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  A CALL TO ACTION: HIGH PRIORITY

  by Wingman in

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  hi everyone,.

  a letter has been prepared by anonymous brothers to be sent to bodies of elders around the world.. of course this is a massive undertaking and we are asking for assistance from active and inactive ones around the world who share the sentiments of the letters contents.. your participation in this action indicates your sincere desire to see change within the organization that has become authoritarian in recent years.. we ask that the letter be addressed to "the body of elders" in each respective congregation.. please do not add any further information or commentary.. we are also relying on non-english speaking brothers to translate and distribute this letter.. it will not matter if more than one letter is received by each congregation.

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  yknot

  I like this idea, yet not just with a singular letter, but many, so as to raise suspicion of a uprising of "underground" JWs within the congregation. I think I can get more than a few from my congregation to send a copy of this letter. The elders (well some will agree with Wingman) won't know who is all involved just that is a consensus of many in the congregation.

  If you are an angry EX-JW, then consider this multi-posted letter as away to drive the local elders to a paranoid frenzy of Underground uprising. They will not know whom to accuse. All you have to do is make 10 copies mailing them from your town.

  Those who want to see the tower fall in shame, again join in the letter campaign. Perceived United they stand, Witchhunt Divided they will fall.
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  Do You Have A Goal Regarding Jehovah's Witnesses???

  by minimus in

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  now that you're mentally out of the religion, do you have an expressed goal regarding the witnesses?

  do you want to expose the religion for the fraud that it is (like i do)?.

  do you want to set up a ministry devoted toward the destruction of everything watchtower?.

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  yknot

  Yea, I am still in "fix-it" mode.............

  Sucks because I am an ideas person! But alas I will not share them. I believe now that the Tower needs to crack, crumble and fall. I want to be around close enough to witness the glorious destruction, but also to help those whom fell blind to the GB's "false Christ", just as I would have wanted help. As we all know, there are many "good hearted" persons, trapped because of fear. I just wonder how many more years can the GB arguably say that Christ was enthroned in 1914, unless they want to start claiming we are in the 1000 year reign. No, I see an end, far off yes, but there is light at the end of this tunnel and it ain't nothing like what we learned in the KH!
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  Do they even care?

  by truthseeker in

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  well, here's the latest.

  i'm almost inactive with regard to the ministry - i simply don't go out.

  if i do the "guest star" thing, i never talk to anyone.

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  yknot

  I always hear ""We all must find our on path" or "They have to make their own decision regarding salvation"

  The concept of current Elders going out to look for 1 missing sheep is unheard, rather the response and attitude is more like that of Cain, when answering God's question to where Able was..." Am I my brother's keeper?"

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  HOW MANY BELIEFS SURVIVE FROM DAYS OF CT RUSSELL?

  by badboy in

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  no hellfire.

  no trinity.

  any others?.

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  yknot

  That is why modern-day "Bible Students" say that Russell is not the founder of the JWs but rather Rutherford deserves this patriarch credit

  LOL, wonder how ole Ted is gonna get himself away from the Judge's sentence of 1914!

  Yes folks the "end is drawing near", just not the kind that the WTBS had in mind.
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  Did You Willingly Get Baptized or Were You Pressured Into It?

  by minimus in

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  it was expected of me to get baptized and at 9 i was.

  what about you?

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  yknot

  The pressure starts at 14, by 15 everyone was baptized in my KH, all but me.

  Everyone I knew who got baptized before adulthood did so to please their parents. All of them were disfellowshipped or on "serious" reproof by 17 and running wilder then frat boy. As for me, I made a point about ranting on about dedication to Jehovah was not on the same level as membership into a "spirit-led" organization, that it was blasphemous. This doused my being "approved" for baptism very quickly.

  For the record unless a child is dying, child baptism is for the numbers only!
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  Something all faders should do...

  by B_Deserter in

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  i was thinking about the blood issue with witnesses and realized that if i were in an accident where i would need a transfusion and were unconscious, my family and the congregation would keep me from having one, possibly resulting in my death.

  the whole point of fading is not letting anyone know your intentions and just walking away, so i think some serious legal counter to the hospital liaison committee is needed.. what i'm thinking is having a notarized legal document drawn up along these lines:.

  statement of medical wishes when incapacitated.

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  Speak to you doctor, make him/her put in your medical records that you are blood approved.
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  News from the Circuit Assembly

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  it has been our local circuit's two day assembly this weekend.

  it takes place at bristol assembly hall.

  from what i recall seating capacity is about 1200. .

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  yknot

  Get those credit cards out!

  Now you too can donate, ONLINE.........

  Just go to https://www.jwgift.org

  The site has been up for sometime.

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  Are we being conned re new light?

  by why144000 in

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  i have been reading with interest the news of the next change in the generation teaching.

  does anyone have any substantive proof that this change will be made?

  it could be a big con to get us all excited and tell others about it and reveal that we are, wait for it, apostate!!

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  Who knows, they are grasping at straws, maybe they leaked it to see what the reaction will be before truly committing in print. That they are lurking right now reading our very posts.

  Or maybe there are many angry Bethelites, that feel secrecy is wrong.

  Personally, I think leadership wise, they are drifting, they know you can only milk the generations thing so long before R&F start to wonder aloud how long will Jesus be enthroned yet appear to do nothing. Sadly I willing to seriously consider as an active JW that they are stalling so as to figure how to pocket as much money personally as possible before calling it quits.

  Imagine that, one day the WT just closes it's doors, top officials nowhere to be found, money gone to some off-shore WT account only accessible by top officials. What then?
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  Prisoners of the WT cult

  by Maddie in

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  i wanted to research more on cults and the mind control techniques they use.

  if i had any doubts (which i haven't) that the wt uses these highly sophicated techniques, then i certainly wouldn't now!!!!!!.

  as we have had a thread asking why people don't leave the wt when they know that it has major flaws, i thought it would be beneficial to explore how powerful these methods of control are.

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  yknot

  Maddie,

  I recognize many tactics on the list, and agree for most part with the posted theory. However there still are a few more prevailing issues that keeps JWs, JWs.

  TRINITY

  HELL

  IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.

  USING JEHOVAH AS GOD'S NAME INSTEAD OF GOD.

  I was talking to a Sister today (both of us are born-ins), most of the hype is the same regurgitated stuff we have heard for DECADES. We talked about the "generations" and secrecy. The lack of any meat or anything to get excited about and want to knock on doors proclaiming so. We discussed other church venues for our children and families in our area but it comes down to the 4 above, that hold us. The blind faithers are dying out slowly but dying nonetheless.

  I think we are growing demographic besides how long can Jesus reign in Heaven and yet nothing happens down here on Earth that remotely looks like Tribulation, let alone like Armageddon.

  mmmm guess that is why the are focusing more on "developing" countries then us in the Northern Hemisphere.
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  WHAT QUESTION WOULD YOU LIKE TO ASK A BOOK STUDY CONDUCTOR?

  by badboy in

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  any takers?

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  yknot

  How many more times do you think they will make us read the red fairy tale book, how many new "adjustment" will b made next time.

  Lets talk about how long Jesus will be enthroned before armageddon starts? 100, 120, 150, 200 years?