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  Do Jehovah`s Witnesses lie to receive Government benefits ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
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  jehovah`s witnesses do not respect the ,governments of any nation from my experience with "witnesses" over 33 years as a card carrying member.

  the governments are to be exploited taking advantage of all the provisions govt`s, hand out to their citizens.after all the govts, are under the control of satan the devil ,he is the ruler of this world and is at enmity with god.. so they feel justified in practicing deception as they the gov`ts.

  being opposer`s of truth have no right to know the real truth.. i personally knew of pioneers who had no intention of finding work but were happy to take unemployment benefits from the govt.

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  Phoebe

  I know people that have used the benefit system here in the U.K. to pioneer and when someone questioned an elder about that he said it was okay as long as they were also looking for work (they weren’t)

  I also know of brothers who did work for people, refused payment or charged very little because they didn’t want their benefits affected, the customer would then feel bad and give them money or extra money which the brother would now see as a ‘gift’ and hence no need to declare it for tax. It was quite a scam but they always got away with it.
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  You will not find this sort of support in the New System: JC Elder

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so that statement was made by an elder to a disfellowshipped brother, during a reinstatement meeting.. this statement is made here at around 4.

  10 mins in.. the full story of this man is incredibly sad.

  in fact i've rarely listened to an exjws story that has affected me quite so much.

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  This video by Dutchman Logger is very upsetting. It's as if the elders set out to destroy him and they just about succeeded. He lost everybody except one granddaughter and by all accounts he had been a good father, working hard to provide for his large family.

  There was no compassion, no empathy, no understanding for a person who clearly had post traumatic stress. He went to the elders for help and got nothing.

  The way they dealt with him was despicable. I feel so sad for him.
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  Financially Are You Doing Better Than a Year Ago?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this isn’t a usa question.

  is your financial situation better or worse or pretty much the same?.

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  Financially Are You Doing Better Than a Year Ago?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  this isn’t a usa question.

  is your financial situation better or worse or pretty much the same?.

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  Phoebe

  Worse, way worse, and next year when 'Brexit' happens, I dread to think where will be financially.
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  coughs colds and respitory ills

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do stil in jw attend the kh when they have the above?.

  some years ago it was the norm-meetings are sooooo important.

  whats the position these days?

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  Phoebe

  I was once told even if you have to crawl, you must go. It's a command. I remember missing a few meetings when one of my children was born and a sister in my congregation had a child just after me and she was at the meeting within hours of giving birth! I remember feeling a total failure because I'd missed a week of meetings.
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  Is Child Abuse An Issue That You Personally Have Seen In The Organization?

  by minimus in

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  as an elder, i saw one child abuse situation involving a man who wanted to be an elder and had i believe 8 children.

  he was not in our congregation when this all erupted.

  he denied it and moved to another hall and unbelievably, that body of elders wanted to appoint him since they believed his entire family was lying about him.

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  Yes, we had one in our congregation. On the face of it, a very devout JW. The type of JW that would walk to the Kingdom Hall with his bible in his hand and snitch on anyone to make himself look good. Turned out he’d been molesting his daughters and no one knew until his eldest confided in a sister. He got away with it and is now remarried (mother of daughters divorced him) and is in a new congregation. Then of course, there is my own abuser. Highly respected elder, ex temp CO. He totally got away with it.
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  Being cyber stalked by an elder - and how I dealt with it!😉

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ah...this is funny!.

  my instagram is set to public .

  i have nothing to hide.

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  I have a public Instagram and business Facebook page and every now and then I'll see that a JW from my congregation likes something or makes a comment and I'll think 'so you are watching me, are you?'

  I do think they watch us, if they can.
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  1969 Awake on Education - A Sore Spot for Me

  by NotBlind in

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  my father would have started college 49 years ago this week.

  about three months earlier, the week he graduated high school, the awake!

  magazine came out with some very clear direction to teenagers.

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  I was a victim of that magazine, too. I left school in 69 and wanted to go to college but was talked out of it to regular pioneer instead. So I had a series of poorly paid jobs, never achieved anything and am now mid 60s and suffering with anxiety and stress because we’re struggling to pay the bills. But, I made absolutely sure my own children got educated and went to university for which I was well and truly shunned in my congregation, but I didn’t care. It was important to me my kids got the education I was denied. That damn magazine article, it helped ruin so many of us!
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  London Protest 2018

  by josephus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well today marks the beginning and biggest day of our protest at the london excel.. we believe it's a record number at around 100 exjws at the front door.. we spoke to lots of jw's and one young man studying who has quit after talking to us.

  we've been approached privately by jw's who thanked us for coming and the security at the event treated us very well.. if anyone wants to see some clips they are available on my channel the great apostate.. thanks to all for the support and love..

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  Instagram is big in my old congregation among young and old. Of course all accounts are private but when I was part of the congregation I saw endless photos of conventions/field service etc. No one was on Facebook or Twitter because it was frowned upon. Not sure anyone would be brave enough to share photos of the protest but they might....who knows.
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  London Protest 2018

  by josephus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well today marks the beginning and biggest day of our protest at the london excel.. we believe it's a record number at around 100 exjws at the front door.. we spoke to lots of jw's and one young man studying who has quit after talking to us.

  we've been approached privately by jw's who thanked us for coming and the security at the event treated us very well.. if anyone wants to see some clips they are available on my channel the great apostate.. thanks to all for the support and love..

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  Well said Farmer Jim 1 and if you do it again next year we would like to come and join you.