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  ARE WT COSTS ABOUT TO SKYROCKET?

  by mtwtf in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  what will it cost jws in australia if the arc recommends that all au.

  churches contribute to a compulsory victims compensation commission (for the want of a better name).

  it looks as if every au.

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  Australian dubs can look forward to another Tithe
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  My Mom Is Dying

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i just wanted to say that my dear 89 year old mom is terminally ill and will soon pass.

  she is on morphine and hanging on.

  she has been a devout witness for about 60 years and a wonderful mother.

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  Hi Min, I am sorry you are losing your mother. It sounds like she is being given excellent end of life care and knows she is loved by her family.
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  JW Lurkers and curious. This is for you.

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello, lurkers and curious.

  i imagine you're reading this because either you think you can defend your beliefs victoriously or you have doubts.. i have 2 questions that i hope you can log in and answer (no one will know who you are unless you tell them or leave your page open for others to see).

  1. what actual worship did you do at the meetings or gatherings?.

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  I await some very interesting answers...........

  
  
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  Calm Down Everybody, We Will Know Soon Enough

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  seriously, they will change the midweek meeting ever so slightly.

  it is just repackaging of the same old stuff.seriously, we don't know if construction is halted for days, weeks, months, forever, or what.. we don't know if new kingdom halls will still go up, old kingdom halls will be closed and sold.

  they have laid off bethelites before and they will lay them off some more.

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  All I know is this cult will still be here when I am gone.
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  Are You A Thinker And A Lurker?

  by konceptual99 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you are a lurker then you are probably a thinker.

  you will already be wondering about a number of aspects of jw doctrine and how they stack up against reason, logic and modern scientific evidence.

  if so, then i appeal to you to meditate and reason on one implication arising from the latest news that the next publication will be a simplified version of an already simplified book.

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  I wish I listened to my brain sooner. Now that I have life gets continually better.
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  World Wide Construction comes to a Shuddering Halt - Jehovah's Blessing has Evidently been Suspended!

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the chelmsford project in the uk has already come to a halt and every one has been sent home.

  the bethel family in london is to be cut by several hundred.

  my impression is that most ambitious youngster in the org dream of being involved with the building program.

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  Sorry am I missing something? I can't see any evidence that the Chelmsford project has been halted.
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  Latest Leaked BOE letter to Elders Oct. 4th

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  october 4, 2015. to all congregations.

  re: new provisions announced atannual meeting.

  dear brothers:.

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  It's amazing how much this cult has changed since I left. What surprises me is why we aren't seeing a mass exodus.
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  Did anyone learn the truth from having their prayers answered by a knock at the door and then eventually leave the JWs?

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know of one person who had a difficult life, prayed for help, got the knock at the door, got baptized and eventually left the jws believing they were a cult.. has this happened to any of you?

  and if so, did you still feel your prayers were answered at that time?.

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  This apparently happened to my mother. She was suffer from post-natal depression and was expecting me. She was scared of the hippy movement, the drug culture and the perceived break-down of respect for authority that was occurring in the mid-sixties......so she prayed for direction. Lo and Behold they came-a-knocking and our family was fucked from that moment on.
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  Instructions from the Old Elder's Book

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last night i was looking over the notes on my old elders book and one of the instructors told us to write this down.

  "when you want to get the friends to believe and obey anything, just keep saying it over and over and over and eventually they will believe it and follow whatever they are being told.

  when i went back to school, i learned this quote in one of my world history classes..

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  We judged it as fornication because the dancer's genitals touched his lap and we gave her permission to divorce him scriptural.

  That's frickin' hilarious......well it is until you realize that we (unqualified in anyway) as elders made decisions that could totally screw up other people's lives.
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  Instructions from the Old Elder's Book

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last night i was looking over the notes on my old elders book and one of the instructors told us to write this down.

  "when you want to get the friends to believe and obey anything, just keep saying it over and over and over and eventually they will believe it and follow whatever they are being told.

  when i went back to school, i learned this quote in one of my world history classes..

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  I don't recall that in the hand written notes, which I believe were standard across the world. But then I spent pretty much most of the special elders meetings asleep. There's only so much I could take learning the the semantics between pornea, indecency and brazen conduct.