Wasanelder Once

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  elder bags.

  by blownaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  not sure if this was every where or just our area, but you could always tell who was big shit top dog in the hall elders by the size of their bag.

  my dad used to call them elder bags.

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  I always called it a "case". I guess I was the head "case" in reality.
  
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  Hatred From My Children for Not Leaving the Organization Earlier

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm not proud of the fact that it took me over 50 years to realized what the organization really was and to finally leave it.

  not proud at all, i feel pretty stupid.

  however i didn't lose my children.

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  Tell him sorry. Then tell him to pull his head out and look forward not back. Have a birthday cake on valentines day, make a toast and give him a Christmas card, then ask if he feels better and wish him good luck. Count your blessings.
  
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  What Are TV Shows or Movies That You Think Are Overated?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  anything come to mind?

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  Sharknado, I know I'm going out on a limb saying this but its not very good.

  sharknado
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  Things which must shortly take place!

  by PJ Delaney in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  things that must shortly take place... the true understanding of the “generation” mentioned at matthew 24:34 may soon be revealed!.

  please watch the one minute youtube video and read the explanation in the videos description.. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n3i81uocm4k.

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  I shall tell unto you and thou shalt be the one who knows what thine fellows would wish to have imparted unto them. that also believe. Whoa unto the horse that will not stop. Again, Whoa I say!
  
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  How does the "slave" turn 11 into 500?

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at matthew 28:16, the alleged "faithful slave" changes the number of people whom jesus invites, from 11 to over 500 - in order to "prove" that men, women, and children were commanded to preach.*.

  3 - “jesus’ 11 faithful apostles...went to a mountain in galilee to meet the resurrected christ!....“upward of five hundred brothers” may have been present on that occasion.” (or may not!).

  other disciples are there too, about 500 of them,.

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  My eyesight is getting bad, I thought it read; "Woe .to the "underpant" cities". Gotta put on my glasses.
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  The Latest Thing Waking People Up...

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  since i woke up and left i've been contacted by others i knew from my youth who've also left the cult.

  also people around the world on facebook adding me out of the blue because we have mutual friends and they occasionally ask me stuff or share their story.. what i've noticed in the vast majority of cases, is that people are waking up not because of the arc or doctrine but apathy.

  active jws are becoming less and less interested, less and less bothered.

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  We used to be waiting to live. All our JW life was on hold until the reward. I got to thinking, "What if this reward business is bullshit? Then I have wasted the one life I have. Dropped it all pronto. Of course there was more involved but that sums it up.
  
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  MUST WATCH! Watchtower's Shocking Admissions

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  watchtower's shocking admissions.

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  These two are hilarious and I gave up watching them a long time ago. Why wouldn't a poor congregation use a single wide? Sheesh.
  
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  A Writer's Graveyard

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  immersed in dickens and hawthorne, i cannot easily shake off the dusty antiquity of a bygone era.

  however, its scant reality inhabits, not the present, but my sad hearkening back to the shadows of long ago.. hot blood pulses anew within fingers i thought stilled forever in a writer's graveyard of unwritten verse.

  it is a reluctant awakening to a life much sadder than that endured by storybook friends who cannot see me, know me.. permit me, therefore, to reenter that precious twilight betwixt my present and the past, the faraway there of dearly departed poets.

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  Writing comes easy to many. Humility not so much. Thanks for not going off on me. I read about purple prose again recently, something you are not guilty of by the way, and reread about beige prose. I had to laugh. The tendency is to go too far one way or the other. Some would think this exercise over kill. The reality is that the best writing is done in a rewrite. I even reread and write my posts.

  I agree, we become word blind when imagination and expression go unchecked. I really like your final draft there, its to the point without sacrificing your voice. Well done.
  
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  Trump should tell the left He and Putin were just talking about their grand kids. LOL

  by blownaway in

  1. social
  2. humour

  remember the slick willie bs.

  lol make the left set their hair on fire.

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  I agree comrade blownaway. You make funny.
  
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  A Writer's Graveyard

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  immersed in dickens and hawthorne, i cannot easily shake off the dusty antiquity of a bygone era.

  however, its scant reality inhabits, not the present, but my sad hearkening back to the shadows of long ago.. hot blood pulses anew within fingers i thought stilled forever in a writer's graveyard of unwritten verse.

  it is a reluctant awakening to a life much sadder than that endured by storybook friends who cannot see me, know me.. permit me, therefore, to reenter that precious twilight betwixt my present and the past, the faraway there of dearly departed poets.

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  CC, I meant to send this via pm but it wouldn't format properly. Please don't take this as an attack on the content. Its my habit, having received a certificate in editing and publishing, to see how to clarify and condense any redundancies. See if you like this edited version. Does it contain your thoughts sufficiently?

  Immersed in Dickens and Hawthorne, I cannot easily shake off their dusty antiquity. of a bygone era. However,(its) scant reality (what "its"?) inhabits, not the present, but my sad hearkening back to the shadows of long ago the past.

  I'm hooked on Dickens and Hawthorne and can't get them out of my head. Not them, not their time. It's not real -- I get it -- this going back in time to yesterday's shadows.

  Hot blood pulses anew within fingers, I thought stilled forever in a writer's graveyard of unwritten verse, It is a reluctant awakening to a life much sadder than that endured by storybook friends who cannot see me, know me.

  I'm writing again, fingers to the keyboard, where once I figured I was washed up as a writer. Yet, I wonder if my old, dusty friends were better off than I am? Who knows? There's no way to bridge time.

  Permit me to reenter that precious twilight betwixt my present and the past, the faraway there of dearly departed poets. If I search within the darkened channels of elusive time, may might I find old friends who have been rendered immortal in ink?

  In any event, I need to get back, back to that time and place where my favorite writers lived. They reside have lived forever in the books I read. I want to join them.

  Its hard to be edited, I know. That was part of the curriculum of the editing course. I hope I was able to show a concise way to express what was on your mind. Editors are the assassins of our beloved verbiage. lol Love ya bro.