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  Were the elders in your congregation good,bad or indifferent?

  by badboy in

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  the hall i was brought up in they were really great quite a young bunch,(very forgiving)

  we had to move to another hall coz the elders were that useless my dad got sent in to 'sort it out' really lax,

  then when i got married moved to another hall which is basiclly run by one man who they all answer to, you can tell some times the other elders dont agree with him but what he says goes, he is wierd tho ,my friend went to him when her husband beat her up and he said its only like you hitting your 4 year old daughter nothing wrong with it! of course the other elder sat there didnt dare disagree! (thats only one example)

  it strikes me as funny how different halls can have such different ways of dealing with things what ever happened to the holy spirit guiding the only true united organization!
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  First time poster, long time lurker

  by millions now living are dead in

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  i did the fade two years ago and have found this board helpful.

  just want to say thanks.. mil

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  welcome and how did you manage 'the fade?'
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  long time sister told me yesterday that end would be here within 7 years!!

  by PaNiCAtTaCk in

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  i went to the meeting yesterday because the out of town speaker and his wife are good friends of my wife and i. after the meeting we got invited to someones house who was feeding the speaker because they know that we are friends and because ive missed lots of meetings in the last two months and my wife and i need a good love bombing!

  well during our lunch i was complaining about my having braces at 30 and how stupid i looked with them and the 83 year old sisters house we were at told me that i wasted my money on them because the end would be here with 7 years anyway.

  i asked her "do you really think so?

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  kattie i agree with you too thats why i feel so bad for my family my dads 66 and all my grandparents were dead well before then and my dad keeps reminding me of that fact (thats why im meant to get reinstated asap!)

  but even tho id love to i would find it hard to tell my parents the life theyve been living, the scrafices thevye made (and there have been many) have all been for nothing, i would be so cruel, and yet when i was pioneering i thought i was helping some poor old soul to see the light when i said his religon was 'a snare and a racket!'
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  Little Matthew at the Kingdom Hall

  by pennycandy in

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  when my oldest child was about three we were in a kingdom hall with quite a few kids.

  my son was frequently brought to the back room, not for a spanking, but to stretch his legs and take a break.

  later diagnosed with adhd, he could not sit quietly if his life depended on it.

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  i agree seems abit too weird! Poor little matthew!

  i have a daughter, and when she was one i remember visiting my mums hall and sitting with her and she was disgusted at the fact that we brought one unspiritual book for her, appently not only should i have tried to keep a not understanding one year old quiet, i was also supposed to do it using only authentic b&tsociety literiture.

  abit after that she ordered a book from a wittness with all 'baby spiritual friendly' stories in it only to have her cut her lip open the first time she lookedx
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  2005 Barbecue Is Definitely On!

  by Englishman in

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  saturday seems to be much preferred over sunday, so this years bbq will be held on saturday, july 9th, commencing around 2 pm.

  location is our home in weston super mare.

  as usual, the day will be very boozy and proceedings will conclude in the waverley pub.

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  sirona calm down darling thought you knew when you escape dubdom you live on the edge for a while

  thanks little toe tho im sure ill find the drinks! englishman are you sure you dont want any food doing?
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  2005 Barbecue Is Definitely On!

  by Englishman in

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  saturday seems to be much preferred over sunday, so this years bbq will be held on saturday, july 9th, commencing around 2 pm.

  location is our home in weston super mare.

  as usual, the day will be very boozy and proceedings will conclude in the waverley pub.

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  im defo able to come with sirona now hope thats ok!

  tho one of us will prob be driving so if its sirona we will be there on time if its me prob be late, looking forward to it tho slightly scared! (only used to spiritual gatherings!!)
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  DA used to be used for unbaptized DFing

  by rebel8 in

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  does anyone remember this, or was it just a local thing?

  all the time i've spent on these boards, i've never heard anyone mention it.

  just curious.. when an unbaptized publisher was in a situation "warranting" dfing, they would announce from the platform that the person had been dad.

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  Yes they did that in england too, i only just realised that daing was something you could do yourself!

  my friend got daed in 1994 for having a pellet gun in his car, ok he tookit out and scared everyone at the circuit assembly. but he was repentent but coz hewasnt baptized his punnishment was daing, they said he would of been dfed if he was baptized,

  so in england they defo did it that way
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  Exploitation of brothers & sisters

  by LouBelle in

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  in the past i visited bethel and got to 'tour' around.

  here men & women worked their asses off every single day - a full 8 & 1/2 hours a day.

  they had to make sure they were up at the crack of dawn to attend the reading of the day text.

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  it is prison that makes me mad, my family were in it for years before it made them ill!

  and my 17 year old cousin just married a much older man and is going straigfht into bethel (the guy was there already) apparently they dont usually take people that young but she was taught from home and pioneered since 12 so i guess there making an exception.

  makes me mad tho imagine spending your first part of married life ironing 500 mens shirts (its bad enough with just one to keep up to!)
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  Going to a District Convention Undercover, suggestions?

  by frankiespeakin in

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  i'm still undesided but leaning towards going to a few dcs under the cover of a worldly person(i'm really a df'd evil apostate .

  i'm a worldy person that is in love with a jw sister who i work with, we have dated and even have been intimate(that outa perk up the ears of any hatchet man elder), and now she refuses to see me any more unless i become a jw, she encouraged me to go to this convention, but is afraid to be seen with me because she doesn't want people in her congregation to know she has a boy friend.

  i think that kind of story would grab the interest of many sisters or brother and allow me to ask some hard questions about the organization and even allow me to bring up some things i found on the internet about dates and such and not be viewed as an apostate.

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  the manchester one at men arena is 1st to the 3rd of july,

  i will be there i was dreading going but now im excited after reading all these great ideas, i defo want to do something, i know loads that go and only got dfed a couple of months ago so could maybe talk to people without them knowing im dfed, but not sure how i could get that to work for our benefit. going undercover somewhere is prob a much better idea.

  there is a barbeque in the uk i think its the week after the convention, is anyone going to that?
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  Did anyone find the DC encouraging?

  by sweet tee in

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  i remember going to the assemblies and conventions and feeling encouraged by the information that was presented.

  in hindsight, i may have just felt that way because that's how you were supposed to feel.

  i was a 100% brainwashed fool for many years, if the gb said it, i did, i felt it and i believed it .

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  that is so true i absoutely loved them as a kid but know it was just to get dressed up and meet new fellas!

  when i was married they got so hard, just turned into a catch up on who had had a baby (or 10) or who had run off with the milkman etc...

  i know what you mean mutz, i loved the pre and post cleaning work, and its sad thats stopped in the uk, i dont know why but now you have to be invited or something to do it, theyve shot themselves in the foot there coz that would have proberly kept a few young ones going!