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  Strangest place you ever.....

  by thepackage in

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  whats the strangest place you ever where encouraged?

  over the weekend i was at a birthday party for a close friend.

  half her family is hard core jw and the other half are inactive, she, her siblings and her parents are inactive and do the memorial thing, any ways, while at birthday party and one of her hard core elder uncles and his family where there and he was drunk of his ass!!!

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  Worldly Shunning

  by alice.in.wonderland in

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  i hear quite a bit of criticism about jehovah's witnesses enforcing 1 corinthians 5:9-13. while jehovah's witnesses have a formal system of maintaining the organization's core values; egocentric, self-worshiping secularists have an informal system of rejecting those of whom they have nothing in common with.

  http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth-32-390-religion.aspx.

  most major religions have believed in the existence of a supernatural realm, a realm beyond the natural world of physical objects and bodies governed by causal laws, the world we perceive with our senses and can study by rational methods.

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  Name Things JWs Make Issues Over They Have No Right To Do

  by minimus in

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  the witnesses are worse than the pharisees ever were!.

  if you don't turn in a time slip and record your "ministerial" activities, you are no good.. if you wanted to smoke, you would be kicked out, even though the bible says nothing about smoking (and j.f.

  rutherford, the society's president regularly smoked).. you cannot go to a "quick build" project and give of your free services if you are wearing a tee shirt with a logo on it!.

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  Did You Know Any Jehovah's Witnesses That "Did" Drugs?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my teenage daughter suggested to me that certain kids in well connected families were regular pot smokers.

  it was always hush hush because of their connections but evidently it was common knowledge within the "in" crowd.. i knew some adults that were on prescription pills but they had legitimate excuses for being "happy".

  of course, most jws i know of, medicate themselves on booze..

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  How many you you hated to wait in the car while someone was on a good call!

  by life is to short in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  something i have not heard before on this board is waiting in the car out in service or any of the woman who were elders wives waiting on their husbands while in an elders meeting.. i was 24 years old when i got married to an older man he was 41 and had been an elder for about 12 years.

  i truly loved my husband when we got married.

  i truly loved him like crazy.

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  What year Did you Stop Attending Meetings - How Long were you a JW ?

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm trying to compare some statistics and figures on this to share later in the thread to see if more long-time witnesses are exiting- or are newer witnesses exiting after a shorter period of time.

  and - are more people exiting in the last 10 to 15 years than before.

  so your answers would be helpful in looking into this .

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  "Fancy Dress" and large social gatherings are banned in our Halls! Why?

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  yes we hosted the ultimate "fancy dress" party.

  some did come as cowboys with guns {cringe} pirates with swords {cringe} and a male servant/pioneer came as a female balerina {oh my god nearly got deleted!

  } but what's the big deal!

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  Life On Hold: The CO Visit Week

  by sacolton in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  did anyone have to cancel a vacation trip because it was on co visit week?

  i still don't get why the co visit was as if god himself was in town.

  is it kinda like if the pope were to visit with catholics?.

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  Out of Left Field...Strange things you were told by elders

  by FollowerOfSet in

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  just curious if the crazy was limited to my town or not.. i remember and elder, during a talk about everyone being resurrected that it included all the babies that had miscarried or were aborted, because the big j knew what their hearts were.

  after the meeting, he was telling a couple of us how it also disturbed him that his wife would have to carry someone elses babies and he would be raising someone elses children.. another elder said that we would colonize other planets, and that since the bible never said the big j didn't make other inhabited worlds that there was a whole universe of planets to colonize after armageddon.. anyone else hear crazy crap like this?.

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  What are the outrageous things did the elders do to you?

  by asilentone in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is a true story, more than 10 years ago, i went to the memorial and there was a very hot bible student female.

  we met each other, she gave me her phone number.

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