happened. Combine that with my mutiple reports about a violent wife (now ex) and that was my last meeting. A couple months later a family member who never liked jws was going to be traveling for a month and offered to let me stay there while they were gone. I now had a safe exit from the wife and a month or more to breathe and plan the next steps.
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  Has Watchtower been hacked?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  "there are two kinds of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that have been hacked and don't yet know it.

  " robert hackett, fortune.

  but how about watchtower?

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  I remember hearing something about 3 seperate layers of security, or 3 seperate firewalls or something and that the first layer had been breached but not any further. Proof of jahs blessing and protection.

  It was coming from a bro with bethel connections, but he was also technologically challenged.
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  Jw meeting locator

  by Done in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was born in and a jw for about 40 years, most of it in the same state.

  im getting ready to move about an hour away and typed in my possible new zip code to the meeting locator to see who of my past contacts i will possibly run into.. when the locator gives you the list of nearest congos, is congo "a" the one that your address would be "assigned" to?

  the congo that works your territory?

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  Tablet. Moving to zip code 48848