Posts by notsurewheretogo

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Have you ever gone back to a meeting out of curiosity?

by stuckinarut2 in

just wondering if anyone has gone back to a meeting out of curiosity?

(perhaps to an area far from your old khall where you know no one).

with all the changes from 2012 onwards (videos, tv screens, new meeting format, new songs etc) it would be an odd experience to be in attendance!.

notsurewheretogo

Why? 99% of us come out because we now KNOW it is not the "truth" so why ever go back????

Only those that never prove to themselves that it is NOT the truth would ever consider "going back"...even for "curiousity"....

For me...I will NEVER go back.

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Pillowgate - John Cedars

by CitizenofEarth in

is this true?

is this really true?!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirjv48c55m.

notsurewheretogo

Bobby...quick question for you...

Are you "still in"?

I'd suggest the fact that Cedars video being a monster 2 hour long video as a rebuttal puts people off...I want to see a rebuttal of it but no way I'm sitting through 2 hours of one...that's like these old boring meetings I used to go to...

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Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution

by dubstepped in

jw
friends

so i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.

i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.

i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.

notsurewheretogo

enabled me to see conclusively the Beauty of Creation

Childrens book don't count mate...

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Pillowgate - John Cedars

by CitizenofEarth in

is this true?

is this really true?!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirjv48c55m.

notsurewheretogo

I've made my thoughts and feelings on Cedars known many times...most of his videos are very good...some are not so...but all contain everything to do with him, his ego...I've said before he sees his activism as a means to get money without working....whilst I believe he enjoys activism I'm not convinced his number 1 goal is as sincere as many think out...he simply wants to be the number 1 guy for exjws.

So I can't stand that...but I'm balanced...that is my opinion...I don't know him and I may be wrong so I won't let that stop me enjoying a video if he puts up one that is good. I've not read his book and have no intention to as I'm already out.

I enjoy some of his content and my opinions on him himself, right or wrong, I don't let influence the actual contents of his videos.

It's like watching your favourite sport with commentators you are not fond of. It's not the reason why you watch the sport in the first place!

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Relationships after the Big A

by carla in

there was a post recently where the person was df'd (or da'd or fader?

) and had a friend who had already died.

let's call the fader/df'd person joe and the dead friend bob.

notsurewheretogo

Will there still be pillows?

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New Member Of The Governing Body 24 Jan 2018

by pale.emperor in

just seen this announced on reddit:.

ken cook was announced today at morning worship as the new member of the governing body.

i dont recall him from the broadcasts, but he was formally a helper on the writing committee as per https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/governing-body/.

notsurewheretogo

But I don't think the article was saying the helpers must be of the other sheep - just that they could be. So we can't use that article to conclude that a person must be of the other sheep if they are/were a helper.

No it did if I recall, I'll try and look it out...it said that all the helpers were of the other sheep...I could be wrong but I remember a big post about it on here.

EDIT...here: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/504950002/which-current-gb-members-part-overlapping-generation

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New Member Of The Governing Body 24 Jan 2018

by pale.emperor in

just seen this announced on reddit:.

ken cook was announced today at morning worship as the new member of the governing body.

i dont recall him from the broadcasts, but he was formally a helper on the writing committee as per https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/governing-body/.

notsurewheretogo

He is not in his early 50's...he must be very late 50's or early 60's according to this post five years ago.

MC RubberMallet5 years ago5 years ago5 years agoIt will be interesting to see who is appointed in the future. One brother I know well was "annointed" at Wallkill, while sitting at this desk, three or four years ago. He was in his early 50's at the time.
This is probabaly covered somewhere else, but, it really makes me wonder what actually happens to these men when they are "annointed". The brother at Wallkill is a hardworking, seemingly normal, married guy. A company man through and through, but reasonable, dry sense of humor. Very academic when it comes to "theocratic" things. What I'm getting at is that he didn't seem to be mentally/emotionally unbalanced or anything and certainly not the type to seek glory. It's just strange.

If 5 years ago the person said that another 3/4 years before that they met Cook who was in his early 50's then he is in his very late 50's or early 60's.

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New Member Of The Governing Body 24 Jan 2018

by pale.emperor in

just seen this announced on reddit:.

ken cook was announced today at morning worship as the new member of the governing body.

i dont recall him from the broadcasts, but he was formally a helper on the writing committee as per https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/governing-body/.

notsurewheretogo

Wasnt there an article a while back that mentioned the helpers not being annointed? or am i misremembering that?

Correct there was but that article is years old now but it did say that the helpers were from "the other sheep".

Was in the early 2000's I think thus was this guy a helper then?

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New Member Of The Governing Body 24 Jan 2018

by pale.emperor in

just seen this announced on reddit:.

ken cook was announced today at morning worship as the new member of the governing body.

i dont recall him from the broadcasts, but he was formally a helper on the writing committee as per https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/governing-body/.

notsurewheretogo

So he is about 60 years old?

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Crazy JW Comments On AvoidJW.org

by AverageJoe1 in

i read john redwood’s excellent article on avoidjw.org but what was even more mind blowing for me was all the jw comments via disqus at the end of the article:.

http://avoidjw.org/en/news/problems-facing-jw-org/.

they are all the typical lashing out comments based on emotion rather than logical reasoning along with the watchtower apologists thrown in for good measure.. if any of you have a disqus account, then i’d encourage you to have your say.

notsurewheretogo

Funnily enough there was that recent post on here detailing a YouTube channel of an Irish exJW who recently uploaded some good videos and I posted some comments and the amount of JW's on there arguing points against her uploaded video and arguing against my comments were surprising.

How did they see her videos or get to know her channel? It seems a lot "lurk"..