Yes we had a CO who hated shirts of colour and white socks. Said it made the brothers look like the mafia so only white shirts and dark socks allowed on his watch.
No privileges for brothers unless doing the national average field service.
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Manmade rules
by Jrjw ini was talking to someone a few years ago and he said in his congregation they have a rail of white shirts prepared in the cloakroom for if a speaker doesn't have a white shirt on.
it was a rule in their hall that all brothers in the platform must wear white shirts when going talks and if the speaker won't comply when asked to change into the shirt they provide an elder in the congregation will do the talk instead.
i have never known any other halls do it so it must be a rule the elders have made up without gb input.
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My fading suffered a miscarriage
by Ireneus ini thought of successfully fading out, but suffered a miscarriage last week.
i gradually decreased the number of meetings i attended.
in the latter half of the year it became once a month, then once in two months, once in three months ….. last week, two elders who visited me, after their bla..bla..asked: “where will you go leaving the motherly organization—the only truth now available on earth?”.
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moreconfusedthanever
Motherly organization! I would have asked them to show me where it says that in the bible. Also I would have mentioned that even Geoff Jackson doesn't believe they are the only truth holders on Earth as that would seem presumptuous. Then I would have directed them to Terry O'Brien's testimony to the ARC that one may stop having anything to do with the JWs without having to disassociate or be disfellowshiped.
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Brotherly love in action..
by Jrjw ini'm so upset and angry at the same time.
i move in less than 2 weeks and was supposed to be getting help off "brothers" to move and one of them was driving the van and now the elders have had a meeting and told the brothers they can't help coz i'm separated from my (abusive) jw husband and with moving it puts the chances of reconciliation (of which there was zero chance) even further away.
where are these stupid rules that they come up with.
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moreconfusedthanever
Wow! Sorry to hear that. Over here in Australia we have the Salvation Army that one can go to if in need of assistance. Is there maybe a similar organization where you are? May be better not to feel like you owe anyone anything and make a clean break.
Good luck.
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Wait one minute here!!! Did the GB PURPOSEFULLY launch a D.O.S. attack on Russia? (aka the letter writting campaign)
by GTSfromSY ini know this sounds very outlandish by the title but hear this one out:.
a few months back i spoke to an old friend of mine raised "around the truth", but never baptized and wanting nothing to do with the wt.
he is very hip to what is going on in the wt however.
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Wow! I remember thinking how stupid it was to tell the world (JWs) to send their letters by the 1st when the hearing was the 5th. For those on the other side of the world the letters wouldn't arrive until after it was all over and therefore pretty pointless but it seems the mindless blind followers didn't bother thinking about this and Instagram and Facebook were full of posts of letters written that would never be read.
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I am getting disfellowshipped
by CitizenofEarth inmaybe some of you remember me, maybe not.
for general information i am now 19 years old, and living by myself.
for the past 1 year (more like 1.5 years) i have been quietly fading out of the hypocrisy of this organization, but since i still live in the town i grew up in it has been hard, and filled with different challenges.
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moreconfusedthanever
They already said you would get disfellowshiped when they met with you the first time. What is the point of the JC meeting? Just so they can say they followed proper procedure and tick the box on whatever forms go to HQ.
Like everyone says, going now only gives them the impression that you accept their authority over you. Do you? No and rightly so.
No need to communicate with them at all, ever. They will disfellowship you anyway.
Good on you for being a true friend, it is so rare in the religion we grew up in.
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Catch up
by Jrjw infacebook is great for finding old friends.
i found a friend who is an ex witness who i haven't seen for about 7 years coz she left the society and we lost touch and i got in contact with her the other day on facebook and she came for tea earlier and we had a great time talking about experiences of the wts and it's strange doctrines and remembering our school days.
we chatted for about 5 hours and are going to keep in touch.
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I got my brother back. He left years ago and while I didn't shun him, the relationship did change. It's nice now to be able to have open and honest conversation with him and my sister in law.
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This Message Board Is Boring
by ctrwtf inany chance simon can make arrangements to have the gorilla channel run on this site?.
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Message board? Who are you expecting messages from?
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Generation
by Jrjw inplease could someone explain to me what the generation thing i keep seeing in people's threads was that had lots of people leave the wts coz it was way before i became a witness.
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Sparrowdown you are hilarious. I love the Buzz Light-year generation. Lol.
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Biting my tongue
by Jrjw ini'm really biting my tongue at the moment with a certain witness.
he said he hates how the churches have lied to people, misled them, controlled them, got money out of them.
gouge can he noht see the wts has done that, i really wanted to say something so badly.
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Yes keeping your mouth shut when you want to shake them and say WAKE UP is so hard.
I have taken to saying "yes religion is a snare and a racket". They nod in agreement and you are saying the truth.
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Family Insists on Having Relationship with My Child -_-
by Cimarrona inhi gang, i'm a single mother of an 8 month old baby boy.
i've been df'd for over six years now.
my parents are super dubs and most of my siblings are dubs (on paper - a couple have been inactive my entire life but still claim to believe) with the exception of a brother who was never baptized.
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moreconfusedthanever
Good for you. Stick to your resolution. If they won't have a relationship with you then why should you allow them to have your child in their care to indoctrinate in your absence.
It may be harder for now but it will get easier.