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  Are Beards becoming more acceptable due to decline in membership?

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i noticed a young brother with a beard being given more privelages within our hall.

  when he first grew his beard, he lost his privelages.

  but more and more recently he has been helping out a lot more.. the cobe is old school and a stickler for rules, but with the hall becoming more empty these days, and the need for young brothers, he seems to have relaxed on this particular watchtower/man made rule.

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  Londo111

  As people have said, nothing has changed.

  There are exceptions in a few countries. Everywhere else, there are maverick JWs, but it is likely they will not qualify to be a ministerial servant or elder. If they somehow do, it is a very rare thing, like spotting a woman carrying a microphone in a Kingdom Hall. It's happened, but it's like spotting a rare animal outside it's native habitat roaming your neighborhood.

  Watchtower has most recently, like it's always done, discouraged beards, all the while seeming to say it is okay.
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  Crises of Conscience latest, plus : a solution for reading it legally, courtesy of u/ziddina

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  recently, someone who knows deborah drexler, the current copyright holder of cofc, asked her if she will consider having it published again.

  her response was:.

  " i will have to ask jesus"!!!!!.

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  Londo111

  I can't help but think how many knowledgeable people in the exJW community could help her out without asking a penny.

  The lack of transparency is disturbing.
  
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  January 2018 Message of Judgment - What Is This?

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've now seen a couple of references to this and did a little digging before leaving for work.

  i saw someone on reddit in july saying that someone on the inside said a change was coming in 2018 with the jw message, and i've now seen two references to this in the past week.

  help a former brother out.

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  Londo111

  This has been in the JW mythos for a long, long time. And that is, during the great tribulation, the “door would close”. Then JWs would cease preaching the good news and preach a message of judgement, basically telling people they were going to die.

  There’s a verse in Revelation that talks about hailstones raining down, each one weighing a talent. Watchtower interprets this as the hard hitting message they would preach to people during the tribulation.

  Of course, the 2018 change has nothing to do with it. But JWs are always looking at tealeaves in the pages of the Watchtower.
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  Convention “Highlights” - bwhahaha!

  by Muddy Waters in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  taking a walk down memory lane at those looooonnnnngg, tedious conventions... .

  (boy, they weren’t kidding when they spoke about being long-suffering and having endurance!).

  but what were some of your convention highlights, or lowlights, from back in the day?.

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  Londo111

  I liked the cheese danish and vanilla pudding. I did not like Shasta cola at all.

  When I was a kid, all that mattered was getting back to the hotel pool.
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  Whatever happened to Sue Pamela Carne AKA Paula Combs AKA suspected CIA operative??

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  moscow.

  1983.. william plunkert.

  diplomat at the us embassy in moscow.. sue pamela carne - american jehovah's witness woman employed as governess to plunkert.

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  Londo111

  If true, what this person taught was "apostasy". While the Soviet Block was "King of the North", and while perhaps antichrist not not "The Antichrist". And of course, the "King of the North" was supposed to meet its end at Armageddon along with every other nation at the hands of God, not get nuked.
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  Convention “Highlights” - bwhahaha!

  by Muddy Waters in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  taking a walk down memory lane at those looooonnnnngg, tedious conventions... .

  (boy, they weren’t kidding when they spoke about being long-suffering and having endurance!).

  but what were some of your convention highlights, or lowlights, from back in the day?.

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  Londo111

  I always took notes. I'd notebooks and notebooks of notes.

  However, usually Sunday afternoon's I'd run out of steam and take few if any. Especially the last talk.
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  A Little Direction Please

  by Brian J in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i'm an active elder, cobe, just got home from the meeting where i handled the treasures part and concluded by announcing a friend of mine has been d/f,.....blah blah blah...and over the last year have woken up.

  i simply cannot spill my guts to my wife and children as it would be family suicide.

  i have zero desire to bash, spread my feelings, or become an "apostate".

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  Londo111

  It was an interesting read.

  I can't imagine being in that spot.
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  Rock band titles from JW history / culture

  by sir82 in

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  2. friends

  on another thread, undercover suggested "adam and the dinosaurs".. i came up with these:.

  green bible dinosaurs.

  jezebel and the fornicators.

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  The Time, Times and Half a Time
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  How To Fade Away Cleanly?

  by SplaneThisToMe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is my first post and hopefully i can get some advice and input.

  i have been actively involved with the organization for a little over 10 years now.

  i began studying in high school, got baptized and my family fortunately did not.

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  Londo111

  You are going to lose many people and it is going to hurt.

  In a cult, friends are instantly made and instantly lost.
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  ExJW responsible for calling the police at the Warwick protest, NOT Watchtower

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  according to the great apostate, who spent time with police officers at the protest, they informed him that it was not watchtower who called the police in but another exjw who briefly attended the protest and subsequently disapproved of the protesters methods...claiming they were being "violent".. i find this very difficult to understand.

  anyone who saw the bravery of the women who stood up in the kingdom hall and told the story of their abuse and rape could not fail to feel compassion and offer their support.. i know there are posters on this forum who disagree with me.they worry that such protests play into watchtowers "persecution" complex, and naturally i understand their position.. but really, how long do we have to fear their power over their members, and through their members, us.. many jw's simply do not know the extent of the paedophile problem,.they do not know about malawi, the un, the bloodless surgery guinea pig deaths ( thank you orphan crow), the suicides....i simply don't believe that protests don't work....if there are enough of them, and they are organized, and most of all if we are united...we shall make a difference, and that difference may be your loved one.. https://youtu.be/ffhr9onbdrk.

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  Londo111

  Plenty of JWs, especially elders, end up "fighting" each other.

  There was nothing to "get away" from, expect information, especially in regard the safety of children in the JW organization.

  Even though I disagree with the method, the protests were peaceful. JWs were safe from the protestors.