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  Circuit Overseer's Outlines

  by AverageJoe1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here's the outlines in english and spanish, grouped together in order for september 2018-february 2019.. english: https://we.tl/6orrqltrya.

  spanish: https://we.tl/6w0acsdefr.

  as per usual, these links will expire in 7 days from the date of this post so get them whilst they're hot!.

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  Situation: A brother reads a news article on the Internet that contains false accusations and half- truths about Jehovah’s Witnesses. He begins to harbor doubts and lose his spiritual balance

  Question: How can this brother be helped to ‘keep his senses’ by reasoning on the following scriptures? [Proverbs 14:15; Matthew 5:10-12; John 10:4, 5]

  When help is provided as soon as problems are identified, they can be resolved before they be- come serious

  Jehovah will help us by giving us power and wisdom to care for his flock during these critical times (Pr 2:6)

  So they are going to continue this charade that news and Internet are full of half truths and lies about Jws...I mean this "them against us" complex is going too far

  i also find it deplorable that the outline has to tell the CO that the tone of the elder servant meeting should be loving - how sad they don't KNOW that already
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  Hey, Has Anyone Seen This Yet?

  by HiddlesWife in

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  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/prnudaftnwe.

  i was told that the borg posted this as an ad (psa, perhaps?

  ) on national tv here in the usa.. any thoughts?.

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  This doesn't look official
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  Little Gems From the November 2018 Study Watchtower

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  quickly glanced through it and noticed these bits of "food at the proper time.

  i'll leave the lap-dancing comment on page 25, par.

  12 and the "how to give us more money" item on pages 28,29,30,31,32 for others to pick up on... page 16, par.

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  Should publishers with kids tell the elders the wt for this lap dancing article is PG-13 in its subject matter so they will pass attending- so inappropriate for all those children that shouldn't have even entered the world due to the encouragement of the GB to seek first the kingdom not having children...
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  The Latest Thing Waking People Up...

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  since i woke up and left i've been contacted by others i knew from my youth who've also left the cult.

  also people around the world on facebook adding me out of the blue because we have mutual friends and they occasionally ask me stuff or share their story.. what i've noticed in the vast majority of cases, is that people are waking up not because of the arc or doctrine but apathy.

  active jws are becoming less and less interested, less and less bothered.

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  "It was due to the fact that a JW must work, work, work to be even in the congregation - let alone in good standing. Constantly scrutinizing oneself (and others), having no day free to just relax and being told that if you're relaxing you're not giving your all."

  this was part of the reason we stopped going-
  I also agree with the cry wolf problem and also notice a lot of Jws living their lives now
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  2018 Convention :The Cry for "Peace & Security"

  by jwdoctrine in

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  2. friends

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzsk2k9y7qs&t=835s.

  the talk of the cry for "peace & security" from the sunday morning program.

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  I couldn't agree more half banana with your sentiment at the end- unfortunately I watched them and came to the exact reasonable conclusion as jw doctrine- and how does preparing for Babylon the great being destroyed having anything to do with this totally paranoid everyone in the store is out to get me to wear this rainbow bracelet dramatization?
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  Moving Back to Chicago - Don't care

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my wife was diagnosed with ms about two years ago.

  we have been living in ohio for the last 5 years but were recently assigned to a new congregation because of the dissolving and sale of our congregation/kh.

  my wife's symptoms spiked after being relocated to our new hall back in january.

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  When you move to Chicago just don't go to any meetings there, just fade- it will so much better for both of you
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  I couldn't take it anymore, although still in because of my wife, I did this...

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i dressed up in a hoodie, double layer so that the cameras at the kingdom hall couldn't recognize me.

  i looked in the mirror up and down so i knew that the cameras, at least at the angle that i knew couldn't see my face.

  i took this disassociation letter, stuck it in the envelope, labeled it, "(congregation's name...boe" by hand and sealed it.

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  Did anything ever come of this? Love it
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  People are nice and life is awesome.

  by OneEyedJoe in

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  2. friends

  i got invited as a +1 to someone's house yesterday to watch the fireworks.

  i'd never met the hosts, and it seemed that most of the people in the group only knew one or two other people there.

  yet i felt more genuine friendship from everyone there than i ever felt at any jw gathering.

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  Before I woke up, I used to say to my husband that my customers treated me so much better than the "friends" -I use that term lightly- at the hall. He used to say that they were jealous of my successful business and I said - doesn't the bible say love is not jealous blah blah- glad I don't have to go there anymore
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  Anyone pissed at their parents for raising you in the cult?

  by blownaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my mother was not the most emotionally stable person.

  she was a follower and instilled in me the idea we were better than those worldly people.

  its hard to go to school as a child and you can not be friends outside of school, you can not celebrate any holidays, and you are told all these people are going to die.

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  I'm not pissed, but I just want them to realize that they choose to change religions as a young adult, so why is it so hard for them to realize I should be able to make the same choice for my life. This is not the same religion I was baptized in, so I think I should be allowed to just quietly leave and still have unconditional love from them. Some the cult has indoctrinated them to believe otherwise
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  Did you wait for something special to happen?

  by stillin in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i pretty much fell apart for about two years while i was looking at the religion through new eyes.

  i prayed my heart out for two years, begging jehovah to clear a certain thing up that the elders and the organization had perpetuated.

  this was supposed to be his spirit-led organization so getting things right in answer to possibly just one person's heartfelt prayers should be an easy task for the sovereign of the universe.

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  I also prayed and prayed and prayed without answers. JW BS speak would say- no answer is somethings the answer🙄. I believed everything and didn't even know I was born and raised into a cult. The org had such a Sneaky way of dodging the cult bullet. Cognitive dissonance is a concept I experienced a lot while in and never knew what it was till out.