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  My Life as a 'Famous' Jehovah's Witness

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  1. jw
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  just let me start out by saying i am unable to give certain details of my life as i have learned very quickly this can cause a lot of problems.

  i was born into the 'truth' as my mother had been studying with a few sisters on and off at a local congregation.

  my father was never a jw and came in and out of my life for many years..to this day i do not give him much time.

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  united states of nothing

  First off......

  Sorry for throwing all the crumbs...I mean crumps I wasn't trying to stir anything up and if I were I think based on your picture I should be throwing slabs of meat or animal carcases. I think this is opposite of what this board is trying to accomplish..it's like going to the KH and telling people how to comment...oh wait they do tha already. Anyways I already know that you are close with celebrity folk from the 80s....Michael Bolton and Richard Marks...but I don't really think they would high-jack...or jill...my thread and tell you how they feel about what YOU post. I guess in a perfect dictorship you would have a Doctorate.

  I guess maybe it was a vital portion of my experience. Now if I had been an owner of a carwash I would have had to write that..i'm not going to say what carwash I work at..but I might state I own the carwash and certain people want free carwashes...is you're car dirty VOID?

  In the words of a famous man...but I wont name him: "It is what it is and nothing more."

  Thanks for visiting my infamous thread.
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  My Life as a 'Famous' Jehovah's Witness

  by united states of nothing in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just let me start out by saying i am unable to give certain details of my life as i have learned very quickly this can cause a lot of problems.

  i was born into the 'truth' as my mother had been studying with a few sisters on and off at a local congregation.

  my father was never a jw and came in and out of my life for many years..to this day i do not give him much time.

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  Thanks everybody for having me here and sorry for the rocky start. I should have left out a few parts of my story I can see now. But I am happy to be here and I wouldn't mind handling one of those great watchtower studies one week. (I'm just sad I missed the one Richy Rich did...I would have liked to cross reference some information from the Rev Climax book. I know it wouldn't have probably fit in, but has anybody heard that song about bees being molested and how you must beat them off? I know that's not oral sex but I think I would have started out with that song....if I can transfer it to a WAV file. I don't know who I would talk to about this, but i'm thinking if I get 2/3rds of the votes here I would be allowed? If somebody wants to make a thread to vote for this I really won't object. Now I can tell you a few things:

  1. I cant moonwalk 2. I'm not Prince #%$# (or whatever his symbol was) 3. I'm not any of those black tennis players 5. I'm not a Wayens Brother....why are all famous JWs of African American (being politically correct?) decent?

  Oh...and I don't have gray hair.
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  JW Culture has Changed!

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  1. jw
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  in the late 1960s, i became a jw.

  there was a sense of intellectual freedom and more openness to discuss various spiritual and even some social topics.

  there was reliance on watch tower literature as an authority, but still the soiciety seem to confine its concerns and left the rest up to individual jws to decide.

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  Regarding the Public talks being monitored to make certain that the speakers stay with the outline. I think it is a congregational thing. I grew up in a predominately Black congregation in a city, and the majority of speakers we had at the hall were Black brothers. I belive that the congregations during that time were different in the different areas you were in. For example the congregations in the deep south were warm and the talks were more personal and people even spoke up and said 'Amen' in some instances. The singing also was much more choir-like.

  Now there were two instances of monitoring of talks etc:

  1. My bookstudy conductor gave up his afternoon bookstudy to an older brother in the hall and privately disclosed that it was because he got to excited over the material and strayed sometimes from the information being considered. He simply would smile and say "it is Jehovah's direction and we have to go along with it." He would still read at bookstudy with his booming voice. I think it was his way of getting back at the brothers for having him switch from conductor.

  2. The KH also had certain brothers who they did not invite back because they came accross as to much like a Preacher and would go overtime or do their own research. Of course this was nowhere in writing but was discussed as an elder body.
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  My Life as a 'Famous' Jehovah's Witness

  by united states of nothing in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just let me start out by saying i am unable to give certain details of my life as i have learned very quickly this can cause a lot of problems.

  i was born into the 'truth' as my mother had been studying with a few sisters on and off at a local congregation.

  my father was never a jw and came in and out of my life for many years..to this day i do not give him much time.

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  united states of nothing

  In that thread I believe Russel was 26 when you first started the business. Was not in any way stating that I was 26 years old. Those days have long since passed. Please no more guessing on who I am, I really wanted to start new on this forum.

  Thanks
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  My Life as a 'Famous' Jehovah's Witness

  by united states of nothing in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just let me start out by saying i am unable to give certain details of my life as i have learned very quickly this can cause a lot of problems.

  i was born into the 'truth' as my mother had been studying with a few sisters on and off at a local congregation.

  my father was never a jw and came in and out of my life for many years..to this day i do not give him much time.

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  united states of nothing

  I will not be posting here any longer. Could the owner of this site please delete my account, this thread, and all other posts.

  Thank you
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  My Life as a 'Famous' Jehovah's Witness

  by united states of nothing in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just let me start out by saying i am unable to give certain details of my life as i have learned very quickly this can cause a lot of problems.

  i was born into the 'truth' as my mother had been studying with a few sisters on and off at a local congregation.

  my father was never a jw and came in and out of my life for many years..to this day i do not give him much time.

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  united states of nothing

  ....I was on a baseball team.
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  115

  My Life as a 'Famous' Jehovah's Witness

  by united states of nothing in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just let me start out by saying i am unable to give certain details of my life as i have learned very quickly this can cause a lot of problems.

  i was born into the 'truth' as my mother had been studying with a few sisters on and off at a local congregation.

  my father was never a jw and came in and out of my life for many years..to this day i do not give him much time.

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  united states of nothing

  Just let me start out by saying I am unable to give certain details of my life as I have learned very quickly this can cause a lot of problems. I was born into the 'truth' as my mother had been studying with a few sisters on and off at a local congregation. My father was never a JW and came in and out of my life for many years..to this day I do not give him much time. As you get older you can see how people take advantages of certain predicuments. I led a very simple life and had decent grades and was at every meeting every week except the occational bookstudy. I had my own private study with a brother who is one of the nicest people I have ever met--even to this day.

  I grew up and had a normal childhood as you can expect in the inner-city. I was not sheltered in any way by my Mother and played Baseball every weekend and practiced with the school teams though I was not allowed to travel or play at local games. I got baptized at 17 as I went through a severe depression and was attempting to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I guess I was hoping I would get 'Led by Divine Intervention'? I had a semi-regular share in the Field Ministery and was always respectful of the congregation.

  About the time I was midway through 17 I began to be encouraged to take a more intent look at my physical skills. I had been told that if I ever wanted out of the situation I was at I would need to attend college and given my track record with sports perhaps even a scholorship. I started spending less time at home and more time on the field. I actually received that scholorship and eventually led to a very good long career with a Baseball Team. All the way through the work to get there I was scolded regularly and even banned from certain congregational activities. Now that I was drafted and traveling a lot at the young age, people would speak behind my back at the wild ways and lack of direction--choosing money over God.

  I'll keep this short. The same ones who were talking bad about me when I was gone were always trying to get free seats and spend time outside of the Kingdom Hall. I guess all of the elders were having financial problems at this time.

  Thanks for the listen.
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  Let me expand a Business....

  by united states of nothing in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  ok, so i'm 26 years old and i was thinking of expanding my business.

  i currently have a few publications which i am paid to print and bind.

  this really pays the bills and i even have a team of people and some machines i am looking to pay off.

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  Ok, so i'm 26 years old and I was thinking of expanding my business. I currently have a few publications which I am paid to print and bind. This really pays the bills and I even have a team of people and some machines I am looking to pay off. I really want to expand my business and earn some extra revenue. I begin thinking...The Bible is the #1 selling book, people spend the most money during Christmas and all these manufacturing companies make money selling products because of Christmas' religious ties...I mean everybody loves Jesus and you ALWAYS think about God when you're down and out. Plus peoples desire to want to fit in, be a part of something, or be in the know, would mean more sales.

  The Company who I do work for "The Bible Students", make most of my revenue. How can I generate more money and incorporate the letters WBTS?

  .......somebody else can finish this success story for me....I gotta take a piss.
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  Sunday Public Talk from 45 mins to 30 mins?

  by united states of nothing in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  has anybody heard that starting this new year they will be shortening the public talk from 45 mins to 30 mins?.

  does anybody think this might be a way to accomplish two things:.

  -get meeting attendance up.

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  Has anybody heard that starting this new year they will be shortening the public talk from 45 mins to 30 mins?

  Does anybody think this might be a way to accomplish two things:

  -Get meeting attendance up

  -Make it even harder for a speaker to share thoughts off the WTB's outline
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  MySpace and JW's

  by bite me in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was doing a net search and came across this poster who posted this:.

  get out of this group you true jehovahs witnesses.

  you're a member of a group calling themselves jehovahs witnesses, they have 30 members but are overrun by apostates.

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  New here....Hello to all! Just wanted to call to the attention the guy "Bill" on page 5 if you go to view all members. He is an old 50ish guy holding a baby. Notice the last post on his profile it looks like his daughter in law posts something to the regards, "he is now in jail, I do not want to divulge why but parents and children stay away from him!"

  Just a note.