Posts by Highlander

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JWs knock on my door three times in one week

by Sirona in

my husband is off work at the moment recovering from a double hernia operation.

the jws knocked one day and our friend, who was here doing a bit of painting for us, answered the door and simply told them he wasn't the householder.. then at the weekend, early on a saturday morning, they knocked again.

i was in my nightclothes and had only just gotten up, or i would have answered.

Highlander

I've never had JW's at my door. I've lived in many different places and never give out my address to the local brothers so therefore I'm surprised I've never been called on in the

regular preaching work. To be honest I think it would be fun to be on the other side of the door for a change.

On a side note, I live in Los Angeles now and considering the size of city and the number of kingdom halls, you would expect to see a lot of witnesses preaching.

I travel all over SoCal for work and I just don't see that many preachers out there anymore. When I do run across some witnesses, it's typically older sisters, or brothers.

Not too often do I see 'young ones' out there. Not that I don't understand,, I still consider myself an older 'young one' and you'll never catch me knocking on doors again. You'll see me

doing an occasional appearance at the meeting but that's it!

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What's the most mileage you did in 1 day going door to door?

by JH in

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we used to go out in the country twice a week, and the furthest i went was about 40 miles (60km) away.. just in that one day, i drove over 200km (125 miles) going door to door.

as if we didn't do enough, when we came back to our town, we went in the field service form 5 to 7 and from 7 to 9pm..

Highlander

I made it a point to request a 'kosher' meal on my preaching flight. :)

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What's the most mileage you did in 1 day going door to door?

by JH in

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friends

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we used to go out in the country twice a week, and the furthest i went was about 40 miles (60km) away.. just in that one day, i drove over 200km (125 miles) going door to door.

as if we didn't do enough, when we came back to our town, we went in the field service form 5 to 7 and from 7 to 9pm..

Highlander

Oh wait! I got another one. This one doesn't involve as many hours, but many, many more miles.

I was at the airport waiting to board my flight to europe. I preached to someone at the airport prior to boarding,,, Got on the plane,, flew about 8000 miles? approximately,, arrived in

Holland and went out preaching with local friends I was visited there. That was a cool 15 hours of 'service' time. :)

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What's the most mileage you did in 1 day going door to door?

by JH in

jw
friends

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we used to go out in the country twice a week, and the furthest i went was about 40 miles (60km) away.. just in that one day, i drove over 200km (125 miles) going door to door.

as if we didn't do enough, when we came back to our town, we went in the field service form 5 to 7 and from 7 to 9pm..

Highlander

does it have to be one day or can I count three days? I drove from the midwest to california, and being a bit mischevious, I preached to someone before I left and then preached to someone upon arrival in california. Total mileage about 2000 and approximately 50 hours of field service time. Or maybe that was too over the top? haha

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Theocratic Warfare

by Tigerman in

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would someone who is knowledgable on the subject of jws 'acting out' theocratic warfare on a personal .

basis please let me know how they go about it ?

in other words, will they actually lie and say they are .

Highlander

In actual practice, theocratic warfare comes down to this: Do or Say Anything that will give a good name to the WT corp, even if this means lying. It also means to leave out or not disclose any negative information that will give a bad name to the WT corp. When I was in my teens I was kind of a rebel and was arrested,, I remember the elders specifically telling

me to not ever, ever, ever mention that I'm a jehovah's witness when I appear in court. Since my 'crime' really had nothing to do with what is writting in their precious elder's book,

I was never reprooved or anything, but they did tell me over and over and on multiple occasions, don't say you're a jehovah's witness!

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Generation Change

by slugga in

i left the org slightly before the change in the "generation that was alive in 1914" thing was announced and wondered, what were peoples in the congregations reactions after this was announced and did it you notice people falling away because of it?

has it had a damaging effect?

Highlander

I remember hearing about it at a convention, it may have been during the watchtower study portion of the convention or it may have been a talk specifically

geared toward the policy change.

Anyways, I heard gasps in the audience, specifically those sitting within a few rows of me. At that time I was about 20 years old and really didn't give a

rat's ass what was being said, though I did perk up and start listening when I heard the gasps from the audience. Soon those gasps turned into agreement and 'awe' over this

precious 'new light' that we were receiveing 'at the proper time' God I hate that phrase. 'at the proper time'

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This post is number 1975, nearly as exciting as the year

by willyloman in

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friends

i just realized that my last post was number 1974 and i felt compelled to make number 1975 significant enough to deserve being named after that "marked" year.

however, i can't come up with anything.

i could tell you armageddon will come during this post but you'd be skeptical, i'm sure.

Highlander

After submitting your 1975 post, the end still doesn't occur and many followers here at JWD will be stumbled and DA themselves from this board.

I hope you can sleep at night!!! :)

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Double life, anyone??

by dinah in

how many of you lead double lives while growing up (especially those who grew up jw)?

in the last few days, it seems that bothers me about my adolescence.

i had to be one person for my mother, while still trying to be myself.

Highlander

I think the majority of JW kids lead double lives. I remember when I was about 14 my best friend and another friend were baptized at the convention.

The following weekend we partied hard, were drunk off our asses, smoked cigs and enjoyed our stash of adult magazines. I wasn't baptized, and I remember thinking to myself,

'if my friends still drink and smoke less then one week after baptism, what is the point?' I made the decision to get baptised when I felt I was living a 'clean' life.

At 19 years of age I was baptized, become a servant shortly after, but I had to ask myself again. 'what is the point' cuz I was still living my double life.

Personally, I think as JW's we are so repressed, beaten down, and controlled to a harsh extent that we end up living a double life. Funny thing is,, now that I'm merely inactive, rarely at

meeting and never go preaching, I now lead a very clean, healthy, moral lifestyle. Funny... Isn't it?

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REMEMBER THAT "FREELOADER PIONEER SISTER" I TOLD YOU ABOUT...? KINDA SAD.

by stillAwitness in

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(here is the link of you don't:)

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/104894/1.ashx

...well she came over to stay over for the night like she does every wednesday night after the meeting but this time i noticed she had suitcases and overnight bags filled with clothes with her too.

Highlander

She'll be relatively safe there. It's a european country with an economy that is growing, relatively speaking. As a foreigner, she'll obviously always have to be careful, but she should

be fine there.

I know what you mean though,, I would feel bad for her. Having spent an entire life being dependent upon the WT corp for even the smallest of needs.

Now that she lost her husband, she has lost the only thing tangible in her life. It seems she has a choice, try and make it on her own away from the WT, or

completely immerse herself into it by 'going where the need is great' In my mind she's making the 'safe' and easy choice, but the wrong one. I hope the best for her.

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do you think that JW are brainwashed?

by notmyself in

i'm d/f for about 2 years and my dad ( an elder ) hasn't spoke with me since, my mom sometimes talk to me , but i always have to call her , just to see how's she's doing, and guess what, when she answer her phone is : oh, i was preeching!!!.

they're always preeching, but my brother contact me today telling me that we can speak again due to the fact that i'm d/f , what do you guys think?

?

Highlander

Would they drink the 'koolaid'? Probably not. But that doesn't change the fact it's an extremely high control group, or cult, depending on your definition of the word.

Previous posters stated independent thinking is prohibited. That's definitely an understatement. Any JW can be banished for independent thinking and in this regards I think

the JW's are a high control group, almost a cult.