I'd have to agree with the Cow Palace in San Francisco. It would get sweltering hot in there. Yeah the wind tunnel was kinda nice if you were walking around during the session trying to work out the cramp from no leg room for hours on end. Gotta remember the troughs to pee in. Gotta love that. Remember having toilet dooty duty one year...dunno what was worse, the stench from the pee or the stupid fragrance brick things. Ugh. I just remember being so happy to be an attendant so i could zone out during the session.
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The official "Reminisce about your most hated convomition site" thread
by B_Deserter ini cannot think of any worse place to have a convention than the pontiac silverdome.
for years my family went to south bend, indiana to avoid it.
then when south bend stopped having conventions (probably having something to do with the catholics not appreciating the brothers slamming the religion that financed, built, and hosts the lovely arena they were using), we tried madison, wisconsin for a year, before finally trudging back over to silverdome.
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Revelation BookStudy Change Of Thought???
by LouBelle inhey all.
right i honestly don't keep up to date what is happening with the jws' changes of thought.
my aunt - who is now listening to reason & is starting to search outside of jw beliefs, mentioned that they were at their bookstudy and the brother said ""we'll be skipping the next paragraph, as there is a change in thought""".
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wizardca
Does anyone have that OKM? I hadn't seen that one...though I haven't seen a KM in many years.
Kinda funny...back in the day when we studied a book again I would always get a new one to reunderline the answers. That's one not to tell the difference between the old light and new light. <cough>
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JW's Raised In - Did you get bullied during you Grade School Years?
by BBOARD indue to the way i was raised a jw i constantly felt guilt for trying to act like the other guys and it made me stand out even worse.
to this day, due to this, i nowdays become somewhat physically ill whenever i hear a brother give a talk where he says (many here have heard it in different forms) "if jehovah was looking at you youths in the congregation during school could he tell the difference between you and a worldy person.
" myself and most of the other jw guys during middle school and high school did not have the confidence or the "rough and ready to fight" type of body language so we tended to get picked on.
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Loosie - Witness school? didnt know they had those....?
Not sure I was ever bullied, but I was teased b/c of glasses, no extra-curricular sports (it's bad association after all) and overweight. There was one time in junior high some kid tried to (never really sure why) and a friend of mine beat him up for going after me. Kinda entertaining. Mom always met with the teacher, School Brochure in hand. She was active at the elementary school and of course I was a good lil j-dub.
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Funny Kingdom Hall Scandals
by lovelylil inin one hall i was in, we had sister self-righteous.
you know the type, always pointed out how spiritual she is and how much she does for jehovah.
anyway, one time she invited me and my two kids over to swim in her pool on a hot day and i told her i could come but that i had my nephew up from ct for a visit and asked if i could bring him.
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Eh...wouldn't say these were totally scandalous but, one never knows.
A married elder went out
selling magazinesfield service with a pioneer sister, eventually he raped her and both were df'd. She bc she didn't scream or something to that affect. Stupid.An elder was forced to step down bc his kid couldn't keep it in his pants.
Probably more, but can't seem to recall anything else at the moment.
Cheers!
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Did You Willingly Get Baptized or Were You Pressured Into It?
by minimus init was expected of me to get baptized and at 9 i was.
what about you?
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was 15 when i got dunked. no real pressure from anyone. my mom wasnt so sure i was ready, but didnt stop me. at the time i thought it was the right thing to do...whole family was there, blah blah blah...then at 19 faded away.
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Dinosaurs and the Bible
by zennin inif you were a jw (!!
), how would you explain dinosaurs and the bible?
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Wasn't there an Asleep on the Dinosaurs? I remember being utterly disappointed since it was supposed to tell what happened to the dinosaurs, but alas left us unfulfilled. Anyone else remember this? It was probably in the late 80s/early 90s I'm thinking.
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COLLEGE club caters to Witnesses
by DannyHaszard inreligious club caters to witnesses comment.
beacon newspaper (subscription), fl - 15 minutes ago.
club members provide any student who is interested in becoming a jehovah's witness with home bible studies, free of charge.
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The club recruits members through tabling, which is set up in the Wolfe University Center at various times during the week. Students can pick up information on the religion and the club as well as talk to club members.
LOL go to class count the time. nice.
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Weird Stuff Eaten?
by Outaservice inwhats the weirdest food/stuff you've ever eaten/tried?
i ate some chocolate covered ants!
not too bad!
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chicken feet at a dimsum place.
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Was Your Field Service Report Accurate?
by minimus indid you typically "fudge" your report??
i did.
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Before the fade within half n hour accurate. Though when i
sold the Asleep and Wathdumb magspioneered full-time i totally fudged the numbers. Then started the fade reporting the national average more or less and slowly decreased the numbers until i stopped reporting the bs hours. -
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JW's on my block!!
by Wordly Andre init was about 5pm yesterday, i noticed 2 men in suits walking around my block, at first i thought they were only there to visit one house, but then they started going door to door, they were holding a magazine after the first house so then i knew, they were dubs, i grabbed my shot gun, holy water, and crucifix, and changed into my jehovah's witness protection program t-shirt.
too bad i had to leave home before they got around to my place, but i won tickets to disney's halloween treat, so i didn't get to confront them.
but what is up with door to door work so late?
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I remember during daylight savings time we'd meet at 6pm and do return visits and door to door until it got dark out.