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  When's the last time you went to the Kingdom Hall?

  by JH in

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  it's been a little over a year for me.. about 15 months..

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  Memorial 2004.
  
  We were collared by an elder as we left, asking if we wanted to come back to the org.
  
  HELL NO! That's what we thought, but what we actually said was 'we'll think about it'.
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  Meetings are BORING!

  by 5thGeneration in

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  why do the brothers take such offense when someone says that the meetings are boring?.

  i can't possibly fathom how people who have been going to the meetings for decades can sit at the kh and listen, for example, to yesterday's wt study for an hour about adam and eve, cain and abel, how we are all allowed to pray, blah, blah, blah... and not be bored out of their minds!.

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  Not only were the meetings mind numbingly boring, but for some reason time used to stand still at them!
  
  2 hours seemed to last forever. What's all that about?
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  Am I still an unbaptised publisher?

  by Bad Girl in

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  2. friends

  hi all i am new here and i have a question for you.

  i was an unbaptized publisher many years ago and attended meetings fairly regularly.

  i beleived in jehovah and still do now.

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  You are no longer an unbaptised publisher because you are inactive. If you were never baptised then you can't be df'd or da'd.
  
  Since you are not an active witness you can't call yourself a jw (not by their rules anyway).
  
  Just be content with being a good christian, you don't need the title of being a jw.
  
  I think everyone on this forum felt stifled by the rules, that's why we all left!
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  I saw a beautiful thing yesterday --- a gift from God

  by jgnat in

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  yesterday i saw a couple i hadn't seen for many years sitting together on the bus.

  i'd always wondered if they had managed to stay together.

  they looked the same, save a few more dry wrinkles, as they did twenty years ago.

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  Aaaahhhh! Lovely story, but heartbreaking that they ended up with no baby. All a child really needs is love, not material things.
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  What are your reasons for posting here?

  by sonnyboy in

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  i'm curious as to what drives some people to post at certain boards.. for me, i first came here over a year ago thinking this was a pro-jw site, ready to jump on the dubs.

  lol.

  little did i know.... i posted here exclusively for a while, but then found that the repetitive topics became tedious.

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  I post here because it is great to share thoughts with like minded people. I have learnt so much about the WBTS since reading the posts on this forum, it has really reinforced my determination to never go back, much as my family would like me to.
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  *ahem*

  by SixofNine in

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  I like that.
  
  What I want to know is, if I can live peacefully with persons of other faiths, why can't everyone?
  
  That's what really frustrates me about the human race, and it's all down to ignorance!!
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  MY SON WAS ATTACKED!

  by Dansk in

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  yesterday afternoon my older son, karl, who is studying musical production at brighton university, came round to see his family.

  he had just been to see his pregnant girlfriend, who is staying with her mum and dad for a week.. karl is a wonderful boy; the type of son any parent would be proud of.

  he is loving, considerate, respectful and has never once caused any trouble or been in any.

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  That scenario is every parent's worst nightmare. I really worry about my kids as they are at a very vulnerable age, 14 and 16. My daughter recently went to a particularly rough area without realising and was robbed of her mobile phone. Fortunately it was just snatched and she wasn't hurt. It makes me shudder to think how much worse it could've been.
  
  I'm glad your son is ok Ian and I hope it hasn't knocked his confidence too much. He shouldn't let those little rats get to him!!
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  My dad's email response to my UN and Blood Issue questions.

  by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit in

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  i always thought that my dad was a smart man, that he still had his common sense, but now i see that's not true.

  and for some stupid reason, this has really got to me tonight.

  i'm sharing the content of this discussion so that maybe someone else can see the ignorance of this horrible religion of people who cannot really love because their evil bible won't let them.

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  I can just imagine my mum and sister saying the exact same things to me.
  
  It's heartbreaking isn't it?
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  No Field Service No Paradise

  by moomanchu in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my mom doesn't go out in field service or go to the book study or give talks or answer (never did 40 to 50 years now).

  she is however a loyal defender of the watchtower and she regularly goes to sun.

  and thur.

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  It's absolutely laughable that she thinks she's going to be ok.
  
  Haven't the elders ever had a word with her in the last 50 years!!
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  Who is Jesus? Is he God?

  by BelieverInJesus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i live in memphis.

  months ago, i had some jw's come by and talk with me.

  i'm a believer in the holy bible.

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  This subject really frustrates me, because noone knows the answer for sure. If God/Jesus loves us so much why doesn't he make it clear in black and white who he actually is.
  
  The fact that it is all so subjective and there are so many different interpretations of who he is, makes me wonder if any of the explanations are actually true!