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  Question: If you don't believe the wts as truth why still in FS?

  by hambeak in

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  i am puzzled, i see a lot of new posts from supposedly active jw's passing out new tract and don't believe it.

  i can understand still attending meetings especially if family is still involved.

  why not just fade away?

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  Zico

  I'm quite young and live at home with my JW parents, so it's really impossible to get out of FS completely, without admitting my thoughts.
  
  I generally do proper work most Sat Mornings now in order to get out of it, but can't do this every week, or they'd expect me to go Sundays or Evenings... They're both very zealous. I've gotten brilliant at going out on FS without doing anything though. Street work is my favourite, you can walk around for an hour and talk to nobody (Suggest you split up from your partner every now and again, so they think you're speaking to people) or go on RVs on your own, but actually just drive around for an hour.
  
  RVs are also an excellent way to get out of first call early. Say 'I agreed to meet someone at this time, so I'm gonna be off now.' And then you're done.
  
  It involves a lot of lying, but I've been lied to since I was born, so I don't care.
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  How Much $$$ Did You Contribute To The Organization?

  by minimus in

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  i know of some elders that regularly gave about $500 per month towards the kingdom hall and other watchtower society interests....and you???

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  Zico

  Usually gave about £10 per month to the 'Worldwide work' and £10 per month to the Cong. and then extra after resolutions and at Assemblies and Conventions. Haven't donated a penny since the Convention in June though! I doubt the Society have noticed, but at the Local Needs last month, the Secretary said the Cong was losing money, and in order to break even, we would only need to donate £1 per publisher per month, so apparently I was covering for 10 cheap publishers!
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  Circuit Overseer Visit

  by Zico in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we have our co visit this week.

  you should see all the dubs appearing from nowhere, it's like jesus has come to visit.. .

  last week we had about 75 in attendance at our tms/service meeting.

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  Zico

  Meh... I seen a JW pioneer in town during my lunch break a few hours ago, he told me that the CO had gathered all the pioneers together for a meeting, and has organised a special campaign for them all to 'encourage' the non-pioneers to pioneer. He then proceeded to pee me off, why are they so nosey? I quit pioneering in September. He said to me 'Why did you quit pioneering? Have you thought about starting up again?' So I started off nice and said 'I just want to build a career right now in case I get a family to provide for in the future, I'll pioneer again one day, but not right now, ' (A lie, I'm never going back) And then he went on about some nonsense about with Armageddon being so close etc etc... that I shouldn't worry about that too much, and this went on for a bit, so I said I had other reasons as well, and then he pushed more as to why I wasn't pioneering anymore, until I got so angry that I told him to mind his own business, and said goodbye. This same idiot has told other Witnesses to mark me for having too much worldly association. I don't like him much. And I've decided I don't like the CO much either.
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  From 1 to 10, What's the JW morale right now?

  by JH in

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  2. friends

  if you could give a score from 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest, what do you think is the morale of the average witness right now, considering that not much that they predicted happened by now.. i would give them a 4, considering their new tract that came out recently, that might make them more optimistic that the end is closer..

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  Zico

  Morale will often boost till about 7 or 8 straight after an Assembly, Convention, or other special event, but after about a week or 2 this often drops back to a 3 or 4. We've just had the CO Visit, and combined with the campaign, morale is quite high here. I met some JWs yesterday evening and they were eagerly discussing learning other languages to help the immigrants. They're also planning to do some evening Witnessing. I told them I'd get back to them...
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  Active JWs, hows KN37 going?

  by StillGroggy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hey everybody, i had an interesting time pushing a tract that i don't believe in this weekend.

  i had to develop my own method of placing it without having to talk about it, since i fear if i was confronted by someone asking "do you people think you're the only true religion", i might break down and tell the person at the door "no, i don't".

  the witness at the door with me would scream in terror, and i would be insta-dfed.

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  Zico

  Have you ever tried pressing the doorbell button but not pushing it in? i.e. so to your partner it appears as if you've rung the bell, but it doesn't ring and you hope the householders don't hear you.

  Obviously can't work on every door, one door I did on Saturday had a dog, so they heard me, and I offered them the tract, but they just said thanks and accepted it, and hopefully (likely) threw it promptly away. I won't be going out for at least the next 2 weeks now though, so hoping to skip the rest of the campaign! Edit: Most reports from within the KH suggest that most houses are accepting it, probably because of how quick and simple the presentations are.
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  Brazilian Grand Prix

  by Zico in

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  2. physical

  anyone watching this today?

  alonso's in a good position today, starting in 4th place, with schumacher dropping to 10th due to an engine failure in qualifying.

  schumacher has to win and hope alonso retires or finishes outside the top 8 in order to win, which is unlikely, he'll be retiring after this race.

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  Anyone watching this today?
  
  Alonso's in a good position today, starting in 4th place, with Schumacher dropping to 10th due to an engine failure in qualifying.
  
  Schumacher has to win and hope Alonso retires or finishes outside the top 8 in order to win, which is unlikely, he'll be retiring after this race.
  
  I'll be rooting for Alonso! I've never liked Schumacher, since he's not... a very ethical sportsman, so I generally support whoever his biggest rival is! That, and I own a Renault car.
  
  With Alonso switching to McLaren next year, and Schumacher retiring, that will make next year a bit less exciting for me, I guess I'll give my support to Button since he's the top British driver! I'm hoping to get to a few next year as well, since I have a bit more money now that I've quit pioneering!
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  Circuit Overseer Visit

  by Zico in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we have our co visit this week.

  you should see all the dubs appearing from nowhere, it's like jesus has come to visit.. .

  last week we had about 75 in attendance at our tms/service meeting.

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  Zico

  154 for the Public Talk today!
  
  He is actually a good speaker, and he uses good illustrations, but when you break down his talks they basically amount to the same things we hear all the time. 'The end is near, so we really need to do more.'
  
  He really bashed higher education for a bit in his public talk as well. 'The only higher education we need, is a bible education.' - What does that even mean? And his final talk, after the shortened Watchtower, was about how parents can encourage their children as they get older.
  
  I know that both of his sons are 'serving full time' one in Bethel, and one a missionary somewhere in Africa, so he's clearly a firm believer in pushing the kids to give their all to the Watchtower God. Sad.
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  Big changes after the new tract?

  by Matt_fs in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  one of my jw friends who still talks to me said this was the last tract that will be released from the faithfull discreet slave and that after the tract has been released there will be some major changes and for everyone not to be affraid.

  does anyone have an idea of what this might be?

  this gets me a little curious!.

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  Zico

  The campaign ends on November 12th, but you're still allowed to use it afterwards.
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  Luke 21:8, my discussion with an elder.

  by drew sagan in

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  well everybody, it has been accomplished.

  i have revealed my feelings to the elder i talked about in some of my last posts.

  things didn't go so well, but i dosn't really matter now.

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  Zico

  Surely someone has a thought they can share? I'd like to know if there's a good way to respond to my JW associate...
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  Circuit Overseer Visit

  by Zico in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we have our co visit this week.

  you should see all the dubs appearing from nowhere, it's like jesus has come to visit.. .

  last week we had about 75 in attendance at our tms/service meeting.

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  Zico

  There were 140 there for the book study and following CO talk tonight! I was quite impressed, there've been people there this week who I haven't seen in months. That CO must be pretty special. Though I don't really see it, he just tells us to do more since we are 'so, so close' Nothing I haven't heard before...?
  
  Still, I guess we're 2 days closer to when he said it on Tuesday!