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  . Report Card = Report Farce

  by KnowlegeSeeker_UK in

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  2. friends

  if im honest, i was a good boy, a pioneer, a bethelite.

  still i guessed at my hours based on a last minute tot up in the hall, and of course... i never rounded down.

  i cant be the only one that did this, infact i know i wasnt.

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  E-Watchman - where are all the Kingdom Hall mailboxes?

  by truthseeker in

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  2. friends

  very interesting.. maybe some of the current/former elders can shed some light on this.. .

  back in the spring of 2004, e-watchman launched a massive mailing campaign of an open letter to jehovahs witnesses and the watchtower society; laying bare the facts regarding the watchtowers ten-year partnership with the united nations as an affiliated ngo.

  with the help of a private printing and distribution company the letter was mailed to virtually every kingdom hall in the united states and canada, as well as some congregations in australia and great britain, amounting to over 7,000 letters.

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  DID YOU LIE OR TELL THE TRUTH???

  by okiesooner1966 in

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  in your first committee meeting did you come clean or hold out as long as you could before you realized they had the goods on you?.

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  Did you really want to have "Privileges"

  by JH in

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  2. friends

  i don't know about others here, but i couldn't care less about privileges.. i had a couple of privileges, but i really didn't want to get too deep in the org and get too many privileges.

  i didn't want to get tied down with that, and have to leave 30 minutes later every meeting, or have to spend an extra hour or two preparing for something.. .

  all that counted for me as a dub was "paradise" and "eternal life" .

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  A case of "Monkey see, Monkey do"?

  by rockhound in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  does any of this sound a little familiar?

  from childhood the irish have been taught that every religion in the world is opposed to their religion, that theirs is the only one having divine right to exist, that all other religions are merely tolerated and that they continue through the benevolent sufferance of the catholic clergy.

  they are taught that bible knowledge is not necessary for christians, only a strict adherence to and belief in the church and its religious leaders is all-important.

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  Were YOU a JW Who Was Always Afraid, Depressed or Ill?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  while i was an elder (in 2 congregations), over the years, i saw most witnesses that suffered from s o m e t h i n g.. either a witness had chronic depression, mysterious ailments that were never clearly diagnosed by a doctor, or were in fear.

  afraid to offend another brother's conscience.,afraid to upset the elders.

  afraid to grieve the holy spirit.

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  Today Is My Point of No Return - Or Is It?

  by TheMan in

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  2. friends

  almost every night, i would get a phone call from my book study overseer, asking how i was, where i was.

  whereas witnesses, when they experience hard times, stop going to meetings?

  of course, my wife and i want to leave the witnesses, and i don't want to offend anyone in the process.

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  My Bethel Experience final chapter

  by new boy in

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  2. friends

  there were other people who either killed themselfs or tried to kill themselfs while they were at "the house of god.

  one person who did kill himself was richard wheelock, press room overseer ......he jumped out of a window at the watchtower farm one day.......it seemed, he was never quite the same after his wife "willy" died..she seemed to be the only one that he could relate to.......which would make sence.....because he sure couldn't relate to any of us in the press room..........he would come over to our press and say "here is the work... get in out".......then just walk away.......he was not the type of person you would really want to talk to anyway......but wouldn't it be nice if just now and then, like every year or two, they might ask you how you were doing?.........you laugh.......but its true......i asked a friend of mind who was the press operator of press # 6 which at the time was one of the three biggest presses at bethel.

  he had been in the press room for 4 full years.

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  NWT Revisions

  by Jeffro in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  there is mention on a wikipedia article that there was a 2006 revision of the nwt.

  is this true?

  what differences are there?

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  My Debut

  by TheMan in

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  2. friends

  after lurking for who knows how many months now, i finally did it.

  i posted!!!!

  i'll have to share my story at some point, but here's what made me do it.

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