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  You know you're NOT a JW anymore when...(add some)

  by Flindersgirl in

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  you don't automatically wake up with a headache on sunday morning.... you no longer go around (while in field service) mentally deciding what home you'll "have" after armaggedon.... every item of clothing you buy as a woman is not first assessed for its modesty value.... you no longer worry about the 144,000 watching you have sex...:).

  when on holiday you don't have to find the nearest kingdom hall asap (remember brother and sisters you are not on holiday from jehovah!!!).

  being able to laugh about having a numb ass at the assemblies from sitting and the hilarity in having to tell people that you found the meeting "uplifting" when really you were fighting sleep the whole time.... you no longer have to avoid entire sections of music stores in order to make sure you don't pick up and "demonistic" vibes from backmasked cd's.

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  truth_about_the_truth

  You regularly view and enjoy sites like this. Isn't that right all you lurkers??
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  Elder says "Watchtower is cutting costs"

  by truthseeker in

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  an elder told me the other day that the reason the society is making the awake!

  magazine monthly, is to cut costs.

  didn't tell me that the society were simplifying, or trying to make the awake more kingdom friendly.. nope, just cost cutting.

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  An elder told me the other day that the reason the Society is making the Awake! magazine monthly, is to cut costs.

  What??? I thought it was to focus more on the Bible???!!!!
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  Prognostications of the decline of J.W. and WTBS

  by dostprefer in

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  truth is on the march, who can stop it now?

  emile zola

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  History repeats itself doesn't it?

  i found this to be hilarious:

  Size of Group: Today there are seven women living in small sections of the Canterbury, New Hampshire and Sabbath Day Lake, ME community.

  I guess the religion hasn't technically become extinct huh? Some here say that the WTS will never die out but seems as if they are destined to become a shell of it's former self. That's fine with me...If the shell becomes reduced to a few thousand worldwide, that's as good as extinct to me. Although reduced to 7 doesn't sound too bad either.
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  Do some WT phrases make you squirm?

  by jeanniebeanz in

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  2. friends

  for me it's "the doors of the ark are closing.

  i can never forget as a child, being forced to see the graphic images in the publications showing families, mothers with little babies clinging to a rock and others drowning as the ark floats away.

  fathers shaking their fists at god for destroying their families... it's like some of the little mind control still functioning in there somewhere causing a kneejerk reaction of uneasiness.... are there any others that bug you?.

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  Antitypical fulfillment

  Happifying, efficacious, heav'n, giv'n, o'er, wondrous

  "blah blah blah blah. Is it not?"

  Why do they address the audience as "brothers"? "Brothers, should we not blah blah blah blah?" Then you see the women nodding their heads. Doesn't make sense.

  As already mentioned, "_______(fill in the blank) Ones". If I am a siamese twin, is it still right to call me that? I would be offended.
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  dubspeak follies

  by what_Truth? in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  what would you think if i told you "last thursday i went to the service meeting at the kingdom hall to hear the presiding overseer give a talk from the platform.

  most of us here know that to mean "last thursday i went to church to hear the head pastor give a sermon on the door to door ministry from the pulpit", a pretty common and straight forward event for a jehovah's witness.

  i asked my pennicostal wife what she thought the phrase meant and she guessed it had something to do with slavery and human sacrifice.

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  The term Publisher. What are we publishing? Does publishing mean knocking on doors and giving out magazines?
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  WT banned music

  by truth_about_the_truth in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  it's been a while since the society has been specific about what kind of music to avoid hasn't it?.

  the last i remember was when the said to stay away from rap and heavy metal.

  that was a while ago.

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  So I guess he thought debased actually meant music wit da bass
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  Another Urban myth Perpetuated By the WTS

  by BluesBrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it is funny how some things stick in your mind .

  this little point about a man supposedly swallowed by a whale, then rescued, stayed with me and i certainly used it in the "field ministry" in order to support the jonah account.

  *** g70 5/22 p. 11 the great sea monsters ***.

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  In 1891 the English whaleman, James Bartlett, was swallowed by a sperm whale

  Wow, you actually can use "swallow" and "sperm" in the same sentence and not be drrrrrrrrrty.
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  Does the WTS's past matter?

  by M.J. in

  1. watchtower
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  i know, i'd jump into this topic by saying, "heck yeah.

  they're the ones saying they've been appointed by god based on what they were doing back around 1914-1919.

  " but i'm trying to help someone out who has reached a roadblock with his wife.

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  truth_about_the_truth

  Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past. ---- 1984 by George Orwell
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  In the last days there will be a witness to all the inhabited earth........

  by holly in

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  and then the end will come.. something like that!!.

  so, for those who believe the bible, who are these people and what scripture would back that?.

  holly

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  Jeff,

  Amen. Couldn't have expressed it better myself.
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  In the last days there will be a witness to all the inhabited earth........

  by holly in

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  and then the end will come.. something like that!!.

  so, for those who believe the bible, who are these people and what scripture would back that?.

  holly

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  truth_about_the_truth

  Remember Jesus made that quote 2000 yrs ago when he was virtually unknown to the world outside of Judaea. Who today in the yr 2005 doesn't know about Jesus and the message that he brought? Even atheists, buddhists, hindus, whatever know about it beacuse of all the 'witness' work being done for the past 2 milleniums. The idea that JW by themselves need to carry this out is preposterous. You dont need to reinvent the wheel.