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What Cong you from???
by fluke in
1. jw
2. experiences
hey guys.... .

just wondering what kh you guys attended and or congregation you are from?.

me, i'm from hayes cong london and golden ash northants... spent time in others too but mostly those... oh, also a short spat in kempston cong bedford... all in england... :).
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Earthquakes in one place after another!
by YoungAmerican in
1. jw
2. friends
my mom just called me from back east to tell me that she just heard of a 3rd big earthquake within 24 hours, this time in peru.

samoa, indonesia..... she is freaking out..... we better all get ready .
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You know what they are all thinking happened here.....
by YoungAmerican in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i read this in friday's paper and thought how all would be commenting on how jehovah protects his people.....of course nothing is ever said all the many other times bad things happen, then its always satans fault..... .

shooting rampage botched in germany when gun jamsby the associated press |friday, july 31, 2009 9:39 pm pdt.

berlin ---- an 82-year-old man who planned a shooting rampage at a meeting of jehovah's witnesses was deterred because his submachine gun jammed, police said friday.
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Summer Assembly info
by YoungAmerican in
1. jw
2. experiences
does anyone have the dates and locations of the assemblies of the summer and the theme.

just so i know what i'm talking about when my mom asks about it.
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Funniest Meeting Memories
by YoungAmerican in
1. jw
2. experiences
there are always so many bad memories related here i thought it might be nice to change it up a bit.

what are some of your funniestmemories of the meetings, or even field service?

things that happened things said?
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Your JW Baptism
by LouBelle in
1. jw
2. experiences
i was 16 years old when i got baptised - 1992 - it was at one of the two day assemblies.

only a few of us got baptised.

i pulled out the pictures - there i stood proudly with a friend of mine in our cosies (shirts over) towels wrapped around us.
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Global Campaign with World Wide implecations???
by YoungAmerican in
1. jw
2. experiences
my mom asked me today if i had received my may km yet.

i wish i could have been honest and said, "of course not mom, i don't go to the kingdom hall anymore and haven't set foot in one in over 10 years", but instead i said "not yet mom, probably tomorrow night".

anyway, she said something about the part where they usually make the announcement about the upcoming summer conventions instead saying something about a "global campaign with world wide implecations".
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Elder confirms "changes are ahead" but did not elaborate
by truthseeker in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the elder conducting the wt study said that changes were imminent but did not elaborate so unless someone spills the beans between now and next week, i guess we'll all have to wait.. right now we have three possibilities:.

1) the meetings are being restructured - rumors suggest that the congregation book study may no longer be held at private homes.

however, if they are held at kingdom halls, this will have significant impact on congregations that already share a kingdom hall.. it has been suggested that most announcments are made at the service meeting and i concur, but if this is a restructuring of meetings, then it would make sense to announce this on a sunday as the public would be present and the handbills will have to change.. if the book study stays perhaps it will be conbined with the school and service meeting with a question and answer review of the material with no paragraphs read.. .
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Does the news still scare anyone else?
by YoungAmerican in
1. jw
2. experiences
i was just wondering how many of you still get a quezy feeling in your stomach after hearing someone on the news use the phrase "peace and security" or after reports on the news of all the large earthquakes that have been reported this last week or so?

i know we can all rationalize that there are always earthquakes and wars etc.... but i swear, no matter how hard i try to shake the sick feeling in my stomach when i hear all this stuff i can't seem to do it.

i still have visions in my head of what armagedon will be like from all the pictures i grew up seeing in the publications, talk about scarred for life.
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Does anyone else feel like this???
by YoungAmerican in
1. jw
2. experiences
i don't post much but sure do love reading everyone else's post.

everyone here for the most part seems so normal (for apostates, haha).

so, i was born and raised a jw, baptized at 14, disfellowshipped at 17, reinstated at 28. the only reason i think i did that was because after 10 years of no contact with my father, mother and little sister they came to visit me (they lived on the east coast i live on the west coast) and i was so overwhelmed with seeing them and talking to them and hugging them, i wanted so much to please them and have a relationship with them again that i fooled myself into thinking i needed the "organization" and jehovah's approval to be worthy of their love.