Did this quite often, but to be totally honest with you not in any manner to compensate the missed time due voluntary work.
It was for obvious reasons and there was always secret parties for saturday night.
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DC Brownie Points: Attend Twice. Ever do that?
by Open mind ina recent post i made on watchman duty reminded me of something that a few uber-righteous jws would do.
work in volunteer service at your own assigned district convention, but since you missed so much of the program, re-attend the whole thing again on another weekend and just "focus on the program".
i remember one super self-righteous guy talking me into going back to re-attend a saturday once.
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What was your volunteer job(s) at DCs?
by mummatron inseeing as it's that time of year i've been reminiscing.
i used to volunteer as i really struggled to sit still all day, even with all the note-taking and sitting next to the deaf loop system and watching the bsl interpreter to try and learn a bit of bsl.. i have.... counted and voided food tokenspacked fruit bags at a sandwich stallcleaned the stadium at opening and closingcleaned and attended ladies toiletsmanned (or should that be womanned?!
lol) contribution boxeswhat did you do?.
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Forgot one
- Back-stage attendant, doing the mikes and chairs for sessions.
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What was your volunteer job(s) at DCs?
by mummatron inseeing as it's that time of year i've been reminiscing.
i used to volunteer as i really struggled to sit still all day, even with all the note-taking and sitting next to the deaf loop system and watching the bsl interpreter to try and learn a bit of bsl.. i have.... counted and voided food tokenspacked fruit bags at a sandwich stallcleaned the stadium at opening and closingcleaned and attended ladies toiletsmanned (or should that be womanned?!
lol) contribution boxeswhat did you do?.
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Hmm, let's see
- Bakery (my favorite until I was told I'm expected to pay for the restbites as for ok ones)
- Taking care of tools depot (my specialty was perfect order, I got mad if someone just left or took something without registering it)
- Section servant and counting participants (this was special as you got double special label under your badge, volunteer and public servant or whatever it is called. It was great also otherwise, you had valid reason to have binoculars for scanning your section, no way, some nice sisters.)
- Selling candy and ice-cream (this was my job for many years, good part being that you could buy those last good candies before they were sold-out)
- Collecting money from donation boxes
I was always so busy in Gods work that I never had time to participate in cleaning job, there you have it if you wonder my motivation. Actually I was so busy that I often missed the good stuff being told from podium. No wonder I became what I am.
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FADERS: How determined are you?
by VampireDCLXV inafter being here on jwn for a while, one does see a spectrum of sorts.
there are people here in various stages of their exit from their lives as jws.
some are full fledged kh and fs attendees whom we call "the conscious class".
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So I ask you faders: how determined are you to never return to life as a JW?
For me it's not about determination, it would just feel wrong for me based on my current understanding
Do you still miss old JW "friends"?
Friends? Those few I had closer relationsship still wouldn't count as friends, so no.
Do you miss the company of JW relatives?
It has never been endangered, we have had as long as I remember a habit of keeping familyties in one place and religious differences in another.
Do even the smallest of thoughts that maybe, just maybe, the JWs are right about some things, still haunt the darkest corners of you mind?
It really do not matter if they are right or not, I do not care in any manner about the thruthfulness of their teaching. My issues are purely personal and are not debendant JW's being right or wrong.
Do you still have the occasional nightmare about dying during the big A?
If JW's are right that is what is going to happen to me (unless I die other kind of unnatural death before), if not I will die in another way. So no nightmares there it's one optional reality for me.
Lingering doubts might be sabotaging you. The sooner you shed your doubts about yourself and the reasons your leaving, the sooner you can heal.
I agree, I had fortunatelly years to come to my personal conclusion. In my opinion as long as you do the right thing for yourself, is it being hardcore/softcore witness or totally something else, you must feel comfortable with the decision you made.
So I ask faders here again: how far along are you in your exit and are you doubting yourself?
Exiting or staying is totally equal to me, as whatever happens I do not want to enter the paradise as it is described.
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Straddling the fence or leading a double life.
by garyneal ina subject that i know a lot of you can relate to.
my wife admits to leading a double life in regards to her spiritual activities.
it comes with the territory, i suppose.
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Thanks for sharing, your situation seem lots less complicated than mine based on this.
The answer to your question is very clear in my head. It's lots cheaper, I would do that too.
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When you were a JW did you dance " provocatively" ?
by highdose in" provocatively" of course meaning alot.
in my cong it meant moving your body in any way at all.. the spirtual ones of the cong of course would not dance and if they did would do a kinda slow motion running type dance.
totaly embassring to look at.. .
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Does dancing in goofy way in techno raves count?
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JW teenagers party's
by bigmac ini fondly remember my teenage days as a jw--back in the 1960's.. circuit assemblies-in birmingham, england uk.
after the sunday afternoon god-fest there was usually a party--somewhere--in the evening.. one of the lads--his parents were care-takers (janitors?
) of an office block in the city centre.
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Oh boy, I can tell you that in 80's-90's we partied like it was the last day. But hey, it could have been. Certainly not the like of parties you would like to talk with your parents about or with elders for that matter. But there was always a little squarrel present who could not keep the mouth shut, so it was time of frequent interrogations. There happened so much that they could really take action for gross sins only and just had to look through fingers all those minor incidents. I was considered a good kid so I was more asked, but not subjected, I never told them anything.
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English-language congregations in non-English speaking countries
by dgp ini am under the impression that english-language congregations outside of the united states must serve a purpose, other than just being the place where the missionaries can hang out and catch the occasional english speaker.
i think it's also a way to find the smarter guys in other countries and teach them the language and the jargon they will need if they ever climb up the watchtower corporate ladder.. what do people think?.
thanks.
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Here the english congregations are kind of collection point for foreigners from both english-speaking countries and various languagegroups that are not big enough to have their own native language congregation. Ofcourse these congregations also attract many locals, wishing to use english more in everyday life. Even Gilead applicants like to participate in english congregation, for obvious reasons.
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IE9 works fine if you put this site to compatibility mode.
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Today's WT lesson: Desperate for more MS. How many get appointed 1 yr after baptism?
by Open mind intoday's wt lesson: serving jehovah with all seriousness, excerpt from paragraph 11:.
"if a brother has been baptized at least one year and to a reasonable degree meets the scriptural qualifications for ministerial servants outlined at 1 timothy 3:8-13, he can be recommended for appointment.".
how often have you seen someone become a ministerial servant one year after baptism?
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This all sounds so cool.
I always wanted to retain my originality and edges, so never ever even dreamt of reaching for privileges. That I decided already as teen. It worked well I was left alone except for one occassion where they mentioned considering me. I cut the consideration and asked them not to think in those paths. Aah the peace.
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