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  The Craziness of an Average Bible Study

  by Number 6 in

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  last week i posted a thread asking about who knew any "real anointed" and got some cracking replies.. that got me to thinking, as someone brought up in the 70's and 80's in the watchtower religion, my experience of bible studeis in their homes and those who made it to the hall were mostly batshit crazy or at least people with some serious quirks.. i'll relate a few, none of whose names i remember with any clarity.. in our cong we had an older couple who were from london, but who had been in the 1950's in the circuit work in the mid west usa.

  they brought along some woman one night they had started a study with who told everyone cheerfully she was a recovering alcoholic and this was her cure (coming to the meetings).

  this went on for a few weeks until one night they brought her to the memorial and she was royally pissed, and i mean barely able to stand; and went up to the platform table and necked some wine.

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  I remember a few.

  On guy who used to think you could ask god a question then flip open the bible at a random page and stick a pin it and it’d give you the answer. I remember he used to wear a shirt and tie and a leather waistcoat to the KH.

  A man and woman who, despite being married, live in separate houses but turn up to the meetings together. She would only wear clothes from charity shops and used to take things out of rubbish tips and hoard them in her house. I always felt sorry for her husband. He seemed a nice decent bloke but obviously was stuck with her.

  One guy was studying and after a while claimed he was anointed (not even baptized). This progressed to him claiming to be Jesus brother, then Jesus himself. Last I heard he was claiming to be part of “the godhead” and had special powers. I really hope he’s still attending.
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  Jehovah’s Witnesses form a barricade at Melbourne 2019 International Convention protest

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  during the pyeongchang 2018 olympic and paralympic winter games, which were held from february 9-25, 2018, and march 9-18, 2018, brothers and sisters in korea engaged in a special campaign to offer the many international visitors bible-based publications free of charge.. .

  here are protesters exercising their rights to free speech at a 2019 international convention in melbourne, australia.

  just like the jehovah's witnesses have rights to hold up magazines while olympic attendees walk by, protesters at the jehovah's witness convention are not given their rights to walk around with their signs and protest.

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  And that cult logo has become their new golden calf.

  "We dont have symbols... we just put our website all over our Kingdom Halls, attendance jackets, tie pins, pens, pads badges and even earrings."
  
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  Divorce/Terms of Agreement

  by SFSDGUY in

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  2. experiences

  i'm a first time poster and i apologize if this topic has been discussed before.

  when i met my wife she was disfellowshiped and were happy, got married, and had a kid.

  after we had our daughter she got reinstated so her family and her jw "friends" could spend time with our daughter.

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  Been in your (similar) shoes mate. My ex was still JW when I woke up and left. I found the best solution was not to mention or talk about religion or god at all and just be the cool dad. Birthdays, Christmas, whatever. No kid is gonna actively choose the boring JW way of life when given the option of the real world.

  As for meeting attendance, there's little you can do when she's with her mum. But encourage the kid to keep asking questions.

  BTW, here's a link to the JW Lawyers manual that they use to make the non-JW parent appear to be intolerant and incompentant. https://faithleaks.org/wiki/documents/9/95/Cc-E-1988.pdf

  The book makes my blood boil.
  
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  Did You Know Any "Genuine"" Old School Anointed?

  by Number 6 in

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  growing up in scotland in the 1970s in scotland the anointed were few and far between, but we had one old dude in our cong who claimed to be one of the anointed.

  in the days when it was taken seriously.. i'd be curious how you viewed them.

  thing is, he wasn't an elder, or even a ministerial servant, just a plain old publisher.. but he was revered like he had a hotline to jesus.. the other week i was talking to a friend of similar age to me but who hung around the wt a lot longer than i did, and he just commented "oh him... he was a doddery old fool who used to just sit and piss himself.

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  Joe Gibson from the old days in Liverpool. He was already dead by the time I was born in 1984 but in the late 80s and early 90s he was still talked about. Only ever saw one photo of him sitting in Manchester City football ground where we used to have conventions back then. He lived to about 95yo.
  

  The fact that he was still talked about shows how few and far between "the annointed" were back then.

  Nowadays they're ten a penny I hear.
  
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  Why are they buying names and addresses?

  by Lost in the fog in

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  apparently the jws of coventry, england, have been spending their congregation's money buying names and addresses from the local council.

  i wonder what they want them for and is this something that each congregation does?

  i'm curious now.

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  When I worked in immigration and was in the Polish group, I was asked by the elder running it if i'd kindly make a list of names and addresses of Polish people in Liverpool.

  I told him it's against the law. He replied "who's law?"

  I never did it. And I'm glad I never did. Even though I was a zealout back then it stank of underhandedness.
  
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  venting: My wife is the most dangerous kind of JW

  by goingthruthemotions in

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  i need to vent again here.

  because i have no one else to talk with and no one who really understands except for the people here.

  my wife is the most dangerous kind of jw.

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  My go to line is:

  Do you think your organisation is perfect?

  No

  So what’s wrong with it?
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  Email from JW relative/elder

  by Lynnie in

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  as much as i enjoy you and pete's company, you also know our understanding of how much we want you to be reunited with jehovah and his people.. .

  we did not set the standards for what jehovah says about our associations with those who choose to not serve him.

  so we will always be there for you and pete, but it is in your hands as to how we can enjoy your friendship.. .

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  Trotters, are you SURE you don’t shun?

  
  
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  So the Witnesses still believe in rapture

  by eyeslice2 in

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  according today's watchtower, all the remaining ones of the anointed ones will be in heaven when the great tribulation breaks to join jesus in the battle against evil.

  the watchtower was making the point that at that time god's organization will be ran by members of the 'other sheep'.

  it didn't say how these remaining ones find themselves in heaven, but presumably they will be taken, i.e.

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  So when the GB are all dead, "the helpers" will run the show as GB Lite?

  And so it goes on. The next step is immortalizing the dead GB like the North Koreans do with Kim il Sung.

  
  
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  Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?

  by minimus in

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  she certainly is passionate about climate change.

  🤔.

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  There's lot of young people just like her who get no media attention at all. I dont know why she of all people got to be the face of enviromentalism.

  She's young and feels passionate about something and I think it's good that someone speaks out for something that they genuinely believe.

  But she doesnt make me want to start using paper bags or carrying around my own bottle to fill up at work. Greta has zero effect on my way of dealing with the enviroment. I mean, seriously, are we all to stop travelling by plane and get on a boat now?
  
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  Talking Snake

  by NoAbuse in

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  jehovahs witness yearbook, 1967 p.105: cameroon"on one occasion a large crowd was following a man who had a talking serpent.

  the serpent gave greetings and spoke in foreign tongues....a brother was passing by, attracted by the commotion, he went to the house to see what was happening.

  as soon as he entered the room the serpent stopped talking.

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  Oh please.

  They'll be telling us to hide in bunkers next.