What if we were never that devout? Does it count as rebellious or does it fall into the category of normal but stuck in a cult?
FadeToBlack
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What was the most rebellious thing you did while you were a devout jw?
by DuvanMuvan ini was just thinking about how humans being imperfect and satan's influence was the root of everything bad that anyone has ever done.
well i know that apparently everyone is vulnerable which got me thinking about what "bad" things people have done while they were a jw.
i'll start it off.
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David Splane in Poland today
by FadeToBlack injust got back from watching jw.stream presentation at our local kh of a 'special' meeting at ursus assembly hall in warsaw.
all the congs in the country were tied in, but some will be watching replay later in the day.
there were 3 parts.
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Mr. Spane also mentioned that the thorn in our flesh could be the brother or sister in our congreagation with their own rules. Not the rules found in the bible or in the organizations publications. I was like: Hello, anyone listening?
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Shared some TTATT with my wife and now she wants us to have a weekly personal bible study
by suavojr inhere is the situation.... a young 19 year old in our congo had a fallout with his parents because of all the restrictions and jw dogma and moved out of the house last wednesday.. to make the story short, the parents went running to the elders and what was the comfort?.
coe said: i saw that coming!
your son never reached out to get baptized.. then the other elder said: don't worry, you still have one left that will be saved.
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Start from the beginning. I doubt you will make it to Exodus. Just ask questions about what you read.
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Hello, I am new
by LillyC ini am not a jehovah's witness but i am very interested, i have many questions and hope they can be answered here.. i do believe in god, privately.
i do say my prayers daily and do believe god helps me in countless ways.
but i don't go to any church.. i have always been impressed at how smart, polite and nice jehovah's witnesses are and i always make time to speak to them when they call at my door.
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FadeToBlack
Welcome. Many of us were there once and made the same observations. Please, do you homework. You can start with jwfacts.com. Ask questions now... You can't ask them later.
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David Splane in Poland today
by FadeToBlack injust got back from watching jw.stream presentation at our local kh of a 'special' meeting at ursus assembly hall in warsaw.
all the congs in the country were tied in, but some will be watching replay later in the day.
there were 3 parts.
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@fastJehu: I will try to confirm with my wife that is what was said. He for sure did not say, mag or other publication with link to jw.org. I did not know there was a rumour about business cards with jw.org included on it. It would make sense though. Maybe that is what the troops will be handing out during the special campaign this August.
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David Splane in Poland today
by FadeToBlack injust got back from watching jw.stream presentation at our local kh of a 'special' meeting at ursus assembly hall in warsaw.
all the congs in the country were tied in, but some will be watching replay later in the day.
there were 3 parts.
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@designs: I didn't know what the special event was about, only that it was going to be video streamed. I was guessing maybe some announcement about trivial org changes, so when I heard that Mr. Splane was the main event, I was looking forward to some fireworks based on past comments here about his prior performances. I was disappointed. It was not a very animated talk. Perhaps, the pace changes when a translator is involved and he can't get too worked up about anything.
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David Splane in Poland today
by FadeToBlack injust got back from watching jw.stream presentation at our local kh of a 'special' meeting at ursus assembly hall in warsaw.
all the congs in the country were tied in, but some will be watching replay later in the day.
there were 3 parts.
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@hoser: no issue with mic's this time. They had those thin stick type mic's attached to the podium, so the speaker could do it his way.
@tresdecu: no, I'm not Polish. My wife is, though. We moved here several years ago from the states to take care of her mother. I like it here, she would like to go back to Canada.
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David Splane in Poland today
by FadeToBlack injust got back from watching jw.stream presentation at our local kh of a 'special' meeting at ursus assembly hall in warsaw.
all the congs in the country were tied in, but some will be watching replay later in the day.
there were 3 parts.
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FadeToBlack
Just got back from watching JW.Stream presentation at our local KH of a 'special' meeting at Ursus assembly hall in Warsaw. All the congs in the country were tied in, but some will be watching replay later in the day. There were 3 parts. First, 30 minute sales rally for the team describing work accomplished in the last year and an upcoming campaign in August that will be 'historic' in its scope. Related to 100 year anniversary, oh joy! Not a single scripture read or quoted in this part.
Next of course was WT summary. This week sounded like more encouragement for young people to pioneer after basic school completed. Wasn't really paying attention. Some cong's even moved their Sunday meeting to Saturday so they got a full WT study on Saturday and then review on Sunday.
The big show was Mr. David Splane. He did pretty well. First time I have seen him live. Didn't seem like he used notes at all, but at then end I saw that he did have them. The theme was 'Your will be done'. Main focus was on Paul's thorn in the flesh and how he didn't let that stop him, so nothing should really stop us either. Nothing bizarre or strange to report. Pretty much another snore-fest. The Polish brothers seemed incredibly excited. The chairman was almost ecstatic in joy. Splane did mention that on Saturday he had been out in service with the host family he was staying with and that later his wife did some informal witnessing (in French) at a kebab restaurant during lunch. She had some card she gave the owner that directed him to jw.org.
Did get to see a sign-language group in the audience 'singing'. That was about the most exciting thing. 4 more hours of my life gone, but it did make my wife happy. Got the 'nice to see you again' from most of the friends. Same couple of people totally ignored me, even thought they were directly in front of me making field service arrangements for next week with my wife. It was like I was invisible. People were reaching around her to say hello, but nothing distracted her from her mission of getting her schedule filled for the next week.
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Need advice for asking a girl out
by DuvanMuvan inwell long story short, i've been meaning to ask this girl at school out for a while but i can never do it because her friends are always there in the way and i would prefer to ask her in person.
we've liked each other for a while (i was oblivious until about a month or two ago) and i'm also i bit worried she'll get tired of waiting.. i was just wondering if anyone had any advice or something that they could give me.
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FadeToBlack
Great job. At least you tried. Wasn't so bad after all, was it? Maybe one of her friends has her eye on you.... Just be open to opportunity, don't disqualify yourself before the race has started. You have the rest of your life ahead of you.
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Need advice for asking a girl out
by DuvanMuvan inwell long story short, i've been meaning to ask this girl at school out for a while but i can never do it because her friends are always there in the way and i would prefer to ask her in person.
we've liked each other for a while (i was oblivious until about a month or two ago) and i'm also i bit worried she'll get tired of waiting.. i was just wondering if anyone had any advice or something that they could give me.
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FadeToBlack
Duvan, just do it, Life is too short. Do you want to end up old like me one day, and say to yourself: damn, I wished I would have asked that girl out. What is the worse that could happen? You are seeing monsters where there are none. And besides, you need to get used to/learn to accept rejection. It happens. You will be ok...