Posts by My Name is of No Consequence

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Every JW Elder In State Of Pennsylvania Subpoenaed

by JW GoneBad in

breaking news!

every jehovah’s witness elder in the 67 counties of pennsylvania are being given notice by state attorney's office to turn over any & all documents relating to child sex abuse cases!

watch attached video beginning at time-stamp 101:00...pay particular attention to what is said after 103:00.this is wild!.

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Wow. I was born and raised in Pennsylvania. If this has legs, it will be HUGE.

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No more public WT & Awake?

by mikeflood in

have you guys noticed, this year 2023 no more public edition magazines...i wonder how they are gonna spin that fact.

You are right about that! You and I are about the same age. Growing up in the 1980's and early 1990's, there was NO WAY that I would get old. Well, I'm settling into my 40's. While not old, I am older than I thought I would ever get.

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Trust the self-appointed "faithful slave"

by BoogerMan in

no wonder they 'cancelled' the wt cd rom.. flip -.

w61 7/15 p. 420 - “...in order to hate what is bad a christian must hate the person with whom the badness is inseparably linked.” .

flop -.

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New light at its finest.

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Are there any new ideas coming from the Watchtower Society?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

my brother ( who is an elder ) tries very hard to get me back to the meetings.

he calls me every time he and his son ( he's also an elder) give a public talk.

they send me the zoom i.d.

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Gotta love how Sammy Herd is sitting in his leather captain's chair.

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What happened to Catholic church bashing.

by Hellothere in

i remember back in the 80s almost every awake and watchtower magazine, think all, hade an article about how bad and evil catholic church was.

what happened to all the bashing?

was it because people in catholic countries got offended?

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The org stopped bashing the church when it was revealed that they have their own problem with child abuse.

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Have you ever been on a congregation picnic?

by LostintheFog1999 in

were you ever on a congregation picnic?

i was on several occasions.. the arrangements were often announced from the platform after the closing song and prayer by the last elder up on the platform.. sometimes it was included in the service meeting announcements as "on saturday we're meeting at 10.00am at the kingdom hall for field service, and after field service for anyone who wishes, especially for the younger ones, we will be having a congregation picnic meeting at the beach carpark on seaview road.".

well, according to the new elders manual you won't be hearing those words again.

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Growing up in Pennsylvania, I remember going to congregational picnics all the way up through the 1990's. They were fun. So the Org did what the Org usually does: eliminate activities that bring the flock too much fun.

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Did it ever become unbearable to attend another Kingdom Hall meeting?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

it's becoming unbearable for me to attend another meeting.

i dread coming to the weekly sunday public talk and watchtower study.

the talks are ''repeats'' of a ''repeat.

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Outside of my dad's memorial talk, I haven't been to a kingdom hall since 2015.

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Struggling to find a purpose

by My Name is of No Consequence in

i spent most of my life in the org.

we were taught that our purpose in life was to serve jehovah.

that never really made sense to me, but it was still a purpose to keep going.

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I appreciate everyone's input and viewpoints. I never really thought about a "purpose" until after I escaped the org's sphere of influence and got divorced. I remember sitting in my easy chair not too long after my (ex)wife and stepson moved out. That's then I really began to wonder about purpose, getting older, happiness, etc.

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Struggling to find a purpose

by My Name is of No Consequence in

i spent most of my life in the org.

we were taught that our purpose in life was to serve jehovah.

that never really made sense to me, but it was still a purpose to keep going.

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I spent most of my life in the org. We were taught that our purpose in life was to serve Jehovah. That never really made sense to me, but it was still a purpose to keep going. I’m not disfellowshipped (at least I don’t think I am), but I have not been to a meeting since 2015ish. I’m now divorced, a large part of that had to do with me waking up. Since then, I’ve really struggled to find a purpose. My purpose is obviously not to “serve god”. I don’t even have a family to take care of. At least when I was married, I could say that my purpose was to take care of my wife and stepson. I have a decent job and have made a fairly comfortable living. But having a god job and living comfortably isn’t a purpose. Now that I’ve entered middle age, I’ve been thinking about this a lot and have been doing a lot of reflection on my life up to this point.

Has anyone else felt this way? What have you done, or am doing, about it?

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Hobbies

by peacefulpete in

jw
friends

i think it's been a while since this was asked.

tell us your hobbies, interests, pastimes, whatever you find enjoyable as a diversion from work and school.

i am lucky enough to live in a small cabin on a lake, i enjoy rowing my old boat and fishing, i play with car projects, and we travel as much as we can.

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peacefulpete,

My collection is probably 40% Canadian coins. Although I'm an American, I think that Canadian coins are prettier and their designs have more thought and purpose behind them. 30% of my collection consists of U.S coins. The rest are mostly a conglomerate of Central American, British, Australian and South Pacific coins.