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  Were You Approachable in the Congregation?

  by compound complex in

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  2. friends

  greetings, friends:.

  did you - with or without holding an official position in the congregation - find that those needing to talk gravitated toward you?

  did those individuals who unburdened themselves feel better after talking with you?

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  Mincan

  The whole approachable vs non-approachable elders is a fascinating sociology study.

  I'd been in congregations where all the elders were approachable and going to them with your problems felt only natural. This probably reinforced my satisfaction with the cult while a teenager. The last congregation I was in was a rural ass-backwards (especially by cult standards) one, where there were no approachable elders. The ones that were left. It made it hard for me to progress in the troof. By the time I decided to leave, these elders were such pricks in my (even undecided) mind it made it a joy to avoid being near them.

  Approachable elders represent the sincere aspect of the cult that makes you weep for people in it rather than hate them.
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  have u ever wonder why sisters wear skirts to the meeting?

  by XOCO in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  someone had told be the reason b4 but that was billions of years ago.

  any way so why?.

  xoco (ur annoyin' lilttle youngin').

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  Mincan

  Just reinforces visually for people (which can oftentimes be the most effective) that women and men have different roles in the congregation.
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  OK Boys..I need you!

  by momzcrazy in

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  2. friends

  i'm going to bed and leaving my problem in your capable manly hands.

  i need help getting my hubby a xmas present.

  a little info: he's an avid deer hunter, proud gun carrier, harley rider, manly man.

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  Mincan

  Get him a Luger from the First World War.

  Or a Springfield 1905 with a scope.
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  of weed

  by inkling in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  do you know of any current witnesses who smoke marijuana, even rarely?.

  did you ever smoke weed while you were still a witness?

  do you smoke it now?.

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  Mincan

  It's a love/hate relationship.
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  virgins, better off or not?

  by BIG D in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  some here have said that as a matter of course, they choose to remain celibate, singleness the better course and all that.. now that some of these have left the troff, they have still remained so, and now many of those are in their 30s, please i am not dissing you , so dont pm me, ok?.

  i wonder as i am a guy, how much different my life would be, if i was still a virgin, wouldnt it create a huge sexual hangup problem for those ones.. that are ....i mean expectations not met for example , when it finally did happen, the worries that, as if being a dub and those problems werent enough, well, some have said, they put it off out of instilled fear of it now.

  maybe it creates a issue about sex so big that , they stay celibate even now.. relationship problems of intimacy, or maybe latching on to the first sexual partner, like we all did in the 9 th grade?.

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  Mincan
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  I'm struggling to understand the USA no candy at assemblies thing!?

  by jambon1 in

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  2. friends

  as i read it on your posts, it seems that at your assemblies there were candy machines which you were somehow forbiden to use.. am i right?.

  it just seems ridiculous to me!

  why, oh why could you not get a bit chocolate from a machine?

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  Mincan

  Haha, yes, the last convention I went to I bought like 3 things out of one of those in plain sight, and everyone was staring at me.

  The stupid stupid s**t...
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  NEVER LICK AN EVELOPE!

  by Dansk in

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  a woman was working in a post office in california.. .

  one day she licked the envelopes and postage stamps instead of using a. .

  sponge.

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  Mincan

  JESUS CHRIST
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  Ahhh, just what is your guilty pleasure?

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  2. friends

  sausage biscuits from mcdonalds.

  i broke down and got one today.

  come now, tell me about your guilty pleasures.

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  Mincan

  I have Akathisia... I need to get some guilty pleasures...

  I guess right now it would be cannabis...
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  For those of you who don't go to meetings anymore...

  by exwitless in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when you attended your last meeting ever as a dub, did you know it was your last?

  did something happen which made it clear in your mind you were 'never going back' (not to be confused with nvrgnbk)?.

  the last meeting we went to was the memorial in 2006. we only went because we knew we were already pegged for the elders' unwanted attention, so we had to go to keep them off our backs a little longer.

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  Mincan

  I knew the last regular meeting I went to would be the "last" in that regular sense of the word.

  I have nothing against going to meetings, assemblies, conventions, etc, so long as it furthers my purpose.

  Since my last meeting as a regular attender, I've been to a special assembly, and a district convention. Might go to another convention next year hopefully

  Actually, I think this coming week I'm going to get baked and go to a meeting :D that would be so funny!
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  Do you condemn the Society's no-blood policy and still do not DONATE BLOOD?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  it's your decision to make.

  it would be as wrong of this community to insist everyone donate blood as it is of the cult to insist otherwise.

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  Mincan

  This is an excellent idea, I'm going to go donate blood as soon as possible.

  My blood type is extremely rare, in Canada only 2-3% have B+ (it's higher in Europe, I think around 10% in some countries, still pretty rare)