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BBQ with a Dozen Old ex-JW Friends last Saturday - Good Times!
by Seeker4 inlast saturday an old jw friend was visiting the area from florida.
we had reconnected with another friend from the old congregation - a man raised a jw but who had to deal with being gay and all that entails for a witness!
at any rate, we had a terrific bbq with a dozen ex-jws who used to be in one congregation together, but now live all over the country.
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Seeker4 Here - Anyone on Who Remembers Me From H20 & JWD?
by Seeker4 inseeker4 - robert smith from vermont.
former jw, elder, pioneer, etc.
i've got a few thousand posts on these sites, but haven't posted for a year or two.
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NEW EX-JW BLOGS UP AT FREEMINDS - SEEKER4, ATJ, AAG,BARB ANDERSON, ETC
by Seeker4 inrandy has created a new part of the freeminds site where a dozen or so ex-jws are blogging and posting articles.
i'm one of them, posting about going from a jw elder to being a freethinker and atheist.
my blog is here:.
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Leonard Cohen in Concert Last Week at 74 - This Man has Still Got It!!
by Seeker4 inhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=101034642.
above is a link to leonard cohen in concert in manhattan a week or so ago.
he is a brillant singer, songwriter and poet, a hall of famer, but there is something more to leonard.. i started an essay last year called "leonard cohen and my other fathers.
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Why do JW Boards BAN Questioners, While Questioning Sites INVITE JWs??
by Seeker4 inwhy is it that on jw discussion boards, anyone who brings up difficult issues or questions will soon be banned from the site, while sites like this one where debate and discussion are encouraged, we welcome believing jws with open arms?.
of course, most of us here know the answer to that!
but it is something to take note of, and to mention when you get a chance.. there was a recent post about a jw group on facebook.
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WTS Requesting Lists of Overstocked Cong. Lit.; Reinstate Illowy, Please?
by Seeker4 ingot an e-amil from illowy today, who says he still cannot post here.
he was helping a ms with inventory and posting on the jw.org site that the congregations use.
he added this: .
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7 Congregations in My Area, VT, MA, NH, Have Been Cut to 3!!!
by Seeker4 ini got this verified today.
seven congregations that were in my old circuits now are only three.. north and south gardner, ma were merged.. north and south claremont, nh were merged.. north adams, ma and bennington, vt were merged.. the wilmington, vt congregation was dissolved.. there has been discussion to merge the keene and swanzey, nh congregations, but there are some strong personalities among the two bodies of elders opposing that, so it is not likely to happen, though i hear that keene has got some big problems in its boe and very poor service, etc.. that's 9 congregations within about a 70 mile radius that are all seeing some serious trouble.. anyone hearing anything similar happening where they are?.
s4.
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An Elder Friend is Attending a School Right Now - What School is It?
by Seeker4 ini just heard that an elder friend, not a po, is attending some sort of training.
does anyone know what school is going on right now?.
i also just heard that there will be a circuit overseer school of some sort this year.
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Any News on Pioneer Hrs Decreasing or Whether COs will be Ending?
by Seeker4 ina few months ago there were some fairly authoritative threads that the pioneer hours were being decreased.
that has not happened.
also, there was a thread that the co arrangement was going to be dramatically changed in the next year or two, and i got some private notes from some excellent sources attesting to that.
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Wilmington, VT Congregation Being Dissolved!
by Seeker4 ini just heard this week that the wilmington, vt congregation is being dissolved.
it is here in southern vermont, and i can remember when it was formed, probably about 30 years ago.. the congregation was always troubled, it seems, and there were so many personality conflicts in it that people who lived next to the kingdom hall would travel to the brattleboro, vt congregation to attend meetings!
a good percentage of witnesses that lived in that territory refused to go there and attended other congregations.. it seems that attendance has dwindled down to 20 or so, and so it is being disbanded.
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