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  Lola and her big mouth, stupid, stupid and sooooo stupid

  by lola28 in

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  i posted a little about this last night but i figured i would post the rest for you guys, this is the conversation that i had last night with the sister that studied with me.

  she called me and wanted to know if i had plans for the memorial, i told her that i would not be going this year and the following is the conversation we had:.

  jw: oh no, you can't miss the memorial, if you can't make it to the one in your hall why don't you cme to ours?.

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  Gregor

  Lola!!! You are a Jedi Master!!! over 1300 posts!! There is no way you could have kept your mouth shut. And you shouldn't even try. To deny the person you are inside for the sake of, what? Peers?, Family? I don't know what your circumstances are, but I really hate to see people try to fake it for any reason, although I respect the fact that there are all kinds of circumstances and I try not to judge. But, I do know that it is not good for your spirit to bite back what you know to be true in order to realize some lesser objective. Good luck to you!
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  Did you really, honestly believe that whole old testament malarkey????

  by Wineskin Cowboy in

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  we've all had a good laugh at tom cruise and his silly scientology beliefs.

  engrams and aliens under volcanoes etc, but are they really any less ludicrous than noahs ark???.

  i mean, what about paramecium?

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  News making events in Afganistan and other conservative Islamic regimes over the last few years has helped me to look at the Old Testament from a fresh perspective. It is so similar to the ultra conservative, anti-female, harsh discipline of the mullahs today. Cutting off heads and hands for minor infractions, publicly killing women for showing their faces, denying them even basic education, the parallels go on and on. As far as the supernatural events, like those associated with Moses story, etc. I know that these are simply the fabrications and exagerations common to all primitive religions, pagan or Israelite. Great stories, but please, don't take them seriously!
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  Should I sitll offer my JW clients a 50% discount

  by jwfacts in

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  as a part time job on the side i have been doing income tax for many years.

  i have around 100 clients and 50 of them are jws.

  now that i am d/f i am not sure how many of the jws will continue to use my services.

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  Gregor

  I always felt sorry for a brother who was an auto mechanic. His 'brothers' were constantly chisling repair work. He did the work at his home on eves and weekends and would only charge for parts and sometimes they questioned that! They also seemed to assume that if he repaired something on their old beater that it was guaranteed indefinitely. I would see him getting cornered after the meeting by some cheapskate describing the funny noise his car was making. Sure enough, brother cheapo would bring his car over the next day, and I never heard of anyone offering him a dime for his trouble.
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  Worst/strangest bookstudy group

  by Virgochik in

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  ok, i was reading the "worst bookstudy book" thread, and it got me thinking about the worst book study groups i went to.

  once, my dad was study conductor and the study was held in an elderly sister's home.

  there was antique furniture and doilies on the tables.

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  Gregor

  I remember in the summer when they started meeting for field service at 7 pm at the bookstudy home for a quick 45 mins of door knocking before the Bookstudy. I hated this worse than anything I had ever done, even more than Memorial day cemetary raids. At just about every door people were having dinner.

  We once had the study at the home of a young man who lived with his mother. The study had to end at 9 PM because he could not miss "The Naked City" TV program. So, it was like, "...amen" and the TV went on.

  There was an unfortunate woman who attended with a witness relative. She had been horribly disfigured in a fire, no nose or lips. She wore a scarf over her head because she had no ears. It was a small living room and I remember how uncomfortable eveyone was when she was there. It made for a very long hour.
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  Need an answer...

  by exJW_2004 in

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  hopefully someone will be able to help answer this... .

  my friend is still a jw, but she hasn't been going to the meetings regularly and she hasn't been out in service in ages, so i guess she's inactive.

  a "friend" of hers ratted her out to the elders for something and they now want to meet with her.

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  Gregor

  I don't know if she is ready for it but instead of the "humiliation" of being DF'd she could take control of the situation and Disassociate herself. Her DA letter could also provide a platform to denounce their phoney baloney 'religion'. If she still wants to be (technically) in good standing for some reason then, as pointed out above, she can simply stonewall them.
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  Rural Service

  by buffalosrfree in

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  rural service was always the most fun for me and my family.

  we loved it.

  i almost always drove out there and i mean out there from 14 to 25 miles from the hall we drove and then spent at least 1/2 of the day or all day out there in the "door to door" service.

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  Gregor

  Yep, rural territories were the best. We would take a carload and head for the farm country, have a few laughs, stop for a coke and generally piss away 2 hours. We could drive a mile down a dirt road to one house and when a big dog came out barking we turned around and left. "If they are gonna keep a mean dog they can't receive the truth. Their blood will be on their own heads at the big 'A'." We loved to get the car that was holding a rural territory.
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  Embarrassing...........

  by beachbugg in

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  ok, i was giving one of those rehearsed skits during the ministry school meeting one time and i got the giggles..........seriously bad situation.

  the lady sitting across from me forgot "her line" and it struck me funny.

  the more i tried to get past it, the funnier it became.

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  There was the twenty something brother who was the reader for the Watchtower study that was parsing the Song of Solomon.

  Every time he came to the word "breasts" he read it as "beasts".

  Don't know if he was a poor reader or was just too shy to say breasts.

  All these years later I still tell my wife occasionally, "darling, you have lovely beasts"
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  shouldn't we wait till we're 30+ to be baptized?

  by annalice in

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  i believe we were taught that jesus was around thirty years old when he was baptized.

  now i was always told that the bible mentioned specific things like times and dates for a reason .as a guide for us to follow.

  so by telling us his age this would seem to be very important for us .

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  Gregor

  One night when I was 11 yrs. old, Mom came in to say goodnight and sat down on the bed. "Sweetheart, have you thought about getting baptized?"

  Well, no, I hadn't thought about it. It was the furtherest thing from my mind. That particular evening I was still thinking about my fave TV show 'Zorro' that I had just watched.

  She told me that my aunt, her sister, had just informed her that my cousin, 5 mos. younger than me was going to do the deed at the circuit assembly coming up the next weekend and wouldn't it be nice to get baptized with him? "Yeah, I guess so" I said.

  And that was it. A week later I dedicated my life to JoeHoba Dodd and the Watchtower Society. I don't recall even hearing the name Jesus mentioned in the talk except at the end of the prayer, you know, "...in Jesus name, Amen". Now, if I was naughty I could be disfellowshipped, whereas before I had a pass.
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  What Things Were You Deprived Of Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness?

  by minimus in

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  i think back at some of the simpler things we couldn't do or have because we were a witness.

  i hardly know my father's (worldly) side of the family.

  didn't know my grandfather, grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins.

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  Gregor

  Being deprived of any incentive to get an education or learn a real trade or profession. Going through my first day of school, when my only preparation for it was my parents and G Parents telling me over and over, "don't salute the flag!!" and when the teacher had us stand and do that very thing and singled me out and sent me and my cousin to the office. For ever after, what schooling I did get was under the agonizing pain of constant reminders that I was not one of the group. No after school sports, outings, etc. Just before Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas, etc. I took a note from my mother to the teacher asking that I not participate in any pagan holiday related activities. I could cut out orange circles or green triangles but NO JACK 'O LANTERNS or CHRISTMAS TREES!!

  All the above is probably why I am the well balanced, normal person I am today.
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  Interesting Encounter with JW wife.

  by Gordy in

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  on tuesday night my son (30) went into hospital with what turn out to be appendicitis.

  his wife called me wednesday morning and i went up to the hospital.

  he was due in surgery not long after i got there.

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  Gregor

  Gordy, sounds like typical shunning, but I am curious. You refer to her as your JW wife. Assuming you don't have other wives in different religions, it sounds like you're still married to her but haven't seen her for 3 or 4 years.

  Did I understand that correctly? Could there be other issues she has with you? Like the time she came home and caught you with two hookers?? etc.?