Topics Started by brunnhilde

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Do you have any assembly memories/stories?
by RisingEagle in
1. jw
2. friends
on an earlier thread about ice cream i remembered a snack that was sold at assemblies and that started me thinking about some of my memories of childhood at conventions/assemblies.

i guess it was the taste/smell association because even today when i go to various convention halls for home improvement expos, car shows and the like it takes me right back to the past.

i have many memories wrapped around the conventions and experienced different things because i have lots of elders in the family that were used, literally, for food service, the accounting office, security and dramas.
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So what caused you to have doubts in the first place?
by nicolaou in
1. jw
2. friends
i had no doubts at all about the 'truth' untill a friend of mine in the cong' began falling away.

in trying to help him i had to ask questions and do research and that of course cracked the doors of my mind open for the first time in over thirty years.. years ago, when jwd allowed members to have signatures, i used the following quote from voltaire as mine.

i still love it.. doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous..
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update on my divorce situation
by depressed in
1. jw
2. experiences
i'm shocked!

if you remember my experience, in a nutshell, basically my ex-bethelite ex pioneer husband cheated on me with an older "worldly woman" from his job and left me suddenly.

i had no idea that we had trouble with our marriage, however, when i discovered the love letters from the other woman, he moved out, and a week after that, i received divorce papers.
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They Push You In,,,,Then Punish You If You Go!
by new boy in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
they brag about the fact that they the don' t baptize their babies because "how can a baby 'know' what religion it wants to believe in the rest of it's life!".

but a 14 year old does?.....they put so much presure on their children to get dunked, that if your not baptize by 18 years old there is something really "wrong" with you.. so the poor kid does it, just to get everyone off their backs.

legally a minor can't be held to a contract if they are under 18 years old and why?
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Name "UNWRITTEN" Rules That JWs Are Supposed To Follow
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
as with the scribes and pharisees, there are a number of unwritten rules that witnesses are supposed to follow.

here's a couple : "worldly" kids in society depictions are shown quite often wearing their baseball caps backwards.

jehovah's witness youths would not want to imitate that "look".
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A Letter to the Governing Body
by truthsetsonefree in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
(km 6/03 p. 1 par.

9 building for an eternal future, w87 2/1 p. 15 par.

(km 11/88 p. 4 par.
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Going out with a bang
by LittleToe in
1. jw
2. friends
after much deliberation, i decided to go "out" at the end of a public talk.

it didn't go down too well, but at least i was able to give some of my reasons for leaving.. i've put some of the details on my homepage.

i'll update it more when i get the time and the strength.
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who's got the money and why?
by i want answers in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
how many people are in the society?

who will it go to next (the money)?

and what are they doing with the money?
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"Ring" or "Knock" ? --- "Once" or "twice" ?
by JH in
1. jw
2. friends
in the field service, i never rang the door bell.

i would knock all the time, because a person could be working midnight to eight and i could wake them up.

ok, the real reason was that i didn't want them to answer the door.. and i would knock like this: "knock knock knock".......then i'd wait about 30 seconds and then another "knock knock knock" but not any harder...and i'd walk away with contentment.
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Our JC
by besty in
1. jw
2. experiences
dear brothers .

you are aware that i am not present this evening following medical advice from our family doctor.

i will attempt in this letter to give you some idea of why that is and how i feel.