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  From** A**Friend!**2025**Regional**Convention**Videos!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  if you wish to download these videos for "free", then click on (slow download) when you get to the site.

  the entire file folder is 8 gigabytes and will take about an hour to fully download in the slow download mode.

  there is not much time left.. *****************.

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  NotFormer

  Is there no sense of nostalgia that some former JWs might channel? Of course, I'd imagine that there'd be more triggered by this stuff than those who might smile fondly at a positive memory of such gatherings. So, to each his own, I guess.

  Edited to add: I myself, even though I've not so much as attended a meeting in a Kingdom Hall, find these meetings and other broadcasts by the WT to be too heavy going and oppressive to actually sit through. But I was never born and raised in that particular briar patch.
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  The Most Tasteless Awake Cover ?? - Feb 8th 2003

  by BluesBrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this magazine was disturbing to me at the time, but i lost track of it and only recently found it .

  this is exactly as it was printed, no photo shop, i am not that clever.. it is credited to a newsagency, jan banning , panos pictures - so i do believe that she was a real child prostitute .

  there is something that gets to me even now about this picture.

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  NotFormer

  TonusOH: (after reading your link) constipation is the root of all disease? 😳 Always remember: "A bowel movement a day keeps the germs away", folks!
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  You Could Be Stuck in a University When Your Parent Dies. Convention Day 2 Video

  by liam in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the governing body is going all out at this years convention.

  they are still discouraging university education.

  i guess the end must be real close .

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  NotFormer

  Just out of curiosity, what happens at Bethel when a Bethel worker has a family emergency? Is it easy to get compassionate leave, or is it a bureaucratic nightmare?

  Just askin' from the cheap seats.
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  The Most Tasteless Awake Cover ?? - Feb 8th 2003

  by BluesBrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this magazine was disturbing to me at the time, but i lost track of it and only recently found it .

  this is exactly as it was printed, no photo shop, i am not that clever.. it is credited to a newsagency, jan banning , panos pictures - so i do believe that she was a real child prostitute .

  there is something that gets to me even now about this picture.

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  NotFormer

  Scully's right. That Awake! cover was totally evil and can never be atoned for. 😡🤬

  And remember, everything published is valid until it's officially countermanded. When they disband the HLCs, I'll believe that they're trying to distance themselves from those who gleefully danced on the graves of those children. But not a moment before. The GB is evil trash.
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  What is the Craziest Thing You Are Aware Of Someone Being Disfellowshipped For?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i knew a lady who was disfellowshipped for 20 years for smoking.

  she finally went back to the kh and since they couldn't find her paperwork, (all the former elders were dead) she was allowed back in without reinstatement.

  no one even remembered her.

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  NotFormer

  Vidiot, they never cease to amaze me, when they manage to plumb depths that I previously believed to be unplumbable. 🧐
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  Speaking for Almighty God, they endorsed RADIUM

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  but was almighty god stupid?.

  you decide:.

  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nxuaim8j3i0?feature=share.

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  NotFormer

  Hair is an oil filled tube? 🤨🤔🤣🤣🤣
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  VE Day (victory in Europe) and the Generation.

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am watching the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of ve day.

  80 years since the defeat of nazi germany in 1945. i find the interviews of the stalwart men and women who played their part very moving.

  these veterans speak with pride and sadness about their experiences, those they lost, those they fought alongside.

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  NotFormer

  "I seem to remember the song “Waltzing Mathilda” from when I was a child - and that was way before 1980. Just sayin'"

  LHG, And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda isn't the original song by Banjo Patterson which is, as you rightly pointed out, over a hundred years old. Although it was older than 1980; I remember it being played at a school assembly in at least 1979.

  The above quoted song is about a bloke who goes off to the trenches* of WWI, gets his legs blown off and his reward is to be met, at his his arrival back in Sydney, by a band playing Waltzing Matilda. I assume that the song by Eric Bogle is meant to be a pacifist piece about the evils of war.

  *Gallipoli, specifically
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  It’s now official - The Governing Body Members are called for Legal Deposition in a Major Court Case Against Jehovah’s Witnesses!

  by liam in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  it’s now official - the governing body members are called for legal deposition in a major court case against jehovah’s witnesses!

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1ke6cgh/its_now_official_the_governing_body_members_are/.

  recent court documents show that members of the jehovah’s witnesses governing body — including former member tony morris — have been officially subpoenaed to give sworn testimony regarding cases of sexual abuse in new york and how the organization dealt with (or essentially hid) them.

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  NotFormer

  liam: "Nothing will wake up True Believers."

  I dunno 🤨. Seeing your all-powerful gurus carted off to prison might dent the faith of the most rusted-on believer.

  Hey, current GB, does it make you nervous that you might be doing time for Ted Jaracz's crimes? 😀 Time to trot out a bunch of silly articles about how a prison sentence is no proof that one is not fit to lead God's people. It worked for Rutherford, after all! 🙄
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  What did the WTS say the "inner rooms" to find safety

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as recently as 2025, the wts has compared the "inner rooms" to the congregation as a place of safety.

  do you remember this?

  notice the "weasel words" the wts uses to lay the foundation for "adjustment" or "clarification" of their statements.

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  NotFormer

  'Such congregations play an important role in our lives. They will continue to do so through “the great tribulation.” Rev. 7:14 .God’s people are commanded to go into their “interior rooms” and hide themselves “until the denunciation passes over.”'

  How does that work? 🤔 You're hiding from your would be persecuters in a building where everyone could find you? Were JWs in 1930s Germany able to hide in Kingdom Halls?
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  Did the Fred Franz style of writing cease after he died?

  by SydBarrett in

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  2. friends

  i was completely out by 1991 and 1989 would have been the last time i had to attend regularly.

  that over the top franz writing style was still there in the 1980's although i've heard he wasn't actually doing much writing by then.

  but his style was definitely picked up and imitated for many years beyond its wacky, outlandish peak of the the 50's - 70's.

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  NotFormer

  "ahem. in the era and place Nicholas lived, they had no buttons."

  Good point 👉

  But it's creating the possibility of another thread diversion... 😱