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Effervescent
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Hello, I'm Aaron, and this is my story...
by MetricRX indear reader,
my name is aaron, and i have a brief story to tell regarding my youth as a jehovah's witnesses.
my story is all too familiar for many who had the misfortune to find themselves unwilling participants in the religious activities of this group, but i would like to share my experience.
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Re: Oct 15th WT articles & Next's week study article
by JV injust a couple of quick questions is nexts sunday's study article the infamous oct 1st article on education?
and are there more anti - education attacks in the oct 15th wt?
if so could somebody quote them for me or provide a link, much appreciated
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Effervescent
I just read the "suicide" quote to my husband.... I still don't think he believes me.
But then, it IS quite hard to phathom how people eat this stuff up and don't even give pause at how utterly rediculous it sounds.
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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 11-6-05 WT Study (Judgment)
by blondie inkeep on the watch!
this warning: "keep on the watch, therefore, because you do not know on what day.
true christians--only jws.
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7 Not knowing the exact day of the end of this old system gives us the
opportunity to demonstrate that we serve God out of a pure motive. How so? It
may be that the end seems to be a long time in arriving. Sad to say, some
Christians who feel this way have allowed their zeal for Jehovah's service to
cool off. Yet, by our dedication, we have without reservation presented
ourselves to Jehovah to serve him. Those who know Jehovah realize that a
last-minute display of zeal will not impress him. He sees what is in the heart.This was the paragraph that bothered me the most and Jgnat put into words the reason-
How many more destitute seniors is the society going to have in ten, twenty years?
It seems like yet again the society is having to let out the elastic on the waistband to accommodate the ever expanding gut of rhetoric regarding the "last hours" of this worlds existance. I've watched my Grandparents grow old in this "system" waiting for the end to come any day now. I have four lovely but mislead elderly family members that have no retirement but continue to hope that Jehovah will take care of everything before their options run out. In the meantime more articles like this are being put out telling them to hold on just a little longer.... the same ones since the turn of the century.
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Effervescent
"I was in a chat room with a group of people who I thought were all Jehoober Witlessess" "Before long, it was evident that they were really apostates"
Ok... who told???? And here I was thinking we were all being sooooo sneaky!
I have to say though... this who article is a scream to read. It makes it pretty obvious that the WTS is very nervous over sites like JWD. Next thing you're going to see the loyal r&f out in their backyards attempting to burn their pc's to try to get the demons out.
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Are you honest with yourself, about how much time you spend online?
by free2beme ini was filling out a form to register a product this week and one of the questions asked, "how much time do you spend online?
" as much as i wanted to say, "about an hour every two weeks," i know it is more.
i don't spend nearly as much time as i used too, and actually go several days without even turning on a computer.
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Effervescent
That depends on what else is going on in my life. There's times when I'm hardly on the computer at all, and others that I spend way too much time online(which is more often than not). My business is home-based and online though, so it's too easy to say "Oh while I'm on here I'll go over to JWD and see if there's anything interesting". Then I find a thread that's five pages long and has a link to another site or thread thats ten pages long. I'll sit here and read the whole thing. It's a little addicting.
But then, I've found that I've entered a new part of my "recovery", if you will. Now, all of the research on the errors in the doctrine is really important to me. I'm in an information gathering phase, and it takes a long time, I'm having to write things down, look up scriptures and references, all that good stuff. I know one of these days I'm going to have to go toe-to-toe with my father, and I want to be prepared.
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Effervescent
GREAT Armaggedon will SO be over and done with before then!
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remember someone mentioning a notebook for kids to take to convention?
by candidlynuts ini found where they got it... .
http://www.ministryideaz.com/theocratic_downloads.htm .
at the bottom of the page.
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Effervescent
I'm sure JW parents are just waiting for them to come out with a mind control device like this-
No more squirming children, just nice compliant drones.
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How do you explain your lack of success in making disciples?
by JH in.
you weren't qualified enough?.
people weren't interested in your stupid magazines?.
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Effervescent
I always seemed to me that field service was never REALLY about converting people, or "bringing people to the truth", it was only about the little slip of paper you had to turn in every month. I could have cared less how many people I had actually spoken too, as long as I had at least 8 hours or so on my time slip every single month.
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Embarassing Situations on stage
by Candlestick02 inforgive me if this has been brought up before, but another thread reminded me of a few on-stage snafoo's.
anybody got any good ones?
like that made you lol?.
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Effervescent
I think I've posted this story before, but I visited a hall with an aunt once, somewhere around Salem in Oregon. The Sunday talk was realllllllly long, and dragging on forever, the Elder seemed to be one of those boring monotone speakers. I think I was about ready to doze off when all of the sudden the poor man stopped speaking, swayed a bit and fell forward into the mike and then CRASH.... on the floor passed out. Women screamed and there was mayhem, and an ambulance was quickly called. They dragged the poor guy out the side door to wait for the ambulance so that they could continue with the Watchtower portion. They made an announcement at the end of the meeting that this poor visiting Elder had a bad case of the flu and would be released from the hospital by the end of the day after they got some fluids in him. I felt bad for him, but it was the most exciting Sunday talk I ever went to!
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Anyone else miss the kids at the kh?
by tall penguin ini've been thinking a lot lately about the kids in my former congregation.
i miss them the most.
i was the sister who hung with the kids and took interest in them.
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Effervescent
Tall Penguin- That's so awesome! Make sure you let us know how it goes!!! My sister was a "Big Sister" for awhile and had a GREAT time. I also led a Daisy Girl Scout Troop for a year until I moved and totally loved it. You'll be great!
Which leads me to remember how much I hated the only "volunteer work" which was allowed to me as a JW. You would think that "Saving Souls" would somehow be more fullfilling. I tell you what though, I knew the first time I volunteered for real charity/non-profit that I finally found what I had really been missing and looking for. To give people true help and hapiness is a great thing indeed!
