It's so nice that the watchtower allows bethelites enough time to devote themselves to university studies
littlerockguy
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Bethelite Attorney-In-Training Receives Award
by West70 ingeneral studies student receives women's forum education award
school of general studies student kathleen apltauer has received the 2005 women's forum educational award.
the award is presented annually to new york city women in recognition of the extraordinary and heroic efforts they have made in order to overcome adversity in their lives.
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What's the most controversial thing you ever did in Kingdom Hall?
by JH ini remember scanning real money and with photoshop pasting the picture of an elder on the bill over the face of the queen.
then i printed many bills.
it looked very real.
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littlerockguy
Vitty:
You must have been one of the people who would get there the earliest, lol
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Is Discussing Jehovah's Witnesses Therapeutic For You???
by minimus init is for me.
i find that when i tell a person exactly how witnesses think and why they believe in things the certain way they do, it feels good!
listening to myself express the craziness of the religion makes me abhor their practices and mind control.
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littlerockguy
It is for me. When I quit going to meetings because I couldn't take it anymore I still believed all of it though I couldn't discuss why I wouldn't go anymore with anybody still in and when you talk to people that dont know much about the witnesses they just look at you with a "so what" kind of response like quit going is just like quitting any other church. This site as well as Ray Franz's books helped me start to break down the walls and helped me escape the mental captivity I have been in for the past 20 years.
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Missed y'awl
by jaffacake inhi folks, got back from hols at the weekend - you were the only thing i missed while away.
i needed the break and chilled out.
just wish i had got online while in florida, to say hello.. will catch up with the news when jetlag weares off, and when i get back from a business trip this week.
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littlerockguy
Been wondering where you slipped off too, then someone said that you were going to be away; I missed your posts saying you were going to the states. Glad to have you back!
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Bethelite Attorney-In-Training Receives Award
by West70 ingeneral studies student receives women's forum education award
school of general studies student kathleen apltauer has received the 2005 women's forum educational award.
the award is presented annually to new york city women in recognition of the extraordinary and heroic efforts they have made in order to overcome adversity in their lives.
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littlerockguy
Yeah back in the 80s I was strongly discouraged, surprised I wasn't marked but may as well have been, when I went to college just to get a bacheolor's degree and those working at bethel dont get any flack for pursuing a graduate degree or more?
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What was the truth when you joined the Org?
by JH in.
when i joined the jw org.
the truth was that we were separating sheep from goats by preaching door to door.. today this isn't so.. name a few truths that were true back then but are lies today.. .
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littlerockguy
The preaching work was to be completed in the 20th century.
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What reaction would you have had from the Witnesses back then if.......
by JH in.
what reaction would you have had from the witnesses if you would have told them, back then when you joined the org, that the year 2005 will come and go, and nothing that the jw's predicted will come to pass.....nothing?
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littlerockguy
you would have been considered a heretic and figuratively burned at the stake.
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WHAT DUB THINGS WILL YOU NEVER FORGET?
by Mary innow as much as no one wants to admit it, we all know that there are things we learned in the borg that we'll never forget even if we live to be a hundred.
what is something that you know you'll always remember (despite your best efforts to forget!
for me, it's matthew 24:14 and the names of the three hebrews thrown into the firey furnace (shadrach, meeee-shack and a-bed-we-go)
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littlerockguy
Matthew 6:33
The JW answer for everything, especially when you broke, unemployed and struggling and trying to support yourself when you are going through hard times. It got to where every time someone would quote me that scripture I wanted to hit 'em upside the head!
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Skirting the issue
by Virgogirl inwhat argument is put forth that women must only wear dresses or skirts to the meetings or in service and are not permitted to wear slacks?
where does it say it's wrong for sisters to wear pants, and how are they convincing women in 2005 to buy into this?
i remember many bitterly cold chicago mornings with frozen legs running to doors and back to the warm car as quickly as possible, wearing a skirt which was ridiculous and inappropriate to the weather conditions.
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littlerockguy
When I was a kid my mother wore pants to the KH when we lived in Japan.
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Perseverance is Key
by LouBelle inright so for the last two months i've been exercising my ass off ..... literally !!!!!
i'm doing body for life.
i go to gym 6 times a week and train for no less than an hour.
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littlerockguy
Loubelle:
You go gurl!!! Do not get discouraged and all that work you are doing is not in vain since the numbers on the scales are going down. Your clothes will still get looser and you will feel better even though those number will not go down all the time. Your body is changing and your metabolism is speeding up and you will continue to lose! In addition to that you are gaining some muscle which will add on weight while you lose fat and you being a woman sometimes your cycle will play a role in your weight as well as fluid (which Im sure you already know this) I went though that this year (stagnet scales) and lost almost 20 pounds this past summer but I have gained a little back since I have slacked off exercise due to a healing 6 inch incision on my lower back from surgery earlier this month. I may have the rest of the sutures removed later today hopefully but it still has a ways to get completely healed.