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  Your most memorable Kingdom Hall meeting disruptions!

  by easyreader1970 in

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  i remember about twenty years ago some teenagers were caught fornicating in one of the additional schools.

  the schools were downstairs, essentially separated from the rest of the kh.

  they weren't just happened upon, though.

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  dogisgod

  I remember a street drunk sitting in the back during the memorial and he drank the entire glass of wine.

  Two brothers yelling right before the meeting one yelling, "You stay away from my wife!!!!!!!"

  People smacking their kids and then taking them to the "spanking room" hauling them by one arm that grew in length as they were dragged back there. Some would yell, "Not the spanking room, Not the spanking room".

  The "spanking room" was also a library and a second school. I walked in there on a brother and his wife having a verbal knock down drag out.

  Had a Norwegan elderly brother who was kind of loosing it mentally who would always raise his hand to answer at the WT and would go on forever...in Norwegian.

  When my dad would come to meetings he would time the brothers prayers to see who gave the longest. He would also stop by a store on the way home from the memorial and by Mogan David wine and we would all have some when we got home.
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  Book study reminiscing - what was your memorable bookstudy experience.

  by yadda yadda 2 in

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  i must admit to feeling a bit nostalgic, sentimental now about the loss of the good old home book study arrangement.

  there are many rather pleasant memories coming to the mind of various homes i attended for the book study.

  i can still remember vividly most of them.. it had a warm, convivial, family feel about it.

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  I have to add that I HATED studing anything about Ezekiel, Daniel or Revelation. Excruciating.
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  Book study reminiscing - what was your memorable bookstudy experience.

  by yadda yadda 2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i must admit to feeling a bit nostalgic, sentimental now about the loss of the good old home book study arrangement.

  there are many rather pleasant memories coming to the mind of various homes i attended for the book study.

  i can still remember vividly most of them.. it had a warm, convivial, family feel about it.

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  dogisgod

  I think the book study was my fav. It was doable. That's where you would really get to know people. We had one at our house. And yes farting was the best part. I still crack up (so to speak) when people fart. She's 89 and farts ALL the time. She totally ignores it. Maybe it helps propel her.
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  THE FLDS

  by Sasha in

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  2. beliefs

  (you know, that organization in the news currently, with the 400 dna tests going on to establish paternity).

  did you know they celebrate 2 holidays.

  jesus birth, which they claim is 4/6...anyone out there that knows how they determined that?.

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  dogisgod

  Yup. No toys. No imagination. Just chores. And yes. The "men" involved here aren't out there wanting their kids back. They know they will be charged with sex with an underaged child, polygamy, and welfare fraud, interfering with a federal investigation and who knows what else. Wouldn't it be nice that all that money were demanded to be returned to the working taxpayers. Have assets been frozen? Are they overseas? Buried in MJB coffee cans outside of The Great Salt Lake? Once again we see these d''kheads hiding behind their womens ever so long unattriactive skirts while they take the money and run. What's left? if the Matriarchial DNA can proove the link to the actual mothers and ages of children are confirmed to be from illegal peremeters then what? The father/sperm donor is long gone. Mothers' aren't equipped to make a living so they continue to live off the dole of the "unbelievers" (ie legitmate taxpayers). What a mess. All the men should have been gathered up at the same time but me thinks they already had a plan for this very situation of "prosecution" (or is it human trafficking in the name of a God who's main thoughts are of a penis, or is it just the rights of the God Givin rights of the protate son's of God.)
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  So excited I could *pOp*

  by LouBelle in

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  okay - for the last hour 2 friends and i have been sitting and talking business.

  it started out as a joke on how we could digitise magazine and download them into a very real business idea re: the soccer world cup happening here in 2010.. it is a brilliant idea, which i will share in completion once we have registered / patented it so that it can't be stolen.

  plus plus we can use it to uplift previously disadvantaged people, the only thing is they may not be able to cope with the demand - how awesome is that - i'm going to be helping people make a living - wow - skipping with happiness.. i haven't been this excited for a looooooooooooooooong time - i really do feel like my brain could pop with all the ideas - the thing is ... it's so so doable.

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  Way to go girl!!!!! I'm really happy for you!!!!!
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  Long last letter to dad...please comment-not mailed yet

  by dawg in

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  dad, .

  i doubt youll even read this letter since it comes from your son, a son youve abandoned over your religious views, but i wanted to write you one final letter to see if theres any hope that you can come to your senses as far as this religion goes and we can renew our relationship.

  im doing this because i care for you and mom deeply and feel very much distressed that you two refuse to see anyones opinion as being factual other than your own when it concerns the jw religion.

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  dogisgod

  Dawg, I'm with Scotsman on this one. I think you should just put this letter away for a while. Then you might try to read it as the recipiant and not the sender. Your parents have hurt you deeply. What a terrible loss to them. If you would my son I would brag you up everwhere I went. You are very intelligent, funny and talented and handsome. They are impaired in thinking and feeling. I'm so sorry how the borg can influence people to reject their wonderful child that God loaned to them.
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  3 a.m. - my wife is in tears! What do I do?

  by The Scotsman in

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  2. friends

  well my situation has developed a bit, any advice appreciated.. their has been a gradual building up of pressure ever since i stood down as an elder about 6 months ago.. i have been telling my wife about my doubts but have continued to attend "some" meetings.. as time has progressed i have become more open with my criticism of the org.. i mentioned the un scandal, molestation trials, false prophecy ect etc.. interestingly she does not deny these facts and yet still wants to continue as a jw.. i told her that god is not happy with people knowingly being part of a false prophet (deut 18 - etc) - starting to lay the groundwork for my exit.. she appreciates the difficult situation doubters are in - they cannot openly express their feelings for fear of jcs.. anyway, a few weeks ago we moved house which meant changing congregation.. but i felt it would be best if i did not attend meetings " at all" at the new cong so my fade could be easier.. but i could not have predicted my wifes response - when i told her it was an explosion of emotion, i mean real heartbreaker stuff.. she seems depressed at the prospect, perhaps the reality is finally hitting home.. last night, about 3a.m.

  i noticed that she was not in bed.

  i went downstairs and she was sobbing away to herself.. "i can't go to that hall myself!

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  Your wife could benefit from some counseling with a neutral person...even couples counseling. No matter how much you love someone you are not "responsible" for their happiness or choices. Be very kind and non-resistant....In a tug-of-war all you have to do is let go of the rope to stop the struggle. Your contentment in your decision to leave and your example of well being will be the biggest influence on her. She really seems in crisis, possibly because as a JW you have no indentity of your own. If your husband is an elder you are the wife of an elder. For whatever reason if he steps down you have lost "statis". Then if he leaves the borg you feel that you are afloat in a big nasty sea...especially if you've changed congs. She is afraid. She morns the past, fears the future and cannot live in the now because she is compulsive about her percieved loss and fears. Just love her and let her find her path.
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  Do you change your mind easily?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as ex-jw's we've all cleary changed our minds about what 'the truth' is but do you think you could make another big change like that again?

  i honestly cannot see myself changing my mind about the non-existence of god and the supernatural - but hey, i was just as dogmatic in my jw days that those things were real!

  i guess anything is possible but it feels as though with every passing year my options for change are reduced.

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  dogisgod

  I can't remember.
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  I pretty much hate shopping when I run into a Jw who wants to chat....

  by Hope4Others in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i'm grocery shopping and run into a woman (sister) don't use those terms much, its first names.

  thing she says: .

  woman: well how are you guys doing?.

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  dogisgod

  When I run into them I always say hi and sometimes a big hug. I know I'm a fool because I have affection for many that I grew up with. They are always uncomfortable and "have to go" . Makes me a little sad.
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  As a Witness Teenager - Did you Sneak Around ? Comical / Serious tales !

  by flipper in

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  as you all know i was raised in a very prominent witness family in california .

  dad was , and still is an elder since 1953 !

  in my youth in the 1970's i did my share of sneaking around / yes, although being an elders son!

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  dogisgod

  Nope. but I will regret it to my dying day. Jeez, the worst you would get was the clap. What a waste of hormonal developement.