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Did You Experience THIS When You Were Awakening From Mind Control?
by mentallyfree31 inback in december, when i awakened from the wt mind control - i would wake up for several weeks in the middle of the night thinking "what are you doing?
you know the witnesses have the truth".
every day or so these thoughts would return.
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I did not go through what you experienced. I don't know. I was young. I was a born-in.
But looking back as an adult, I do believe that my father was going through similar experiences to you for the last maybe 6 years of his life. He died in 1978. But he did not have any books or internet to turn to to help him escape.
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"Armageddon is Weeks Away" Phrase...Is WT pushing this phrase more recently?
by mentallyfree31 ini'm wondering if this phrase is perhaps being pushed recently in letters to the elders or circuit overseers.
i have heard it a time or two here in the last few days on the forum - specifically from a bethelite.. also, the last conversation i had with my presiding overseer about 5 weeks ago, he used this exaxt phrase: "i believe armageddon is only weeks away".. i know its been right around the corner for 130 years, but it seems this exact phrase seems to be floating around a lot lately.. what are your thoughts?
jw's usually don't think for themselves - they just repeat what those above them say.
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My father used to get the same kind of responses as Blondie. In fact, my father was considered sort of troublemaker for not going along with the 1975 hysteria.
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Who Are Your Past Circuit Overseers? It's a small world..
by mentallyfree31 inwho were your past circuit overseers?
i'm sure a lot of us actually know mutual people, as the co's relocate all over the country.. here's a few from the southeast us: (let me know if you recognize any names and post yours too please...).
ellwood johnson (new york/philadelphia area for several years also).
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I knew a Mendenhall in Shelby, NC. He was our "Congregation Servant" as they called it back then. He and his wife did not have any children and they lived in a small trailer. He would be in his 80s now. I have no idea if he became a Circuit Overseer but I wouldn't be surprised.
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My Daughter Just Graduated From College!
by GoingGoingGone inshe was about 13 or 14 when i first started having serious doubts about the wts.
when i informed her of my doubts a couple years later, she took the information and ran with it.... she never looked back.
i told her she could be whatever she wanted to be if she only worked hard enough.
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Congratulations to all of you that have kids graduating from college. Good job!
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Why should I have to sign a letter saying I want to disassociate ?
by troubled mind ini don't understand why the elders want this letter so badly ....for one i don't remember signing a contract to become a jehovah's witness ,why do i need to resign ?.
also i was baptised in 1978 before the baptism questions changed , i dedicated myself to god not an organization .
my vow was to follow the direction by holy spirit as revealed to me through the bible, not the watchtower ...... if i belonged to the luthern church and quit going after three yrs they drop your name off the member list ........but if i chose to come to easter or christmas service everyonre would still talk to me i just wouldn't be a member any more .. .
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Snakes is right. On most phone systems you can block calls from certain numbers. You can call whatever phone company you use and ask.
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Intro-
by LostnFound inwell i figure since i have been posting on this site, i might as well share my little bit.
it's in no way unique or special, it just is what it is.
from the time i was a tot, my parents took us to meetings.
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Thanks for sharing your story. I was also wondering what your husband's reaction is to all this JW stuff and do you still have a relationship with your parents.
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Does anyone remebr the "Rooming Work"
by exwhyzee inwhen a convention was to be held in your city and it was believed there weren't enough hotel rooms available or at least affordable ones, the witnesses living in that city were asked to go out into the territory and ask people if they had a room or rooms someone attending the convention could use.
you could report your time doing this as part of your ministry.
i could never bring myself (14 or 15) to do this....it just seemed too weird for a kid to go to a house and ask the householder for a room but many kids in the hall did this.
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The St Petersburg Asssembly is the only time in my memory that my father ever used ROOMING to book accomodations. He only did it that time because he felt pressured to do so. But he never did it again.
My parents went to the 1958 International Assembly at Yankee Stadium. I guess they probably did use ROOMING that time and maybe that's why my father never tried it again until 1969.
They stayed in a hotel in Chelsea. I'm not sure exactly which one. But they did not have air conditioning, they had to share a bathroom with others on the floor, and there was a balcony that went all around the hotel with no barrier between rooms so there were other people walking past their room all night long. It was hot as hell and they had to open the windows. My mother was a 26 year old from rural South Carolina. She was petrified and talked about this experience the rest of her life.
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Who Are Your Past Circuit Overseers? It's a small world..
by mentallyfree31 inwho were your past circuit overseers?
i'm sure a lot of us actually know mutual people, as the co's relocate all over the country.. here's a few from the southeast us: (let me know if you recognize any names and post yours too please...).
ellwood johnson (new york/philadelphia area for several years also).
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The only names I remember because they stayed in our home and I was fond of them: Bart and Mildred Thompson. They would be in their 80s now if they are alive. They were in North and South Carolina when I knew them.
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Does anyone remebr the "Rooming Work"
by exwhyzee inwhen a convention was to be held in your city and it was believed there weren't enough hotel rooms available or at least affordable ones, the witnesses living in that city were asked to go out into the territory and ask people if they had a room or rooms someone attending the convention could use.
you could report your time doing this as part of your ministry.
i could never bring myself (14 or 15) to do this....it just seemed too weird for a kid to go to a house and ask the householder for a room but many kids in the hall did this.
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Yes, I remember the rooming work somewhat. We never needed to stay in free rooms but my memory is that we were all highly encouraged to book our motels and hotels through the rooming department rather than reserve rooms individually.
We went to a convention one year in the 1960s in St Petersburg, FL. This was supposed to be a combination vacation/visit a relative/ convention type trip. My father booked a motel through ROOMING. I don't remember too much about it except that it did not have air conditioning. This was South Florida in the summer. My father was livid. The motel was old, run down, dirty. It seems like there might have been fleas. And it was just unsafe. He found the whole place completely unacceptable and we only stayed there one night. We found other accomodations ourselves.
I don't remember ever doing rooming work. I was not even aware that they went door-to-door asking for rooms for JWs to stay in. I think I must have been too young for that.
The only convention I ever recall having in Charlotte was around 1969. We had a carload of relatives from Anderson, SC staying at our house. It was hard for all of us to get up and showered and to the coliseum by 9AM. That's all I remember. I don't remember it being much fun.