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  Affected by assembly

  by Saltheart Foamfollower in

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  hi - first some context - i have been pimo for about 20 years now and so have been to a lot of assemblies in that time.

  last weekend i went to a circuit assembly and for the first time afterwards i was able to talk directly to someone who knows i'm out.

  i realised then that although i didn't agree with any teachings (i sat picking holes in the arguements as usual) the experience of being there had affected me - the way of life started feeling normal as did the overall way of viewing the world.

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  ShirleyW

  Saltheart - 20 years ?? How do you do it?

  I was a born in so, 20 years is more or less how much I attended until I could take no more.

  How does an adult sit thru all that BS for all those years and not go crazy?
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  What Is The Most Ridiculous Thing You Have Heard From A Witness?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i remember an elder questioning a woman who had admitted to giving and receiving oral sex from her unbelieving mate.

  he asked her the most intimate questions which clearly flustered her.

  interestingly, she “confessed “ to the elders because her conscience bothered her.

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  Although this thread has been running for a while, the clip below just says it all as to the wackiness within the Borg, total mental patients thinking they're going to live forever. Clip below wins 1st Prize in my opinion for the responses in this thread

  A sister told me that since she had worn a bathing cap when she was baptized, she was afraid her head wouldn't make it into the new order.
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  Incite Better Handling of Complaints

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ever feel as if companies or their telephone complaint handlers couldn't care less about your problem?

  i don't know if it's just me, but in recent times i seem to have had more than my fair share of companies/tradesmen who acted with contempt.. admittedly, many of them are given a really hard time by extremely irate customers, but each customer should be treated as an individual.. i have found that i receive a more focussed & attentive response when i inform the person on the other end of the line that i am recording the call for my personal reference & security.

  from that point on, i generally receive their full attention and achieve a satisfactory outcome for my complaint.

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  I've found that when I have hung up the phone when someone with an accent I can't understand what they are saying, after I've done that two or three times, the next caller I got someone in America, who said we noticed that this is your third call and I think he said he was a manager, so they are even paying attention to hang ups coming from the same number, Time Warner Cable was the company where this happened.
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  Meeting Days Felt Different?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i dont know if it was the same for you, but for me when i was a jw meeting days seemed to have a black cloud hanging over them.

  on thursdays i knew i would be going to the meeting that evening.

  that i would be getting into my meeting clothes at 6:30pm, leaving the house at 6:55pm and be sat in the kingdom hall from 7:15pm-9pm, then milling around for about half an hour before finally getting home for 10pm.

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  As a kid you kinda get used to it, but,when I was growing up he had our mtg on Friday, but in the 70's it got changed to Wednesday,and at first our sunday mtg was 2pm, then got changed later on when they started that rotation thing, first we went at 9, then it rotated to noon.

  But as a kid the older you got the more you resented going to the meetings. Some Congs used to meet, or probably still do on Saturday evening, the best part of the weekend and you have to drag yourself out the house and sit thru that BS, so glad that never happened to the Cong I used attend
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  What Is The Most Ridiculous Thing You Have Heard From A Witness?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i remember an elder questioning a woman who had admitted to giving and receiving oral sex from her unbelieving mate.

  he asked her the most intimate questions which clearly flustered her.

  interestingly, she “confessed “ to the elders because her conscience bothered her.

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  ShirleyW

  A sister told me that since she had worn a bathing cap when she was baptized, she was afraid her head wouldn't make it into the new order.

  Seriously? That's the best wackadoodle statement I've heard from a Dub, but why should that shock me, that's the kind of folks that are drawn to da troof.
  
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  What Is The Most Ridiculous Thing You Have Heard From A Witness?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i remember an elder questioning a woman who had admitted to giving and receiving oral sex from her unbelieving mate.

  he asked her the most intimate questions which clearly flustered her.

  interestingly, she “confessed “ to the elders because her conscience bothered her.

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  ShirleyW

  Friends, this may be our last convention before armageddon."
  That was back in 2002.

  That's been said numerous times before 2002.
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  What Is The Most Ridiculous Thing You Have Heard From A Witness?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i remember an elder questioning a woman who had admitted to giving and receiving oral sex from her unbelieving mate.

  he asked her the most intimate questions which clearly flustered her.

  interestingly, she “confessed “ to the elders because her conscience bothered her.

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  ShirleyW

  Can't take blood, but only blood fractions, whatever that is, but anyway, blood fractions come from blood . . WTF ???
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  How long since your last memorial?

  by NewYork44M in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is my 15th year without going to the memorial.

  based on comments, it seems i did not miss anything.

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  Haven't been since the early 1980's

  I used to ask my mother what happened to all the people that attend the Memorial the rest of the year? You never see the KH crowded for ministry school or Sunday meeting the way it is (or was I should say) at the Memorial, then her weak response would be " some of them still attend" which was a flat out lie, yet, they're always the first ones to point out Christendom always go the church on Christmas and Easter and that's about it, same for the Memorial.
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  Remark at memorial about growing annointed numbers

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  don’t know if it was part of the script.. at the memorial the remark about growing annointed numbers including this numbers from 2015 to 2017 was made (from 13.000 to 18.000+).. reason for the growing numbers could be:.

  - feeling annointed because of former believe.

  - psychical reasons.

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  ShirleyW

  So now they're saying that it's OK for the numbers of partakers to grow and back when I was growing up the number was supposed to get smaller and smaller, yup, the Dubs certainly are the only "TRUE" religion on earth. . .
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  Memorial Weekend Questions

  by Iamallcool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just don’t remember when it was the last time the memorial falls on saturday.

  anyway, do they meet for field service tomorrow(saturday)?

  do they have their meetings on sunday?

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  ShirleyW

  Didn't they start cancelling the meetings the week of the Memorial like 20 years ago or something? Or did that new light fade away.