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  Small details...

  by Garrett in

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  2. friends

  a witness friend wanted to meet up recently and talk.

  since this person was a close friend and who i thought had a level head, i'd go ahead and speak with him.

  our conversation actually helped me figure a few things out not only for myself but also about the witnesses.. so we're talking and i'm telling him my experience and the doctrines that i disagreed with as well as the scandals that made me disgusted with the organization.

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  One last thing I finally realized is that the majority of witnesses DO NOT want to wake up. I no longer feel like the brainwashing is all that's keeping them in. I think that deep down, they understand what were telling them and they know that what we're saying is truth, but they don't want to face that reality. For them, living in their world, they are doing something that they believe has purpose. Taking that away from them is devastating and the majority is not mentally capable of allowing their mind to accept the facts that we provide them with.

  I agree 100 percent. Which is why I've stopped trying to help wake up all of my friends. If someone is really upset about a change in the Org. I may give him a crumb to see how he reacts, if he doesn't, then I take it no further. He or she can continue to be slave for the WT.
  
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  2 Little Gems

  by punkofnice in

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  2. scandals

  owing to the bbc news iro loughborough, i know of a jw couple that were horrified.

  they exclaimed things along the lines of, "how could they let this happen?

  " "that's terrible of the elders in that congregation.. i guess they think it's just a one off.

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  A local congregation announced they need more money as they are not meeting their monthly pledge. I can't tell you how good that feels.

  Yep, it does feel good when I hear a congregation cannot meet their monthly pledge. Keep those experiences coming.
  
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  Where are the Young Elders?

  by James Jack in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was appointed as an elder when i turned 30, 25 years ago.

  which was the norm back then.. now, i very rarely here of a young man becoming an elder.

  in our town we have 2 english congregations.

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  The spirit that appoints was not as strong as the spirit that lures young elders away.

  
  

  
  
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  Where are the Young Elders?

  by James Jack in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was appointed as an elder when i turned 30, 25 years ago.

  which was the norm back then.. now, i very rarely here of a young man becoming an elder.

  in our town we have 2 english congregations.

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  Before I left 2 elders were appointed, one 29 years old the other 32 years old. One week later the 29 year old was disfellowshipped for fornication. About two months later the 32 year old disappeared. To this day no one knows where he went. He just picked up and moved with no forwarding address.

  The young 29 elder admitted to me that the young 18 year old sister was so hot and wild in bed that it was just worth it- losing his Elder-ship and getting diisfellowshipped. He has no regrets and neither does she. He is still disfellowshipped and living with the young sister. They don't know ttatt, but they know what wild and crazy sex is!
  
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  Bethel Meeting at Regional Convention

  by MrTheocratic in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i decided to go to the bethel recruiting meeting yesterday to test out my theory that the organization is in decline.

  i assumed that if there is a general feeling of apathy by many in the org, then certainly it would be shown up by the lack of enthusiasm or zeal by many to sign up for bethel service.

  well let me say that based on what i observed, this organization is not going anywhere.

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  Back in the old days all my friends and I used to go to all the Bethel meetings not because we wanted to go to Bethel, but because we wanted to meet chicks. But we never signed up to go. The sisters did the same thing. I bet the great majority of young kids today are doing the same thing.
  
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  Annointed 144k only male?

  by JerryTX in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was told there was new light by a former jw.

  i wanted to verify if it was true.

  the new light claims the annointed class/144k is always male.

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  144k is always male.

  Maybe he's gay and that's his view of heaven.

  
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  Google: most accurate bible in the world

  by enigma1863 in

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  2. bible

  i just googled "most accurate bible in the world" and got new world translation as the answer.

  comments?

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  I googled and got KJV
  

  So it depends what time of the day you google!
  
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  Closing Prayer at RC...youth baptism

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so while 99% of the closing prayer i did not hear, what i did was the elder say "we need to encourage our young ones to get baptised.

  we can't let the world take anymore of them away" .

  i found this very strange and looked up in disbelief.

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  "we need to encourage our young ones to get baptised.

  
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  After twenty years of marriage…

  by John Aquila in

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  2. scandals

  i just got a call from a friend who informed me that a brother whom i've known for a while and is an elder, just found out last night that his wife of 20+ years declared she was gay, and left him..

  i still need to confirm but my friend is very reliable and was close friends with the family.

  heres the thing, she spent 20+ years with this man, has children with him and now decides she wants to follow her heart.

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  JWdaughter 10 hours ago

  It would be upsetting for a marriage partner to leave after 20 years no matter why or with whom. It would be sad, probably for her, too. No one puts in that much time without regrets, unless they are literally in jail. WTBTS notwithstanding, she was not just a JW, but a wife and mom. It wasn't an easy choice.

  
  

  I was thinking the same thing JWD. What if after some time she realizes she is not gay, then what? What if she did it to hurt the man because he was always busy doing elder stuff? Then what? I really have no answers I just think we live in a F****** crazy world.
  
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  W 15 july - members of others religions not destroyed???

  by paradisebeauty in

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  2. bible

  please tell me what do you understand from this quote that is taken from w july 2015, the article your deliverance is close paragraph 5.. i understand that not all members of other religions will be destroyed at armageddon.

  i talked to a jw.

  he says he understands differently: they will not be destroyed when the babylon the great will be destroyed but they will be destroyed in armageddon.

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  In JW doctrine, that is an event which is entirely separate from Armageddon, and which precedes it by a matter of days, weeks, months, or even years

  Overlapping Babylon destruction generations. It could be 800 years to 4000 years from the time Babylon is destroyed to the time Armageddon arrives!

  Keep on the Watch!