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  Seriously, I wonder if this site is org approved: bethelandcitytours.com

  by misguided in

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  i can't seem to find the editing button to put in a hyperlink:.

  they also put up a video on you tube on feb 12, 2012:.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usbmptrqawq&feature=player_embedded.

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  Here are my time estemates:

  patterson to NYC - 2 hours

  NYC to Wallkill - Maybe 2.5 hours

  Walkill to Patterson - over a hour
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  adventures in service

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  so before you all bash me...yes i still go out in service, i know i should stop but i think what happend today you all will find quite amusing.... so i went out with a women who became a witness about 10 years ago.

  she is from a another country and had been df'ed a few years ago but is a "stong" jw now.

  she was talking about some brother who since he has gotten married has been looking old and been growing a beard.

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  So before you all bash me...yes I still go out in service, I know I should stop but I think what happend today you all will find quite amusing...

  So I went out with a women who became a witness about 10 years ago. She is from a another country and had been df'ed a few years ago but is a "stong" JW now. She was talking about some brother who since he has gotten married has been looking old and been growing a beard. I said witnesses in this country do not grow beards and asked if this man was still an active JW, she was shocked and siad but why JW's dont grow beards, and then she asked if it was biblical or had to do with spirtuallity in some way...I almost laughed and thought of many teachings of JW's that are not biblical. I then decided to hold my tounge and I told her it has to do with a certian look, and wanting to be business like, she still did not get it but she said she would ask her elder brother in law...

  Then we get to the house of a bible study. The study had a toddler and the JW I was working with has a school aged child. The study wanted to know if I had kids. Mind you I am a 31 year old single women, I would love to have children but I would NEVER want to raise witness children. The sister I was working with said "these girls don't want children" I was thinking WTF?? I guess I'm suppose to be waiting for the "new system" to have children. I'm letting the JW's win, they are taking away my good child bearing years, thank you WT society...
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  Those who still show up at the meetings, How do you manage?.

  by Mr Facts in

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  for those who still show up at the meetings, how do you manage?.

  do you still offer comments and how do you actually muster up the boldness to gave talks and still do all of those craps?..

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  Do Most Witnesses Truly Believe In Their Religion?

  by minimus in

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  i wonder how many witnesses actually believe their religion.

  what do you think?.

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  Personally I think most of the ones I know do, but there are a few of us that don't buy all the bs. I have never officially asked them if they believe it or not but when they say something ridiculous from the platform I know that me and some of the others that may not believe will look at each other and then roll our eyes...
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  Birthday

  by lostinthought in

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  so today is my birthday.

  one of my "worldy" friends invited me over his house cause he thought being alone on my birthday was horrible.

  we all had ice cream sunday's and we played words with friends, nothing extravagant but a way to recognize that i was born today.

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  So today is my birthday. One of my "worldy" friends invited me over his house cause he thought being alone on my birthday was horrible. We all had ice cream Sunday's and we played words with friends, nothing extravagant but a way to recognize that I was born today. I think it's silly that jws will throw large wedding anniversary parties but they won't Ben recognize the dy of their birth or the birth of their own child...
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  Choices you have to make after you learn the "truth"

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  choices.

  by my nature i am not a negative person.

  should i live my life as a hypocritical, tortured pretender, or stand up for what is right and lose my reputation, friends and family?

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  Wow,your reasoning in chioce 1 is exactly how I feel. I think in the past any doubt about the "truth" I had I just pushed out of my mind. Now that I'm older, I'm begining to realize some of what the purpose of life may be is to have children and raise them the best as you can. I don't have any yet but I know that if I ever do I can teach them JW doctrine. Also I feel gulty going out in service, like some sort of hypocrate because I don't belive what I'm teaching...makeing the chioce on what to do is hard so I wish you the best.
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  i spoke with an elder about university

  by MsGrowingGirl20 in

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  he always tells me that i've adopted him as a father...we're pretty close.

  i spoke with him asking for some advice about whether or not to pursue my degree.he, to my surprise, couldn't give me his opinion.he told me that if he tells me how he really feels (he says he has some strong views on the matter) he may be disciplined for 'promoting higher education'....in effect he was telling me to go ahead and pursue my degree but not really saying it.

  he asked me to promise him that i'll speak to the presiding overseer and the circuit overseer....i haven't as yet.

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  about 13 years ago when I was a college student (and still believed everything the society teaches) there was not much said about not going to college so many of the kids in my hall in my age group went to college. I hate to think that if I was college agenow,I would be pressured not to go. I now have a career I love and I don't regret going to college. If you can please go. By the way,what would you like to study?
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  another "dream" thread

  by lostinthought in

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  first of all let me say that dreams fascinate me and i really think that they can mean something, anyway, i am still living the jw life (doubts and all).

  i have this friend who is not a jw and he told me that he had this really wired dream about me.

  he said they shunned you, and i was like who shunned me and he said your people.

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  First of all let me say that dreams fascinate me and I really think that they can mean something, anyway, I am still living the JW life (doubts and all). I have this friend who is not a JW and he told me that he had this really wired dream about me. He said they shunned you, and I was like who shunned me and he said your people. (I have never really told him about how the witnesses go about disfellowshipping people or how they treat disfellowshipped people) Then he went on to tell me that I had to go to the hall (and he was with me) and the meeting was going on, we sat together on the balcony of this hall. The people in attendance felt my presence there and fire and boulders started being hurled our way. He said he thought we were going to die. This was some wired dream considering he has never been to a meeting in his life…
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  here we go

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  here we go

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