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  BADGES COMING TO LOCAL KINGDOM HALLS, FINALLY RESPECT I DESERVE!

  by AuntConnie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  badges are coming to distinguish real christian effort!

  1. badges: i want my badge to be different from the other brothers and sisters badges coming!

  the society has realized they can't live without us and now they are giving us a little something extra ,it's going to be a blast!

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  cobaltcupcake

  I think sashes or special hats might be better.

  
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  Menlo Park Legal Advisor Tells All

  by Juan Viejo2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  someone sent me a link to the anoninsurrection youtube page.

  i found eleven videos documenting an interview with the legal advisor for the former menlo park kingdom hall elders.

  you can find them here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=plszmu_qv0dgtco2wl5bnjdx12ny2_cmoo .. i've also published the entire set of eleven along with my comments on ex-jw.com.

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  I was shocked by those videos.

  Honestly, I don't doubt that the WT would do all of those things to protect itself. They haven't been that way from the beginning. I suspect it's been a gradual descent into corruption.

  It's probably a matter of protecting Jehovah's Organization - you'll lay down your life for it, so it's no big deal to do a little surveillance of a "dangerous apostate" for the brothers.

  I watched an interesting program about two Scientologists who rose to a high level in that organization but decided to leave. They suffered a lot of similar harassment - obvious tails, for example.

  My ex-husband was a Bethelite back in the early-mid 1970s, and I remember him telling me that the place was run more like a corporation than a religious organization. They disregarded scriptural principles left and right, most notably brotherly love. It's easy to see how easily they could get from there to the point they are now.

  The Governing Body have fallen out of "the truth."
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  Dunkin Donuts........... is anything made there anymore????

  by DaCheech in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  my kids were good yesterday, so i promised them that i would get them dunking donuts in the morning on the way to dropping them off to school...... on the highway, there is a gas station convenience store with a corner dunkin donuts.............. they usually have everything there.. well my kids could not have their donuts, or muffins, or croissants............... they were not delivered i guess.. so, i left.. i went to another dunkin donuts 3 miles away............. and the same problem.. the other dunkin donuts was a dedicated dunkin only place!!!.

  there's no baking in the place anymore!!!!.

  what are we coming to!.

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  Krispy Kremes are only good when they're hot and fresh.

  My local Dunkin has a kitchen in the back, but maybe that's only for their sandwiches. Whatever happened to Fred? "Time to make the donuts!"
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  Dunkin Donuts........... is anything made there anymore????

  by DaCheech in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  my kids were good yesterday, so i promised them that i would get them dunking donuts in the morning on the way to dropping them off to school...... on the highway, there is a gas station convenience store with a corner dunkin donuts.............. they usually have everything there.. well my kids could not have their donuts, or muffins, or croissants............... they were not delivered i guess.. so, i left.. i went to another dunkin donuts 3 miles away............. and the same problem.. the other dunkin donuts was a dedicated dunkin only place!!!.

  there's no baking in the place anymore!!!!.

  what are we coming to!.

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  Krispy Kremes are only good when they're hot and fresh.

  My local Dunkin has a kitchen in the back, but maybe that's only for their sandwiches. Whatever happened to Fred? "Time to make the donuts!"
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  Give me good honest reasons why you will ..............

  by Phizzy in

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  2. friends

  attend the memorial this year..

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  cobaltcupcake

  Can't go. Don't own a dress.

  Or - since I'm 1000 miles away from any JW who knows me, I could attend at the local KH wearing my jeans so they'll all think I'm just a harmless newly interested one.

  Then I'll pull out my worn deluxe NWT that has my name embossed on the cover, look up all the scriptures as fast as they do, partake of the emblems, and freak 'em all out. That might prove to be quite amusing for me.
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  The moon tonight.

  by Defianttruth in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was in my yard tonight with telescope watching jupiter.

  jupiter is as close to the moon as it will be in the next 13 years.

  to my surprise, the moon had a corona which is pretty rare for where i am standing.

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  My father used to say that the number of stars inside the ring indicates the number of days until the next snow.
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  The "Pop-In"

  by Mr. Falcon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so last night the wife is working, the kids are getting ready for bed and i'm watching futurama.

  doorbell rings.

  now it's dark, snowing and i live on a back road, so it's very odd to have a visitor.

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  You're right - only JWs would be so rude. We used to do it all the time while out in FS - pop in on someone and ask to use their bathroom. During months when I wasn't aux pioneering I would always make sure my bathroom was clean before 10:30 a.m, just in case.
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  The "Pop-In"

  by Mr. Falcon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so last night the wife is working, the kids are getting ready for bed and i'm watching futurama.

  doorbell rings.

  now it's dark, snowing and i live on a back road, so it's very odd to have a visitor.

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  You're right - only JWs would be so rude. We used to do it all the time while out in FS - pop in on someone and ask to use their bathroom. During months when I wasn't aux pioneering I would always make sure my bathroom was clean before 10:30 a.m, just in case.
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  NOT on JW.ORG; Legal Breakthough in stemming abuse in Catholic Church. Secret files released by court order.Will Watchtower be next? Washington Post.

  by Balaamsass in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  files show how la church hierarchy maneuvered behind the scenes to shield molester priests/flipper-inner (reed saxon, file/ associated press ) - file - in this sept. 22, 2007 file photo, cardinal roger mahony speaks during an annual multi-ethnic migration mass at the cathedral of our lady of the angels in los angeles.

  cardinal mahony and other top roman catholic officials from the archdiocese of los angeles maneuvered behind the scenes to shield molester priests, provide damage control for the church and keep parishioners in the dark, according to church personnel files.

  mahony, who is retired, issued a statement monday, jan. 21, 2013, apologizing for his mistakes and saying he had been naive about the lasting impacts of abuse.. /flipper-main captionfullscreen/flippertext sizeprinte-mailreprintstooltile ad begintooltile ad end /article tool bar by associated press, for ap news registry jan 22, 2013 08:20 am est.

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  Mahony was out of town but issued a statement Monday apologizing for his mistakes and saying he had been “naive” about the lasting impacts of abuse. He has since met with 90 abuse victims privately and keeps an index card with each victim’s name in his private chapel, where he prays for them daily, he said. The card also includes the name of the molesting priest “lest I forget that real priests created this appalling harm.”

  Can you imagine a member of the GB expressing this kind of contrition? I would pay to see that!
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  This just new: Thirty-hour quota for auxiliary pioneering (letter)

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just wanna post post this.

  to all congregations.

  re: thirty-hour quota for auxiliary pioneering.

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  cobaltcupcake

  There used to be an actual advantage to signing up to pioneer or temporary pioneer. The literature was cheaper for pioneers. I can't remember how much cheaper the books were, but magazines (which were sold to the public for 5 cents each) cost 4 cents for publishers and something like 2 cents for pioneers.

  When my ex and I left the pioneer service we received a letter from the Society asking us to count up the books and magazines we had left over from our pioneer service and pony up the difference between the pio and pub rate. They said we could just pop it into the contribution box. We never did.