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WinstonSmith
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I have just been disinvited to my brother's wedding - Thanks AAWA!
by Sic Semper Tyrannis ini am an inactive jw.
i havent been on this forum for a few months and have been lurking in others.
i have met a few people in real life and online, both on this forum and on others.
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How to identify Publishers who know TTATT
by His Excellency insince coming to know ttatt, i have always wondered if there are others in the congregation who also share similar experience with me, are there pointers to identifying others who are also faking meeting attendance and fs activities..
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WinstonSmith
In all seriousness, don't trust anyone. Never assume.
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How to identify Publishers who know TTATT
by His Excellency insince coming to know ttatt, i have always wondered if there are others in the congregation who also share similar experience with me, are there pointers to identifying others who are also faking meeting attendance and fs activities..
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They are the ones that sit there with their eyes glazed over.
Oh no, wait, that's everyone else!
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The New Diary of Winston Smith
by WinstonSmith inwe had to go off grid for a time, time and half a time as we thought we had been outed.
fortunately it was a false alarm, but it was a stressful time.
i asked for my original diary thread to be deleted in case there could be anything on there to identlfy mrs smith and i. i am always very careful when posting, and am sure there was nothing on there, but felt it best to have it removed in order to be as cautious as a dove.
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HEY GUESS WHAT!?
I got a text from an elder!!!
What do you reckon? Did he enquire about my spiritual health? Offer spiritual assistance? Ask if there was anything he could do to help since we have been MIA for more than a month?
No.
The text read, and I quote: "Did I get your time for last month?"
Can you feeeeeeeel the love!?
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Geoffrey Jackson of the GB to give a talk in Australia this weekend
by Julia Orwell init's being piped from australia bethel to all the kingdom halls in australia.
apparently the meeting this sunday will go for 3 hours.
anyone here gonna listen/attend?.
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I finally got a text from an elder late last night. I thought 'here we go!' but all it said was, quote "Did I get your time for last month?" Ahhhh, you can feel the genuine love and concern can't ya!?
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Geoffrey Jackson of the GB to give a talk in Australia this weekend
by Julia Orwell init's being piped from australia bethel to all the kingdom halls in australia.
apparently the meeting this sunday will go for 3 hours.
anyone here gonna listen/attend?.
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WinstonSmith
Julia this is really good news about your hubby. Slowly but surely mate, hang in there :-)
We skipped it today too, as we did the special talk last week. We only got one text to ask where we were, and that was from our dear fiend Sister T who thought we were there, and asked where we were sitting. No elder, not even our Group Overseer has been in touch, despite us being MIA for more than a month. Jeez, its lucky we're not dying or anything!
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The New Diary of Winston Smith
by WinstonSmith inwe had to go off grid for a time, time and half a time as we thought we had been outed.
fortunately it was a false alarm, but it was a stressful time.
i asked for my original diary thread to be deleted in case there could be anything on there to identlfy mrs smith and i. i am always very careful when posting, and am sure there was nothing on there, but felt it best to have it removed in order to be as cautious as a dove.
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We had a Zone Overseer talk today. We didn't go. It finished 12 minutes ago and we just got a text from Sister T. "Where are you guys sitting, I'll come and see you!"
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Something that I have always wondered: On what basis does the WTS claim that prophecies have a minor and major fulfilment?
I have never come across any scriptural basis for it (not that this has ever stopped the WTS!).
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WT 15 July 2013 - "Look at the Artwork!"
by The Song Remains The Same inwas just browsing this new issue and trying to make head and tail of what they are talking about, and noticed the final article tucked away on-line;.
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20130715/watchtower-artwork/.
not sure if anyone commented, but it takes me back to the discussions on god's earthly org chart here.. this is what they have to say.... "how many times have you said that to yourself or to others when you opened a new issue of this magazine?
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Don't you love WT articles that are nothing more than themselves giving themselves a big self high five?
Praise us! Praise us! Look, here is something to praise us about! Look! LOOK! Praise, praise, praaaaaaaaise!
Reminds me of a four year old....
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The New Diary of Winston Smith
by WinstonSmith inwe had to go off grid for a time, time and half a time as we thought we had been outed.
fortunately it was a false alarm, but it was a stressful time.
i asked for my original diary thread to be deleted in case there could be anything on there to identlfy mrs smith and i. i am always very careful when posting, and am sure there was nothing on there, but felt it best to have it removed in order to be as cautious as a dove.
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WinstonSmith
Hello Pickler!
I really appreciate you taking the time to keep in touch. Let me say, you have done more than any of the elders in our congregation. As mentioned above the only meeting I have been to in the last couple of months was the Memorial. In the whole time I have been absent from the meetings, not one single elder has been in touch to see whats up, or more importantly, to see if I am alive. I feel sorry for those in the congregation who look to these men as being their shepherds.
Our fade is going right to plan. This coming Saturday, April the 13th will be our 1st Apostaversary. One year since the lights went on with Mrs Smith and she joined me on this journey. We haven't been out in field service for 6 months now. We still put a report in just to keep the wolves away, and no-one has said anything. I haven't been to a meeting since the start of February, and Mrs Smith since the Memorial.
We have been doing a good job of staying under the radar so far, and in the near future, when we move house, we hope to make a clean break. We have family in NZ who are still in, but being in a different country has its benefits...
Our friend that I have mentioned before, Sister T, is the only one in the whole congregation who keeps in touch. Every couple of weeks or so we will catch up and have a coffee, or have her over to watch a movie. We continue to work on her as she has some doubts - even going as far as saying that she is convinced that the Organisation has been infiltrated by Satan and that soon Jehovah will step in to clean it up - but she still believes that there has to be an organised group of people as God's people, and that JWs are that group. We have had some brilliant open and honest discussions with her, she can see it, but fails to realise the import of it I think. Quite frustrating. She is our only genuine friend around here (in the congregation that is), and we can only hope that we have given her enough reasoning that one day, she might hear something in a talk or magazine and it will go CLICK and she'll see the light - the real light, not New Light.
Once we move it will be harder to keep in touch with her, you know what it is like, you can be best mates with someone from a different congregation that shares your hall, but only see them twice a year. So we hope that once we will go she'll keep in touch. We will certainly be keeping touch. Something tells us though that once we are gone, she will just melt back into the WT rut. Some people need to be a part of something.
Mrs Smith and I are happier that ever. We look forward the weekends, and having a bit of a lie in in the mornings. Sometimes we'll wander around the markets, sometimes head into the city, sometimes go to the beach and watch the world go by. We are appreciating life on a whole new level now. We see things different, and not just with a 'the end is just around the corner' view. We see the good in people and realise that we are all just animals hanging on to a rock flying through space. We are all equal in just wanting to survive from day to day and year to year.
Having said that, we are not so naive as to think that we are in the clear just yet. For now though, things are going well and we hope that things will continue in this way and we can slowly fade away to nothingness, and no-one will have any clue.
Stay strong friends, and hang in there no matter what battle you are going through. Patience and determination are what will win this game.
WS