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  2018 Convention videos leaked by brave insiders

  by Room 215 in

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  anopther coup for cedars: http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/leaked-2018-convention-videos-celebrate-anti-lgbtq-bigotry-unquestioning-obedience-doomsday-fear-mongering

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  10:22: Whether is makes sense or not, im going to support that arrangement.

  
  

  /\THIS/\ is exactly what a cult is!!
  
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  2018 Convention videos leaked by brave insiders

  by Room 215 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  anopther coup for cedars: http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/leaked-2018-convention-videos-celebrate-anti-lgbtq-bigotry-unquestioning-obedience-doomsday-fear-mongering

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  pale.emperor

  It's only a matter of time before we have their internal emails. Now THAT would be something.
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  2018 Convention videos leaked by brave insiders

  by Room 215 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  anopther coup for cedars: http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/leaked-2018-convention-videos-celebrate-anti-lgbtq-bigotry-unquestioning-obedience-doomsday-fear-mongering

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  pale.emperor

  Since when have homosexuals berated anyone for not wearing a wristband?

  Since when did cashiers outright ask you if you wanted to donate to a charity? (There's usually a bucket or something next to the till for that sort of thing).

  It's always been the Watchtower spouting hate towards the homosexuals, and here they are playing the victim.

  "I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses. And we believe the bible says that sex is for a man and woman who are married".

  Vom. She's missing out on so much.
  
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  Is it ethical to have children?

  by joey jojo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this was a news article recently in an australian newspaper that caught my eye.. the premise was that to have a child is to inflict an extra human being onto the world and also, to inflict the world (with all its problems) onto the child.. there is a lot to say about this but from jw point of view, i have always believed it to be incredibly hypocritical that jw's have children in 'this system'.

  all my life at the meeting i heard how little time we have left, how sick the world is, how i was probably going to be persecuted and end up in a jail cell for being a jw.

  why would anyone want to become parents in this situation, particularly if they are confident there is only 'a short time left'?.

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  pale.emperor

  Since waking up, I've always wondered how far does this thinking go?

  I mean, if i genuinely believed that armageddon is "just around the corner", that we're "in the last seconds, of the last minute of the last days" then i wouldn't even bother taking medicine, buying new clothes or buying a house - let alone have kids.

  Just goes to show that deep down, really, we probably wasn't that convinced it was just around the corner.
  
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  Personal opinions spouted from the platform?

  by purrpurr in

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  have you ever heard some brothers own ideas and opinions spouted from the platform?

  perhaps off brand or crazy ones?

  some that i've heard is:.

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  pale.emperor

  There was a CO in the early 2000s that even the elders called crazy. He spouted from the platform that pubs are not for Gods people. The uber-dub JW women agreed with him and used it as an excuse to approach younger ones an JW men they knew who went to pubs.

  Doesnt it just show how many of them dont think for themselves and will allow some nobody on the platform to override their own thinking?
  
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  Personal opinions spouted from the platform?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  have you ever heard some brothers own ideas and opinions spouted from the platform?

  perhaps off brand or crazy ones?

  some that i've heard is:.

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  pale.emperor

  I remember in the 1990s a speaker in a circuit assembley telling us that the band Oasis are not for Christians.

  Also another elder claimed Lord Of The Rings was Satanic.

  That was all my parents needed to hear. It may as well have been said by God himself
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  Celebrations?

  by Freedom rocks in

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  does anyone celebrate valentines day since leaving the borg?

  and which other celebrations if any do you now take part in?.

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  I celebrate anything I want. Birthdays being the biggest.
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  What is attractive?

  by Freedom rocks in

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  has anyone found that since leaving the borg that their tastes have changed in what they find attractive in the opposite sex?

  beards, long hair, tattoo's, etc).

  i don't now if it's just my taste changing as i get older or if it's coz beards were frowned upon by the society that i find them attractive now and didn't when i was younger 😊.

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  It appears to be one of the stages you go through when you first wake up. I wrote a post about this six months ago in that I find so-called worldly girls very attractive. Take a quick read here: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5719203363422208/pale-emperor-seems-have-developed-fetish
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  JW.facts graffitied on a wall?

  by Miss Worldly in

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  did anyone see the trevor macdonald programme in the u.k. last night?

  the one about james bulgers killers?

  close to the end mr macdonald was walking through an underpass, at the exit, graffitied on the wall in massive black letters was ‘jwfacts.com’ it was plain to see........

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  Close to the end Mr MacDonald was walking through an underpass, at the exit, graffitied on the wall in massive black letters was ‘JWfacts.com’ it was plain to see.......

  Yes it's JWFacts. It's in Walton, i spotted it when i rode my bike under there last year. Took a pic of it and posted it on an ex-JW forum.
  
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  $5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund

  by Sour Grapes in

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  2. experiences

  a letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.

  it was sold a couple of years ago.

  we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.

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  pale.emperor

  Similar situation happened to us in Liverpool, UK.

  Our KH had a lot of old biddies that donated like £50 a month for years. Our KH was a shack. We had the funds to build a KH 2 times over but just couldn't find the land to build it on. We were one of the KH's that didn't have a loan with Bethel.

  Then came the announcement that they're going to merge our KH with TWO others. So no need for a new KH. Bethel had asked for the money in our account and so a vote went out asking if we all agree to send Bethel £38,931 in 2013 and £41,132 in 2014. (£80,063 in total). Of course we all "agreed" but many wernt happy. Particularly the older ones.
  

  One day they handed out little forms to each of us during the meeting wanting us to write how much we could donate on a monthly basis.

  Turns out, Bethel had "lovingly" cancelled all loan agreements with the KHs. How nice of them right? Not so. It turns out that despite the loan being cancelled they still wanted the congregations to send the same amount of money each month as a donation.... forever.

  Bethel had already pulled off one cash and grab scam. Now it was time for another one. Because we didn't have a loan in place with them they expected us to come up with a number in which to make regular donations to them forever. I think the standard amount people were writing down was £20. (£20 x 70 members = £1,400 per month TAX FREE). I gotta hand it to the Bethel accounts dept. That's a pretty good scam "loving arrangement" you thought up there.

  Imagine the shame you'd feel if you put £0.00 because you're poor (like i was at the time). I was already spending £80 a month just commuting to the meetings. So i never contributed. This was the first time i remember the org blatantly asking for money. Something i smugly used to tell people that they never do.