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  Did any of us ever enjoy meetings?

  by stephanie61092 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is a legitimate question.

  did any of us ever find real joy in being at the meetings?

  did any of us ever finish a meeting and think "i feel so enriched"?

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  I have been a note taker since childhood and found that note taking during meetings was especially helpful during my last days in the KH. Kept me busy and non-thinking, for the most part. I liked to write down the speaker's unusual and/or incorrect word choices and phrasing, just because I'm wired to note oddities. I was never rude and laughed (out loud).

  Originally, however, I did like meetings. I felt my comments -- hand always up -- would help to strengthen my brothers and sisters for the tough times ahead. When I was deemed an apostate, the WT conductor refused to call on me, even if my hand was the only one up. Later, when I had a beard and long hair, a new WT conductor asked me before meeting to raise my hand high so he could see it and call on me.

  Go figure . . .

  CoCo
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  J R Brown

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i have been reading john bechtel's blog.

  someone provided a link recently and it is brilliant.

  anyone that enjoys personal experiences including bethel tales will love this.

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  John, Dom and I were together in the French congregation, but earlier than referred to here. I had already left. We were on the ground floor of the "French Work." It was a joy working with the loving and lovable Haitians.

  Our weekends (once off work at noon on Saturday) were spent in the field and doing meetings. Our school and service meeting were Saturday night (we shared the Manhattan upstairs room with 3 other congregations), we returned home around midnight, got up early Sunday morning to spend the day in field service, took luncheon with the dear and generous Haitian friends (who stuffed us), then went to Sunday meeting at 4:00 p.m. and tried to stay awake.

  After we cleaned up our rented meeting room, we took the subway home and arrived back to Bethel around 7:30 p.m. It was like this every weekend. It was fun but this nonstop routine eventually exhausted even the strongest of us.

  I wouldn't have traded the above for anything. It made the NY experience bearable. Sadly, the physical and mental strain of meeting prep (We delivered all parts in French, of course.), travel, and helping the friends with their personal problems took its toll.

  God, it was a blast!

  CoCo
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  A Play On Film Titles......A bit of fun.

  by Je.suis.oisif in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  thanks to the searcher and diogenesister i've come up with this topic.

  far from the madding crowd.

  my situation since i've become inactive.

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  Casa-not-so-Blanca
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  A Play On Film Titles......A bit of fun.

  by Je.suis.oisif in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  thanks to the searcher and diogenesister i've come up with this topic.

  far from the madding crowd.

  my situation since i've become inactive.

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  Brooklyn Has Fallen

  (after Olympus Has Fallen)
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  John N. Wischuk

  by GermanXJW in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  on the german board we recently had a discussion about the people that were involved in the production of the aid-book and that later left the organization.

  in coc the following persons are mentioned in connection with the aid-book project: lyman swingle, john wischuk, raymond franz and reinhard lengtat.

  franz and lengtat later left the jw.

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  My cohorts and I worked on Aid to Bible Understanding in the pressroom; for its production, I painstakingly prepared make-ready for the rotary presses. I was criticized for being too slow and meticulous. Later, Brother XXXXXXX and I proofread thousands of AtBU references in the 1966/1970 WT Index.

  Again, I was too slow and methodical. Always rushed . . .

  Regardless, I do love the book. It has always been my fave of all the pubs.

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  My Millions book got a bad review. I wonder if the guy is a JW?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  not deserving of a half star, march 5, 2016bythomas carrthis review is from: millions now living (kindle edition)slander of others religions is worse than trump.

  instead of being ignorant read the bible and get the answers.

  you are not worshiping people you should weork towards woirshiping god.

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  Good morning, Punk and Steve:

  Agreed. Simply commenting on one's observations of another's words and actions is what one does. As to JW commentary on any matter, I see in public media where JWs are prominent that shallowness of intellectual discussion runs deep. What scarce commentary on Scripture or Christian life there might be, it amounts to little more than "Jehovah is good to his people" and "Don't we have the best way of life?"

  On these other forums, I have endeavored, on many an occasion, to inject a bit of spiritual profundity from earlier years when our much-touted Theocracy was seriouser and majesticker. Few takers on the JW front.

  I still love them, but you just can't talk and debate much below surface level. They get riled . . .

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  TALKING NONSENSE by using words attached to nothing

  by Terry in

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  2. friends

  especially in listening to people who "believe" things (spirituality, faith, etc.

  ) do i hear words being used which are nonsense.. i'm a person who cherishes words in a weird, almost fetishistic way :)i discovered this quite young.

  i was drawn to complicated word patterns and liked to repeat them.

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  "Safeway's the store you should shop. It's where the values are the top. Low, low prices, top quality. Shop at Safeway, you will see!"

  "Little Lulu, Little Lulu, with freckles on your chin. Always in and out of trouble, but mostly always in. Using Daddy's neckties for the tale of your kite, using Mommy's lipstick for the letters you write. Oh, the clock says seven-thirty, it's really after ten. Looks like Lulu's been playing with it again. She's as wild as any Zulu, but we love her just the same! Little Lulu, I love Lulu just the same."

  What I recall from memory, but don't ask me to remember anything important.

  Actually, what I have written is important!

  CoCo
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  TALKING NONSENSE by using words attached to nothing

  by Terry in

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  2. friends

  especially in listening to people who "believe" things (spirituality, faith, etc.

  ) do i hear words being used which are nonsense.. i'm a person who cherishes words in a weird, almost fetishistic way :)i discovered this quite young.

  i was drawn to complicated word patterns and liked to repeat them.

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  After that covering-all-the-bases dissertation, Terry, your head surely must hurt and a meaningful lie down is in order.

  I agree with your statement and have only recently come to terms with my once religiously-fueled, over-active imagination. Having come clean from my early-onset, faith-based Judeo-Christian fervor (I like to hyphenate), I am now capable of distinguishing between fantasy and reality. Yes, the reader avers, this account is reality based, that tale, on the other hand, is a figment of one's imagination.

  IMHO, a good writer can soar with his imagination, nailing down his characterizations and setting and story line in such a way that the reader is convinced the account is a retelling of actual events.

  As to empty words, well . . . [another post!]

  Carry on!

  CoCo
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  My Millions book got a bad review. I wonder if the guy is a JW?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  not deserving of a half star, march 5, 2016bythomas carrthis review is from: millions now living (kindle edition)slander of others religions is worse than trump.

  instead of being ignorant read the bible and get the answers.

  you are not worshiping people you should weork towards woirshiping god.

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  Greetings, Punk:

  The poor reviewer badly needs a good editor. I'm not volunteering. First, however, some remedial English grammar would be in order so that the editor might have a fighting chance.

  The portions of your book that I have read, Punk, are technically excellent. Do I go to Amazon to continue my perusal of your worthy tome?

  CoCo, content & copy editor
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  Is the WT’s Paradise Earth doctrine a delusion?

  by deegee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the wt’s teaching that humans will live forever on a paradise earth will necessitate that given that there will be no more death, then immortal humans will have to be relocated to other planets in order to prevent the earth from becoming overpopulated.. so how many habitable, earth-like planets are there?more and more habitable, earth-like planets would have to become available on a continuous, never-ending basis ad infinitum as mankind’s population grows given that there will be no more death.. the longevity/sustainability of life on these planets will be limited by the fact that the sun serving these planets will eventually die:https://shar.es/1cko6n.

  http://www.space.com/22437-main-sequence-stars.html#sthash.ejbt1xrz.dpuf.

  so immortal humans will have to keep moving from planet to planet.

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  As to interstellar travel and our dependence upon material goods and support systems, there is no problem. We will transform into Krell ("Forbidden Planet"), who have no need of physical instrumentality. Mere thought becomes a creative force.

  Well, for good or for evil.

  With the Krell, all things are possible.

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