My congregation in Donegal Ireland was disbanded in the early 90s. It was a real bad scene there. I picked up and moved right before it happened because you could feel that some big s&it was going down.
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SURVEY *Question RE: Disfellowshipping *
by zev inhave any of you here, either by word of mouth or personal experience, heard of entire congregations being disfellowshipped, or nearly entire congregations, like say 50% or more?
thank you for your support in this all important survey .
from apostate central, ri .
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WHICH MEETING WAS THE MOST BORING?
by minimus inthe more meetings you go to the more drivel you hear.
elder's meetings were terrible because all you ever did was gossip about how everyone wasn't doing this or that.
meetings for field service sucked.....enough said on that.
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The bookstudy. You HAD to comment and you couldn't sleep there in someone's house.
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DO you REALLY think this is THE END OF JW's?
by minimus ineverytime a new revelation comes to the board, some suggest that this is the big one.
whether it be the blood issue, the u n debacle, the silentlambs saga, some cryptic comment about jw's and their involvement with churches, it seems like nothing effects the jehovah's witnesses rank and file.
personally.
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zenpunk
I think they will decrease and finally disappear over the next 100 years. People will realize that there is no end of the world. Various scandals will come and go, some devastating, some minor. It will be viewed in the distant future just as people today view the religions of the middle ages that came and went.
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New name for WBTS?!? *and boobies
by LizardSnot inthe watchtower bible and tract society has changed its name to....tada.... christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses.
did we just create a sect?.
is this new name not to be confused with the following?:.
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zenpunk
The boobies bit was just to make sure people clicked on this thread, wasn't it?
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Response to JW article in TorontoStar published
by Pathofthorns ina positive article on jw's in tuesday's edition of the toronto star that appeared to have obvious input and direction from the wt public affairs office left local jw's buzzing and glowing from some positive press for a change.
in some halls reference to it was made from the platforms.
if you haven't read the article you can read it here [url] http://www.thestar.com/nasapp/cs/contentserver?pagename=thestar/layout/article_type1&c=article&cid=1026143773683&call_page=ts_life&call_pageid=991479973472&call_pagepath=life/news&col=991929131147[/url].
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I'm glad someone replied to that original article. I fell into that trap too, convinced that the end will come while I was doing the most important work, Pioneering. Years later I realized I was uneducated and looking forward to a career of answering phones and cleaning office buildings. I'm glad I wised up.
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Latest Kingdom Ministry
by ConnieLynn inhas anyone heard anything about the latest km?
my uncle (on the fringes) told me the newest km said that even non-df'd folks are to be treated as disfellowshipped, if they had been inactive for a long time.
since i haven't seen a km myself, i wondered if this was true?
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I still don't see any info relating to the treatment of inactive ones. This would represent major policy change. If this is correct (the shunning of inactive ones) does anyone have any info to substantiate this new "understanding".
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Latest Kingdom Ministry
by ConnieLynn inhas anyone heard anything about the latest km?
my uncle (on the fringes) told me the newest km said that even non-df'd folks are to be treated as disfellowshipped, if they had been inactive for a long time.
since i haven't seen a km myself, i wondered if this was true?
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Am I missing something here? It seems that they are mostly focusing on the DF'd ones.
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uh-oh...
by Incense_and_Peppermints ini just read this in my "moe/syn thread"... .
simon wrote: most disturbing has been a few accounts, all registered within a short space of time, that have been used several times to reply to each other and purport to be from people unfamiliar with the original poster, not know them and their family etc.
i am guilty of registering with more than one account.
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Also, in case you do a major housecleaning... MikeTV is my husband. Occaisionally he will post from my laptop ('cause it's much faster than our desktop). Please be assured that it is not me using two accounts.
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The Revolving Door at the Kingdom Hall
by zenpunk inabout a year ago, i decided to drift into a meeting in my old congregation.
who knows, maybe i thought by doing so my mother would love me again....but anyway - i noticed that there were 5 or 6 of the same "diehard jw" families there but otherwise all the people were completely different.
it seemed that 3/4 of the congregation left and their seats were taken by a new group of converts.
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About a year ago, I decided to drift into a meeting in my old congregation. Why? Who knows, maybe I thought by doing so my mother would love me again....but anyway - I noticed that there were 5 or 6 of the same "diehard JW" families there but otherwise all the people were completely different. It seemed that 3/4 of the congregation left and their seats were taken by a new group of converts. The Bethel presence had also been significantly scaled down. Has this been happening everywhere? Are people getting that fed up (I certainly hope so)?
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Apostate terminology
by Mum inmy daughter and i, fun-loving apostates that we are, have some terms we use regarding the wt organization and other cults.
i would like my fellow posters here to tell us their terms, buzz words, etc., to add to our list: to get the ball rolling, two of our favorites are:.
cookie-cutter theology.
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Nanoprobe - I thought education for no purpose was College in general?