Wasanelder Once

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  Latest JW.org Statistics Are Confusing & Lack Context

  by steve2 in

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  2. beliefs

  earlier this week a new post on this forum announced that the 2017 worldwide annual service report was available on jw.org.

  wow - that's earlier than the statistics for the 2016 service year which appeared in the 2017 yearbook last january!

  good effort, jw organization!

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  Wasanelder Once

  JW math; 2 + 3 = 2000 baptized
  
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  Is this life all there is?

  by Fisherman in

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  what do you sincerely think?

  do you nurture any hope?.

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  After this life everyone will be straight and white and ironically eat fruitcake.
  
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  Do You Feels That Your Life Was Ruined Because of Ypur JW Experience?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i know that some are upset because of the time lost because of ever having been a witness.

  have you moved on as an ex jw or are you stil devastated because of your past jw lige?.

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  Not ruined, just delayed.
  
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  Is it just me or are the street sign, road,car verification excessive?

  by nonjwspouse in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  i must go through six of new verification screens on average before verifying.

  i seriously try harder and harder, i don't know if we include the tiny little piece of sign or not.

  i have done both,and still get another screen.

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  Wasanelder Once

  Tis evil
  
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  Can't believe we are still here

  by moreconfusedthanever in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just this week i had the jws knock on my door.

  sisters from my old congregation.

  we exchanged the usual polite conversation.

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  Wasanelder Once

  Even though I am long faded and not at all sympathetic to the doctrines, there is an ingrained weirdness when I see little children born in the 2000's. They weren't supposed to be born. I am settled with the reality, it just seems so antithetic to my belief of many years. So glad the children have been born and I was wrong.
  
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  Inside Story Logo

  by MrHappy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this may have been covered before but have you noticed the logo design of the "inside story" on this months video the 143rd gilead graduation.

  it appears as a pyramid containing the masonic symbol of the compass and square, with this reflected below the text.

  the art pieces on the shelf are also interesting and maybe someone has some thoughts on these.

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  Wasanelder Once

  LOL
  
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  Do you or did you experience too much intrusion into your personal life by the elders in your congregation?

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i ask this question because i have personally experienced first hand the control and intrusion into my personal life by the elders at our hall; and for virtually trivial things or non issues!

  what's more, i regularly hear of individuals moving to other halls because they were stumbled by the thought police....er, i mean these elders.. have you had any such experience?

  have your elders been a bit ott over trivialities?.

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  Wasanelder Once

  There was an article about prayer. It said that using the name Jehovah in every sentence devalued the name, made it a lucky charm. After the meeting for service, I approached the MS who conducted the meeting and asked if he had read the article. Of course every second word was Jehovah. He went ballistic, accusing me of counseling him in front of his family.

  The next meeting the PO (in those days) took me in the room and read me the riot act for reproving a MS when I was "nothing". I said, "I'm his brother and If I wish to bring something to his attention that keeps him from looking and sounding like an ass, I will. Give it a rest" and walked out of the little room. What a tool. That PO hated me so much. I was a threat to his little fiefdom.
  
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  What’s The Strangest Belief of Jehovah’s Witnesses?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there’s a lot.

  i think one strange view is how only 144000 go to heaven.

  since the number is mentioned in the symbolic book of revelation, you would expect that the number would be viewed as figurative, but jws say otherwise.

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  Wasanelder Once

  I've always thought it was the strange belief that the secret sin of one in the congregation can remove God's Spirit from all other members, regardless of their faithfulness or need for support in rough times. It's simply moronic.

  Also the warning that we can stumble others, while at the same time they say those who left "were not of our kind."

  I'm glad I'm off that trolley.
  
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  Creeeeepy Sanderson

  by oppostate in

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  creepy sanderson.

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  We are better than this guys. Stop smearing reputations because we were gullible enough to join the clown car of JW's.
  
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  Another congregation bites the dust

  by NikL in

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  went to the meeting last night with my believing wife.

  the co was visiting and delivered a really cult-ish talk on loyalty but that's another story.. they made the announcement that starting january 1st they were going to have only 3 congregations in this town instead of 4.. they are dissolving one and growing the territories of the remaining 3. the reason given is that many of the elders are getting up there in age and can't do what they used to do.

  basically not enough elders and ministerial servants...or even men reaching out for that matter.

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  Wasanelder Once

  Back in the late 1980's, CO brother Sam Roberson gave a talk in our Hall about how brothers should be ashamed because they were content to be "sisters". He wore a double breasted suit which was so tight the buttons were screaming. He had a Pentecostal hair cut, all greasy and swept back. He looked and spoke more like a Holiness preacher than a JW. I guess his words showed what he thought of women. What a turd.