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  Camping for conventions

  by EmptyInside in

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  outlaw's post about convention food reminded me of my family's experiences camping for the conventions.

  fortunately, they did this before i came along.

  but, it seems the whole congregation stayed at one campground.

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  lancelink

  One year we went to the Billings Montana assembly (late 70's) and stayed in a tent in the livestock area

  Showers were taken in the area where the livestock was hosed down.

  I look back and just shudder at the experience .
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  ...Good Food at Assemblys.....What Happened?..

  by OUTLAW in

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  in a time before many of you were born... assemblys had a great food... i left before the food started getting bad... .

  i am totally amazed at reading... how food at assemblys got worse and worse... until finally food was`nt served at all... .

  back in the day... food at assemblys was pretty dam good... there was quality cooking back then... jehovah`s witness`s actually looked forward to meals at assemblys... .

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  During the 70's at the janesville WI. assembly hall attendees would buy a plastic token with the wt logo on it to get a fully-cooked lunch.

  There would be things like greek salads, fried chicken, and salsbury steak for lunch.

  At 5 in the morning brothers would arrive to start cooking breakfast, the plastic tokens would buy a full breakfast also:

  pancakes, bacon, sausage, sara lee pastry, orange juice, milk, coffee. The after lunch paper tickets could be purchased in case you wanted

  something like ice cream, cookies, fruit, or soda.

  I would work in the kitchen and get a bag or two of leftover's Sunday evening before we left,,,, man that was a neat time.

  Too bad they had to end it.
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  Stupidest JW meeting answers

  by GapingMouth in

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  i was thinking about some stupid non-sensical answers i have heard over the years.

  "we all know the blue whale is the biggest fish"

  "we were on the ministry and met a coloured couple.

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  lancelink

  I wonder if it is a Jewish name? Omnipotenstein?

  ha ha !! very funny
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  FRIENDS VS Theocratic FRIENDS - Gag Alert!

  by Girlie in

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  a jw associate emailed this to me.

  exudes of typical jw smugness towards "worldly" folks.

  has this been your experience in the borg?.

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  lancelink

  FRIENDS: will visit you in the hospital when you're sick
  
  Theocratic FRIENDS: will cut your grass and clean your house
  then come spend the night with you in the hospital and cook for you
  when you come home
  
  
  My mother was bedridden for six months, not one visit, or encouraging phone call from the "Theocratic friends" at her hall !

  A year ago there was a sister in our old hall who had surgery and couldn;t get up for months, my wife had her hairdresser go over and fix her hair up nicely.

  Guess what happened ?

  The elders counseled her on it, saying that "theocratic activities/actions, should have been her focus in helping this older sister !!
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  Study Watchtower - Muslim man scared into bible study by tract about "The end of false religion."

  by Witness 007 in

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  watch study ed.

  july 15 p.22 2009 a witness in kyrgyzstan met a muslim man with a big bulldog who threatened to "set the dog on her" if she returned so....afew days later she returns hoping to find "other members of the family.

  " {a dumb sister!

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  lancelink

  this will probably be the latest witness e-mail chain letter to make the rounds
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  JWs produce useless men

  by wouldacouldashoulda in

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  a non witness who had studied the jws commented that the religion produce unmanly men.

  do you agree with him?.

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  www.artofmanliness.com
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  Trolling the Obits

  by megs in

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  so, a poster here stated that he trolls the obits and counts his time while doing it.

  anyone else here engage in this behavior when active?

  or is he amongst the more "special" members of your average congregation?.

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  I actually DID THIS

  Another thing our elders encouraged was going out in service at nursing homes,
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  If you have left, how would you treat witnesss you run into ?

  by lancelink in

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  i da'ed myself back in october 2008.. i also work at a local community college, where the witnesses have a booth set up during the winter months and usually there are 3 -4 people.

  just sitting there counting their time.. they are located in a student lounge area where i need to cross several times a day.. my question is this: would you just ignore them totally,.

  would you approach them if they made eye contact, or would you just approach them whenever and say hello ?

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  lancelink

  I DA'ed myself back in October 2008.

  I also work at a local community college, where the witnesses have a booth set up during the winter months and usually there are 3 -4 people

  just sitting there counting their time.

  They are located in a student lounge area where I need to cross several times a day.

  My question is this: would you just ignore them totally,

  Would you approach them if they made eye contact, or would you just approach them whenever and say hello ? perhaps their avoidance of me

  would get some of the student curious about their so called "worldwide brotherly love"

  i figure that since I work there, any type of WT rule regarding their opinions of someone who has left the org will not work.

  They are in MY

  environment, and if it bothers them well go back out in service and talk to people doing the door to door work.

  I'm curious as to how many of you would deal with this situation ?
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  Did You Reach Out For "Privileges"?

  by minimus in

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  as one who grew up "in the truth", i recognized that the most important goal i could ever have was "to be used" in jehovah's service (aka the organization).

  when i was a kid i pioneered every summer for at least one month, sometimes more.

  i was the timekeeper for the theocratic ministry school as a child.

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  One time the elders asked if I would be interested in reading the wt on Sunday, and I said sure thing !

  The next week the SAME elders came up to me and asked what I thought of the public reading, I said that it was fine.

  So he said, "well you need to increase your answering during the meetings"

  I looked at him , said I'll think about it, and he never approached me again.
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  Hey, My JW Wife Went to a Catholic Church Funeral

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  this is huge (to me).

  my wife won't clink glasses.

  she won't watch anything r-rated or any shows/movies with a mystical or religious theme or undertone.

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  lancelink

  Thats great, you wife has a heart!

  So many witnesses I knew would never step into a church, no matter what the reason.