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  Our Own Unstuck (stuckinarut2's wife) On The Shunned Podcast

  by dubstepped in

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  --------new episode---------.

  episode twenty three - sherrie is shunned by jehovah's witnesses.

  today we have a really cool live recording from my living room.

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  A shuddering crescendo at the 01:58:40 mark. For those unable to listen through the entire audio, the pull-away quote from Sherrie (in regards to Watchtower's deleterious stance toward child sex abuse handling) is transcribed below:

  "I take it as a source of pride now, that that is the line that I go, 'NO. I don't care how I've lived my life before, or what pride I took in being a Witness. You DON'T get to excuse that. You just don't.'

  You've got to look that kind of ugliness in the face, because those victims - those survivors - they need to be heard and they need to be understood and they need to know that it's not acceptable.

  And so, my call-out to them is that it's NOT acceptable and I WON'T accept it, and I will LEAVE a religion over it. I don't care what the costs are. You can shun me. You can do whatever you want to me - you can call me names, you can say lies about me. I don't care what you do to me.

  For the sake of those victims and survivors: I LEAVE whatever it is."

  And that, folks, is what fearless integrity sounds like. Well done Mike for knocking this one out of the park with such a powerful guest like my big sister, Sherrie D'Sassociatedouza.
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  JW elders stumped by Watchtower Publications

  by Roger Kirkpatrick in

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  i was approached by two jehovah’s witness elders who handed me a pamphlet advertising the jw .org website.

  each man carried a bible and an apple ipad.

  they told me that they enjoyed visiting with people about the bible, and asked if i was a bible reader.

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  Do You Ever Wonder Where Certain Posters Are?

  by minimus in

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  do people simply leave because the site has given them what they wanted?

  are they now infrequent lurkers?.

  did they go back to the watchtower?.

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  Thanks @MrExJw. I try hard.
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  Do You Ever Wonder Where Certain Posters Are?

  by minimus in

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  do people simply leave because the site has given them what they wanted?

  are they now infrequent lurkers?.

  did they go back to the watchtower?.

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  You too, @Vanderhoven7! You know, I always use your posts as my go-to for all things theologically related. You're a wealth of knowledge when it comes to unraveling the Biblical canon from a traditional Christian perspective. I thank you for that.
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  Do You Ever Wonder Where Certain Posters Are?

  by minimus in

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  do people simply leave because the site has given them what they wanted?

  are they now infrequent lurkers?.

  did they go back to the watchtower?.

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  "Did they go back to the Watchtower?"

  Ha! Not quite, but I'm still staying abreast of my door-knocking skills, @minimus.

  

  Thank you, @Diogenesister and @Vanderhoven7. I see you guys :). I still lurk but haven't had the time to contribute anything great lately. I appreciate you asking about me. X

  For everyone else wondering, please ask @dubstepped. He is my sole mouthpiece on earth this forum ;). Peace out.
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  Do you know which Watchtower publication this picture came from?

  by McLovin in

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  @McLovin It never appeared in a Watchtower publication. Similar artwork is employed (reminiscent of the style back in the 70s and 80s), but it's simply an Old Testament depiction of the Jewish High Priest blessing used in Judaism.

  

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  “Do You Know the Time?” From WT Sept 2018

  by skin in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  there is a one page article in the current wt study mag, sept 2018 pg 22 with the title “do you know the time?”.

  in that article it describes a number of different ways you can say the time is 1:30. it goes on to say “there are even places where that same time could be expressed as “half two,” meaning 30 minutes before two”.

  what i would like to know is this, where in the world does “half 2” mean 1:30?

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  @LOLS Yeah, same in German. We say "halb zwei' (literally translates into "half two"). It's like a condensed way of saying half an hour 'til two.

  Works even when expressing the 15 minute intervals (quarter past/quarter to). So, one forty-five would become "viertel vor zwei".

  Edit: Ah, @Listener beat me to it.
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  Straight to the point

  by WTDeserter in

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  Oh the irony!!!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  just wanted to share this funny thing.. so we have just been invited to a neighborhood xmas party to be held in the house of a lovely couple around the corner from us.. they bought the house a short time back from a jw who built it and lived there!.

  so, we get to enjoy one of our first xmas parties as a couple, in the former house of a jw!.

  now, that made me giggle.....

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  @neat blue dog I smell a hapless congregational nark rat.
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  Mentally diseased ANOINTED!

  by Normalfulla in

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  my aunt is a super uber jw, albeit a little more delusional than the standard issue jw.

  she has 4 kids all who are out and never baptised, she's a widow now and sold the family home and has bought a new place and has plenty of cash in the bank.

  my cousins are all very concerned because their mum has a new friend whos "anointed" and says jehovah has spoken to her and she will survive armageddon and so will her kids if she sticks close.. she has been paying out for holidays and vehicle repairs for this anointed sister and her extended family and my cousins are alarmed at whats going on and can see the situation for what it is.

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  So... you spoke to an elder about this crazy sister. That's like asking someone who believes in human/reptilian hybrids to correct a flat-earther's unreasonable thinking.

  I can just picture that elder later that night...