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  What Is The Most Ridiculous Thing You Have Heard From A Witness?

  by minimus in

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  i remember an elder questioning a woman who had admitted to giving and receiving oral sex from her unbelieving mate.

  he asked her the most intimate questions which clearly flustered her.

  interestingly, she “confessed “ to the elders because her conscience bothered her.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  I was barely baptized and a sister said, "I can't see this system lasting longer than 5 more years."

  That was in 1990. Oops.
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  Go to memorial tonight and chug the entire cup when it's passed to you

  by Bad_Wolf in

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  2. friends

  has anybody done this?

  i'd love to hear the story.

  i wonder how they'd scramble to fix that if somebody chugged the whole glass, and even more if was set up with two people to sit in places to get both glasses at the same time.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  I was at the Memorial and partook for the second year in a row.

  Well, there was this chick and her kids. She sat directly to the right of me in the next row. She took the wine glass and gulp, gulp, gulp, all gone! No joke. The brother who was attending the wine glass had this look on his face like Scooby Doo "Rut-Row, now what Raggy!" No kidding, he went to the back and filled it up like a quarter more and kept it moving.
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  The implement of Christ’s death

  by lastmanstanding in

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  simple physics.. the timber that was used to execute jesus had to be substantial.

  thus, its weight could not have been carried entirely, but rather it had to be dragged.. get a log with no crosspiece, one substantial enough to nail a man to, and try to drag it through town.

  try to get a hold of it without it sliding out of your grip.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  Gruesome!
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  I got back from the memorial . . .

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it was pretty mundane for the most part, same songs, same outline.

  the only new thing they added was the video at the end, where stephen lett speaks to the visitors and commends them for coming and recommends they go to jwdotorg and also start a bible study.

  they also showed a bar graph with figures increasing every year for jws, memorial attendance and memorial partakers.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  What?!

  The increasing number of partakers shows the end is near? It used to be the opposite. Your Memorial was way cooler than mine, if you can actually imagine that.
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  Roll Call for the benefit of Newbies and Lurkers. In One Sentence tell why you left the Org.

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  roll call for the benefit of newbies and lurkers.

  in one sentence tell why you left the org.

  not 2 sentences.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  The WT involvement in the UN.
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   Watchtower Defeated  in local Court

  by Not_Culty in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hbhjzmb9cs.

  https://tinyurl.com/y8y2jlme.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  I think this is a HUGE victory here. Period.
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  W5 Investigation

  by Christian Gutierrez in

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  2. friends

  hey guys!

  i just want you guys to know that today is a really great day.

  there are so many jehovah's witnesses that saw this documentary and were disgusted by watchtowers policy.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  These types of news coverage is gaining traction and ground. More and more countries are seeing the JW's for who they are, or Watchtower for who they really are.

  I hope the sh*t really hits the fan.
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  Special talk: "who is Jesus Christ?!

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  apparently he no longer is our savior and the "way and the truth and the life" or our mediator between god and man .

  the governing body took over that role.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  I'm glad this thread was brought up. I was at the special talk too and I kept listening very closely for them to identify who Jesus is. They never did.

  They never brought up that, according to JW's, Jesus was created by God as an angel, then descended to earth and became a man, died for our sins so that we would live, was resurrected and returned to heaven as an angel again.

  NONE of those points were brought up. They never brought up that Jesus is Michael the Arch Angel either.

  All they did was talk about his preaching work, and his qualities and that if we want to know more, attend the Memorial. What?!

  Now here's the problem with that whole thing: If your a JW and you have THE TRUTH, then tell it! If Jesus was an angel, then tell everyone that. But no, they danced around what they really believe about who Jesus BECAUSE they know that all "worldly" folk will think they are absolutely crazy if they said how the really feel, now that's the real reason they didn't just come on out and say it the way it is.

  Sounds a little culty, doesn't it.
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  MPs demand action over Jehovah’s Witness abuse allegations March 26, 2018

  by Not_Culty in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the guardian (uk), monday, march 26, 2018. mps are demanding government action after more than 100 people contacted the guardian with allegations of child sexual abuse and other mistreatment in jehovah’s witness communities in the uk.. “i am extremely concerned, but not surprised, by the allegations of child abuse within the jehovah’s witness movement.

  whenever there is a closed society with an inherent power imbalance, the potential for abuse is there,” said the labour mp sarah champion.. she said she would be raising the issue in parliament and demanding that the government take actionto make sure all children were safe.. alex chalk, the conservative mp for cheltenham, said he planned to raise the issue in parliament, saying it was not just an historical issue but an ongoing child safety concern.. “my instinctive thoughts are that the sheer numbers and seriousness of the allegations coming forward is concerning ... if even half the allegations coming to light are true then it’s clear that an entrenched culture of cover-up and flawed in-house investigations continues to this day,” chalk said.. champion said she was concerned that victims had to report their abuse to elders, without independent scrutiny.. she also expressed concern that abuse claims can only be taken before a committee for investigation if there were two witnesses to it.

  “abuse happens in the shadows, so to ask for a second witness is ludicrous and effectively prevents reporting,” champion said.. read full article:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/26/mps-demand-action-over-jehovahs-witness-abuse-allegations.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  This is great news, especially after W5 aired the JW's on child sex abuse coverup just a couple days ago.

  Here's a link to the news video:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13ja8dMEmPY
  
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  Transferring Congregations

  by optimisticskeptic in

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  2. beliefs

  what is included in the publisher cards and other information when you transfer from one congregation to another?

  i was privately reproved and may be moving to a congregation where there are brothers i rather not know why i was privately reproved.

  is the fact i was privately reproved visible but not the reason why?

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  LevelThePlayingField

  There is a 99% chance they will include the private reproof and what it was for in the letter if it's been less than 5 years.