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  Elders won't tell you who have falsely accused you

  by enoughisenough in

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  2. beliefs

  having been a victim of this practice twice, i thought i would see if others had the same experience.

  on one occassion, i was before the elders being told i was drunk on a certain day at a certain time.

  ( this was only brought up because when i was pushing for a meeting because of elder mr x adultery , i was threatened somethings would be brought out about me if i persued the meeting.

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  If the identity of the accuser(s) is being concealed from an accused, the investigation is simply fishing for an easy confession, because if a confession can be obtained, the burden of proof is lifted, rendering an accuser, eyewitnesses and additional evidence to be no longer necessary.

  Secularly and scripturally, the accused (if he/she has not confessed) holds the right to know/face the accuser. (Matthew ch18) <edit

  If that right to know/face the accuser is denied... then immediately deny the accusation. The case should then go cold and be held abeyance or entirely dismissed.

  However, by WT policy, even an innocent person can be viewed negatively because "he should also have a fine testimony from outsiders" 1 Tim 3:7

  In some cases, the only path to true exoneration would be to bring a successful countercharge of slander; but in WT world, that option often presents new risks which may not be worth the hassle.
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  JW video i can't seem to find anywhere

  by Benavidez in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i've been trying to find a video, but for the life of me don't see it anywhere on jw.org!

  it's about a brother who finds some bad information about jws and has doubts but then comes to the conclusion to just trust jw.org and not the news or any other articles.

  something about if you wanna find reliable information you have to go "right to the source".

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  Immediately download and store anything from JWorg / JWwol that you think may be useful now or in the future, because WT is known to bury bones.
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  Nonbelieving mates

  by road to nowhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a couple of my wife's friends are married to non witnesses.

  they say jehovah must have special plans for them.

  and that it is a special exception not destruction, alas, they are not attractive so my special idea about polygamy won't cut it.

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  "For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in relation to his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in relation to the brother; otherwise, your children would be unclean, but now they are holy."

  1 Cor 7:14 NWT
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  Nonbelieving mates

  by road to nowhere in

  1. jw
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  a couple of my wife's friends are married to non witnesses.

  they say jehovah must have special plans for them.

  and that it is a special exception not destruction, alas, they are not attractive so my special idea about polygamy won't cut it.

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  Was you or your family ever a local needs talk subject?

  by Foolednomore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  our family was always a topic on a local needs talk.

  but it was funny when the brothers needed money they would come with their hands out.

  this is when we lived in the states.

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  "Local Needs" lol

  true locals never really need anything.

  
  
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  Nonbelieving mates

  by road to nowhere in

  1. jw
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  a couple of my wife's friends are married to non witnesses.

  they say jehovah must have special plans for them.

  and that it is a special exception not destruction, alas, they are not attractive so my special idea about polygamy won't cut it.

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  don't drink & post
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  2022-08-10--COVID--HLC--PVG!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2022-08-10-covid--hlc--pvg.

  click image to enlarge.. .

  https://postimg.cc/qvznj5xt.

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  For some of us the threat to withhold privileges doesn't work

  Awakening to realise JW "privileges" are not privileges, but a scheme which allows WT to:
  

  • acquire free labour
  • control by obligation
  • wield fear of loss

  WT invents all sorts of fake privileges...

  commenting

  microphone handling

  project food handling

  ranks of hourly "pioneering"

  cleaning overseer

  hospital patient visitation group

  fulltime servant

  special fulltime servant

  There must be hundreds more of such phony privileges in the JW cult world, with mass numbers of JWs pandering to pursue those fake privileges, even making them their lifetime "goal".

  WT manipulatively offers these fake privileges, and threatens to revoke said "privileges" as punishment for even petty noncompliance...

  This, of course, is exactly what one would expect from "the modern day brothers of Christ"
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  My Father's Last Words

  by Terry in

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  father's last words.

  in 1972, i was 25 years old following a strong impulse carrying me 1,500 miles.. i intended to find him - my dad.

  he’d left when i was about half a year old.. his home in detroit, michigan had been the first house i lived in at age zero.. i knocked on his door and he answered.

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  Booster shots required for Bethelites and special full time servants?

  by PimoElder in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it’s a shame the gov body did a big u turn on vaccines .

  if they continue with the rule that only fully vaxed can go back to the hall then i could have stayed on zoom.

  but the term fully vaxed is a moving target, if it’s been like six months since your last shot you are just the same as those of us who are unvaxed .

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  If such mass harm eventually befalls JWs as a result of jabs, WT will spin it as "persecution"... a Haman-like scheme... and thus further evidence JWs are the one and only true religion, in the universe.
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  Investment departments in Bethel

  by Mikejw in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was a bethelite in london for many years then got reassigned to the field and then went on brd from the start of chelmsford right upto covid.. during my years at the branch i was sometimes asked to be on a team who went to homes donated to the branch when some older one died.. this happenes an awful lot, everything is left to the branch in the will.

  the unbelieving family is furious they didn’t get left anything and sometimes they tried to get their elderly relatives possessions and there was a legal battle .

  but in the end a team of us would go and empty the property and another team would clean it up and put it on the market to sell it for the worldwide work.. all the possessions were sorted into trash or possibly valuable .

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  "apostate driven lies" ??