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  Christmas Field Service

  by NeverKnew in

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  2. beliefs

  on another thread, i read that a few adherents may be traveling (cough-cough) to other cities and wouldn't be able to make field service on christmas day.. what is the likelihood that going out on christmas will be encouraged at the weekend services at the khs?

  ...or do most halls stay neutral on this?

  given what i've read on this forum, i have the impression that disrespecting a day of other's celebration wouldn't be discouraged which annoys the heck out of me..

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  Yep, it still goes on. Usually 10 a.m. on holidays.

  I never go (hell, I barely go in field circus at all - making up numbers to write on a piece of paper is much easier).
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  What Birth Sign Were You Born Under ?

  by flipper in

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  2. friends

  didn't know if this has been addressed before , but it's kinda interesting.

  when we were witnesses we were always told,oh!

  don't look at horoscopes or read anything about your sign because it's demonized !

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  YOU WILL NEVER SEE THESE ACTS EVER MENTIONED IN A WATCHTOWER PUBLICATION

  by steve2 in

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  faking of hours in field service or dragging service time out by making coffee stops or driving for hours "between" household contacts are never frowned upon, let alone mentioned, in the publications.

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  yet, in each congregation of jehovah's witnesses, to one degree or another, faking hours, padding time out with coffee stops and long journeys between opportunities to "witness" are endemic practices..

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  .... I wonder how long before someone notices that I am putting in 25-30 hours a month but am never seen at the beatings for field circus?
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  Why does god kill children?

  by Comatose in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was thinking about all the accounts in the bible that indicate god kills children as a punishment or teaching experience.

  1. kills all of egypts firstborn sons, who were innocent kids who did nothing to him or his people, who had no control over the decisions pharoah made.

  how many times have you read that account or thought about it without realizing the devastating pain dealt to all those parents, and remembered those were innocent kids?.

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  Shador

  I never tire of occasions to use this:

  "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it, a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." - Richard Dawkins
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  Mourning a child

  by dissonance_resolved in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i attended a funeral today for a small child, whose death was an unspeakable tragedy.

  it was my first non-jw funeral and indeed the first time i'd ever been in a church.

  i couldn't even comprehend what the parents must be going through.

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  Shador

  So sorry to hear about this, dissonance. For a parent to have to bury their child is one of the saddest things in the world. My thoughts go out to them.

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  Also, I agree. JW funerals are such a disrespectful affront to the dead. They turn the whole thing into a recruitment drive.
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  On being constantly scrutinized by the invisble world of gods and demons

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a religious person carries with them a concern (reasonably should be concerned) that non-believers do not share.. for the religious believer there is a very real dimension of beings who are actively invasive in human affairs.. these beings are angels, demons, jinns, gods, spirits, ghosts---you name it--scrutinizing our every move, reading our minds (some say) and.

  greatly aroused by women in a sexual way!.

  indeed, the scriptures do not blush to inform us that angels lusted after women in times past and impregnated them successfully!.

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  scrutinizing our every move, reading our minds (some say) andgreatly aroused by women in a sexual way

  Are all gods like this? or just the Jehovahist one?

  Christ seems a nice fellow, if a bit naive about human nature. It's his followers that made all the daft sex rules, IIRC.

  And while my particular batch of gods, as with most pagan pantheons, is known to have a fondness for mortal women, they generally tend to have better things to do than poking around human minds, or watching us 24/7. So long as proper sacrifice and homage is rendered, they're cool.
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  Relief Work and $$$

  by allyouneedislove in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  was just talking to a jw who just got back from oklahoma doing relief work for jws who had their homes damaged.

  i didn't know this, but he said that the process goes like this.

  the homeowner usually has a payout from the insurance company in hand.

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  Funny how this is never mentioned in all those videos and articles about the "relief work" - yea, relieving you of $$$
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  During Your IN Years If You Had Anointed At Your Hall, What Were They Like?

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the scoop of humanity at one khall, the anointed ones" were a mixed group.. one bro, h. had been in for eons.

  he was df for adultery, back in the day when they would announce your sin openly from the platform to everyone.

  he just kept on coming and partaking until he was reinstated.

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  I have only personally encountered 2 "annointed". One was the C.O., Bro. Freedman. 'nuff said.

  The other, in the hall I go to now, was a very sweet old lady. I think she was getting a touch of dementia as the years wore on. Her son, who she lived with, is an MS in the cong. She has since moved to Texas to live with her other son.
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  Tell us your strangest, weirdest, funniest encounters going D2D

  by BluePill2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you where a brave little witness soldier, or even a pioneer (gasp), you must have seen a lot of strange shit.

  the probability of encountering "interesting" people or getting yourself into weird situations is pretty high.. i'll start.

  i have to get them together, but today i remembered this ones:.

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  Donny said:

  *experience about meeting "doc brown" and his many names of God.*

  Reminds me of this one encounter with some wierd homeless guy while doing street work. He took the Watchtower, flipped it upside down, and was trying to tell us about some "hidden code" contained in the name "The Watchtower - Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom" - something where each letter had a meaning and you had to turn some upside down and all kinds of insanity.
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  Evolution is Crap, there I said it!

  by Crazyguy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok i started another thread and every one jumped on me because i was trying to take the theory of evolution out of the mix and most here seem to believe in it so i will just say it.

  the theory of major evolution is crap!

  the theory is falling apart.

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  Crazyguy said:

  Who created Physics and in an earlier post someone showed a graft of a color changing to another, who created colors, again too many holes in your arguments. Radio waves, light waves, radar waves, sound waves, gravity, water, air, gases, etc. ????? Too many holes.

  QC said:

  Crazy, yip too many holes. Check your mail.

  What does physics have to do with biological evolution? There are plenty of books about physics too. People have continually directed both of you to accurate scientific information that you refuse to read, instead choosing to recite the same tired creationist dogma that has been debunked ages ago.

  Its such a shame. There's a whole wonderful, amazing world of knowledge and discovery out there that you're cutting yourself off from.

  Guess its true: You can lead a fool to knowledge, but you can't make 'em think.

  I'm done here. No, for realsies this time.

  I can't tell people what to do but, honestly, I would stop responding to these 2. It is now painfully obvious that they don't WANT to learn.