Posts by BereanThinker7

1. Dont necessarily leave the org but ask questions exposing the logical fallacies in every meeting study material for years. . . and years. . .and years, in other words stick around just to raise doubts and hope to help others exit

2. buy a second property, I already bought one property when I was 18.

3. open Roth Ira's and max them out,

4. support biblical unitarian ministries financially since I'd stay "pimo" as long as possible

5. start bands with my music friends

6. have kids earlier

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Which of you readers are being shunned by their relatives / friends ?

by stan livedeath in

a simple " me" if you dont want to say more--or a short explanation about who is shunning you and how long has this been going on.. i'll set the ball rolling: my daughter--her husband and children; my younger son --no contact from them for 40 years...because i left their religion.. (edit--i just noticed the typo in the header--if should be of ).

BereanThinker7

My wife, myself, and our newborn daughter whom the family has never met, shun us.

All 4of my grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, the whole family 3 generations deep.

Thankfully most of the wifes family is out.

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which Translation Now?

by enoughisenough in

for those of you who still respect the bible, which translation/s are you using now?

why?.

BereanThinker7

I like the English Standard Version best since it is a pretty good mixture of word for word translation and thought for thought.

From the biblical unitarian perspective, and one that retains the use of Gods name in the text I like the Revised English Version.

Matthew 1, REV Bible and Commentary (revisedenglishversion.com)

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Grace Gough ("Mouthy") and the 83 Tapes

by JW_Researcher in

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grace gough (“mouthy’) sent me 83 cassette tapes 16 years ago (2006).. .

when she sent them, i understood them to be ‘testimonies’ of jws who became christians.

there are some labeled “so-and-so’s testimony” so at least some are that.. others appear to be talks, like the morning session of the 1981 “ex –jws for jesus” convention.

BereanThinker7

Also interested

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OH...NO! Watchtower Has A New Rule Related To Dress And Grooming

by JW GoneBad in

the new head-of-the-house max has a problem with how his new stepdaughter (olivia) looks and dresses.. on the friday afternoon part 2 convention video @ 18:10 max 1st brings it up with olivia while in the kitchen!

then fast forward to 26:50 thru 27:65 max bellyaches to new wife (olivia's mother) & it's handled!

message to all rank & file jws....no more fashion torn jeans & beach sandles: :) :) :).

BereanThinker7

when were flip flops mentioned?

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Entire WT Library online

by admirmitch in

stumbled on this video online.

looks like the entire wt library is online and available via login access.

read some comments and presenter was a bethel insider so he had special access.

BereanThinker7

so how are we going to get someone from the service departments login????

gotta be a pimo somewhere that would give (misplace) their info

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2021 Service Year Report of Jehovah’s Witnesses Worldwide

by Joker5 in

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2021 grand totals.

branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 87. .

number of lands reporting: 239. .

BereanThinker7

dont get distracted by the percentages dudes. . .

from 2019 till 2021 they a peak membership increase of only 3800 people

from 2019 till 2021 the average membership only increased 9100

This is after billions of hours have been expended to recruit more members and changing how they count active publishers. To top it off let's be real, most of us know in the western countries, at least, it just born ins getting baptized.

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PIMO elder

by Reservations in

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i’m reservations, pimo elder.

i’m in no position to leave the organisation, maybe some people will see that as weak or whatever, but we have to all go down our own path in life.. i would like to be able to wake people up in my congregation, how do you think best to do this?

any ideas?.

BereanThinker7

I haven't seen this answer really pop up thus far, but if you need to continue the pimo life for a while. I would boldly and bluntly put up front the Orgs more ridiculous doctrines that get buried in couched language and the barrages of "send more money and do more service."

Things that are in line with official doctrine but stated more plainly to highlight the absurdity. . .

"Remember brothers that we are still waiting for Christs third return."(1st century physical, 1914 invisible, 3rd time as Michael/ visible but spirit realm??)

"We need to keep in mind since as members of the great crown, we do not have Christ as our mediator it is important we rely on the faithful slave to have a relationship with Jehovah."

"Since about 2007 we now know the heavenly calling WAS NOT closed in 1935, we should not be suspicious of those who newly begin partaking."

The Christian Greek scriptures were not written for us since we are not anointed of spirit.

The great crowd aren't baptized into or a part of the body or Christ, we are baptized into an organization.

We aren't the adopted as children of God since we aren't part of the body of Christ, remember Jehovah is not our Father yet, we just hope to be his friends.

These types of things. . . .

I also love when 4 CLEARLY different generations of family is gathered, and pointing out Great Grandma and Baby are actually 1 generation since their lives overlap. lol