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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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  January, 2006, (although pretty much stopped by November of last year).

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  How did you feel, when you missed your 1st Memorial?

  by JH in

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  i remember going to each memorial even when i was inactive.

  i felt that i had to go to atleast that meeting.. then one year, i was sick on that day, and didn't go to the memorial.

  it was a funny feeling to miss the most important day of the year, as a jw would call it.. but i got used to it, when i missed my 2nd and 3rd memorial..

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  This year was the first I missed. Felt damn good, (after learning the WTS was full of shit).

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  How do you remember all the posters?

  by MsMcDucket in

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  i have to admit that i'm having a hard time.

  there's so many who take the time to make responses to my posts.

  good and bad, which are all needed to help me keep my hat on straight.

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  Honestly, I'm bad with names when I can't put a face with them, (why I use my photo for avatar), but like Warlock said, I get to know people the more they post.

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  The useless WTS Website

  by PopeOfEruke in

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  i can't believe and low-tech and next-to-useless the watchtower website is.

  considering how in the past the jw's used radio and other technology to help spread the jw doctrine "good news", it seems they should have developed a great website to help get new members.. but their site is dreary and hollow.

  old information like the "generation of 1914 will see the end of the system" is still posted there.

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  Also, if people did go to the website, would they contribute to the world-wide work? Would many feel that they do not need to study with someone or go to the KH? They gotta control those folks with a home bible study and weekly meetings.

  Exactly, OnTheWayOut. That's why they did away with the radio stations, and never used television. Obviously, the door to door work is NOT the most effective way to reach the most people, but it IS one of the more effective ways to reach people you can potentially control.

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  The useless WTS Website

  by PopeOfEruke in

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  i can't believe and low-tech and next-to-useless the watchtower website is.

  considering how in the past the jw's used radio and other technology to help spread the jw doctrine "good news", it seems they should have developed a great website to help get new members.. but their site is dreary and hollow.

  old information like the "generation of 1914 will see the end of the system" is still posted there.

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  Even when I was a dub, I thought the website was fairly useless. My theory, is that is by design. In recent decades, (since the disbanding of the radio network), the WT has CHOSEN to not use any type of media other than printed page to do it's work. They really don't want people "learning" things about the organization, outside of the "arrangement". If they gave too much information there, most people would then be able to make an informed decision not to join. The bible study arrangement, OTOH, is far more insidious, and things can be introduced to the student by means of pressure, that otherwise would not be accomplished my merely reading the information at face value on the website.

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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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  Sorry to hear this, Ian. You've had it tough enough already, who needs this crap? I'm glad to hear your son's ok, though. Those bastards need to be taken off the street.

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  Yes, What You Really Wear Does Matter !

  by The wanderer in

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  <!-- .style1 { font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: #3e3e7b; } .style2 { font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; } .style3 {font-family: arial, sans-serif} --> yes, your clothing really does matterbeing one of jehovah's witnesses always made.

  the individual conscious of the clothes you were .

  the men had to wear suits and the women.

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  My husband was running mics during the WT study once when it was probably 95 degrees outside and felt like 150 degrees in the hall. So, he took off his suit jacket so he wouldn't drown in his own sweat. He still had a dress shirt and tie on, but the PO went and asked someone else to take over for my husband because he wasn't wearing his jacket! He didn't even start by asking him if he had a jacket and if he could put it on. The other brother just came up and took over. I always thought the strict dress code was rediculous. When its 95 degrees and humid, who in their right minds would really want to dress in a suit to go door to door? As for me, some of my most vivid memories of field service are of me wondering if I'll ever get the feeling back in my legs and feet after being in service in 0 degree weather for 2 1/2 hours, because HEAVEN FORBID a sister would wear warm slacks in service when its absolutely freezing outside! Surely the householders (who don't want to stand there in the doorway letting out their nice inside warmth anyway) would be totally turned off to "the truth" if they saw women wearing slacks!!!

  I remember doing "field watch" at Yankee Stadium in the early '90s before we started going to Nassau Colliseum. If it was 90 degrees in the stands, it was 110 on the field. We could not take our jackets off. I always thought this was extremely impractical, if not unsafe.

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  Yes, What You Really Wear Does Matter !

  by The wanderer in

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  <!-- .style1 { font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: #3e3e7b; } .style2 { font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; } .style3 {font-family: arial, sans-serif} --> yes, your clothing really does matterbeing one of jehovah's witnesses always made.

  the individual conscious of the clothes you were .

  the men had to wear suits and the women.

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  Towards the end of my time "in" I always wore colored shirts and matching ties with no jacket. I didn't think then I was intending to be rebellious, but shortly after I was gone.

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  how many atheist and agnostics on this site

  by dannygwalsh in

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  hi everyone just a question to satisfy my curiosity , and if you are a non believer are you happier for being so

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  In my perception after having been a witness, having read the bible cover to cover 5 times and made notes, having examined other beliefs I dont see how everyone in the world is not an agnostic.

  Actually, by that definition everyone IS agnostic. As nobody "knows", they only "believe". That is exactly what I meant by being agnostic, by the broader definition.

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  Bethel Departures: The writing on the wall

  by What-A-Coincidence in

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  a bethel talk in 98. over 17,000 members are in active service at bethel worldwide.

  "thank you for the contribution you have made.

  there is yet more work to do.

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  done4good

  You know R6, if YOU care so little, YOU could just leave. What are YOU trying to prove to US? WHO is making the big deal here? YOUR argument is self-defeating.

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