au contraire, Beans! I am a current, active JW. I'd say I attend about 70% of the time. I stopped going to the bookstudy for now until the completion of the Isaiah book. I just couldn't take much more of it. I'm trying to do a s-l-o-w fade and got some encouragement from JT saying it's a "process." I totally agree.
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% meetings attended by those here still JWS
by stillajwexelder ini am still a jw -- i am down to about 30% meeting attendance -- for those here still jws what % meetings do you attend (approximately)?
sorry if we have had this post before
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The Watchtower 1st September says "Learn to answer in youre own words'
by barry infair dinkum thats what it says.
i realise that when i went to meetings it was done by some people but was frowned on but now here it is on page 21 "our publications need not be quoted verbatim.
jehovahs witnesses do not simply repeat what their publications say.
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Our current CO suggested, and probably to the whole circuit, to make your answers 30 seconds or less.
It's funny to hear our WT study conductor's daughter (she's 18) try and answer in her own words. All she is doing is substituting the words in the paragraph for other words, so you really don't even know if she's understand what she is commenting on...
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Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life, I Mean Nervous Breakdown
by Perry inwhen i was still active, i asked an elder and his wife once about some of the society's policies on child abuse both emotional and physical.
now, this is way back in '93, way before silentlambs and all the media attention.
they both agreed the policies were backwards and should include more professional counseling.
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Perry:
......then I strongly suspect that more elders will, through sheer mental necessity start to step down and possibly have the guts to leave an apology behind to the members who still cling to the Towers' nipples. And, that is exactly what is needed: more elders to speak out, in the organization, about their shame in being a stooge for a lying fascist cult.
I wish there was a way to contact these elders and let them know that there is a big, whole group of people behind them to support them if they did speak out. IMHO, something is going to happen somehow...things just can't keep going the way they are going.
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Looong assemblies.
by avishai inwhen i was a kid in the early 1970's, i remember assemblies being longer thatn they are now, but because i was little, i do'nt remember.
also, i've heard in the 50's & 60's they were even longer.
how long were they?
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I was there at those long assemblies in the '50's and '60's. I don't know how people with more than one child kept their sanity, now that I've had 2 of my own, one in the late '70's and the other in mid'80's. When they were both babes, I could hardly stand it!
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Special Assembly Day report 2003/2004
by truthseeker in2003/2004 special assembly day report.
theme: serving jehovah with a complete heart.
brief note: no new light this year, but a couple of new changes i have not seen before.
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Truthseeker, if you thought it was bad sitting thru a quick review of the WT study article at the SAD, just think how agonizing it was and how angry I was for a whole hour at the KH this morning while discussing this article.
The first 6 paragraphs discussed how the nation of Israel's leaders were fleecing the flock, sucking them dry, down to the marrow and how evil that was, and then paragraph 7 tells us (the flock today) that we if practice sin, we won't get our prayers answered. Especially if we are leading a double life and concealing our wrongdoing while "pretending" to serve God faithfully. And just why should we get our prayers answered? Because paragraph 11 says we have to preach and declare "our heavenly Father's judgement message" and we can't do that if we are practicing sin; we would not be in a position to have "the spirit of Jehovah" resting on us so we can tell all non-JWs that they are going to die.
Paragraph 14 intrigued me. It stated: "Judah certainly cannot escape Jehovah's adverse judgement. In fulfillment of the prophecy recorded at Micah 3:12, Zion will be 'plowed up as a mere field." From our 21st century vantage point, we know that these things took place when the Babylonians brought devastation upon Judah and Jerusalem in 607 B.C.E. THis occurred years after Micah prophesied, but he was sure that it was coming. Surely we should be just as confident that the present wicked system of things will end in the foretold 'day of Jehovah.' -- 2 Peter 3:11,12"
What do they mean by their "21st century vantage point?"
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The silent cancer in the organization
by truthseeker incancer is one of the worlds biggest killers.
some people discover they have cancer early and they can have it quickly removed and be cured.
others are not so lucky.
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Flowerpetal
The problem with us humans is that we are going to always be infected with some kind of mind virus. (truthseeker calls it cancer but actually it s virus). If it's not areligious virus, it will be something else. I read Richard Brodie's book several years ago about mind viruses. We can't get rid of all mind viruses because then we wouldn't have anything to think about, but we can choose which ones we'll allow to infect us. Here is the link to his site: http://www.memecentral.com
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God and Man -- The Paradox....The Choice
by logansrun inhere's the deal: if you are an atheist you still must come to grips with the ultimate question, that is, why is there something rather than nothing?
even a universe with nothing more than a tiny electron floating about would require a reason as to why it exists.
our universe is one in which there are, almost literally, but not quite, an infinite amount of electrons (and protons, neutrons, etc.
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LT:
Of course, the scenario above could be interpreted to have us in the role of lab rats.
That's what scares me about the book of Job. A fight broke out between the Creator and one of his disobedient sons, and Job was the lab rat???? Couldn't the story of Job be the microcosm (sp? and right word to use?) for the explanation of the condition of the human race? Maybe it's all about or all between superhuman creatures and we humans are caught in the middle?
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What will happen to humankind? (serious)
by ScoobySnax ini want to ask a deep question here, only because i want to know your answer..... i was listening to my mum and dad tonight watching a programme on the discovery channel about how in so many million years the sun will implode or explode and destroy all life in our solar system and beyond.
my dad was fascinated and was arguing with my mum who said it's rubbish because that isn't jehovah's purpose for the earth.
later i was thinking.
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Flowerpetal
I don't think that i ridiculed the wt in this thread.
SS
I don't think you did either, SS.
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current JW's, asking a question...
by jwbot inare there any current jehovahs witnesses here?.
what are your reasons for being here?
to find like minded people?
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Observador:
Besides, I got very intrigued about why someone from the GB would want to lose his highly regarded "privilege". One day I'll tell you how trembling my legs were when I went to the bookshop to pick up my copy of COC!
Man oh man!
I didn't tremble when I got my book--but I made sure the bookstore, when they called me to let me know it was in, to be discreet over the phone just in case my hubby answered. Funny thing and I didn't believe it at first, but I think it's true...when I first entertaining thoughts of reading CoC, I found it on the computer at the library. When I went back to borrow it, first making sure it was still there, it had been taken off the data base at the library. I had hear stories that some witnesses that worked at libraries, who worked in the procurement of getting books for the library, made sure this book was removed. Who else would care that much to keep this book off the shelves except a witness?
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God and Man -- The Paradox....The Choice
by logansrun inhere's the deal: if you are an atheist you still must come to grips with the ultimate question, that is, why is there something rather than nothing?
even a universe with nothing more than a tiny electron floating about would require a reason as to why it exists.
our universe is one in which there are, almost literally, but not quite, an infinite amount of electrons (and protons, neutrons, etc.
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LittleToe:
FP are you saying that Euph has to give LR a BJ?
Of course not!!!