Xanthippe

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  "Hello" (Adele Parody)

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cklqfx62u_i.

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  Xanthippe

  Great voice. Felt sorry for them actually. Nineteen and stuck in a cult, throwing your life away. Now who does that remind me of.
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  The gervais principle and jehovah's witnesses

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  this chart says it all.

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  Yes!! And can someone post the now (in)famous pic of Splane 'explaining' the overlapping generations?

  Yeah Stuck that's what I thought it was when I saw WakeMe's post. They've been doing these overlapping era diagrams for a long time. Wasn's there one about the march of the world powers and how some of those overlapped? Didn't have to look too far for 'new light' did they?
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  January 2018 Watchtower

  by Listener in

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  the cover page shows a photo jws loading a small plane with watchtower literature to take to a remote area in bolivia.the first study article introduces the 2018 year text isa.

  40:31 "those hoping in jehovah will regain power".

  according to them, you may leave home to do field service or attend a meeting feeling exhausted but you return home refreshed and 'jesus' yoke is kindly indeed!

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  Xanthippe

  Selfish people are like hedgehogs. Oh how I miss the depth of intellectual discussion I left behind in that religion.
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  Is it a once a week church now? Or can you skip that and listen on the phone?

  by Xanthippe in

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  2. beliefs

  i would like to outline what exactly this religion is now because i've lost track of all the changes on here.

  this forum's my only source of information as my family still-in shun me.

  so what do jws do now?.

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  Xanthippe

  At first I thought you were having me on that malingering is in DSM-5 but it is. How strange.
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  Is it a once a week church now? Or can you skip that and listen on the phone?

  by Xanthippe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would like to outline what exactly this religion is now because i've lost track of all the changes on here.

  this forum's my only source of information as my family still-in shun me.

  so what do jws do now?.

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  Xan: Also, they may come and "shepherd" you to find out your "story" to judge if you are worthy of being on the phone. - Wakanda

  Wow do they have to get a sick note form the doctor?

  Secondary gain from illnesses creates the perfect world for small minds: You are ill so you cannot do as much as you should. Illnesses give JWs a fantastic excuse to cruise their way to the new system of things. - Steve2

  But those who are faking it or making more of ill health than they should, what about their seeing-all God? Do any of these who are left in,actually still believe in God I wonder sometimes. Not that I do but aren't they supposed to ......?
  
  
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  Is it a once a week church now? Or can you skip that and listen on the phone?

  by Xanthippe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would like to outline what exactly this religion is now because i've lost track of all the changes on here.

  this forum's my only source of information as my family still-in shun me.

  so what do jws do now?.

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  Xanthippe

  Yeah scratchme1010 I thought anyone could listen by phone. So I suppose if they don't think you're 'worthy' and yet you're long term sick or depressed you still get branded spiritually sick for missing meetings. Well it gets elders out of caring for you which is the name of the game!
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  Is it a once a week church now? Or can you skip that and listen on the phone?

  by Xanthippe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would like to outline what exactly this religion is now because i've lost track of all the changes on here.

  this forum's my only source of information as my family still-in shun me.

  so what do jws do now?.

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  Yes ME and fibromyalgia are two of her illnesses! That's what I suspected, thanks. So basically she's not a practising witness anymore just a nominal one by the sounds of it. Interesting.

  So I guess lying about your health is not a sin but saying you cannot believe the nonsense anymore is.

  Although of course health problems do multiply in that religion because the body can only take so much guilting and negativity.
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  Is it a once a week church now? Or can you skip that and listen on the phone?

  by Xanthippe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would like to outline what exactly this religion is now because i've lost track of all the changes on here.

  this forum's my only source of information as my family still-in shun me.

  so what do jws do now?.

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  Xanthippe

  Thanks konceptual. So I suppose as one of my sisters has type two diabetes and the one I mentioned seems to have a new illness every year it's possible they haven't been for years and listen on the phone.
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  Is it a once a week church now? Or can you skip that and listen on the phone?

  by Xanthippe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would like to outline what exactly this religion is now because i've lost track of all the changes on here.

  this forum's my only source of information as my family still-in shun me.

  so what do jws do now?.

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  Xanthippe

  I would like to outline what exactly this religion is now because I've lost track of all the changes on here. This forum's my only source of information as my family still-in shun me. So what do JWs do now?

  Is it meetings twice a week or can you just go down to one without recriminations and listen on the phone to the other? Is there a convention of two days in the summer? Are circuit assemblies just one day and is there just one a year? Someone mentioned a while ago about not putting in FS reports but I didn't have time to read it and then I couldn't find it later. Was that just speculation?

  It seems like as long as you keep your head down and don't tell people what you read, what movies you see, what trips you take etc., you can do more of what you want because you hardly seem to see the congregation any more.

  I know my sister has a list of illnesses as long as your arm and has started walking with a stick according to my nonJW cousin. I'm wondering if basically my sister and possibly my other siblings are just JWs in name only and yet still shunning me. They might not have gone for years! Although I can't see my brother giving up his eldering. Even though at the last family funeral he looked huge and was swilling down the beer like nobody's business.

  So it's not just idle curiosity I'm wondering what my family are actually required to do, minimum now? Thanks in advance for your help.
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  happy people.

  by zeb in

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  i have opened thesite to relate this part of my day.. yes the jw are such happy people.

  yeah right... my wife has come home after an extended sunday meeting in a foul mood.

  to be around her is like feeling your way through barbed wire.

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  Xanthippe

  I think Zeb knows his own wife by now. He's not asking for marital advice just wants to know has something happened at the meeting to upset her and do the pimos know.