each year they were showing us our totals as a "mirror"
mirroring how devoting we were....... mine last year was showing a total of 4 hours.....
to say that the elders were concerned was a understatement.....
Service Time Records and Recording
by c5 22 Replies latest jw friends
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Mulan
I usually kept pretty good track on a calendar, but if I forgot to tally the numbers before the meeting, I had to guess at how many hours. When I was a pioneer, I had my time book with me at the meetings, so no fudging there. I wasn't meticulous about counting minutes. All of us just did a "close to" count, because of one of our CO's suggestion. He said "close to what you planned, is good enough".
Later when we were fading, it was totally a false report.
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Sunspot
Disgustingly, I was totally honest in counting time. I figured Jehovah was watching me and I couldn't cheat at it! I'd even "save" any remaining minutes until the next month too.
Soo, how important WAS this? Can we picture on the "day" of reckoning---Jesus holding boxes of our time slips and a clipboard, checking off how many hours we "put in" all those years as we come face-to-face with him?
Will we expect that someone, say, like Mother Theresa will have been refused approval into paradise (whatever it means to you) because she never started a WTS bible study---or placed any WTS literature?
Riiiiiiight!
Annie
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ozziepost
if ever I met a person who needs a new hobby it is you!
LOL @ RR!!
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ozziepost
G'day c5,
You might find this thread of interest:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.a s p x ?id=39415&site=3
It's Weekend Poll #23
Cheers, Ozzie
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alias
I despised that little slip of paper. Deep down I found it contradicting... and as you see from testimony on this board, enabled much dishonesty within people trying to please others.
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c5
You all have good replies!
Sunspot,
yes, when it boils down to it, you summed it up well!
I too felt that jehovah was watching me at all times, even when i filled out my time slip.
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c5
Thanks Ozziepost,
That was a good thread!
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SAHS
I must say that I am completely meticulous in filling out my time! That?s right. I record the two hours I spend on Saturdays attending the field service group, accompanying my elder dad to a couple of return visits (I pretty much learned how to sleep standing up), and going to the coffee drinking / doughnut eating place for the better part of an hour.
I mean, time is time, eh. It?s time that, theoretically, I could have been spending on a part-time second job making money. It?s really on my time, so I keep the old meter running.
?SAHS
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No Apologies
RR
girlfriend, if ever I met a person who needs a new hobby it is you!
I've been telling her that for years!!!
See Cari, it ain't just me!!!
And no, I never really cheated on my time. I was not the clock-Nazi you evidently were, but I tried to stay honest. I never would of dreamed of totally faking time like some here said they did.
No Apologies (of the "I want my 90 hours/month * 5 years back" class)