Posts by smiddy3

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Which Things Did Your Overzealous Parents Ban?

by pale.emperor in

we all know the gb like to impose rules upon the rules... but did anyone else out there have parents that implemented rules upon those rules?

mine did.

my mum tended to copy whatever the elders wives were doing and took it to the extreme.

smiddy3

faithnomore it seems like you and me were the only parents here who had restrictions on what their children could do. LOL

My youngest son was a huge KISS fan that got banned

Smurfs ? not in my house

Both my sons loved "The Life Of Brian" that soon went off and out the door when john cleese started banding the name "JEHOVAH" around LOL

And while they could play sports at school extra curricular activities were out of bounds however they were lucky in the fact their were a lot of kids their age in the congregation and other close by congregations.

And they have since told me they all got up to a lot of mischief us self righteous parents never had a clue about.

It`s something we all have a chuckle about now .

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Easybeats and Jehovah...?...Say Whaaaat...

by jaydee in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iw2_ec3ueu.

....' it's not all so uplifting, though.

wright's womanising and heroin use (dated here to the mid-1960s, not the early '70s as is generally accepted) regularly threaten to derail things; dick is torn between his jehovah's witness upbringing and the temptations of the road.

smiddy3

I`m going to have to watch this later,

.I think it was the 1963 International Convention in Melbourne Victoria when Vandesluy`s brother? Bob and his wife stayed at our house during the convention.They turned up with a small trailer towed behind their car and they wanted to sleep out their but we insisted they sleep in the house.

We moved to Redcliffe Qld congregation where his married sister? Henja eventually ended up at .

I often wonder if they are all still in the religion ?

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Zimbabwe has a new President.

by zeb in

i watched the new president taking his oath of office.

well done mr president!.

rather than me repeat his words i suggest you go google and look it up.

smiddy3

Thank you OrphanCrow for that link

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Watchtower Organizational Structure

by Wild_Thing in

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does anyone know of any diagrams online that show the current hierarchical structure of the watchtower compared to the previous hierarchical structures of the past.

i know they have complicated it on purpose to try to protect themselves legally from lawsuits.

i would like to try to understand their current structure compared with the past.

smiddy3

Thanks Wild- Thing that pic sums it up nicely

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Jehovah`s Witnesses / Governing Body Claim To Abhor Child Sexual Abuse Within Their Congregations /Members who are victims.?

by smiddy3 in

so my question to them is why have they continually failed to report incidents of child sexual abuse of child members in their congregations to the appropriate authorities ,either police or child protection agency`s, when they are holding judicial committees into these allegations in their congregations when they occur or even some time after ?.

they have consistently failed to do so.. and this failure to do so is not confined to one country ,it is a pattern that is repeated worldwide ,in one country after another country .

(worldwide where they operate in ).

smiddy3

Very true John Davis

,I only hope that if the federal or Local Governments don`t act on the ARC `s recommendations that we collectively, and people on other ex JW sites can bring pressure on the Govts. to do so.

To give justice for the victims.

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Difficult to internalize that all the connections are gone

by truthseeker in

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i was in my old stomping ground a couple of months ago and happened to be walking past the home of an old family friend.

word is in the hall that i used to go to is that "i am one of them" meaning apostate.

no one from my old hall has contacted me to find out what happened.

smiddy3

I hear you truthseeker

I hear you Giordano

You both make valid points and while I have made attempts to connect with long time JW associates (I refuse to call them friends anymore ) a couple I had success with at the time however they never contacted me back ,I have never tried to connect with friends when we were children or close school mates that I grew up with.

And I have had regrets about that too at some degree.{ Apparently they haven`t tried to contact me either }

I guess that`s life and we all just move on to the next chapter in our lives.

Their is a section in our Sunday Newspaper titled "Desperately Seeking" that i always read ,who knows ?

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"In a human moment before Jehovah grabbed her"

by truthseeker in

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i often wondered how far back the witnesses had been involved with my family.

my grandmother died at the end of 2013 and while going through her photos we found some of my great-grandmother, dora, who was born in 1901 and died in 1994. there is a photo of dora dated 1946 standing outside her house in east riding, yorkshire.

on the back of the photo her husband had written "in a human moment before jehovah grabbed her".. my great grandfather, who died before i was born, did not like the witnesses.

smiddy3

That Christendom has kept the name of God "Jehovah" from her members for Centuries is just another lie they have told and repeated over the years so that many JW`s and ex JW`s still think is a fact.

However nothing is further from the truth. Christendom has used the name of Jehovah for God since at least the 13th Century plainly visible on and in Church buildings in Europe and other parts of the world including Australia.

The name also features in literature ancient and modern pertaining to the Bible as well as hymns in Christendom to this day.

Christendom has followed the Christian Greek Scriptures (New Testament) of highlighting the name of Jesus as the name that is to be held up above every other name {not Jehovah}

Of course JW`s have to be different and defy the Christian Greek Scriptures and exult the name of Jehovah.

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HQ must be paying Google to get the top hits

by nonjwspouse in

i typed into google jehovahs-witness and the first four hits were borg sites.

this site was not even on the first page .

smiddy3

When I typed in Jehovah`s witnesses ,the first 3 were Jw.org then Wikepedia and next was this site and after that the next 5 were anti JW sites all on the first page.

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Jehovah`s Witnesses / Governing Body Claim To Abhor Child Sexual Abuse Within Their Congregations /Members who are victims.?

by smiddy3 in

so my question to them is why have they continually failed to report incidents of child sexual abuse of child members in their congregations to the appropriate authorities ,either police or child protection agency`s, when they are holding judicial committees into these allegations in their congregations when they occur or even some time after ?.

they have consistently failed to do so.. and this failure to do so is not confined to one country ,it is a pattern that is repeated worldwide ,in one country after another country .

(worldwide where they operate in ).

smiddy3

So my question to them is why have they continually failed to report incidents of child sexual abuse of child members in their congregations to the appropriate authorities ,either police or child protection agency`s, when they are holding judicial committees into these allegations in their congregations when they occur or even some time after ?. they have consistently failed to do so.

And this failure to do so is not confined to one country ,it is a pattern that is repeated worldwide ,in one country after another country . (Worldwide where they operate in )

Thankfully the ARC into Institutions Of child sex abuse has brought this to the fore.

The results of which are to be handed down on December the 14TH I believe.In Australia.

I just hope this ARC is not just going to be a paper tiger.

{ Remember this does not just focus on JW `s it encompasses all Institutions with children}

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Gucci Grace

by zeb in

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i recall jw saying with some pride that former president of zimbabwe, mugabe's wife nicknamed "gucci" grace due her spending habits is a jw.

is this correct?.

smiddy3

Bullshit ,maybe just a jw urban legend .Their is no way this woman was a JW ,she was deeply involved in politics and power for herself and a former mistress of Robert Mugabe while she was married to another man before she became Mugabes wife.