It could be the GB have given it a few weeks for the implications of the bunker video to sink in with all the fear and desire to cling to the organisation that it engenders. Then they started to circulate the rumour that it's figurative to cover their backs about another failed prophecy while at the same time leaving that thought planted in the R+F that it might be literal.
Xanthippe
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JW's opinions on bunker video
by neat blue dog inthe so called bunker video isn't just getting attention here but among jws as well.
i've heard a fair share of cracks, some half joking half serious about the prospect of the video playing out in real life .
but something else i've heard is that the video was meant to be figurative, an illustration representing the 'interior rooms' prophecy..
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5 Ways our Lives are Better Since We Left the Jehovah's Witnesses
by KateWild inhttps://youtu.be/gzaspgvg6co.
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your number two is good, but I pioneered and went on holidays so you were too lazy the CO was right lol, only joking.
Well how very rude 😄 Perhaps a little explanation is required. I am the idiot that pioneered for ten years when it was 100 and then 90 hours a month. ☺️ When I wanted to stop because I was so exhausted and getting ill the CO said we're all tired. Then we wanted to go on holiday and the CO said you can do that in the new system. So I go abroad once or twice a year now.
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5 Ways our Lives are Better Since We Left the Jehovah's Witnesses
by KateWild inhttps://youtu.be/gzaspgvg6co.
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1. I don't have to listen to stupid idiots patronising me just because in a woman .
2. I can work for the money to go on holidays without the CO telling me I should be pioneering instead.
3. I can read whatever I bloody well like.
4. I can have whatever friends I like of all colours of the sexual spectrum.
5. My daughter can go to university and get a first, which she did!
Kate I'm so glad you got a job and a new flat and it's working out with your kids.
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What novels have you been reading recently? Recommend any?
by LoveUniHateExams ini've always been a bit of a reader - but only reading about topics i find interesting, e.g.
natural history, dinosaurs, etc.. recently i've started to select, buy and read novels.. this year i've bought and read frankenstein (mary shelly), dracula (bram stoker), the hound of the baskervilles (a. conan doyle), 'salem's lot (stephen king), jurassic park (michael crichton) and the firm (john grisham).. i have an inclination towards horrors and thrillers.. what fiction have you been reading?.
could you recommend anything?.
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Coma by Robin Cook if you like dark thrillers. At the moment I'm reading the Vera novels by Ann Cleeves about the detective inspector in Northumberland that's been onTV. Very well written. I don't usually like crime novels but the characterisation is brilliant.
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Start A Butterfly Garden!
by Bonsai intime to take a break from debating religion.
take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?
how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?
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Thanks half banana I missed your reply to my question. A Magpie Moth eh? That's a first. It's been heating up here this week, 31 degrees here on Tuesday. There was a Comma butterfly in my garden this morning.
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The bitter reality of death
by Bonsai inbeen a lot of death in my life recently.
a close family member died yesterday.
a close friend died 8 weeks ago - both from cancer.
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Bonsai I'm sorry for your losses. Your wife must be struggling to cope with the loss of her mother, which is a deep loss. My cousin died from cancer a few weeks ago and it seemed so wrong because she and her husband had just bought a cottage in the country and made friends with a lovely group of people in the village.
They'd worked so hard all their lives, he a fire fighter and she a teacher and he was about to retire early so they could finally take some time to themselves. Now he has to carry on without her.
I loved your post, it echoed a lot of the things my cousin wrote for her funeral. Value every minute of your life and don't take any of it for granted. Do all the things you long to do, don't put them off. Thanks for sharing that and my heart goes out to you and your family. Carpe Diem, seize the day.
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Help Me Regain Contact With My Still In Family
by pale.emperor insituation is, i'll never return to the wt.
my family with never leave the wt.. depending on who you ask you'll get the following answers when you ask about me:.
my family: he's confused.
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Sadly your family are hurting beacause of the cognitive dissonance your leaving has caused them and they are also ashamed of you so the desire to hurt you is very strong at the moment. The shunning, they are told, is an act of love not a punishment but just now it fits perfectly with their desire to punish you. This is how the cult had designed it. Give them some time to see you are not coming back and perhaps they will start to miss you and your daughter.
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Start A Butterfly Garden!
by Bonsai intime to take a break from debating religion.
take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?
how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?
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Wel the butterflies are coming in my garden now. Snapped this today, anyone know what it is? I can't find it in any of my butterfly books, think it may be a moth.
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For those that carry on as JWs secretly not believing.....
by snare&racket inmy heart goes out for all people stuck in all high control groups, either with insight into the falsehood of their beliefs or none.. to remain a member whilst knowing it false however, must be soul destroying.. my question is, would you carry on living the lie if you discovered that we get one life, one go at existing.
it's short, it's fragile and nobody in 100 years will care we even existed..... .......if you came to that realisation would you quit?.
.......if you had children, would you leave in order to set them an example in strength and appreciation of the short time we enjoy?.
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We only carried on pretending to believe and attending meetings for a few months. We just couldn't stand it. Whilst I understand those that want to get their relatives and friends out, if they think there's hope, we just needed to get away. People would say, 'worldly' people that is, your relatives will mellow over time, they'll come round.
They didn't, after almost three decades, but when I saw my daughter graduating university last week it was all worth it. To think of her pioneering for that cult as I did, wasting her youth and intelligence, especially if I was forced to look on knowing it was all lies, I couldn't have coped with that. So it's swings and roundabouts. Lose your extended family and friends but get a good life and have happy kids.
When you look at the planet we live on nobody has a perfect life anyway do they? Nobody has it all. I have more than a lot of people have and I'm glad we left when we did for the sake of our health and my daughter's happiness.
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Xanthippe
Twenty-one.