Posts by Wakanda

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Happy 20th Birthday to JWD / JWN

by Simon in

as sgt pepper sang, "it was 20 years ago today" ... that i made my first post on my first forum.. i obviously didn't put too much thought into what it should say although i must have burned 45 posts testing things and was too lazy to reset the counter before going live (?):.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/46/welcome.

but somehow, it worked and grew and here we all are, 20 years on.

Wakanda

Thank you Simon! I stay here and have never posted on Reddit because it feels much safer. I feel like you would tell them to piss off in legal terms if they gave you a subpoena. Plus, you don't let us post their little letters, only links.

Anyway, thank you a lot.

I'm pretty sure I landed here when looking for a video when I was PIMI. Wifibandit posted it; I was shocked at the comments on it! Then I saw Eric's secretly recorded judicial as a suggested video. I guess it got my curiosity because it wasn't apostate in my mind, just his judicial being made public. That did it... in a few months.

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Venting: Nah, this isn't a CULT. we will just get dressed up and meet on video

by goingthruthemotions in

it's so pathetic, oh how they believe there so special.

my wife said " this shows alot when the borg stops assemblies" i said it show alot when alot of venues, governments and other religions shut down stuff.

what do i hear......crickets back.

Wakanda

ME TOO.

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Rumor of Religion wanting to contact Inactives

by LongHairGal in

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i saw a post on reddit from somebody claiming to be an elder that the jw religion wants to contact all inactives.. some of the responses indicate that some were contacted or had close friends or relatives being asked for their contact information.

some of these people have been out of the jw religion for many years and have moved on.

the ones contacted said the jw informed them about cancelled meetings (as though they would care).

Wakanda

An elder even mentioned helping in-actives at mtg today, sort of in context of recent events, Hypes people up like, OMG if they are doing that we must really be near the end!

No, if wt does something in their interest, it does not mean we are near the big A.

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Losing job todays WT

by road to nowhere in

the losing jobs and having poor health will be applied for sure in whatever meeting is held.. but i wonder if anyone will connect the middle aged man losing his job and the old and the sick with the way bethelites are treated..

Wakanda

OMG I forgot. Need to bring it up later.

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Are the JWs are doing field service while corona?

by iliketreasure in

hey guys,.

i'm out of the jws for 12 years now and stopped thinking about the whole thing a long time ago.. but recently, i wondered how jws deal with corona?

i've read on the forums that they suspended meetings and tried to hold them online.. but are they still doing field service?.

Wakanda

Well, today the USA branch letter read at the hall with the 10ish people meeting said no more field circus. Finally! I told my family. They tentatively agreed. Then came the praise that Jehovah gives us timely direction.. puke. It was men giving LATE direction!!! Also, they said to limit meeting together to 10 or less, but NO direction on social distancing, So, I am sure the DIE hards will be meeting in homes for field circus, etc. I hope to find out next week if that couple go to that studies' house again. OMG. They proudly announced how many were in attendance on the phone and in person and it was about 40 more than normal. They are going bonkers, and yes some POMIs are "returning to Jokehova", God of ruin and mischief. (Hovah on one of those bible dictionary things)

#staythef@(<home !!!

ps, Lovely wt telling the sick to buck up and stay happy for the rest of us! arseholes

pps Just had to vent, more time with PIMI family lately.

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Good News About the Covid-10 and the Watchtower Bible and Truck Society! n

by 1234 in

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we all know that things are all going to be way different when we get through this milestone.. like hurricane katrina, people survived this but new orleans even 16 years later is way different.

our economy is like a shark that must keep moving through the water.

stop it and it will die.. the witnesses like many people in the world, have little to no savings.

Wakanda

WT Wizard: At least when they had the Kool Aid party, it was only the cult members and not the whole community that was affected.

This is key.

These murderous jerks all give talks about respecting life.

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Losing job todays WT

by road to nowhere in

the losing jobs and having poor health will be applied for sure in whatever meeting is held.. but i wonder if anyone will connect the middle aged man losing his job and the old and the sick with the way bethelites are treated..

Wakanda

I will mention it! Thanks!

It is weird how the mtgs make my thinking turn to mush and I sometimes miss really good points(counter points, I mean).

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Guy on a Buffalo

by Simon in

ok, i don't know if madness has set in, but this seems awesome.. seriously, you need this in your life.

you probably just don't know it yet.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij4t9cqa0um.

Wakanda

That was so great. Thanks!

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Are the JWs are doing field service while corona?

by iliketreasure in

hey guys,.

i'm out of the jws for 12 years now and stopped thinking about the whole thing a long time ago.. but recently, i wondered how jws deal with corona?

i've read on the forums that they suspended meetings and tried to hold them online.. but are they still doing field service?.

Wakanda

Yes they are continuing field circus in my midwest city. They had mid-week meeting too in my area. My family has stayed home since before our congregation went on phone only; I wrote about that in another post. My congregation has field circus as usual, with a lot of pioneers, just no memorial campaign (JW optics). I heard of a couple going on a study yesterday in an apartment, not over the phone or Skype, in person. For crying out loud, supermarkets are asking only one person of the family! One person that went to the mid-week meeting had someone in their family with a fever, someone who has had a lot of health problems, so they attributed the fever to something other than corona.

"Don't feel guilty", another narcissistic command on how to feel, when they have been indoctrinated to feel guilty and swim with crocodiles to make it to assemblies? Those old people are going out, idiots, but can't totally blame them. I blame the hateful8 that closed up shop March 7th as per the emails to betheltours2you and stopped sending out speakers, etc, then kept sending out vague letters to the elders only. I could wring their necks, but won't. This story needs to be a documentary.

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Meetings via video conference

by FedUpJW in

so i just heard from a very reliable source that meetings, at least in some locations are now being video fed to the sheeple.

and guess what?

one can even comment and be seen by other members of the conference, for more encouragement.. i did see though that the service providing this video tie-in has as part of their tos this: you will receive a notification (visual or otherwise) when recording is enabled.

Wakanda

It has been around for awhile. It was in a Broadcasting episode a few years ago, showing a sister associating through video conferencing. In my area there have been people for years that need to tie in through the phone, with a couple that could probably connect through video conferencing. However, I haven't known any congregation that has it. I know for a fact that the elders have not looked into it in the past (like asking home bound people if they would like it/could learn to use it), but now they are buying, installing, and doing it. They are hypocrites again because they say they go after the one sheep/help the lone sheep. Baloney. They now get directives from "mother" and go ahead and do it. My question is, are they using this as another way to spy on us? Cookies, etc? IDK, and I know so little about computer spying. Also, the video recording they are doing could be for HUB by grabbing a pic to put in the person's file.