Billy the Ex-Bethelite

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  1 Meeting for each of your fingers ? ? ?

  by william draper in

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  anybody remember how this became a doctrine , years ago , we were at the meetings so that out fingers would be learning something .

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  You can take one finger off or miss one meeting and still keep a hold on the bible.

  And why exactly would I want to hold onto a bible?

  LOL
  
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  1 Meeting for each of your fingers ? ? ?

  by william draper in

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  anybody remember how this became a doctrine , years ago , we were at the meetings so that out fingers would be learning something .

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  There's still a PT, WT, "Bible study", School, and Serve-us meeting... They're just a lot shorter, and shoved into a two-finger glove.
  
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  Why people don't believe in God

  by pressman in

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  2. beliefs

  do you want to know why i think people don't believe in god?

  well i believe people don't want to believe in god because they are scared.

  they know that if they finally do gorge the confidence to believe in him, he might discipline them for their skepticism.

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  I still think this is satire. Just not very good satire.
  

  Do you want to know why I think people don't believe in the Easter Bunny? Well I believe people don't want to believe in the Easter Bunny because they are scared. They know that if they finally do gorge the confidence to believe in him, he might discipline them for their skepticism. Now I would like to invite everyone on this forum to wake up and open your eyes to see that the Easter Bunny is true and real.

  
  
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  Reports of lower memorial attendance

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have heard a lot of reports from kingdom halls in the area that there was less than last year, for both time slots.. we had the first time slot and we were down 50+/- compared to last year.

  last year we had the lobby full of people standing and this year we had empty seats and no one standing.

  we ran out of parking last year and this year we made it.. like i said i am hearing quite a few reports of this from halls in our area.however, somehow the number seem to inch up every year.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  ...and why turn a Good Friday into a Dull Friday by wasting the evening in a Kingdumb Haul?

  As far as the tract campaign in my area, I saw some invites crumpled in the garbage in the building foyer. Either my neighbors beat me to it, or the JWs themselves have started saving householders the trouble and just leave them in the trashcan.

  Perhaps the most effective JW tract campaign presentation (for a convention, their website, etc.) would be something like:

  [knock, knock]

  Householder: "Yes."

  Publisher: "Good morning. Could you throw this scrap of paper away for me?"

  Householder: "Sure!" [takes tract]

  Publisher: "Thanks!" [to himself] "One more down. These things practically place themselves!"
  
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  Isle of Thanet Gazette Article: Inquest concludes Dad of two died (JW Elder) in Margate on night he went missing.

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.thanetgazette.co.uk/inquest-concludes-dad-died-margate-night-went/story-26272711-detail/story.html.

  inquest concludes dad of two died in margate on night he went missing.

  by isle of thanet gazette | posted: april 03, 2015 .

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  R&R, I wonder if he'd posted pictures of himself to a site looking for "companionship."
  

  And as I said on the other thread, this is such a tragedy. And if I had a dollar for every sexually frustrated JW I've known, well, I'd have a least several thousand dollars... and that's including myself!
  
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  Hounded to his Death

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.thanetgazette.co.uk/inquest-concludes-dad-died-margate-night-went/story-26272711-detail/story.html.

  this story makes me ill with rage.

  this man's crime?

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  It is another senseless tragedy. I haven't forgotten from my own experience how terribly depressing it is to be a JW. There were so many times in my life that I thought dying would be a relief. That's a miserable feeling.
  

  I think I've almost lost count of all the JW men that I've know that have committed suicide. A guy in my bethel congregation. The son of a temporary worker. The son of my dad's pioneer partner. The brother of a girl I had a thing for once. A young guy that was briefly in my congregation with his sister and brother-in-law. A friend shortly after he was "downsized" from bethel. Another friend a few years after he and his wife were downsized from bethel. And another brother in the same hall very shortly afterward. That's eight. And that just makes me so, so sad.
  
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  And so it begins...

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  wife and i have not reported a single hour of fs in 3-4 months.

  while my wife is mostly doing for me (positive thing), i know she would have rather done it.

  elder asked me to turn in my fs report this past week and then he added... "we need to talk".

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  Elder asked me to turn in my FS report this past week and then he added... "we need to talk"

  As I was decreasing my activity before I faded, I had to put up with some "talks" from "brothers". Here's a link to a thread I started about how I got several dubs to start avoiding such conversations with me.
  

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/254990/exjw-psychology-102-how-ask-question-when-questions-arent-allowed
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  Reports of lower memorial attendance

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have heard a lot of reports from kingdom halls in the area that there was less than last year, for both time slots.. we had the first time slot and we were down 50+/- compared to last year.

  last year we had the lobby full of people standing and this year we had empty seats and no one standing.

  we ran out of parking last year and this year we made it.. like i said i am hearing quite a few reports of this from halls in our area.however, somehow the number seem to inch up every year.

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  I would have thought that since it was on Good Friday the attendance would have been up everywhere.

  my wife was talking about the new LDC arrangement and made it seem like halls are busting at the seams

  It's the same with my parents. WT is enjoying "invisible growth". The GB says how successful their website is and how they're building everywhere. They talk about this "growth" that is out of the view of the majority of JWs. At the same time, JWs are conditioned to ignore how they visibly sell branch properties, congregations are dissolved, circuits are shuffled, funds are grabbed by "mother", etc.
  
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  Why people don't believe in God

  by pressman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  do you want to know why i think people don't believe in god?

  well i believe people don't want to believe in god because they are scared.

  they know that if they finally do gorge the confidence to believe in him, he might discipline them for their skepticism.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Either this is satire or pressman is trying to recruit for ISIS
  
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  Happy Easter!

  by J-DUBBED in

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  2. friends

  yes a big happy easter to all the ex j-dubs........and to all those that want to be ex j-dubs.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Happy Easter to all my peeps!