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  Thoughts on a WT Reformation

  by Fr.RAS in

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  i posted what follows elsewhere but thought it might be of interest here as well.

  my forst posting here so i apologize in advance if this is not in the correct place.. a tribute to ray franz (on what would have been his 98th birthday) and to ed dunlap, his collaborator.

  last week would have marked the 98th birthday of a man for whom most of us here have high regard.

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  1234

  I knew both men. Ed Dunlap was my primarily school instructor when I was at Bethel from 1970-1974.

  So to answer your question after your long talk/walk memory lane and after being a Jehovah's Witness for over 50 years I have your answer to ...

  "Imagine what the cult would look like today had the Society worked itself out of its self-insularity by following Ray Franz vs Fred Franz in 1980/81."

  It would still look like a CULT! Just a mutated one. With thousands of suicides, pedophiles and wrongful deaths that would still not have been prevented! They would still be blood guilty! Even if they did everything Ray and Ed said.

  Keith Casarona

  P.S. I sent you a private message.
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  Education vs JW?

  by galaxia_moon in

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  i am 15 years old and recently just doubting this whole religion that was introduced to me when i was very small from a very good family friend.

  doubt obviously comes with shame and guilt and i hate those feelings because it feels like i'm betraying this whole organization that i grew up in.... anyways, i've been doing research and found that jehovah's witnesses dislike/shun kids who attend colleges & universities that are more than 4 years long?

  have you heard of this?

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  Yes, neither me or my children attend college because of the harassment that was going on at the time about "higher education."

  Jehovah's Witnesses like to keep their people stupid as do most religions, however they have taken it to a higher level.

  So my friend it's time to make the choice "the red or blue pill"

  Keith Casarona
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  Weekly Meeting Importance Being Reduced - Your Thoughts?

  by JWTom in

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  2. friends

  i am pimo, but now have 40+ years of being a jw as i was raised in a 3rd generation family of witnesses and continue to fake my way through things - fading as i can.. for the vast majority of my time as a jw, the meetings were the central focus for all jws to get teaching, association, information and so on.

  nothing was more important than being at the meetings!

  over the last 20 years starting with the elimination of the weekly book study in homes and continuing down to today - my opinion is that the value/purpose of the weekly meetings continues to be diluted or minimized.

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  1234

  Well the "world" is changing my friend. It is not just changing. It's changing a lot! You are still in a religion that was formed in the 1800's and though it's changing also it is not changing enough to keep up with modern day thinking. It's still stuck in old dogma.The organization could become a totally a video church with with the latest technological, however the content is old and dated and in many ways very toxic, with it's concepts of shunning, sex, pedophiles, (two witness rule) blood transfusions ect ect.

  Bottom line they are losing most of their young people. You don't see a massive growth with the Quakers and Amish either....Yes they are still around and the reason is the only thing that is making more/new Quakers, Amish and Jehovah Witnesses is them having sex with themselves.

  You might want to read my book "New Boy" I was in for over 50 years and tried to fade too.

  Good Luck my friend but your in a dying religion

  Keith Casarona
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  Comment on BBC News web site

  by BoogerMan in

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  "i've just been told by a nurse just off shift that 6 wards were put aside for cv19 at ninewells hospital in dundee and that only one is being used.

  also that the virus is being put as cause of death on almost every death...including one male patient who died of cancer who tested positive but had no effects.

  so bear that in mind, and this is genuinely what i've been told what is going on.".

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  Or maybe it is a plandemic and not a pandemic.
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  "You Had to Have Been There"

  by Terry in

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  from my memoirs ...______.

  .....moments later, thoughts inside my head still reverberated as though i were a bell struck into vibrations beyond control.

  i trembled.

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  "THESE PEOPLE - these WORLDLY people's raw instinct was beautiful!
  I had been taught to see them as things about to be destroyed."

  Funny it takes maybe a thousand of these "Ha Haw" moments put together to finally realize that we were in a mindless cult.

  Great story Terry.
  
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  Brainwashing left a stain

  by Fadeaway1962 in

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  hi one of my jw parents died recently of old age , after decades of brainwashing of the dead are just a sleep and if we are good we would see them again in paradise .. i fully understand now you have one life and should make the best of it but finding it difficult at the moment to get my head around it .. it's just a bit of a rant but your the only ones that i can try and express how i feel and be able to understand after the years of brainwashing how it affects my thinking process.. thanks for any help and advice..

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  Well, who says "you only have one life?" A big chunk the planet don't believe in that. Go to YouTube and type in "Reincarnation." Who knows many you will be seeing your loved ones again....

  I believe I will even see my old Jehovah's Witness friends one day.....boy wont they be surprised!
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  JW cult suing everyone critical of the cult

  by phoenixrising in

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  its amazing how the cult has changed over the years.

  they are now suing everyone who has books or internet presences critical of the cult.

  this was never done that i can remember before.

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  I haven't got my letter yet.

  Keith Casarona
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  Are Ex-JW's Suffering From Burn Out?

  by IWant2Leave in

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  the reason that i ask is, in the two years on this forum and you tube, i've seen ex-jw's either drop off entirely or make fewer and fewer videos.

  i know the emotional toll can be high.

  is that the sole reason, or is it cost (video) or do you think it's external pressure (legal or family)?

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  If your healthy there is no reason to keep taking the medicine. Only one reason to stay and that is to help other people, the walking wounded.
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  15 yrs ago Jehovah needed $50 million for new printing presses

  by Hotpepper in

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  2. bible

  what happened to all those new printing presses?

  the wt said they were going to double the amount of mag's every month.

  i wonder what ever happened.

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  I think about where that wasted 50 million came from.

  The little girl that puts half of weekly allowance of 50 cents in the contribution box for the "world wide work" so she can get a smile from her delusional parents.

  The old sister that doesn't have enough money to fix her bad teeth but puts a percentage of her SS check in the same box every month.

  People like my stupid mother that left it all to the Watchtower Bible and Truck society, when she died and nothing to her kids.
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  New Jobs Coming? Where Have You Worked at?

  by 1234 in

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  with many people's jobs been put and "on hold" and other people's jobs going away for good, i couldn't help but think about all the different jobs i've had over the years.

  i have been able to adapt and make do.

  maybe this will kick in again....or maybe not.

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  1234

  Yes you are right Stan I didn't think anyone would know what that was....lol

  Your right also Smiddy this was a thread about where people have worked at....