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  Too close to home

  by JH in

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  when you were going from door to door, did you hate knocking at doors in your neighbourhood?

  i wonder if the elders did on purpose to distribute territories so that you would have to be working in your neighbourhood.. often i noticed that elders gave me a territory in my neighbourhood, just to see if i would be ill at ease.

  maybe they wanted to know if i had worldly friends in my neighbourhood.

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  All of our territory was within walking distance and I worked in my building many a time. Never liked it. People would just look through the peephole and walk away. Classmates and later workmates would ask me about going from door to door sometimes. Then the horror stories would begin.
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  Brooklyn Assembly Hall

  by worf in

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  i have been told that the brooklyn assembly hall located on flatbush avenue in brooklyn new york and otherwise known as the albemarle theatre, has been sold.. has anyone else heard this?

  can anyone here confirm this?.

  thanks for any info.. worf

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  It would seem unlikely this Assembly Hall was sold there are two KH in the basement. Unless they plan on converting space in the factory buildings to meeting places.
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  Bethel / NY City Congregations

  by Siddhashunyata in

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  any speculation on the effect of the absence of bethelites in ny city congregations as the wtbts moves operations upstate?

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  Congregations will probably be disbanded especially English speaking ones. In my old congregation we had over 20 Bethelites and and average meeting attendance in the 70's. This way congregations will be larger and the feeling of increase will keep ones going a little longer.
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  Did anybody get The Bell?

  by Nickey in

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  during the thocratic school during our tuesday meetings, i dreaded hearing the bell.

  *ding* someone had run over 5 minutes and had to cut their talk short.. this part always disturbed me.

  nevermind the fact that these people worked hard to prepare their talk about something they felt was worthwhile, they have to be humiliated and cut off in front of the whole congregation.

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  I once got the bell after 4 minutes. When it rang, I just looked at the ringer curiously and left the stage. Afterward I asked the conductor and he said it was 4 minutes. Maybe the bell ringer was trigger happy. A CO once said to use the pencil tap rather than the bell because of the harshness of a bell ringing, so the bell was retired.

  I was at a Circuit Assembly when a brother giving the BH just froze and kept talking 7, 8, 9 minutes passed. Brother Moske did all he could to get his attention, getting up and slowly walking up behind him. Finally he walked up and told him to stop.
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  Millions now living, expect to be DA'd

  by cyberguy in

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  new strategy to da/df millions who have left.

  i'm wondering if there isn't a new policy of da'ing all those who no longer attend or are inactive "publishers" (find that in the bible!).

  i've read a number of threads on this board whereby people are now being hunted-down, nazi-fashion, if when queried, "are you one of jw?

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  It is puzzling as to the point of forcing someone out by DAing. The year after they'll have to compile a list and go visit again to ask if you want to come back. I will simply tell them I know where the KH is and if I want to go occupy a seat for 5 meetings a week I will. If they take that to mean they should DA me, it's their game played by their rules. I don't seek out the association of the Witnesses and could care less if they crossed the street or averted their eyes at the sight of me.
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  Youngest Partakers

  by Smiles in

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  what is the youngest partakers that you know of?

  other than those children who just wanted to know what the emblems taste like... lol

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  We had two young ones. In the early 70's a bethelite Mike Galloway had to be in the mid-twenties started partaking. He left Bethel shortly afterward to get married and we never heard anything more about him. In the 80's there was another brother in his twenties who was a MS and partook. The PO and another elder had him in the back questioning him. He later recanted. He Iives in Texas and keeps in touch with an elderly sister here on occasion.
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  Circuit Visit / Christmas campaign

  by caspian in

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  sorry that i haven't posted for a while, been moving house and congregation over the last few weeks.. just thought that i will mention, the comments made by our co at the elders meeting on the friday of his visit.. with the elders starting the visits on the inactive in jan and feb, it was suggested by the society to start a week or so earlier to see how many have inactive ones have christmas decorations and so-on.. it was also suggested that if such ones are celebrating a pagan festival, it could be classed as false worship.

  which is classified as a "self-disassociation offence" and hence an announcement could be made to the congregation.. my question is this, is it just our co taking things in to his own hands or is this now national or international policy.

  kind regards.

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  If they came by to disassociate me, I'd tell them to take a picture with them so the congregation would know who they were talking about.
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  The coming "disassociations"

  by Elsewhere in

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  i have seen several threads about how the elders are going to be going around asking people if they still consider themselves to be jehovah's witnesses.

  this will undoubtedly result in multiple da announcements in the coming months.

  i'm curious how the average jw will perceive this and respond to it.

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  As I was baptized as one there is no unbapitzing procedure. If they are coming to visit they must consider the one being visited as JW. Mass announcements of disassociations could very well backfire as some may start to question why so many are leaving.
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  Don't Accept Witness Rudeness!

  by metatron in

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  a lot of what elders ( and others) ask is just plain rude and you should tell.

  i've informed elders that 'inquisitions and interrogations are unchristian.

  and rude'.. imagine people showing up uninvited at your home, asking questions about your private.

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  As an elder on many occasions I had to be the fly in the ointment. I simply did not believe many of the things those brothers would say or do. As a "civilian" I'm not having any of it. On a phone call from an elder last week when he asked what he could do, I made it plain to him that he had already done enough.
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  Talk: JWs are not go to a gym???

  by WingCommander in

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  i remember just a few short years back at my old congregation, there were a few younger brothers and sisters joining gyms and going to work out.

  well, i guess the elders found out that everyone's free time wasn't being spent pioneering, so a talk (down to) was given one sunday on "not letting worldy pursuits take your eyes off the prize" or some shit like that.

  the whole talk was about how we should devote all time to the wts and field service, and that going to or belong to a gym was just a worldly pursuit and that it was just making or bodies "showy".

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  That's the problem when some elder has to publicly go off on a pet peeve. Does this mean the gym at Bethel will be closed?