... there is a trend toward less giving in our Hall (I'm the Account Servant).Our Accounts went from $6000 a year ago and now around the $1000 mark.
This HAS TO BE a world-wide trend.
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26Rank & file are seeing the money-grubbing
by Zoos inspoke with a fellow apostate from my own area.
she and i bailed out about the same time and kept in touch.. she used to do secular work with one of the local elders in his cleaning business until she got dfed.
this same elder was one of the more profound dickheads on my reinstatement committee, before i turned around two years later and daed.. business required her to contact the elder on behalf of an old client.
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Rank & file are seeing the money-grubbing
by Zoos inspoke with a fellow apostate from my own area.
she and i bailed out about the same time and kept in touch.. she used to do secular work with one of the local elders in his cleaning business until she got dfed.
this same elder was one of the more profound dickheads on my reinstatement committee, before i turned around two years later and daed.. business required her to contact the elder on behalf of an old client.
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Spoke with a fellow apostate from my own area. She and I bailed out about the same time and kept in touch.
She used to do secular work with one of the local elders in his cleaning business until she got DFed. This same elder was one of the more profound dickheads on my reinstatement committee, before I turned around two years later and DAed.
Business required her to contact the elder on behalf of an old client. A conversation started between them and he related that he was fed up with a lot of what was happening. His wife has walked away from the org. He says he sees all the BS and has long since stopped donating money - calling what the GB is doing as "money grubbing". He claimed he used to be one of the biggest contributors in the congregation and now gives nothing. He still thinks there's truth there so he hangs on, but he's sick of it.
I listened to my friend relate this story and wondered how common it is.
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Hello from the other side
by Theburstbubble inwell it's been 18 months since i left the witnesses.
my goodness what can i say?
well let's start from the beginning.... 1) i am happy, yes i am (i know im not meant to be as the jw's would like to believe).
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Stan is an asshole.
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Racial Insensitivity
by Coded Logic in"blue" lives matter!
- sheriff david clarke at the rnc.
this bs really makes my blood boil.
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Hello from the other side
by Theburstbubble inwell it's been 18 months since i left the witnesses.
my goodness what can i say?
well let's start from the beginning.... 1) i am happy, yes i am (i know im not meant to be as the jw's would like to believe).
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I went through the entire range of emotions; rage-as I was leaving, calm-after I read CoC, curiosity-as I explored my new life, resentment-as I contemplated what WT stole from me, depression, elation, contentment... in no particular order.
I guess we call that a roller coaster.
Now, 5 years out (wow, I guess almost 6 now) I feel at peace with things but still find myself surprised as layers of old beliefs, patterns of thought, fall away, lightening my load, making life more and more pleasant every day.
Great to hear you're doing well. Just don't be surprised or disheartened if you hit a few more snags along the way.
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Canada RC Baptism Numbers
by berrygerry infrom a redditor.
abbotsford bc.
forgot to post this from last weekend!.
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The harvest is speeding up.
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Yoga. Evil practice?
by Darkknight757 inas our fade continues, the wife and i have decided to take up "the forbidden practice of.......yoga"!!!!😱.
i was quite skeptical at first but so far it has really de-stressed our life in quite a spectacular way!!
not to mention the physical benefits.. anyone else try yoga or a similar discipline?
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I just said that.
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Yoga. Evil practice?
by Darkknight757 inas our fade continues, the wife and i have decided to take up "the forbidden practice of.......yoga"!!!!😱.
i was quite skeptical at first but so far it has really de-stressed our life in quite a spectacular way!!
not to mention the physical benefits.. anyone else try yoga or a similar discipline?
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Yoga causes homosexuality.
"Ohmmm!"
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Proud of BOTH of you.
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Finally "they" have reinstated me! that was easy!!!
by Prometheus init was rather quick one.
in just few months and after attending all of their meetings and giving them a nice show, i'm back to the org!!!
(what a relief-sarcastic laugh) .
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Prometheus, you sound like you got disfellowshipped / reinstated about the same time I did.
Turns out I got caught having sex with someone I wasn't supposed to, spent 20+ years exploring the details of that crime, and 5 years years convincing the powers-that-be... I was pure enough to be reinstated.
I was baptized in 1983, disfellowshipped in 1986, reinstated in 2009. It never occurred to me to examine the religion in the meantime. I was reinstated with the full belief that I was being acceptable to Jehovah. Boy was I wrong. I even had a testicular problem last year that caused me a long term problem and I had to have surgery on my scrotum in order to put aside a testicle problem that made me me stop for an entire season.