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  Shunned by family

  by Ruth in

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  2. beliefs

  my fiancé is an ex-jehovah’s witness.

  when he was 18 years old, his 17 year old brother was killed in an accident.

  his parents having previously lost an infant daughter were understandably distraught and were therefore highly susceptible to an organisation which seemed to be able to supply definitive answers where more mainstream religion seemed to fail them..

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  Pete Zahut

  Hi Ruth,

  In the video below, taken during the Australian Royal Commission Hearings investigating the policies of the Watchtower as they relate to child abuse, Governing Body member Geoffery Jackson is questioned about the Congregations authority over those who have left the organization of their own free will.

  In the video, just after the 7:00 mark, Jackson indicates that the congregation has no authority over such ones and there is no judicial rulings made against them unless they are trying to return to the congregation.
  

  If this is the case then your fiance', since he wasn't trying to get back into the Congregation, should not have been disfellowshipped and therefore his family should still be able to speak to him just as they have been doing these many years. Perhaps if his family hears this video they will realize there has been a mistake made and disregard his disfellowshippment or perhaps your fiance' can appeal for it be revoked based on the fact that he has been out of the organization for 20+ years and isn't trying to come back and therefore not under the congregations authority. There have been experiences reported on this site of individuals who have had success in having their disfellowshimpmets rescinded.
  

  Your fiance' would have to present this video to his family in just the right manner so that they wouldn't dig their heels in out of pride or to save face. But it may be quite eye opening for them to see how unclear one of their leaders (who is supposedly guided by Jehovah's Holy Spirit) is about his own policies and the life altering effects they can and do have on individuals and entire families such as your husbands as well as most of us who participate in this forum.
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBE_oof1RzE
  
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  Memoir of a Lonely Afternoon

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  lonely afternoon : memoir.

  lonely afternoon.

  i found it!.

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  Pete Zahut

  Remember the theme song?
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWe2MY5BvWY&list=RDIWe2MY5BvWY#t=2
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  Caption This Photo From The May 2016 WT

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. social
  2. humour

  her: "i'm really going enjoy talking to young billy about his masturbation problem".

  him: "yes, we don't him to turn out out gay, we want him to have a happy marriage filled with hours and hours of reading propaganda together.

  even the stuff that is in no way applicable to our lives.

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  Stand Up Comedy about JWs

  by usualusername1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello all,i have just signed up to do a comedy course.

  it starts in september.in order to get a headstart, i did my first 5 minutes tonight about jws.i explained that i celebrated my first birthday last week.

  bemusement and a tittle.explained that if you could choose between hare krishnas and people standing at a trolley/cart as a religion who would you choose?got a laugh.explained that the whole world will be destroyed if you do not listen to our message, yet we are not prepared to initiate a conversation at a trolley.big laugh.

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  Pete Zahut

  Let the audience know that a "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" isn't the place where JW's are manufactured.

  Explain to them that New Lite is old doctrine that has been put on a diet.

  Tell them that the literature trolleys they are seeing around town, are a direct result of inexpensive and easy to install Bible Detectors having become available at Home Depot and the reason no one answers their doors to JW's anymore.
  
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  Caption This Photo From The May 2016 WT

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. social
  2. humour

  her: "i'm really going enjoy talking to young billy about his masturbation problem".

  him: "yes, we don't him to turn out out gay, we want him to have a happy marriage filled with hours and hours of reading propaganda together.

  even the stuff that is in no way applicable to our lives.

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  anyone else had this following convention

  by freeandcontent in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so my mam visited today.

  she recently went to convention in north east england, newcastle i think they still have them at.

  before she left she said (this is her exact words btw) "you have put me in a difficult position and i can't come to see you anymore".. she told me that as i live with my partner and we are unmarried that she can't visit anymore.

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  Tell your Mum that she's welcome to visit you anytime andyou hope that one day she will develop enough faith in Jehovah to realize that he has the ability to protect her from any harm that you and your daughter may try to inflict on her.
  
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  PREZ JOKES

  by SolidSender in

  1. social
  2. humour

  here's some bumper stickers recently spotted:.

  honk!

  if you had sex with the president.

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  How could I have forgotten about Marla?

  
  
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  Do JWs believe they will be the only people saved at the "end"?

  by LaurenM in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the answer posted on jw.org: "no.

  many millions who lived in centuries past and who weren’t jehovah’s witnesses will have an opportunity for salvation.

  additionally, many now living may yet begin to serve god, and they too will gain salvation.

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  They'll tell you it's not for them to say who will be saved or not and that they leave it up to Jehovah yet on the other hand, they'll say that all who've come to an accurate knowledge and haven't dedicated their lives in baptism, will perish. They also say their ministry is a never to be repeated life saving work done out of love for their fellow man so that more lives will be spared at Armageddon .
  

  My younger sister, when she was small, used to burst out in tears at the meeting when this topic was discussed because our father studied for years but just couldn't make himself go from door to door. Consequently, they wouldn't let him get baptized so he eventually stopped coming to the meeting. My sister would come home crying to our Dad "Please come to meetings again...I don't want you to get "Stroyed" which was her word for "Destroyed". Our kind and loving father used to comfort her then look at Mom and say under his breath through clenched teeth "Why do they have to say these things in front of the Children?"
  

  Nowadays, I like to ask JW's "why all the supposed urgency in your ministry if you don't think it's only JW's who'll be saved? Why is it like a death in the family when someone's son or daughter leaves the organization? What about churchgoing little old Mrs. Jones next door...will she die if she doesn't stop her charity work and renounce her church membership and become a JW? After all she's part of Babylon the Great...right?

  Then they say..."Well we don't judge", to which I say "Oh but you do...you've labeled every other religion as false worship and as being backed by Satan and if all those who have been warned, don't "get out of her" by becoming a JW, they will go down with her at Armageddon.
  

  This is another one of those occasions that usually ends in their eyes glazing over and pretending they don't see the logic or them denying that's what they believe.
  
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  PREZ JOKES

  by SolidSender in

  1. social
  2. humour

  here's some bumper stickers recently spotted:.

  honk!

  if you had sex with the president.

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  "Jane Wyman was right!"

  Doc
  

  Thought I'd update this opinion of Ronald Regan to fit today's hoopla.
  

  
  
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  Another brother steps back

  by konceptual99 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so at the meeting this week it was announced that a certain brother was no longer serving as a ministerial servant.. this is a guy who was brought up in a different country as his family went to serve where the need was greater.

  this is a guy who was home schooled and went straight into pioneering.

  he then went and worked on building projects in various places in europe and africa.

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  Pete Zahut

  His wife was crying after the announcement, no doubt shamed at the step down and lamenting that she no longer can live her WT goals vicariously anymore.

  Ha...that's so true and it's encouraged that single JW women seek out single JW men with positions in the congregation. Perhaps he was privately reproved for something, hence the tears. Either way, any move backwards, planned or otherwise, is a big deal in JW land.

  When I returned from my year at Bethel, an Elder asked me in front of a bunch of people why I only stayed for one year. I said " You grew up in the truth....why didn't you go to Bethel at all?"
  

  I remember a nice young pioneer sister in our congregation became engaged and decided to stop pioneering so she could work and save for a place of their own. At the end of the Thursday meeting, the P.O got up and said "I have a sad announcement to make...Mary Smith will no longer be among the ranks of our pioneers".

  But for the sound of Mary sobbing at her seat, you could have heard a pin drop. It was like they announced a death.