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  Watchtower Campus

  by Gorb in

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  information about the new watchtower campus, ready in 2027.. https://www.brplusa.com/projects/watchtower-bible-tract-society-new-headquarters-campus-development.

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  WingCommander

  AKA: WatchTower Cult Compound.

  "Campus" makes it sound like an institute of higher learning, which it so obviously is not.
  
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  Help to find brothers in Dubai

  by victorflorez85 in

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  hi brothers/sisters my name is victor, recently in move to dubai for job reasons, during the last 3 weeks i have been trying to find a congregation or brothers to contact with them because i would like to go the meetings and continue my personal study, but i hasn't success.. if anybody here have some contact in the united arab emirates or know somebody that have it, i will appreciate a lot that can help me to contact with them.. thank you!.

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  Uh.....good luck finding a JW in Muslim countries. Most Muslim run countries restrict or outright BAN other religions. There isn't enough money in the world that would get me to the Middle East or Asia right now. This isn't only due to religious strife, but also the air quality. The 100 worst cities for air quality are in Asia and the Middle East. You're literally taking years off your life by moving there.
  
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  2024-05-May-S-147-Dress-and-Grooming-Announcements!

  by Atlantis in

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  2024-05-may-s-147-dress and grooming-announcements and reminders!.

  https://pdfupload.io/docs/4d0d5bcf.

  grandpa!.

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  I'll say this about JW attire "rules".............

  Even as a child, I couldn't wrap my head around the fact that an Almighty, all powerful God actually gave a shit what you wore to worship him. Also, why were we mimicking the world by dressing to the nines in "business attire" like it's the 1950's? Ahhhhh! But you see, to the JW leadership it still WAS the 1950's. That's where GB 1.0's heads were stuck, the 1940's and 50's. Even my late parents (born 1947, 1952) were into that; living like it was "Leave it to Beaver." It was horrible.
  

  Today, having to redo and clarify these Pharasitical "rules" about dress and grooming is ridiculous, and only serves to prove the point that they're a micro-managing, iron-fisted, CULT.

  No child wants to dress up in a monkey suit in 90 F heat to go knocking on doors on a Saturday. I know I sure didn't. I hated every single second of the farce. Complete waste of time and youth.
  
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  Moving on in a new chapter

  by redsetter2 in

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  moving on is the hardest thing anyone has to cope with.. i have officially left the org.

  and now it feels my family have been waiting to do this for a long time, officially shunning me, even though they were practically doing this whilst i was still in.. it feels like i've accomplished a victory and at the same time i feel guilty i was tangled up in communication with someone who "hid who they were" claiming to leak information from bethel.

  i got the call from the man who i thought i worked with.

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  Say, would your source happen to be, "Johhny the Bethelite"? I heard he's an NPG at WT HQ who's DTF on the DL, but refuses to come out of his closet because he'd be DOA by EOTD and labeled a BA and then sent packin' by his COBE, and I'm not talking packin' fudge, unless his DO is also on the DL, in which case he might get off with a secret DP and BJ followed by laundry duty.
  
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  Moving on in a new chapter

  by redsetter2 in

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  moving on is the hardest thing anyone has to cope with.. i have officially left the org.

  and now it feels my family have been waiting to do this for a long time, officially shunning me, even though they were practically doing this whilst i was still in.. it feels like i've accomplished a victory and at the same time i feel guilty i was tangled up in communication with someone who "hid who they were" claiming to leak information from bethel.

  i got the call from the man who i thought i worked with.

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  WingCommander

  STOP SMOKING METH!!!
  
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  What's the Worst Advice You Heard of an Elder Giving Someone?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  i believe an an elder told someone who's daughter (14 yo) became sexually active with a 26 year old in the neighborhood, that maybe they should get married.

  so, they did... with parental consent.

  he turned out to be a ex-convict who shot his first wife in the face with a shotgun.

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  @TonusOH:

  You are correct, the UN declared 1986 "The International Year of Peace." Interestingly, the first US-USSR summit between Reagan and Gorbachev were in Reykjavík, Iceland, in October 1986. So this really pushed the hype even further, as October has always had special prominence in JW past lore.

  @LongHairGal:

  I was very young in 1984; 5! But I can still see and remember these issues of the WT literature as clear as a bell in my mind. (though my nearly total recall photographic memory helps, I can even smell memories at times)

  I too often wonder what people back then would think about today. For reference, I'm now 44. My entire JW family that I grew up with? Dead. ALL of them. All of the older ones my parents studied with and adored? That cared for me? Dead. ALL of them. They were kinda elderly then. Add to that, that 9 out of 10 JW youth that were my age have LEFT, never to return and you've got a weird vibe now. Only the most die-hard homeschooled children of Elders & Sister Piosneer Elderette's are the only ones that stayed. Anyone desiring a normal life or just plain fed-up with the hypocrisy, lies, false hope, and two-faced congregation BS, up and left - never to return!

  It's a real shit show now....unrecognizable as the religion I was born and raised in. Always was kinda a cult, but now it's like they're not even really trying to hide it, it's an open secret. And any "worldly" person who MIGHT be interested, soon loses interest after a 5 minute Google search.

  It's so bizarre to look back now after this much passing of time. Like, I pity my poor dead parents for not having the resources at their fingertips we all have now. I'd have been spared this BS and had a chance at a normal childhood and education.
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

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  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  LE slowly morphing into Gonzo.

  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

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  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  I still say someone needs to get ahold of Tibor and flip him to this side of fence. Imagine how "gracious" he could be by filling us all in on the parts of the train wreck we didn't see from his vantage point? It boggles the mind.
  
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  What's the Worst Advice You Heard of an Elder Giving Someone?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  i believe an an elder told someone who's daughter (14 yo) became sexually active with a 26 year old in the neighborhood, that maybe they should get married.

  so, they did... with parental consent.

  he turned out to be a ex-convict who shot his first wife in the face with a shotgun.

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  To LongHairedGirl and others: RE: push in 80's to quit work and Pioneer

  Explanation: This was because no one in the 80's even expected to make it to 1990. Check out the entire Bound Volume (for WatchTower and Awake!) for the year 1984. Many of the covers are talking about Prophecy, the year 1914, and The Generation of 1914. Those magazines were used for YEARS in the ministry as irrefutable "proof" as to how far into "The time of the end" we were. No one, and I mean NO ONE - would have ever thought we'd make it to the year 2000 in this "system of things." If you had even implied it, you'd be accused of having weak faith, and possibly even holding Apostate leanings. So, just like before 1975, there was a tremendous ramp-up to quit working full time and Pioneer to save as many people as possible before the Great Tribulation broke out. Because unlike today, once the Great Tribulation broke out, the symbolic "Ark doors" were CLOSED - and on one else was going to be saved. They were toast!

  This sense of urgency and paranoia can NOT be understated enough to the people would weren't even alive yet. The height of the Cold War era and nuclear annihilation compounded the feeling of dread.

  Next month, May 2024, will mark the 40th Anniversary of the infamous "Generation of 1914" WatchTower cover. Amazing.
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

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  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  WingCommander

  It's entirely Kim's fault that his infidelity, hooker runs to Thailand, misuse of donated funds, crumbling marriage, rampant drug use and perverse fetishes have been exposed.

  Kim shall rue the day she ever crossed the mighty Hemorrhoid Evans! (shakes fist angrily at sky daddy)