Posts by FedUpJW

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Did you have any Elders CO's/DO's that were "Hung up" on certain things????

by karter in

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we had an elder that was hung up on mens haircuts he had a real thing about how short mens hair should be and even told one bro off for parting his hair down the middle.. even told one bro to shave off his sideburns.. a c.o who was paronoid about sound always telling the bro in charge off.. .

a d.o who orded the attendants to remove crying babys from assemblys on more than a few occations...hans hubler for those that know him..

FedUpJW

Supposedly it was corrected (I doubt permanently) when a CO with a little sense left showed up. He wore non-white shirts for his talks.

Not really an urban legend. I personally know of this happening. I was just a boy in the early 60's, my father was the congregation servant at that time (he was always more balanced than others) in the congregation. One of the other "servants" brought it up during the Friday meeting with the Circuit Servant and said he felt no man should be allowed on the stage unless wearing a white shirt. The Circuit Servant at that time asked him if he truly believed it was wrong to wear a colored shirt on the stage? The complainer said "Yes". So the Circuit overseer told him, "In that case I NEVER want to see YOU wear a colored shirt on stage!"

That Sunday the C.S. showed up wearing a pink dress shirt. My father was not a liar, and I heard verification of the truth of this story from the C.S. decades later shortly before he died.

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Did you have any Elders CO's/DO's that were "Hung up" on certain things????

by karter in

jw
friends

we had an elder that was hung up on mens haircuts he had a real thing about how short mens hair should be and even told one bro off for parting his hair down the middle.. even told one bro to shave off his sideburns.. a c.o who was paronoid about sound always telling the bro in charge off.. .

a d.o who orded the attendants to remove crying babys from assemblys on more than a few occations...hans hubler for those that know him..

FedUpJW

One I remember specifically by the last name of Prouton who went on a rant about women's jewelry in his "Needs of the Circuit" part. Said very pointedly that ankle bracelets were verboten. Even went to far as to mention a certain sister in the circuit who wore one and all he could think of was, "I see it and think tinkle, tinkle here comes Jezebel!"

That sister was a quite attractive women, married and had eyes only for her husband. Maybe brother CO made an inappropriate pass at her and didn't like being turned down? That woman and her husband to the best of my knowledge walked away from the JW's about that time.

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Is There Concrete Evidence That The Org. Has Covered up Child Abuse?

by Vanderhoven7 in

i hear of a plenty of personal testimonies of abuse but it is harder to prove organizational complicity.

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FedUpJW

Have you as an adult ever been involved at any time in the past with child sexual abuse?"

And there you have the "get out of jail free" card. All they have to do is say "NO" while thinking, "I was only one day shy of 18, so NOT yet legally an ADULT."

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The Great "Dumbing Down"?

by NotFormer in

a few old timers on here often refer to the dumbing down of the jw organisation.

what examples can you think of from over the years?

(i ask as an interested outsider who was never in).

FedUpJW

What little printed material there may be is written at a third grade level. The videos are in the manner of cartoons that would also appeal more to an eight year old mind.

Years ago WT prided themselves on raising people up to at least moderately reasonable level of literacy, now they have joined the race to the bottom of the barrel in a desperate bid to attract more useful slaves.

Of course that is true with most business, political, and religious entities IMO.

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December 2023 Study Washtowel - Keep recruiting for the cult!

by BoogerMan in

december 2023 p. 6 par.

15 - "an especially fine work that gives evidence of our faith is our zealously sharing the good news with others.

why was nothing said to the 3000 about "preaching?

FedUpJW

@Punk

The only thing I can fault about your comment above is that I couldn't hit the like button until my thumb wore out.

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Circuit Accounts Servants Confesses how the SCAM WORKS!!

by JT in

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yes, i too have wondered how an assembly that is held in a fully paid for assembly hall, with no food service, could possibly have $10,000 in expenses.

i suppose the bethel speakers have transportation expenses - maybe $1000 or so.

as for rent on the assembly hall, well you have already paid for it once, why pay again?

FedUpJW

From the storm warning it looks much like the typical mid-winter snow storm in the upper U.S. or typical severe thunderstorm in summer. Of course now anything weather related has become a weather "event".

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December 2023 Study Washtowel - Keep recruiting for the cult!

by BoogerMan in

december 2023 p. 6 par.

15 - "an especially fine work that gives evidence of our faith is our zealously sharing the good news with others.

why was nothing said to the 3000 about "preaching?

FedUpJW

December 2023 p. 6 par. 15 - "An especially fine work that gives evidence of our faith is our zealously sharing the good news with others."

I can't believe they didn't toss in a comment about how "our faith" is also made evident by making monetary donations at every opportunity. I'm shocked. . .shocked I say that they didn't pop that into the article somehow.

Of course I have not read it, nor will I read it.

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Two biggest issues for Watchtower right now

by Teddnzo in

selena accused tony morris of being involved in child abuse and the pimo bethelite who just got kicked out.

let’s see how this rolls out.

FedUpJW

Vidiot - There’ve been more and more indications lately that the Org is in serious financial trouble.

Agreed, however IMO their financial trouble is due in very large part to their now becoming obvious to any who see, GREED. There is not a meeting that goes by from what I hear locally that there is not at least one mention of giving money.

I do not say this being argumentative. Just stating my opinion.

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Two biggest issues for Watchtower right now

by Teddnzo in

selena accused tony morris of being involved in child abuse and the pimo bethelite who just got kicked out.

let’s see how this rolls out.

FedUpJW

I listened to the sanderson audio. A few take-aways from his indoctrination speech to the auditors.

1) sanderson's comment early in the audio about branch financial reports, "We have no way of knowing the truthfulness of these reports." He just in so many words accused those preparing the branch reports of lying! Shouldn't he trust that fellow JW's would tell the G.O.D. the truth?

2) He says. "If something doesn't look right don't look the other way." Well why the Hell not? BITD when I did a quarterly audit on the congregation accounts I noticed no less than two glaring discrepancies in one month. Brought it to the attention of both the MS who was account servant and the COBE when I went over my findings. Got pretty well shut down. Then a few months later noticed the account servant had forgot his file case in the library, so went through and found that months audit report. The one I had filled out and signed was gone! A different one was in it's place with a glowing report about everything is just fine!

From Gomer Ekrann who closed the audio came this statement, "In the last year or two there has been a lot more emphasis on "OUR" money. This will give the governing body confidence that "OUR" money is not bleeding off somewhere." He just subtly accused the brothers of stealing. Remember sanderson talking about the Philippines where boxes and cans were disappearing?

As stated earlier this is not about anything other than pure, unadulterated greed by the WT. If they were truly concerned about an open and transparent financial accounting they would print it for everyone to see instead of hiding it.

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Goodbye Mother

by punkofnice in

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friends

so my mother passed on 20 aug 23 from the big c. i was there when she went.

that was indeed very traumatic.

i won't go to describe it.. dad went 17 years ago so there's just me now.

FedUpJW

Add my condolences also.