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  What went through your mind when you saw this Picture?

  by John Aquila in

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  Lurker - just joined

  by Je.suis.oisif in

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  hi all, nothing to report just now.

  wanted to add name to list of those awakening.

  been lurking for nearly a year.

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  Zoos

  Welcome. You're among friends.

  It's a process. Take your time.

  Have you started in on the "MUST READS"? - Raymond Franz's, Crisis of Conscience and In Search of Christian Freedom ? Some place Steve Hassan's, Combating Cult Mind Control on the same list.
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  The elders of the 1980s are now in their 60s and 70s

  by truthseeker in

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  2. friends

  having just come back from the uk and spoke with some witnesses to find out how my old congregation is doing, i realized i am now the age that my elders were when i was a kid.

  and i wonder what the elders who are now in their 60s and 70s are thinking when they look in the mirror and an old face looks back at them.

  many of the elders in my old hall are now retired.

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  Zoos

  Are you kidding? Now the end is even closer!
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  Ganged up via Telephone

  by vinman in

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  i've been fading for about 9 months.

  the elders know exactly why.

  i received a phone call a couple of days ago.

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  Nicely done, Vinman.
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  UK TV--next monday 24th aug---channel 5-----9 pm--escaping the witnesses

  by stan livedeath in

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  2. friends

  just see it advertised on tv--with photo of our friend from south wales

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  Zoos

  " God's people are accustomed to ridicule. Some even say we are a cult." - Speaker at District Convention 7 years ago

  ..... followed by much audience laughter.
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  Sister attendants not able to give directions to a brother..Misogyny

  by Theburstbubble in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at our recent rc i was advised by a sister who was an attendant that they have been advised not to be able to give brothers directions as this should be dealt with by the brothers.

  apparently at the pre-convention attendants meeting, the sisters were asked to stay behind.

  this was when they were given the news that the brothers should deal with brothers.

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  Zoos

  It's because a woman's cranial capacity is not up to the task.

  Don't take my word for it, let Samuel Herd explain...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqzc2M8_MBA
  
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  How to give an anti witness on the ministry?

  by purrpurr in

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  2. friends

  i haven't turned in a report for months now.

  but if the elders start on me to go back out in the ministry i was thinking of giving an anti witness instead.

  by which i mean rather than the mags i could tell the house holder about the "loving provision of disfellowshipping" or maybe read them some of the many scriptures were god tells his people to commit ethnic cleansing, total genocide and raping of the captured girls.

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  Zoos

  Pure genious.

  What could possibly go wrong?
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  Three day convention

  by BashfulAshG in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  tips to survive this?

  or should a feign an illness?

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  Zoos

  Imagine the logistics involved in surviving one of those old 7-day international assemblies. Consider yourself fortunate, BASHFUL.
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  Who is the Royal Commission?

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so we have the english convention this week.

  a bunch of families whom i know but have not seen in a few years are attending.

  they are not assigned but got a group together to visit the city and attend a day or two of the convention.

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  Of course the Watchtower Corp. isn't going to broadcast it, and given the limited exposure of the story through international news outlets... you'd almost have to be looking for it to find it.

  I was talking to another ex-JW who, when I mentioned the RC, told me she knew nothing of it. I also know she is not plugged in to any ex-JW discussion forums, facebook, etc... I think it stands that the only people who really know anything about it are the people who have an active interest in digging up dirt on the Watchtower, along with any on the sly JWs who might rub elbows with "apostates" in various internet forums.
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  Worldly charity helps Jehovah's Witness child with life-threatening heart defect after Watchtower Society 'charity' refuses help

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  program sponsors child's medical procedure .

  indiana, usa.

  http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/local_story/program-sponsors-children-s-me_1439338349.

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  Zoos

  Years ago I found myself with an extra sum of money during District Convention season for our area. Knowing we had a few in our congregation that were struggling, I approached an elder and asked if there was a fund in place that was used for helping local brothers get to the convention city or pay for lodging, etc... I got such a look of suspicion and it almost seemed like his face went into slow motion.... "Whyyyyy...?", he asked.

  I quickly put it together that he thought _ I _ was asking for money and he was extremely uncomfortable with it. That made ME extremely uncomfortable so I quickly added, "I just wanted to pitch in to help the LOCAL brothers but I don't know what the arrangement is."

  I gleaned from that experience that charitable giving is not a comfortable arrangement or topic inside "God's Christian congregation."