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  Witnessed to by mail and the dogs attack the tract

  by SeymourButts in

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  a friend, kevin, called me this morning and says to swing by sometime today.....he's got something to show me.

  i get my butt in gear and head to his house.

  he hands me a letter he got in the mail on saturday.

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  I have never seen anything like mail witnessing before....at least not from jws. Is this common? It even had a real stamp on it....no bulk mail. This would be a great way to get service time in without getting a door slammed in your face. I'm sure you could claim 15minutes for each letter you sent out. The time would really rack up and you wouldn't have to leave the couch unless someone showed interest

  This isn't new. It has been done for many years. During the "service meeting" , the constant barrage of do more....do more ...er... I mean the "loving suggestion of ideas on how infirm ones can do witnessing work, letter writing along with phone harrassment witnessing comes up. Letter writing and phone witnessing is also suggested for secure apartment buildings and gated communities that are unaccessable to the salesmen JW needing his/her hours in order to procure salvation and approval.

  Trouble is, it can be expensive for the elderly infirm one on a fixed income to buy those stamps. So even though it is a suggested form of bothering people "ministry", it isn't done too often. Also, I remember when this was discussed at a meeting, we were told not to use the KH return address, but to use our own address since we were the one doing the writing.

  Just another way for Brooklyn to dodge any knowledge or responsibility of what they coerce "suggest" the rank and file to do. In other words.........make and supply the bullets, then use the excuse ....."Some at the time became overzealous and ran ahead of the organization and began firing the bullets at random."

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  Everybody's Free

  by Winston Smith :>D in

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  i was going through some of my old files on my computer and came across this.

  it's from a spoken word song in the 90's if i recall correctly.

  thought it was a nice positive vibe to pass along to the board.. the lyrics(stolen from a wonderful chicago tribune columnist) from the baz luhrmann tune "everybody's free":.

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  Hi Winston,

  Thanks for bringing that song up. I remember it well but never knew the title. When it was popular, it was played constantly in this area. Even though I was and am well beyond the age group it was meant for, I could appreciate and identify with a lot of the lyrics. I was beginning my new life as a fading JW and felt like my life was just starting by GRADUATING into a new dimension........a new career so to speak!

  Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone. "Oh yeah! I'm starting to feel it."

  Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

  Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. " I sure miss them."

  Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts, and recycling it for more than it's worth. "Very, very, very true. Especially no JW advice."

  Don't forget the sunscreen.

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  Recently deleted as elder

  by TheListener in

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  2. friends

  when we last saw our hero he was..... alright, if you've been keeping up with the saga you know that during the week of april 11 i was deleted from the elder body.

  i stepped aside on my own initiative.

  you can read that thread for the non-specific generalities of my situation.. so far noone has said a word to me about it at the hall.

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  Good for you Listener,

  I know the happiness and wonder you are and will feel about your decission.

  Unless you've served as an elder or ms you have no idea the release of pressure I've been feeling. I actually sit at the meetings. That's it, I just sit there. I'm not getting up every 2 second to take care of some mundane matter. I'm not looking at those in my bookstudy to see if they've studied, commenting, listening or whatever. I don't have to listen to all those announcements about endless meetings and special arrangements.

  I've been there and done it!

  HappyDad
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  Un-scriptural & Non-biblical JW terms

  by ljwtiamb in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after a recent 'spiritual' discussion with a relative, it hit me that so much of the jw terminology is not to be found anywhere in the bible or, at best is taken totally out of context.

  yet, it's by these terms & titles that jws approve and condemn each other, the entire world, and worse believe that god even cares!.

  i can just imagine someone at the pearly gates, explaining to peter: 'yeah, but i was a "pioneer!".

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  sticktoitiveness

  I always hated that term with a passion.

  How about NEW LIGHT?

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  14 YEAR OLD JW GIRL ORDERED BACK TO BRITISH COLUMBIA

  by SHUNNED FATHER in

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  2. medical

  i was interviewed on ctv national news and it was aired tuesday night and wednesday morning.. there are a few video clips .

  lawrence the web ctv.ca .

  home.

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  Gary,

  I understand it very well.

  9 years ago, my wife died an agonizing death from ovarian cancer. No help from anyone in the congregation but my "born again" and "catholic" neighbors were here at the house every day to be with her and do what they could.

  I made funeral arrangements. My mother went with me. I scheduled the funeral for Saturday. My phone was quiet at home. I half expected someone from one of the local congregations to offer to help with a lunch after the funeral but none did. We were all Jehovah's Witnesses. Finally I called the best friend of my dead wife's sister and asked her if she could organize a coffee and cake lunch after the funeral. The first thing out of her mouth was "Who's going to pay for it? I'm not gonna!".

  I paid for it all. I was 26 years old. I was a practicing Jehovah's Witness from 1952 until 1974.

  The highlighted part is what I identify with.

  I love my FREE life now.

  HappyDad
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  Truth about Blood Transfusions from the Living God Jehovah

  by TheWord in

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  the truth about blood transfusions from the living god jehovah.

  jehovah is the god of the living, not the dead.

  the true meaning of; no love greater than to give your life on behalf of another.

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  Brownboy, I thought Angharad already warned you about using duplicate accounts.

  You beat me to it Avishai.

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  Wt monuments

  by golden age in

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  2. bible

  i was wondering if the pryamid by russell's grave, and beth sarim (and the other house )are still standing even today.

  where are they located exactly, is it worth the trip to go to see them.

  does beth sarim still have the 100 acres it once did or is it built up, can it be seen from the street.

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  golden age,

  Here are a couple of pictures of the pyramid and tombstone I took last year. I live in the area and have been there several times.

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  Are You A "People Person"?

  by minimus in

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  HappyDad

  Yes...........I know I am.

  There is always plenty to do around the house and yard, but since I live alone, I make it a point to get out a couple times a day to be around other people. It could either be the coffee shop I frequent where I know many of the regulars or (even though I don't drink anymore) the tavern up the street where I know a lot of the regulars. Lively conversation is much better than looking at 4 walls.

  But there are times that I really enjoy my privacy and solitude!

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  JW working the obituaries

  by Icansaylucky in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was reading my local paper this morning and there was a letter to the editor.

  the writer had recently lost a child and the child's obituary was recently printed in our paper.

  the writer said she received a letter with a "jehovah witness tract" called "what help for dead loved ones?

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  In the next to the last congregation I attended, witnessing at cemeteries was a big thing to do on Memorial Day. Their reasoning was that on that day, many people were tending the graves and this was the oportune time to give a resurection witness. Puke...puke! Mother's Day was another big day for this also.

  I never knew of any elders to do this though, including myself.

  How lovely it is to be free!

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  How many of you are still in?

  by IP_SEC in

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  i just thought i'td be neet to get a poll of how many people on this board are still meeting attending, time reporting publishers, who believe the wts is all crap?.

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  HappyDad

  I am fading. Or should I say that I have faded! Started the fade about 1999.

  Last Meeting--------2002

  Last Memorial.......2003

  And no contact from a JW in over a year. I'm sure that one of these days, I will run into someone still in and get asked questions. The few I ran into over a year ago always asked the same question....."Are you still going to so and so KH?" and I tell them............"I haven't been to a meeting in a long time." and leave it at that.

  As much anti JW info I tell all my friends, I expect that one of these days something will be traced back to me and I will get a visit (I haven't answered the door to them for over 3 years. Peep holes are nice!) a phone call (caller ID is great. I don't answer to anyone I don't want to talk to.) or will probably get a certified letter at the Post Office. If that happens, I will ask to see the letter and if I recognize it from them or there is no return address, I will not sign for it.

  HappyDad