Posts by NewYork44M

i am just curious.. i have a cousin who is a baptist and his church streams their sunday services and i've been checking them out before i go to meeting with my jw wife.. i haven’t been to a church except for the occasional funeral and wedding and the only sermons i had heard were the tel-evangelist type.

anyway, all the church bashing by jws over the years made me unsure what to expect and i was pleasantly surprised.

they do use the bible and they don't spend the whole time begging for money.

NewYork44M

In the journey of my escape from the JWs, I discovered that I was not religious. So, I never had a desire to even consider another religion or church.

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Interest rates are up again.

by Fisherman in

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any economy people here who can explain how this will affect us economy?.

NewYork44M

You need to put this into perspective. In 1979 my first mortgage was 8.5%. A few years later interest rate peaked well into the teens. I had a 12.5% mortgage interest rate for a few years.

We still have interest rates that are the lowest in generations, if not the history of modern finance. I have no idea what will happen over the next few years, but we are still seeing historically low-interest rates.

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How many years did you waste away in the Org?

by Tallon in

in my case; 27 years.

7 of which were as a ministerial serpent ... sorry, i mean 'servant' ;).

NewYork44M

I was born in. I awakened when I was 35 and finally disengaged at age 45. It would be a mistake to say that every year was a waste. But many were.

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Does Anyone Know The "Real" Attitude That JWs Have Towards "Inactive Ones"?

by minimus in

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does the rank and file or the elders view us as disassociated or disfellowshipped or simply "weak" or possibly a "prodigal son" type?.

NewYork44M

The view of the inactive is forgotten. I don't think it takes long to be fully forgotten by the r&f.

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GETTING FIRED VS QUITTING

by TerryWalstrom in

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getting fired vs quitting_________________________my specialties in life are great and many, but none more fabulous than the talent i've possessed for getting fired and/or quitting a job.how many jobs and careers i blazed through would spin your head!

suffice it to say, more than you've time or patience to hear.. there is something in my psychology and verbal arsenal too prone toward candid criticism!

i find myself blurting out what i really think before even i can stop myself.i worked for an art gallery owner once who had everything going for him except good sense.

NewYork44M

If a person reaches a "certain" age and never been fired it is probably because they are leading a much too cautious life.

I have quit and/or been fired a few times in my life. In more than one situation there was little distinction between the words of quitting or being fired. Let's just say we mutually agreed to move on.

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Local Elder Mentions this Site from the Platform

by James Jack in

a local elder had the part this week on the "good news" brochure.

he said: "if the householder has any questions, direct them to jw.org, don't say, just look up jehovah's witnesses on the internet(an older sister said this at the door), if you do they will be directed to a site visited by apostates and weak witnesses!

" "this mistake, would cause the householder to never accept bible truth".. i thought to myself, wow, i'm sure some listening to this part, will get curious now(many in the hall are just being exposed to the internet, and practicing with their new tablets) and do, just what they were told not to do..

NewYork44M

It is silly to think that they can prevent the r&f from doing google searches of their own religion. It sounds like the speaker did his own search. Otherwise, how would he know?