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  Apologies for outage

  by Simon in

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  2. announcements

  looks like the forum went down (right after i went to bed, doh!)..

  i really should get some monitoring setup but it's been pretty rock solid for ages so i've never bothered.. must be something todo with all the tinkering i've been doing and the background job i started running yesterday.. anyway, sorry for anyone who's been trying to access the site..

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  BluePill2

  Yep. Thank you Simon! Good job

  My paranoia made me think the WT had something to do with this.
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  The Jehovah's Witness religion has gone for good !!!

  by snare&racket in

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  2. friends

  i am not sure how you all feel as we all left at different times for different reasons.... but this new bible seems to have put some final nails into a coffin that was once my jw life.

  the religion is so far and so different to the religion i grew up in that it has become something i feel no affiliation with anymore, no bond, no shared ideas or even sentimental views.

  different teachings on when the end is coming.

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  snare&racket this was fantastic writing and heart felt! I chime in with your sentiment. I grew up in the religion, I missed some of the coolest stuff in the 80's because of this religion. Instead of going to my friends parties, hearing Michael Jackson, wearing funny sweatshirts, I had to go out in polyester suits (as a 12 year old) and stupid leather ties and peddle magazines that weren't even in full color yet. Accompanied by some old dude that wasn't right in his head, but claimed to belong to a "special class". We had to look up to him, even though that in my mind he was some old, confused dude.

  Strange if I think back. But you are right, the "feel and mood" of the 80's - 90's was completely different (still nuts & dumb) but it has evolved to something colder and its as if the real face is coming out more and more. I feel sorry for my mother as she is still a hardcore "70's" witness - old school "Franz-scholar"-witness - hell she still clings to some of the old old lights (before some of the new old lights) and refuses to learn the new lights (or doesn't really understands that the light bulb was switched, I don't know what is going on in her mind), she must feel confused and alienated from her own and unique support group at old age. What a bitter disappointment! Or my sister that is still regular pioneering despite the financial hardships that they are experiencing, and after 15 years of regular pioneer service she missed for the first time her yearly goal (our father is sick, she had a child, they have financial problems) and the only thing she got was a meeting with 2 elders telling her that she must probably leave the ranks for pioneers because of that. She cried and cried for days. The CO intervened and they gave her "a second chance".

  And yet, they refuse to talk to me and consider me the "black sheep" of the family. All so sad. I wish the GB burning, blistering wounds in their assholes!
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  My highlights from the AGM

  by Apognophos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  some of this will not be new to those of you who read other people's notes, but i bet there are a few new bits for you here, so i've provided a user-friendly table of contents, as an homage to the contents that appear before each book of the bible in the new nwt.

  i might remember more highlights later, as i'm rather tired right now, but this is what i can recall off the top of my head.. contents (use of quote marks in this section is facetious; these are not actual quotes).

  "say, did you notice that 2014 is the 100th anniversary, people?".

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  BluePill2

  Keep walking. Nothing to see here. Nothing happened.

  Good. Let's continue to chip away until the tower crumbles & crashes.
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  CANCELL MY REQUEST FOR MEMBERSHIP I HATE APOSTATES

  by Simon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  lol, just received this email:.

  idiots!

  you of weak minds that have chosen to leave the truth!

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  BluePill2

  Best Satan EVER - Liz Hurley in "Bedazzled" - I wish she existed like that

  
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  Missionaries to vacate all missionary homes

  by seenitall in

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  2. friends

  latest news from a source (missionary in foreign land):.

  no more missionary homes anywhere in the world.. all missionaries presently in missionary homes must vacate.

  must get housing on your own / from the locals.. circuit and district overseers have moved into many of these former missionary homes.. reasons: liability, cost savings, real estate to be sold or used for other purposes.. needless to say, many of these longtime servants are very unsettled.

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  If true, this is big! Many missionaries will leave the countries because of some "sudden legitimate problem" at home. Mark my words. The missionaries I have met in developing countries had the tendency to be either a) cold hearted assholes or b) having severe mental issues. But all had this in common: they liked to live in pampered homes, in all Central American countries they had air conditioning, internet and cable tv, big fridges and some even power generators (the locals have problems with: burglary, unstable electricity and had to go without water for days). I remember working at one of the branches and missionaries bitching about not having enough water pressure in the shower and the warm water wasn't coming out nice. We are talking about countries where people have to live on 1-5 US$/day! Good luck moving in with the locals: http://i.imgur.com/w8kX8vl.jpg Your new "beach front missionary home". Nope. Not gonna happen. A few "hard core" will stay (sacrificing themselves) but they are losing one of the last strong holds in some countries. This, in combination with the closing of branches is like a retreat and giving up. Don't forget that in Latin America there are other very strong evangelical religions that have way more power than the Watchtower. The local witnesses in some of these countries would hang on to the foreigners, the branch, the missionaries for guidance. The branches would help out to get visas for need greaters, etc. With all this gone the locals will have nowhere to go and the Org will, no doubt, shrink in most developing countries. The GB is a despicable bunch of lying bastards! They are abandoning the sheep and leaving them on their own. First they stripped them of all possibilities to acquire real world skills to survive, under the lie that they are not necessary, the MOTHER would take care of them and the next moment they kick everybody to the curb.
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 09-22-2013 WT Study (FEW FEED MANY)

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wt publications http://www.a2z.org/wtarchive/archive.htm (old).

  feeding many.

  was the channel that christ used for spiritual.

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  BluePill2

  Let me recap:

  "invisible Jesus" check

  "invisible evil slave" check

  "invisible help from J'" check

  Conclusion: then people should start to donate invisible money too!
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  Due to Oct 5th WT Biz Meet all meetings for that week are cancelled

  by illoowy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was informed that due to oct 5th wt biz meet all meetings for that week are cancelled,.

  i asked if the mid week meeting was also and was told yes, because of the assembly.. it seems there's an overload of theocratic alternative banqueting feasts available so.

  that the regular menu at the kh is not necessary for that week.

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  BluePill2

  Is that only for the US or worldwide? Wondering how they would transmit this through different time zones.
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  Second chapter of "Armageddon's Prisoners"is up on my blog

  by JeffT in

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  hope you enjoy it.. http://pathologicallyintellectual.blogspot.com/

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  I hope you have fun writing this story. Personally I think it is also a good therapy (not that you need one) to put things mentally in order. It gives you another perspective, creates an interesting distance. The structure would be the same for any other sect, just the wordings would change. Actually, you can see that they all use the same blueprint. Keep writing, I'll wait for the next installment, see if there will be more than a bloody nose.
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  Second chapter of "Armageddon's Prisoners"is up on my blog

  by JeffT in

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  hope you enjoy it.. http://pathologicallyintellectual.blogspot.com/

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  BluePill2

  JeffT,

  I just read the two initial chapters of your story. Good writing! What I find interesting is how substituting the terms that we all know too well ("Kingdom Hall" with "Gathering House"; "Judicial Committee" with "Review Committee") makes you look at the Borg as an outsider and shows how strange everything is.

  Some of us have been indoctrinated from early age and "brother", "Governing Body" sounds natural and normal, while it is the special terminology of a sect.

  Good work. Keep writing. You have at least one reader!
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  F****** with Missionary Couple - they want me to call back!

  by BluePill2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how often have witnesses knocked on your door since you left the borg?

  how often did they talk to you during street witnessing?

  in the past 4 years i have never been visited (live in a new area where nobody knows about my witness past, urban area, highly densed witness communities around).. this week i almost had to force them to preach.

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  I like your last sentence. The earlier the merrier.

  Somehow I felt sorry for them. Here they are doing the same I did a couple of years ago, maybe full of doubts, maybe believing it all and I know it's so wrong and that there is another Life out there. I hated to see them wasting their time. At least i burned enough time that they could have used on someone else.