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  Circuit Overseers, their roles, and their spouses

  by garyneal in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my wife and i took a trip yesterday to deliver her camera to her mom so she may take it with her as she goes to kentucky where the need is greattm.

  her mom is currently still in virginia staying with some brothers there while she gets schooled in giving talks (at least i think that is what she is doing).

  i met the co's wife at the petersburg kh and after we dropped the camera off, my wife and i went to have dinner before returning home.. i ask about circuit overseers and their role because i was intrigued to learn that the kh we went to had an apartment for the co.. apparently, co's have no job of their own outside the watchtower activities and while my wife insisted that they did not 'take a vow of poverty' like the catholic clergy do, they technically do.

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  chickpea

  dont forget their dry cleaning bills!

  one CO who had "served" the KH i had attended
  ended up leaving the racket when his wife ended
  up pregnant... the joke was the baby was a

  "circuit breaker"
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  People Who Refuse to Tip at Restaurants are Embarrassing!

  by White Dove in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  egg and i were treated out to dinner three times last weekend by out of state visiting relatives.

  just found out last night that they don't believe in tipping, at all!

  we suggested the places to eat and frequent those places ourselves.

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  chickpea

  i am def a 20%+ tipper, except for poor service

  i dont even let crappy food interfere with that!
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  Being a long time Witness is like shopping at Costco

  by exwhyzee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after shopping at costco for years and years, i just realized i don't even check the prices anymore to compare them to those at other stores.

  somewhere along the way i got into the habbit of assuming that they always have the best prices and best products.

  it dawned on me that it's sort of like that with being a witness especially if you were raised as that way.

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  chickpea

  wonderful and interesting perspective....

  which i am promptly stealing and holding
  in reserve to hand back to any JW that i
  may encounter in the future.... be it d2d,
  street or informal witnessing.... a handy
  tool to have, indeed!

  thanks for the post and belated welcome
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  The Guilt Trip

  by odie67 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was doing just fine.

  then not too long ago i got a call from an old jw friend not on purpose really(thats another subject).

  anyway we went through the "how are you" type thing.

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  chickpea

  best way to avoid a guilt trip is not to buy the ticket!!

  and blocking the peddlars out of your life is a great start....

  for the ones that DO get around your boundaries, like sudden
  run-ins at the mall or somesuch.... just have a pat answer and
  walk away.....

  my rote response to ANY attempts for convos that start with
  loaded questions like where have you been, we miss you,
  yada damn yada....

  listen, i am on a really tight schedule so i have to keep
  moving, just know i am doing really really well and i hope
  the same is true for you... gotta go (all the while moving away!)
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  Shouldn't have answered the phone just now

  by Soldier77 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just answered the phone and it didn't phase me that caller id did not tell me who was calling.

  well, it was an elder.... he wanted to know the usual interogation crap, where i've been, have i gone to the dc yet, when am i going, i will love it, etc, typical bullshit.

  then he says, "i noticed you haven't turned in any time for last month, do you have any to report?

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  chickpea

  dont be surprised if his zeal wanes....

  as you stated, he has JUST in the last few
  months been appointed so of course he is
  wanting to impress with his diligence....

  he will wear out soon enough when he gets
  his fill of attitude, apathy and outright unapologetic
  "zero" reports.... 6 straight months of trying to pin
  you down for "time" and getting goose-egg reports
  will make him wonder why he bothers with you at all.....
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  Young Jehovah's Witness commits to Pioneer work

  by brizzzy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://blog.al.com/living-times/2010/07/young_jehovahs_witness_commits.html.

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  chickpea

  ya just never REALLY know, do ya?

  i posted earlier this week about a
  young sistah who came to the KH
  i attended as a "needs greater"
  pioneer and how i just found out
  this week she is divorced, in college
  and about to spend a year in india
  as an intern and sooooo free of the
  b0rg that she cannot stop smilin' ....

  this kid could catch a break and find
  out the truth about the truth while
  she is still young.....
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  Dealing with the reality of death. How do you?

  by confliction in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since i've come to the realization and conclusion that i've been living a fictional lifestyle for the last 17 years, i've also come to identify with agnosticism.. .

  but one issue that's been taking it's emotional toll on me lately is the realization of the fictitious paradisiac earth.. it was the ultimate goal as a witness- the answer to everything.

  even if you had questions that couldn't be answered, you were to "wait until the paradise and ask" when you got there.. .

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  chickpea

  i took to heart the phrase
  (which i cannot attribute
  but somebody else said it)

  get busy living or get busy dying.....

  i chose to spend what is left of this ONE ASSURED
  experience of conciousness as engaged as possible
  in living a life that is meaningful, in terms of the
  human experience... and meaning is entirely subjective
  and personal

  get busy and stay busy!!

  p.s.
  
  i just plain stopped being afraid of mortality
  and gave up completely the notion of divinity!

  been doing the happy dance ever since
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  2000 years from now AIDS could be known as...........

  by foolsparadise in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a scourge by god to wipe the world free of homosexuality.

  i think its a good theory.

  any thoughts?

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  chickpea

  i find it hard to imagine the "bible"
  surviving past the 23rd century as
  anything more than a reference
  book, so the notions of there
  being revisions or addendums
  is ..... what was the question?
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  The Elder Situation

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was speaking with an older sister who is quite zealous and she is typical of many who are concerned that men are not reaching out.

  she notes that young men in particular have no interest in doing anything, congregation-wise.. the change in this area is quite dramatic, if you can remember that once, being an elder was an aspiration of nearly every brother - and we had plenty of young men to run the mics and hand out magazines.

  i once pointed out to a c.o.

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  chickpea

  this dynamic will possibly allow the shallow
  and self-serving to "aspire" to the "not really
  a rank but still a rank" of elder, meaning the
  scum will float to the top....

  that actually could speed the rate of departure...
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  I write like Stephen King- Find out who you write like!

  by moshe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  no wonder i feel like i missed my calling.. http://iwl.me/s/b3a26720.

  any other potential novelists here?.

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  chickpea

  seems dan is the man....

  i, too, submitted a couple of different pieces
  and came up writing like dan brown and
  edgar allan poe....

  wonder what their love child would have looked like?