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  2nd KH visit pending - suggestions pls

  by BritBoy in

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  i know the last post i did on this subject was a real fire starter... however that said, i am starting to plan my follow-up visit!

  suggestions as to what nerves could be touched this time please!!.

  as a refresher i touched on these:.

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  maybe ask a tough question in a respectful way that will really confuse them....don't show them disrespect, thats what they want.
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  Elders told: Watch for the signs!

  by ozziepost in

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  from the audio of the kms posted by kent the other day, it's enlightening to listen to the talk on the inactive.

  watch for the tell-tale signs the elders are to look for in the notes that follow:.

  congregation book study overseers assisting the inactive.

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  DIM

  absolutely pathetic!

  i'm sick and tired of hearing things from uptight-short-sighted-narrow minded hypocritics. all i want is the truth just gimme some truth - John Lennon
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  Top 8 Idiots of 2001

  by Tatiana in

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  top 8 idiots of 2001. idiot # 1. i am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the.

  poison control center.

  today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants.

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  sounds like some pioneers that i know
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  fading away quietly

  by DIM in

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  my wife and i are moving 3000 miles away so that we can fade away as jehovah's witnesses.

  i am looking for suggestions as to what i should do about our publisher record cards (keep them in pa?, get them forwarded to seattle?

  ) so that we can start our lives on the west coast with a fresh start and so we'll just be left alone...any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

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  bttt
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  Hard To Keep Silent

  by Frenchy in

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  was visiting this week and in his talk he got on the subject of movies.

  he began by admitting that he was not familiar with the rating code but that it was wrong for a christian to see an r rated movie.

  he stayed at least five minutes on the subject.. afterwards there was the usual, abbreviated wt study and i found paragraph four particularly interesting:.

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  I think it's silly to say R movies are wrong. The R rating in the US, can be a PG in Australia, and vice versa. For example, The Matrix was R rate in the US, but I think it was a PG in Australia. So a JW in Australia could watch it and not the once in the US?

  that is exactly correct....when my family was on vacation in New Zealand, my pioneer mom and MS dad watched as many movies that were rated R in the US as possible, before they got home and could possibly offend someone. absolutely pathetic, even my 14 year old sister saw the hypocrisy in that.

  i'm sick and tired of hearing things from uptight-short-sighted-narrow minded hypocritics. all i want is the truth just gimme some truth - John Lennon
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  fading away quietly

  by DIM in

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  2. friends

  my wife and i are moving 3000 miles away so that we can fade away as jehovah's witnesses.

  i am looking for suggestions as to what i should do about our publisher record cards (keep them in pa?, get them forwarded to seattle?

  ) so that we can start our lives on the west coast with a fresh start and so we'll just be left alone...any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

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  need to resurrect this topic....some more questions....

  do letters from a congregation have their own unique letterhead or the WTS letterhead? (don't want the form letter to raise suspicions)

  are there any former service overseers here that post that can let me know more of what to expect?

  anyone who is in the Seattle area, or even who has a WA mailing address who would be willing to have our publisher record cards forwarded to them and then would forward them to me, please email me at [email protected]

  thanks for all of the replies...i'm moving in 3 weeks and i'm starting to get a little nervous about all of this.

  i'm sick and tired of hearing things from uptight-short-sighted-narrow minded hypocritics. all i want is the truth just gimme some truth - John Lennon
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  Are Elders trianed in incompetence?

  by sleepy in

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  here's some experiences of some people i knew in the truth who had personal problems.

  who were they to turn to , why the mature elders , even better you could write to the society.. so what happened?.

  friend 1.. friend number one knows he is gay ,he likes men big boys.

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  i agree with mostly everything stated here, but i maintain that the elders are acting in accordance with their training from the WTS. so if anyone is to blame, its corporate headquarters in Brooklyn. now if an elder is a real d**k they may go against Watchtower laws. If I sinned on any level I would never ever tell the elders. I realized this after I spilled my guts after getting caught smoking pot at age 15. Here I am 10 years later and certain people in my old congregation think I'm bad news.

  i'm sick and tired of hearing things from uptight-short-sighted-narrow minded hypocritics. all i want is the truth just gimme some truth - John Lennon
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  Are Elders trianed in incompetence?

  by sleepy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  here's some experiences of some people i knew in the truth who had personal problems.

  who were they to turn to , why the mature elders , even better you could write to the society.. so what happened?.

  friend 1.. friend number one knows he is gay ,he likes men big boys.

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  DIM

  both friends acted foolishly....the elders and the WTS were doing their jobs according to WTS guidelines.

  i'm sick and tired of hearing things from uptight-short-sighted-narrow minded hypocritics. all i want is the truth just gimme some truth - John Lennon
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  Mothman Prophecies

  by patio34 in

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  this was such an x-file-type movie!

  they should have had david duchovny as the star, but richard gere did just fine.. it was an entertaining thriller and i enjoyed it.

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  amazing movie, much better than i thought it'd be, and i thought it would be pretty damn good.
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  Mmm...college

  by mikepence in

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  thanks to the supportive words and encouragement of many here, i am now officially a student at arizona state university.. i just went to campus, and got a hard copy of the general catalog at the book store, and i went to the computer lab to setup my access.

  just seeing the young and old, people of all sorts of ethnic backgrounds, milling around campus, all engaged in the wonder of learning, made me take pause and think about how silly the jw prohibition on college is, and how completely a learning environment can shatter the witness world view.

  part of me wanted to cry, and another part of me was intrigued by the hot young college chicks...heh.. it is wonderful to be able to make choices for oneself.. any recommendations for my first course?

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  congratulations Mike, I'll be going back to school in the fall, so you'll have to let me know how it works out for you....

  i'm sick and tired of hearing things from uptight-short-sighted-narrow minded hypocritics. all i want is the truth just gimme some truth - John Lennon