Posts by foreverfree

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Idea for DA letter

by watson in

i am not taking lightly the efforts of those that have written da letters in the past.

it takes a lot of guts.. but, has anyone ever thought of trying something like this?.

to the body of elders, happy mountain congregation of jehovah's witnesses,.

foreverfree

Why not just make copies of your DA letter and send it to EVERYONE in the Cong. instead of just the elders ? That way there would be no speculation about why.

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Meetings: Are They Morons?

by metatron in

jw
friends

so, the new arrangement for meetings includes a jam-packed ministry school/service meeting and book study that ends at 8:45pm in many halls - unless they go overtime!.

these geniuses tried to create a family night because they realize witness families are falling apart so they created an awfully long meeting instead that will often take place on a thursday night - just prior to friday when countless kids have tests in school scheduled!.

good for them!

foreverfree

Don't forget that alot of families are being torn apart by that UNCristian JW shunning policy.

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ex-jw books up for grabs

by rebel8 in

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friends

i have 3 copies of the following book that i want to get rid of.

(hope this is ok simon--i'm truly not selling them--they cost me about $12 each.

it should be less than $3 to ship them in the continental us via media mail, so i'd ask those interested to cover that.

foreverfree

I discovered the other day I have a box of bound volumes from the late 70's and 80's. I just put the whole box in a trash bag and took out the trash

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..Jehovah`s Witness Irony`s and Insanity`s...

by OUTLAW in

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friends

this thread is dedicated to the absolute irony`s and insanity`s we witnessed(pun intended lol!!

),as jehovah`s witness`s.....in wbt$ world,not much makes sense,if you think about it......i`ll give some examples...........#1:windowless kingdom hall`s..filled with window washers!..lol!

!........#2:100`s of kingdom halls with security systems..with the security numbers set at 1-9-1-4..(no one will ever think of that..this place is safe!..lol!!

foreverfree

Totally against celebrating the anniversary of a persons birth, but all for celebrating the anniversary of a marriage - even with a cake and gifts.

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The snowstorm is here...

by coffee_black in

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friends

staying put for the night.... i was going to leave in the morning to drive to virginia to see my son, dil, and grandbaby.

but it's pretty much snowing pretty hard...all the way from here to there... so i'm going to wait until next weekend to go.... here's a view from my back door.... brrrrrrr.... has the storm changed your plans?.

coffee .

foreverfree

I'm in central PA

It's only raining here, no snow at all yet. Just cold and rainy.

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Tomorrow is my Circuit assembly

by Iwonder17 in

jw
friends

any ideas to make the day go by quicker?.

i think that i should develop and market a ca or dc survival kit for those that are stuck going.

foreverfree

Don't forget a dimebag of reefer. invaluable for all day endurance at those things. Maybe theres a KFC down the street for when you get the munchies.

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My first concert - Melbourne Billy Joel on Saturday night!!

by Witness 007 in

"the piano man" is coming to melbourne on saturday night so i bought some gold level upper tickets $200 each....good seats!

my first real concert if you don't count district conventions.

i think he's great and should be fun.

foreverfree

I remember my first concert. It was in a large club. It was Armoured Saint/Helloween and Grim Reaper. I was 16. One of my buds I went with picked his nose and put the booger on the side of the building while we were in line to get in. While Helloween was on, Steve Grimmet was walking around the club with a girl on each arm. I always wanted to be a rock star cuz of seeing that.

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When SHOULD you have "woken up" ?

by wobble in

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friends

i can look back to a number of occasions when if i had at the time not left my braincells at home on charge, i should have "woken up" and walked from the wtbs.. one such was 15 or 20 yers ago we had a washtowel on daniels prophecy with the really wacky explanations of the 1260 days and 2300 days etc.

i had about 12 questions on this,like what on earth happened on the supposed finish date that marked the fulfillment of a great prophecy,i also had this thing that showed the 2520 years to be crap,i gave the list of questions to 7 or 8 elders,and none of them gave me a decent answer!.

one kindly elder,who has since faded,warned me to be carefull who i showed my questions to,and hinted that he felt it was all suspect too.. what a big banana i was not to wake up then!.

foreverfree

First of all, I was around jws almost all my life. Then I really started studying at 19 with an elder I'd known from my youth. Every study and every conversation he had a habit of saying things like: "The SOCIETY says..." or "The publications say..." Not really referring me to the Bible but referring me to "the society". He even did that from the platform when he gave talks or conducted the book study or the TMS. "The SOCIETY says so-and-so..." he would say.

Looking back that was a red flag.

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