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  CO's talk on loyalty

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the circuit overseer this week on tuesday gave a talk on loyalty to jehovah.

  i listed 5 points.

  i only remember 3.. one was the typical association with disfellowshipped relatives, the next was loyalty to friends over jehovah by not reporting wrongdoing to elders.

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  The men would do things like going golfing and the women would go shopping which isn't good for the couples. Which he is right.
  

  No, it's not. If at all, the amount of JWs who can actually afford a vacation is minimal. When you consider the type of vacation that they would choose, typically visiting the local congregation and winding up preaching with them, I don's think that anyone would even consider going shopping or golfing. Seriously? How many JW golfers do you know? If at all, there are very few. And how many JWs do you know that can have shopping as a hobby (not that shopping as a hobby is a good thing, anyway, but still)? So why are they talking about activities that at best apply to a very, very small group of their people, if at all?

  But I was thinking that maybe his motive for discouraging couples vacationing together is to discouraging couples from sharing each other with the other couples and I don't mean men golfing and women shopping. He just wouldn't want to say that there may have been reports of mates sharing each other.
  

  That sounds more like it. This kind of filth is what a lot of Christian religions love spreading. They have to be told that because apparently that's the only thing to do in this planet when you go on vacation. Apparently, to them, vacation has this magical effect that makes you forget that you're a well trained Christian with good values and morals, and chose to live according to certain values and standards of living.
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  Generation

  by Jrjw in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  please could someone explain to me what the generation thing i keep seeing in people's threads was that had lots of people leave the wts coz it was way before i became a witness.

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  Please could someone explain to me what the generation thing I keep seeing in people's threads was that had lots of people leave the wts coz it was way before I became a witness
  

  Read the threads. That's how you get what's all about best. They are quite informative.
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  Do you have JW-related dreams (nightmares)?

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. humour

  greetings, dreamers:.

  i guess it's never going away: daytime carryovers of jw-related stuff seeping into my dreams.. the majority of these dreams take place at conventions but with really weird trappings.

  last night i dreamed i arrived at the site with no books, no lunch, nothing but my car keys.

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  No, never. I don't have anything JW related in my dreams.
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  Elders WILL be removed ...

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ..............if their child pursues higher education and lives on campus.

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  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/7ob4wa/interesting_tidbit_from_elders_school/?st=jc214ok2&sh=cfa8af95.

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  One of the last congregations I went to was near the University of Puerto Rico. Every year there were always new people coming to the congregation because they started studying there, and many wee children of elders.

  As always, they are full of shit.
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  Will The Governing Body Sell Out The Watchtower Corporation In A Plea Bargin With Prosecutors?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  as the lawsuits continue to increase world wide against the watchtower corporation and it's branches,, things could get very dire for the governing body to plea bargin for a lighter sentence and so turn over crucial evidence against their fellow f&dss, technically beat their fellow slave and what not.. now i know a lot of you will be thinking: "what on earth could lead to the gb blowing the whistle on fellow his fellow gbs?

  " i think that a legitimate question and offer no answer but just use your imagination as if this thing led them to make a run to the opposition to rat on others to get a lighter sentence.. hey i'm thinking about man's powerful desire to save one's own skin at the expense of his loyal companion..

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  Will The Governing Body Sell Out The Watchtower Corporation In A Plea Bargin With Prosecutors?
  

  Those people are amoral self-centered narcissists. I agree with what others shared about them being more than happy and willing to throw each other under the bus.
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  Why do ex-JW's talk so much about being ex-JW's?

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is it because we were in the cult watchtower compound that we talk about being ex-jw's when we stop being active?

  i have never heard anyone say that i was an ex-catholic or an ex-lutheran or an ex-baptist.

  they just stop going to their church and don't talk about it.. years after not stepping inside a kingdom hell, many of us still have to talk about being ex-jw's.

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  Is it because we were in the cult Watchtower Compound that we talk about being ex-JW's when we stop being active? I have never heard anyone say that I was an ex-Catholic or an ex-Lutheran or an ex-Baptist. They just stop going to their church and don't talk about it.

  Years after not stepping inside a Kingdom Hell, many of us still have to talk about being ex-JW's. Were we so damaged that we just can't help ourselves or is it because we lost so many years of our lives that we are still pissed off about it?

  Sour Grapes

  Not sure who you are talking about. I only talk about being an ex-JW in this forum, nowhere else, unless rarely they come up in a conversation, and that's a rarity.

  And how do you expect people like me, born in, to talk about our childhood, or our upbringing, or anything in our live without mentioning that organization?

  Also, yes, the experience in the JWs was a traumatic one.

  May I ask, does it bother you? Why are you questioning it? Is that a bad thing? And why does it have to be about being damaged? And even if it is, people who have been submitted to a traumatic experience deserve their time and space to deal with it, so is there a problem with that?
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  Family Insists on Having Relationship with My Child -_-

  by Cimarrona in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi gang, i'm a single mother of an 8 month old baby boy.

  i've been df'd for over six years now.

  my parents are super dubs and most of my siblings are dubs (on paper - a couple have been inactive my entire life but still claim to believe) with the exception of a brother who was never baptized.

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  I would let them pick him up to go to their house, knowing that I was not allowed there.
  

  Your family, your rules. If you are not allowed in or invited, then your child isn't.
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  "ah yes Dad, do you mean those times when Jehovah made those mistakes and errors?"

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so...while chatting with my ultra "spiritual elder" father on the phone this afternoon, i couldn't resist using that line!.

  i had sent him that video of the recent convention showing brothers and sisters dancing to the "kingdom song" and waving their illuminated phones and arms in the air like some sort of revival church concert.

  (perhaps someone can post that link to that thread again here?).

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  His Cognitive Dissonance obviously got the better of him, and he suddenly had to ring off....
  

  Thanks for sharing. He may not seem like it, but I think that he did listen.
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  JW's - Do you follow pagan practices?

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  w95 5/15 p. 19 part 1—flashes of light - great and small: “jehovah’s witnesses do not celebrate birthdays because these observances have pagan origins and tend to exalt the ones having a birthday.” (jw broadcasting doesn't exalt the gibbering body??????).

  in order to be “faithful in what is least” and to “stop touching the unclean thing,” j.w.

  's should abhor & shun all of the following traditions and practices due to their pagan/demonic origins - especially using the names of weekdays and several of the names of months.. “it was believed that sneezing was the way for the body to rid itself of the devil's evil influences.

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  There must be many everyday practices whose origins are pagan/demonic, but are now used by people who in all good conscience do not attribute anything to the origins. Motive is everything.
  

  Yes, like covering up for sexual abuse of children.
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  Cult Leader Thinks He’s Jesus

  by Jules Saturn in

  1. social
  2. current

  i was sent this video and don’t know if anyone was aware of it or if this has been posted before but in russia there is a religion known as vissarion’s church of the last testament where their leader who was formerly known as sergey anatolyevitch torop who goes by vissarion believes he is the messiah.

  according to the video, there are 5,000 followers worldwide with 2,000 followers actually living on site with vissarion.

  i found it pretty odd but very interesting and wanted to share it on here.

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  Not news to me. I shared before that I knew an elder who once said that he's Jehovah.