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  Do you ever miss it? Ever?

  by AK - Jeff in

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  for me - rarely would be the correct word.

  i don't miss the indoctrination.

  i don't miss the wasted time in service.

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  wizardca

  In the beginning I did miss some of it...guess it was ingrained in my head and life to go the Kingdumb Hall. As time has passed, I mostly no longer have that feeling. Though on rare, very rare, occasions I miss an old part of what it was, things that were done as a group growing up which they no longer do anyways. Cryptic enough for you? lol.
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  2008-Watchtower is so cheap! - books cheaper covers, smaller Calander??$$

  by Witness 007 in

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  2. scandals

  i've noticed since the watchtowers tax problems,and publications now being offered without a price for "donations" the quality has gone down to save money $$$$ first the new calander is half the size of the original a4 size....it's hard to write your witnessing hours!

  remember the hard cover books that last forever...now paperback!!

  monthly awakes and study article only watchtowers for witnesses, saves alot of paper and printing.

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  wizardca

  paperback bibles??? whaaaa? seriously? i shall have to ask to see one of these!
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  Christians: Do You Uphold the Sabbath Law?

  by serotonin_wraith in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if the biblical commands are to be followed, and god's morality outweighs or controls our own, i must say i feel the law about not working on the sabbath seems to be ignored for the most part.. some of the laws found in the ot have now been set aside by many christians - not stoning disobedient children, for example.

  believers may show how jesus' arrival on earth fulfilled certain rules which only applied to the jews of the time.. can the same be said for the sabbath law?

  it still appears in the ten commandments, and i was under the impression those rules had to be followed today.. if all sins are equal, it's a little odd how we don't hear of any groups picketing at supermarkets every week with signs saying 'god hates sabbath workers'.

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  wizardca

  Mathew 5:17, 18 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."

  By fulfilling the law Christ satisfied it's requirements in our place. In other words, the 'required' obedience is accomplished in Him. Therefore, in Christ do we keep all the law faithfully, and cannot be accused. In this way, we are no longer judged by any of the everlasting laws, for we are under the Grace of God. The law doesn't condemn us.

  Snipped from: http://www.mountainretreatorg.net/faq/oldlaw.html

  Or did I miss the point of the post entirely?
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  whats it like going on the "work" ministery

  by looloo in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a lot of ex dubs i know have said they did not enjoy it at all , and i certainly got the impression it was more of a duty than a privelidge by ones who are still in it , they even asked if they could use me to get thier time in !!!

  at work .

  i used to think to myself that at least the born agains look as though they actually enjoy worshipping god considering they are serving satan !!!!!!

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  wizardca

  hated it. of course we went to places i normally did business at. it was saturday, they were busy trying to make a living. i always felt bad interrupting them since I would have been annoyed if i was them.
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  Another method of witness time-wasting

  by ldrnomo in

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  2. friends

  yesterday as i was getting ready to go out i noticed from my bedroom window two women dressed in witness garb heading toward my house i didn't recognize them so when i answered the door they asked me if i was spanish speaking i said no and they then asked me if i knew of anyone the the neighborhood that was and i said no they thanked me and went off to the next door (doing the pioneer shuffle) to ask the same question.

  so this must have taken up a whole morning.

  my wife and i thought they could have spent their time so much more affectivly sitting in a coffee shop and saying olaaaa to each customer that came in and when one answered back they could have spewed their bs on them in spanish..

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  wizardca

  i remember back in the early 90s when the spanish congos were becoming bigger....the english did a survey of the territories listing who spoke spanish.
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  dinner tonight

  by wizardca in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just had to share this..... had dinner at my jdub grandparents house tonight.

  my uncle was there (technically a jdub but is fading) sporting a nifty gray beard.

  he goes to a meeting and no one says anything (not that they go all that often or has any responsibilities).

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  wizardca

  just had to share this....

  had dinner at my jdub grandparents house tonight. my uncle was there (technically a jdub but is fading) sporting a nifty gray beard. He goes to a meeting and no one says anything (not that they go all that often or has any responsibilities). Well, guess grandma so does not approve of the new look and told her son, not to come back into her home wearing a beard.

  WTF
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  at the memorial when do the annoited drink of the cup and eat of the bread?

  by grewupJWnoselfesteem78-95 in

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  when i was jw i never saw an annointed person.... i thought that to be annointed you had to be american....i remember i asked someone at km hall were do the annointed drink the wine and eat the bread ?

  they siad it happens in a back room in private.... is this true?

  i was only young maybe it was just a throw off answer...... i always felt that holding the wine and bread publicly for a few seconds and then passing it on was a direct public denial of yahushua's instruction.........

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  went to the memorial this year...it keeps the family sane....new blood was there and kept attempting to partake of the bread n wine. it took all the strength in me to not start laughing at the new blood's cult leader bible study conductor(?) attempts to stop her. quite amusing.

  my grandmother makes the bread for her congregation....i've had it...meh, it's like eating grape nuts. it needs butter to make it worth eating. i can pass, thanks.
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  Ding Dong !!!

  by prophecor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  no, not that kind of ding dong.

  how many jehovah's witnesses have rung your doorbell this morning?

  they just rung mine's under the guise of possibly being one of my family members coming over for christmas.

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  wizardca

  They came by at Thanksgiving. I should be safe today.
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  HOLIDAY FIELD CIRCUS....................

  by nomoreguilt in

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  2. friends

  so, did you ever buy into bothering people on the holidays?

  i personally could never bring myself to do it.

  after all, everyone has a right to there own own privacy on such days.

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  wizardca

  Yes I do recall being dragged out in Field Circus on Christmas Day. I never did think it was ok to interrupt people on holidays. Least the meeting for Field Circus was moved back to let them have their time. How thoughtful, huh?
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  How long does it take to make a Witness?

  by DoubleVision in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  sorry, i don't have a punch line for this subject line, but i .

  sure someone will come up with one.. anyway, how long does it take to make a witness?.

  after seeing the 2007 stats i thought to myself how many.

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  wizardca

  16 years. oh wait i was brainwashed raised in the stuff. n/m.

  LOL 9 lunar months LOL