Slightly off topic but remember once visiting bethel in London and they had a department where they would restage the photographs using indian brothers and sisters for the foreign language magazines to be all inclusive.
scotinsw
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This year's memorial invite had no black people on the front cover picture.
by african GB Member indid anyone notice?.
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What year Did you Stop Attending Meetings - How Long were you a JW ?
by flipper ini'm trying to compare some statistics and figures on this to share later in the thread to see if more long-time witnesses are exiting- or are newer witnesses exiting after a shorter period of time.
and - are more people exiting in the last 10 to 15 years than before.
so your answers would be helpful in looking into this .
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scotinsw
Born in. Baptised at 23 in 2004. Stopped being regular during 2007 stopped the little FS at this time.
Finally stopped going completely at end of 2008. Went to memorial 2010 to please parents but will only set foot in hall for that or funerals.
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Why the Memorial partaker numbers have gone up...
by undercover in...well, as was explained to me anyway.. since countries that were previously under ban are now able to report, this has resulted in the partaker numbers to go up.. .
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um, yeah... .
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scotinsw
That could have explained the increase if this was the early 1990s when bans were lifted in the old soviet union and some african countries. It doesn't wash with me now though!
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My Memorial Tonight
by jookbeard ini sat in the car with some trepidation and minor nerves and walked the 200 yards to the k/h on this damp dreary night.
i was a bit early and was greeted pleasantly by a hall attendant who shook my hand an asked my name, as i walked inside to my surprise i recognized 3 of the brethren, one was a guy who was a reasonably good pal who dated a friend of mine all those years back, he exchanged glances and he blanked me, the others were a middle aged couple who were sat a few rows in front of me but no eye contact was made, i proceeded to sit down and another 2 sisters greeted me, so in the space of about 10 mins a grand total of 4 people have made the big effort to say hi.
the opening song commenced and the sister next to me kindly offered me her songbook.
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scotinsw
good on you. i agree totally with cantleave.
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Memorial 2010 Your Experiences
by scotinsw injust got back from memorial.
only went so that i could say to my parents that i had gone and to remind myself why i left.. oh my word!!!
it was sooooo painful.. got there a bit late - it was a couple of minutes into the talk.
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scotinsw
How many partakers in 2009?
I think it was 10,400 or something.
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scotinsw
Sunday April 18th. They announced it after the memorial.
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Memorial 2010 Your Experiences
by scotinsw injust got back from memorial.
only went so that i could say to my parents that i had gone and to remind myself why i left.. oh my word!!!
it was sooooo painful.. got there a bit late - it was a couple of minutes into the talk.
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scotinsw
My mum tells me that when I was about 3 or 4 I would sit on the bus singing We're JWs! The shame!
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Memorial 2010 Your Experiences
by scotinsw injust got back from memorial.
only went so that i could say to my parents that i had gone and to remind myself why i left.. oh my word!!!
it was sooooo painful.. got there a bit late - it was a couple of minutes into the talk.
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scotinsw
Just got back from memorial. Only went so that I could say to my parents that I had gone and to remind myself why I left.
Oh my word!!! It was sooooo painful.
Got there a bit late - it was a couple of minutes into the talk. Thank goodness though as if the last song was anything to go by the new songs are dreadful!
Talk was same old same old - switched off during it.
I did hear the speaker talk about how many attend but so few partake. He then gave numbers for 2009 - shame he didnt mention about the sharp increase in partakers last year!
Then the "special" announcement. They were peddling copies of April 1 Washtowel as its all about Jesus. Shame it wasn't the April 15 edition with the noo light!
Finally, the song. It was Hail Jehovahs Firstborn. I remember that song in the old songbook. It was quite a quick song and one of the better ones. The new version though was only two verses but I thought they were never going to end it!
So, to those who went? Was it the same where you went?
PS - I really wanted to shout so many times "ITS A CULT ITS A CULT ITS A CULT!!! GET OUT GET OUT!!"
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What Do You Value in your Life Now that you Exited the Witnesses ?
by flipper ini was talking with a friend of mine on the board yesterday and the discussion gave me the idea for this thread !
( thanks friend !
) and it seems as we were talking the thought came up that many of us when exiting the mind control of jehovah's witnesses we really come to appreciate the freedom to think how we want and be able to have access to other views which helps us to have a broader scope , or broader world view than just the tunnel vision of the wt society.
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scotinsw
I value my friends that I have now and how their friendship is not dependent on how spiritually "strong" you are, how much time you spend in field circus.
They accept me no questions asked.
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JW's and Selling Stuff at the Hall
by lepermessiah inmy wife got an invite to a "party" and got me thinking...... one of the biggest things that used to annoy me was how many members of the congregation were involved in those mlm sales schemes or "work from home" companies and they used the kh as the hub of their business.
many of those companies are very legit, and i have no problem with people selling that stuff, its just that people would use their field service tactics to pressure others in the hall to buy stuff.. every week, a member of my family would get invited to a candle party, cosmetics party, tupperware party, vitamin party, etc......you could go bankrupt just from the constant flow of parties and feeling obligated to buy something.. the sad part was that if you turned down the invite or went and didnt buy anything, you would offend the selller!.
then, they would always run around and deliver their orders before and after the meeting (unles the elders put a stop to it), otherwise you would see them out in their car after the meeting distributing everyones' orders.. .
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scotinsw
Not something thats really done in the UK but I wonder how an Ann Summers party would go down!