You're picking up on the fact that they read you, they read your body language, maybe even read your expressions. I guess I thought they only did that with me, I got dragged into the back room while I was studying a congregation one time, I wasn't even a Jehovah's Witness just a researcher, and while Elder 1 sat across the table questioning me Elder 2 sat to my right staring intently at my face, trying to make sure I didn't lie I guess. It creeped me out.
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JWs & Scientology
by APieceOfShitNamedTate ini've been trying to learn more about how scientology works in regard to how they investigate, interrogate, and discipline their members, and how similar their methods are to jehovah's witnesses.
i am currently pimo, and while i have never faced a judicial committee, the elders have tried to investigate me.
i won't go into detail, but basically it was just a case of me not wanting to reach out like they wanted me to.
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Special Mercy Provided to Adulterous Husbands 'if' Elders
by HiddenPimo inso here is something else that helped me wake up -.
the elders manual - shepherd the flock of god contains a special caveat for elders who have committed adultery some time ago (not sure how many years, 'some time ago' is, but probably based on a complex formula of donations and # of assembly parts given.).
but basically, they can just get a talking to by 2 brothers and then they can keep on keeping on.
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john.prestor
Incognito, I'm with you 100%, the cover-up looks way worse than actually reporting the guy to the cops. But you're thinking far ahead, and the Elders who silenced victims thought about tomorrow. And I doubt they expected the victims to go to the cops, they figured they could nip it in the bud right there.
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Why do some JWs love seeing others get disfellowshipped?
by Tameria2001 ini'm not sure how many in the organization is like this, but there some jws who love seeing others get disfellowshipped, and my father-in-law is one of those.
he became a jw because he loved the idea of being the head of the household, and lording it over his family.
as a jw he is very hypocritical, my husband would tell stories of how they would celebrate christmas until his mother-in-law called him on it.
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john.prestor
It's sadistic, that's what it comes down to. The organization teaches them to anticipate 'wicked' people dying at Armageddon, and it's not hard to let that kind of thinking spill over into other areas of your life.
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Sad stats Willoughby ohio ass hall
by nowwhat? injust a little fyi 900 attendance.
2 kids baptised and $12000.00 in the hole.
( not my assembly).
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Assembly Hall caretakers
by pontoon indoes anyone know, do all of the society owned assembly halls in the us have bethelites assigned as caretakers or assembly hall overseers?.
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john.prestor
I dont know if the man I met came from Bethel, but I met an Assembly Hall overseer back around 2010 in Upstate New York who lived on the property in a little house or maybe apartment with his wife. Elsewhere, I dunno.
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My disturbances about the world...
by nowawake14 ini was at the store and i saw this young black girl.
i swear she had to be 13-14. she was preg!
and huge!
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john.prestor
'Are people that stupid?'
What do you mean by that?
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Special Mercy Provided to Adulterous Husbands 'if' Elders
by HiddenPimo inso here is something else that helped me wake up -.
the elders manual - shepherd the flock of god contains a special caveat for elders who have committed adultery some time ago (not sure how many years, 'some time ago' is, but probably based on a complex formula of donations and # of assembly parts given.).
but basically, they can just get a talking to by 2 brothers and then they can keep on keeping on.
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john.prestor
Yeah, it's about notoriety I agree, they care more about how it makes them look than the consequences of the 'sin,' that's why they hushed up so much child sex abuse under the 'don't being reproach on Jehovah's name' umbrella.
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My Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain Moment...
by HiddenPimo inthis is my first post.
i am physically in and mentally out.
well i will not be offering a tl/dr version as that would be too difficult and it would also be an oversimplification of how i got to see the man behind the curtain.. my story begins at the 2016 regional convention of jehovah's witnesses.
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john.prestor
Hey, welcome to the forum. We're glad you're here and we got your back.
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Do old time present day active JW`s genuinely believe in overlapping generations ?
by smiddy3 infor the life of me i can not come to terms with old timers in the "truth" who could swallow this interpretation of scripture about an overlapping generation .. when jesus spoke about "this generation" .
are their any real bible students among younger ones any more ?.
here are 3 bible scriptures that confirm a generation is approximately 40- 50 years long give or take a few years .. 1. matt:1 :17 abraham born 2016-18 bc jesus born 2 bc approx.
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john.prestor
No one else has tried to find the truth, Rattigan? Go read any book on spirituality or religion. People try to find 'the truth' all the time.
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Watchtower analysis on Tony Morris
by corruptgirl ini never post on here.
i am sanchy's wife.
i posted my coming out story about 3 yrs ago.
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john.prestor
No no, I'm not saying that!