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  favourite games to play as a child during boring meetings

  by Surfacing in

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  my parents were both very strict, and i wasn't allowed any toys at the hall.

  my rations included a copy of my book of bible stories, and a pen and note pad.

  my parents were strict to the point of not allowing me to draw pictures, i had to "take notes".

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  my first family prayer since the fade...

  by Surfacing in

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  it has been some months since my wife and i left the org.

  my mother is an absolute zealot, and had heard through the grapevine (aka the underground policing comitee; we live in a different circuit and district now) that we haven't been to meetings.

  she is the last vestige of guilt that i have remaining about leaving, though not in the conventional sense.

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  what is the weirdest counsel you ever received?

  by nb-dfed in

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  my husband and i had a committee meeting because of underage drinking.

  when he was being counseled, the p.o.

  told my husband that he needed to make me wear different clothes to the meeting because it made some of the brothers unable to concentrate.

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  Scary pictures

  by Surfacing in

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  i remember as a kid being freaked out by two pictures.

  one was of the demons floating away leaving their screaming wives and babies during the flood, and the other was the collage with the gas mask guy and the kid holding his hands over his ears and the dead guy with the chopsticks.... .

  oh yes, did i mention that i wasn't allowed to watch the care bears movie as a kid because of the "frightening and demonic" scenes?

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  Scary Pictures in the Live Forever book

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  i remember as a kid being freaked out by two pictures.

  one was of the demons floating away leaving their screaming wives and babies during the flood, and the other was the collage with the gas mask guy and the kid holding his hands over his ears and the dead guy with the chopsticks..... oh yes, did i mention that i wasn't allowed to watch the care bears movie as a kid because of the "frightening and demonic" scenes?

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  signs that you may be apostate, part 1

  by in a new york bethel minute in

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  if you went to an assembly as one of the bad people who carry apostate signs, what would your sign say?.

  pretend you had a bag on your head, and nobody would ever recognize you.... i think mine would say, .

  "young people ask... very carefully, so as not to arouse suspicion that they might be apostate"

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  touched by a circuit overseer

  by in a new york bethel minute in

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  hi im new here... this is my first new post.. first off, ever notice how packed the hall gets when jesus i meannnnnn the circuit overseer comes to visit?

  why do people try so hard to impress him?

  can he get our dead relatives out of purgatory?

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  Sports and JW's (allowing kids to play)

  by confusedjw in

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  what are people's experiences here of jw's who let their kids play sports and the consequences for them?.

  for instance did you know any kids who played little league or high school football or basketball?.

  any canadiens who allowed their children to play hockey at any of the levels?.

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  If The Watchtower Allowed You To Ask A Question From Readers......

  by minimus in

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  what would your question be?

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  an expose if you will?

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