Disassociated Lady 2

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  Is the year 2020 the new prediction for Armageddon?

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have had a conversation this evening with a jw friend i have known since childhood.

  he is of the opinion that armageddon will have come and gone within the next 5 years.

  are the jws now pinpointing 2020 as the supposed year?

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  I have had a conversation this evening with a JW friend I have known since childhood. He is of the opinion that Armageddon will have come and gone within the next 5 years. Are the JWs now pinpointing 2020 as the supposed year? Has anyone else heard anything regarding this? :-) x
  
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  Mom died, How and When I found out

  by 3rdgen in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi friends,.

  it's been awhile since i've been talkative.

  thought i'd give you an account of my latest family dysfunction.. a brief backstory is that i am an only child whose parents were born in jw's.

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  I am so sorry to hear this, I know how you feel. My father passed away in 2015 and I grieve for all the years I was shunned and couldn't be with him. My mother is a fanatical cruel woman too and bitter because she is old (she never thought she would be) and now without my father. She continues to shun me, but I remind myself that my parents are JW robots, I never knew them as real people. You cannot have a proper parent/child relationship with robots can you. Sending you love <3 xxx
  
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  6 New Kingdom Halls Built In The US This Year

  by James Jack in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  on our local needs part tonight, the elder (on the local ldc), conducting the part, said he just got back from a meeting in memphis tn with members from the us branch rdc conducting the meeting.

  they mentioned that only 6 new kingdom halls and 2 major re-models were completed in 2016.

  "it may seem like a small accomplishment, considering under the old rbc arrangement there was some 700 projects on the average each year being done", "but, this is going 5-10 years of training to kick this new program into optima production".

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  Why have a ten year plan if the end is near? :-/ x
  
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  Faith to Faithless XJW event London, UK

  by Fe2O3Girl in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  description.

  we often come across jehovah's witnesses near station entrances and at our front doors, but we never hear about what happens when they leave.

  if you're near london, uk, faith to faithless are doing their first ever event at kings college london, and their first ex jw panel!.

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  Can you tell me the date for this event please? :-) x
  
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  Learning Other Languages

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the jw org keeps its servants busier than ever these days so that their minds are occupied 24/7.

  they ensure that there is no time for anything "worldly" to distract them.. in last week's watchtower article on spiritual health they are putting pressure on the congregation to learn other languages on top of everything else they do.

  they allude to the fact that their spiritual health will suffer if they cannot understand the talks and publications in other languages.

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  I can se your point "Scratch Me" but going back to a congregation for 5 months I saw a huge change in the way things are done. I think that congregations can vary too, the one I attended seemed stricter than the one my parents attend. Depends upon the elders you get whether they are "old school" or not. :-) x
  
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  JW Apprentice in Hair Salon.

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my hairdresser warned me that he had taken on a jw apprentice and asked me what i thought.

  she attends the kh that disfellowhipped me.

  i told him that i would have to be careful about what i said concerning my personal life as she would report back anything she heard to the elders.

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  The owner of the salon visited my home today. He told me that this apprentice told him that I tried to come back to the JWs but got disfellowshipped because I wouldn't conform! She was not aware that I was raised in the JWs either. She had the cheek to refer to me as "strange" to the owner who is a friend of mine. So she has told him information that has been fed to her and then presents him with a JW video on their website about the "sin of gossiping"!!!!!!!!

  From what he has told me she is having a difficult time being out in the big wide world, his beauty therapist contacted him from the salon saying that the apprentice ran out of the building crying so I am not sure what that is all about. Not sure if she will still be there when I go to my next appointment.
  
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  Learning Other Languages

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the jw org keeps its servants busier than ever these days so that their minds are occupied 24/7.

  they ensure that there is no time for anything "worldly" to distract them.. in last week's watchtower article on spiritual health they are putting pressure on the congregation to learn other languages on top of everything else they do.

  they allude to the fact that their spiritual health will suffer if they cannot understand the talks and publications in other languages.

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  The JW org keeps its servants busier than ever these days so that their minds are occupied 24/7. They ensure that there is no time for anything "worldly" to distract them.

  In last week's Watchtower article on Spiritual Health they are putting pressure on the congregation to learn other languages on top of everything else they do. They allude to the fact that their spiritual health will suffer if they cannot understand the talks and publications in other languages. There was also emphasis on teaching children languages as their interest may fade otherwise???

  In the UK we are seeing more people from other lands moving here, so there are more congregations for different languages now, so that would be one reason for it. Its the pressure put on members and they way these things are worded ...so manipulative! :-/ xxx

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-october-2016/maintain-spiritual-health-while-serving-foreign-field/
  
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  JW Apprentice in Hair Salon.

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my hairdresser warned me that he had taken on a jw apprentice and asked me what i thought.

  she attends the kh that disfellowhipped me.

  i told him that i would have to be careful about what i said concerning my personal life as she would report back anything she heard to the elders.

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  I am a massage and beauty therapist, but was not back in the JWs long enough to find out if they would not want me to massage men and bikini wax women...mind you many men now have a wax known as the "back, sack and crack" (excuse the phrase) I wonder if they would let their "sisters" perform treatments like that!!! :-D xxx
  
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  JW Apprentice in Hair Salon.

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my hairdresser warned me that he had taken on a jw apprentice and asked me what i thought.

  she attends the kh that disfellowhipped me.

  i told him that i would have to be careful about what i said concerning my personal life as she would report back anything she heard to the elders.

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  Shirley W "Glad he also made her put up the Christmas decorations, did you ask him if she complained when he asked her to do that?"

  The owner told me that she agreed to do it only if he did not tell her family!

  She has only recently been baptized as I watched it when I attended a convention earlier this year. Her parents are very strict didn't even want her to have her fringe cut as they didn't want her to look to grown up.

  I saw her walking through the town today, she passed me and looked away. I am looking forward to seeing the owner tomorrow to find out if she has been digging for information of it anything else was said since my appointment :-) x
  
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  Stepford Children

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i watched this movie for the first time today and i noticed some disturbing similarities with the personalities of jws.

  the way they train their children and wives so they become robots to serve jehovah, but most importantly of all, to make their husbands and fathers look good and boost their egos.

  if you haven't watched this movie or stepford wives, take a look.

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  There was one girl who's Dad was an elder and she was the only child. She sat between her parents at every meetings, gave amazing comments and there was never a time she was taken outside for a good spanking! My sister and I were frequently take outside for that, including a few other children we mixed with (none of them are JWs now) but the "good child"still attends with her children and sits with her parents. Some thing never change!

  When I had contact with my family recently it was as if I had gone back in time. They were all exactly the same as I remembered, just older. There was no sign of moving forward and life development, whereas I had been many places and experienced so many things that have changed me as a person. My family assume I have not changed because they haven't! It is so strange. :-O xxx