Posts by joe134cd

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If JW is not the truth, then what is the true religion?
by TxNVSue2023 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
even though i'm disfellowshiped ( & i belive wrongfully so).

i still belive this is the truth.

i have been d'f for about 8 months now and working on reinstatement.
joe134cd

Troll or not, I’ve found the advice given here to be beneficial to myself and self confirming as to why I left.
After leaving the JWs I decided to investigate other churches. LDS, Christian Science, Iglesia ni Christo etc. The one that really stood out to me was the Christadelphian church. I was absolutely blown away, with the exception on a few points, that I was able to use JW doctrine and JW speak, and they knew exactly what I was talking about. I would invite you to do the same.
I am someone who is still Christian but now attends another denomination. I see everlasting life, that’s heavenly, been more determined by relationship rather than organisational. As some one stated here, I too cheated on my field service report. I really done FS as a means of compliance rather than an act of serving God. Meetings were the same. I now worship with spirit and truth. So was I a better Christian as a JW or not as a JW. You decide.
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Goodbye Mother
by punkofnice in
1. jw
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.
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
2. entertainment
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?
joe134cd

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.... .
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?.
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.
joe134cd

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?.
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..
joe134cd

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
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://youtu.be/e6gh6w7v03y.
joe134cd

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.