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  Can you disassociate on your last judicial committee for apostasy?

  by jwdoctrine in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi guys, i have been summoned to a judicial committee for apostasy.

  i'm going to disassociate anyway but i don't want to miss the fun .i'm thinking of handing my letter of dissociation on the night of the committee.do you think this is a good idea?.

  as i said i have already made my mind up.

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  Black Sheep

  If you want to be able to have sensible conversations with friends or family members of the cult, you have to do it while you are still not 'marked' as Apostate or DA, so both classifications should be avoided,
  
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  How many JDubs would believe this ridiculous statement?

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a circuit overseer or a member of the gibbering body is giving a talk about demonism and he says the following, "there was an elder in a congregation in california who let his 8-year-old daughter watch disney movies that involved witches, gremlins, magic, and sorcery.

  many may feel that they are harmless movies and are just entertainment.

  well, the 8-year-old daughter actually brought a blue smurf doll to the public talk and watchtower study.

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  Black Sheep

  Here is the earlier thread I alluded to.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/198458/legend-about-smurfs-being-demonic-just-urban-legend-mentioned-literature
  
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  How many JDubs would believe this ridiculous statement?

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a circuit overseer or a member of the gibbering body is giving a talk about demonism and he says the following, "there was an elder in a congregation in california who let his 8-year-old daughter watch disney movies that involved witches, gremlins, magic, and sorcery.

  many may feel that they are harmless movies and are just entertainment.

  well, the 8-year-old daughter actually brought a blue smurf doll to the public talk and watchtower study.

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  Black Sheep

  If you search the forum, you should be able to find a thread discussing the origin of this ridiculous episode of JW history that I remember from my childhood. Something to do with a supposedly haunted Toys“R”Us store if I remember correctly.
  
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  OK what is the deal with Smurfs?

  by blownaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i heard the crap, smurfs were magical evil creatures.

  i saw in the 80s kids parents get talked to because of the kids having one or pjs with smurfs on them but other than the urban meme where did this come from?

  was there anything printed about it?

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  Black Sheep

  If you take the time to search the site, a very good description of the origin was posted here many years ago. It was something to do with Toys R Us.
  
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  Kingdom Hall shot up in Washington state

  by Crazyguy in

  1. social
  2. current

  a kingdom hall near a small community called yelm was shot up.

  yelm is where two kingdom halls where set on fire about a month ago.

  i think someone, exjw, in that area is really pissed off..

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  Black Sheep

  "Yes, I know people who were actually inside the hall at Casula Sydney...

  The residual effects has haunted them for decades."

  Me too, but the people who converted them and the people they converted, went on to damage the lives of their converts and the converts of their converts and many of their family relationships ad infinitum. There were more lives affected by them than there were by the A-Hole who bombed their KH. The bombing just strengthened their resolve.
  
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  I Went To My Brother’s Memorial Service at the Kingdom Hall

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have to say that the talk was very good.

  instead of just repeating a jw manual , the speaker actually spoke about my brother!

  there were a few scriptures with the jw hope but 80 % of the talk was actually about the life of my brother.

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  Black Sheep

  My condolences on your loss, Minimus. It is nice to hear that they did the right thing for a change and made it about him.
  
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  Posters You Miss

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  anyone that you miss from this site, dead or alive??.

  i miss farkel, blondie and a host of others!.

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  Black Sheep

  Leolaia
  
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  Searching for this Site

  by Phizzy in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  i tried searching for this site by entering "jehovahs-witness.com" and this site did not come up on the first page !

  it was jw dot org etc all the way down !.

  how can we change this ?.

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  Black Sheep

  I just Googled for Jehovah's Witnesses and didn't find a hit on us until page 8. I haven't done that for a few years now, but when I first joined we were always near the top of the first page.
  
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  My old congregation Auckland New Zealand

  by karter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in 1991 we build a 250 seat hall and had 125 publishers so about 175 in attendance and filing fast.. just spoke to someone from my old congregation they now have 50 to 60 publishers and 100 in attendance on a good day.. very few pioneers.. seems this is happening everywhere.. karter..

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  Black Sheep

  I'm pleased to hear it and hope it's one my family is associated with.
  
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  Another marriage bites the dust ...

  by EdenOne in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ... and this time it was mine.. mrs. eden decided to part ways and leave home, and so our 25 year long partnership is now dissolving.

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  just another colateral damage in a long list of colateral damages from being raised in the "truth".

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  Black Sheep

  Sorry to hear that EdenOne. I hope that at some time in the future you will be able to look back on this as a good thing.