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  What the hell, what's the deal with Summons for Jury Service?

  by James Mixon in

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  i posted two years ago with the same subject.

  every two years i receive a summons.

  for jury duty.

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  Here you are taken from multiple lists. Supposed to be only once a year, but I got 2x once. It is an interesting thing, and I think I am fair minded. As for excuses, it must be a doctor note, or moved. I wonder what they do with dead people that do not send in death certificates
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  JW's Would Stay With The Org Even If 1914 Was Dropped

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i asked the question on quora: .

  if the governing body abandoned the 1914 teaching, would you leave jehovah's witnesses or you would remain a member regardless?.

  https://www.quora.com/if-the-governing-body-abandoned-the-1914-teaching-would-you-leave-jehovahs-witnesses-or-you-would-remain-a-member-regardless.

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  road to nowhere

  If I could explain the old 1914 it was a small miracle, the new generation thing is way worse. You can always dig out the pyramid chart!

  What keeps most "in" and quiet is the shunning. Hard to fade with family still in
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  What the hell, what's the deal with Summons for Jury Service?

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i posted two years ago with the same subject.

  every two years i receive a summons.

  for jury duty.

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  road to nowhere

  here it is once a year max, unless they goof and you didn't save proof. there are health exclusions, but that takes a doctor note. I want to see what they do if a dead person doesn't send in a death certificate, (they are expensive). It is a good experience, if you are level headed and fair minded. Claiming to be ADD or such is a pretty sure way to get called on puropose areound here, and claiming prejucide can get you a contempt citing,

  If you are called and can go do it. It is one of the obligations and privileges of a free society.
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  Any word yet on the Annual Meeting?

  by careful in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's just a week or two away and still no sign of the usual hype?

  very strange.... anyone heard anything about it?

  perhaps from those still in to some degree or from relatives/friends still in?.

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  Maybe the video feeds to all the halls didn't bring in as many donations as wanted. So maybe they will go back to having a regular business meeting, as probably required in the charter.

  Or they got tired of being laughed at.
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  question about the go bags.

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  its been a minute since posting, have been trying to put this cult in my review mirror and just live life.

  but you know this beast rears it's evil head.

  my wife found my crisis of conscience book and out came the horns plus i guess what she is hearing at the meetings isn't helping either.

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  road to nowhere

  Don't forget your money and credit card. We do not have enough medicine to store some away. Not all of us have family elsewhere, let alone in the truth. Do not forget that I will be 20 miles away at work, with collapsed bridges and riots in between me and home. There are some good people both around home and work I would team with until I could connect. BTW, the .22 will travel with me.

  The usual way to take care of disasters is to get someone else to put people up in their homes, donate time and money to any rebuilding, and DO NOT specify funds for anything in particular.

  There was a time during the depression that Rutherford stated "we" would all travel in caravans with clothes that never wore out (like the Israelites), and cars that never ran out of gas.

  Being prepared is a good idea. But no one has ever told me what is the big danger here (no ocean or big rivers, volcano, earthquakes. And the "group overseer" is older and in more need than I.
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  JWs using 'apostate' phraseology?

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've mentioned before how a regular pioneer used the phrases "tight-pants tony" and "don't drink the kool-aid".

  well the other week, a different regular pioneer, and elderly one in fact, was talking about the simplified watchtower being discontinued and the normal one replacing it, and she said 'i guess they're just gonna dumb-down everything'.

  then too even the org itself used the words "fade" and "shun" in recent articles, words that were previously shied away from.. anybody here experienced something similar, a seeming pimi saying something that makes you wonder if they've been sneaking ex-jw 'spiritual food' on the side?.

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  It is hard for anyone to not have heard some of the phrases. A few JWs have a sense of humor, but most are way too "serious" to laugh at themselves. I got caught wearing every day socks.

  As for the WT being directed to family........very few times do the solutions have any real value: ;study more, do FS together, never miss meeting, spend your vacation wearing a skirt, tie at Bethel. How about a solution like get enough education to support yourself and have a reliable car and home.

  The present WT is maybe 6th grade level, the simplified is 3rd. And they do not seem to really know how to write at any education level. The new one (if we ever see one, I haven't found one yet) will probably be 4th or 5th, except for the big words they will forget to edit.
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  Watchtower disputes $200K tax bill from Newburgh

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.recordonline.com/news/20180904/watchtower-disputes-200k-tax-bill-from-newburgh.

  town of newburgh — the watchtower bible and tract society of new york is challenging nearly $200,000 in fire and other special district taxes assessed for three town of newburgh properties, including two hotels the organization bought to house volunteers helping build its world headquarters in warwick.. in a petition filed in orange county court last month, the umbrella organization for jehovah’s witnesses claimed that the town “either unintentionally as a mistake or intentionally and without lawful authority” miscoded the former hilton on crossroads court and the former hampton inn on route 300 for 2016, 2017 and this year.. with a combined market value of nearly $23 million, the hotel properties were not assessed town, county and school taxes for those years.

  but the town assessed $196,000 charges for the orange lake fire district and lighting and water districts during those years.. newburgh also assessed $1,600 in special district taxes over three years for a vacant commercial property watchtower owns at route 17k and route 300.. “petitioner would not be required to pay the resulting unjust charges if its exemption from taxes had been justly, correctly, and lawfully granted and administered,” watchtower’s attorneys wrote in the organization’s petition in county court.. watchtower bought the two hotel properties in 2014 as it built its 1.6 million-square-foot headquarters on kings drive in warwick.

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  Is that one of those places visitors for tours can stay for a "donation'?

  And what the heck is a retreat? I have never heard of those in JWs, just mainline Christendom.
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  When the WT study goes beyond what is written in the Bible.

  by skin in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in today's wt study, 9th sept 2018, para 14. we learnt that jesus mother, mary, is one of the 144.000 anointed at penticost.

  just another classic, we know more than what is contained in scripture..

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  So Mary has to go up there and work; not lounge around on streets of gold. It certainly tells how the annointed really feel about the rest of us; they get to go to heaven we don't.
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  2018 JWBroadcasting "Higher education is useless" video CLIP

  by Not_Culty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sept 2018. https://vimeo.com/288327363.

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  road to nowhere

  I hates to tell that wife: your husband would have been an egotistical turd anyway, and maybe having less money would have made him even worse.

  As said many times, few if any of us want "fame and fortune". We just want a stable home, happy marriage, and MAYBE a boat or motorcycle. We sure don't want to be a broken down sweaty laborer when we are old, have arthritis,

  CO's tell of all they get to do === all on someone else's dime.
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  (How) Will The Slow and Subtle WT Internal Shift Affect Us?

  by Solzhenitsyn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as a "deep pimo" i can say that there is a confirmed re-branding.

  the coordinators committee formed a focus group from service and teaching committees.

  the results of that group roughly three+ years ago, with gb approval, trickled down to the other committees and eventually into what we have been seeing before our eyes in the org and local congs.. pick an organizational level and see the shift.

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  road to nowhere

  They had to drop the types and antitypes. Everything had already been fulfilled and nothing happened. King of the North? apparently an overlapping "bad guy". I hate to say it, but I found the missing one: the one about cutting up the servant girl and sending her body to the 12 tribes (I can't remember the names right now). They always said it had to do with hospitality. Since I wasn't invited into the inner circle you all will never know how it could be made to fit. HAHA.

  Relearning all we knew has discouraged a whole lot, and more than will admit it.

  As for the CLAM, there is material, but I would not call it "studying", it is all presented for us to parrot. I actually used to enjoy working up talks and trying to make them interesting. Now all I do is read, and don't like it. The one or two "with householder" demos I got I despised. I failed to show when I had the 1914 talk from the Reasoning, just after the "new light", I just couldn't do the old material and recognized BS when I saw it.