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  I walked out in the middle of the Watchtower Study yesterday............

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  i'm down to 1 meeting per week and that is even becoming difficult to attend.i read blondie's excellent reviews of the weekly watchtower study and that keeps my sanity when reading the weekly study.

  yesterday,i walked out in the middle of the study and went home because of some comments that were made after the reading of paragraph 5.here is blondie's study article and one comment that was made at the meeting.. .

  clearly, jesus was concerned that his followers too could become distracted by satan's world, even to the point that they might "return to the things behind.

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  RunningMan

  Thank you

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  another Elder's Meeting memory...

  by sibboleth in

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  2. friends

  another story that i'd like to share.

  however, since he is a pioneer - maybe he should be the service overseer and br.

  superfine is not doing things still ?

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  WOW

  If a book was ever printed, ... omg ... too bad those "IN" cannot see

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  My Bethel Experience Part 6

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i 'm sorry all of this is not in order.............i'm writing as all this comes back to me.. my first room assignment was room 33 in the 129 building....it was and old building, built around the turn of the century,...the society owned it but it had worldly people in to.......i'm not sure why but maybe there was a law that provented them from being kicked out or something.

  it was a 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment (about 1000 sq.

  ft.) there were 7 of us in there, all new boys ( less then one year there).

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  The subway, ....

  Never been one one

  So glad I missed this kind of thing. No wonder why I heard stories like some one would leave bethel, and just disappear.

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  I walked out in the middle of the Watchtower Study yesterday............

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i'm down to 1 meeting per week and that is even becoming difficult to attend.i read blondie's excellent reviews of the weekly watchtower study and that keeps my sanity when reading the weekly study.

  yesterday,i walked out in the middle of the study and went home because of some comments that were made after the reading of paragraph 5.here is blondie's study article and one comment that was made at the meeting.. .

  clearly, jesus was concerned that his followers too could become distracted by satan's world, even to the point that they might "return to the things behind.

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  I would have walked out as well

  I can't even think about going at all.

  All-ready I am not looking forward to memorial

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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 2-4-07 WT Study (Justice)

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  comments you will not hear at the 02-04-07 wt study (december 15, 2006, pages 25-29)(justice be done).

  when in particular will god "cause justice to be done"?.

  (luke 18:1; 2 thessalonians 3:13) granted, the coming of "the great day of jehovah" does not depend on our prayers--it will come whether we pray for it or not.

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  Blondie

  You are the best.! I enjoyed this review so much. It was like it was all about me.

  I have never seen so much guilt poured into 18 paragraphs before.

  OR, maybe I was the brain-washed one who could not see it.

  Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

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  If Jehovah isn't the true God then who is?

  by unbaptized in

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  2. bible

  if jehovah isn't the true god then who is?

  if the jehovah's witnesses aren't god's people then who is?.

  please let me know and i need current information, not outdated information regarding the origin of the organization.

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  Great question

  I am glad I don't get into the deep, deep thoughts any more.

  It will be good to see all the comments every-one comes up with.

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  My Bethel Experience Part III

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  don't get me wrong...........there was no one more self righteous then me at 19. moved to kansas at 18 to pioneer and even printed up cards that said............ "have sword with travel"---------contact casarona salina kansas------ aaa (availabe after armegeddon)-----ss (sacred service)...... oh, i was full of myself!

  thought of myself as a spiritual gun fighter.

  to defend truth, justice and all the watchtower bible and tract society stood for.

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  Thank you for so much detail,

  I always wondered what I missed out on.

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  My Bethel experience

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  because of the length of this, it will be done in two parts.

  part 1. i when to bethel march 21,1970. at the time you had to be a pioneer for two years to apply, by the time i left in 1974 they were calling people in who had never pioneered..........average stay was 5 months ( they had signed up for 4 years)..........the reason they left was......well, it was hell.. one of the reasons was, knorr hated bethelites, but he loved the gilead students and why?

  because when they screwed up they were thousands of miles away!........just before i got there, they had kicked out over 60!

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  It was 1970, .. going into 1971, when I wanted to go to bethel.

  One elder talked me out of it. Told me I was'nt strong enough to go.

  reviewing all of this, ..... whew.

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  POLL: Would You Ever Consider Going Back To The Organization?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yes, no or maybe....and why?

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  never, ... Never, ... NEVER

  Why? man made cult ..... who BRAIN-WASH

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  In Memorandum

  by RichieRich in

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  2. friends

  it was the 14th of april last year that i had to sit my mother down and tell her i was an apostate.. i was closer to her than anyone else.

  my father and mother are still married, but he let her raise me as a witness, and that meant it was me and mom.. me and mom in field service for 100 hours in july because she had to make her time as a regular pioneer.. me and mom fighting over what to bring for lunch to the district convention.. me and mom up late at night, when she would berate me, and then unload all her problems on to me.. me and mom and our 4 hour family studies, where we discuss 2 paragraphs of a random book, and then she would browbeat me until early in the morning.. somehow, through all that, i pretended to be a witness for years, just to appease her.

  looking back, i don't know if i loved her, or if i was just afraid of her.

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  Your words are very moving....and I just have to say how sorry I feel for you.

  guilt fault and blame. OMG ... cults destroy familes... and brain/washing continues

  take care of you... so many here express love for you, I know you feel it

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