Yes but think how many days you saved by quitting when you did.
Mysterious
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How many days did you spend in the Hall?
by IP_SEC ini just did some rough (haha) figuring to determine how many days i spent just sitting at the hall during meetings.
i just rounded to the nearest year to be liberal in take into account missed meetings and the like.
i know the number is higher but i dont feel like getting more exact.. this just counts regular meeting times, not before and after fellowship, not fs, meeting prep, or assemblies.. i came up with 349 days.
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Who's Counting "hours"?.... look again!
by upside/down inone time while out in service we saw some mormon's working the same territory.. the inevitable put-down comment was made that "they" only put in two years of "missionary" work in, then their church helps them financially to get "set" in the business world (bastards!).
unlike "us" (the dubs) who slave for the lord our whole life.
and get nothing (in this life).. so i started to do the math... if you just go strictly by "witness" standards of weights and measurements (counting "time"), here's what i came up with:.
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Mysterious
I find it funny that JWs talk about "lip service" being hypocritical when the vast majority of their members do nothing more than that. I used to hope no one would answer the door and if I thought someone might I would make sure my second knock was soft..but if no one was home for sure we had to hang around and you know..make sure know one would come.
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Mysterious
Yeah they remove privileges like commenting, preaching, carrying mics, etc. They also announce that someone has been reproved or as mentioned that they are no longer an unbaptized publisher. And it does carry the stink of death in that no one wants anyone associating with you even if it is an unspoken rule and publicly they are told to help "encourage" that weak one.
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Elders stepping out of bounds
by homme perdu inwhen i was very young the elders told my mother that my unbaptized teen sister could not go to the public park on days that brothers would socialize at due to her lack of morals.
three years ago my brother moved in with my grandmother.
he is baptised but faded from the organization 10+ years ago.
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Mysterious
They would see him as "bad association" and stress that she has no obligation to help or support him, in fact he could damage her spirituality
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Funny FS experiences
by Effervescent ini was just watching an old rerun of "the nanny" where frans mom talks about trying to put spice into her marriage by meeting her husband at the door naked.
fran makes a face and her mother says "meanwhile you'll never see jehovah's witnesses in the building again".
i remember hearing funny stories about people coming to the door naked etc, but nothing quite that interesting happened to me.
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Mysterious
Well someone once said they were busy so the woman taking the door said "I'll be brief", he said "me too" and dropped his pants.
And there was a goat with its head stuck in a fence..an elder tried to free the goat and zapped himself in the forehead on the electric wire. And here I thought we were out to make sheep..
Been mooned before as well.
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Were you ever a victim of the "JW STARE"?
by doodle-v inyou know what i'm talking about... .
for instance, if you go to a meeting and haven't been there for ages.
your stand up during the song and suddenly what seems like the whole cong gets afflicted with the jw stare.
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Mysterious
On the opposite end of the stare there is always the "hand to the face while turning away" look as well. The "if I cant see you you can't see me mentality"
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No JW kids at school today
by Jez inremembrance day today.
i work at the local highschool.
i was surprised to see only 1 jw kid in attendance at school.
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Mysterious
Remembrance day..Veterans Day..Armistice Day..all the same thing.
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Welcome my sister to JWD!
by MelbaToast inhey.. i know you're lurking around here somewhere sis.
why dont you introduce yourself?.
fyi: i have been talking to my sister (who is also df'd) about how this board has helped me.
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Mysterious
We're not so scary when you get to know us, pop in and say hi. :)
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"The path of least resistance..."
by logansrun inif i could have a dollar for the number of times i've heard an "older, experienced" jw talk about young-ones taking the "path of least resistance" and "going to the world" i would be richer than george soros.
truth in fact, for some young witnesses, peer pressure does lead them to forsake the organization and follow (for them) what is the "path of least resistance.
" my experience is that these younger ones generally have only one parent who is a jw and usually "weak" at that.
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Mysterious
In many ways they also hold this true of those who would follow other religious faiths (or perhaps none at all) are also taking the path of least resistance. To me it takes very little effort to follow the letter of the law on everything, to the point where specific movies and books are condemned on assembly parts. Compare that to a close friend of mine who is an atheist. She is a very moral person, the only difference is that her values are based on her own personal beliefs not on what someone decides to impose on her. It's a lot harder to make your own decisions and judgements and live outside the "protective net" of "the society" especially if you were raised in it.
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Christ a gay person?
by Undecided in.
someone sent my wife an email to put her name on a list to prohibit a movie suggesting christ was a gay person.. i answered saying if god and christ didn't care enough to stop it, why should i care?.
ken p.
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Mysterious
Yeah it's an old hoax..it's on www.snopes.com as well I believe.