Posts by Anna Marina

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Anna Marina

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
1. jw
2. friends
mine is bouzov castle in moravia.

built in the early 1300's.

it wasn't too fancy, kinda rough hewn.
Anna Marina

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
1. social
2. physical
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.
Anna Marina

I love fizzy Shiraz
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Anna Marina

100% agree Ozzie
11530
It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Anna Marina

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
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Anna Marina

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
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Anna Marina

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.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Anna Marina

Hi Vintage - just having fun :)
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Anna Marina

There's the true God and false gods. Your stomach can be a god. If you are a big, fat, greedy pig that could be the name of your religion rather than a description of yourself.
(Philippians 3:19) . . .and their finish is destruction, and their god is their belly. . .
You may identify as 'atheist' but you'd still believe your stomach existed.
If I remember correctly, in America Christianity is not defined as a religion. I think it is described as a way of life. Another term for 'way of life' is 'diet'. So Christians are all on a diet.
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Helpful Video with Fact Citations
by Smiles in
1. watchtower
2. bible
this video may be helpful to someone you know inside or exiting wt captivity.. the video is one long hour, but it unpacks damning fact-checked citations along with some dredged audio clips of gb bs, such as fred franz publicly doubling down on 1975, and sam herd publicly degrading women.. the content will be familiar to most of us here, but it could be a 'narcan' antidote to help awaken someone from the jw poison overdose.

millstone research video:.

https://youtu.be/7fpdk0jnnoy.
Anna Marina

Yes I thought - that book has not been available for a long, long time. I have a copy that was used for studies in the 1960s - it says things about Israel and the UN. I never studied this book. Never read it actually.