Topics Started by brokethechain

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Will you attend the Memorial this year? Why? Why not?
by Open mind in
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2. friends
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May 15 2013 WT: "REAL elders skip meals and lose sleep!"
by cedars in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
finally we have the society's expectations of elders in print.. this is from page 9 of the may 15th study edition.... "as indicated by the experiences of the apostle paul, our ministry may result in sleepless nights and times without food.

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6:5) these expressions paint a vivid picture of self-sacrifice and may well remind us of pioneers who give their ministry first place in life while supporting themselves financially.
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As a JW, how did you feel about shunning?
by jwfacts in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i am interested in the answers for a new poll.

also, feel free to suggest other options, wording etc.agreed in full with the watchtower guidelinesagreed with shunning in general, but not for familywas stumbled by this practice but shunned as instructeddid not agree with the practice and secretly associated with disfellowshipped people .

for me personally, i did not agree with the practice and secretly associated with disfellowshipped people, even whilst at bethel.
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What Was Your "Status" Within The Organization?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
were you a sought after associate?.

were you often invisible?.

did other witnesses view you as "exemplary"?.
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When you were a jw....Christmas day...
by carla in
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2. friends
when you were a jw did you get together with family or other jw's on christmas day?

most people have off so it would be convenient.

in my mind, if you got together with family or jw's shared a meal or drinks, perhaps watched a movie or played games you did celebrate the day.
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After A Day In Field Service, Did You Get Euphoric Or A Spiritual High?
by ÁrbolesdeArabia in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i know this might sound silly but field service did provide a strange type of good feelings after i was done.

i called this the "halo-effect" because i felt so "righteous, obedient and good" for taking the weirdos or "the friends" in my station wagon.

vans and station wagon owners in the congregations often get used hard, pile up seven whacks and your off!
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COs and other org heavies - Interest in secular entertainment?
by A question in
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2. friends
in any conversations and dealings you had with organization 'heavies' or their wives, such as cos, dos, missionaries, and so forth, did they ever have a lot of interest in any kind of secular entertainment (movies, tv shows, fiction books, and so forth)?

or did they always discuss only 'spiritual interests'?.
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If you could leave the truth again what would you do differently?
by usualusername in
1. jw
2. friends
if you could leave the truth again what would you do differently?.

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uun .
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Bible from God but not Adam not Literal?
by brokethechain in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i hear some people believe that the bible is from god but because of science and archeology know that there was no global flood and that the first humans go much further back than 6,000 years.

how do you (they) reconcile the geneologies (in number/matthew/luke)?.
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How "spriritual" (cultish) was your congregation?
by brokethechain in
1. jw
2. friends
scaling the level of cult control within the jw organization on a scale of 1-10, i would say bethel life is probably a 10.. i ended up in a downtown big city congregation, and it had a high influx of uber zealous young people from other parts of the country.

and, as controlling as the wt publications are, some elders managed to find ways to add more rules.

a very controlling p.o.