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  Thanks, but no thanks!

  by FadeToBlack in

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  that was essentially my reply to a recent sms i got from the elder of the group i am supposed to be in, requesting a visit to encourage me and get to know me better.

  my wife has been attending english language meetings in warsaw for the last year or so (i have never been) and i think they are getting antsy about where i stand.

  i've met many of them at events my wife hosted at our house, but so far nobody has pressed me on the issue of my inactivity.. at one of the events, an elder mentioned that he'd heard i 'had been' a jw for many years and he was curious what first attracted me to the org.

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  I hear you 'neat blue dog' but I'm not trying to hide. My big advantage is I have no other family members who are JW's other than my wife, so they have no leverage on me.
  
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  Oh Boy! Beards are "stumbling blocks" again ... from Stephen Lett

  by freddo in

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  so this week's midweek meeting video about stumbling others has lett spouting and gurning rubbish again.. if you can't take the whole 9 minutes go from 5:50 to get the context and 6:45 for the "beard" mention.. https://youtu.be/ezv1ici5cwo.

  oh, well - at least they shoot themselves in the foot with this doublespeak.

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  Good point Sour Grapes.
  
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  Thanks, but no thanks!

  by FadeToBlack in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  that was essentially my reply to a recent sms i got from the elder of the group i am supposed to be in, requesting a visit to encourage me and get to know me better.

  my wife has been attending english language meetings in warsaw for the last year or so (i have never been) and i think they are getting antsy about where i stand.

  i've met many of them at events my wife hosted at our house, but so far nobody has pressed me on the issue of my inactivity.. at one of the events, an elder mentioned that he'd heard i 'had been' a jw for many years and he was curious what first attracted me to the org.

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  yes ToesUp and The Fall Guy - I think that is some of the best advice I have seen dished out here. Be polite, blow them off, get on with your life. My wife is a very liberal JW, so I think if they start to pump her too hard for info, she will simply tell them to back off. She is all in still, but it is mostly a social thing for her. She openly disagrees with many policies, for example shunning.
  
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  Thanks, but no thanks!

  by FadeToBlack in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  that was essentially my reply to a recent sms i got from the elder of the group i am supposed to be in, requesting a visit to encourage me and get to know me better.

  my wife has been attending english language meetings in warsaw for the last year or so (i have never been) and i think they are getting antsy about where i stand.

  i've met many of them at events my wife hosted at our house, but so far nobody has pressed me on the issue of my inactivity.. at one of the events, an elder mentioned that he'd heard i 'had been' a jw for many years and he was curious what first attracted me to the org.

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  That was essentially my reply to a recent SMS I got from the elder of the group I am supposed to be in, requesting a visit to encourage me and get to know me better. My wife has been attending English language meetings in Warsaw for the last year or so (I have never been) and I think they are getting antsy about where I stand. I've met many of them at events my wife hosted at our house, but so far nobody has pressed me on the issue of my inactivity.

  At one of the events, an elder mentioned that he'd heard I 'had been' a JW for many years and he was curious what first attracted me to the org. I spouted some nonsense about the wonderful caring people I had met and then went back to my duties at the grill. I have not DA'd because I didn't want to make things anymore difficult for my wife - she enjoys having 'the friends' over for social occasions and I doubt that would happen if I was an official apostate. I told her it would be better if they just viewed me as spiritually weak.

  I also added in my brief reply, that I would call him if and when I felt the need for such a visit.
  
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  Oh Boy! Beards are "stumbling blocks" again ... from Stephen Lett

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so this week's midweek meeting video about stumbling others has lett spouting and gurning rubbish again.. if you can't take the whole 9 minutes go from 5:50 to get the context and 6:45 for the "beard" mention.. https://youtu.be/ezv1ici5cwo.

  oh, well - at least they shoot themselves in the foot with this doublespeak.

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  I think my wife actually likes my facial hair. I keep it trimmed short. I just don't like shaving - sensitive skin. I wonder if I should ask her if they saw that video at her meeting tonight (making a note of Sir82's reference to the verse in Ps 119).
  
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  Impact of GDPR on WT HQ and EU branches?

  by respectful_observer in

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  curious if any of our eu-based members (especially those still in) have heard anything from official wt channels on how the organisation plans to be in compliance with gdpr ("general data protection regulations") by may 2018?

  it's my understanding that religious organisations must comply, and that religious data is treated a "protected" and therefore subject to some enhance requirements.. specifically, how will they comply with the following requirements:.

  you must disclose to the individual: what data you collect on them, why, and what you do with the data (including what other parties receive the data and what they do with it).

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  Thanks for mentioning the 'hourglass' program AverageJoe1. That was an interesting rabbithole to followup on. It seems that there all kinds of JW apps available. Who would have thought it possible?
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  A Question of Adultery

  by snugglebunny in

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  question: if a jw married lady is accused of adultery and a judicial committee is formed to investigate the matter, is the lady's jw husband also invited to attend as the possibly injured party?.

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  Not only was I not invited to any JC related meetings regarding my first wife's involvement with an elder from bethel, I was 'encouraged' not to even attend the meeting where the reprovals were announced. Did they think I would go postal at the KH? They probably figured I was the quiet type and you have to be careful. TBH, I probably would not have gone anyway, just too bizarre. So I stayed at home with the children that night.
  
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  So, I went to the memorial service of a man I have known since childhood...

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

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  i have been on a fade for years, so this is the first time i have been in a kh for months.the deceased was barely 52 when he died.

  from cancer.

  one year younger than me.the memorial was the standard "read the obituary column word for word, then do the jw commercial for 25 minutes" plus a new twist (to me), they played a video called "around the corner" https://youtu.be/tfccoyp0vsu.

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  I'm wondering if the video is going to become a regular part of the outine or if it was just a one-off. Anyone else have a similar experience?
  
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  Thank you, George Couch!

  by charonsdog in

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  i just thought i'd share this story from my past.. back in the 80s i remember the big problem seemed to be about music.

  (today, it's tight pants, i guess) the organization, society, whatever they were calling themselves, were always going on about the music we listened to.

  disco, heavy metal, the whole "backwards masking" thing...couldn't escape hearing or reading about how satan was corrupting us unless we were listening to kingdom melodies or elevator music.. i was assigned to wtf in the late 80s and remember one of the articles stating that "young people know that the rhythm of rock music is the rhythm of sexual intercourse.

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  It has always been this way, not just with WT goobs. Dancing is the pathway to illicit sex. From the liner notes of 'Celtic Wedding' by the Chieftains regarding song # 8 - Jabadaw: This dance from Breton Cornwall was once part of a suite of four dances. The clergy, who could see in it the opportunity for debauchery led by Satan himself, was opposed to it, and though it was considered the national dance above all else, it disappeared from the suite around 1890-1900.

  Sad. Such a lovely tune.
  
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  Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History

  by pseudoxristos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i found the following article to be a nice contrast to the jw's gloomy point of view.. why 2017 was the best year in human history.

  we all know that the world is going to hell.

  given the rising risk of nuclear war with north korea, the paralysis in congress, warfare in yemen and syria, atrocities in myanmar and a president who may be going cuckoo, you might think 2017 was the worst year ever.. but you’d be wrong.

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  Yes, I feel so much better now that I have $3/day to live off. Thank you Mr Bezos for letting some trickle down. Hey, who knows. If I survive, next year it might be $4/day. For an alternative view:

  Sorry. Linky thing did not cooperate. http://www.monbiot.com/2017/11/24/everything-must-go/