sometimes you HAVE to polish a turd. It's all you have to work with.
stillin
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Maybe being a Witness wasnt so bad?
by acolytes inbefore i became a witness i was a shallow egotistcal happy go lucky married man.
i owned 2 houses which were rented out.i lived rent free in london working for a rich arab-.
due to being a witness i quit a job and a lifestyle i will never have again.. i now live in sweden with the same wife and have a kid- i can think critically.my good friends are those i met on the ministry (but never converted)-i have good friends from my congregation in england.
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HUGE Milestone!
by lepermessiah ini wanted to share a milestone that i am extremely excited about - my field circus report for november!.
hours - zero.
for the first time in my life, after over 30+ years of going out in "service" - all goose eggs, baby!
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stillin
no shepherding calls for me. I guess they figure I'm too much of a pain in the ass. Which I am.
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HUGE Milestone!
by lepermessiah ini wanted to share a milestone that i am extremely excited about - my field circus report for november!.
hours - zero.
for the first time in my life, after over 30+ years of going out in "service" - all goose eggs, baby!
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stillin
sounds a lot like me. For the next step...not just irregular, but inactive! It blows me away how I tried to convince myself that I was actually helping anybody with my FS. I love mankind, as an abstract concept, but I'm just not that crazy about people, the ignorance, the rudeness, the stupidity, the misplaced priorities, the apathy. I can do without inserting my life into people's lives when they just don't give a damn.
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Maybe being a Witness wasnt so bad?
by acolytes inbefore i became a witness i was a shallow egotistcal happy go lucky married man.
i owned 2 houses which were rented out.i lived rent free in london working for a rich arab-.
due to being a witness i quit a job and a lifestyle i will never have again.. i now live in sweden with the same wife and have a kid- i can think critically.my good friends are those i met on the ministry (but never converted)-i have good friends from my congregation in england.
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stillin
yeah, I forgot about the TMS. I also overcame my fear of public speaking by speaking in the TMS.
Also, I'm not saying that I learned self-discipline and morality ONLY because the WTS exists, I'm saying that is where I learned these things. I might have done the same thing in some other religion, but it was being a JW that put me on a much higher road in my life. No point denying it just because of all of the other garbage involved with being a JW.
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Pinatas?
by garyneal ini recall reading somewhere on this site that the pinata was originally used in worship of a sun god and that in spite of this, the wt society allows this tradition.
is this true?
i was presenting this conundrum to my wife and i wanted to verify this information..
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stillin
my head is still spinning after the proclamation/directive regarding raising a glass in a toast. The gist of it was that evil spirits are being called upon. Give me a break! Who wants evil spirits?
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Maybe being a Witness wasnt so bad?
by acolytes inbefore i became a witness i was a shallow egotistcal happy go lucky married man.
i owned 2 houses which were rented out.i lived rent free in london working for a rich arab-.
due to being a witness i quit a job and a lifestyle i will never have again.. i now live in sweden with the same wife and have a kid- i can think critically.my good friends are those i met on the ministry (but never converted)-i have good friends from my congregation in england.
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stillin
scary thought. Sure, there were good things, too. Stability, seld-discipline, the rewards that virtue brings with it to ANYBODY, whatever religion, who puts forth the effort.
Also, my family all grew up around the religion, so naturally, I helped to inculcate a sense of right and wrong in my children. None of them want to be JW's, but they're all good people.
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To SO CAL: What CO's and DO's do we all know?
by IreallydidwalkoutofaKH inokay, in order it goes like this for me............brother peace 1980-83, brother rose 1984-86, brother yasko 1986-88, brother sekella 1988-91, brother billy ford 1992-95, brother davis 1996-99, brother irskin 2000-03 and then it gets kinda blurry....brother burge and another, brother hairston.
okay, that just about does it.
i have this topic becauce i tried reading the favorite co and do thread, but did not recognize any names......
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stillin
another great thread!
These guys really make a splash. It's a wonder that the Society turn some of them loose on the R&F!
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How are you faders doing?
by pat1060 injust wondering how all you slow faders are doing.i know this subject is discussed many times,but personally i wish it was more.we should post every once in a while just to say how we are doing,we need to encourage each other.as for me,it is still going very slow.right now i'm looking into the history that is being covered up.i have learned so much just by reading the older threads.it is very painful for me because this was the truth.and to be finding out so much crap that 99% of jw don't even know,it just is unbelievable.i have cut my field service down,and miss more meetings then i ever did.i'm hoping the sister that is in my face all the time,trying to help me,will forget about me soon......so how are you doing?.
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stillin
lost gen; you're right about the self-centered thing. I know that I have to take care of myself before I'll be of any use to anybody else. It's just a long process. And you're also right about not bothering with people who don't really give a flying rat's ass for me anyhow.
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How are you faders doing?
by pat1060 injust wondering how all you slow faders are doing.i know this subject is discussed many times,but personally i wish it was more.we should post every once in a while just to say how we are doing,we need to encourage each other.as for me,it is still going very slow.right now i'm looking into the history that is being covered up.i have learned so much just by reading the older threads.it is very painful for me because this was the truth.and to be finding out so much crap that 99% of jw don't even know,it just is unbelievable.i have cut my field service down,and miss more meetings then i ever did.i'm hoping the sister that is in my face all the time,trying to help me,will forget about me soon......so how are you doing?.
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stillin
It was the TRUTH for years for me, too. I still care a lot for many of the friends, and I do mean friends in the true sense. But of course, I don't want to hurt their internal mental support systems by talking out against their dearly-held beliefs. For now, I'M the one with a problem, I'm sure people are talking about me and how self-centered I've become, not even going out in service anymore. I am doing a very slow and painful fade. My wife is faithful, though stormy at times about the misuses of authority in the name of Theocrisy.
At the same time, I have to give consideration to the possibility that I HAVE become self-centered. I wouldn't want to be like this after my fade is complete. I would still want to think of ways that I can be of real help to other people worse off than I am.
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stillin
I'm impressed! I'm very easily impressed!