Topics Started by confuzzled777

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Husband can sit in on wife's judicial committee meeting, but not other way around
by PaintedToeNail in
1. jw
2. friends
not long ago, there were comments on this topic.

i cannot find it, i don't know what the actual thread was.

i've checked back through the pages and done several searches, but don't know what the key words were, am coming up blank.
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True Stories from the Tower - Part 1 "From Anointed to Pedophile to Bethelite"
by BluePill2 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
before i dive into the actual write-up of this experience, let me put some things straight.. i have thought long and hard if i should write more about my experiences during the 10+ years at different branches.

during these years i worked from financial department, service department, home office and different it assignments.

as you can imagine one sees and hears and reads a lot of stuff going through different stations in different countries.
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Is JWN an unforgiving place
by usualusername in
1. jw
2. friends
over many years i have looked at jwn.

in fact barely a day goes by without my fix.. .

it is a site of contradictions.. .
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Just How Self-Centered Are JWs?
by Room 215 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i just received a brochure from a midwestern travel agency operated by jws that specialized in bethel tours.

i found this excerpt, relating to one item on the itinerary, as visit toe the holoccaust museum in washington quite interesting: "the museum is dedicated to presenting the story of how more than 30,000 jehovah's witnesses were persecuted by the nazis.

apparently the tour operators consider the slaugther of more than 6 million jews unworthy of mention!
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Starting to read Crisis of Conscience....
by confuzzled777 in
1. jw
2. friends
after almost 2 years of being wrongfully disfellowshipped and over a year after finding this site....i am starting to read crisis of conscience.

i will not lie....i am a bit nervous as to what information i will find in the book.

i have a strong feeling that i will end up crying through most of it as i will start to see the truth about the "truth".
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"Extreme physical abuse" only grounds for separation, NOT divorce.
by cedars in
1. watchtower
2. bible
forgive me if i'm a bit slow with the title to this thread.

the true absurdity of the cult that robbed me of my intellect for so long is still beginning to dawn on me.. i'm doing more research into domestic violence as part of a response to the notorious "wife beating" article in the feb 2012 watchtower.. i was shocked to find a question from readers in the w75 5/1 p286-288 which basically said that a battered wife would not be scripturally free to divorce her husband.

my first reaction was that this stance must have changed since 1975, but then i dipped into my own memory from serving as an elder, and of course, adultery (including porneia) is given as the only scriptural grounds for divorce down to this day.. please can somebody correct me if i'm wrong, preferably with a reference?
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Has anybody ever reported you to the elders?
by Iamallcool in
1. jw
2. experiences
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June 15th WT ( again) JW's told " Elders are Imperfect " Give them a Break
by flipper in
1. jw
2. friends
this is one subject that really annoyed me when i was a jehovah's witness - and i find it still annoys me after being out 7 years from the jw's.

the title of this jw only wt study article is " have regard for those who are working hard among you ".

in my opinion there always seemed to be a double standard in which rank and file publishers were always told to be patient with elders shortcomings - however if rank and file publishers slipped up - elders would be into admonishing and disciplining them like flies attracted to dung with no delay.
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What Do You Miss About Being An Active JW?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
do you miss the "friends"?.

do you miss the meetings?.

do you miss field service?.
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Black Friday Stampedes VS. District Convention Morning Gate Openings
by Mr. Falcon in
1. jw
2. experiences
has anyone had a jw rant to them around christmas time about how "horrible" it is to be a "worldly" person at that time of year?.

certian jws love to use the infamous black friday shopping riots that tend to occur as examples to back up this argument.

now, while those incidents are indeed disgraceful, they are hardly isolated to the "world".. among my "priveliges" was to be an attendant at a few district conventions.