John Aquila

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  No the WT Borg is not closing! That's Wild Dreaming!

  by DwainBowman in

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  no the wt borg is not closing!

  that's wild dreaming!

  they have been changing directions for a while now, and for whatever reasons, what is happening now is a part of that change!

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  Growth continues with over eight million members worldwide.

  Wrong!!!

  If you look at the statistics you know that this is not true. The above comment is making an assumption base on a short term view and predicting a long term result with assurance.

  It’s like focusing on one tooth of a circular saw instead of looking at the entire saw blade and the direction it’s cutting.

  In the 5 years prior to 1975, the number of publishers was increasing at an average of 15% per year. During the 1980s and early 1990s, growth continued at over 5% per year. This has fallen to between 1 -2%,

  The WT is not getting stronger, it is getting weaker.

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  Power – The Governing Body are more firmly entrenched than ever and without challenge

  Wrong!!!

  Never in the history of the WT Organization have there been so many people that are challenging the GB. They are being questioned, made fun of, and force to testify by authorities, (Royal Commission) and made to look like weak humans. There are hundreds of videos, blogs, and websites pulling back the curtain on these imbeciles.

  Money

  JWorg pays no salaries, provides no charity of any depth, so as a result is one of the most profitable religions in the business.

  Wrong!!!!

  When was the last time you heard the Mormons beg for money? Or any other religion for that matter. If money was no problem, business would continue as usual. The recent changes are visible proof that they are reacting to danger.

  Is this their demise, no,

  but it is visible proof that;

  they are not as powerful,

  the deep pockets are not that deep,

  and the growth is barely 2% annual growth.
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  Had you thought of feeling sorry for the G.B?

  by The Rebel in

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  i only bring this to the board, because a friend of mine once said he felt sorry for the footballers who made so much money.

  that comment stayed with me, and over the years,the more i thought about that comment the more i agreed with him.. i admit the g.b destroy people's life's and are the sublimation of all that's good in people's life.

  there only excuse is a fantazy asylum they claim to believe in.

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  People who lost a loved one because of the blood doctrine, people who went to prison for years because of the neutrality policy, people whose spouse left them because of the apostasy hysteria, parents who have not talked to their DF children, and Children who shun their parents because the parents saw the hypocrisy and DA themselves, and people who didn't have children because they were convinced to pioneer because the end was coming,and people who are old and struggling because they listened to the GB not to get higher education.
  

  How can these people have pity for these men??.
  
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  First post I’ve seen where a Circuit Overseer is trying to denigrate the Royal Commission. Are these new instructions from WT?

  by John Aquila in

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  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3mxy3t/circuit_overseers_giving_anti_royal_commission/.

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  Is the OP in Australia?

  I'm not sure where, but as some of the comments mentioned, that would be a mistake because it just stirs the curiosity of the dubs and they will check it out in their IPads. Some will wake up and some won't. But if nothing is mentioned, no one will wake up. I hope all C.O. start doing this.
  
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  First post I’ve seen where a Circuit Overseer is trying to denigrate the Royal Commission. Are these new instructions from WT?

  by John Aquila in

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  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3mxy3t/circuit_overseers_giving_anti_royal_commission/.

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  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3mxy3t/circuit_overseers_giving_anti_royal_commission/
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  Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

  by SecretSlaveClass in

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  if a thread has been made about this i apologize.. if anyone has not seen the latest hbo documentary release, "going clear: scientology and the prison of belief" i cannot recommend highly enough that you watch it.

  as the majority of us here are either survivors of or still trapped in a cult ourselves, this documentary will most certainly intrigue you.

  it's the most in-depth and extensively researched documentary on scientology ever and features interviews with ex-scientologists who were right at the top until they fell foul of their megalomaniacal, paranoid chairman of the board, david miscavige.. i have read some of l. ron hubbard's books out of curiosity and outright dismissed them as utter nonsense.

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  Simon

  It just shows that no matter how ridiculous or outlandish the beliefs and practices there will be someone, somewhere that will believe it,

  Where do this people come from????? How does society even function with these people that are swayed to believe anything.

  And if you give some people power it is a very, very dangerous thing.

  That's how Hitler gained power. You get a crazy guy to convince a large group of people that can be swayed to believe anything and then we have a problem. Then the people that can think and reason, have hard time trying to get rid of him and his followers. In the end, a lot of causalities.
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  I went down in the first Round!

  by John Aquila in

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  there is a visitor brother in town and from what ive been told, he has been a missionary for many years and they were having a get together for him.

  i took my mom to that get-together yesterday and stayed for a few minutes.

  i heard a group around a table with the visitor brother talking about how hard it was getting in the world with so many distractions and that many of the brothers were falling into the trap and leaving jehovahs organization.

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  Splash
  

  What happened to the small one becoming a mighty nation. Does it have to shrink into a small one again afterwards?

  
  I believe that is a good comeback. I wish I would have remember that. I bet it would have thrown him off.
  
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  My letter to Bethel about the flood

  by Cornbread in

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  i've decided to go full public with a new username on this forum.

  it's been almost a decade since i've been out and i don't care at this point who knows.

  that being said, here's a letter that i'm mailing to bethel.

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  Trust in Jehovah

  That will be your answer.
  
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  I hope the letter about deleting the Theocratic school is true.

  by John Aquila in

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  2. experiences

  yesterday i was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home.

  three of them were ministerial servants.

  all of them are from the spanish congregation.

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  FayeDunaway

  Omg I totally want to learn how to dance like that!!!

  
  

  Hey Faye, when I finally stepped down as an elder several congregations got into this dance craze. We all started taking Tango dancing lessons. Then we started having covert dancing get to-gethers. In time we started taking lessons in Cha Cha, Rumba, Samba, and Salsa dancing.

  
  

  Then our get to-gethers started escalating into a mixture of our own creation. Then we started having like competition to see who had the best created dance. Finally one young sister and two brothers went above and beyond and copied the last dance in the movie, "Take the Lead" (Second video) and the elders found out and we were done.

  Then all talks started at the Kingdom Hall that dancing is "The Devil"

  You know, those are one of the fun times I had while in the WT. It was a blast.
  

  
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lAKlYTQVKY
  

  
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMIXtD6-WSE

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Salsa, Samba, Rumba and Cha Cha and started having covert dancing competition. After about a year we got caught and the talks started in the Kingdom Hall that dancing is the DEVIL. But it was fun for about a year.

  
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15xMqQ1sqIA
  
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  i'm changing, but for the worse

  by embarrassed in

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  that is the truth-- that's really how i think now.

  so why should i tell the truth?

  just look at the person i've become.

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  embarrassed

  When i was a jw I really valued telling the truth and being an honest person.

  When I was a JW I had a framework of good morals because I was in fear of an invisible God that would kill me if I stepped out of line.

  But when I finally left, I became free from being judge by an ancient God who was over ancient people in an ancient culture.

  Nevertheless I still have a judge that I have to answer to, and that is the living people whose lives are directly affected by my actions and whose actions directly affect my life.

  So I have tried to develop a moral system that is neither dogmatically absolute nor irrationally relative. My morality now is more of a tolerant ethic. So we should try to live and love and learn to temper our conduct and temptations and do the right thing.

  If your BF is not willing to trust you and work together with you to bring out the best in you as a human being,---- is he the type of person that you want to be with 30 years down the road?

  If instead of helping you grow to be the best you can be as a person, and your BF literally brings out the worst in you, then your life is going to be one big struggle?

  Who you decide to allow too take a part of your life will affect the person you will eventually become.

  You have to set the rules on what is acceptable to your feelings and makeup. You have to decide what makes you happy. If your BF loves you, he will work with you. But if he doesn’t want to work with you, then you have a decision to make.
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  I hope the letter about deleting the Theocratic school is true.

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday i was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home.

  three of them were ministerial servants.

  all of them are from the spanish congregation.

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  Olivia Wilde

  people in the spanish are more socialists & many don't want to jepordize their social friends so they ignore anything negative, we have gatherings every weekend everyone is always invited

  Ha Ha that is so true OW. There was always a gathering of some sort every single weekend. And I'm talking Salsa dancing, Cumbia dancing and lots of drinking. Of course every other weekend someone was getting in trouble with some guy or gal.

  But would believe even that has changed? The WT is even breaking up cultures.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR6Xv4ccpto