Welcome! And your parents left with you! So lucky.
cobaltcupcake
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I'm new here
by WrongweektostopsniffingGlue ini haven't got much of a story.
i'm in my late teens, grew up in it, and got out of the society's regime by the skin of my teeth.
nearly go baptized because i firmly did believe it was the "truth" but because of a gut feeling that held me back, that i almost ignored, i didn't sign my blood to big brother.
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Ciao
by Franco185 inhello a warm greeting to all, i am writing with google translator, i am a former jehovah's witness, who grew up as a baby in this cult and unfortunately stayed there for many years.
i have my parents still active jw.
now happily out of this organization and are very active in exposing this false religious cult - deceptive trade.
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cobaltcupcake
Welcome, Franco!
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Bethel Laying Off
by Bob_NC incan anyone comment on whether bethel is laying people off?
as in, sending folks out of bethel to go pioneer somewhere?
i have heard rumors but would like more detail.
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cobaltcupcake
I know a couple for whom serving in Bethel was their one and only ambition, the only goal that they had in life. They got accepted.
A few years later she developed lupus.
That sounds a lot like my brother and his wife. My brother had been at Bethel for 6 years when he was allowed to get married and bring his pioneer wife to Bethel. They were there 12 years before she developed lupus and they had to leave. I never heard the details from my hard-line company-man brother, but he made it sound like it was their decision. They ended up moving to Maui, which is where she is from.
My brother had risen far - Bethel elder, running the water treatment/sewage treatment plant at Watchtower Farm, so I never thought that he would have been asked to leave. They'd invested a lot of money and training in him for classes and certification. Then again, she couldn't physically cope with her housekeeping job. In fact, I remember visiting them, and she took a nap instead of eating lunch. She was fast becoming dead weight.
Knowing what I know now about the coldheartedness of the Society it seems more likely to me that they were given the boot. Little bro is still staunch, an elder in his congregation, but I haven't seen him or spoken to him in 9 years, so I don't really know.
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BOE Letter: Kingdom News No. 38
by pixel into all bodies of elders re: kingdom news no.
dear brothers: .
april 1, 2013. we are pleased to inform you that in november 2013 a month-long special campaign will focus on a wide distribution of kingdom news no.
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cobaltcupcake
Back in my Dub days I would have seen a significance in that announcement and been all excitipated.
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GB member Anthony Morris in serious auto accident, accepts life-saving blood transfusion.....new light on blood to appear in August 15 Watchtower
by sir82 in...or maybe not.. .
what's today's date again?.
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cobaltcupcake
You got me!
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Only "TIME" matters
by Roberta804 init was last year at easter time that i had a big insight that still looms large with me.
my elderly mother was living with me and she had been suffering from dementia.
i was taken aback why this one elder would come over once a month to try to get my mom to come up with 15 minutes of fs.
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cobaltcupcake
Mr. Freeze - LOL!
They are obsessed with numbers. How manyfyears you've been in "da twoof," how many meetings you attend, how many times you comment, how many magazines you place, how many bible studies you have... As long as your numbers are good they love you. It has nothing to do with cultivating a Christ-like personality or showing love.
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Rabbit peeps are just wrong
by stillin inrabbits are pretty much mute.
not a peep out of them.
seems like there ought to be an awake!
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cobaltcupcake
Of course rabbit Peeps are wrong. Rabbit is an unclean animal.
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Hello
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cobaltcupcake
Welcome, Apocryphal!
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Did you have someone that annoys you at every meeting?
by Iamallcool inat every meeting and every assembly i went to, a sister would always ask me "how are you?
how is your family?
" she says it with a gloomy face every time!
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cobaltcupcake
The elderly elder who spent a couple of years special pioneering in Central America in the '60s and had to mention it in every talk and comment.
The pioneer brother whose wife was misdiagnosed then died of cancer 10 years ago, but he has to tell the story in the car group every single day.
The 86-year-old slightly senile and very deaf pioneer sister who managed to lose her hearing aid every morning, so unless we wanted to spend the day shouting at her we'd have to stop at her apartment and help her find it.
The snooty sister who, during a time when my ex and I were barely scraping by and our car broke down, said, "Why don't you just buy another one?"
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cobaltcupcake
Those are great!
