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  Your most hated Kingdom Songs ever...

  by B_Deserter in

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  we all know that skilled songwriters the brothers are not, so what are your most hated kingdom songs?

  the ones that made you cringe when you saw them listed on the km or watchtower?

  mine?.

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  "Ours is the God of True Prophecy"

  Yeah, this is the one that when we came to "Prophecyyyyyyyyyyy", most everyone cut out because that note was pretty high. So you could only hear the loud competitive women singing that note. You all had those type in your hall, I'm sure. There were always 2-3 women who thought that singing the KingDumb songs was their opera solo time. They'd compete with each other so that only they could be heard over everyone else.

  We even had one woman in our hall who would hold out any long note one to two beats longer than everyone else just so she had a few miliseconds of singing solo. It was very obvious and obnoxious.
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  God help me - Just finished Crisis of Conscience

  by Orgull in

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  i don't know whether to laugh or cry.. a friend lent me coc yesterday and i stayed up most of the night reading it.

  it took me 13 hours and i skipped the meeting today to keep reading, i couldn't bear to put it down.. i am shocked but not surprised at how closely ray's thinking mirrors my own in some ways.

  the part that hit me hardest was.... "conviction, it has no meaning or validity unless it is individual, personal.

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  They say that criminals who've spent most of their lives in prison get disoriented and distressed when they finally get paroled later in life. The shock of institutional life, being told when to get up, when and what to eat, what to wear, the clearly defined space in which they live... take that away and the world with all it's possibilities and freedoms is too much to bear. I feel like I've just been let out of prison. Part of me screams for the comfort of my "cell" walls and part of me screams in anguish at my "captors".

  This is almost word for word what I said when I finished reading CoC. I felt enlightened, yet lost, exactly the same way you described. In fact, I remember saying to my husband 'I feel like I just got set free from prison, and I'm standing on the outside of the prison door with nothing. Nowhere to go, no clue what to do. I don't want to go back to prison, but I'm just as scared of the ouside.'

  I can completely relate to how you're feeling. All I can say is, it will pass. Just keep walking away from the prison door, and it will become clearer with time. At least you have the faculty of freedom of choice and thought. Explore your freedom and enjoy it.
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  Blondie needs encouragement

  by blondie in

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  i have been battling an incurable illness and will be able to post less and less.

  i will post my email, and any help you cna asend my way will be appreciated.

  there is treatment but no cure and no cancer yet.

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  exwitless

  Blondie - thank you for "popping in" to say hey. I was just thinking of you last evening because I noticed you haven't posted as much as you used to.

  Hang in there. Sorry you're not well.
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  The Women Of JWD Are A Large Army

  by snowbird in

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  they are mouthy, sassy, awake and watching;.

  choosing life, free to think, not so quietly leaving;.

  kicking butts, taking names, bindings wounds well.

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  On The Way Out - How'd you get my picture to post here? Ha Ha. I wish.

  Fiesty, sassy, intelligent, funny, caring, thoughtful; yep, that describes us JWD women pretty well.
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  Mixology- Your Favorite Cocktail Or Mixed Drink

  by nvrgnbk in

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  exwitless

  Ooh, that sounds good too!
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  Mixology- Your Favorite Cocktail Or Mixed Drink

  by nvrgnbk in

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  exwitless

  Thank you, nvrgnbk!
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  Mixology- Your Favorite Cocktail Or Mixed Drink

  by nvrgnbk in

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  exwitless

  OK, this sounds dumb, but what is this?

  1 prt Jagermeister
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  Mixology- Your Favorite Cocktail Or Mixed Drink

  by nvrgnbk in

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  exwitless

  OK Nvr, I'm here. Where's that Peppermint Schnops recipe?
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  The most irritating dub(s) you had to put up with?

  by greendawn in

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  for me it was a ministerial servant a real boor who always told me off and humiliated me for all sorts of silly reasons whenever i went to the fs group that he headed.

  i soon stopped going there.

  he even gave talks that were incredibly boring and brain duling and not surprisingly i recently heard that in his mid fourties he abandoned his aging wife who was of a similar age and run away with a woman in her early twenties that is half his age.

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  Many of them were irritating.

  There was one elder who was the WT conductor. He thrived on making people feel guilty and worthless. Every blasted time he began the study, he'd say, and I quote "There's nothing difficult about the lesson, so I would expect full participation from everyone today." I mean every time!! Even when the material was a little complicated, he'd say it. When he would say it, LDB and I would mouth the words silently to each other and roll our eyes. Then when we'd be getting down to the last two questions, he'd always say "This may be your last opportunity to participate, for those of you who haven't commented yet." Yeah, like I felt like raising my hand after he just pointed that out to everyone. Ugh! And he was not a good WT conductor. Boring, boring, boring, monotone, boring . . .
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  As a JW were you ever counseled about clothes you wore, or lack thereof ?

  by flipper in

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  thought this could get interesting discussing experiences.

  i for one was trying to reach out for ministerial servant again in the early 90's , had been one before, and was assigned to carry the microphones one meeting.

  had an elder call me in the back room and say , " brother flipper, i noticed looking down towards your shoes that you are wearing white socks today.

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  exwitless

  Ah, tube skirts and Dr. Scholls's sandals. Good times; good times.