I never knew Dan Sydlik personally. My parents met him and a few other GB members at a convention and had dinner with them. They were starstruck. From all accounts, he was a charming, charismatic man. When I was a JW, I enjoyed hearing recording of his talks more than anyone else.
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Dan Sydlik
by done4good inmorning warship - he was the only restraint and i'm not saying that lightly.
i know there are a dozen others here who were in bethel back in the early 2000's who know what i'm talking about.
he actually kept me thinking this was jehovah's org because of his sincerity as if the holy spirit was operating in him.
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Need confirmation: WT bought an entire mountain in China to mine the granite needed for new WT HQ
by WingCommander insomeone asked for a second source on this, so i'm putting this out there to those who may have visited the new wt hq lately and know it to be true.
i had read from others on the ex-jw subreddit that had taken a tour recently at wt hq, that they had been shown photos of a mountain in china, and told that this is where all of the granite is being mined from and shipped over to new york to use at the site of the new wt hq.
apparently, it was cheaper for them to do this and have the local brothers in china mine it, then having to by tons upon tons of granite here in the usa, even wholesale.
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By China, could this mean Taiwan? And how would one define a mountain?
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Do you know what Rahab looked like?
by ttdtt inhello friends - here is a new area in the kids section of the jw website - learn how to draw rahab.. 1st - she was a prostitute of jericho.
could there be other characters to talk about with our kids?.
2nd - it says "learn how to draw rahab".
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Londo111
I remembered during the book study and Watchtower study, adults would elaborate on drawings of Bible characters: "Looking at the picture, Festus was..."
Never mind these weren't photographs.
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Governing Body went from anonymous secret group to T.V Stars??? How?
by Witness 007 inwhen i grew up in the 1980's -90's it was rare to see a faithful slaves picture in 10 years of watchtowers.
everything was anonymous.
no one really knew there names except for the "holy oricle" fred franz.. now they are full on t.v stars with there own show.
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That was before the Telly-awards...
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Making friends in the "truth"
by Jordandemm inwhat is it about making friends in the organisation am i the only one who had found it tough?
don't get me wrong there was some good people but unfortunately there was also a lot of egotism, back stabbing, jealousy and gossiping.
i could never really fit in any group, everytime i thought i had found a group it was as if i would be sidelined or ditched.
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It distressed me when I thought it was the truth and couldn't understand why the "most loving people on earth" were excluding me. Now it makes perfect sense! -
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Long time lurker, first time poster ...
by LettMorrisSplaneit ini finally had the guts to create a profile to be able to post.
i've been lurking for a few months and have read all your experiences and comments dutifully.
you have been a great help in my process of waking up from this cult posing as the one true religion.
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Lady drives car into Kingdom Hall
by Sugar Shane inright smack into (what looks like) the front entry!.
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-13/78yo-female-driver-crash-jehovahs-witnesses-church/7243268.
this was in australia, but the khs i've seen (in the us) are designed so that you'd have to almost intentionally want to ram a building to cause this kind of damage.
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Chitty
by StopTheTears ini've learned that many years ago, there was a man named brother chitty of some prominence in the jehovah's witnesses organization.
it fact, chitty was a member of the governing body.
chitty was asked to resign his position after serving for many years and nothing much was ever said about it to jehovahs witnesses.
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Londo111
I'm curious as to what good either Chitty or Greenless has ever accomplished?
Watchtower has covered up the actions of both (as it has with Rutherford having a mistress).
I believe there is enough credible smoke for Chitty and Greenless, but the actions of both should not be conflated. Chitty's actions made him a hypocrite, but the actions of Greenless were criminal.
Shuffling off Greenless to another location is akin to the Catholic church shuffling around its priests.
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Almost three months since Crisis of Conscience Cease and Desist
by ILoveTTATT2 ini am very interested in getting crisis of conscience being fully available as soon as possible.
march 12th will mark exactly three months since the cease-and-desist letter was written.. i understand that things are slow and that deborah may be sick, but i was just wondering if anyone knew the status.
i have been asked twice already where the book can be obtained in spanish and i have told people that the book is not available.. there are ways to make ebooks extremely hard to share.
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our secret dating got caught...
by trueloveneverfails94 inwe both are 21 years old.
we both are 21 years old.
i am almost done with my study and working on to become one of an unbaptized publisher.
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Read everyone’s comments here and think about it. You are seeing a huge red flag about this organization. Heed it!
A baptized JW isn’t supposed to date (contemplate marriage) with someone unbaptized. It’s heavily discouraged in the JW culture to date someone newly baptized…”fresh out the water”. Not too long ago, Governing Body member Anthony Morris remarked that a man who is in their 20’s and not yet a ministerial servant is not marriage material. Therefore, you can imagine how this organization would view an unbaptized male dating one of theirs.