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  Polish Publishers that became inactive in 2015 will be reported to Branch Office

  by wifibandit in

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  per ohmyjw over at r/exjw:.

  i assume that other countries also got this letter to boe dated 1st september 2015 about sending additional information along with s-10 form (annual cong.

  report).

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  I can only imagine that this might be part of an effort/campaign to reach out to inactive ones with the new brochure "Return To Jehovah"...

  Eden
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  Mrs. Eden sends her regards to you all .... =)

  by EdenOne in

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  mrs. eden is laying here by my side reading the forum latest posts with me and asked me to send you all her warmest regards.

  more to follow soon.... .

  eden

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  Mrs. Eden is laying here by my side reading the forum latest posts with me and asked me to send you all her warmest regards. :)

  More to follow soon...

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  I almost gave up today except for a girl her tried to throw herself infront of two cars.............

  by umbertoecho in

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  2. child-abuse

  this may sound insane but i literally have blood on my hands as i have just come home from a counselling session that went wrong...i wanted to collate all that has happened and record it...hospital policy is against it.

  i said "what am i alive for then if not to tell the truth" she tut tutted and i walked out sadly in despair.. when i got to the ground floor there was a young girl screaming her head off.

  she was afraid, that is all she was...........afraid.

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  Dear Juliette,

  Since you love Pink Floyd ... What you did reminds me of a song by Roger Waters.

  "Each small candle / lights a corner of the dark"

  You've just lit a candle in this girl's dark life.

  hugs

  Eden
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  Helen Keller is not a hero

  by StopTheTears in

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  few realize just how wicked some of the most revered people in history were.

  helen keeler (1880 to 1968) was a wolf in sheep's clothing, no hero.

  keller was a communist.

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  EdenOne

  Nice to see you again, Slimboyfat !!

  eden
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  A small update on the ongoing investigation by the Royal Commission

  by umbertoecho in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i think you people would like to know that since the public hearing has finished.

  there has been ongoing contact made to me by the staff at the rc.

  they have been inundated with calls and the same experiences or similar ones are being related.. the staff are not backwards in coming forwards with insights that they have shared.

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  Are they making shepherding calls to faders in general, or to victims of abuse in particular?

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  First President Of The Watchtower Society

  by William Penwell in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was reading on wikipedia about the watchtower society and it lists a william henry conley as the first president of the wt society (1881-1884).

  i was wonder if this is correct and why the modern jw's have eliminated him from the societies history?

  the only thing is the society was not incorporated till 1884 with russel as president.

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  I suspect that the reason why Russell and Conley parted ways was due to some disagreement involving preacher George N. H. Peters, whose work Conley backed up through Zion's Watch Tower Society; however, in 1883 Zion's Watch Tower journal criticized George Peter's work and recommended its readers not to purchase it. I suspect that Russell wasn't pleased with this endorsement of doctrines he personally didn't agree with, no to mention that Conley had broader contacts with the Advent Christian circles that Russell denounced often, and so he and his former patron parted ways. Conley went to become a leading member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance until his death in 1897.

  Naturally, this bit of Conley's history is something that the Governing Body wish no Jehovah's Witness was ever aware of.

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  Jehovah's people are the happiest people on earth!

  by Coded Logic in

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  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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  Jehovah's Witnesses lives are one big, failed advertising board of happiness detached from reality.

  Only relatively few experience genuine happiness. Most experience a sort of kool-aid induced trip into a magical, imaginary spiritual paradise.

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  Cognitive Dissonance

  by LexIsFree in

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  the cognitive dissonance amongst jws has never been more obvious to me then what i just experience in the last 5 min.

  long story short i had a phone conversation w/my mom about some things and i mentioned to her to look up what has been going on with their beloved organization in australia.

  brother geoffrey jackson of the holy governing body was caught lying numerous times about several subjects including disassociations & shunning.

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  Denial as a sub product of Cognitive Dissonance?

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  Lurker - just joined

  by Je.suis.oisif in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi all, nothing to report just now.

  wanted to add name to list of those awakening.

  been lurking for nearly a year.

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  EdenOne

  Hello and welcome J.S.Oisif

  We hope you'll feel comfortable here, and be sure that you'll find plenty of support from great people. Looking forward to hear more from you.

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  First President Of The Watchtower Society

  by William Penwell in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was reading on wikipedia about the watchtower society and it lists a william henry conley as the first president of the wt society (1881-1884).

  i was wonder if this is correct and why the modern jw's have eliminated him from the societies history?

  the only thing is the society was not incorporated till 1884 with russel as president.

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  The Watchtower started as Zion's Watchtower Tract Society in 1881, with William Conley as president and CT Russell as Treasurer. Conley was Russell's financial's backer but later they parted ways, amicably it seems. Russell then incorporated the Society in Pennsylvannia in 1884, becoming its president. In 1896 he changed its name to Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. In 1908, Russell transferred the Society to new headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, and the rest, as they say, is history.

  Eden