Posts by Londo111

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JW Rumor: End of the Traveling Overseer

by Edison Trent in

a friend of mine has contacts to a family with several circuit overseers and special pioneers.

they have good connections to bethel.. he told me that the latest rumor from bethel states that the cos should be abolished in their present form.

they have also recently begun to take cos back to bethel.. over the same channel i have already heard of the car fleet program and that the dos should be abolished.. has anyone else already heard of it?

Londo111

The rumor from years ago on this forum seemed pretty credible and the arrangement to replace COs with locals seemed pretty logical. We shall see what we shall see. I am wondering what they will announce this Saturday at the annual meeting.

COs act as enforcement between the Branch and the local body of elders, I do wonder how they would maintain the same level of control of circuits without them.

I suppose since the advent of the Internet, much communication that used to need COs and now defunct DOs in the past can now be handled online.

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New Song to be sung for Warwick Dedication on Oct 7

by Drearyweather in

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friends

a place that will bring you praise.

https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-jwb_201801_8_video.

Londo111

Every one of these songs sound like they've come from the same cookie cutter factory.

It's like they've a basic template and just change some of the words around.

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"exjws" and money making Ponzi schemes.

by Thisismein1972 in

ok i want to pose a question to those who care to discuss this.. imagine a scenario.

you hear of a exjw writing a book, however, before writing this book this exjw is requesting money to publish said book.

you go along with it and help to get this book out to the public as you think that it will be beneficial.

Londo111

He only sold 2000 copies of his book?

I did see where he was going to write a second book about how to leave the JWs and it would be a quarter of the size of the second. I cannot imagine devoting 200 pages to the subject. It would be best for any advice to be put free online.

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Planning Your Exit

by minimus in

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friends

did you have a plan to leave the organization?

i did.

it took a couple of years but we did leave and never had a desire to go back!.

Londo111

I had a plan of an elaborate fade and moving my records around several times. But after moving my records once and attending a month, I just walked out and never came back. There was no point anymore.

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"exjws" and money making Ponzi schemes.

by Thisismein1972 in

ok i want to pose a question to those who care to discuss this.. imagine a scenario.

you hear of a exjw writing a book, however, before writing this book this exjw is requesting money to publish said book.

you go along with it and help to get this book out to the public as you think that it will be beneficial.

Londo111

I can't think of anything that needs to be said in book form on the subject that hasn't already been said.

It's hard to top Crisis of Conscience.

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JW Elder fired from bank for privacy violation regarding fellow JW employee

by Zoos in

"thou shalt spy on and report your brothers and sisters to hq.".

https://www.tv6tnt.com/news/local/industrial-court-finds-there-are-limits-to-freedom-of-religion/article_5a485b94-a327-11e7-9c32-57b15184bc6a.html.

editor's note: due to the nature of this story we've changed the names of the parties involved.

Londo111

The elders here was doing exactly what Watchtower encourages.

http://jwdivorces.bravehost.com/confidentiality.html

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JW Stumper Questions - List You Best Here

by pale.emperor in

hi guys.

sooner or later we're going to get a jw knocking on our door.

just like when we were jw's doing the knocking, it's good to have a question prepared to get them thinking about their own beliefs.

Londo111

Matthew 28:18. If Jesus had all authority in heaven and earth back then, what more could he have gotten in 1914?

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New light!.....DFed without being DFed

by Tight Pants Twinkle Toes in

it now appears that the wt can df you just by marking you.

this happened to my me and my wife a few week ago.

a marking talk was given at the mid-week meeting in which no names were mentioned yet a detailed description of the "offending bastards" was delivered so that there as no doubt who this "pond scum" might be.

Londo111

Marking isn't new.

And it is obviously done in a way to avoid litigation. They tell enough personal details (and count on the rumormill) that clues people in who they are to shun.

Technically, JWs can greet and speak to marked ones. They just can't "associate" with them.

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How Are Ex Elders Treated In The Congregation?

by minimus in

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friends

are they pretty much left alone?

are they respected for their having been elders at one time?

are they treated like crap?.

Londo111

What? You don't sing David Splane's MASTERPIECES?

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An honest question for those who were "born-in"

by stuckinarut2 in

just wanted to ask a question of those who were born in as i was.. how did you feel to have been "privileged to have been born into the only true faith - the truth"?.

did this make you feel confident, or proud - or perhaps arrogant?.

how did you reconcile the fact that 99% of the earth's population was not born "into the truth"?.

Londo111

I felt lucky (even though I couldn't use that word).

But as a JW I never felt confident, I felt doomed most of the time. While there's a certain institutional arrogance that comes from being in a cult, it was never an individual arrogance.

I accepted but struggled with the doctrine that over 99.9% of the world's population was about to be eternally destroyed.