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  Help! Mike & Kim videos all being deleted by Youtube

  by mrmagic in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  due to watchtower flagging the mike & kim videos on youtube for copyright, youtube is giving them 6 days before they are shutting down their entire youtube channel.

  can you help with a mass downloading program and then reuploading them on a mirror ?

  would hate to lose all those good videos!

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  Phoebe

  Sorry Fisherman

  I went to click the like button and accidentally clicked the dislike. Ooops. Sorry :(

  Btw I Liked your comment very much
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  Help! Mike & Kim videos all being deleted by Youtube

  by mrmagic in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  due to watchtower flagging the mike & kim videos on youtube for copyright, youtube is giving them 6 days before they are shutting down their entire youtube channel.

  can you help with a mass downloading program and then reuploading them on a mirror ?

  would hate to lose all those good videos!

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  Phoebe

  steve2

  I don't see what they've done wrong. John Cedars uses far more WT stuff than they do.

  I watch all their videos and they very rarely show WT articles. Kim said there seemed to be a 'seek and destroy' mentality coming out from Warwick. If that's the case, we may see other channels targeted, I guess.

  There's a lot of JW trolls that make nasty comments under exJW videos, I guess they could be stirring up trouble by reporting too.
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  Help! Mike & Kim videos all being deleted by Youtube

  by mrmagic in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  due to watchtower flagging the mike & kim videos on youtube for copyright, youtube is giving them 6 days before they are shutting down their entire youtube channel.

  can you help with a mass downloading program and then reuploading them on a mirror ?

  would hate to lose all those good videos!

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  Phoebe

  When I first started fading I didn't watch Kim and Mike, I thought he was too shouty and they were what I imagined apostates to be when I was attending the meetings. BUT, I have started to watch them and I enjoy their videos. They have good hearts. They care about people and they expose the WT. They still believe in God, as I still do, so they suit me.

  As Kim said, why are they (WT) bothering with us, we're only a little channel?

  I think this shows WT are worried.
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  Being a jobo. It's not the same as it was.

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been hearing this from what i'd call 'dyed in the wool' type jobos.. 'it's not the same as it was a few years ago.....'.

  i believe from what comes back to me via my spies -.

  the dyed in the woolers are referring to how the gb are now blatantly pontificating threateningly it seems, about wanting money even from children, all the time.

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  Phoebe

  Maybe some are waking up due to the changes but the majority will stay firmly in it, especially the older generation. My friend (she's 69) said the recent WT study about giving up your riches upset her and her husband as they give a lot of money and now they know it's being used for the wrong reasons (ie compensation in court cases) but despite that they will still continue to give anyway.

  It doesn't matter what the WT do or what they change, people like my friend will always go along with it.

  (I wanted to take issue with the 'used for wrong reasons' because compensating an abuse victim is the least they can do, but thought I'd better shut up and let it go.)
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  Yoga for JWs

  by EyesOpenHeartBroken in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was chatting with my very jw pioneer mother (aged 65) and out of the blue she tells me she is sore from a particular pose she did in yoga class.

  "wait, what??

  " i say in my mind.

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  Phoebe

  When my COBE heard I was attending counseling, he came to my house and said I'd better be careful or they might start getting me to do YOGA and that isn't allowed. Clearly he has no idea what counseling is!!!
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  family violence

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this from the australian broadcasting commission (abc).. the aftershocks of the arc continue.. "thanks for your email, and for sharing some of your personal story.we are absolutely aware that violence exists in jehovah's witnesses families.

  as this series is ongoing, we will be continuing to report on this issue for some time.

  in the meantime, you might be interested to read the story of "jennifer" in a feature we published a few weeks back (link below).

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  Phoebe

  My so-called devout JW parents violently fought almost every single day. Rows were constant. Screaming, hitting, beating, smashing up stuff, throwing anything they could get their hands on. Both parent as bad as each other. It was a living nightmare leaving me completely traumatized as a child (well, that and the sexual assaults by my brother...but that's another story) Then they went to the meetings as if nothing had happened.

  In my congregation a sister left her JW husband because he hit her regularly. Do you know what the COBE said to her? He said: 'You do realise you are now going to die at Armageddon.'

  Another sister I know left her JW husband after years of abuse. Her elders tolerated it but she was denied any privileges in the congregation. She wasn't even so much as allowed to make tea at a quick build (when they had them) or give a talk or pioneer - nothing. She could go on the ministry and meetings, that's all.
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  "... climate of disfellowshipping in Hull currently... " - Hull Daily Mail

  by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  article from the above news paper... .

  http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-jehovahs-witnesses-speak-out-444185.

  maybe boe in north east england having an attack of zealous fervour!

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  Phoebe

  disfellowshipping children as young as 10....that is disgusting! What can that child possibly have done?? They are destroying peoples lives. It makes me sick and ashamed I belonged to them for so long.
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  Prayers ,are they answered ? or is it just self delusion ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after 33 years as a jw and leaving 25 years ago i think prayer can be summed up with the jews praying at the wailing wall.. all they are doing is talking to a brick wall ,and getting no feed back.

  and they expect an answer to their prayers ?!.

  christians /other beliefs might find that funny but they are no better off.. prayer is always a one way street you talk either vocally or mentally to god however you never get the same back .. if god " so loved the world that he doesnt want any to be destroyed but have everlasting life " then whats the problem with him audibly answering his servants prayers ?

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  Phoebe

  I always hated it when someone would say they'd prayed for a job or a house and hey presto! they got it.

  Or what about the Watchtower who wanted that equipment (cameras?) for the JW Broadcast and the company didn't have any available and so the brothers went out to the car and prayed and hey presto! A man from the company came running out to the car and said a company in south Africa (?) had gone bankrupt and didn't need their order so the brothers could have it...and cheaper, too. The GB said it was Jehovah answering their prayers because he was backing the broadcast.

  How does that make sense compared to the child praying for angels to be around her bed to protect her from her JW dad abusing her?

  No, I don't believe prayers are answered. It's just coincidences.

  I would worry that my prayers were never answered and others seemed to be. I thought it meant Jehovah didn't like me.

  There's a sister in my congregation who actually put up her hand and said her family think she has her own angel as ALL her prayers get answered, so if you want something just ask her. How utterly stupid is that??

  Or the sister who constantly puts on social media the phrase 'tick...another prayer answered by Jah'
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  Carts in Florence/pisa

  by Phoebe in

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  2. friends

  i have just had a holiday.

  i don't get many so this was special.

  i went to italy.

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  Phoebe

  I have just had a holiday. I don't get many so this was special. I went to Italy. I saw carts in all the touristy places in Florence and also in Pisa. I also saw brothers standing holding up magazines and as we walked by they said ' free magazine.'

  I felt sorry for them, I really did. I almost took a magazine off one brother because he looked like he really didn't want to be there all by himself, holding up magazines.

  It was also the first holiday for me since I left the JWs. I went in all the churches, they were beautiful. I also didn't spend the entire flight in fervent prayer as I used to do, because I'm a nervous flyer. I just embraced everything with a what will be, will be attitude. For the first time I really enjoyed the flight. In fact, I had the best time, I really did.

  It made me realised what a nervous wreck the Watchtower had made me. I was always so, so worried about everything. It made life the opposite of enjoyable.

  One morning, I watched a little girl chasing a bird. She was a sweet little thing and I thought to myself, according to witnesses if that little girl doesn't have JW parents she's going to be slaughtered very soon. How utterly cruel to even think that?
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  How long until the WT takes advantage of Mexican earthquake?

  by Chook in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it will be another money call followed by a reminder about how the end is imminent..

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  Phoebe

  Just saw an Instagram of a headline re the earthquake and underneath this sister has written 'pray for our brothers in mexico'

  It made me so angry. What about everyone else? Guess they don't matter do they?