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  WHICH MEETING WAS THE MOST BORING?

  by minimus in

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  the more meetings you go to the more drivel you hear.

  elder's meetings were terrible because all you ever did was gossip about how everyone wasn't doing this or that.

  meetings for field service sucked.....enough said on that.

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  Definately the Watctower study! First of all, we had to take an hour at home to study as a family so we would know the answers on Sunday. Then after the Public Talk, the Watchtower study was so damn long, especially when you realized that after song and prayer the Sunday meeting was actually and 2 and a HALF hours long, not just 2. Plus there was no relief in sight because we'd just have to have another meeting after that so that we could spend another couple of hours out in Sunday Field Service (which all good little elders' sons were required to participate in, unless we were taking the speaker out to lunch). The only hope was to end up in the same car group with someone relatively cool.

  Not to mention that the Watchtower studies were just plain uninteresting to say the least. All those types and anti-types and modern-day fulfillments and me thinking "Who comes up with this crap?"
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  Remind You of Something?

  by professor in

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  the jw comments to the scottish press available at the silent lambs website sounded very familliar!

  looks like more outright lying!

  "jehovah's witnesses further believe that it is the absolute right of the victim, his or her family or anyone else to report the matter to the authorities if they so choose.

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  professor

  The JW comments to the Scottish Press available at the Silent Lambswebsite sounded very familliar! Looks like more outright lying!

  "Jehovah's Witnesses further believe that it is the absolute right of the victim, his or her family or anyone else to report the matter to the authorities if they so choose. There are certainly no sanctions against any congregation member who reports an allegation of child abuse to the authorities." [Statement to the Scottish Press July 17, 2002]

  
  Compare:

  "As regards the alleged involvement of children, the [WatchTower Bible and tract Society] submits that children cannot become members of the association but only participate, together with their parents, in the religious activities of the community. In respect of the refusal of blood transfusion, the applicant association submits that there are no religious sanctions for a Jehovah's Witness who chooses to accept blood transfusion and that, therefore, the fact that the religious doctrine of Jehovah's Witnesses is against blood transfusion cannot amount to a threat to public health." [Sworn testimony submitted by the Society in evidence before the European Human Rights Commission July 3, 1997]

  "What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun." Ecclesiastes 1:9.
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  YOU ARE A GOAT!

  by professor in

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  2. friends

  when i "engaged in the worldwide preaching activity"(tm) i was told i was doing a seperating work (namely seperating the sheep from the goats).

  i understand this jw doctrine has changed.

  who are the sheep and goats now according to wts and why is field service no longer the seperation work?.

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  professor

  When I "engaged in the worldwide preaching activity"(tm) I was told I was doing a seperating work (namely seperating the sheep from the goats). I understand this JW doctrine has changed. Who are the sheep and goats now according to WTS and why is field service no longer the seperation work?

  Anyone? Anyone? Buhler?
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  WHAT'S THE WORSE THING YOU DID AT THE MEETING?

  by Mary in

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  2. friends

  i would have to say the worst (aka: funniest) thing i ever did at a meeting was when i sat with the circuit overseer and his wife (many moons ago......) .

  anyway, he was really prim and proper and she was of course, a very submissive wife who barely spoke without her husbands permission.

  anyway, he goes to the platform and starts off by asking th audience: who was ahab?

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  professor

  Lets see, I:

  Played worldly songs on the Kingdom Hall Piano. (Scorpions "Rock You Like a Hurricane" Led Zepplin "Stairway to Heaven" etc.)

  Fantasized about sweet and supple JW sisters and imagined what they may look like naked.

  Made out with a JW sister in the KH parking lot.

  Winked at JW sisters during the meeting. (do you see a theme here?)

  Shared dirty jokes before and after the meeting.

  Took the KH library tapes of the meetings and dubbed over them.

  Talked to disfellowshipped persons.

  Defaced my Watchtower with silly doodles.

  Circulated a joke card about the presiding overseer (got caught for that one: ouch!)

  Didn't always pay for my literature when they were still charging.

  Falsified my pioneer hours and placements.

  Harboured secret contempt for a JW family.

  After being disfellowshipped:

  Call a random Kingdom Hall. Brother or sister answers "Hello, Kingdom Hall". Then say "HA! you just said hello to a disfellowshipped person!" and hang up.

  I'm sure there's more!

  Edited by - professor on 24 July 2002 0:24:6
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  Jehovah use Anti-matter 2 get rid of dead bodies?

  by ISP in

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  hey i wasn't making this up!.

  *** kj 377 20 land of magog no more to threaten mankind ***.

  the unburied dead, those slain by jehovah, will be so enormously many that even the carrion birds and scavenging wild beasts could never take care of their consumption.

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  Doubtless the Almighty God will use some highly scientific means, whether including antimatter or not, to dispose of the surplus of decaying bodies in a speedy and sanitary way.

  Where did they find this information in the Bible? Or did the Holy Spirit guide their hand as they wrote this?
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  Was CT Russell A Leprechaun?

  by D wiltshire in

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  every time i see a picture of ct russell i think man he looks just like a leprechaun.. .

  edited by - d wiltshire on 19 july 2002 1:54:20.

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  professor

  You be the judge...
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  The Coca Cola Corporation

  by invisible in

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  2. friends

  sitting this evening with friends chilling out as you do, most of them anti-global capitalists and coca cola came up into the conversation.. you know, we couldn't come up with anything that essentially this giant corporation was doing or has done that might affect adversely other people elsewhere.

  all they produce is one bloody great drink that everyone loves.. anyone else heard of or have something on this corporation?.

  here's cheers to coke!!.

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  Has anyone tried Vanilla Coke yet? I did. It is yummy.
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  BBC - Secret Database Protects Paedophiles

  by expatbrit in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  secret database protects paedophiles .

  the jehovah's witnesses organisation keeps a sex offenders register that nobody outside the church is allowed to see, a former "elder" tells panorama.

  bill bowen, who has spent his lifetime as a jehovah's witness and over twenty years as an elder, says the organisation covers up abuse by keeping this database secret.

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  professor

  "Some legal experts advise reporting the abuse to the authorities as soon as possible. In some lands the legal system may require this. But in other places the legal system may offer little hope of successful prosecution."

  I can't believe I accepted this kind of double-talk as information when I was a Witness.
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  What's the "need" of this gathe...

  by beroea in

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  2. friends

  even posting not so often, but with pleasure and feed-back as well, i do wonder why former-jw and i as well with my own subjects - have this "need" to gather and to discuss subjects related to wt.

  some seams to use close to hours each days in front of the computer.

  i don't see many other web pages of former-catholics or former members of other religions (not of my knowledge - i can be wrong).

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  professor

  Professor, I would like to add that the friends made here are not conditional friends. I see true caring for others here, one of the major fallacies of the Kingdom Halls. Their friendship is conditional on towing to the party line completely.

  spoken like a true Jedi!
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  What's the "need" of this gathe...

  by beroea in

  1. jw
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  even posting not so often, but with pleasure and feed-back as well, i do wonder why former-jw and i as well with my own subjects - have this "need" to gather and to discuss subjects related to wt.

  some seams to use close to hours each days in front of the computer.

  i don't see many other web pages of former-catholics or former members of other religions (not of my knowledge - i can be wrong).

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  professor

  It's nice for people to know that as many friends as they may lose because of exiting the Watchtower, there are many more friends to gain.