Um...I have to agree with the people wondering what the big deal is. This is common in larger venues when the attendance won't nearly fill out the place because, yes, they don't want to have to clean the whole place. Just because JWs are involved doesn't mean that suddenly it is a control issue or something...seems that people are overanalyzing a situation whose explanation is much simpler in truth. Yes, the idea that the crowd being together in a large venue instead of being dispersed throughout the place is also valid but considering that this happens in other situations (always happened in school, sometimes even at sparsely attended sporting events), I wouldn't call this something indicative of "Watchtower Thinking" either.
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Bizarre Assembly Seating
by metatron inonce again, brothers try to strangely compensate for reduced attendance by roping.
off sections and compressing everybody into a smaller area.
is this nuts or what?.
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Amazing How So Many JWs Practically Worship The Literature...
by cypher50 inrecently, i had to help my mom move from ny...she has just retired and has been a witness for over 30 years.
i wouldn't call her devout in that she never misses field service or that she would walk through horrible weather to get to a meeting but she is devout in a sense that she will believe whatever the wts puts before her.... anyway, my two older brothers who are also "in the truth" were helping go through what stuff we were going to move when we came to her literature stash.
my mom is an extreme packrat and we had been throwing so many items that she had bought over the years without even opening the boxes (the items got old & musty so they were unusable to others .
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Recently, I had to help my mom move from NY...she has just retired and has been a witness for over 30 years. I wouldn't call her devout in that she never misses field service or that she would walk through horrible weather to get to a meeting but she is devout in a sense that she will believe whatever the WTS puts before her...
Anyway, my two older brothers who are also "in the truth" were helping go through what stuff we were going to move when we came to her literature stash. My mom is an extreme packrat and we had been throwing so many items that she had bought over the years without even opening the boxes (the items got old & musty so they were unusable to others ) and the literature was just so many extra copies of Awakes, Watchtowers, & books that were never placed or from when us kids were studying while growing up. Going with the flow, I was about to just chuck the extra items because no one was obviously going to ever use them but my brothers became defensive about making sure that no literature was destroyed!
It is so ridiculous to me how reverent some people become of the literature made by the WTS. I am not insulting current witness or making this a case of "they are so stupid" because I probably would of done the same thing just a year ago...it just amazes me that the WTS has such a strong mental hold on people. It is to the point that people feel intense guilt for just ridding themselves of extra useless literature...
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For Those Who Have Cartoon Network...
by cypher50 inyou should watch or set your tivo to record the venture brothers tonight (a spoof show on the old johnny quest cartoons)...basically, there is a superhero mer-man who is also a jehovah's witness....
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Teen Titans is cool...my favorite character on that show is Raven . But Aqua Teen Hunger Force is the best cartoon on the network...Meatwad make the money see, Meatwad get the honeys G. Drivin in my car, livin like a star, ice on my fingers and my toes and I'm a Taurus.
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For Those Who Have Cartoon Network...
by cypher50 inyou should watch or set your tivo to record the venture brothers tonight (a spoof show on the old johnny quest cartoons)...basically, there is a superhero mer-man who is also a jehovah's witness....
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Yup, that is the same one...glad someone else watchs...
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For Those Who Have Cartoon Network...
by cypher50 inyou should watch or set your tivo to record the venture brothers tonight (a spoof show on the old johnny quest cartoons)...basically, there is a superhero mer-man who is also a jehovah's witness....
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You should watch or set your TiVo to record The Venture Brothers tonight (a spoof show on the old Johnny Quest cartoons)...basically, there is a superhero mer-man who is also a Jehovah's Witness....
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Those poor old Packers!
by onacruse in.
lol...sorry, but i just couldn't help but take a "whack" at those few, very few, poor pathetic green bayers on this db!.
craigster
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What can you say...football is turning into a very cyclical game as far as success goes because of free agency so it is apparent that Green Bay is soon to be in that ugly "rebuilding" stage.
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What's Up with Prince??
by Flash inby jake coyle, associated press writer
new york - prince, now a jehovah's witness, has toned down his mojo, but the purple one can still pack a political punch.
his new music video, "cinnamon girl," is a big-budget production that follows the hardships and confusions of a teenage arab-american girl in a post 9-11 america.
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It's Prince's mojo that I think will eventually derail him as a JW. You can only deny your true nature for so long and then it just starts to ooze out of you from every pore.
Prince is a very passionate and sensual person. He is going against that to be a prim and wholesome brother *gag*.
I disagree because you also have to factor in that many times the elders & Society use a different standard when it comes to the wealthy & famous. Unless Prince does something so heinous that it would bring enormous reproach on the WTS itself, I doubt he will be derailed as a JW. Now, if he gets conflicted and decides to leave it will be different...
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WT New Building Proposed in Brooklyn Turned Down
by blondie innew bethel building plans vetoed
marty gives thumbs down to witnesses plan .
by jess wisloski .
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Just why do they need to build on this land anyway?
Its been vacant for 12 years because they had to cancel plans to build new printing facilities. Also they have an empty building at Adams St.
1,000 bedrooms, 2,500 seat hall, 1,600 seat cafeteria, 1,100 parking ??? What where they planning for?
If you have ever studied the property that the Witnesses own in Brooklyn Heights, you know it is extremely valuable & coveted by many people. Many of the residential complexes have been restored beautifully and I am pretty sure that if the Society finally consolidated their residential spaces then they would sell those restored properties at a very pretty profit.
I am glad that this proposal got struck down...even when I was a JW, I knew enough about the architecture & neighborhood fabric of Brooklyn Heights to see that the WTBS was a hindrance in that neighborhood. People don't like the JW's there because the WTBS isn't a good neighbor...
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How Many People Are Less Stressed Since Leaving The Witnesses?
by minimus indo you feel better----emotionally and mentally since stopping meetings and living under the rules of the witnesses?
i've heard reports of better physical and mental health since persons have left the organization.
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cypher50
I would love to say that life is all great and happy now that I found the truth about "the truth"...but it is a mixed bag of emotions for me. Somedays, when I am studying about politics or listening to music that some JW would of disapproved of, I feel so happy that I left behind the silly superstitions of Jehovah's Witnesses. However, many days I feel bitterness for being denied all the things that other people my age did while they were kids, I get depressed because I have no one to just talk to about my feelings (and thus, I internalize a lot of things), I feel rejected because I have trouble making friends with people my own age. In a way, being raised a JW has prematurely made me an old man in many of my tastes and yet I am like a child when it comes to social interaction with people...
Would I disassociate myself again if I had a way of repeating things? In a heartbeat, I feel at peace spiritually for the first time in a long long time. Less stressed though? Not right now...readjusting to the real world has been a hard experience for me.
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Maybe she needs to be taught why this time of year is called hurricane season...there just might be a chance that more then one hurricane strikes in awhile. Also, it isn't like it is the first time that this many major storms came in such a short span of time...