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  What we did when attending a dry JW wedding reception.

  by smiddy3 in

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  many years ago when the wife and i were still active we attended a friends wedding reception at a top class licensed restaurant in the cbd ,we were close friends with the bride and her family .apparently the grooms parents decided it was going to be a dry reception with no alcohol to be served.. as i said we were close friends with the brides parents an elder & " elderette" and they certainly liked a drink or two or three etc.. i asked the bartender for a drink for my wife & myself and was told it was a dry session & no alcohol was to be served as the grooms father was putting the bill.. so i said to the bartender i am quite happy to pay my own way for the drinks regardless ,so i got served while everybody else had to sit through a dry session.. and these were well off people trying to make a statement .. bloody wowsers..

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  I remember my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary in 1993. My dads parents. They paid for the entire thing - the venue, the food and ALL the alcohol. We had the idea of taking turns working behind the bar (it was all bottles and boxes of wine).

  Being JWs this should have been a good idea. What could possibly go wrong?

  We ran out of booze after about 3 hours. Which meant my dad and his brothers went to the office license to buy more booze. How did we manage to get through so much?
  

  Turned out, some "brothers" had took cases of beer and wine and put them in the boot of their cars. My dad hit the roof when he found out. My grandparents were annoyed but didn't want to "rock the boat".

  That was the last time my family bought all the alcohol for a party. From then on we'd hire a venue with their own bar staff. Such a shame because we used to have great parties before this incident.
  
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  What do you do when you're home alone on a meeting night?

  by nowawake14 in

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  go on.

  name it.🤣.

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  pale.emperor

  Satan deliberately put some great TV programs on meeting nights.

  Aint that the truth? I remember Quantum Leap (when it was modern) was on on Tuesday nights which was the book study.

  If you got to miss the meeting you could actually watch it.

  Then some elders wife heard about the show (heard about it, never actually seen it) and claimed that Sam was "possessing" the persons body and it was therefore demonic. So that was the end of that show.
  
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  Sadly, This is Real

  by berrygerry in

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  pale.emperor

  Damn. They just keep surprising me.

  https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/children/become-jehovahs-friend/activities/help-others/
  
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  New Disfellowshipping Picture

  by neat blue dog in

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  similar to that recent convention video, this illustrates a mother ignoring her disfellowshipped daughter's phone call.

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  (august 2019 meeting workbook).

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  pale.emperor

  It’s so strange. Treating your own children as dead simply because they don’t have the same religion as you.
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  Reaction to GDPR / field service letter

  by sir82 in

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  here is a thread on the new letter to be read to all congregations in all branches on adjustments in door to door work due to the gdpr:.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6274619758608384/2019-boe-elders-letter-may-13-england-ireland-data-protection.

  i have...connections....to a foreign language congregation in europe.

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  Just told my never-baptized brother about this. He told me that his (our) uberJW mother is taking it as a sign that "...this must be "the truth™" because Satan is turning on our ministry."

  Just to clarify:
  

  When good things happen - it's proof we have "the truth™"

  When bad things happen - it's proof we have "the truth™"
  
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  Underwhelming 2019 Convention Releases Online at jw.org

  by LoyalLeon in

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  today, one day short of the start of the 2019 regional conventions, the underwhelming new releases are ready for download at jw.org:.

  a new bible reading.

  a new song.

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  pale.emperor

  Every second month Tony Morris fishes into his toilet bowl and finds some "new light" left over from his morning dump. It's then given to rank and file as "spiritual food".

  But then Stephen Lett has weird dreams and writes them down with a crayon and passes this off a spiritual food too.

  And as for David Splain, his comb-over is more convincing than his "adjusted understandings" about "this generation".
  
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  May 2019 Broadcast

  by BourneIdentity in

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  i know i already created a post about this a week or so ago, but i have a little more to add to it.

  i was watching it again and taking some notes this time.

  the speaker lists these reasons for people having anxieties:.

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  I was exhibiting signs of PTSD in the final years of my JW-life.

  Pregnant disfellowshipped wife with OCD while being pushed to do more for the org while being scrutinized for not being on the ministry enough while having no friends and no free time.

  Anxiety dissappeared when I left the cult.

  And my ex-wife's OCD significantly diminished when she left.
  
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  New Light on the 144,000?

  by Ding in

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  someone on facebook is claiming to have reliable information that the gb is about to announce new light on the 144,000 -- that it's symbolic, not literal.. one person suggested that they will retain the two-class teaching and just change the meaning of 144,000. his idea was that the change would avoid three problems with the current teaching:.

  1. embarrassment over more and more partakers at the memorial when the number should be getting less and less.. 2. embarrassment over 12 symbolic 12,000s somehow equaling a literal 144,000.. 3. solving the problem of running out of "anointed" ones who are old enough to be on the gb.. thoughts?.

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  If it’s come via Facebook I wouldn’t pay much attention to it. Usually the juicy stuff comes via here by leaked letters or talk outlines.

  However, as others have stated NOTHING would surprise me about this org. They’re gonna have to do damage control sooner or later regarding the anointed or 1914.

  Stephen Lett could outright claim to be the reincarnated John The Baptist and they’d go with it.
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  Are JWs Still Leaving Tracts at Gravesites?

  by blondie in

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  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7025371/grieving-mother-lost-20-year-old-son-suicide-finds-jehovahs-witness-pamphlet-grave.html.

  a grieving mother broke down in tears after she found a jehovah's witnesses pamphlet asking 'can the dead really live again?

  ' left at her son's grave.. the woman and her daughter were visiting the 20-year-old's grave at penrith cemetery in western sydney during the first mother's day since his suicide when they found the pamphlet.. 'can the dead really live again?

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  pale.emperor

  Can you imagine if a JW was visiting a JWs grave and found a "Chick Tract" about hell on the grave?

  They'd be pretty livid.

  https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0026
  
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  Alan Watts' Wisdom (1)

  by picosito in

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  "when you set someone up as an authority, never forget that the belief that you have in this authority is just your opinion.".

  from still the mind; an introduction to meditation

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  pale.emperor

  Love Alan Watts.