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  What is the most bizarre counsel you received as a JW, from a JW?

  by Funchback in

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  there were many addressed to me.

  for example, i once had a sister tell me i was gambling because i liked playing skill crane (the machine where you have to try to pick up prizes like stuffed animals) at the arcade.

  i then fired back a her: "you saw the r-rated movie 'backdraft.

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  Not personal counsel, but from the stage from our CO at the time, Bro. Wiegel (do any of you old timers remember that name?) he ever so gently suggested that the brothers shouldn't watch football because it's a violent sport. I'm sure after that Sunday talk in either the late 60's or early 70's another male servant of Jah ever viewed another football game.

  Also I remember my mother telling me that a brother that gave a talk at the circuit assembly and this is going back more than ten years said that "we" as in Jehoober's faithful flock shouldn't watch "The Simpsons" because of Bart and how we had no respect for this father, yup I'm sure that went over well.
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  Police cordon around Honiton's Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses after fatal stabbing

  by ShirleyW in

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  hey uk folks, what's going with this story?

  was it an unbelieving mate that attacked and elder or something?.

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  ShirleyW

  Hey UK folks, what's going with this story? was it an unbelieving mate that attacked and elder or something?
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  'They're preying on my grief' - Widow slams Jehovah's Witnesses

  by daveysmithy30 in

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  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4568152/widow-says-christian-group-preying-grief.html.

  just published today on a grieving widow who was sent publications after her husband passed away.. unbelievable!

  no respect or honor at all.. your comments and views are welcomed.. d.

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  Remember a tract called Hope For The Dead? My mom always jumped into action with that one when someone died. Twelve firemen died here in NYC in the 60s and she sent their wives ones with a brief letter, she got a few responses too. Just thanking her and so forth, none I'm sure decided to join the Dubs after reading a flimsy tract
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  Broadcasting live from the belly of the beast

  by NikL in

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  well unfortunately i was unable to get out of today gracefully so here i am in sacramento california at what i fear may be the most boring convention to date.. heck there aren't even any entertaining apostates to watch .

  anyway,i am just posting as a quiet f.u.

  to the org..

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  NikL - what's the attendance like? Is the stadium half empty like the stadium in San Diego was for the assembly a few weeks ago?
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  Moving experience told in the assembly "cart work".

  by James Mixon in

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  remember in the 60's and 70's experiences told in our assemblies, "i was a hippie long hair homeless,drugs and etc, now i wear a suit don't smoke or do drugs and happy as hell.

  anyone heard any experiences lately in the assemblies?????

  how about i was homeless and i walked up to this cart, the two women ignored me as i stood at the cart.

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  I've seen a few pics from District Assemblies this year and the stadiums are more than 50 per cent empty, with that being said, can they even find new people that have recently come into da troof?
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  Is it a miracle....

  by The Rebel in

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  that people in communities .

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  I never knew a grown person would have trouble spelling the word "bus", interesting
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  Roger Moore

  by karter in

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  r.i.p roger moore one of the best bonds ever.. karter..

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  I'm sitting here staring at the TV and right below it I have the box set of "The Saint" from first episode to last episode, he was also the best Bond in my opinion although I know folks would choose Connery, I disagree
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  Have Jehovah's Witnesses Become Boring?

  by David_Jay in

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  okay, that new video about 1975 has got people talking, and yes, the child abuse cases will always require us to remain vigilant...but after my having left in the late 1980s/early 1990s, it seems all the real "exciting" stuff is gone.

  when i left the witnesses were still preaching that the "generation that was old enough to understand the events of 1914" will not pass away before armageddon comes.

  no blood cards were our badges (not that stupid jw logo) and that card meant what it said, "no blood"!

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  They've always been boring.

  Just the mere fact of attending the meetings every week and the same drivels rolls around every few months or so and you've been a Dub for 20 plus years or so? How do they do it?
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  "would you drink a glass of water if it had just a tiny bit of poison in it?"

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  no doubt we have all heard that well used "illustration" in public talks etc over the years:.

  "if you were handed a glass of water that looked pure, but were told it has just a tiny drop of poison in it, would you drink it?".

  the society has used that illustration at length to say we should avoid all influences of every part of the world.. but, as we know, the society has had a track record of errors, false ideas and doctrines.

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  The Dubs think they're so clever with their sayings, well regarding this one the little bit of poison in the water is when they love bomb you when you start studying, once they got you and you're baptized then the "whole water system is poisoned" going along with their stupid, cutesie poopsie analogies.
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  Does anyone have first hand knowledge of a Jw suicides after a judicial decision ?

  by Chook in

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  spilled blood has recourse .

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  ShirleyW

  going back to the early 1980's we had a young brother in his early 20's curse out the elders at his meeting, but then he committed suicide. His mom was a friend of my mom and she just brushed it off like "well, if he didn't want to serve Jah then I guess he's better off" . . SMH,

  I wonder if she put on that brave face at just at the KH, or did she go home and shed tears for her firstborn, being that she was nurse and they're all about saving lives and helping people live.