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  Introducing Myself

  by Peony in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've finally got round to joining the site (after over 2 years lurking!

  i was born into jws, pioneered for 10 years (met my husband at pioneer school).

  had health issues that saw me catapulted away from 'the centre of the cong' and wow what a different place that was!

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  InquiryMan

  Welcome... And I guess you’re right that they would not have left you alone.

  «There is a lot more to the story but the upshot is my husband resigned as an elder, we both stopped going to meetings. Over 2 years later we received a text from the elders to say they believed we were celebrating Christmas ( I think the lights on the outside of my house gave it away)!!! CO got involved and said the elders should leave us alone as we had been out for over 2 years. We knew they would never leave us alone though (and a million other reasons) so we disassociated ourselves.»

  Fours years after we stopped going to meetings and I resigning as an elder, my ex-wife got a visit from two elders stating they had got reports that she was celebrating christmas (lights in the window). So we wrote a letter and DA the day after...
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  Jehovah's people are the happiest people on earth!

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so this afternoon my roommate and i decided to go grab some dinner from the local chipotle and, as we live only a short distance from the franchise, we decided it was a good idea to walk.

  little did i know that the j-dubs district convention here in sacramento was just getting out (the auditorium is literally smack in the middle of downtown and its attendees have to park in garages scattered a couple blocks away in every direction) so men in cheap suits and women in unflattering dress' were walking all over the place as though someone had antagonized their ungodly ant hill.

  and, for sacramento, this of course is the complete opposite of the normative - that is to say, our streets are usually filled with well dressed, immaculately groomed, 'i know exactly where i'm going' government officials that monopolize the state capitol m-f. .

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  InquiryMan

  How come that witnesses are described this way: men in cheap suits and women in unflattering dress whereas in Scandinavia the witnesses are described as being modern, yet modest but never in the way stated above... Do American witnesses have poor taste compared to their Scandinavian counterparts?
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  Geoffrey Jackson's Golden Apple watch INVESTIGATED

  by C0ntr013r in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i went through the original footage to get a good look at the watch.. from these pictures we can probably say that it is a apple watch and that it has a golden color.

  the color on the pin is black, and the band is white, grey, silvery or beige.. .

  the pin is in the exact place for it to be a apple watch.. only apple watch edition have the gold color.

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  InquiryMan

  Well, no matter who has the watch I think it would be next to crazy to have such an expensive watch... I guess it has been given to him.
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  Contradicting Governing Body Members

  by Illuminated in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  so we've heard from three different governing body members this year regarding child sexual abuse.. the latest one on the rc admitted there's a sexual abuse problem within the cult, yet lett and morris swept the dirt under the carpet stating they have a great reputation as far as sex abuse is concerned, and pointed their fingers at "apostate lies".

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  i'm left totally confused at the contradiction of this "organization"..

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  InquiryMan

  I guess a youtube segment might turn up where these contradicting statements are shown
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  Guys help me out, no isrealite women judges?????since when

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  guys what the hell is going on, how can jackson say there were no isrealite women judges!!!

  !how many jewish women judges are there?cdidnt maclellan check up om that one, would have thought he'd know!

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  InquiryMan

  JWs are against corporal punishment of children in the countries where this is banned, e.g. Norway and other Scandinavian countries... All references to such have been rephrased in WT literature for decades.
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  Geoffrey Jackson - Royal Commission Live Hearing Now!

  by LostinJapan in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

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  https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/636f01a5-50db-4b59-a35e-a24ae07fb0ad/case-study-29,-july-2015,-sydney.

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  InquiryMan

  He definitely got it wrong with this:

  To actually say he has no knowledge of that an inactive person caught celebrating xmas or bday would be DF is bull.

  After four years of inactivity (and having no elder visits in those years) my ex-wife got a visit from two elders who had got information from a concerned publisher that had observed christmas lights in her window. They definitely wanted to investigate and thus starting a process ultimately leading to a judicial case. However, we saved them the efforts and wrote them a letter (I joined forced with her) the same night stating we no longer considered ourselves to be Jehovah’s witnesses (however not using the term DA).
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  Article in New Yorker magazine

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i guess this article will be appreciated within the jw community, being on the positive side when discussing blood transfusion.

  it is the first of three articles to be published in that prestigious magazine.. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-jehovahs-witnesses-are-changing-medicine.

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  InquiryMan

  This might be the topic of the remaining two articles yet to be published...
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  Article in New Yorker magazine

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i guess this article will be appreciated within the jw community, being on the positive side when discussing blood transfusion.

  it is the first of three articles to be published in that prestigious magazine.. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-jehovahs-witnesses-are-changing-medicine.

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  InquiryMan

  I guess this article will be appreciated within the JW community, being on the positive side when discussing blood transfusion. It is the first of three articles to be published in that prestigious magazine.

  http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-jehovahs-witnesses-are-changing-medicine
  
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  What is their official explanation for not allowing beards?

  by keyser soze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i ask because my gf, who knows all about my jw upbringing, convinced me to grow a goatee, just to see how it looks.

  we both decided it looked good so i decided to keep it.

  i tried to explain to her that as a jw, i wasn't allowed to grow one, but then drew a blank when she asked me why.

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  InquiryMan

  One cannot say that beards are banned. In some ways it is also a cultural issue.

  When attending an assembly jn Denmark, one of the Elders giving a talk had a beard and several in the audience as well.

  In Sweden and Norway however, beards are not accepted among witnesses.

  Also, beards are common among JWs men in countries like the Netherlands and Ireland (this is something I have been told, but Denmark I know for sure).
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  The cruelty of shunning now being exposed rc

  by poopie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  let justice roll forth.

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  InquiryMan

  Interestingly, in many languages the term shun cannot be translated. In scandinavian languages the term is invariably translated in terms of have nothing to do with, avoid etc...