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  Bethelites Vow Of Poverty

  by pale.emperor in

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  former governing body assistant howie tran has shared his bethel vow of poverty contract.

  it reads rather culty.

  i think clause number 9 is particularly worrying...to adhere to, not the bible alone, but also the watchtower literature and the governing body.

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  FedUpJW

  At any rate, serving at any capacity as a jw is 100 percent voluntary.

  Bull!
  
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  Id like to share a story

  by scruffmcbuff in

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  as i spend more time here, things id forgotten come back, mostly bad and some i plan to share eventually.. but this one is happy, one of a sunday talk by a new elder from nigeria in our hall.

  i remember the intro word for word.

  id like to share it with you.. "brothers, sisters, newly interested ones.

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  FedUpJW

  My dear mother used to say that, "Brother/Sister so-and-so is so prudish they couldn't say shit, even if their mouth were full of it!" I sure do miss her.
  
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  09/16/18 WT | My Wife's First JW (cult) Epiphany

  by Solzhenitsyn in

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  oh rapture!

  today's wt caused my wife's first [jw mind control] epiphany and she didn't hesitate to share upon her discovery.

  09/16/2018 | "where are your eyes looking?

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  FedUpJW

  I hi-lited each of those speculative words. And then I waited, and sure enough a busy-body mic runner asked me after the meeting why just those words. So I explained why, and gave him the Merriam-Webster definition of "plausible", and asked him why speculation was presented as fact. I mentioned that another "plausible" explanation of who Moses was talking about when he said the word "we" may just as well have been referring to God and himself, not Aaron. Then when he said he thought that could have been possible and he hadn't thought of it that way I dropped the hammer and asked him who today considers themselves to be a "we" when it comes to speaking for God? Crickets!!
  
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  Humans only survive for 3-5 days without water...

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  and yet today's watchtower and indeed the bible condemns the israelites for moaning about having no water!

  it's never occurred to me how unjust this is!

  and how could a so called loving god not provide a basic human need?!.

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  FedUpJW

  1. Free Will...?

  If I were married and told my wife each and every time I beat her for doing something "wrong" that I loved her, and she had the "free will" to leave me if she did not like the beatings...but that IF she left me I would kill her how the hell is that "free will"?
  
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  What immodest clothing have you got in trouble for wearing?

  by Addison0998 in

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  i personally have a very distinct sense of style and fashion which many of the fellow jdubs frown upon.

  recently, i was told by a few specially self righteous ones that i looked like a prostitute in a pair of white boots!

  a pair of 3 inch heeled, just a little taller than the ankle boots, with skirt that came down to my knees and a black long sleeve shirt that came up to my collarbone.

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  FedUpJW

  Not me...my mother back in the seventies got called an apostate by the P.O. for wearing a wool pantsuit under a long winter coat one -40 below winter day when she faithfully went to conduct some of her Bible studies.

  Right before she died she said, "If Jehovah's Witnesses would have been in the forties what THIS religion is now I NEVER would have gotten baptized as one! They are no different than the rest of them now."
  
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  What immodest clothing have you got in trouble for wearing?

  by Addison0998 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i personally have a very distinct sense of style and fashion which many of the fellow jdubs frown upon.

  recently, i was told by a few specially self righteous ones that i looked like a prostitute in a pair of white boots!

  a pair of 3 inch heeled, just a little taller than the ankle boots, with skirt that came down to my knees and a black long sleeve shirt that came up to my collarbone.

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  FedUpJW

  I got chastised, and "soft shunned" for wearing a pair of black denim dress pants with a snapped western shirt and western tie with boots (I do not own any other style of clothing) while out in rural ranch country when I still used to go in service. And horror of horrors I was driving my pickup!
  

  I had more than one rancher who agreed to stop and visit, mostly about livestock though, because I did not come onto their ranch looking like an insurance salesman.
  
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  From no tight pants to Amish dress....how long?

  by Diogenesister in

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  xanthippe what's this thing with really long dresses?

  sometimes i see them on fs and i can't believe how long their dresses are now, almost down to the ground.. so i was reading some of xanthippe and phizzy's posts on the strangeness of jw dress and how much they stand out and i got to thinking.

  so... at one point the amish dress code was current, right?

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  Xanthippe What's this thing with really long dresses? Sometimes I see them on FS and I can't believe how long their dresses are now, almost down to the ground.

  I've noticed that too. At he risk of being thumbed down for refusing to be PC I have noticed that 99% of the JW females with the reeaally long dresses are pretty much in the morbidly obese range, and have very poor style sense or personal cleanliness/grooming. Just sayin'....
  
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  Do You Think President Trump Will Be Impeached?

  by minimus in

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  whether you like him or not.... it doesn’t matter.

  do you think he will be impeached?

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  FedUpJW

  They'd rather the country burned if it meant they have control of the ashes.

  Agreed! The leftists of the democrat party prefer to keep the general population of voters stupid and poor. Just like WT they know it is easier to control people who are both stupid and poor and therefore dependent on whatever B.S. snake oil you are selling at the time. The biggest trouble with the stupid and poor on the left is that they are willfully too stupid to know they are. IMO
  
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  Do Jehovah`s Witnesses lie to receive Government benefits ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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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  FedUpJW

  I’m glad I’m not there in my retirement years to have some moron come up to ME with an envelope looking for contributions for them!..I’m sure this is the new normal in JW land and not something I would tolerate.

  I also was able to work hard, save money, invested pretty well, and now can live comfortably at an age when most are still doing the 9 - 5 grind. I am/was frequently tapped for contributions to assist those who are too stupid to save or invest wisely, and too lazy to work. I always tell them to piss off!
  
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  Anyone notice there has not been any announcement for the annual meeting broadcast this year?

  by nowwhat? in

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  2. bible

  let the speculation begin!.

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  FedUpJW

  Perhaps it will be an "invisible" meeting seen only with eyes of discernment?