Posts by Julia Orwell

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JEHOVAH WITNESS PEDOPHILE COVER-UP ON CNN SUNDAY NIGHT! FREDRICK MCLEAN!

by BucketShopBill in

hi everyone, this has been what i have waited for, fredrick mclean is up next on cnn's "most wanted" and "hunted show", so far two of their topics are dead!.

last sunday's "the hunt" blew his head off monday morning!

let's hope cnn get's jehovah witness fredrick mclean!

Julia Orwell

Hang on, isn't that guy a fugitive on the FBI wanted list? How can he be a JW in good standing?

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Could it be that Jehovah is punishing me for leaving his religion?

by Julia Orwell in

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i know it's a completely absurd thing to say, but something happened to me today that triggered the old cult reaction.

my mind instantly lapsed back into that of a jw and for a split second i thought that because i wasn't doing jehovah things that jehovah's blessing had been removed from me and this is why my life seems to be running into so many dead-ends.

as a jw i attributed anything good happening to me to being the result of my being a good jw and dutifully doing everything the borg teaches.

Julia Orwell

I know it's a completely absurd thing to say, but something happened to me today that triggered the old cult reaction. My mind instantly lapsed back into that of a JW and for a split second I thought that because I wasn't doing Jehovah things that Jehovah's blessing had been removed from me and this is why my life seems to be running into so many dead-ends. As a JW I attributed anything good happening to me to being the result of my being a good JW and dutifully doing everything the borg teaches. Now, since I left the Borg I haven't been able to keep a stable job. Not since I lost my government job at the end of 2012 and began my fade.

If I wanted something like a job or whatever, I'd make sure I kept up my witnessing and went to the meeting no matter what, because weren't we told that if we 'put the kingdom first then all these other things would be added'? (Matthew 6:33) So to make sure I had a job and food and housing etc I was a devout JW.

Well, today I lost that cool job I got back in May and wrote about it. What a complete kick in the teeth that was as I was escorted out of the theme park by the boss, all the while she's trying to make small talk with me to try make me feel better about the fact she just called me into her office and sacked me. So while trying to keep ahead of her to ignore her and walk out with my dignity, I lapsed back into the old cult thinking that Jehovah is punishing me for leaving, and this is why I haven't kept a stable job since I left 'the truth'.

Isn't it just absurd? I mean, I know it's not Jehovah or anyone else, more to do with me being a big screw-up. I couldn't stick to teaching because it does my head in, and can't work on a theme park ride because I made a mistake. Also our economy is crap and there are very few other jobs around. But the back of my mind throws up this old cult rubbish that if I go back to 'Jehovah' then he will bless me with a good job. Totally irrational.

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Questions From Readers (w67, 6/15, p383) :How old was Abel when he died?

by raymond frantz in

the watchtgower has decided to drop most of it's old publications up to 1990 and it looks like the library cd will be a thing of the past soon .i have decided to save some of the old content especially the questions from readers like wordpress posts and add photos ,let me know what you think.here is one from the 1967 watchtower.

how old was abel when he died ?.

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Julia Orwell

Yeah, like you can just replace one kid with another. Whoever wrote this didn't have kids or know anyone who had kids. Evidently.

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Why do JWs have this* on their FB pages now?

by Kudra in

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Julia Orwell

It's August 3 here and nothing has happened...I guess even the jws can't get excited about another ho-hum tract campaign.

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Evolution is just a theory

by venting in

this ticks me off!

last sundays watchtower talked about how organised the heavens are.

how it works so acuratley.

Julia Orwell

Yep, we were like them. Some of them will become like them. There is hope.

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Does anyone live by any Bible stuff?

by punkofnice in

this is not meant to be a slag off the bible thread.. i had a question asked me the other day and it was: 'do you live by anything from the bible?'.

i had to think about that one because i was force grown in the filthy, disgusting cult of the paedophile loving watchtower(r).. you know what?

i really don't know if i just naturally am a great bloke or if any 'nice' bits in the bible influenced me......or has western culture been influenced by the bible for good and bad?.

Julia Orwell

I try to keep the good bits like not judging people and avoiding excesses, but those bits aren't exclusive to the bible. Just gotta take the good you get throughout life and leave the bad behind.

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JW.Organs

by bigmac in

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just a thought--with the new packaging--will the bruvvers soon be known as jw.organs ?.

Julia Orwell

Probably. It will no longer be "johos" or "Jehovahs" but jw.organs.

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Weird crazy rules imposed by your local Elders.

by stuckinarut2 in

we all know the sort of thing..... in many congregations, specific "rules" creep in...introduced by the local elders that become set in stone.. years ago, i heard of a congregation that sat down during the first song of the evening but stood for all others (the co changed that very soon after).

then there were the older accounts of congs that had rules to make the public speakers wear only white shirts.... in one cong now, i heard that brothers can only be used for sound or microphones if they do a minimum of 5 hours per month in the ministry!.

another cong has ruled that all appointed men must pioneer for at least one month each year in order to remain qualified.. .

Julia Orwell

I had a witnessing partner who was early 70 years old to my 28-29, a married pioneer of the opposite sex. I was told I couldn't go on calls with him as we'd be alone together and it would set a bad example to all the 18 year olds who were 'courting'. As if!!!

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JW Organization is occasionally spirit-guided! Here is the proof!

by exWTslave in

please follow the sequence of events connected with a bethel and see what you can conclude!.

1) when brach committee took a decision like a money-minded corporation, a conscientious bethelite (who is my close friend) wrote to the gb.. 2) gb took the bc into task, and directed bc to reverse its decision in that particular case.. 3) in time bc took revenge on the bethelite and removed his bethel-eldership on fabricated charges.. 4) gb withdraws the very arrangement of bethel eldership from all its branches!.

5) after one year, bc felt that their revenge was neutralized because of the unexpected withdrawal of bethel-eldership itself, again fabricated charges with the help of false witnesses and dismissed and disfellowshipped that bethelite.. 6) after two years the two bc members who orchestrated all the above events were sent out of bethel in great dishonor, virtually into wilderness ordinary publishers!.

Julia Orwell

Yep, just an Organization purging itself. Totalitarian organizations do it all the time to keep the people in line.

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Similarity of new released book cover and CoC cover graphics, coincidence?

by oppostate in

if you look at the cover of the new history book of the wt, with it's regal purple cover of a cloudy mountain range like graphic... and.

compare it with the english cover of crisis of conscience do you see some similarity?

http://www.raymondfranz.fr/index.php?language=en.

Julia Orwell

No, but the new kingdom book's cover looks exactly like a card my husband got sent about his grandfather's funeral. That cover is depressing. As a sunset, I would connote the dying of an era rather than a glorious king's reign.