One other thing that is helpful for me is I keep a recording device on me when I go out just in case you run into a witless. They think they are doing a service by trying to slip you up with something you've said and go back and report it to the elders. Even if it's not true. After the taping we put it onto our computer for future reference, if need be. You never know what accusations will come out of all this. Since then I have total confidence and am looking for these suckers to try and say something I never said. I go out not scared wondering who I will run into. Sisters run the other way but the brothers are extremely bold. When the elders approached the one couple about us, the sister put her hand up to his face and said she did not want to hear any gossip about us. We told the overseer at bethel that one and got our instructions to wait to see what these guys will do and then we do our next move. It's like we're playing chess using real people. Chin up and be proud of what and who you are. Remember who created who you are. It wasn't your friend or the religion. Believe in yourself!
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Julia gets hit with the Shun Gun for the first time...and it really hurts.
by Julia Orwell inmy jw friend of 20 years, the first one i ever met, the one who got me into jwism in the first place, unfriended me from facebook without explanation.
other jws who have unfriended me at least called me names (apostate) and told me they were unfriending me, but they were no loss.
but someone who's been your friend since you were 13...and no explanation...i'd think 20 years- 20 years!
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Julia gets hit with the Shun Gun for the first time...and it really hurts.
by Julia Orwell inmy jw friend of 20 years, the first one i ever met, the one who got me into jwism in the first place, unfriended me from facebook without explanation.
other jws who have unfriended me at least called me names (apostate) and told me they were unfriending me, but they were no loss.
but someone who's been your friend since you were 13...and no explanation...i'd think 20 years- 20 years!
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That just happened to a friend of mine as well. Wait until the elders go behind your back telling your close friends that you were questioning the fds but it's ok to still say hello to you for your not df'd yet. That just happened to us last week. After we left the hall, two weeks later there's a talk on apostacy and after elders went around telling people who that talk was for. It's been a year since we haven't gone and the elders are starting to tighten the noose. Exciteing times ahead, Julia.
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Tech49 on HOURS, TIME, and REPORTS
by Tech49 ini thought i would share some of my observations on counting field service time, reports, etc.
and how those reports are viewed, to those that are still so fixated on numbers.. i served as secretary on the service committee for many years, and have seen it all!.
i was really disheartened when wt changed the requirement for aux pioneering to allow for 30 hrs, instead of the 50 it has been for so long.
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Ohhhh, you gotta love those pencils and pens. They're "special". LOL
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Steven Hassan - Freedom of Mind - Book Summary
by Designer Stubble infreedom of mind by steven hassan.
herewith a few pointers on how to identify a cult.
i will be adding more information, but due to time constraints, this is it for now.
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Reiligion is not an excuse to abuse others! Reading book now! UNBELIEVEABLE
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Silly TV Programs From The 1960s to the 1970s
by minimus inmcmillan & wife with rock hudson is what i just saw on tv.
watching rock hudson kiss his wife while smoking a cigarette is pretty funny.
and he solved a murder case as he lit up another cigarette at some wealthy person's party.....good stuff!.
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Thanks Shirley:)
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Silly TV Programs From The 1960s to the 1970s
by minimus inmcmillan & wife with rock hudson is what i just saw on tv.
watching rock hudson kiss his wife while smoking a cigarette is pretty funny.
and he solved a murder case as he lit up another cigarette at some wealthy person's party.....good stuff!.
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Maud Squad, Little House On The Prairie, All In The Family, Jeffersons, GoodTimes
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Notes in the margins of the July 15 2013 WT magazine. yours and mine.
by prologos inpart of my healthy and longstanding scepticism about wt claims /teachings stems from my habit to immediately scan the newly arrived mags for novelty.
at source.. while the meeting drones on, usually within minutes, "gems" are marked and shown in the margins "kindly" left for that purpose/ possibility.. this 7/15/2013 magazines is one of a kind, this marking will take longer, but here is a start:.
on page 25, paragraph 19, but 18 and 20 too, -- the extraordinary claim/possibility is suggested, that.
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Yeah but the names are already on the foundation. It doesn't say that these boobheads would be added to that foundation. Idiots! Show me in the bible where it says that they would be ADDED! Mind you Mark Sanderson would make a lovely humpty dumpty who fell off the wall:)
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DF'd ones--? about your JC
by gma-tired2 ini went back and i was reading butterflyleia past posts.
she mentioned one on the elders on her jc was df'd later.. this got me to thinking how many others had this experience.
my son was df'd 18 years ago.
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We'll let you know. Ours is coming soon.
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Symposium: Beware of Apostates! - 'God's Word is Truth!' District Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses 2013 - not on JW.ORG
by mindnumbed insymposium: beware of apostates!.
satanhuman apostates also of interest ..... the truth brings "not peace, but a sword" .
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Thanks Mindnumbed and Designer Stubble. This was the information that we needed.
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Why elders' wives are such gossipers...
by Calebs Airplane ini have a theory as to why elders' wives gossip so much.
i believe a big part of it has to do with the conversation running dry (between themselves and their elder husbands) after so many years of marriage.
since they don't get to spend too much "quality time" together (because of the elder husband's hamster wheel schedule), when they do have some intimate time alone, the elder's wives will invaribly attempt to engage their husbands in any kind of interchange.
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One more thing to add is when the elders come to you and want to shepherd you, the minute you say you can't understand why some elders tell their wives everything then all of a sudden you see their faces go red while they shake their heads up and down but not one word. GUILTY!