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  7.3 Million Regular Pioneers

  by 5thGeneration in

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  if all jws truly believed 100%, wouldn't every single one be pioneering?

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  can you tell i'm bored today?.

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  5thGeneration

  Great comments all.

  I've just always found that an interesting question.

  If you lived in Sodom and Gomorrah and truly believed, I don't think you'd be farting around, making money and talking about it for an hour or so every weekend.
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  7.3 Million Regular Pioneers

  by 5thGeneration in

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  if all jws truly believed 100%, wouldn't every single one be pioneering?

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  can you tell i'm bored today?.

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  5thGeneration

  If all JWs truly believed 100%, wouldn't every single one be pioneering?

  5th

  P.S. Can you tell I'm bored today?
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  The reporting of field service time

  by lepermessiah in

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  were any of you really bothered/still bothered by the practice of field service reporting?.

  there was an old post on here that got me thinking how the practice got started.. instead of simply being a tool to monitor the progress of the faith, or to see if the work was done "throughout the earth", it appears to me that it was just a tool used to keep the presses rolling and to see how much literature to produce - along with controlling the rank and file.

  the average jw gives it no thought, its just another "blessing" from the organization when you hear the monthly reports, etc.. the organization is so statistics-driven that they make jesus out to be a ceo with people who need to meet their sales quotas.i'm sure he really wouldnt care if peter and andrew got 20 hours one month and john got 25. wait, maybe thats why john was "beloved" .

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  Service time as a barometer is the biggest pile of BS the congregation does.

  I can't begin to explain the cheating, wife-swapping, porn watching, gambling, cigar smoking, alcoholic, judgmenta, non-Christianl A**HOLE Elders I've had to live with my whole life.

  But at least their service reports always read 20 hours.
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  canada's "zone visit"

  by agent zero in

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  ...the whole of canada hooked up by phone.. no big announcement that it was all a scam, no cancellation of the field service arrangement, just a praise of the new printing press and some regular drab.

  what a waste of my saturday evening..

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  5thGeneration

  Sounds exquisitely titillating!

  So sad I missed it!
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  Vintage colour WT

  by 5thGeneration in

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  anyone know where i can get a vintage colour wt like the one below?.

  i kind of want one with the nice colours, crosses and masonic cross and crown.. i wanted to frame it for my office and just tell people it's part of my truthtm heritage.

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  I've tried Ebay with no success. Family's been JWs for a century now. Surprised I don't have any in my archives myself. A lot was given to Bethel too. A few black and whites still around the family though.
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  The Back Room

  by XPeterX in

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  i was told to have a "conversation" with the elders there and they asked me 35.000 questions about something i had done.anyone ever had similar experience or something funny/weird happened?.

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  Backroom was always just 'reaching out' meetings for me or rating out other people.

  I was squeaky clean.

  AKA my Dad never found the porn hidden in my closet and I never got caught getting bombed every weekend with my buddies!
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  Vintage colour WT

  by 5thGeneration in

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  anyone know where i can get a vintage colour wt like the one below?.

  i kind of want one with the nice colours, crosses and masonic cross and crown.. i wanted to frame it for my office and just tell people it's part of my truthtm heritage.

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  5thGeneration

  Anyone know where I can get a vintage colour WT like the one below?

  I kind of want one with the nice colours, crosses and Masonic cross and crown.

  I wanted to frame it for my office and just tell people it's part of my Truth™ heritage.
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  Chatroulette

  by 5thGeneration in

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  have you heard about this?.

  it is a new level of internet creepy!

  jon stewart discusses in the link (viewer warning it's somewhat crude).

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  5thGeneration

  Have you heard about this?

  It is a new level of Internet creepy!

  Jon Stewart discusses in the link (viewer warning it's somewhat crude)

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/05/jon-stewart-chatroulette_n_486771.html
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  Did you read the literature?

  by WuzLovesDubs in

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  initially i suppose i did.

  i know i over studied the articles for the wt study because i thought my enthusiasm as a study would make me more accepted.

  but after awhile i didnt read the awakes at all except for a cursory glance because i was giving them to people.

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  5thGeneration

  40 years and I never read a yearbook either.

  LOL
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  Did you read the literature?

  by WuzLovesDubs in

  1. watchtower
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  initially i suppose i did.

  i know i over studied the articles for the wt study because i thought my enthusiasm as a study would make me more accepted.

  but after awhile i didnt read the awakes at all except for a cursory glance because i was giving them to people.

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  Funny question because now that I think about it, even back to my pioneer days and MS days, I never actually read the magazines.

  It was always 'same 'ol, same 'ol'.