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Would It Have Been Better To Remain In Ignorance About The Organization?
by The wanderer in<!-- .style1 { font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: #3333cc; } .style2 { font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; color: #3333cc; } .style3 { font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; } .style4 {color: #000000} .style5 {font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; } --> would it have been better to remain in ignorance about the organization?the argument on whether it would have been better to remain in ignorance .
about the watchtower society is the question.
on the one hand, had we remain-.
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Dirty Field Service Moments
by saywhat29 inhey everybody!.
i thought it would be fun to share some of your nasty/funniest/embarrassing/messed up/dirty field service stories- witnesses get off on driving around and sharing their stories with each other since... they usually have nothing else in common with the people they are driving around in field service with- but field service itself.. and you know i'm right, driving around listening to brother and sister so-and-so tell you about their amazing study.. who will never ever step inside of a kingdum hall in their lives (smart folks i have to say).
so here's one of mine- a favorite:.
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What did YOU do to stay awake???
by TheCoolerKing inback when i was still a jw, i used to work night shift alot for my job.
this included saturday nights as well.
our kingdom hall had our sunday public talks in the morning and i always found it difficult to stay awake, especially after being up all night!
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A "Captive" No Longer
by saywhat29 inokay, i recently read "captives of a concept" by don cameron and i am utterly shocked, yet i feel so i don't know- hell, free!
this guilt of believing in "god's organization" and feeling as if i was losing something that in reality never even existed!
at first i felt so guilty, as if it was my issues that led me to my path of not having faith in the organization and in a sense always believed that i was just immoral and couldn't uphold the standards.
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Who is SATAN to you?..............
by passive suicide indoes he/it really exist to you?
since i've become more empowered in my fade.....i've been realizing satan is just a huge guilt tool used by religion in general.
at this point i believe 'he' doesn't exist...........
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Well, I'va made it through Friday.....
by still_in74 inso i have the friday of the district assembly behind me.
i have learned;.
i need to cancel my cable so i can study more and read the bible more and have less temptation to buy "new toys"i need to sell my house and buy an ol' fixer upper so my wife can stop working and pioneeri need to sell all my "toys" and my cari need to trust the fds implicitly because jehovah does.i need to pray more, study more, preach more, go to more meetings, etc.
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Goodbye, my sweet sister
by sweetface2233 ini was raised as a witness and have been miserable for my entire existence.
i have hated every moment of it.
after about 10 years of struggling, i decided 2 years ago that i was done w/ the charade and wasn't going to return to the meetings.
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Just got back from the Public Talk/WT study......very disappointed
by R.F. inso i finally went back to the sunday meeting after missing it for over a month.
i've been to the tms/service meeting a couple of weeks ago by the way, but i've consistently missed the one for sunday.. i dreaded going, but i think i will go to the sunday meetings every couple of weeks for a while.
between my dad and another factor, i think it will be best to go that route for a while.
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Culture, Class, and Congregations
by saywhat29 ini know this is nothing new- the thought of the bible being just a story and a blend of culture and of how people interpreted the world around them and recorded it as such.
it's very athiest..y, even if don't consider myself an athiest.
because culture and class also affects how people look at the bible whether they believe it or not.
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What did you like/hate about JW calendars?
by truthseeker infor me, every (other) saturday was magazine day.
the only marked date on the calendar was the memorial.. the nature scenes were ok when they had a nature theme.
i think the calendar is too small, boxes not big enough to write in..