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  When you might be discovered?

  by confused3426 in

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  i am still in my crossroads, and going to some meetings at times.

  i have joined facebook ex jw support groups.

  on friday one of my friends from my hall, texts me saying he saw a recommendation to join a group, and sees me listed as a member.

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  close your facebook account telling them you need a break and then open a new one with no connections . you don't have to use your name either.
  
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  How much have things changed?

  by dogisgod in

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  m'y mother indoctrinated me from birth.

  1951. from that time to the 90s things preceeded fairly repetitively.

  5 meetings/week, personal study, door-to-door, participate in nothing else outside of the society, no dating.

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  M'y mother indoctrinated me from birth. 1951. From that time to the 90s things preceeded fairly repetitively. 5 meetings/week, personal study, door-to-door, participate in nothing else outside of the society, no dating. You would build your own presentations door to door or for the school. Now I hear they have I-pads door to door, in the meetings, The headquarters are sold to Trumpos son in law (of all things), the long time and undereducated Bethelites are being layed off and turned out, and the Gov Body have luxurious new quarters on a lake that they can manually control the depth of. For some reason they all seem to wear Rolex watches. Last year they left an invite to the memorial that quoted "Truly I tell you today you will be with me in paradise" no commas. What scriptures did they change in their new bible? Seems like it is very different than when I grew up. They seem to have their own trinity now, the gov body, Jesus and Jehovah. Any thoughts?
  
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  If the WT is a "money making machine"...who gets the money?

  by NikL in

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  i've seen claims over the years that wt is in the real estate, book publishing business and is a for profit enterprise at it's core.. can those of you that believe this to be the case tell me who benefits from all this wealth?.

  the governing body lives in relatively humble conditions no?.

  i've been curious about this for a while.

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  off shore accounts. Holding Companies. Lots of ways to hide money.
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  Survey: Are you Agnostic or Atheist or Christian?

  by Iamallcool in

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  i am agnostic.

  i will count how many agnostics, atheists and christians that are reading this forum regularly.

  please answer my question.

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  agnostic.
  
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  Gov body

  by dogisgod in

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  i had a couple of young brothers at my door and one used the word "channel" in referring to how the gb gets inspired.

  i was pretty surprised at that.

  i've been "out" for a long time and i'm very out of the loop..

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  I had a couple of young brothers at my door and one used the word "channel" in referring to how the GB gets inspired. I was pretty surprised at that. Is this something new? I've been "out" for a long time and I'm very out of the loop.
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  What are the worst pictures in My Book of Bible Stories?

  by cedars in

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  a few comments from muddy waters and mummatron on another thread peaked my curiosity and led me to revisit some of the illustrations in the my book of bible stories.

  i don't appear to have my old copy from when i was a child (thankfully), so i checked out the images over on watchtower.org where the entire book can be read online.

  the images below are taken from what is displayed on that website, although it wouldn't surprise me if there are equally awful images that haven't been used.. so which of the images below are the most grotesque and inappropriate for children?

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  I don't remember which publication but there was a picture of the resurection where people were climbing out of their graves with dirt falling off of them. that was scairy to me.
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  The latest change in Watchtower vocabulary to catch out the unwary

  by slimboyfat in

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  i got a copy of the recent kingdom ministry the other day and it reminded me of something in the book the orwellian world of jehovha's witnesses by heather and garry botting.

  it's on the front page of the december issue of the km, they have a heading called "not 'alternative' witnessing" where they explain that the term is no longer considered appropriate and "public" witnessing should be used instead.. in the orwellian world of jehovah's witnesses the bottings discuss the importance of the particular language jws use to set themselves apart from other people.

  they redefine common words to give them a particular slant, such as "brother", "sister", "literature" and so on.

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  Anybody remember "back calls" ? they changed to "returne visits".
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  Telephone hook up

  by dogisgod in

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  my mother had this arrangement.

  what it actually accomplished was isolating her from the cong.

  as she was 89 she didn't drive at night.

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  My mother had this arrangement. What it actually accomplished was isolating her from the Cong. As she was 89 she didn't drive at night. She also had macular degeneration. She would study all week for the meetings. This arrangement released the cong from the responsibility of seeing her, calling her, etc. When she died she felt very forsaken by them. She only served the borg for 59 years. I hate them.
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  Is this true? We're not and never have been JW's??

  by Muddy Waters in

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  (i posted this on another forum, but am reposting here to see what you all think!

  thank you for bearing with me.

  .... in one book, "the watchtower's coming crisis" by daniel rodriguez (amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/watchtowers-comin ... 606&sr=1-4 ).

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  Yeah, that's been the thought for a long time. There is the "little flock" annointed and then the "great crowd". The "great crowd holds on to the skirt of the Jew. Whatever. Wasted a lot of time.
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  So I was at Church and saw a New World Translation

  by Cagefighter in

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  there is a middle-agged gentleman that i have been seeing at church for a while.

  i was a little early and decided to say hello and make a new friend a couple of weeks ago.

  the blood probably drained from my face when i saw the big oversized version of the nwt laying in the pew.

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  Went to a HS Play and the Preacher Character had the NWT. I was mesmerized by it the whole time.