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  Beards galore at the Assembly

  by Truthexplorer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok, at our recent assembly, i noticed that there were quite a lot of brothers wearing beards.

  not just the older dudes, but right across a range of ages, young men, middle aged men and older men.

  is watchtower beginning to relax this rule at last?

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  Could it be that BALLS are beginning to drop, and these men could be awake or just don't respect the current Governing Body's instructions?
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  For the Supporters of Those Who Love Jehovah

  by lovesjehovah in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am jehovah's witness, despite some of the questionable teachings, crimes, and other outlandish behaviors of specific people affiliated with the religion.

  i know that my relationship with jehovah is not influenced by any outside factors.

  i do not condone any crime.

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  So Jehovah is still installed in your head lovesjehovah
  That's one virus that is especially difficult to cure. Once cured you will experience happiness like never before, happiness at your own pace and to your own liking.
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  Elder On Tablet During Prayer

  by jw07 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  during a prayer in the kh all our eyes are supposed to be closed, right?

  i've never been one to fully my eyes during prayers.

  i'll close them down, but just enough that i can still peep around at what's happening without being noticed.. there's something i've noticed a certain elder doing for the second time now.

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  During a prayer in the KH all our eyes are supposed to be closed, right? I've never been one to fully my eyes during prayers. I'll close them down, but just enough that I can still peep around at what's happening without being noticed.

  There's something I've noticed a certain elder doing for the second time now. Last night he invited up the assigned brother to pray, and while that was happening he not only started looking around in the congregation, but he was on his tablet for maybe half of the prayer.

  Is this an indication that he doesn't believe and is going through the motions (wishful thinking is that he is posting on this site lol)?

  Is he just 'disrespectful' (just as much as I am I guess)?

  Has anyone else noticed similar behavior among elders during prayer?
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  Disfellowshipping Spree In My Congregation

  by jw07 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just was looking back at a group photo on social media from exactly one year ago.. there are 12 persons in it, and since last year 3 of those persons in that photo have been disfellowshipped, plus one more not in the photo.

  so that's a total of 4 persons from my congregation of a little over 100 publishers.. unfortunately 3 are back at the meetings and taking the shunning, but one seems to be fully awake and has disappeared completely.. that's the most persons i recall being disfellowshipped in my congregation in such a short while.

  usually it's like 1 every 2 or 3 years.. i wouldn't mind seeing more people leaving.. there are currently 3 persons who i wonder about.

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  @Crazy guy

  Yep, 3 of them were df-ed for that. Humans just want to mate, just like any other living creature.
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  Disfellowshipping Spree In My Congregation

  by jw07 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just was looking back at a group photo on social media from exactly one year ago.. there are 12 persons in it, and since last year 3 of those persons in that photo have been disfellowshipped, plus one more not in the photo.

  so that's a total of 4 persons from my congregation of a little over 100 publishers.. unfortunately 3 are back at the meetings and taking the shunning, but one seems to be fully awake and has disappeared completely.. that's the most persons i recall being disfellowshipped in my congregation in such a short while.

  usually it's like 1 every 2 or 3 years.. i wouldn't mind seeing more people leaving.. there are currently 3 persons who i wonder about.

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  @freddo

  It's highly unlikely, but I'll look into doing that.
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  Disfellowshipping Spree In My Congregation

  by jw07 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just was looking back at a group photo on social media from exactly one year ago.. there are 12 persons in it, and since last year 3 of those persons in that photo have been disfellowshipped, plus one more not in the photo.

  so that's a total of 4 persons from my congregation of a little over 100 publishers.. unfortunately 3 are back at the meetings and taking the shunning, but one seems to be fully awake and has disappeared completely.. that's the most persons i recall being disfellowshipped in my congregation in such a short while.

  usually it's like 1 every 2 or 3 years.. i wouldn't mind seeing more people leaving.. there are currently 3 persons who i wonder about.

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  @Storm

  It's not that simple. I'm a born in, with my immediate family (who I'm dependent on for health and other reasons), significant other, and 'closest friends' totally brainwashed by JW doctrine. Right now I'm in a do and get screwed, don't and get screwed position.
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  Disfellowshipping Spree In My Congregation

  by jw07 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just was looking back at a group photo on social media from exactly one year ago.. there are 12 persons in it, and since last year 3 of those persons in that photo have been disfellowshipped, plus one more not in the photo.

  so that's a total of 4 persons from my congregation of a little over 100 publishers.. unfortunately 3 are back at the meetings and taking the shunning, but one seems to be fully awake and has disappeared completely.. that's the most persons i recall being disfellowshipped in my congregation in such a short while.

  usually it's like 1 every 2 or 3 years.. i wouldn't mind seeing more people leaving.. there are currently 3 persons who i wonder about.

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  I just was looking back at a group photo on social media from exactly one year ago.

  There are 12 persons in it, and since last year 3 of those persons in that photo have been disfellowshipped, plus one more not in the photo. So that's a total of 4 persons from my congregation of a little over 100 publishers.

  Unfortunately 3 are back at the meetings and taking the shunning, but one seems to be fully awake and has disappeared completely.

  That's the most persons I recall being disfellowshipped in my congregation in such a short while. Usually it's like 1 every 2 or 3 years.

  I wouldn't mind seeing more people leaving.

  There are currently 3 persons who I wonder about. They look just as uncomfortable as I am at the meetings. There's no way to really know without asking them though.
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  Mobile Hotspot - JWFACTS.COM - Assembly & Conventions

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is an idea i tested.

  works at both assemblies and conventions.

  i have noticed at the last convention and at my last assembly that when i opened up my wifi setting, tons of hotspots came up for people tethering their tablets to their smart phones.

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  This can also be a great tool for spreading fear with hotspot names like "apostate meeting in bathroom 1pm"

  That's exactly 32 characters which is the SSID (WiFi name) limit :-)

  Watchtower is reactionary. If there are enough ex-jws / awake jws doing this then they may send out a letter or update their convention guidelines with some nonesense like "it would be a loving gesture to turn of your WiFi so as not to be distracted while you benefit from spiritual food."

  It would rattle sabers though, and have the leadership spooked by something they had NO control over at their yearly brainwashing extravaganza.
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  Mobile Hotspot - JWFACTS.COM - Assembly & Conventions

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is an idea i tested.

  works at both assemblies and conventions.

  i have noticed at the last convention and at my last assembly that when i opened up my wifi setting, tons of hotspots came up for people tethering their tablets to their smart phones.

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  I did this at the convention this year:
  1. Downloaded a 3rd party app and named my hotspot jehovahs-witness.com during lunch time
  2. left it open
  3. walked around mingling and doing my 'attendant' duties
  4. found out that 97 devices out of a crowd of 5000+ had 'connected'

  I'm not sure how many of those were deliberate or which ones were set to automatically connect to available networks.

  The method makes sense though. Someone can receive an 'unwitness' even months after while going through their Wifi connection list.
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  If Jehovah's Witnesses were a cereal, what would they be?

  by Zoos in

  1. social
  2. humour

  cult flakes?.

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  (welcome to the height of intellectual thread topics.

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  Russell's Miracle Wheat