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  if someone is reprooved is it done in private

  by looloo in

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  or is there such a thing as a private one and one that is announced to the congregation and who decides what action to take and why , i think my daughters abuser had a private one years before he abused her and yet many in the congregation did seem to know he was "dodgy" elders warned their daughters about him it seems , just didnt warn other peoples daughters !

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  did you feel guilty ,when ignoring disfellowshipped ones ?

  by looloo in

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  i was having an affair with a pioneer at the time and a girl who was disfellowshipped was in the loo at the hall (she actually had not done aything scriptually wrong (but the elders thought she had ) i tried to smile at her as i felt i was not in a position to judge anyone as guilt was destroying me but she just looked down at the floor , 14 years later we are good friends and both "free".

  when you were "in" and ignored disfellowshipped did you ever think "im not in a position to judge anyone " ?.

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  JW's view of apostates who die while "out"

  by highdose in

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  i wittnessed in my time several woe filled jw's apon hearing that one of their former members had died while out or the "turth".

  the typical reaction was " we can only pray to jehovah that their heart condition was right at the end".

  wtf!

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  are they not wonderful

  by booby in

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  so if i have it right, in the dominican republic, right next door to haiti they have huge gatherings that would obviously eat up vast resources, both financially and food stuffs etc.

  instead of cancelling and diverting this to haiti they ask for more money for the "world wide" work.

  and emphasis every little thing as wonderful on them.

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  Jevovah's Witnesses and mental health

  by bubba flavel in

  1. watchtower
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  does anyone know if the society has specific policies on the handling of members with mental health problems?.

  my grandfather, a brother in good standing since moses developed paranoid schizophrenia in his later years.

  he got to the stage where he would knock people over in the street, place his hand on thier head and cast out evil spirits in the name of jehovah.. he was disfellowshiped and not long after he passed away.. this was related to me by a friend years later as i was unaware due to the shunning, i didn't even know he died.

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  hitlers speeches /assemblies

  by looloo in

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  after watching a recent documentry on "the final solution" i saw adolf hitler in some huge venue with thousands present public speaking and the crowd were mesmerised and full of praise for him judging by the response he got from them and the applause , i thought back to assemblies when people gave a similar reaction when in affect they were being told millions had to die to make the world a better place for them to live in and nobody seemed bothered by this (except me) and i even thought back then ,that something was not quite right , there was even a mention of a thousand year reign by the third reich , i thought that sounded familiar !

  did anyone else think this or do i think weird things ?.

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  Does Anyone Know when the Memorial is this year?

  by SeekingSanity in

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  anyone know when the memorial is this year?.

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  How long before you stopped believing armageddon was on your doorstep?

  by bubba flavel in

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  i was born into "the truth" back in 1964. i made the big mistake of getting baptised when i was about 14 or so, purely to please my father as i saw how proud he was when my brothers were baptised....didn't work.. we moved to a new congregation when i was about 8, he introduced all my brothers to the congregation by name, a short bio of thier endearing qualities and how proud he was of them, when he introduced me it was "and this is our black sheep of the family, steve".. i remember living in fear at the fast approaching 1975....actually, living in terror is probably a more apt desciption.

  all of you will full well know how it was instilled into us at every meeting and assembly how we are living in the last days.. as a 15 year old, a brother dobbed me in for kissing a worldly girl at school.

  went through the marked process, judicial committy, disfellowshipped and the shunning which continues to this day by what's left of my family.

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  What Cong you from???

  by fluke in

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  hey guys.... .

  just wondering what kh you guys attended and or congregation you are from?.

  me, i'm from hayes cong london and golden ash northants... spent time in others too but mostly those... oh, also a short spat in kempston cong bedford... all in england... :).

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  Your worst field service experience.

  by littlebird in

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  my worst field service experience was this.. i didn't have a car at the time and so a pioneer sister was picking me up of service every couple of days.

  she was my partner and i got a door where the woman was clearly not interested.

  as i am stepping away the pioneer sister starts in with all the objection stoppers.

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