Londo111

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  My sources say Jr brown has died

  by poopie in

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  end of era.

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  He was a master of spin...he learned from the best.
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  The shunning has started and... I like it!

  by oppostate in

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  so not having turned in a time-slip in a loooooooong time and making fewer and fewer meetings, and from time to time attending a local church service... the majority of local dubs are overtly shunning me.

  there are those who i talk to and who visit our home from time to time, but this last meeting i went to hardly anyone made eye contact, when i greeted folks passing by me, they ignored me.

  it actually felt good.. i was surprised at my reaction.

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  More and more I'm finding happiness is having little to nothing with still-in JWs. Not that they individually are to blame for the toxic psychodrama, but they are certainly conduits as long as they are part of the organization.
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  A News Item from The Golden Age January 13, 1937

  by Nathan Natas in

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  It was really hard to parse.

  Then again, maybe those Golden Age writers had partaken from Rutherford's liquour runs during Prohibition.

  Gravity? No such thing!
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  My sources say Jr brown has died

  by poopie in

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  end of era.

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  If true, Watchtower will simply find another puppet to speak through. At one time, we ourselves were their spokesman and puppets, playing fast and loose with the truth because we were in a cycle of being deceived and self-deceived.
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  Stuck

  by Cindy in

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  i feel so stuck.

  i am married to a wonderful man.

  i have been married for almost a decade and adore my husband.

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  I believe that all JWs have doubts sometimes, find meetings incredibly boring, and hate the “preaching work”.

  JWs can be nice people and seem like the most loving people on earth. Only too quickly, that can be a nightmare and they can become quite vicious, too no fault of their own. But this organization is quite toxic. I’ve found that happiness is having as little to nothing to do with it as possible.
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  Bethel layoffs of oldies

  by I am a Bible Student in

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  is this true?

  has anyone heard of it?

  saw it on my facebook.. "jan. 6 bethel update 108 elderly bethelites getting the boot.. brooklyn, ny.

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  This was one of the things that almost woke me up.

  It's a sign of the declines. As History goes forward the decline of the Watchtower is inevitable. Total extinction is just a question of how long. One day it will be merely a forgotten historical footnote.

  I feel bad for those people who thought they were doing to best thing with their lives they though possible, only for it to be a lie, and chewed up and spit out. It is a blessing I was never Bethel material.
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  So my husband got a letter

  by Lost his mind in

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  so, he received a letter that i am wondering if it is one of those open letters that are out there to denote time given.

  it starts out with the name of the person sending it, then goes into the spiel...do you know our god's name?

  when i was shown what it is, i kind of got upset.

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  What is amazing is that most denominations are not unaware of this...they've the name Jehovah in hymnals or the more accurate Yahweh will come up in one way or another.
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  Canadian Appeal Court decision made the news: Judges can overturn unfair church edicts

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  http://news.nationalpost.com/news/religion/alberta-appeal-court-rules-judges-can-overturn-unfair-church-edicts.

  the other day, this court decision was posted on jwn along with a link to the court document, but few expected the media to pick up the story.

  so to all involved, i understand it was a surprise to see the story in print.

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  If a private “bridge club” mandated shunning of former members, then I would hope the court system would come to a similar decision.

  I don’t know of anybody who has ever been kicked out or left a bridge club and committed suicide because of being severed by all their family and friends.

  More and more, the Canadian, Australian, and UK legal systems are showing themselves lightyears beyond the US.
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  Why Do People Become Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by minimus in

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  besides being raised in the religion , why do people become jws?

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  I’m third generation on both sides of my family. This was the mid-50’s. Both sets of grandparents were in their mid-20’s, newly married with young children. Coming up out the Great Depression, they were not very educated. They knew little about the Bible and the JWs who came to the door seemed to have all the answers.

  I believe the JW teaching of no eternal hellfire torment is an attractive alternative to many other fundamentalist churches who put the “fear of hell” into their adherents.

  The disfellowshipping arrangement and blood transfusion ban was freshly introduced not too long before this and my newly converting family likely real didn’t hear about that in their study.

  It was a different religion in the 50’s then what it became...why the few people who do convert do so is likely somewhat different than why people converted back then.
  
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  My Favouite Inappropriate Watchtower Pictures

  by pale.emperor in

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  i'd love to see you're favorite wt illustrations/photo's that they think are fine to print - but are actually kind of creepy/wierd.. .

  here's my three fave from my book of bible stories (yes, a book for children!)..

  man gets his head nailed into the floor with a tent pin by a good jehovah worshipper:.

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  It is definitely put together by people who live in a bubble and who cannot relate to children because they are not parents.