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The Mayor.
The Mayor of Turiwhate
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What To Enjoy About Field Service?
by WTWizard infield service.
you get up at 4:30 or 5:00 in the morning to make it to the kingdumb hell at 5:30 in the morning (since that feb 2004 kingdumb misery, they want everyone to meet for street work at this time).
a quick discussion of the text, misapplying it to fit the misery, and then prayer and we're off.
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The Mayor of Turiwhate
I would class the whole JW Doctrine in the category of "Silly / Stupid things"!
And yes - there was a time when I believed the whole lot.
(I am still trying to figure out whether that was because I wanted to believe the whole lot, though?)
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Forgive Us Our Trespasses
by RR inforgive us our trespasses.
governing body of jehovah's witnesses.
the governing body of jehovah's witnesses...has changed its position on numerous long-held beliefs and practices during the past few years.
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Realising error is one thing - making that Quantum Leap and publcly admitting so is quite another. THe WTS' Track Record to date is to somehow shift the blame onto everyone else but themselves. The Mayor.
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Forgive Us Our Trespasses
by RR inforgive us our trespasses.
governing body of jehovah's witnesses.
the governing body of jehovah's witnesses...has changed its position on numerous long-held beliefs and practices during the past few years.
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Pigs will fly first before the GB will admit otherwise than that they "aren't wrong - even when they aren't right!"
- and that "you better believe it - just because we say it is so!"
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PS: Correct me if I am wrong, but I haven't noticed any pigs going into orbit this last little while! -
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Do you still call it "the truth"?
by True North indo you find youself still calling it "the truth" even though you are an ex-jw?
for instance, in one posting i just read, the poster wrote "when i was in the truth..." .
not a big deal, perhaps, but really not such a good thing either as it's a habitual holdover from the program of mental conditioning we were subject to.
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I call it by a number of different things - some of which are not printable! But one thing that I do not call it is "The Truth." The Mayor.
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When I Say----"JEHOVAH'S WITNESS"----What Do You Think Of???
by minimus inwhat do you associate that name with??
what's the first thing that pops in your head?
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A bad experience, that I still have nightmares about!
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The Mayor of Turiwhate
Call me a cynic if you like, (I have been called worse things!) - BUT:
- If you can count Field Service Time for changing the light bulb, then there will be plenty of volunteers.
- If you cannot count time for performing this task, then the place might be in darkness for a while!
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Remember the Written Review
by 30girl inwhat exactly was the purpose of the written review?
it was extremely helpful that the society warned you on the calendars which night you had to skip... we had those boards that they passed out so you had a good writing surface, often covered with witness grafiti like, jesus or jehovah or something biblical.
remember the little grading sheet on the back; excellent, very good, good -- was there a poor?
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I remember when it was popularly referred to as the 'Rotten Review".
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How many 'real" friends did you ever really have in ther "truth'
by The Lone Ranger insure we got to know a lot of people, we knew a lot more people then the average person, but how many real friends did we ever have?
a friend that we could trust, that we could confine in.
i can say i had just one, bro x and even then i still had to be careful, bro x is an elder now and he tells me that im the only real friend hes ever had, he cant freely talk to anyone.
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I thought that I had a lot - until my wife's health failed.
Then, our "friends" took great pleasure in kicking us while we were down.
(For me, that is when my doubts about the whole business of the "Truth" began. Particularly as my "worldly" father had warned me at the outset that "if you ever get into trouble, it will only be this family who helps you out - nobody else." Oh boy ---- was he correct! )
Throughout all that, maybe two remained friends. One of these still to this day remains friendly - within the constraints of Watchtower Society procedure.
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Yes, they can be quite a pain in the #rs% - rather like certain other people we all know!
I have an unlisted number, but still we get the occassional call from Telemarketers.
I just wait until they either get pushy, or start asking personal questions. (And inevitably, they will do either - or both).
When that happens, I just hang up.