i've been disfellowshipped for about 5 years and extremely happy to be out.
my ex wife is still a regular meeting attender and takes our two young kids with her (8 and 6 years old).
i recently saw some of the caleb and sophia videos on the jw.org website and was completely appalled, i remember what i was taught as a kid growing up in the organization but this seems so much worse and now that i'm out i can plainly see the mind control.
Welcome SaneAgain. If you can identify the country you live in then this may help people in tailoring their answers.
For example, if you live in New Zealand then this would help you:
NZ High Court Ruling Stops Children Attending Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall
have lurked here for many, many years.
female, latina, middle-aged, born-in, 3rd generation jw, northeast usa.
my fate is to continue to play the game 'till death do us part because the very strong and tangled web of friends, family, business, etc.
last sunday (23rd february 2015) we had our zone visit ( visit headquarters representative).
this time governing body member david splane and brother john ekrann came to sri lanka.
and they spent almost one week in sri lanka.. .
Liyanage, welcome to the board. Last year the Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower) in the USA bought the following luxury resort for US$57 million to house part of the headquarters staff and Bethel workers. Hope the standard in Sri Lanka is the same.
Click on link >>> Rivercrest on the Hudson
watchtower body of elder letters:.. this pdf file is the largest boe file ever compiled.
it has been downloaded at least 30 times with no virus issues.
the file is from 1905 to 2015 updated, and includes all the elder manuals from 1961 to 2010 at the bottom of the bookmarks.
the watchtower is begging for more money, and begging for volunteers.
see the two new boes... if you see an apple ad pop up just click the x.. .. and then click the green download button.. .. 2015 february 25, boe.
http://wwwb.fileflyer.com/view/cvbjfaz.
Bethel Police Investigate Suspicious White Van
Bethel area police departments continue to investigate reports of suspicious white vans whose drivers have approached children in several towns, but as of Tuesday, no new information or definitive link between the cases had been established.
Officials also pointed out that the incidents so far stand only as examples of suspicious behavior and that no motive, sinister or otherwise, has been established.
"I would hate to speculate," Bethel Police Capt. David Bruckenthal said of the motive behind the incident on Putnam Park Road. "Obviously we kind of think the worst and we hope for the best, but we'll just dot the i's and cross the t's, and use the leads that we have."
who are the real heroes of society?.
are they not the people who are doctors and nurses and teachers and firemen and policemen and counselors and humanitarians?.
because of the watchtower organization, we are missing generations of those kinds of heroes who will not exist (but could have) because jehovah's witnesses destroyed them by convincing millions of it's members those professions are meaningless and unimportant for them to pursue.
Firefighter is OK if it is for the Watchtower's fire truck, which is primarily dedicated to protecting the uninsured assets of the Watchtower corp.
i just read about this on the ex-jw subreddit.
link to the video (10m06s).. skip to 7:35 where he says: "another way we can contribute to the oneness - rejecting false stories that are designed to separate us from jehovah's organization.
as an example, think about the apostate-driven lies and 'dishonesties' that jehovah's organization is permissive toward pedophiles.
