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  Circuit Assembly

  by frozen one in

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  i chatted with relatives today and mentioned i might be in their area next weekend so i'd stop by for a visit.

  turns out they will be at the circuit assembly, a 2 dayer.

  seems like they just got back from the district todo.

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  How Can You Survive Jehovah's "Day of Fury"

  Oooh, can I guess? More service hours, more subservience, don't miss your meetings, and less entertainment?
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  THE JW MALE

  by Dansk in

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  2. friends

  i honestly believe most jw males stay in the orgnisation because they are given control, i.e.

  married males have ultimate control over their wives and children.

  i know a woman who was married to an elder and who said that prior to becoming a jw she would never be submissive to her husband.

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  The feeling of control is pretty friggin' cool, let me tell you. Especially with some of these sisters who can't go up to a door without a brother no more than 20 feet away. I'm not exaggerating much; there's a pioneer family, mother and daughter, who won't do a thing without a brother's direction. They are the worst case. But hey, I'm only 20 and they can't do a thing unless me or somebody else with a Y chromosome is there!

  Even my mom gave me the green light to (verbally) lay the smack down on any sister who didn't like my steez when I conducted the bookstudy for the first time. It's power for the otherwise powerless. It's flippin' great.
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  Street Witnessing in Conyers, GA (rather long, but IMO cool experience)

  by AuldSoul in

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  this is a long experience, i am trying to get it down while still fresh in mind.

  my hope is that some might be aided in their approach to jws by reading this, but i dunno.

  read if you want to, don't read if you don't want to, and that way you'll have no business being annoyed by my having posted it.

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  The poor old lady was just not prepared for battle. Precious few of them are; I know if I knocked on someone's door and was challenged on any belief, I would not be able to back it up one bit.

  I like how you rejected her initial attempt to change it into "Are we in the last days?" kind of conversation. It's the backup plan that fits any situation, that and "What hope do you have for the future?" It's a convenient way for them to ignore anything they don't like.
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  Ever know of a great family movie, the Witnesses found demons or evil in?

  by free2beme in

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  i remember growing up, the witness children were often ones that were left to see all those g rated movies from disney.

  yet even those at time, while accepted by just about every religion out there, were considered demonic.

  for example, the following movies were said to show witchcraft and in or congregation we were encouraged to discard them and not own copies of them; sleeping beauty, snow white, the little mermaid, bed knobs and broomsticks, and fantasia.

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  Yeah...wasn't a movie, but Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland was villified for reasons I don't understand. I remember some people who found demonic messages in anything! It was all so ridiculous!
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  Is John Travolta gay?

  by dorayakii in

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  2. entertainment

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=404299&in_page_id=1773&in_a_source=.

  well i thought travolta was married with children, but that doesnt always mean anything these days.

  is travolta gay or bisexual?

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  SirNose586

  I haven't seen a straight man kiss another man on the lips, regardless of culture. I've only seen the cheek kiss.

  I'm a little suspicious now...
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  Tithing

  by dothemath in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the society has always been against tithing..........a stand they took from early times and which hasn't changed............ do you think they now wish they had incorporated tithing, with all the money they seem to be requiring.

  (ex.- every year the donation options mentioned prominently in the watchtower).

  tithing has obviously worked well for the mormons, what would happen if they now decided to include this "principle" today?.

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  They'd have to be crazy to try and pull off titheing. But I think they will just concentrate on regular resolutions to send Brooklyn more cash. Also, make the property donation arrangement more prominent.
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  Before the Music Dies

  by purplesofa in

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  SirNose586

  I'd be lying if I said I didn't prefer old school to new school music. My theory is, if you like what you hear now, the roots of that sound lies somewhere. Hip hop is what is popular, and hip hop is the child of funk music, so I listen to a lot of funk. I like discovering the roots of ideas...who made the song first. Who was original, and who was not. There are good acts out there, and I really don't support the current acts enough to say that there's no more good music being made. It's just tougher. You gotta dig for those good acts. Hopefully you have a more efficient means of finding good new acts. But either way, it doesn't hit you in the face like the old school stuff does. I am attracted to things that have stood the test of time, mainly, stuff that gets my booty gyrating from 25-30 years ago.

  But what's a young, impressionable kid to do? Flavor-of-the-Month gets all the air time, both on TV and on the radio. You gotta dig.

  I don't know if you could make sense of the rambling, but there it is.
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  Fantasizing about sex during the meetings/assemblies.

  by alienagent in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  perhaps this is a topic that has been mentioned in older threads, but i would love to hear some thoughts on the matter.. i remember as a youth sitting through the loooong assembly progams bored out of my skull as the monotone speaker was saying something about the angels having a lust for women, or something like that.

  it was not uncommon for me to drift off into a nice sexual fantasy, usually a more romantic one that would start with gentle foreplay and end in satin sheets in a candlelit bedroom ... nice.

  this seemed to be a habit for many years, particularly before i got married and only got worse after divorce (sometimes i think i'm having a second adolesence).

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  The worst is when you "fantasize" a little to "hard" (if you know what I mean) and then the it's time to stand and sing! (monkey's trying to stay on subject)

  Isn't it though? The worst was getting the little after-sleep stiffy. I was always asleep during the second half of the convention (due to a combination of The Itis and the boredom) so I would always get them upon waking up.

  Of course, there would also be times when I would stare at the congregation of young people at Gate F and try to see who had the most revealing dress coupled with the biggest "bug-eye" style shades which cover 50% of the face and seem to be all the rage right now. Looking over the railings at a high place at the cleavage....good times. Very good times indeed.
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 9-10-06 WT Study (FEAR GOD)

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  comments you will not hear at the 09-10-06 wt study (august 1, 2006, pages 21-25)(fear god) .

  review comments will be in red.

  wt material from today's wt will be in black.

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  SirNose586

  A little bit of a breakthrough in the family study! I got a chance to read the review for the family study, so I was prepared. I commented on how David could screw up time and time again, and other people always had to pay the price. I voiced concern that the child born from David and Bathsheeba's union had to pay for the sins of David. "Well, it was brought up that we don't know if the kid was really sickly and just left to die, or if he was fated to die," said my mom.

  "Oh really? Let's take a look," I said. So I read the account in 2 Samuel, I think it was chapter 12 verse 14. I didn't even read verse 15, which said that the Lord struck the child to make it sick. "So it looks like this kid was fated to die. He had to bear the sins of the father."

  They had no reply to this.

  And the 70,000 that died from the census? Apparently they were all "secret sinners," according to a watchtower. Reading the Old Testament is pretty disturbing...human life is treated in such a cheap manner. Must be why the GB loves to use it all the time...
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  Hello! I'm new here

  by exwitless in

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  i'm new to posting to this forum.

  my husband and i have been reading it for a few months.

  we have finally written, sealed, and stamped our da letter, and it's ready to go directly to the post office.

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  SirNose586

  Thanks for your quick replies. Question-how are you all able to view my original post? When I click on the "Friends" section where I posted it, I can't see any evidence of my post.

  Topic lag? Good question. We all click on Active Topics, under the banner ad, for browsing. Welcome and enjoy your time here!