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  Witnesses on federal and state assistance programs

  by AZ in

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  has anyone ever noticed the amount of witnesses that receive assistance through state and federal programs, like welfare, food stamps, medicaid, wic...i'm sure it varied from area to area but does anyone feel they noticed people within the congregation were using it too much.... i was just thinking about it.

  i guess cause the other day i had an appt with my financial advisor (i'm so glad i'm saving for my retirement!!

  ) and there's a restaraunt below the offices...my advisor was telling me that when they get there in the morning the cleaning man at the restaraunt always has his music turned up all the way...she said people at the office were complaining.

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  This is how messed up it was...

  by themonster123 in

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  i've just been thinking about jwd and how messed it up it is how the witnesses twisted things in my mind so i totally got mind-warped....what am i talking about, you ask?

  well, whenever someone has a quote on here from watchtower literature from years past (like from the 1970s or 1960s etc) proving that witnesses have taught/do teach this or that in the past, i automatically discredit that quote necause how i was taught as a witness was that whole new light thing-meaning...... "oh, well, things have changed-our teachings have changed, we no longer believe or teach this, this, and that anymore,"- i'm so brainwashed that when i read old quotes on here where people prove to say that witnesses taught this or that, it's like i kind of go "oh well that quote doesnt' matter," but in reality.......... jws should take responsibility for everything they've taught!!!

  and not just keep saying, "well, that was then-this is now.. ...i mean, from an outsider's view point, they would say "oh, so witnesses teach this?

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  hello.....

  by L.Wells in

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  i have lurked here for quite some time but felt the need to register, probably because i feel almost ready to leave.

  a little background.

  i am raised in the truth, am for all intents and purposes a good witness.

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  I always had to chuckle at this

  by TooBad TooSad in

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  at circuit and especially district assemblies so many witnesses take.

  notes of what was being said at such a feverish pace that i would ask.

  myself: "what are they hearing that i am not hearing that is so important.

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  TV Shows...which ones didn't you get to watch?

  by TheCoolerKing in

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  what tv shows didn't you get to watch when you were a jw?

  either because you had to attend one of the five meetings a week or had to go out in field service on the weekend?.

  i remember being pissed off as a kid every saturday morning, because we always had to go out in field service.

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  Where does the WT Society get all of its money?

  by Threestars in

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  i was always taught that they were so frugal and even poor, just scraping by with neccessities back in brooklyn and at the farm, and in our congs they always harped at everyone to put more in the box since they couldn't make the hall payment or the utilities, etc.. now i am hearing that they are quite well off.

  is this mostly from wealthy dubs leaving money to the borg in their wills, or, rich ones donating, (for instance prince or the williams sisters)?.

  just curious..

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  Disfellowshipping question

  by DJK in

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  i have heard a rumor that an elder or former elder was disfellowshipped because none of his siblings (6) baptized and all left the witlesses when they turned 18.. is it possible?

  i'm afraid to ask anyone who may have knowledge of it because they will tell someone i had asked.. djk, of the leader of the pack class.

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  What were the neighbours of your kingdom hall like?

  by sass_my_frass in

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  every one of the houses around every kingdom hall i attended were do not calls; i imagine due to the many years they'd been subjected to a hundred cars arriving, three times a week; every week for as long as they live there.

  one lady used to throw buckets of water on whoever walked up her stairs.

  one bloke called the police every tuesday night to tell people driving out not to turn their cars headlights on until they were pointing away from his bedroom window.

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  Q: What do you call a Married Jehovah's Witness that.....

  by NotaNess in

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  offers a female jw to sit on his lap 3 times, then says "c'mon, i'll give you a dollar", like a tip for a lapdance...as she giggles?.

  any guesses?.

  and he has responsibilities at his hall, like someone in charge of the public talks or something like that.. .

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  What things do you do to mark your progress away from the WTS?

  by Lady Lee in

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  i was at the meetup this week and had a couple of interesting comments about what people have done to mark their progress away from the wts/jws.. one person said that when she recognizes that she has taken another step away she rewards herself with her own private birthday party, cake and candles and sometimes even a gift.

  she is doing this for all the birthdays she missed.

  and it needn't fall on her birthday but it does mark some change in her.

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