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  Is Today's Jehovah's Witness Religion The Same As It Was When You Were A Member?

  by minimus in

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  in my day, you were proud to be a jw!

  you knew you'd get "persecution" and it was all good.

  when you abstained from blood, you read the ingredients of a candy bar!

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  On the one hand, no: There's less pride in being a Witness and the service ethic seems to be slacking off. (Not that I think that's a bad thing, mind you - it's just that my grandmother would pitch a fit at what passes for "streetwork" here in Sacramento! Standing there talking to each other while holding up a magazine is not how she did it.) I also find JWs much less willing to tell you what religion they belong to than ever before.

  On the other hand, yes: I can pick JWs out of a lineup. They're the stressed, tired people wearing cheap suits (because you need so many) and slightly-out-of-date, overly modest but not old-fashioned floral dresses.

  Frankly, I've had a bit of PTSD watching all the sheep coming and going from conventions this summer.
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  My favorite scene from my favorite show

  by fade_away in

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  as an atheist and a huge fan of firefly and serenity....here's one of my favorite scenes where river tam tries to fix the bible because it doesn't make sense.. .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sip6fjqczpy.

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  Love that show. Love that clip.
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  Blondie's Comments You Won't Hear at the 07-22-2012 WT Study (TIMES & SEASONS)

  by blondie in

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  time because jehovah god can cause.

  were fulfilled at specified times should.

  prophecy regarding jerusalem and judah show.

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  Can the average or even long-time jw explain 607 to 1914 let alone how to prove 29 c.e. was the right year. I know, 40 years around jws that stumbled and “believed” without “understanding.”

  And they bet their life and the lives of the children on that ignorance.

  This ^ is one of the most profoundly moving things I've read in a long time. Thank you, Blondie. That gets to the crux of it. My parents could never explain the "chronology" - they referred to it as one of the "deep things" that was "beyond" them. And yet they believed what others told them, eventually sacrificing their entire family.
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  Who The Heck Is Sparlock?

  by minimus in

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  i must admit, i have no idea who sparlock is.

  can someone explain what the fuss is all about?.

  thank you..

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  I hadn't been checking this board regularly, and so did NOT know about Sparlock! Wow. Awesomely awful.
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  Is there a correlation between personality type and leaving the WT?...

  by Tuesday in

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  on facebook tonight there was a post asking to take a personality test, in posting the personality tests a trend started emerging that certain personality types seem to leave around the same time.. i came out as an intj which is introverted intuitive thinking judging.

  which a good paragraph describing it was:.

  intjs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "does it work?

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  Age You Left: 17

  Type: ENFJ

  Brief Reason why you left: Became unable to handle the cognitive dissonance in early teen years; 1975 did it (when they started telling me that they'd never predicted Armageddon and I had sat through meetings where they did, that was the end of it).
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  Advice needed about my study with a JW.

  by Resistance is Futile in

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  i've never been a jw, and i'm having a difficult time trying to understand the perspective of a born-in jw.

  i want to ask questions that will cause this family member to began to think outside the box, but i don't want to trip off any apostate alarms and have him put his guard up.

  i also don't want to waste time and energy asking questions that he can easily brush off and give the prepackaged watchtower answer without having to really think.

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  Only good thing about the JWs: They're not going to spring Xenu and aliens in volcanoes on you.
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  Reporting Time Weekly

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  reporting time weekly.

  today i uploaded a new article onto my blog recounting the days when watchtower had witnesses turning in field service reports on a weekly basis.

  the article is titled reporting time weekly and is available at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2011/05/reporting-time.html.

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  My mother put my first one in my baby book. No sh--uh, kidding. I wonder if she made a copy to turn in?
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  Do they still have Unassigned Territory?

  by journey-on in

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  when i was a kid, going in "unassigned territory" was a big adventure.

  we packed picnic lunches, loaded up the cooler with water and drinks, and of course, a trunk load of extra literature.

  it was an all day affair and we really felt like we were doing something special for jehovah....going where there was no kingdom hall nearby and putting the message out there!.

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  Stephanie Powell Watts, a former JW who is now an English professor at Lehigh University, wrote a short story called "Unassigned Territory."

  It's in the anthology NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH: THE YEAR'S BEST, 2007, edited by Edward P. Jones. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/New-Stories-South-Years-Best/dp/1565125568/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304701238&sr=1-8
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  The "WOW!!" moment...Theocratic Ministry School was a sham!

  by Terry in

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  i just remembered something from long ago..... i moved to california in 1974 after i had been in "the truth" for 11 years, having full-time pioneered and also having served time in federal prison over the so-called christian neutrality issue.. i felt completely confident that my bible education was the best on planet earth.

  i had honed my skills by door to door preaching, discussion, arguments and attendance at the theocratic ministry school.. i began working as an artist in a huge company that manufactured all kinds of art, sculpture and wall hanging.

  the head of the artists was a wonderful young man, skilled artist and devout christian who took me under his wing.

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  This says it all:

  "I learned more about the Bible in the first three classes, than in years of going to meetiings!"

  This is precisely why all students should take a comparative religions course. There's nothing like an unbiased, fact-based view of religion to shatter dogma and clarify thinking. Once students have learned to recognize similarities and differences between the religions, they're in much better shape to make their own decisions about what they believe---or don't.

  And that's precisely why JWs won't take those courses.
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  "House" TV Show: Did I Just Hear a '1975'/Witness Reference !!!??

  by metatron in

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  i'm starting to think i hallucinated this!

  house picks up the 'bi" babe from prison.

  she stops the car to go to a door and he wisecracks, 'i didn't know you were a jehovah's witness'.

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  OMFG, that is hilarious! and yippee for the ex-dub on the writing staff!