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  Believing that god arranges for £50 to be put through your letterbox while he ignores the cries of abused children

  by jambon1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  we've all heard these experiences.. in fact, jehovah's witnesses are obsessed with them.

  the pioneer who needed 80 to fix their car & somehow (without having told anyone .

  now, if you believe that these sort of experiences are true, you are basically saying that god is actively arranging help for someone who is in need.

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  Yep. Why would 'Jehovah' bless one brother to become a millionaire so he can regular pioneer and then my husband has to come off the list to support his family better????

  BS! I don't buy into those experiences at all. They never let us give our experiences from the platform.

  Another one: hubby had been out of work for 9 months [only had $200 a week unemployment] and I had been fighting for my disabitlity and unable to work, but no check yet and the elders knew this, but like good little JW's we went and told the elders that we couldn't make it to the DC that summer because of financial problems. Yep, those loving brothers [heavy sarcasm] pulled hubby in the back room, read him the scriptures about a man that does not provide for his family is WORSE than a man without faith, told him that we had known since January that the DC was coming up and should have been saving up for it all along then handed him $300. We paid for our hotel, scraped by on little food & gas and then when we got back, hubby took the PO in the back room and basically threw the remaining $100 in his face. We vowed that we would NEVER ask any JW's for any more help!

  Oh we felt the love and blessings

  And we whole-heartedly agree witht he child abuse being ignored!!!
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  If Jesus was enthroned as King in 1914...

  by leaving_quietly in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ... there'd only be 901 years left to the thousand year reign.

  just a thought that occurred to me a few minutes ago..

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  [The big 'A' ]

  I remember the literature even saying prior to 1975 that since 1975 was the end of 6,000 yrs of man's existence then it would be a perfect time for the big 'A' so then the 1,000 yr reign could start.

  My Hubby is reading Raymond Franz's 2nd book [In Search of Christian Freedom' and it mentions that according to Luke chapter 12 only the EVIL Slave has a time frame in mind. Because the ES makes the comment 'My Master is delaying' putting a time frame on it in their own minds....just a thought also.

  Peace and you must watch this!!!!

  http://youtu.be/86y56G0gKT4
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  Subliminal - Watchtower Picture nº 105

  by indicetj.com in

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  2. beliefs

  no 105. .

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  http://translate.google.com.br/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=pt-br&ie=utf-8&eotf=1&u=http%3a%2f%2findicetj.com%2fpdf%2festudo_2_jehovah.htm.

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  I see them. This will really freak you out on Youtube.

  Did me

  http://youtu.be/2CvL7FUgWb0
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  I Didn't See That Coming

  by Wholly in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was raised on air force bases in the us and asia until i was 10 or 11. my mother divorced my father while he was on an unaccompanied tour in turkey and hooked up with my uncle.

  she married him and his children became our step-brothers and sisters.

  i saw my father once when he got back to the states and not again until almost 30 years later.. after two years, my uncle put his children in an orphanage and my mother dispersed her children to the four winds so she could be free to be with my uncle without all the problems eight children who hated each other brought.. my story begins in 1977 in an old farm house in corinth, kentucky, without running water or heat, just electricity for lights and cooking.

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  WELCOME!

  Very sad and heart-wrenching story! We are so glad you are here with us. 49 yrs in that cult myself and so I understand how damaging and vindictive they can be.

  Our family hopes and prays that you will now find peace and even tho your daughter is an adult we hope that you will get your kids back to you mentally.
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  Dear watchtower bible and tract society, governing body, and all of your twisted teachings...

  by OneDayillBeFree in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after today's watchtower study which was basically a mind controlling article about shunning your loved disfellowshipped ones, i've come to see just how sick, twisted, vile, rotten, repulsive, disgusting, and just plain evil you all are.

  so i stormed out.

  i don't know if i'll ever come back to your meetings again.

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  Well, Oneday, it looks like your day is here and you are FREE. I love your rant and agree with you. My family is shunning me and nothing is even 'official' that I have either DA'd myself or have been DF'd. I love your storming out of the KH! Peace to you!
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  Urgent one day meeting in Britain ,do you know it was about ?

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  yestarday all our elders were invited to a one day meeting urgently .i know they had their elders meeting few months ago .does anyone know what it was about .i heard from the grapevine that among other issues disgussed was a)how to deal with disfellowshipped ones and, b) how to offer councel to fellow elders .any elder attended this meeting in britain please feel free to share some info.

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  I don't know anything about those meetings, but I do know that about a week ago there were some of those meetings in other countries. It sounded like they were about 9 hours long.

  Here's the thread regarding those:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/child-abuse/246740/1/Rumor-Elders-meeting-about-pedophilia-issues
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  The cult mentality of JW's in action

  by Gojira_101 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is a perfect example of how the cult mind-control fear, hate...etc works in the jw mind.. sorry this is going to be a long post.

  these are emails from the 2 days worth of conversations, so it's going to be long.. this was a message i got from my cousins mom...this was the first email i got.. i was recently informed of your fathers recent visit to his mother and the volatile conversation he had with her and the apostate things he said about jehovah's organization.

  i did not talk to your grandmother and hear from her personally but through and reliable friend whom i trust explicitly that talked with her.

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  Newly Enlightened

  Proud of you Sweetie. I just wish one of them would call or email me so that I could ask them what in particular was said to G'ma by Hubby that could even be considered 'apostate'????? Not one of them has contacted us and asked. But it does show how critical and judgemental they are.....and speaking with 49 years of this mind-control myself, I know how they think.
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  Ignorant Judgemental CO's and DO's

  by Scully in

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  2. friends

  badwillie wrote the following experience about an ignorant comment from a do:.

  case in point:.

  a friend received a full scholarship from a local college to study to become a veternarian.

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  Newly Enlightened

  Dear Amazing, Did your CO incident happen at a DC in Phoenix, AZ? My husband & I are remembering a similar incident that happened in Phx. We're thinking the 80's sometime.

  Either that or the jackass CO did it in Phx also.

  He even rapped on the microphone and made such a loud obnoxious sound that you just wanted to go beat the crap out of him.
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  WTS vs. Star Trek

  by Farkel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  star trek claimed to be fantasy and in fact, was fantasy.. wts claims to be the sole truth on earth and in fact, is fantasy.. star trek had spock who solved problems with logic.. wts has a gb who solves problems with bullshit.. star trek had a pompous ass charismatic leader whom everyone loved to watch rant and emote.

  wts had three pompous ass charismatic leaders whom everyone hated to watch rant and emote.. captain kirk was always saving his people from new disasters.. wt leaders are always leading its people into new disasters.. star trek made money by always giving its fans the stuff they wanted.. wts makes money by always charging its fans for stuff neither they nor anyone else else wants.. people had fun when star trek came on.. people would rather have a root canal when meetings come on.. star trek was all about making the cosmos a better place for all.. wts is all about making the cosmos a better place for a few and killing everyone else.. people love to go to star trek conventions.. people would rather be in an earthquake than go to wts conventions.. star trek had a transporter room.. people in meetings wish they also had a transporter room.. star trek had lots of insane villains.. wts had judge rutherford and fred franz.

  same thing.. star trek also had lots of good guys.. good guys are banished from the wts.. star trek had the klingons who spoke a bizarre language.. wts had fred franz who spoke an even more bizarre language.. star trek had all sorts of devices which could cure most any medical problems, but of course, they were science fiction.. wts had the electronic radio biola which it sold and said could cure most any medical problem, but of course, that was science fiction.. star trek had floppy disks, computers you could talk to and flat screen monitors all of which were about 50 years ahead-of-their time.. wts had vaccines which were called "filthy animal pus", humans hearts which were the seat of all emotions, organ transplants which were cannibalistic, human personalities which were also transferred with blood transfusions and black people turning white by reading their literature, all of which were 100 years behihd-their-time.. if you missed a few star trek episodes in a row, no one came by to harrass you.. if you miss a few meetings in a row, you are in deep shit.. star trek tv shows and movies are still played all the time, even after 47 years.. wts dramas never even play a second time.

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  If Klingon's are hunting you down, they usually have a good reason and it's all about HONOR

  Elder's don't need any reason to hunt you down and it has nothing to do with HONOR
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  Just my little story

  by MinistryOfTruth in

  1. jw
  2. friends

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  i have been lurking here for about a month or two.

  it is really awesome to read so many similar experiences.. for example, when i was still 'in' i wondered if i was the only one in the hall that really hated the meetings.

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  Newly Enlightened

  WELCOME! Glad to have you here.