Posts by Drearyweather

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"Brother Jodie jenelle began his bethel service in in 1990....."

by nowwhat? in

but what they don't say he left started and ran a real estate company and a global real estate consulting firm and apparently after making a fortune come back to bethel a few years ago.

how in the hell could a non lifer now be anointed and appointed to be a gb member.

sure can't be for his spiritual qualifications!.

Drearyweather

It's a classic case of being careful what you wish for.

For decades, lot of ex-JW's ridiculed the WT as to how all the GB members are all 75+ year-old men without any real-world corporate experience. You got one now.

Also, looking at all the information out there, Jody Jedele doesn't seem to be the worldy big-shot corporate guy that people are assuming he his.

Regarding working in the US Bethel, he has more experience in US Bethel than other 5 GB members - Jeffrey Winder, Gage Fleegle, Mark Sanderson, Geoffrey Jackson and Anthony Morris. While Jody joined US Bethel in 1990, Jackson and Morris joined in 2002 and were appointed to the GB in 2005, Sanderson joined in 2000, others joined after that.

By my association with the LDC and some projects, he has been one of the big brains behind a lot of property decisions in the past decade. So in no way he is a new guy that suddenly came into the picture now.

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2024S147**A&R

by Atlantis in

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a&r means announcements and reminders.. 2024**s*147. here:.

https://pdfhost.io/v/diikuykdl_untitled_1 .

petra!

Drearyweather

What I also found surprising is that by attending a kingdom school for a couple of months one could become a missionary or a circuit overseer at 21 y.o.a.

You can become a missionary only if you agree to serve in another third-world country, not in your own country, and that too if you are able to prove that you can survive in the new country.

To become a CO, you need to be an elder for 2 consecutive years, attend the SKE, serve as a Temporary Special Pioneer in a need greater or problematic congregation, serve as subsitute CO for minimum 10 CO visits, and then if your regular CO approves, you become a CO yourself.

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JWN, 23 years posting Blondie

by blondie in

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can i call you friends, i think so after 23 years posting here.

i am dismayed how jwn is being "dominated" or taken over by a few posters, peppering the comments.

in the past, the admin did not approve of this and did remove some posters from jwn.

Drearyweather

FreetheMasons (previous username - EasyPrompt) was always whining and ranting about how the elders unjustly disfellowshipped her because she was a "disruptive" individual. It seems I agree with her elders on this.

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October Elder's Letter Delayed- Big Announcement at Annual Meeting

by Newly Enlightened in

https://youtu.be/93h5zpbil6k?si=ffatfxjuxmj_na9i.

Drearyweather

Not only is the October s-147 form not posted yet….but the s-147s for July, August, and September have been removed from the jw hub.

I just checked. October 2024 is available now and along with September 2024 is under the heading S-147 - 2024-25.

All the previous ones are also available, but now under the heading S-147 - 2023-24.

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Where is Tony?

by Athanasius in

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on february 22, 2023, anthony morris iii was officially removed from the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.

a few months later it was revealed that the watchtower bought him a house in lumberton, north carolina.. however, and correct me if i am wrong, since leaving the gb nobody has reported seeing tony attending jw meetings or participating in field service.

in fact nobody has reported seeing him anywhere, not even at a local liquor store.

Drearyweather

All former GB members who left/resigned/removed have lived quiet lives in their later lives as normal JW's, except for Franz.

In fact, even Raymond Franz decided to write a book after he was disfellowshipped. He mentions in his book that he was happily serving in the local congregation after he resigned from the GB, till the hunting began:

For a number of months we enjoyed a pleasant relationship with the members of the East Gadsden Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses, sharing in their meetings and in the “field activity.” A few months after my arrival the local body of elders wrote to Brooklyn recommending my appointment as an elder in the congregation.

So unless any action is taken on him, there is nothing that anyone will hear, apart from sightings here and there in a KH or in a convention.

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rant about the stupidty of JW r/f

by enoughisenough in

putting this under beliefs,doctrine and practices because i don't see a better heading.

here is what i have been thinking for years now and the situation with the recent storms and the devastation brings in closer to home in my thinking.

i lived in western nc for 20 years and moved to wv in feb of this year.

Drearyweather

rant about the stupidty of JW r/f

and when such JW's who believe every word of the GB wake up, they become even more stupid ex-JW's who believe every word of Reddit

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JWhub

by Mikejw in

i’m an elder who is pima, i’m amazed how much info is available to all elders.

you can see all private details of every member of the congregation.

i wonder how these sisters feel about their private details being available to these creepy elders?.

Drearyweather

If one's "confidential file" is made available to anyone else (are you saying all elders?), would that not constitute a violation of the member's rights?

As per WT policy, only the S-77 form (Record of Disfellowshipping, Disassociation, or Judicial Reproof) goes into the confidential file. In the form, apart from the persnal info of the accused, there is just one question:

Specify offense(s) for which disfellowshipped (sfl 12:2-39):

Here just the offense is mentioned, for e.g. Apostasy, Sexual Immorality. etc. No other detail about who did it with whom and all is not mentioned.

Elders are not supposed to keep any personal notes on the matters in the file. In all the JC's I have been, even as the Chairman, I never took any personal notes, so there was nothing to retain apart from the form.

If any elder has maintained any document on the case apart from this form, and in the future the accused files a lawsuit, the elder stands at fault. As per policy, no other elder is allowed to access this form apart from the Judicial Committee and the Reinstatement Committee. If the DFéd person accuses that the other elders have accessed his confidential file, then again, in a legal sense those elders will be at fault, not the WT.

Most elders that are selected in the JC are careful in these matters, and hence many disfellowshipping court cases are hardly won by any DF'ed person.

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JWhub

by Mikejw in

i’m an elder who is pima, i’m amazed how much info is available to all elders.

you can see all private details of every member of the congregation.

i wonder how these sisters feel about their private details being available to these creepy elders?.

Drearyweather

You can see all private details of every member of the congregation. I wonder how these sisters feel about their private details being available to these creepy elders?

On JWHub, you can only see the details that the publishers themselves have provided. How do elders get info on private details unless given by the publishers? Most of these details are captured when a publisher fills some kind of online form.

Not sure what you mean by private details, but details about Judicial cases are not put on JW Hub, but are in confidential files. Also, the moment a publisher attends a judicial hearing, he effectively agrees to have the details recorded somewhere with the congregation and the branch.

I wonder how these sisters feel about their private details being available to these creepy elders?

If she is a devout JW, then she would feel the same like she would with her family doctor having her details.

If she is a doubting JW, then she will never give out any such details to the elders in the first place itself. Simple.

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New Zealand: Supreme Court dismisses Jehovah's Witnesses' final appeal for Abuse in Care exemption

by AndersonsInfo in

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/528110/supreme-court-dismisses-jehovah-s-witnesses-final-appeal-for-abuse-in-care-exemption.

1:10 pm on 16 september 2024 .

anusha bradley, investigative reporter.

Drearyweather

The biggest problem with these CSA court cases is that they begin with a bang and get published everywhere, but by the time it reaches its conclusion, the coverage gets limited, and many people just don't get to know what verdict has been reached.

The same happened with the Australian Commission. While many know about it when it got initiated, they don't know what conclusion it reached, and what ramifications it had for the WT in Australia in legal terms.

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Sad observation

by Gorb in

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reading about jw.org rules changes these days gives me a sad observation.. everything what "is" today, can be gone tomorrow.. that makes it all worthless.

you were an elder, searching for evidence, and proof to df a person.

because he or she was not humble enough.

Drearyweather

And now, it became all worthless with the DF policy change.

Not sure if I read your post right, but the DF policy is the same, in fact has become more difficult, Earlier, people would need just one judicial hearing to cry and save from being DF'ed. However, now you meet the committee multiple times and have to keep crying and proving that you are sorry. Our congregation had a JC (now called CoE) which went on for 4 meetings with the same person and then the decision was taken to reprove.