Peddling the same garbage that I have seen for the last 50 years.
William Penwell
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My frist email letter from my JW Dad. So sad...
by suavojr ini am in my early 30s and woke up to ttatt in late 2012. my dad just turned 65 in june!
wow, i never saw that being possible.. .
he just got himself a computer and was able to get internet in a remote location where he is serving as an elder with my mom (where the need is great) i was happy to see how he was able to send me a few notes saying hi and i was able to share some pictures of my wife and family, etc.. .
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Beards......the CO allowed this one!
by punkofnice ina minny man in a local congregation has a beard...he was bullied by the elders to remove it.. then the co came along and told the elders to allow him to keep his beard.
(not as the result of any skin condition or anything).. i kid you not!!!.
what do you make of that?.
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William Penwell
Tyical flip flopping by the JW's. This will be OK until the next CO comes in and says it has to go.
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Old WT Publications I have
by William Penwell ini have a number of older wt publications.
due to downsizing, i would like to get rid of them.
if some of are of value and have not being scanned, i could scan them for all to share.
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William Penwell
Magnum, I did scan that book, so if you can't find it I can forward it to you.
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Full-time service is MORE IMPORTANT than taking care of elderly parents!!! It says so in the Sept 2014 WT
by EndofMysteries inparagraph 20 out of the article in the sept 2014 study wt about fulltime service says this.... .
"full-time servants age, and so do their parents.
when parents are witnesses, likely their fondest wish is for their children to stay in their assignments.
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William Penwell
EndofMysteries, I knew one JW sister that didn't leave a cent to her children but left it all to the society. None of the children now have anything to do with the relgion. Some good witness.
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Seattle Convention - any updates?
by Lynnie inwas wondering if anyone attended the seattle intl convention and what it was like?
saw some pics from instagram, seems like quite the.
big production for sure!
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William Penwell
Leaving Quietly...your post was spot on. I am ashamed to say, during the ressurection video, I got the 'goosebumps'...it was weird. I guess just human emotion I can't control. I wish it were true, but alas...Yes, We flew in (went rogue, un-invited) we have family in the Seattle Tacoma area, and the PNW is one of my fav places. Will post more...
No need to feel ashamed as any mind control cult knows the right buttons to push. I know when I attended the conventions, even though I was fading, I would get taken up in all the hype feeling good of the District conventions.
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Full-time service is MORE IMPORTANT than taking care of elderly parents!!! It says so in the Sept 2014 WT
by EndofMysteries inparagraph 20 out of the article in the sept 2014 study wt about fulltime service says this.... .
"full-time servants age, and so do their parents.
when parents are witnesses, likely their fondest wish is for their children to stay in their assignments.
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William Penwell
You know the WT will also want their cut of the inheritance when the elderly parents kick off.
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Old WT Publications I have
by William Penwell ini have a number of older wt publications.
due to downsizing, i would like to get rid of them.
if some of are of value and have not being scanned, i could scan them for all to share.
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William Penwell
Thanks, I will just re-cycle the books I have.
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Why do so many refer to Elders as "window washers"?
by adjusted knowledge ini know the society is against higher education and the pursuit of careers but in my experience the elders in the various congregations i attended had good careers.
in fact most had their own businesses.
thinking back of the boe when i was a teenager this is what they had as a career: two were respected carpenters who owned a construction business, one a high school teacher(he was the po), one sold insurance and was a lawyer, one owned a landscaping business and also hired sisters to clean office buildings and other accounts he had, one was retired, and the last was a janitor for the school board.
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William Penwell
There was a mix of professions with the elders I knew over the years. Some were window washers/janitors but also teachers, accountants and lawyers. I just thought those of the latter were hypocritical when they would tell you not to strive to get higher education and they themselves went to university.
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STOP calling JW's a CULT--unless . . . they fit the checklist!
by Terry init is unkind, premature and even irresponsible to label people with whom we disagree using pejorative names.. for example, labeling a movement as a cult.. consider this example:.
sociologists d. bromley and a. shupe once described what they called the tnevnoc cult.
membership was open only to women, who were required to shave their heads, change their names, and wear specific clothing once they had entered the group.
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William Penwell
I think all religions have some cult behaviour in them to more or lesser degrees. The points you have posted show that the JW's fit those criteria’s of being classified as being a cult.
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Did I ever fear jehovah?
by Ignoranceisbliss inwhen i think back on when i started losing faith in the borg it all becomes kinda fuzzy.
even when i was 19, a pioneer an ms and the local golden boy i clearly remember lying about my field service time every month.
if i really feared jehovah there's no way i would of done that.
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William Penwell
I was terrified. And the Watchtower was constantly telling me that I was making God angry by not doing enough, not doing it quality enough, or doing some small thing that was just putting me in line to be birdfood.
This is what turned me off was that anything I ever did was never good enough. I mean if there is a God he would know what is in my heart and it wouldn't matter what anyone thought.