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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

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  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  As for why he told Kim? Grubby people like him often seem to get a kick out of telling others (especially women) how grubby they are.

  Guilt? In some way he felt the need to confess.
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  Merry Christmas

  by jhine in

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  so for those amongst us who celebrate the season .

  merry christmas everyone.

  .. jan from tam .

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  Is it MERRY Christmas or HAPPY Christmas ?

  Oh, I dunno, have it anyway !

  Cheers y’all,

  Ozzie 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

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  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  Getting closer to my predicted 397

  And remember that was using “bible based TM “ chronology.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

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  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  @LMSA

  Brilliant! 👍🏼

  Cheers 🍷
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  Judicial Committees asking Details of Sex acts

  by blondie in

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  i remember knowing that jcs would ask very personal questions about sex activities.

  this article addresses this: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15074595 .

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  They are told not to do this . I sat on many committees over the years and never saw it happen. This from “ Shepherd The Flock” chapter 16
  ”The committee should first seek to establish the facts and ascer- tain the attitude of the accused. This requires skillful and discreet questions. The judicial committee should be thorough but not in- quire about needless details, especially in regard to sexual mis- conduct.”

  Me too! I served on so many judicials over the years, in fact, one of my last participations in the Borg was to be part of a Special Committee authorised by the GB to investigate a certain country’s Branch Committee. (Yep, sex was involved!)

  I can attest to the likelihood of JC members wanting to know the most intimate of details in a ‘case’ where sex was involved.

  These guys got their jollies from it ! And remember that the men who make up a JC are “unlettered and ordinary” as the WT so often proclaims. I would go so far as to say that some are best described as simpletons.

  Hearing details of various sex encounters at a JC is like opening a window to another world for some of them.

  We know it (judicial committees) as something else…it’s abuse !
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  Judicial Committees asking Details of Sex acts

  by blondie in

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  i remember knowing that jcs would ask very personal questions about sex activities.

  this article addresses this: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15074595 .

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  @ Pete

  It would seem obvious to pasters in most other churches that their role is to offer comfort and support. In the JWs and some others they take on the role of detectives and prosecutors.

  Too right, mate !
  
  
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  Punishment and control: the secret handbook that rules a religion

  by Tahoe in

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  2. beliefs

  this article is behind a paywall: https://www.smh.com.au/national/punishment-and-control-the-secret-handbook-that-rules-a-religion-20231026-p5ef9z.html.

  a herald investigation has uncovered disturbing practices within the jehovah’s witness church, including the systems for discipline, punishment and control in a secret rule book for church “elders”.. australian children in the jehovah’s witnesses religion are being trained to avoid life-saving blood transfusions and parents are being coached to thwart court processes that may prevent their children from dying, internal church documents reveal.. an investigation following an inquest into the death of jehovah’s witness heather winchester, who died in newcastle after refusing a blood transfusion, has uncovered disturbing practices within the australian church, including the systems for discipline, punishment and control contained in the secret rule book for church “elders”.. the church’s blood transfusion ban forces people to choose between risking death by refusing treatment or being “shunned” – cut off from family and friends under the church’s strict rules – according to 16 former and current members of the church interviewed and the testimony of many others.. .

  some of them believe it has cost hundreds of lives in australia.. “i think it’s truly dangerous for children, who are not old enough to vote or drive, to be coached about how to convince a judge or doctors about a decision that is potentially life-threatening,” said fleur hawes, 32, a solicitor who escaped the religion and is speaking out for the first time.. in public, the jehovah’s witnesses’ leadership downplays the impacts of its ban on blood transfusions, which are based on interpretations of bible passages that say christians should not eat blood.. .

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  @ Bill Covert

  Realize I am a mechanic not a wordsmith, I can't hold a candle to the writing skills of many on this site.

  Thank you for adding this.

  You raise a heap of objections and I’m sure it’s being digested in many parts of the world right now.
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  New meeting format

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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  just watched november broadcast very different order to the leaked agm .

  be good if someone did a deep dive on the difference and why the changes?

  i didn’t time the items but it should be easy to see if edited?.

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  What a confusing mess! They've changed this part and the accompanying 'instructions' so many times in recent years, it's a joke.

  That’s for sure!

  I left the so-called “Truth TM “around thirty years ago and I’m sure that if I were to visit my local Kingdom Hall now for a meeting, I would hardly recognise it and probably would feel like any ‘newly interested person’ excepting that I had the benefit of experience, knowing that, as the song goes, “it ain’t necessarily so “.

  I have learned a lot these past thirty years. One thing I see clearly is that the christian belief is based on what we read in the Gospels and the Epistles.

  Nowhere is further revelation or ‘correction’ or ‘new light’ mentioned.

  It is what it is.

  instead the Witchtower subjects their sychophantic believers to an ever-changing smorgasbord of beliefs and formats.

  Looking over the current format for their mid-week meeting, I find it’s structure is confusing.

  I’m sure the mind-numbed attendees cope with it but how does it “build up” the faith of the fellowship?

  Cheers,

  Ozzie 🍷(of the “truth shall set you free class”)
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  Lloyd Evans Patreoff Pool - December 2023

  by DerekMoors in

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  put in your bets as to where you think lard i mean lloyd evans will land after december's drop in his patrons.

  in september he started at 457 patrons, did his whiny begging fest and peaked at 478, but then dropped down to 439 at the beginning of october.

  as of this moment (nov. 6), he's at 427 paid members.. so, where do you think he'll be on december 2nd?

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  Oh OK, this number I’ve gone with again and again, but for me it’s still……………..397
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  Need Vocal Renditions of Sing Praises to Jehovah

  by cybernyben101 in

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  i am looking for vocal renditions of some the kingdom songs in this old songbook: sing praises to jehovah.

  most of my favorite kingdom songs are from that songbook and i would love to download them on my phone.

  i enjoy listening to vocal renditions of kingdom melodies.

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  Hi cybernyben101:

  First of all, may I welcome you aboard!

  This site has been a place of both instruction and fellowshipping for many years.

  I first ‘arrived’ some 23 years ago and in all that time have met up with a good many folks, most of whom have different recollections of the Kingdom songs to what you have. Some of us find that at the weirdest moments the tune or lyric of a kingdom song interrupts our day’s routine.

  Many folk associate these songs with emotional and even physical abuse.

  If you check this site further, you will come across a plentiful record of that.

  Anyways, you’re welcome here, there’s no shunning!

  Cheers,

  Ozzie 🍷