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Verdict on the 2025 convention
by gavindlt in
1. jw
2. experiences
final thoughts after 15 hours of the 2025 assembly.

after dedicating 15 hours to the 2025 assembly, i walked away with a heavy sense of spiritual emptiness.

the only part that managed to stir anything within me was a single video on day one titled “what does jesus see in you?”—a piece with sentimental appeal, but still surface-level at best.. .
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Reddit thread on convention video urging cutting off contact with Faders
by LongHairGal in
1. jw
2. friends
i just read this.

don’t know if anybody here has seen the video.. the intended result of this is to obviously scare ‘faders’ out of the shadows.

now, they are being threatened with loss of association with their loved ones and friends.
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SDAs Campaigning in my Area
by NotFormer in
1. jw
2. experiences
not even as active as the jws (whom i have not seen for around a year now), nevertheless i get an occasional leaflet or other publication in my letterbox that seems to be seventh day adventist in origin.. the booklet i received the other day was entitled "national sunday law".

i also had received this book years ago when i had some dealings with the sdas.. from reddit: "national sunday law involves a conspiracy theory which alleges that the united states government is on the verge of enacting a national blue law that would make sunday a day of rest and worship.

the theory depends on the idea that the pope is the antichrist and the mark of the beast is worshipped on sunday.
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The JW's are suing Mark O'Donnell in civil court for millions.So protect the pedos, and suit the whistelblowers? Shame on this cult!
by WingCommander in
1. jw
2. friends
link to his announcement on www.jwchildabuse.org:.

https://www.jwchildabuse.org/news/jehovahs-witnesses-sue-editor-of-jw-child-abuse-website-for-millions/.

if anyone needed any further proof of how low and despicable this cult has become, here's more evidence.
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Loyalty to the Governing Body? Timeline to Change
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/governing-body.php .

here is an example how the wts has "adjusted" scripture.

the governing body has gone as far as to change the text of micah 6:8 in their 2013 new world translation of the holy scriptures (nwt) in order to be able to demand loyalty.
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Did the Fred Franz style of writing cease after he died?
by SydBarrett in
1. jw
2. friends
i was completely out by 1991 and 1989 would have been the last time i had to attend regularly.

that over the top franz writing style was still there in the 1980's although i've heard he wasn't actually doing much writing by then.

but his style was definitely picked up and imitated for many years beyond its wacky, outlandish peak of the the 50's - 70's.
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WASHINGTON ST PASSES BILL MANDATING CLERGY REPORTING CHILD ABUSE
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
https://www.thereflector.com/stories/washington-legislature-passes-bill-to-make-clergy-mandatory-reporters-of-child-abuse,378913 .
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First Time Ever..
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
i received a phone call from a jw inviting me to the "special talk.

" in 25 years out, never happened, don't know them, phone # nowhere near me and it was like she was reading from a script.

i hung up... any one else?.
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Top Jehovahs witnesses Historians
by Paul Bonanno in
1. jw
2. friends
hi .

who do you think are the best historian/historians about the history of jehovahs witnesses?.

paul.
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1/2 of the Jehovah’s witnesses have gone
by hoser in
1. jw
2. friends
there are 1/2 of the jehovah’s witnesses that there were 30 years ago in my area.

some have left but i think that many have died and none of their kids stayed being jehovah’s witnesses.

7 congregations have been dissolved over the years.