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  Moving Back to Chicago - Don't care

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my wife was diagnosed with ms about two years ago.

  we have been living in ohio for the last 5 years but were recently assigned to a new congregation because of the dissolving and sale of our congregation/kh.

  my wife's symptoms spiked after being relocated to our new hall back in january.

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  James Jack

  I'm following you and please keep us up to date on any more changes in your life.
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  Donating Online

  by Saltheart Foamfollower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have just heard that the local needs item next week in the uk is to be about a new arrangement for donating online.

  details will be in the september announcements letter due out on sept 3rd.

  speculate at will!.

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  James Jack

  We had a similar part 6 months ago here in the States. About 1/3 of our local contributions are done online through the Branch.
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  All I can say is WOW!!

  by Deke in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  all i can say is wow 3 pages of return posts!!

  what an amazing support system!

  i’m sorry i didn’t return posts after i first posted i was beat and basically passed out .

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  James Jack

  Tell us more, waiting....
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  First time

  by Deke in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  good evening all, this is my first time posting.. been reading and following for two years.

  my story will come soon.... but i want to say to all, thanks for all the meaningful, intellectual, honest, and insightful words!!

  it’s been an interesting 48 years of service to an organization!

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  James Jack

  48 years, wow!

  You have my attention.
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  Do you think Ruthaford is buried at Beth Sharim?

  by blownaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  no one really knows where ruthaford is buried.

  there is some word of mouth evidence that he is buried under the garage of beth sarim.

  i think he is under the garage.

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  James Jack

  I was told there is a JW Cemetery at the Watchtower Farms location where Rutherford is buried.
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  International convention headed for cleveland August 2019

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just sayin' btw what's so special about these anyway?

  all it is, is inviting rich delegates from other countries to hear the same thing.

  now here in cleveland as noted, there has been a lot of k.h.closings and consolidations.

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  They announced at our Hall there where 7 US Locations
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  Hatred From My Children for Not Leaving the Organization Earlier

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm not proud of the fact that it took me over 50 years to realized what the organization really was and to finally leave it.

  not proud at all, i feel pretty stupid.

  however i didn't lose my children.

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  James Jack

  Where you in any positions of Oversight? This messes with your Brain even deeper.
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  No new releases? How are the r&f taking this?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is it true that there's been no new releases at this summer's convention?

  if so it will be the first convention in decades perhaps ever to not produce at least a new tract.. how are the r&f explaining this to eachother?

  surely they must have noticed the absence?

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  James Jack

  At the Annual Meeting they announced that they were reducing the literature output significantly so as not to put any additional pressure on the Friends.
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  JWs and Guns.

  by blownaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was told shooting guns and collecting them was not something a jw should do.

  when i lived way up north us it was more of a deer hunting group and so some guns were ok, when i moved to florida it was different.

  most people in the hall were not hunters.

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  Had no guns while I lived in Florida. However, now in Alabama, I have 5 guns and I'm not a Hunter
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  Pioneers, Prayers and Pills

  by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  looking back on my two decades as a jehovah’s witness, i’ve come to realize how the constant theme of endurance is playing a detrimental role on the individual's psyche.. jehovah’s witnesses have become far too good at keeping going.

  they’re experts at surrendering to the demands of the watchtower, living up to what’s expected of them, and getting on with the priorities that those in power have defined and imposed upon them.

  they keep showing up, presenting themselves a dutiful pioneer or ministerial servant.

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  LongHairGal

  "Keep your business to yourself (it seems you still attend meetings)."

  Yeah, I still attend meetings for the same reasons many on this Forum do. I am my own Man. And I tell those that listen, "I am not the same person you knew 8 years ago. I'm not taking any chances of retiring without being able to take care of myself and my wife. I remember a time when those who were working fulltime, having children and missed some meetings because of putting their families first, they were considered Spiritually weak. Now, these same people that had planned for retirement, they are in Appointed Positions and I am now considered weak for pursuing the things they had planned for".