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  No more 3-day DCs starting in 2013?

  by respectful_observer in

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  apologies if there is another recent thread on this, but i have heard from 4 different people in 3 different geographic areas (including someone who does advance work for the dcs), that beginning in 2013 the three day dc program will be replaced by a second two-day circuit assembly.

  some people were passing the info along like a secret, others seemed to think that everyone already knew.. if everyone in j-dub land is already talking about this, how is it not all over this forum??.

  anyway, can anyone confirm or deny?.

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  sseveninches

  That's a bunch of BS. The book study merge didn't help to "save gas" (in our case at least) because it was on Sunday mornings for us, right before the field service meeting. After the merge, the field service meeting stayed, but the meeting didn't, so it didn't make a difference. I was really hoping that I could enjoy my Sunday mornings at home, but that was quickly shot down.

  And besides, not everyone drives. But of course the WTS thinks that because they base everything off their American tendencies and culture.
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  I AM THE NEW MEETUP ORGANIZER FOR EX-JW's IN MICHIGAN

  by AK MCGRATH in

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  hi all you fellow michiganders.. i wanted to make you aware that the meetup site entitled, "ex-jehovah's witnesses of michigan" will not be disolved.

  i decided since today was the last day before it would be no more, i should step up, and so i gladly did.. seeing that there has not been one meetup since it's inception, i plan to change that.

  i know there is at least one person from here who is registered with our meetup.

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  sseveninches

  I'd love to organize a meetup for ex-jws/physically in-mentally out jws for my area, but the thought of just who would show up just might stop my poor old heart - okay, maybe it wouldn't stop, since I'm only in my twenties, but I do have a few hunches as to who in my congregation is in the same boat as me...I just don't know how to make a move, and if I can trust them.
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  Thank you, Watchtower!

  by Chariklo in

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  increasingly, i find myself resistant to any form of religion that dictates exactly what i should believe, what i should wear, down to the last skirt to meeting, or what i eat, what i read, what i watch, and denies me my god-given right to think for myself and to use the brain he gave me.. that's what i've gained from the watchtower.. thank you, watchtower!

  you've done a good thing!

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  sseveninches

  Which is why you can't go to college and you can't use the internet unless you're going to jw.org/watchtower.org.
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  No more 3-day DCs starting in 2013?

  by respectful_observer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  apologies if there is another recent thread on this, but i have heard from 4 different people in 3 different geographic areas (including someone who does advance work for the dcs), that beginning in 2013 the three day dc program will be replaced by a second two-day circuit assembly.

  some people were passing the info along like a secret, others seemed to think that everyone already knew.. if everyone in j-dub land is already talking about this, how is it not all over this forum??.

  anyway, can anyone confirm or deny?.

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  sseveninches

  I'm assuming this to be true, since there are so many point of views that agree with each other. It's certainly a welcome change...three days back to back were such a drag. But I agree - seven days, 12 hours each day...that is a test!
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  Haven't attended KH in 3 months...

  by 2tone in

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  i haven't attended the kingdom hall in over 3 months now.

  it really is a great feeling.

  no dreading the thursday night or feeling like your weekend is wasted because of sunday morning.

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  sseveninches

  Nice! One of the biggest things I dread about being a JW is how I basically have no weekends. Saturday I have to go out in FS (since I can't during the week), and Saturday afternoon is a meeting. Sunday morning is when the FS groups meet to go out in FS. Almost all of the local events happen on Saturday and Sunday mornings - like bike rides, farmer's markets, tours, meetups, etc., and I haven't been able to attend ANY of them because of the weekend FS. Once I decide to attend one of these events instead of going out in FS, I suddenly value entertainment more than Jehovah (the WT).
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  That's right, beeotch! Pour my coffee and go own with your cult self...

  by undercover in

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  noroomforgeorge must be drooling over this wt illustration.

  the (1950s) woman of his dreams.... .

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  sseveninches

  I also don't like what they're insinuating with the 'unbeliever's' clothing. That's what I wear around the house, at least when it's cold. Usually you'll find me in some shorts, and sometimes a shirt. I don't lounge around in my home with a polo shirt tucked into my khaki pants and my dress shoes on.

  And the newspaper...I guess it's supposed to mean that JWs aren't supposed to read newspapers, but rather the WT literature. Right. The more uninformed we are, the better.
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  That's right, beeotch! Pour my coffee and go own with your cult self...

  by undercover in

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  noroomforgeorge must be drooling over this wt illustration.

  the (1950s) woman of his dreams.... .

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  sseveninches

  Cedars: " What I want to know is, why has she bothered taking a bag to the hall with her if she still insists on carrying her bible and study magazine?"

  That's exactly the remark I made when I first saw the picture.
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  The WTS is sticking their nose in married couples

  by sseveninches in

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  sseveninches

  Sorry about that. The real post is here - http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/228144/1/The-WTS-is-sticking-their-nose-in-married-couples-bedrooms-again
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  The WTS is sticking their nose in married couples

  by sseveninches in

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  Yes the WT Told Millions of Youth NO COLLEGE!!

  by JT in

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  *** watchtower september 1 1975 p.543 questions from readers *** .

  how many years of secular education are advisable for children in christian households?

  today, there are many teenage baptized servants of jehovah... how far should they go with a secular education?

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  sseveninches

  One of my biggest regrets...is that I (and a few other brothers) commented during the meetings that WT isn't asking people not to go to college. As clear as it is in English, in French it's a little different. Higher education is translated in French by the WT as "grandes études", which literally means in English "LONG studies", which everyone understood to be studies that were longer than four or 5 years, like medical school which is at least 8. Now that I know that it means higher education in general, I will go around and advise everyone (starting with my father) that the WT is indeed referring to college.