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  What is the most hours you ever turned in on your F.S. report?

  by gaiagirl in

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  i once turned in 39 hours helping another to reach their pioneer goal.

  fairly accurate reporting of the hours as well.

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  Bring_the_Light

  Hehe, I went out in service sometimes, but I was never "actually" a publisher. Go ahead and hate, you haters. Never was dunked either. Was "encouraged" to do both, but due to my extreme intellectual advantage over all my oppressors, I spent 17.5 years without getting stuck with more than the occasional bible reading.

  My dad was an MS, but pretty busy so he didn't get real hardcore into the preaching work. He gave the best Sunday talks IMO. He had probably 1 maaaaybe 2 per year. He always did the "how science proves there must be a god" talk. As a learned and smart man, he did an extremely good job making it sound good and to this day, I'd say that all of his points (including ones he created himself) are things to truly wonder at (if not quite evidentiary proof of god).

  Tell you "the Truth" I wish I'd have dove in a little more. I'm feeling kinda left out of the stories here.

  Bring_the_Light
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  Steve Hassan's book...

  by Mickey mouse in

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  ...i just finished reading it.

  wow!

  the only downside for me is that he talks a lot about how important it is to connect with the pre-cult personality.

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  Bring_the_Light

  I don't think there ever was a "cult" version of me.

  My childhood basically was like a group of people constantly doing the Jedi mind trick on me, after the 10,000th time I wanted to grab their hand and scream "I'm NOT LOOKING FOR ANY FxxxNG DROIDS".

  The certainty that the religion is a lie led to a lot of issues with "well what is the truth then?", there are certain paranoia's they instilled in me but I'm not sure leaving was so much "becoming a different me". It was just the same me, who has gradually become less confused by the experience of life. I now know I'm not the crazy one.

  For those of you that don't remember the Jedi Mind Trick, I have graciously offered a visual below.
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  Are Pioneers NOW wasting their time?

  by Fisherman in

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  could pioneers better spend their time instead of putting in hours?

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  Bring_the_Light

  It isn't so much their time I'm concerned about. Its the impending doom in store for any fool that gets interested due to their efforts.
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  Could the WT be doing the "fade"?

  by changeling in

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  could they have learned something from lurking on jwd and decided to dismantle little by little?

  i mean, no bookstudy, possibly less hours for regular pioneers and now the possibility of doing away with the co...sure sounds like a fade to me... are they hoping the r&f won't notice???.

  changeling :).

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  Bring_the_Light

  Yeah, guys we need to shut up about the "better ways to run a cult" and "these are the particular things about the cult that made me leave", its giving them too much good advice on how to preserve the cult.

  Lets all start discussing how we love super-long meetings, how we were disappointed that the elders didn't follow us in our day to day lives to get the best sense of how to tell us how to live them, how satisfied we are since we gave up all sex other than missionary through a hole in a sheet.
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  JW 's , the boasting continues...

  by Siddhashunyata in

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  i don't know if this has been posted .

  the president from trinidad & tobago attends the memorial.... the president of the nation (george maxwell richards) attends the memorial at a local kingdom hall in trinidad & tobago .

  everyone is wondering well, who invited him & how?.

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  Bring_the_Light

  Bush went to a Mosque. That doesn't mean he doesn't think Islam is bullshit.
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  Chapter 2- 1975 -Excerpt from the upcoming book, "The Kingdom Hall No More"

  by Kingdom Hall No More in

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  2. experiences

  "so, the society was putting out that 1975 was the year that this system of things will come to an end, meaning the wicked were going to be destroyed.

  discussions at circuit and district assemblies, and local kingdom halls were given.

  conversations about 1975 were every day talk.

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  Bring_the_Light

  LOL, the society said "some people" go ahead of themselves in thinking 1975 was a marked date. The "Society" certainly never said so.

  You were duped. Scandal bigger than Santa Claus. Very few to nobody even knows about the 1975 fiasco, if they remember they accept the Societies version of events.

  Bring_the_Light
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  pro-witness website

  by besty in

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  2. bible

  www.jwproclaimers.org.

  anybody know what/who/why of this website?

  all links require a username and password......

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  Bring_the_Light

  Secondly, people on this forum form their opinions by what happens to a handful of people and this that happens is not in line with the teachings of the religion.

  Which teachings of the religion? pre-1900, 1900-1925, 1925-1975, 1975-2000 or 2000-2008? The teachings of Rusell, Rutherford, or one of the governing bodies after a governing body was first in control in the latter half of the 20th century?

  Perhaps you enjoy Pyramidology? What are YOUR crimes? huh? What are YOUR crimes? (oops, mixed up with Scientology for a moment, easy to do, cults are so similiar)

  The people on this forum formed their opinions based on what happened TO US.
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  I'm sick of my instructor so much I want to quit college!!!!

  by FreedomFrog in

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  i'm not gonna quit, though i have the strong desire to do so.

  we're in week 7 and my grade sucks in this class.

  i understand most of it but he is so picky that no matter how well written there is always so many points taken off.

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  Bring_the_Light

  Find out exactly what they are asking for and give it to them.

  I find it really depressing, but this is the correct way to think about college. Don't try to be brilliant, do any special learning out of class don't try to expand on things in class, just play the game and get your grade, you can't expect too much more.
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  HLC Elder questions....

  by besty in

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  i am about to post some questions to a local hlc elder that i used to be friends with.

  now, of course, we are no longer friends.

  i want to post him information from the society's own literature and ask him questions as to why he continues in his role etc .

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  Bring_the_Light

  What does HLC stand for?

  While we're at it, what does "bttt" stand for?

  I'm a bit behind. Thanks
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  Mr. Flipper & Son Hear, See, and Get Footprints of Bigfoot on Pack Trip

  by flipper in

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  2. friends

  so, the long awaited trip began for my son and i to return to the same place he heard a bigfoot a year ago in the forests of northern california.

  the trip started out unfortunately for us to be a 7 mile hike instead of a 2 to 3 mile hike in to our base camp , as huge snow drifts covered the road , making it even inaccessible for 4 wheel drive, so , with packs on backs we hiked over 50 ft long snow drifts on places on the trail.

  even snow was covering one creek near the lake we were destined for .

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  Bring_the_Light

  Wow, BigFoot is uglier than I ever imagined.