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  Why We Can Hope for the End of the Watchtower

  by metatron in

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  forgive me for starting a new thread - apart from the emerging news about child abuse settlements .

  but i simply feel that, for all of us who have suffered persecution from the watchtower society, their.

  end may now be in sight.

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  Judicial Committee Preparation

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  judicial committee preparation.

  recently a friend inquired about how to best prepare for a judicial committee hearing from the prospective of the subject individual.

  at a minimum i recommend the following:.

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  The Great Taboo Discussion---Suicides among former Jehovah's Witnesses

  by The wanderer in

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  <!-- .style1 {font-family: arial, sans-serif} .style2 {color: #ff0000} .style3 {color: #000000} .style4 {font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; } --> the great taboo discussionsuicides among former jehovah's witnesses to write about this discussion neither appeals to me nor does it make me feel comfortable to discuss it.. however, it is necessary to consider in light of all the trauma, negative experiences, and personal traged-.

  ies that have happened to individuals on this board.

  (what inspired me to write this subject was a bone chilling account .

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  How much influence did the internet have on you leaving the organization?

  by The wanderer in

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  untitled document <!-- .style1 {font-family: verdana} .style2 {font-family: verdana; font-style: italic; } --> discoveries about the organization on the internet admittedly, had it not been for the internet, and all of the dis-.

  coveries that were found on it; i would still be one of jehovah's .

  witnesses.

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  C.O. is in town, the harassment begins...

  by PeachRose in

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  i haven't been to meetings in a long time (trying to fade).

  ever so often i do run into a witness or 2 who are friendly, but reserved (after all i am considered in active).

  anyway, my hubby & i are currently working on a letter to send to the society that will more then likely get us df'd or disassociated (same thing i guess).

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  PO said automation and declining contributions reason for Bethel layoffs

  by truthseeker in

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  last week at the meeting, the po, who has very close connections to bethel, said that he never thought he would see the day that bethelites were being sent home.

  he said that the biggest two reasons he thought bethel were cutting back, was automation and a massive decline in contributions.

  looks like you're right metatron about the contribution aspect being their achilles heel.

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  YOUR LAST MEETING.........................

  by vitty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ........................at my last meeting, the elder was talking about 1975 and said "it never happened, it is appostates using a time when (some) brothers took the info in the wt wrong"...................i just blinked and finally woke up.. i had been on this site lurking for a couple of weeks, and realized thing werent right, but to have some creep say on the platform " it didnt happen"............when this ruined my and my siblings childhood, just made me snap.

  on the way home, i told my hubby "that was the last meeting im going to"................boy was he pleased.. .

  so if you didnt get df ......................what happened at your last meeting.?.

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  Looking for JW books

  by SPARKRL in

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  i've been visiting this site for awhile now and have been fascinated by many of the posts.

  i have an aunt in arkansas who has been trying for decades to get me into the fellowship of the watchtower.

  in this course of time i have become very interested in the wts and their publications, but have yet to fall into their system of thought.. i for the past couple of years have attempted, unsuccessfully, to have them send me the awake and watchtower publications.

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  Book - "A People for His Name" by Timothy White

  by VM44 in

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  "a people for his name" by timothy white is an early, but still excellent, book about the history of the jws.. here is a page containing portions from the book.

  http://members.fortunecity.com/peopleforhisname/peopleforhisname.htm.

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  questions on early period (Russell &Co)

  by greven in

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  2. friends

  i am currently doing some research on the early days and struck a few obstacles for which i need some help from anybody.. 1)russell predicted several times the "rapture of the saints".

  this meant a visible return of those saints and that russell & co would rise to heaven.

  when they failed to return visibly it was concluded that it did happen but invisible.

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