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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Thisismein1972 - even classrooms of children will game a teacher and the teacher does not know. A class is under tight control but a few know how each should respond to game the teacher. Maybe only one child knows how to do it and the others go along with it.

  Same with a parent managing a child - the parent strives to find techniques that the child responds to. The child is oblivious to parent's tactics. This can be a good or bad thing depending on the motive and the desired end. Psychotherapists do the same and will carry out experiments to assess the effectiveness of techniques.

  The road to hell is paved with good intentions - didn't we all go out on the ministry? With good intentions. Then finally we woke up and realised the GB had been gaming us all.

  It is a very powerful thing - you try to tell a fully-in publisher they are being lied to by the GB. They will not accept it. Maybe eventually they accept it when something hits them personally. Or perhaps it is only by the grace of God that people wake up to Watchtower's tactics. And as you say these things go on in the political arena too.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Thisismein1972 - I wonder if Lloyd is controlled opposition too. Alternatively maybe he doesn't realize he is controlled opposition but is anyway.
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  Should a Christian celebrate Christmas?

  by Samsie in

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  hello, i'm new here and have woken up to the real truth concerning the org.

  i'm sort of fading away at the moment.... i need help with something, i used to as a child celebrate christmas and have always had amazing memories of it (my husband hasn't as he was born into the org) but i gave it up when i learnt the "truth".

  my interest was only in pleasing god and still is.

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  I am happy not to have to decorate the house with hedge trimmings.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  The Watchtower is a publishing company. It is opposed both to the House of Israel and Christians. The fact that it poses as 'Jehovah's Witnesses' does not mean it has any right in God's eye to disfellowship Christians (as if the Christian is being cast off from God).

  They can however chuck you out of their club as a 'lapsed' club-member. Like being a 'lapsed' patreon of some YouTube channel.

  They may have procedures but I imagine they are more concerned about keeping the status quo and doing the least possible.

  Lloydevan - Elders don't even know the Bible. The key issue for me was that I was telling them (as per Dan 1:1) that the 3rd year of Jehoiakim's rulership was the 3rd year of Jehoiakim's rulership. One elder said to me, "the prophet Daniel is not a channel Jehovah is using today."

  Whoop dee doo. I just looked at him and he fell ashamed and mumbled himself away from his own stupid comment. In fairness to him, just before they scurried off to hold a judicial against me and throw me out, he shook my hand.
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  What's You Favorite Castle?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  mine is bouzov castle in moravia.

  built in the early 1300's.

  it wasn't too fancy, kinda rough hewn.

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  Where are the leaks in the roof? How do I pay for repairs? Would the government like to take ownership of this pile back? Who is going to mow the lawn? How many wedding are booked this year? You just can't get the staff.
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  A new type of shiraz

  by ozziepost in

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  well-known amongst friends and acquaintances for my love of a shiraz, ive been given something new to try for christmas.

  its a shiraz viognier, produced by the method of co-fermentation of red shiraz grapes mixed with white viognier grapes.

  they are mixed before the wine is made when the addition of white grapes at this stage is thought to preserve the brightness of the red pigments during fermentation, as well as altering the development of some of the flavour compounds.. a typical shiraz viognier wine will contain between two and seven percent of the white variety.

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  I love fizzy Shiraz
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  100% agree Ozzie
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  A further note on the above video - her son has been disfellowshipped also. He was disfellowshipped after being on the phone to the elders for HOURS AND HOURS reasoning with them on the scriptures and urging them to behave in a Christian manner.

  So it looks like this to me - if you believe in God and love Jesus Christ and find fault with Watchtower and express it, you are out.

  But if you find fault with Watchtower, publish and fornicate - you stand a good chance of not being disfellowshipped.

  And they don't say WHY you are being disfellowshipped, so the IMPLICATION is fornication. Its really disgusting when you have to endure this rubbish.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  He is not disfellowshipped yet? Ok I shouldn't be surprised but I got disfellowshipped VERY quickly after putting up this video. Christine, the sister I am interviewing got disfellowshipped just for mentioning the child abuse issues. She wasn't doing anything wrong. She is the kindest and sweetest of ladies.

  https://youtu.be/zqoSR4ZdKPU
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  My thanks too LMsA and Raymond Frantz - I saw links to his early surveys on this site. Re the info he put out I felt something was wrong. I couldn't work out what exactly.

  Incidentally if he is trying to blame WT for his wrong doing, I know from way back that lhere has been an arguement used by those want to legalise child abuse. It is very stupid and in plain language reads like this: -

  Child abusers have often been abused as children themselves. They have been groomed, in some cases by their families. When they come of age, they carry out acts of child abuse on younger ones. If caught and placed on the pedophile register, they feel stigmatized. Being stigmatized make them carry out acts of child abuse. Therefore legalise child abuse so that they don't feel stigmatized.

  Child abuse problem gone? No, but you don't get it in the crime stats. Imagine if they did the same with fraud or some other crimes. Gradually all the crime stats would go down.