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  How come "Billy the Ex-Bethelite" has not been exposed?

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  geez.

  i've given away tons of information about who i am, yet the wt gestapo has never confronted me?.

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  finally awake

  Your avatar actually looks a bit like a young man I know. He was raised as a witness, but he left back in 2006 I think. His name is Andrew.
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  New Light

  by 2050 in

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  2. beliefs

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  finally awake

  good one!
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  What's your Myers-Briggs?

  by Londo111 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am infp.. some former witnesses in my hometown had a meetup last night...alas, only four of us.

  but it turned out we had an infp(me), two infjs, and an enfp.

  therefore, it turned out we were all idealists.

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  one time at work I was assigned to mentor a new employee. I was required to participate in a Leadership Training program which included a personality test (I don't remember the name of it). What was so striking about it was that all of the oldtimers like me were clustered in the same quadrant of the results graph. In fact, we were packed together like sardines in one tiny little area. I had never met or interacted with any of the other oldtimers before, but apparantly we were all birds of a feather. The newbies were scattered out all over the graph - I wish I had taken notes on who was where and who is still with us.
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  2011-2012 Circuit Assembly program--"Let God's Name be Sanctified"

  by naeuca in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone have a recording of this that could be sent to me please?.

  thankyou!!.

  naeuca.

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  finally awake

  several people from my former hall make mp3 recordings of the assemblies. if you have an mp3 player that can record fm radio transmissions, you can get good quality recordings of the nonsense easily.
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  What was the first thing you did...

  by OneDayillBeFree in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when you left the man-made organization currently known as the wtbts??.

  and for those still "in" but mentally "out" what have you started doing thats against the silly, stupid and non-scriptural watchtower policy/law/rule??.

  i know the question has been made before on another thread but i couldn't find it and also there's been quite some growth in new ones here to jwn, so just wanted to see if we could all share some lovely/funny/random experiences.

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  I wrote "void" in big letters all over my blood card and stuck it back in my wallet.
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  My father is dying

  by peridotgreen in

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  2. friends

  my father, who has alzheimers, is dying now (he's 85).

  i saw him today - he weaves in and out.

  hasn't recognized me for a long time but was usually glad for the company.

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  finally awake

  I'm sorry that your father is dying, but I'm glad to hear you have been able to find peace about it.
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  An Essay on Blood

  by IWillBeDubbedNoMore in

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  2. friends

  this can be found at genesis 9:3,4. the society then states above " they were not to consume blood".

  noah was required to bleed any animal that he killed.

  he wasnt forbidden from eating the flesh of an animal that had died of natural causes.

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  This stuff is just amazing. I feel like the scales are falling off my eyes.
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  What was the first thing you did...

  by OneDayillBeFree in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when you left the man-made organization currently known as the wtbts??.

  and for those still "in" but mentally "out" what have you started doing thats against the silly, stupid and non-scriptural watchtower policy/law/rule??.

  i know the question has been made before on another thread but i couldn't find it and also there's been quite some growth in new ones here to jwn, so just wanted to see if we could all share some lovely/funny/random experiences.

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  finally awake

  I signed my kids up for the Boy Scouts, borrowed the Harry Potter books from the library, and begged my husband to grow his beard in.
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  How do elders deal with Hermeraphrodites / intersex?

  by garbonzo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/intersex.

  how do they deal with it?

  most religious views of homosexuality and intersex individuals if one of the major reasons why i am an athiest now (of course with all the contradictions of the bible and other books, etc.).

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  If I remember correctly, they believe that whatever external genitalia you were born with is how you must live. So a person with male genitals must live as a heterosexual male. If a person is born with ambiguous genitals, or both sets, or neither, I have no idea what they would expect of the person.
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  How Did I Ever Trust Something Called the 'Watchtower Society'?

  by breakfast of champions in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i mean, the 'watchtower society'?

  just the name connotes some weird, masonic, secretive organization!.

  how did we ever fall for this!.

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  finally awake

  WTWizard, I think you overestimate the IRS's cojones. In my experience, most US tax authorities are reluctant to hassle large, well funded religious organizations. For instance, the state of Illinois has just begun to review the tax exempt status of several hospitals with the intent of revoking their property tax and sales tax exemptions. Under Illinois law, to qualify for those exemptions, the organization has to be *primarily* charitable. No hospital I've ever heard of has met that test in the last 30 years, but they are just now really looking to enforce the rule. I don't think the IRS will ever single out the WTBTS for tax enforcement - they don't really even like to mess with smaller, single location churches who are clearly violating the political activity rules.