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  Checklist of Theocratic Goals

  by 4JWY in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  time to crack the whip!

  admit it - you had this posted on your fridge!

  i was just thinking - how many people have this many goals?

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  xjw-b12 -

  Are you kidding?? Not ME - but I did find it on a current JW's website for usage by anyone that would like to print it up! My sister did have one similar to this for her son's "goals" tho I remember. Trying to do it all, has driven them both OUT too.

  I get physically ill just reading it.
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  Checklist of Theocratic Goals

  by 4JWY in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  time to crack the whip!

  admit it - you had this posted on your fridge!

  i was just thinking - how many people have this many goals?

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  4JWY

  Time to crack the whip! Admit it - YOU had this posted on your fridge! I was just thinking - how many people have THIS MANY GOALS? Did you accomplish your goals? Can you spot the most used word?

  Theocratic Goals to Pursue

  1. Be more regular in meeting attendance.
  2. Come to meetings earlier so as not to miss song and prayer.
  3. Comment at more meetings.
  4. Improve preparation for congregation meeting by studying more..
  5. Enroll in the Theocratic School.
  6. Prepare school assignments as soon as they are received.
  7. Become a regular publisher by going in service each month.
  8. Improve field service (become a 4 to 6 hr. publisher)
  9. Improve field service (become a 6 to 8 hr. publisher)
  10. Improve field service (become a 8 to 10 hr. publisher)
  11. Improve field service (become a ____ hr. publisher)
  12. Start doing more house to house field service.
  13. Become more effective in using the Bible out in field service.
  14. Start making return visits.
  15. Make more return visits.
  16. Start a Bible study.
  17. Conduct my family Bible study regularly.
  18. Auxiliary pioneer.
  19. Strive to become a regular pioneer.
  20. Plan on Bethel service.
  21. Keep up with daily/weekly Bible reading.
  22. Read more articles in the Watchtower magazine.
  23. Read more articles in the Awake magazine.
  24. Do more to work on and keep the Kingdom Hall clean.
  25. Increase financial contributions to the Kingdom Hall.
  26. Send more financial contributions directly to the society.
  27. Qualify for more responsibility in the congregation.
  28. Work with the circuit overseer in service on his next visit.
  29. Get better acquainted with the elders.
  30. Get better acquainted with newer ones.
  31. Show more hospitality by inviting the friends over.
  32. Fellowship more with the friends before and after the meetings.
  33. Visit and help the sick and elderly ones more.
  34. Make more shepherding visits.
  35. Become more interested in applying Bible principles.
  36. Cultivate more fruitage of the spirit in my personality.
  37. Eliminate more gossip and idle talk from my life.
  38. Pray more and draw closer to Jehovah as a real person.
  39. Become a more loving husband, exercising better headship.
  40. Become a more submissive wife, showing more respect.
  41. Become a more obedient child, avoiding worldly ways.
  42. Reduce more time spent on the computer.
  43. Reduce more time spent watching television.
  44. Spend more time reading God's word the bible.
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  Bad Stuff you did in High School

  by Nosferatu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for those of you who weren't good jws, or weren't raised in the troof, what kind of bad things did you do in high school?.

  one thing that i did sticks out in my mind above all the crap i did.

  there was this one kid who was marked as the loser.

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  While my one and only "worldly" friend and I were sneaking a bottle of Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill wine into school, I dropped it in the parking lot - we were scared sh-tless and took off running to her car and skipped the whole day. What a waste!
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  20 Years Ago Today .......

  by xjw_b12 in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  20 years ago today, you said "i do".

  20 years later, i say "i do love you forever".

  it's been a wonderful journey, and i think we are just getting started.

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  Dear David and Denise,

  Have a wonderful anniversary day and night and a lifetime of joys together !
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  JW Mental Health

  by Evesapple in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i found these two references very interesting.....i reflected on the mentality of the witnesses in my old congregations in janesville, wisconsin....i realised they weren't a 'happy' people because they had the "truth", they were in truth happy because of being all medicated (prozac).

  http://www.rickross.com/reference/jw/jw73.html

  http://www.rickross.com/reference/jw/jw72.html

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  Pork Chop:

  I know what you think about Bergman - but I believe people are capable of doing research and deciding for themselves whether the info he discusses is relative to their situation in life or not.
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  My Son is starting to hit problems with JW Mother.

  by AlanB in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my son is 15 and lives with his mother in a strict jw reigime.

  he told me the other day that he made arrangements to meet his friend from school to go skateboarding.

  his mother found out and made him call his friend from school and cancel.. she then gave him a long lecture, complete with a young people ask video about association.

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  AlanB:

  My heart goes out to you. I had done all the same - cancel kid's plans, intercept calls, stick in the video ( BTW, that video is ridiculous!)

  All I can say is that my son's health and life was saved at 15 years old when we finally allowed him to be his own person, listen to himself, develop his talents and skills, and most importantly, separate from the cult we had raised him in. I would assist any young person to learn the real truth about the JW's and escape. I know it is a difficult path for you in your situation and I wish you the best.

  4JWY
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  JW Mental Health

  by Evesapple in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i found these two references very interesting.....i reflected on the mentality of the witnesses in my old congregations in janesville, wisconsin....i realised they weren't a 'happy' people because they had the "truth", they were in truth happy because of being all medicated (prozac).

  http://www.rickross.com/reference/jw/jw73.html

  http://www.rickross.com/reference/jw/jw72.html

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  4JWY

  I also found interesting the book by exJW, Jerry Bergman - "Jehovah's Witnesses and the Problem of Mental Illness". It helped to verify to me, that my family was not the only one driven crazy - and that there are mental struggles on a massive scale throughout the org. We were invited to go to another KH where "everyone is on meds, even the elders, so they understand". Another congregation was referred to as one that people go to to "heal". ??
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  JW Mental Health

  by Evesapple in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i found these two references very interesting.....i reflected on the mentality of the witnesses in my old congregations in janesville, wisconsin....i realised they weren't a 'happy' people because they had the "truth", they were in truth happy because of being all medicated (prozac).

  http://www.rickross.com/reference/jw/jw73.html

  http://www.rickross.com/reference/jw/jw72.html

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  Recipe for improved mental health for people of all ages - R U N from the org as they are one sick society.

  Yesterday this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson jumped off a magazine page (not WA or AW!) at me:

  BE NOT THE SLAVE OF YOUR OWN PAST ~ PLUNGE INTO THE SUBLIME SEAS, DIVE DEEP, AND SWIM FAR, SO YOU SHALL COME BACK WITH SELF-RESPECT, WITH NEW POWER, WITH AN ADVANCED EXPERIENCE, THAT SHALL EXPLAIN AND OVERLOOK THE OLD.

  BE WELL ALL
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  Mom

  by Stefanie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whats everyone getting their moms for mothers day?

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  I asked my teen son what he was getting me for Mother's Day - he said, "when is it?" and I answered, "Sunday" to which he says -"DIDN'T I ALREADY GET YOU SOMETHING FOR MOTHER'S DAY?"

  I had to kindly inform him - "Oh, no... THAT was Valentine's Day and it was three months ago!" - the only reason it was so funny is because he doesn't have a CLUE WHEN ANY OF THESE DAYS ARE - OR, WHAT PEOPLE DO ON THEM - being raised JW none of them ever entered his consciousness and I wonder if that will ever change. I hope, for any future wife's sake, that he will learn more about those days that will be special to her and a family.
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  Did you ever experience "Joy"?

  by Pork Chop in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one thing that always struck me was the rather dour nature of the organization.

  i know people laugh, and at seem to have a good time, at least occasionally.

  however, one thing i just haven't seen is a real outpouring of joy, like david dancing like a crazy man or some of the other occassions in the scriptures when it seems like people were almost overcome with joy.. anyone here ever feel real joy as a witness?

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  4JWY

  Never. The PO found joy in telling people their problem was that they had no joy. Don't you know, "it's the first thing to go" was the mantra around here.