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  Have you ever looked back at your early posts on here?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  no doubt we are all overjoyed at how we have progressed since breaking the shackles of the society!.

  for those that have been here on this forum for some time, have you ever looked back at the version of "you" that first started posting here, and compared yourself with where you are at now?.

  i am overjoyed at how much i have grown as a person!.

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  slimboyfat

  Yes and I've not changed much, except I can't write as clearly now and I used to know more things. But still resident semi-apologist at your service.
  
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  BBC News "The ex-Jehovah's Witnesses shunned by their families"

  by snare&racket in

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  2. friends

  bbc news website has this linked on front page.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40704990.

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  slimboyfat

  I'm not cutting the BBC any slack. More than 99 out of 100 readers are going to think this man is being shunned for missing a funeral. Which is unintelligible nonsense. It's abysmal journalism:

  But two years ago, he was disfellowshipped after he missed a Jehovah's Witness memorial service - seen in the religion as an important event.
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  BBC News "The ex-Jehovah's Witnesses shunned by their families"

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  bbc news website has this linked on front page.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40704990.

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  slimboyfat

  BBC don't allow reader comments on most articles. Otherwise many Scots would have a lot to say on their abysmal political commentary.
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  BBC News "The ex-Jehovah's Witnesses shunned by their families"

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  bbc news website has this linked on front page.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40704990.

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  slimboyfat

  I can see how it happened. This person probably had doubts, started expressing them to family and friends, and it was bubbling away for a while. Then he missed the memorial, it brought things to a head and the elders confronted him. So it was probably part of a complicated story.

  The BBC presentation of the situation that he was DFed "after he missed a memorial service" is pretty abysmal whatever way you look at it. Members of the public are going to think it was a funeral service and JWs are going to think it's a load of rubbish.
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  BBC News "The ex-Jehovah's Witnesses shunned by their families"

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  bbc news website has this linked on front page.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40704990.

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  slimboyfat

  Mmm... the article says one was DFed for going to the police about a violent partner and the other was DFed after missing the Memorial.

  If I'm skeptical of those claims I don't know what active JWs will make of them.

  JW shunning is bad enough, no exaggeration is required.

  It's not necessarily the fault of the former JWs. Don't underestimate the ability of the BBC to misstate basic facts and mess up a story.
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  The old "Book Study Group"

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the june 2004 kingdom ministry, the self-appointed "faithful slave" published this spiritual exhortation as a q&a item - "the congregation book study—why we need it.

  three years later, in 2007 - in the august kingdom ministry - the same "slave" issued this reminder - "how the congregation book study arrangement helps us.

  but surprise, surprise - within a few short months the "slave" decided that jehovah had had a change of heart, and now decided that the book study in homes - with all of its alleged benefits - was superfluous: .

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  slimboyfat

  Yeah there was even a book that was published, apparently before the decision was made, but was studied after the announcement. One of the questions was something like,"why is the book study group vital?" Awkward.

  It shows the decision, for whatever reason it was taken, was pretty rushed.

  Yet years later Splane claimed it was the result of years of deliberation.

  Well maybe it was, in the sense that the idea had been floated for a long time. But there's no doubt the final decision was rushed, and they couldn't get their story straight.
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  A WTF Moment While In the WTS

  by Searching in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  has anyone else had a moment, while still within the organization (and before learning ttatt) that caused them to stop and go, "this is kind of messed up.".

  for instance, back i believe in the early 2000's, i was attending a dc with my family.

  it was announced at the beginning of the convention that there was going to be a special announcement at the end, so for everyone to please try to remain until the very end of the meeting.

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  slimboyfat

  In the 1990s a pioneer couple came back from Kenya and said the JWs over there still paid the cover price for the literature while it was being offered free of charge in the UK. How come? They charged poorer countries for a few years longer than western countries. I never heard a good excuse for that.
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  Is there any humor in the bible?

  by Normalfulla in

  1. social
  2. humour

  humor plays a big part in a lot of humanity and we all like a good laugh but as far as i'm aware god's supposed word has no actual humor ,of course apart from being a joke itself ,why wasn't there a passage or something like "jesus farted and giggles broke out among them " or something, is anyone aware of any notations of humor ?

  all to.serious really.

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  slimboyfat

  When the prophets lf Ba'al couldn't convince their God to consume an offering, Elijah suggested:

  Perhaps he is deep in thought or he has gone to relieve himself.
  
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  Gaslighting

  by mann377 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ever heard of it?

  i have but never realized the full meaning.

  this is the tactic the wtbs uses to control people.

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  slimboyfat

  The point is that, having changed their mind about being passive, for whatever reason, the WT didn't say "we've changed our mind, brothers" for this or that reason. Instead they acted as if it was the Witnesses who had got it wrong, when actually they were following WT instructions.

  That's gaslighting.

  "Did you think I said buy milk? Oh that's a shame, actually I told you to get bread."
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  Had twin babies with a married JW?!?!?!?!?!?! advice & thoughts

  by Gokumonkey in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  before i begin i just wanna say, im not proud of what i did, it was wrong but it happened now im just trying to do the right thing.. ok so im a "worldly" person and i meet a jw women at my job.

  i had no idea she was married due to the fact that she hid her wedding ring.

  i even ask if she was in a relationship and she denied it.

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  slimboyfat

  She sounds like a piece of work, and treats everyone pretty bad. Shame your life is inextricably linked to hers now.

  She probably went back because of the shunning.

  Insist your children don't get baptised until they're adults. If JW children delay baptism until adulthood they invariably put it off altogether. That's why the GB are desperate to get children baptised as young as possible.