"Last Convention I went to was in 2000. The heat kept me away."
FactFinder ....the thing that keeps me away,
is the Bull Shit!
clarity
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The Rants of a Dumbass Elder Still Serving
by TTATTelder inok in the effort of full disclosure, i have had a couple of drinks and recently experienced a circuit assembly and a bad experience with a co.. i don't know where to effing begin.
first of all the circuit assembly was a joke.
half the assembly was about pioneering and selling your soul to be a no-pay salesman for the borg.
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"the kingdom has been ruling for a hundred years
already."
Oh wow...I thought we were supposed to be burying
bodies for the first hundred years! All that the WT
has buried is the old literature! No bodies yet!
LOL
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Survey---who is inactive, disfellowshipped/disassociated or active?
by minimus ini am inactive for about 10 years now..
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Whole hearted serving for 18 years, then a 32 yr time
of sink & swim ...'half awake' which almost killed me off,
then 4 yrs ago the straw that finally woke me right up,
the complete failure of "this generation will not pass away".
Went to an assembly ...... didn't even make it to the first
song ....... ran out & never went back!
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Lovely to see all these names from our past, welcome Tyler77,
BadCompany your comment is a classic! " I know how my
family is going to treat me months before they know how
they are supposed to treat me"
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Ostracism more damaging than bullying
by jgnat innew study out of the university of bc:.
http://news.ubc.ca/2014/05/29/better-to-be-bullied-than-ignored-in-the-workplace-study/.
we tend to underestimate the damage that social ostracism does.
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Nice catch Ignat... wt knows exactly what
they do by shunning, they have it down to
a science!
There is an article in a watchtower or awake
stating that 'isolation' is the most cruel form of
punishment there is ...so they know very well!
The writer probably had a smirk on his face at
the time!
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For some reason I can not find this statement,
have searched a # of times.......anybody else
remember reading that???????
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GUILT TRIPS AND EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL!!!
by DATA-DOG inall hell has broken loose at my house!
the wife is pissed [ i did not turn in the "voluntary tithe" slip .
if she doesn't go, then she cannot do x event tomorrow.
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Have a read thru SOSO's thread ...quite a trip!
Hope you can get it all sorted. You are the MAN.
Therefore you are ..... special in jw land.
Assert your authority Data ...you might even turn
her on!!!!!!!!!!!! She will be putty in your hands!!! :-)
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I dont think we should past judgement on people who post here for the first time
by smiddy injust saying , my 2 cents worth .
if they have an agenda it will be revealed in a short time , let them play it out .. however , some genuine first posters can be put off by somebody jumping the gun and attacking them .. please give the first posters time to get to know this site.. smiddy.
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I agree also... maybe they are trying to be funny
but........jerking someone around is idiotic!
People come here for a good reason, we don't
need to judge the reason!
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I'm thinking too, of any poster being treated
with disrespect. If you have read John Cedars
story, he mentioned that his greatest discouragements
came from own exjw community.(or words to that effect)
Not sure of that exact link...but if you are interested
this is an excellent utube. Close to the end Cedars talks
about those who were nasty as jw's, can still be nasty
as ex jw's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFBAax__Q3k
Thank you for putting this up smiddy .
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Were you surprised when you went in service for the first time....
by Muddy Waters inwere you surprised when you went in service for the first time (this question is prob for those who were not born-in) --.
when i first had the "privilege" of going in field service as an unbaptized publisher, i remember feeling so surprised at everybody's apparent slowness.
all the talks at the kh emphasized how we were in the last days, doing a life saving, critical, never to be repeated, work, etc., yet you get in the car group and ignore people walking right by or coming toward the car, and then slowly walk from house to house.
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Oh yeah all that piddling around was soooo frustrating!
I just started going out on my own... I like to just get
things done! Big disappointment really.
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Does Death Exist? New theory says "No"
by jam inmaybe someone can post "www.robertlanza.co.
i hope mr lanza is right in his theory because it is scary not knowing.
where in the hell i will end up after i die..lol.
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Omg Jam ...what a lovely thought to sleep on!haha
Wouldn't it be a cosmic joke if we couldn't die,
and all along we have been worried about dying!
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I want to start a website/ministry to help JWs leaving - how and why?
by Dogpatch ini have plenty of tips on my older site on starting ministries or outreaches.
though today they are now generally sites for public assistance, not personal blogs or opinion or doctrinal sites.
free minds has covered doctrines, news, opinions, and more for 32 years (since 1996 online).
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Randy hi ,,nice to see you! Oh yeah, freeminds
was my first site that really helped me to open my
eyes! Thank you so much guy ...I love being free
even tho there are the usual challenges.
Wishing you the best of everything ...cause you sure
deserve it!
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Berrygerry.... thanks for posting that article.
Strange how 'the story' is so familiar.
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There are hundreds of thousands of ex jw's
but the same programming & the same
mind control has been perpetrated on us all,
which explains the carbon-copy, or sameness,
over & over again!
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Watchtower, June 1, 1953, p. 350 par. 24).
24 In these closing days of wickedness Jehovah’s people must demonstrate holiness.
They must not foul their minds with the filthy mental food on the propaganda tables
of this old world, but must feed on the feast of fat things Jehovah provides. (Isa. 25:6;28:8)
Minds must be cleansed and made over, mental circuits formed by old-world thinking
and acting faded out and new ones put in according to new-world specifications.
clarity