FedUpJW

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  Did your witness family have a 'Thanksgiving' that wasn't on Thanksgiving?

  by SydBarrett in

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  my family had several elders, ministerial servants, auxillary pioneers etc, so it certainly wasn't one of those 'barely in' families.

  but in certain small ways, i think mine were slightly less hard line than some other families i've heard stories about over the years.

  one example was the 'fall dinner'.

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  We didn't have it on Thanksgiving Thursday but it was always that general time of year. Did yours do that?

  Of course we did. The weather was still good enough and predictable enough for relatives/friends to travel some distance. Everyone had a four day weekend so it didn't have to be a lot of time spent for a very short visit. And the food savings were usually phenomenal. Only half-wits would believe that you should reject a certain food, association with family or friends just because the calendar said it was Thanksgiving. If the uber JW's didn't like it I always said to them that they should do everything in their power on THAT day to very visibly prove themselves NOT thankful for anything!. Assholes!
  
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  Vice President Kamala Harris…your thoughts??

  by minimus in

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  good pick?

  bad pick?

  helpful to president biden?

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  The word salad queen at it again. Someone slap that ----!
  
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  The org's "new lights" - corrupting Proverbs 4:18

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  proverbs 4:18 says, "but the path of the righteous....grows brighter and brighter until full daylight.".

  the bible "light" doesn't get brighter - it never changes - it's a person's direction & course of life which gets brighter.. w11 9/15 p. 14 par.

  15 - "when spiritual light on some matter gets brighter, do you try to understand the underlying scriptural reasons for the adjustment?

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  GB Jeffrey Winder's 1st talk of the 2023 Annual Meeting (entitled: "How The GB Arrive At New Light").

  Nu-lite? I am still waiting to see the sun come up some morning and as it does so for the light from it to make several radical changes instead of the day just getting brighter. Brighter light in the morning has not ever, and will never make something change into something completely different as morning progresses.
  
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  EXPLOSIVE NEW LEAKED VIDEO OF C.O. CHASTISING ELDERS

  by raymond frantz in

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  https://youtu.be/np05twylal8?si=wjcdevvpxmlwxb2p.

  shame is an ancient form of control.

  shame is the mechanism used to control behaviour.

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  True friendship is extremely rare within this organizaion

  And they are in spite of the organization, not because of it.
  
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  Members of congregation know it’s not true

  by Mikejw in

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  we have lonely old folks and even some not so old.. they know the gb are not who they claim to be.. but they stay in the congregation because they are lonely.

  i wonder what percentage of jws this is the case, i would guess a lot.

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  They said “ it is better to be wrong & inside the Truth than to be “right outside “ it ….

  My saying is that there is no wrong way to be right, and no right way to be wrong.
  
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  How would you rate the Watchtower approved songs?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  2. bible

  i was asking why jws won't sing any church hymns even if they were doctrinally correct.

  jws asked me in response if i would sing any of their songs.. dan watkins wrote .

  its a hilarious misunderstanding, if it does not come from the watchtower bible and tract society, then it is effectively considered as coming from satan.

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  At least one song is one I like. The JW's did steal their song 58 almost word for word, and note for musical note from a song written by Frances Ridley Havergal titled Take My Life, and Let It Be written in 1874.
  

  
  
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  How would you rate the Watchtower approved songs?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  2. bible

  i was asking why jws won't sing any church hymns even if they were doctrinally correct.

  jws asked me in response if i would sing any of their songs.. dan watkins wrote .

  its a hilarious misunderstanding, if it does not come from the watchtower bible and tract society, then it is effectively considered as coming from satan.

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  Holding a grudge

  by LongHairGal in

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  i read something recently on reddit (not sure what thread) where a person related how some jw told them that ‘they hold a grudge’.. this reminded me of something an old jw acquaintance said to me some years back when i related my bad experience in the religion.. so, apparently, jehovah’s witnesses feel they should be forgiven for anything.

  people should forget all about it and act like nothing happened and be charitable towards them, etc… when i read in james and ephesians i got the sense ‘holding a grudge’ was referring to the things average people do to offend each other.. i don’t see it applying to a religion that claimed to speak for god and who engendered hateful and unchristian attitudes towards people.. i know because i experienced this.. in addition, some people’s lives were damaged by listening to faulty teachings and interference in things that were clearly none of anybody’s business.. one case in point: them knocking worldly careers and now there are thousands of destitute jws in senior years with nothing.. then in 2023 the religion does away with a century old teaching about counting hours in the ministry.

  meanwhile, i got judged over this.

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  So, apparently, Jehovah’s Witnesses feel they should be forgiven for ANYTHING

  Yes, they do. But ONLY if it is someone else who has offended or hurt YOU. Then YOU must forgive them and never hold it against them. On the other hand if it is you who offended or hurt someone (no matter how unintentionally) you then must do everything in your power to grovel, kiss their ass, and do whatever they demand of you to prove that you are not worthy and that for the rest of your life YOU are the one who bears the burden of the "wrong" and they will never let you or anyone else forget what a terrible person they think you are.

  Remember, JW's are just like an abusive husband who blames his wife for the beating he just gave her.
  
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  Article - New Zealand: Jehovah's Witnesses lose last ditch court case over abuse in care report

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/522908/jehovah-s-witnesses-lose-last-ditch-court-case-over-abuse-in-care-report?fbclid=iwzxh0bgnhzw0cmteaar1g3qvzxlojo2szcm6xlsf2tsc_0rehd4dp4i6rda6zxafplc_v2hzvvf4_aem_pztghhvtf5to8qsjtv3m0g.

  july 23, 2024. jehovah's witnesses lose last ditch court case over abuse in care report.

  jehovah's witnesses have failed in an eleventh hour attempt to block part of a lengthy report about abuse in care that is about them.. .

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  Cue the whining about "persecution" in three . . . two . . .
  
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  It's been ten years since congregations surrendered their finances to HQ

  by truthseeker in

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  anyone have any anecdotal reports of individual congregation finances since the stealth takeover by the wt of their checking accounts?.

  are donations up?

  can they pay their bills?.

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  FedUpJW

  No idea what electric, heat, water, money sent off to mom, etc. is.

  Not to mention the lack of transparency for the monthly sizable check to Bro. (----- -----) who is also the COBE.