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  Kingdom Hall loans Cancelled? Lurkers...please read

  by ToesUp in

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  i hope that writing this, there will be some lurkers that i can shake.. if you have not listened to mays tv broadcast, please do.

  it may wake some up.. note @ around 21-22 minutes into the broadcast lett brings up the the kingdom halls/assembly hall loans have been cancelled and the congregation can now send in what they can afford.

  wow...how many banks would do that?.

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  The analog with a mortgage though may not touch base. the local hall would never have "owned" the hall anyways. Its ALWAYS the branches.
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  Having a hard time holding my tongue...

  by problemaddict 2 in

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  ...recently.. i'm normally pretty calculated.

  my fade is done, my wife is out, my family and friends know, i maintain quite abit of the friendships of those closest to me jw or not, my family isn't shunning, and the few people we have kept it from for other reasons we are calculating how to break it.

  (elderly matriarch that we are simply not going to tell so she doesn't die).. but.....all these facebook meme's and stupid feeds about reliance on jehovah, distraction, staying close to his organization, persevering against satan.....its driving me nuts.

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  Well said.

  Unfortunately the madness never seems to make past the outer layer of the brain before being filtered by the cult personality. It just kills me that so many are completely oblivious. People making little smart comments here and there to me recently has only fueled this.
  
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  Would you call JW HQ???

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a friend who is still in.

  this friend is a partaker, but has serious doubts about the org.

  this friend wants to stand up as a man, and wants to call wtbts hq.

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  I think your friend should do what he feels compelled to do. However, he will most likely get someone at the service desk, and NEVER speak to a member of the GB.

  Still.....I think even the attempt being refused, or stopped by a gatekeeper, seems to be agood thing at least for the possible freedom of mind your friend may be able to experience after this.

  I once felt idealistic about change. Staying for the sake of the good and feeling like as long as I was right, then Jehovah would make it work out.

  Now I know better, and so will he.
  
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  I want to carry the microphones"

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this was the reason that our 12 year old son gave us for wanting to be baptized.

  my wife and i actually agreed that he should wait a little longer, thank god!

  by the time he was 13 he was running wild.

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  stillin,

  I hope this comes off as respectful as it is intended, but as serious as it is intended to as well. You should not be shunning your daughter. You have no excuse to. You should NOT be joining your wife in this exercise. In fact if anything, you should be going out of your way to be with her and your grandchild with your wife knowing that this is important to you.

  By doing this you are enabling the situation, and your relationship with your daughter cannot be authentic. Have you spoken to her about what you know?
  
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  Am I the only "witness here besides the admins?

  by TheOnlyRealWittnessHere in

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  with all the negativity here i was wondering if i am the only one here that's a witness.

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  the topic pretty much says everything..

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  Watchers comments are very telling.

  One one had he/she basically says that the deciding factor as to weather or not someone is a servant of God, is weather or not they believe the governing body of Jehovahs Witnesses is a group referred to in a parable as the "faithful and discreet slave". I am sure Watcher basically assigns these people an extension of Jesus authority in scripture?

  Then not one page later the same person says they do what they want, and don't have to listen to the same group.

  You can't make this up.
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  Having a hard time holding my tongue...

  by problemaddict 2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ...recently.. i'm normally pretty calculated.

  my fade is done, my wife is out, my family and friends know, i maintain quite abit of the friendships of those closest to me jw or not, my family isn't shunning, and the few people we have kept it from for other reasons we are calculating how to break it.

  (elderly matriarch that we are simply not going to tell so she doesn't die).. but.....all these facebook meme's and stupid feeds about reliance on jehovah, distraction, staying close to his organization, persevering against satan.....its driving me nuts.

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  Your guys comments are fantastic.

  I'm still having a hard time with this recently. I'm wondering what switched in me to have such a short fuse recently. Its even gotten to where I WANT to bring it up. Sheesh.

  I had a family member upset at me for letting my kid watch schoolhouse rock......because of the three is a magic number song. This person is in their 20's! I just said "I hope you think about how bizarre and strange you sound right now. You really think this kind of nonsensical attention to minute things is the way to get me to think my former religion is NOT insane?"

  I just can't shut my trap all of a sudden.
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  Having a hard time holding my tongue...

  by problemaddict 2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ...recently.. i'm normally pretty calculated.

  my fade is done, my wife is out, my family and friends know, i maintain quite abit of the friendships of those closest to me jw or not, my family isn't shunning, and the few people we have kept it from for other reasons we are calculating how to break it.

  (elderly matriarch that we are simply not going to tell so she doesn't die).. but.....all these facebook meme's and stupid feeds about reliance on jehovah, distraction, staying close to his organization, persevering against satan.....its driving me nuts.

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  Its not about the posts.

  Its more just this kind of well of annoyance that feels like it will just explode at the wrong time. Like a premature faithjaculation if you will.

  Like some elder will pass me in the fruit aisle and say hi and I will throat chop him and tell him hes got the blood of thousands of people on his hands.

  You know......something not smart. Its just all of a sudden......I want to start yelling at my friends about this stuff.
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  Missionary send-off ... " If You Could See What I See " ... - The little cart with a big heart -

  by Esse quam videri in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  from the perspective of the jehovah's witnesses public witnessing cart.

  a family put this skit on for going away party for our missionary family.

  [ i can just imagine what the villagers are going to say about the crazy missionary gringo and his cart.

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  I love that on you tube the UP NEXT was "Do Jehovahs Witnesses Protect Pedophiles?"
  
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  Do You Think They Will Have Donuts?

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
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  http://www.halsteadgazette.co.uk/news/halstead_news/12919606.open_day_at_kingdom_hall_of_jehovah___s_witnesses_in_halstead/

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  LoL at "non-religious".
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  Coping With Atheism (Long-ish Post...sorry!)

  by humblepotato in

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  2. friends

  long time lurker (2009-ish), first time poster.

  first of all, i want to say thank you everyone who contributes to these boards and provokes stimulating conversations and thought processes.

  all the opinions and different perspectives are very enlightening.

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  problemaddict 2

  Blood was my wake up a few years ago. Disfellowshipping finally got my wife out in the last year.

  Its different for everyone. I am like you in that i seemed to be around the "good" JW's. Even handed guys, that i could talk real with, and that were loyal but also seemed reasonable. But they are the minority. the super minority. All it took was one run in with some Pharisaical elder JW, and for the branch to stand by this guy to no end, for me to say...oh yeah.....I was around some unique people but that doesn't represent what is ACTUALLY taught.

  Your wife is your priority. I think the sex abuse cover ups and blood "stumbling" you are a good way to go with your wife. Like Giordano said, let her get used to it. Then start fading. You really need to think about her, how you can communicate with her, and eventually she will have her own journey. Don't have kids until it is settled....and then.....have some. They are great! They give you a totally different sense of purpose. they connect you to the past and future. they are your immortality. Not some fairy land.

  I am agnostic and leaning atheist. i find the thought of death hard to bear. But I'm working on it.