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  So What Drastic Money Change is Next?

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  2. friends

  okay, they cheapened the product by getting rid of hardcover books.

  they reduced printing of mags.

  they drastically reduced the number of pieces of printed paper that members would "place" in people's hands in various ways, the biggest one being that they put them on a cart and don't encourage people to take them.they cut d.o.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Okay, they cheapened the product by getting rid of hardcover books. They reduced printing of mags. They drastically reduced the number of pieces of printed paper that members would "place" in people's hands in various ways, the biggest one being that they put them on a cart and don't encourage people to take them.
  
  They cut D.O.'s and staff, they sold Brooklyn properties, they are selling Kingdom Halls. Many conventions are at their own facilities in smaller venues than rented stadiums. They robbed every frigging congregation in the world of their bank accounts.
  
  I am sure I forgot quite a few other cuts or steals. But what is next? Speculate as soundly or wildly as you dare. Tithing? Will they ask that you check your shoes at the door of Assembly Halls to cut down on carpet wear? Maybe they will have you bring your own toilet paper and haul off your own trash as you leave. Perhaps an absolute end to printed materials.
  
  
  
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  Season 1 Episode 1 A&E Cults and Extreme Belief (Video)

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.aetv.com/shows/cults-and-extreme-belief/season-1it will post soon on site..

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  I watched the program after the fact from the internet. I appreciated it. I also used the opportunity to ping my wife's cognitive dissonance. I told her how there was a program from A&E that does a good job of explaining how Watchtower has a huge pedophile problem and that they mostly covered it up like the Catholic Church did so as to not put their organization in a negative light. I then said, "I know you won't watch it, but I want you to be clear that if they insist you get all your information from 'them' only, then you are not getting the entire truth."
  
  I was met with absolute silence until she said something about another subject.
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  Ten years ago - Our congregation held a leaving party for us

  by truthseeker in

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  2. friends

  ten years ago, truthseeker and his family and other witnesses who were moving to different congregations were given a congregation leaving party at a community hall in new jersey.

  i had been planning my slow fade from the congregation for a while.

  i grew up in the south coast of england as a third generation jw and moved to america in july 2001. .

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  OnTheWayOut

  Writing about it was so therapeutic to me. Thanks for sharing. I hope to read your book.
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  Season 1 Episode 1 A&E Cults and Extreme Belief (Video)

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.aetv.com/shows/cults-and-extreme-belief/season-1it will post soon on site..

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  OnTheWayOut

  I'm hopefully able to view this tomorrow. Thanks for the link.
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  EXJW Tattoo

  by blownaway in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if anyone has any ideas or pictures of a tattoo that would sum up being an ex jw please share.

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  OnTheWayOut

  A general tattoo could be something like a chain breaking.
  
  A specific one that demonstrates something about being an ex-JW might be a Watchtower symbol with the red circle around it and the slash through the middle.
  
  Perhaps a BORG from Star Trek with "Resistence is NOT Futile"
  
  .....or the three letters "XJW" in some cool way.
  
  .....or a Smurf
  
  
  
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  Can someone please explain James 5:14 for me

  by preymanchis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i cant seem to understand this text actually, can someone please explain it to me.

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  OnTheWayOut

  JW's would say "Spiritual." I think the intent was that of a faith-healer. Physical sickness- have them pray and pour oil on ya, and you should get better.
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  What Should I Say?

  by cookiemaster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i need a bit of advice.

  i've been pimo for a long time and fading more and more.

  i occasionally attend for family but never give any answers or actively participate in any way.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Seriously, NEVER meet elders/CO at your home. It's too hard to get rid of them. Better to talk at the Hall where you can say "I gotta go now."
  
  "I am far too busy to schedule a meeting that week. If he wants to talk, I can spare some time after the mid-week meeting." If they keep you waiting too long, say you have to leave AND LEAVE. If they meet you right away, look for the opportunity to say, "Oh, all is good with me, gotta go now, BYE."
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  Upcoming Tidal Wave of Media Onslaught targeting Jehovah's Witnesses ahead...

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  at least three media venues have undertaken the daunting task of unpacking the insidious dark side of jehovah's witnesses' organization.1.

  douglas quenqua is a writer based in new york.

  his work has appeared in the new york times, wired, redbook, and cnbc.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Oh my, THREE strikes at true worship AND a current ban in Russia with all that nonsense in Australia, plus North Korea not fully cooperating with USA's President and there are earthquakes with the volcano in Hawaii.
  
  Surely, this is the (beginning of the very) end.
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  Banned words in the organization

  by Addison0998 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was talking to my sister in law the other day about death, and i mentioned something about the afterlife, i don’t remember what i said but it was nothing shocking .

  but she squealed, “we don’t believe in the afterlife!

  !” and i reasoned, well we kinda do...life after death is the after life..and she just insisted no no it’s not the same thing.

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  Oh, get a JW rolling if you want- call them a "Doomsday Unitarian Religion that uses the Protestant Bible."
  
  Unitarian- A Christian who rejects the Trinity
  Doomsday- the end of the world as we know it
  Protestant Bible- 39 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New Testament for a total of 66 books, the same ones JW's use.
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  Material such as the film at the end of this years convention confirms that I was right to take my kids out the religion

  by jambon1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it’s quite affirming to see the horrific material that they’re serving up at the convention this year.

  aside from blatant homophobia, the scenes at the end of the convention that are discussed on another thread stoop to new levels of fear mongering.

  it seems to occur to nobody inside the organisation that this kind of material could trigger fear, deprsssion, anxiety, stress.

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  OnTheWayOut

  I get that people like my wife have to be ready on their own to get out of the religion.
  But I have to fully agree with the idea of the opening post. If I had kids, I would do whatever was necessary to get them out of this dangerous mind-control cult.
  
  The video clearly tells viewers: Stand up for JW teachings no matter how difficult that is and the heavenly army will save you when attacked at the horrible time right around the next corner.
  
  That is just so much pressure on people, based on their lie of over a hundred years now.