Meeting Junkie No More

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  What we're all thinking but haven't said regarding the Conti Verdict

  by okage in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  you live comfortably, though you are never certain what the future will bring.

  you go to work at a business that has become the only thing you really know anymore.

  you pull a schedule of forty to eighty hours a week.

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  i would kill for that list to be made public

  Apparently the Boy Scouts had a list and that list couldn't be kept secret...

  http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/06/14/boy-scouts-suspected-abusers-file.html
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  No more 3-day DCs starting in 2013?

  by respectful_observer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  apologies if there is another recent thread on this, but i have heard from 4 different people in 3 different geographic areas (including someone who does advance work for the dcs), that beginning in 2013 the three day dc program will be replaced by a second two-day circuit assembly.

  some people were passing the info along like a secret, others seemed to think that everyone already knew.. if everyone in j-dub land is already talking about this, how is it not all over this forum??.

  anyway, can anyone confirm or deny?.

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  I believe assemblies/conventions will continue to be shorter in duration as the W/T is running out of things to say and witnesses are tuning-out that which they've already heard 100 times over.

  I couldn't agree more with Incognito's take. How the conventions ever fill 3 days is beyond me - there's never anything new, it's the same regurgitated pablum over and over - do they still do the condensed version/wrap-up of the week's WT study? Since most of the talks end up in a WT six months after the DC, what's the point in even having the assembly in the first place? These fests, I believe, are just an excuse to give the rank and file dubs something to focus on while the rest of the world looks forward to Christmas/Easter/name your favorite holiday of choice - otherwise life in JW land is exceedingly dull. The announcement at the end of each assembly as to what the gb are planning for the following year is to keep the next assembly in view...now they're not even giving that out? Hopefully this is another sign that the whole religion is heading for the crapper.

  In my discussions with still-in friends, who are all getting older, people are starting to open up about how they REALLY FEEL - I hear more about the tiredness, the inconvenience, the cost of gas, the long days, and just how stressful these wastefests are than any excitement over new things learned or fellowship with the brothers. Hah, what fellowship? Every family sits alone eating their homemade lunches and by the time they're finished, it's almost time to head back to your seats, now that the music has started...(this from memory of the last DC I attended)

  I don't think it will be too much longer before the whole charade of the "happiest people on earth" collapses.
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  Norwegian branch up for sale

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the norwegian branch, as well as the swedish one, are now up for sale and the scandinavian headquarters will be located at the present danish bethel.. http://www.oblad.no/nyheter/omradet-i-ytre-enebakk-legges-ut-for-salg-1.7365526.

  this news even made it to the national radio news yesterday.. .

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  Diamondiiz - Very astute assessment of the situation, I think you may be right! Thanks for posting.
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  The Disco Queen is deed!

  by mrsjones5 in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i just heard that donna summer passed away today, losing her battle with cancer.

  she was 63. .

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  Just heard this news as well - very sad. Takes me back to 1977 - played Winter Melody over and over again and wore that record out.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axYI-es6PeY&feature=related
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  The best ex-JW books - and what made them unique...

  by cedars in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  at some point in my life, i would really like to write a book about my jw experience and jw teachings in general.

  however, if i did, i would preferably like to write from a unique angle that makes the book a little different from the many others out there.

  i can imagine some being quite self-indulgent, and i would want to avoid that wherever possible.. i must confess, due to a variety of circumstances i am not well read when it comes to all the various ex-jw books out there.

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  I've read a few, but 'Wolves Among Sheep - the True Story of Murder in a Jehovah's Witness Community' was one I could not put down - I probably read it in a day and a half. Chilling.

  http://www.amazon.com/Wolves-among-Sheep-Jehovahs-Community/dp/0002000601
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  3.5 years vs. a lifetime of going door to door.

  by tootired2care in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  did it bug you as a witness that jesus only had to go from door to door for 3.5 years, and he was done; while he demanded that you do it for your whole life without preparing for the morrow?

  i just remember a few years back reflecting on the daunting prospect of doing it my whole life if the end didn't come - "sooner rather than later".

  what are your thoughts?.

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  Great discussion. I'll wade in here and agree with the OP that near the end, I too thought that for Jesus at least, the 'ministry' lasted only 3.5 years. At that point, mine was heading into its well-nigh 50th year! I was getting tired, so yeah, it crossed my mind.

  '75 came and went, '95 came and went, and if the 'end' didn't come soon, I still had years and years of Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon witnessing to accomplish with not one convert to my credit or one soul (TM) saved from this wicked world (TM)...and then on top of that, weekly, I'd be encouraged to do more and reach out - geeze, when was it all going to END???

  In the meantime, I've been reading a book called The Jesus Sayings (the Quest for his Authentic Message) by Rex Weyler, which I would very highly recommend to both those who still believe and those who don't. So many of the scriptures y'all are debating, such as the one in Luke about the worker getting his wages etc. may in fact not even have been spoken by Jesus, but been added by later redactors, once issues of payment and commerce etc. crept into the earliest congregations, as a means to control the message. The book is very enlightening with its analysis of the most ancient competing sources (over 200) and discussion of research by international Bible scholars - too in-depth to post here. I guess the bottom line is that the book rescues Jesus from his association with religion of any stripe. And no, before I get lambasted, I neither wrote the book myself nor stand to gain in any way from my recommendation...

  http://rexweyler.com/the-jesus-sayings/
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  The Tower of Babel - Languages: Isn't this story unhinged?

  by james_woods in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  besides the obvious fact that it is historically ridiculous - can anybody make any sense out of this story?.

  god was somehow afraid that man was developing too much technology?

  just because they were building a tower?.

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  James, you might find the following interesting:

  http://aryanarchaeology.blogspot.ca/2012/02/tower-of-babel.html

  That sure makes a whole lot more sense to me...his is an interesting Bible, which I am currently in the process of doing more research on.
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  Christians Have No Right To Wear Cross At Work, Says Government

  by Bangalore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  christians have no right to wear cross at work, says government.. .

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9136191/christians-have-no-right-to-wear-cross-at-work-says-government.html.

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  Ok, Cofty, so if I'm not a professed Christian and just want to wear a cross for the sheer hell of it and I work for BA, can I? I'll have to check your answer tomorrow - I'm outa here - work day over....Yeehah
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  AJWRB Launches A Blog

  by Bangalore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ajwrb blog.. .

  http://ajwrb.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/this-is-the-official-ajwrb-blog/.

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  Meeting Junkie No More

  Thanks for sharing the link - I'm not totally ready for activism yet, but maybe soon one day. So true, talkie talkie is cheap, so is writie writie - it's actions that count and I'm still gathering the courage...but will revisit the blog as I have the chance and will do what I can to point out the WT's contradictory stance on an individual basis which I am already doing with a dear friend facing imminent surgery (one on one).

  Thanks for posting.
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  Christians Have No Right To Wear Cross At Work, Says Government

  by Bangalore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  christians have no right to wear cross at work, says government.. .

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9136191/christians-have-no-right-to-wear-cross-at-work-says-government.html.

  bangalore.

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  That's a darn shame. I was finally going to wear a cross, just for the hell of it basically, because I like the symbolism of it, and now they want to ban it because it identifies Christians? Unbelievable...as if anyone who wears a cross wears it because of their belief; hell, bikers wear crosses. Only in Britain! Keep us posted if this thing flies...