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  California Fires-Contact from elders

  by SouthCentral in

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  the fires have been hitting many areas of los angeles lately.

  recently, i checked my home voicemail and noticed messages from several elders.

  they were calling everyone on their “books” to ensure that they were ok.. i assume this is the protocol for a natural disaster.

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  Pete Zahut

  You didn't say if these "elders" knew previously, but I'd say that it was a case of their files not being up to date and they were calling everyone from an old list.

  There was a Youtube video going around of a former prominent elder who left the organization and several years later he was called by someone from another hall to come and give a substitute talk because his name was still on an old list. So he did an "apostate" version of a Sunday talk and got booted off the stage about half way through.
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  Did You Think Jehovah’s Witnesses Were Typically “Racists”?

  by minimus in

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  i was a jw from infancy.

  we had a melting pot type of congregation.

  i grew up with all types of witnesses , all with different backgrounds.

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  Pete Zahut

  Did You Think JW's Were Typically "Racist"?

  No not typically but as in any cross section of the population, but there were those who had to unlearn or constantly keep their old non JW approved attitudes in check, no matter what race they were.

  A person may be fascinated by fire, talk about it a lot etc. but he's not considered to be an Arsonist until he actually sets a building on fire. When it comes to racism, it used to be that you actually had to do something harmful to someone because of their race. These days it seems that all you have to do is disagree with someone of another race, use a wrong phrase or tone of voice and you could be thought of as being an all out racist.
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  Did you EVER falsify your report card ?

  by Chook in

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  2. experiences

  every single watchtower soldier lied to god out of fear of the brooklyn popes..

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  Pete Zahut

  I would never lie about my own time sheet (that would be plain wrong) but as a kid I’d sometimes turn in time slips for other people ( loaded with lots of hours, return visits, books and bible studies) just to see what would happen. Sometimes I’d turn in a normal slip, with no name on it . It was such a power rush when they’d announce from the platform that the “Phantom Publisher has struck again”

  P.S... I made that all up... I only wish I’d have thought of it LOL!
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  PIMO Elder with a Dilemma

  by xjwsrock in

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  2. beliefs

  i haven’t been on here in awhile and this is my second user name because i was busted by my pimi wife on the first one.

  i have been basically awake since 2013. i have a super dub wife that i love and don’t want to lose and my sick mom in the hall that is a true believer.

  stupid religion has gotten between my wife and i (of course).

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  Pete Zahut

  I might tend to let things get really ugly so these guys expose what they’re really like and open your wife’s eyes.

  Is there a way to drag this out without making yourself look like the problem?

  Maybe discuss with her the reasonable tack you will take when you meet with them. Then when you get there let them have it with both barrels so they have no choice but to throw the book at you.

  Don’t do or say anything apostate but flip this thing around so you are seen as the victim that you really are. Perhaps your wife will be incensed and take your side.
  
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  The jw builders choir omg

  by Gorbatchov in

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  seems like the genesis song jesus he knows me.. g.. https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/?applanguage=e#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-jwb_201910_12_video.

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  Pete Zahut

  Umm... Tom Cruise called Leah Remini ....apparently Scientology wants their Chior back!

  Geeze...they must’ve stayed up all night, thinking up those lyrics!
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Announce Plans to Build Giant Media Center

  by iwantoutnow in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  omg!

  this has to be more of "keeping the flock busy and excited" so as not to notice whats going on.. how did i miss this?????

  the jehovah's witnesses announced plans to build a 1.5 million-square-foot audio-visual production center in upstate new york, two miles away from the witnesses' headquarters in warwick.

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  Pete Zahut

  They’ve found themselves a money making side hustle. Supplying their 8 million built in customers with more propaganda videos with storylines that feature attractive, well dressed (scarf wearing) characters who live in professionally decorated homes in places where it’s always a sunny day (except when weak ones or worldly people become I involved in the story, then the lighting becomes dim, the colors dull and the actors suddenly aren’t quite as chipper or wholesome looking).

  If each of the 8 million JWs buy one video for a $10 “donation”, they’ve made themselves 80 million dollars. Make a few of these videos each year and suddenly, Jehovah Of armies will lovingly tell them “no more messy printing, my people!!”
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  What happens to Bethelites?

  by rickroll in

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  so if someone puts their life into serving the cult for free at bethel, then say after 25 or 30 years they are not able to for one reason or another such as illness, or family issue or old age, does the cult have any safety net for these people or is it you serve until you can't and when you can't you just go away?

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  Pete Zahut

  A family member and his wife in their late 40's just left after 20+ years. While they were still there at Bethel, she gave her husband all of her vacation time so he could combine it with his own vacation time. He took time off using their combined vacation time and did handyman work locally and saved what he earned so they'd have a small nest egg to get a rental and to live on while they were getting jobs on the outside. Bethel allowed them to keep their medical coverage for a few months while they got themselves set up in another state.

  That's it...they're on their own. Once they got where they were going, the local JW's paid them to do chores and pulled strings to get them low level jobs. Jehovah always provides.
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  Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development - did you miss a stage?

  by Butterfly607 in

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  erikson's stages of psychosocial development include this fifth stage:.

  "the fifth stage of erik erikson's theory of psychosocial development is identity vs. role confusion, and it occurs during adolescence, from about 12-18 years.

  during this stage, adolescents search for a sense of self and personal identity, through an intense exploration of personal values, beliefs, and goals.".

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  Pete Zahut

  Growing up JW you identify and define yourself by the religion first and foremost. All the blanks are filled in...no need to look elsewhere.
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  Role Call, Number of Family Members Who Have Shunned You!

  by The Bethelite in

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  just one left, my sister.

  i haven't talk to her in over 15 years.

  the rest are all dead.. i'm not counting my ex wife and all her family.... .

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  Pete Zahut

  We are not being fully shunned by family members but are definitely being marginalized my nearly all of them. Some have "unfriend" us from social media once they realized that we were no longer attending meetings.

  My wife's aunt and uncle have never met their daughters husband and their 3 grandchildren (don't even know their names) and they haven't spoken to her and one of their sons for over 10 years simply because they walked away. At a large family gathering, everyone was sitting in a large group eating and talking. Things got mighty quiet when one of the old aunties intentionally asked them in front of everyone, what the names and ages of their grandchildren were. They couldn't answer and were mortified in front of all the non JW relatives who had all of their children and grandchildren present.

  The old auntie didn't let them off the hook and chastised them for it saying "Cant imagine bringing children into this world and them abandoning them simply because they didn't take up my religion". It was something to see the look on this Elder and Regular Pioneer's faces as they were called out on their unloving behavior. There was nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
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  Did you have a Narcissistic JW Parent?

  by Butterfly607 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  did anyone else have a parent who could be described as highly narcissistic who was a jw?

  how was that for you growing up?

  which was worse - the narcissistic religion or the narcissistic parent?.

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  Pete Zahut

  
  Did anyone else have a parent who could be described as highly narcissistic who was a JW? How was that for you growing up? Which was worse - the narcissistic religion or the narcissistic parent?

  My Mom (bless her) tended to be motivated by what others thought of her and used us kids to make herself appear favorably in their eyes. Of course there was the notion that we'd live forever one day, but us giving talks, having parts in the meeting, going in service "placing" a lot of magazines and being well dressed at the meetings was mostly about her looking good in the eyes of others, in the here and now.

  Like many, she was caught up in the JW idea that the whole world is watching us and enough is never enough. Knowing that everyone was watching each others works and that they were evaluating each others spirituality by them, mustn't have been easy on her own as a mother with an "unbelieving" mate. Nevertheless, it wasn't fun to be someones trained poodle.