Topics Started by charonsdog

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Manmade rules
by Jrjw in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i 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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An Active JW Sister Modelling For Me
by pale.emperor in
1. jw
2. experiences
since leaving the borg i jumped both feet first into classes i've always wanted to do but was never "allowed" to.

two of which are life drawing and photography.

i've been studying for almost two years now and have seen more nude men and women in our classes than i care to remember.. today in the photography studio i was working in with three others (two women, one man) we were told we had a new person modelling for us.
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Knock! Knock! Sept 2017 Broadcast.
by freddo in
1. watchtower
2. bible
please would someone with more skills than me link to "knock!

knock!

" a section of the sept 2017 jborg broadcast at 44.00 mins to 53.00 mins approx.. please watch and add your thoughts.
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Do You Know Any “Gay” Jehovah’s Witnesses?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
of course the religion condemns homosexuality but did you know any gay witnesses?

i knew some bethelites that were very effeminate and i remember 4 women who were suspected of being lesbians by many in the congregation.

they eventually moved away and were very vocal against males, especially elders..
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Whatever happened to the "written review"?
by pale.emperor in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
does anyone know why the written review was stopped?

i relished the half hour silence they'd give you to "write down your answers", time i spend doodling or thinking up cool song lyrics..
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Do you have JW-related dreams (nightmares)?
by compound complex in
1. social
2. humour
greetings, dreamers:.

i guess it's never going away: daytime carryovers of jw-related stuff seeping into my dreams.. the majority of these dreams take place at conventions but with really weird trappings.

last night i dreamed i arrived at the site with no books, no lunch, nothing but my car keys.
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Why do ex-JW's talk so much about being ex-JW's?
by Sour Grapes in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
is it because we were in the cult watchtower compound that we talk about being ex-jw's when we stop being active?

i have never heard anyone say that i was an ex-catholic or an ex-lutheran or an ex-baptist.

they just stop going to their church and don't talk about it.. years after not stepping inside a kingdom hell, many of us still have to talk about being ex-jw's.
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Silly Bible Stories we once believed
by RULES & REGULATIONS in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
these bible stories are too silly to be true.

take off your rose colored glasses and you will begin to see some great imagination, exaggeration and great story telling!.

telling !.
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What Made You Decide To Finally Leave The Organization?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
was there one certain event or was it more a cumulative thing?.
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Pedophile Elder Case in Warrensburg, NY 1982 - Nicholson
by Seeker4 in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
i just came across a thread from 2002, (i'll link it here in the next post), about congregations in upstate ny, many that were with a vt circuit i was in for many years.

in there i wrote the following about a infamous pedophile case involving an elder, don nicholson.

here was part of one of my posts on that thread.