if it’s looking like someone may be disfellowshiped or announced they are no longer a jw and they don’t want to be shunned they just want to fade without being shunned - just say that would make me suicidal .
simple.
in the new shepherding book it says if they say that then don’t go ahead with it.
I hate the way the jw's question faders like the gestapo when they bump into them.
They seem to think they have a god given right to ask intrusive, personal questions to you whilst you are in the checkout surrounded by other shoppers.
I blanked the last guy who did this and his face became contorted with rage when he realised he had no power - what a tosser!
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...many have observed that JWs used to convert ordinary people to the religion back in the day. Now, apart from people born into the religion, it’s mostly societal misfits or people with severe psychological hardships who come into the congregation.
👍👍👍
So very true!
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OMG!!! 🤦♂️
article from the last days newsletter (june 5-11, 2023).
it has been said that by reading the watchtower and awake!
magazines, along with other publications of jehovah’s witnesses, a person will receive, over a period of years, a considerable and broad education.. …would you like to grow in knowledge, obtaining an education of even much greater value than can be received in any college?
Thank you for the link - it was interesting to see AM3's son in action. 👍
from reddit exjw.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/143556c/co_meeting_with_elders_gb_seems_desperate/.
pretty much what other appointed men have been telling me.
a significant amount of relatives who are hanging on (just to please JW parents) are going to stop going..
So true!
I know ten on that list -
Paul Presland - He never closed his eyes in anyone else's prayer.
Not sure if he closed them when saying one himself??
Ron Drage was DO back then.
I remember going to a Bethel meeting chaired by Ron Drage - long, long ago.
I left some items at a quick build that I had worked really hard on, located about thirty miles from me about 1986.
I went back to the hall after one of their first meetings to try and get my possessions back.
An elderly sister vaguely directed me to an enormous, overweight middle aged scruffy looking brother at the back of the hall, who she thought was in charge of lost property.
I approached him politely and asked him if he was the brother in charge of lost property after the quick build.
He looked at me with a scornful gaze and almost spat at me in a harsh Scottish accent: 'Lost Property!!! Laddie, I am THE CIRCUIT OVERSEER!!!'
What a to$$er!🤦♂️
who were your past circuit overseers?
i'm sure a lot of us actually know mutual people, as the co's relocate all over the country.. here's a few from the southeast us: (let me know if you recognize any names and post yours too please...).
ellwood johnson (new york/philadelphia area for several years also).
I was told this week that Mike Seidler had passed away on 6th May 2023, aged 77 years.
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