Posts by AFRIKANMAN

i discovered that my 96-year-old grandaunt had named her jw elder as personal representative of her estate and another jw "best friend" as her power of attorney.

i learned that they used a financial advisor at wells fargo advisors to help raid my grandaunts bank accounts in the years before her death, and then the wt and jws received most of what was left of her estate.

i am currently working on a book to expose this horrific practice.

AFRIKANMAN

The story is very distressing indeed.

One of the sites you gave leads to a page where one is requested to contribute money.

Is it possible that you can supply additional supportive info about this matter regarding your mother? I mean like from authorities etc as this would fully legitimise your appeal and make people feel more comfortable to part with money.

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Three day convention

by BashfulAshG in

tips to survive this?

or should a feign an illness?

AFRIKANMAN

MIGRAINES are a good one - go and get migraine meds [Just ensure you can take the meds without side effects] - often the cocktail has a tablet for relaxing muscles a bit which makes you dopey too - so you miss the RC day and have a good kip. Or just have the M without the meds ! Who is to know?

If female I imagine you have a few "hormonal' based options which men cant employ.

If you are a Depression sufferer [so many JW's are] be down ....you probably are already anyway with the thought of the RC looming. Have an ADD = Acute Doctrinal Distress attack.

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The conventions and the memorial are a pain in the butt for me.

by John Aquila in

i can imagine those of you who have a spouse that is not awake and how hard it must be.

i have a 90 year old mom who is a jw and still puts in 12 hrs a month in field service.

the brothers and sisters are always picking her up for conventions, meetings and memorials and as much as i try to avoid them, there are times when i just cant.

AFRIKANMAN

Hi guys!

The thing that really gets my piles active is the assumption that we faded /exJW's have something wrong with us! The audacity and presumption !

So my wife gets an sms from a sister who is in this 'I am prepped and primed for Armageddon' mindset - cum - Satan is really busy with the Witnesses these days ' which says "oh I hope you are OK-ish ! " [No....... I am 100% delirious now that I am out !!] or her sister telling all and sundry that wifey has never been more miserable since she became inactive ! - hallo ! Wifey is now living a FULL LIFE and no longer a FOOL life.

On the issue of Blood you will find an incredible bit of reasoning in Ray Franz's book [one of the two] - Its a stone dead blocker on the subject .

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Brother who works on JW Broadcasting gave a 20 minute talk, said something big is coming next month.

by wifibandit in

via /r/exjw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7vhu8l88k.

AFRIKANMAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xu7sRdRrm_w#t=8

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Brother who works on JW Broadcasting gave a 20 minute talk, said something big is coming next month.

by wifibandit in

via /r/exjw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7vhu8l88k.

AFRIKANMAN

What could they honestly reveal - in terms of biblical prophecy etc - that wouldn't contradict themselves.

1914 was an error ? 1919 was an error ? All can partake of the Crisp and Sip ?

If it relates to trying to bring back members it would have to have a snazzy selling pitch.

The bleeding of membership is related to the prediction that the love of the greater number would cool off?

I have relatives who are addicted to News broadcasts in the hope that they will have a heads-up on the start of the Big A - Eish !

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would reporting time from a DF person be acceptable by the bros..

by James Mixon in

this person is df but still believe it to be the truth.

problem excepting money from a df person, but in a case of incidental witnesses by.

the df person.

AFRIKANMAN

You would be told to keep your own record of it. You are now longer a JW - by their reckoning - so you don't figure in the big picture.

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Experiences Of Speaking To Another Awake Witness Without Knowing It

by freemindfade in

this is interesting, i would love to hear of some experiences.

i was speaking with someone offline about their talking to someone and coming to find out that person was waking up/awake too.

the reason i find it interesting, is because it is such a fragile situation, a dance where the two people don't trust each other enough to just speak freely like they are afraid of being turned into the kgb.

AFRIKANMAN

I found that by keeping the ball in their court was helpful.

Eg 607 / 1914 "What is it that convinces you about the accuracy of this Doctrine" " How have you explained it to Bible Studies from the Bible"

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PM to Geoffrey Jackson ( with cc-s): Read the NWT, especially Judges Chapter 4 vs. 1-20 or so

by kepler in

dear sir: .

regarding your recent testimony in australia on the nature of judges and elders in scriptures being male:.

read judges 4, and if you can hang on, chapter 5. it is with regard to a judge who succeeded ehud and performed similar services.

AFRIKANMAN

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