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  Goodbye Mother

  by punkofnice in

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  2. friends

  so my mother passed on 20 aug 23 from the big c. i was there when she went.

  that was indeed very traumatic.

  i won't go to describe it.. dad went 17 years ago so there's just me now.

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  joe134cd

  So sorry to hear of the loss of your mother. Unfortunately one day I will have to make the same decision for my father. It will be in the KH, and a full JW service. My father is a fully believing JW now, which I’m happy with, and will be when he dies. I’ve decided after the death of my father, an aunt and a cousin it will be quitzies for ever walking into a hall or anything jw related. Out of respect for my father, I tolerate their nonsense.
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  Do you play the LOTTERY?

  by Fisherman in

  1. social
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  jw view gambling as a sin and sadly people get addicted to gambling causing them financial and health problems.

  but is playing a couple of bucks a week on some lottery tickets actually gambling?

  what do you have to lose?

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  It was funny as I used to buy them as a JW. It started to become more frequent when I was changing from PIMI - PIMO - Pomo. Mind you I was doing a lot of stuff I shouldn’t have been doing anyway. So getting caught buying lottery tickets was the least of my problem. All good times.
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  JW org fighting Royal Commission of Inquiry 3 years, article by Anusha Bradley, RNZ

  by EasyPrompt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/497240/jehovah-s-witness-church-spends-3-years-fighting-scrutiny-of-royal-commission-of-inquiry.

  jehovah's witness church spends 3 years fighting scrutiny of royal commission of inquiry.

  from article by anusha bradley, rnz.... .

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  joe134cd

  It will be interesting to see what this brings to light.
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  Oktoberfest and JWs

  by NotFormer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is oktoberfest one of those holidays that jws can't celebrate?

  is simply sitting in a beer tent as a tourist and imbibing a matter for the elders?.

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  joe134cd

  I’ve known a few JWs who have been. Took pics and everything. Didn’t have a prob with it.
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  JW Elder Sentenced for CSA

  by EasyPrompt in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.westernmassnews.com/2023/09/01/jehovah-witness-elder-sentenced-jail-child-sexual-abuse-case/?outputtype=amp.

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  joe134cd

  Sorry I don’t live in the USA, but just looked up what level 3 means. It’s the worst of the worst. I can’t understand what they were thinking when they appointed him.
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  Fellow exElders: did you ever get to hear of ...

  by no-zombie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i was serving as an elder, it because relatively common to hear of wild drunken house parties of witness youths.

  i investigated one, it was so bad that the cops turned up and found empty bottles of whiskey on the lawn and smashed out on the road.

  but every led went cold, with all the kids clamming up.

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  How come I never got invited to these parties. Lol

  Seriously though, it’s not the elders kids, it’s the elders themselves you have to worry about. Apart from Tony Morris, I knew of 2 previous elders, and one currently serving elder, who are alcoholics. The currently serving elders father, as relayed to me by my PIMI father, was also a raging alcoholic. So I guess that makes 4 in a 200km radius.
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  Observation

  by Gorb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  today i noticed 2 jw's and chart on the quest moment and the quest possible place.

  looked tyred, ignorent and no kingdom smile.

  what is going on with the motivation of the jw?.

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  joe134cd

  Easy way to count time. It saves face in the KH and keeps the elders off my back.
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  Tony Morris replaced - by ANOTHER teleprompter reader!

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the whitewashing of tm111 from jw history continues - tending to confirm that he was booted.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ghbhv6961a.

  i'm pretty sure the cult got him to sign a nice nda - in exchange for a lifetime residency in the house bought by wt..

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  I remember something in the past about that incident. Was she posting as huckleberry, on tik tok? This has been around for at least a couple of months.

  I really don’t think it will be long before we hear of “Big T” getting D-eed. Sort of got a rhyme to it that. He will have to fall on the sword sooner or latter.
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  Is JW.org going Broke?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/e6gh6w7v03y.

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  and lack of genuine new adult converts
  

  There were a couple that were briefly attending meetings when I was PIMI. They were young. She was a supervisor in a government department and he was in business, building. Over all, a lovely couple and would have been a real asset to JW.borg. Then one day, for no reason, they just stopped. After I left the JWs, I by chance, bumped into them in town. I explained my situation, and asked their thoughts on the religion. Their reply focused on 2 things: the internet and CSA. Seems all the good ones have gone.
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  JW Businessmen

  by NotFormer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was never a jw, but came across a few in my travels.

  one jw businessman i dealt with seemed to be honest, trustworthy and reputable 👍👌.

  another i knew was the kind of bloke who, if he told me that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, i'd watch sunrise and sunset just to make sure.

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  Yup a mixture of good and bad. I knew of one brother who fired another for dishonesty.