Topics Started by CC Ryder

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Most Embarrasing Witness Moment from Childhood
by Perfection Seeker in
1. jw
2. experiences
anyone on here have a "most embarrasing witness moment" from childhood?

mine is from 7th grade- that was 20 years ago- but i still cringe when i think of it.

almost too hard to write down- but maybe it will be therapeutic & part of the healing process?
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??? what would you change ???
by zev in
1. jw
2. experiences
if you had the power, and ability to change one thing in your life, be it a major life changing thing, or a small but significant thing, tell me what and how you would do it, and how it actually was, and how it would be different after the change.

please don't include jw'ism as that's something we would all want to change

if you tell me yours, i'll tell you mine
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Mom, Where Have You Been?
by Sentinel in
1. jw
2. experiences
dear friends,.

just to remind you, my mom has been a faithful jw borg since 1959. she will be 78 in a couple weeks.

she is a widow and lives alone.
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Speech Counsel Point - TIMING
by Mister Biggs in
1. jw
2. experiences
theocratic ministry school (tms) pet peeve of mine is found below.

please feel free to add any that you find as annoying and hypocritical as mine.... last night, brother gramaton* delivered the # 2 talk (bible reading).

he received all of this "wonderful, upbuilding" counsel from brother hank*, the school overseer.
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Are you socially retarded? - For the newbies
by Billygoat in
1. jw
2. experiences
don't let this title startle you.

i'm not starting a flame war.

this is something that i've thought a lot about since i have two dogs.
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Watchtowers million dollar scam
by GeddyLee in
1. jw
2. experiences
back in the late eighties i was on the committee to build our cities new double kingdom hall so that all five halls would be under one roof.

we needed to come up with five hundred thousand dollars to complete the new hall, so we had a kingdom hall fund drive where the local brothers would raise the needed funds.

after two years we had collected the half million dollars, and guess where that money went????????
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NASHVILLE TENNESSEE
by recoveringexjw in
1. jw
2. experiences
if u live in or around nashville please reply thru the post
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Anyone from Knoxville, TN area or Hazard?
by ConnieLynn in
1. jw
2. experiences
i am looking for old friends that may have left the jw's.

i grew up in seymour, tn but knew lots of folks from knoxville area...1980's until 1990's.

was in hazard, ky for a while as well.
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Arrested for going kingdumb and dumber hall!
by D wiltshire in
1. social
2. current
arrested for going kingdumb hall!.

last night (3/21) the mountain view (ca) police arrested me.. this happened as i was attending the sunnyvale congregation service meeting.. i was dfd last july and was told by the elders the conditions for reinstatement were meeting attendance, repentance along with not speaking to anyone or anyone speaking to me (shunning at its finest).

(btw, i was dfd for apostasy).
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That was then, this is now...
by Flip in
1. jw
2. friends
jw attitudes are not what they used to be in watch tower land, and theyre changing rather quickly.

in fact, many here have stated that they expect the societies attitude to go mainstream some day.. compared to the time of my tenure as a jehovahs witness, the wtbts is already there; at least the perks are getting better, less window washing and cut-rate travel in the company of persons that guarantee a preferred profile.. to illustrate, check out the link.

apparently, just before the imminent destruction of this old, weary, wicked system of things takes place, jehovahs witnesses (in good standing) might as well create an industry and enjoy discovering what was once considered the devils playground while they urgently wait for jehovah to spring the big a and prang all the householders that should have been preached to while jehovahs publishers were out having a ball.. im all for a good time but a little skeptical about that twin towers complex tour though.. .