You comment on funerals totally ad flashed my mind back to my youth. I use to go to funerals of people I barely knew. It felt no different than a meeting. Sad only when I left and went to a real funeral with real emotion did I ever cry over the lost of a loved one at a funeral. The emotion would over take you. It was an outpouring of love from the heart.
Posts by trujw
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37A cult of Sociopaths undergoing a makeover
by Terry incult members are property.. living property consisting of non-persons and non-individuals with disabled self-expression.. the tool used by this religion to control a member's desire to self-improve is attaching guilt as a stop-sign and crying: "disloyal.".
like any owned property, you are under the total control of others.
any wrong move, word or deed can label you a "danger" to the group-think.. there exists in such an authority structure only three possible stats you can achieve.. 1.compliant usefulness in carrying out assigned missions.
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Watchtower 1954 claims Jesus was clean shaven/ short hair like a Witness!!!
by Witness 007 inhow did the watchtower develop "pogonophobia"?
(beard fear) 1950-1960's long hair and beards were a sign of rebelious youth.
then in the 1954 watchtower p.511 questions from readers.
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trujw
Just to clarify I am not saying which one Adam or eve might have got him all hot and bothered.
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Watchtower 1954 claims Jesus was clean shaven/ short hair like a Witness!!!
by Witness 007 inhow did the watchtower develop "pogonophobia"?
(beard fear) 1950-1960's long hair and beards were a sign of rebelious youth.
then in the 1954 watchtower p.511 questions from readers.
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trujw
I wonder if that picture st George started knorr on his no masterbation kick lol.
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What on earth happened to the magazines?
by slimboyfat infor the first time in years today.
to say that it took me five minutes to read the whole thing would be to flatter the rag.
it doesn't even seem to contain actual articles any more, just headings and bullet points and pictures.
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trujw
I am having a hard time here with what you are all saying. Can you please add a few more pictures to help me understand. Also why do I have the urge to pull out a ruler as I read this.
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Millions now living will never die - false prophecy yet?
by slimboyfat inrutherford wrote the booklet of that name in 1920. is that definitively a false prophecy yet?
even if everyone who was alive in 1920 survived armageddon, if it was to come today, would that amount to millions of people?
according to wikipedia there are 316,600 people who are a 100 years old or older.
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trujw
The hardest thing for me a one time true believer is that the GB lied to me us and everyone still in. It truly is the hardest thing to accept but to this day it really is rule number one. To tell the truth means the end of their power and religion.
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Suffern tenants must move after Jehovah's Witnesses group buys building
by TJ Curioso insuffern tenants must move after jehovah's witnesses group buys building .
suffern the nonprofit organization behind the jehovahs witnesses has purchased an apartment complex in the village with plans to use it as temporary housing for members while they work to build a massive new headquarters in nearby warwick, orange county.. the sale of the 48-unit suffern commons at 10-12 chestnut st. closed last week, a spokesman for the watchtower society told the journal news.. the deal forces families in the three-story building to quickly find alternative housing and could mean a loss to the village of $56,000 in annual property taxes if the new owner secures a religious tax exemption which it is interested in, spokesman richard devine said.. before the sale was confirmed, tenants spent the past few weeks anxiously trying to figure out why some of them received notices to vacate by june 30. others who had signed one-year leases or didnt know when their leases were up, like terri fosina-friedman, also have prepared to move.. but the painful process and lack of information from their landlord and the new owner has angered many residents, fosina-friedman said.. im just happy that i got it settled and i got another place to live and my son can stay in the school district, she said.. the watchtower society, the brooklyn-based organization that establishes doctrine for millions of jehovahs witnesses around the world, intends to honor tenants existing leases at suffern commons, devine said.
he indicated that the society would consider an extension of the june 30 move-out deadline.. were going to work with the tenants, he said.
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trujw
The end is soooooo close we are undertaking a muti year building project and moving our entire headquarters upstate. The heavies know its a big lie this is sick. Put your life on hold rank and file while we carefully plan for our future.
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exJW Psychology 102--How to Ask a Question When Questions Aren't Allowed
by Billy the Ex-Bethelite innow that enough time has passed and i've moved away, i think i'm overdue to share some of the stories from my fade.
i've mentioned some of this before, but i think it deserves its own thread.. we all would like to be able to freely ask questions about jw beliefs and get our family and friends to really think about certain questions.
however, when you're a baptized jw, you really can't ask any good questions or you'll get the "apostate" label slapped on you!
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trujw
I guess when I told the elders off and they sent a certified letter to my wife to meet with them I shouldn't have got a restraining order against them. For some reason she got df. If I told my real story all the way some here would call bull$&/t. It really was that bad. Back then I didn't know about the fade 1996. She was a dove and those assholes treated her like a used rag. One day I will tell the story.
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Unbelievable Experience in Yearbook
by gingerbread ina number of years back i heard a story of a young girl in a congregation ( i have some good friends in this hall ) who had an amazing field service experience.
it was so amazing that it was retold in the 2007 yearbook!.
it is retold in the highlight of the past year section.
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trujw
Are you serious. You mean smurfs can't walk out of the Kingdom Hall. I am outraged had to throw away my stuffed animals, stickers and no cartoons. You are a liar sir it is all true
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My JW best friend is bringing a 'heavy' around to my house to talk some sense into me.
by Julia Orwell ini agreed, if only because i want to see my friend of many years.
the 'heavy' is a large, imposing man with a booming voice and is a creature of the gb through and thru (eg only visited his dfd dad on his death bed because it was a 'good witness' to the hospital staff) and i'm feeling stressed about seeing him.
i so badly wanted to see my friend though, i agreed without thinking and now wish i hadn't have.
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trujw
The only power elders have is that in which you give them. Jonas chapter 2 verse 8
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My JW best friend is bringing a 'heavy' around to my house to talk some sense into me.
by Julia Orwell ini agreed, if only because i want to see my friend of many years.
the 'heavy' is a large, imposing man with a booming voice and is a creature of the gb through and thru (eg only visited his dfd dad on his death bed because it was a 'good witness' to the hospital staff) and i'm feeling stressed about seeing him.
i so badly wanted to see my friend though, i agreed without thinking and now wish i hadn't have.
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trujw
I tried to in 1996 help the elders with what I learned. I read COC and ISoCf by Franz. The loving body of elders could care less and were the most unloving rude, arrogant, little minded people I have ever ever seen. When I proved a point one pampas fool said don't you dare try to teach me we are here to teach you.