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Time again for........ Congregation roll call
by Jourles in
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2. experiences
it's been a while since this topic has been brought up.

use it as a chance to see if there is someone you might know from years past.

1973-1976 --- lakeside, ca??
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Do jw youths understand
by carla in
1. jw
2. friends
do jw youths understand that if they just didn't get baptized their parents would not be able to shun them later?

they must be able to see how this works in other families.

is it feasable for a jw teen to reject baptism?
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Being raised as a Depressed JW...
by Smoky in
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2. friends
...i was never happy, always thinkin this is it and holding back on everything that i wanted to do, why?

because that is what is taught being a jw kid.

it seemed to me that it was wrong to have fun, so i did not have any fun.
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While You Were A JW, What Things Struck You To Raise Your Eyebrows?
by minimus in
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2. friends
i'll never forget the time the circuit and district overseers told the elders that from now on the elders would be solely responsible for all judicial matters and that if anyone was going to get sued, it was not going to be the society.

at that point, the 2 overseers laughed outloud.

i knew we were going to get screwed for sure because the watchtower society was already setting us up.
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WT decision makers = hopelessly out of touch
by watch the tower in
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2. experiences
i worked at the hq for a few years in the 90's and i've personally known and met several influential bethelites during my time there.

these are brothers that have been there 20-30-40+ years and hold various degrees of authority within the org.

looking back and thinking about these ppl, i can't help but comment how out of touch these people were.
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Zoo time and silly things
by Quentin in
1. jw
2. friends
i sent an e-mail tonight that got me all nostalgic.

when i was in my late teens myself and two or three others from the kh would go over to forest park in ft. worth, usualy winding up at the zoo, it was free back then.

all of us being jws we had a lot of pent up energy and would invent games to play, which often involved chasing each other around with water pistols, this we did at the zoo.. we had another past time.
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Napoleon Dynamite = CRAP!
by sonnyboy in
1. social
2. entertainment
my gawd.

i noticed that the movie got decent reviews and i didn't really hear anything bad about it, so i gave it a chance on hbo tonight.. .

these stupid ass reviewers got duped.
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White Blood Cells, Red Blood Cells both pass between mother and baby.
by ithinkisee in
1. watchtower
2. medical
the society claims that certain components of blood will not violate conscience because they already pass naturally between mother and fetus.

(funny how they tell me what violates my conscience, but that is another story) anyways, here is their reasoning:.

watchtower of june 1, 1990, pages 30 & 31 .
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An odd experience I had the other day...............
by nicolaou in
1. jw
2. experiences
my job took me to a residential part of town that i would never normally have any reason to go to.

i had to go to a specific address.

i found it quite easily and parked the car about twenty yards from the customers home.. i had a sense of deja vu - but an unpleasant and rather disturbing one.. i took a good look around me.
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200 JWs Go Bowling on Christmas
by blondie in
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2. friends
http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2002/12/22christmasaholid.html

christmas: a holiday of many hues.

activities range from secular scenes to doing nothing at all .