Topics Started by Hummingbird001

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OMG: WT legislating about fragances and common sense
by pixel in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
do they have to tell the r&f every little detail???.

from the new wt:.

what can be done to assist brothers and sisters who suffer from adverse reactions to fragrances?any who are sensitive to fragrances face a difficult challenge.
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Announcement that will "test your faith"
by tezrichmond in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i saw this exact headline on jw-archive.org and couldn't find no other info about it.

anyone know anything?.

possible hoax ha ha.. .
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Taking on Jehovah's Witnesses fake Child Safeguarding Policy in the UK
by Watchtower-Free in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
found this on youtube.

this is louise goode .

shes also on facebook.
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Please Give Me Your Thoughts On Unusual Elderly Behavior....(thanks)
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
my girlfriend's dad who is 82 lost his second wife to cancer last october.

while she was dying, he secretly was seeing another woman, in her 60s.

long story short, a month after the wife's death, they both moved in together and in early june , they secretly got married.
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This weeks #2 & #3 talk on homosexuality
by granada35 in
1. jw
2. friends
after a one year sucessful fade and no longer associated with any congreation, i was visiting my sister this week (who goes to the meeting to please her husband for now; i am slowly planting seeds though) and they decided to year this weeks midweek meeting via the telephone.

since i was a guest in her house, i sat with them in the living room to hear the meeting.

to my surprise (especially growing up as a gay jw with still alot of anger in my heart over how i was treated), the talks 2 and 3 where on, of course, homosexualiy.
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Convention Season-"Saving Good Seats" & Other Embarrassing Behavior
by Darth Fader The Sequel in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
since it is the convention season (and i am not attending this year or ever again), and i have been seeing other posts about some of the goings on at the various ic's and rc's, i am reminded of some of the truly embarrassing behavior i have "witnessed" (pun intended) over my lifetime of being a jdub at the various conventions and assemblies.

probably the most disillusioning experience at a convention that i have ever had was one year when i volunteered to be an attendant.

all of the volunteers were asked to attend a special meeting a few months beforehand to get instructions for our duties as attendants.
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is it just me?? the district convention at nassau coliseum was crazy
by dugout in
1. jw
2. friends
number one- fact-it was dangerously overcrowed.

ok its one thing dropping the ball on this one.

or they just didnt care.
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Local Needs 07/08/2014
by piztjw in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i don't know whether i should laugh, or run screaming into the night.. tonights "local needs" was titled "are you following 'the slave' "?.

the theme scripture was 1 peter 2: 21. it was applied that by following jesus steps closely we would then be able to keep up with 'the slave'.

now i don't know about others, but if i were to follow one person and that meant to keep up with someone else, it would mean that the person i was following was following the other person.
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org is dying
by lambsbottom in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i don't understand why so many ex jws and faders think that the jws will continue to grow and thrive as a religion.

i still attend a meeting once a week and you can smell the death of the religion creeping up when you hear the talks, read the study wts and hear the letters from the gb.

the way the organization has changed is a sign that it reached its peak (in "healthy" membership) long ago.
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How Did "Shepherding Calls" Go For You?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
did you loath them?

did you feel it was a "privilege" to have the elders care deeply about your spiritual well being?

if you were an elder or ministerial servant, did you enjoy going to the homes of the sheep?.