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  Nothing in life is stable as a Jehovah's Witness...

  by silentbuddha in

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  2. experiences

  at least in hindsight it would appear so.

  i remember as a small kid not making friends because ultimately they were going to die.

  i never saved anything because money would be useless in the new world.

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  Lost in the fog

  It has always been like the Orwellian 1984 world where "big brother is watching you." In the org all the brothers and sisters are watching each other and especially are the elders watching you. Not in case you are in need of assistance but in case you slip up and 3 of them can whack you about the head under the threat of disclosure of this private court.

  I remember being told by a circuit servant in September 1975 that all us kids in the congregation could give all of our belongings and toys etc away to our school friends because in October of that year we would be in the new world. Good job none of us wanted to part with our goods! cause we'd have been destitute in the following month (sadly as some adults in our locality were!!)
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  Canadian Donations

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i stumbled upon this charitable status page for canada and thought that i would look for the watchtower society of canada.

  as they say the report is incomplete because it lacks the normal auditors process details.

  but donations received $64.4 canadian dollars!

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  Lost in the fog

  I stumbled upon this charitable status page for Canada and thought that I would look for the Watchtower Society of Canada.

  As they say the report is incomplete because it lacks the normal auditors process details. But donations received $64.4 Canadian Dollars! forwarded on as is usual. That is a huge amount of money.

  https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/40-watch-tower-and-tract-society-of-canada
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  WOODSTOCK

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it’s starting to filter in, the truth about why the grumpy buzzards wanted to move to warwick.

  lol.

  they are unhappy that their best time in life was moved to bethel and are hoping to relive woodstock in the place it should have been 49 years ago next month.

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  Giant Blunderers

  Geriatric Bullshiters
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  Female JW parking "attendants"

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was shocked recently to see on social media a couple pictures of jw sisters at a convention working as parking "attendants".

  i put that title in quotation marks because they still don't get the official attendant badge like the male parking attendants do, only the reflective vest.

  has anybody else heard of this .

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  Lost in the fog

  They've been doing it in the UK for years. And are more amenable than the brothers who were more likely to park you in a pothole or so close to the car next to yours that your car party had to exit via the sunroof!
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  Holy spirit

  by mrssauk in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is the difference (if any) between being guided by holy spirit and being inspired by holy spirit?

  is it just semantics?.

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  Lost in the fog

  Semantic or Semitic.
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  But it's not about the Money

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  money was the motivator.. .

  money.

  again, money was the motivator.. .

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  Lost in the fog

  Have you seen crime dramas on TV. They try to follow the money trail only to discover multiple shell corporations preventing the investigators getting to the actual dollars....

  Similarly the Watchtower Organisation has a whole list of different corporations under headings like IBSA, Christian Congregation, WTB&TS, etc etc. You have to ask yourself why?

  Follow the money trail.
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  Relative rates of mental illness

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  a report produced 50 years ago by a psychiatrist at a west australian mental health facility ("asylum"l reported that the mental illness rate among jws was 3 times the norm of society.

  other similar studies at the time concluded the rate was much higher.. i wrote to the psychiatrist at the time, asking whether the wts attracted people who were already susceptible to mental illness or if the situation was created after the person became a jw.

  he responded that they did not know.. being myopically focused on the wts at the time, but more importantly belonging to an alternative eschatological apocalyptic body at the time, i did not think more broadly.. i think that today i would like to know:.

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  Lost in the fog

  I know that approximately two thirds of the congregation I used to attend were getting antidepressants or actively seeing a mental health professional, including a few of the elders.

  I myself suffered from a period of severe clinical depression and it was the way I was ignored and treated by my "loving caring brothers" which started my journey out as my health improved.
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  2 Tim 3:5

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the organisation is very quick to point the finger at churches but gets aggressive if you point out that it equally applies to them.. here's an example : “having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power.”​—2 timothy 3:5.. quote : bible truth has the power to change lives.

  (ephesians 4:22-24) but some of the most ungodly acts take place under the veil of religion.

  a tragic example is the sexual abuse of children by the clergy.

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  The Fall Guy,

  Except you stopped too soon in the Insight Book, the part you refer to is only (they say) about the 1st century Christian congregation; because the next section in the book goes on to describe how the Org was cleansed (after 1919) and the apostasy is only among the "professed Christians" outside.
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  2 Tim 3:5

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the organisation is very quick to point the finger at churches but gets aggressive if you point out that it equally applies to them.. here's an example : “having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power.”​—2 timothy 3:5.. quote : bible truth has the power to change lives.

  (ephesians 4:22-24) but some of the most ungodly acts take place under the veil of religion.

  a tragic example is the sexual abuse of children by the clergy.

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  Lost in the fog

  The organisation is very quick to point the finger at churches but gets aggressive if you point out that it equally applies to them.

  Here's an example : “Having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power.”​—2 Timothy 3:5.

  QUOTE : Bible truth has the power to change lives. (Ephesians 4:22-24) But some of the most ungodly acts take place under the veil of religion. A tragic example is the sexual abuse of children by the clergy. According to The New York Times, a lawyer in the United States “says he has 200 cases pending in 27 states on behalf of clients who say they were molested by priests.” Truly, any form or pretense of godly devotion these clergymen display is exposed as mere hypocrisy by their wicked works. g95 4/22 4-8.

  But when I try to shake a friend awake with the recent disclosures about child abuse in the organisation he says it is all apostate lies, because it has never happened.

  Such blinkered self-righteousness does my head in. 😢😢
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  Where does your cong. stand on Motorcycles

  by blownaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just sold my bike today.

  and got me to thinking.

  i was in one cong.

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  Lost in the fog

  Our former presiding overseer had a motorbike for years. He used his car for the meetings to give others a lift, but he travelled to any of the conventions in his leathers.