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  Stocks and Shares of the WTB&TS

  by Truthexplorer in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  watch the following video from 6 minutes 50 seconds to find out.. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i0lrdx3vpug.

  a woman wrote to the guy refuting his research.

  here is his reply to back up his proof.. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=woqjxehuppq.

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  Lockheed Martin?

  So much for not supporting the war effort. Hypocrite much?
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  Coming Out To My JW Sister

  by Ame SF in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  now, i have been mentally "awake" for quite a while, but i'll just say march/april this year.

  i won't go into detail about what it was that made me "realize" everything, so don't bother asking.. so, i've known for years that i wasn't like most girls in my classes, kingdom hall, and just in general.

  from a very young age i had that obvious interest in the same sex, but seeing as i was seemingly the only one feeling that way i would brush it off and eventually i started getting interested in guys.

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  The only problems that will arise are if you A) Refuse to publicly denounce homosexual acts and B) you ever act on your feelings.

  That's the official stance of the religion of love and peace. Unofficially, fellow Witnesses may unnecessarily distance themselves from you.

  I cannot see a way to be gay and happy as one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I'm happy to see your sister treat you with love and kindness.
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  Has anyone thought about if a General strike take place by undocumented immigrants.

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this would cripple the economy, don't know about other states in the union but it would.

  be devastating for the border states.

  here in california restaurants (no workers) closed, .

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  There are no "undocumented immigrants". They are illegal aliens.

  Anyone can get an Employee Identification Number from the IRS. That is how illegal aliens open bank accounts, etc.

  If you want to pay twice as much for your house and 4 times as much for produce, messing with the illegal aliens who build everything and pick our crops is a sure way to do it.
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  CLAM Video: Aug 22-28 2016 – “Jehovah Will Care for Our Needs”

  by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this video showed a married brother with three children living in a nice domicile and working full time.

  his employer demands that he change his working pattern such that it conflicts with his being able to attend wt meetings at the weekend.

  the brother decides not to yield to his employer’s demand and is thus dismissed.. the brother seeks for work very actively over a significant period but without any alternative being found.

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  I once belonged to a circuit where many brothers, including elders and servants, worked for oil refineries. These were high paying jobs. Most rarely had to miss a meeting due to work. However, it was technically shiftwork.

  We had a circuit overseer come though that condemned shiftwork regardless if it interfered with meetings. 9-5 or nothing! Nights and weekends off was a must.
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  Can’t cope with being disfellowshipped…..Need some advice

  by xxBettyBoopxx in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this site is great, i have been lurking for a while now.

  but i can’t get reinstated and have used some of the advice already given.. i was df’d many months ago and go to all the meetings and do all the preparation for the meetings, but the jc committee keep refusing me.

  tomorrow at the clam meeting i am puting yet another letter in and will be called for another dreadful jc meeting.. 1. what can i say to the elders to show that i am truly repentant?.

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  This does not help, but keep this in mind - You cannot expect a reasonable answer to your questions because the whole situation is not based on reason.

  Three, uneducated, untrained men listen to a person bear his sole on an alleged act of misconduct. He admits his actions were wrong and begs forgiveness. Now these three men are supposedly able to -

  1) Be human lie detectors

  2) Read your heart to tell if you're repentant or not

  The definition of repent means "to feel remorse". Angels are not even able to tell if a human is repentant. How would imperfect window washers and carpet layers be able to read your heart? Even being "spirit directed" cannot help imperfect men read another's heart.

  I was privately reproved by a judicial committee. I thought the whole thing was BS. My wife and I messed around once just before we were married. The elders said they believed I was truly repentant, but I had to be punished. So, there I was, first time offender who was an exemplary brother having all my privileges taken from me for something I could not do again because I was now married to the person I sinned with. My wife would literally have to die or leave me for another man for me to be in a position to commit the same sin.

  Punishment is a part of discipline, but you can be disciplined without punishment.
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  An eventful day few year back

  by Chook in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm having a big blue with a couple of elders , it eventually ends up an around table ,5 all together,one a co. up until this point i believed in my heart what these guys spoke it was truthful.

  my trust was diminishing.

  the story starts like this ,we get a 26 year old person appointed as elder.

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  Guilty until proven innocent and no right to face your accusers. Those are the rules in the evil empire.
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  Are GB accountable for deaths for changing policy ?

  by Chook in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  example blood factions, organ transplants.

  suicide from disfellowshipping , breaking up family's with old oral sex policy.

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  This is similar to the first time I became aware that the whole organization is a scam.

  I was 19, maybe 20, and a ministerial servant at the time. I was working at a Circuit Assembly in the accounting department. I was working with an elder who was commenting on a part at the Assembly.

  During the program it was mentioned that, if faced with compulsory military service, it was alright to accept an alternative assignment offered by the government. This elder commented on how, during the Vietnam War, he was offered an alternative of working in the US Post Office and did.

  What I found out afterwards was that, back during the Vietnam War, brothers offered non-military alternative assignments had to turn them down or face being disfellowshipped. So, in short; hundreds of young brothers chose prison over non-military service as an alternative to being drafted into the military.

  Add in the number of Witnesses who died because of turning down blood fractions and we see how much damage has been done.

  Jehovah's Witnesses have one commandment - Thou Shall Do Whatever the Most Recent Issue of the Watchtower Tells You.
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  Convention(al) Wisdom

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  conventions satisfy a basic human urge: the longing for belonging.. at conventions, people who share similar interests - even obsessions - come together to bond and to be themselves.. the outside world doesn't matter.

  in fact, for the weekend duration of most conventions, the outside world doesn't even exist.. the conventioneers have each other and that's all they need.. http://conventionalwisdom.com.

  the mermaid convention.

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  I've been to a Star Trek convention. I met some cool people. Live Long and Prosper.
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  Orange hard hat for boss, white hard hats for workers

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the latest study watchtower december 2016 study article by undeserved kindness you were set free has a picture at paragraph 19 of some construction workers.

  i always thought the foreman wore a white hard hat.

  besides that i hate the term undeserved kindness.

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  The whole concept of sin and grace (aka "undeserved kindness") are the cornerstones of a sick, evil religion.

  The idea that we as a race of sentient beings are "deserving of death" due to the actions of 2 people is down right revolting.

  Try disciplining your kids for something they did not do over and over again. See how messed up they become.
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  A sucker is born every minute

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was an elder in the 1970's and i was not a big fan of the "stay alive until 75" dogma.

  i was looked down upon by the heavy hitters on the body of elders and in time i changed my mind.

  i knew of the failed prophecy of 1914 being the end of all times which was repeated for the year 1925...yet i came to believe well maybe this time they've got it right.. with every new watchtower, i combed over every word to find support for my change in my belief that the end was coming in fall of 1975. at the district assembly in 1975, everyone clung onto every word in the final talk.

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  Growing up inside the evil empire, this was an every day reality in my household. I was born just before 1975. However, my father claims to be of the anointed which, until recently, made him part of the mysterious "faithful and discreet slave". My father regularly claimed to be guided by the Holy Spirit into discovering "new light" which he would write HQ in NY about.

  I can't tell you how many times throughout my life my father would paint a picture of doom and gloom with an approximate date attached to it. The first Gulf War was surely it. Then it was this. Then it was that.

  It every time a period thought to bring the Great Tribulation came and went my father was truly dismayed. There were a few times he literally didn't work for a year or more because of this obsession with the end of this system of things. There is nothing quite like graduating from high school and going to work full time because there's no money for food or rent for your parents and two younger siblings.

  I can't tell you how much conspiracy theory non-sense I would have to put up with growing up. Concentration camps being built in the US. The "Amero" currency conspiracy. The New World Order one-word-government crap.