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  Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?

  by minimus in

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  she certainly is passionate about climate change.

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  Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?

  by minimus in

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  she certainly is passionate about climate change.

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  I find her quite obnoxious and somewhat annoying and her rant at the UN was ignorant and the views of someone clueless about the ever changing climate of the planet , but as many say I feel for her being thrust into the public spotlight as a spokesperson for the clear agenda behind her and the shady dodgy people in the background pulling her strings manipulating her, I sense she'll be pushed aside soon as her credibility and scrutiny becomes more and more exposed, I feel the sympathy for her but the other Climatards/Eco Nazis in the news each become more and more exposed as being uneducated RentAMob types clueless about the real issues facing the enviroment.
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  FlyingHighNow

  by Ex-Witless in

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  hello forum.

  my aunt, flyinghighnow, has passed away.

  i don't know if you remember her, but she was a long time member.

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  RIP, yes I remember her, sad seemed a very nice lady
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  Not training speakers/teachers any more?

  by eyeslice2 in

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  2. friends

  not having attended any meetings since about 2001, for reasons of safety (sounds a bit dramatic but i don't like my wife being out on her own late at night where we live now), i have started accompanying her to the mid-week meeting.. when i was young, the ministry school and service meeting were central to training brothers to take the lead.

  you were assigned instruction talks, then if you cut it, you moved pretty rapidly to public talks - a full 55 mins at the time.

  i was just 18 years old when i gave my first public talk and this was a first step to moving rapidly through the ranks.

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  I cant imagine a Thursday meeting bereft of The Instruction Talk, Written Review and talk no 2,3,4 and 5, they even wised up to the fact that the TMS was doing the exact opposite of what it was originally planned; making good public speakers and gosh I've heard so much mind numbing hopeless public speaking from the platform of the KH over the years to last me a billion lifetimes, LOL. JoeyJoJo 100% agree with you.
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  When was it time for you to walk away from your congregation meetings and the WTBTS?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the basic virtue for a human being is to be true to yourself – the integrity of thought, emotion, and action.. .

  ten years ago ( after 32 years as a jehovah's witness), i finally decided that my own mental sanity and being true to myself was more important than attending congregation meetings and serving the watchtower society.

  i stopped (years before) field service, the ministry school, answering at the watchtower studies, missed numerous meetings and walked in minutes before the meetings started and left after the closing prayer, i knew it was time to leave.

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  the early 1990's, a born in had a walkabout phase on my teens got interested again. baptised in the late 1980's, married in 1990 (huge mistake) and during the Waco siege my interest was aroused with the media focusing on cults and sects and I began to research, I was done , by 1993 my fade started but did attend the memorial that year my last ever, our marriage continued to deteriorate and we divorced in 1995, moved away, new career and life was starting all over again, dabbled in a little bit of evangelical Christianity but it simply wasn't for me, been an atheist ever since and never set foot in a KH since, and as some have said during the last year of my miserable marriage i really did hit rock bottom, my mental state was something I needed to salvage and luckily I did.
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  Kenneth Richmond - Wrestler and former Circuit Overseer Dies

  by eyeslice in

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  i was only young but i do remember ken and his wife (valentina) being our co. he was a mountain of a man but it would appear from the bbc obituary he was a man of peace.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/lastword.shtml .

  olympic wrestler and actor who became the last of the men who struck the symbolic j. arthur rank movie gong has died aged 80. .

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  My old man visited his cong in the late 1980's as the visiting speaker , Woking in Surrey, we met briefly, I was always led to believe he was a competition body builder not a wrestler
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  Lack of zeal

  by road to nowhere in

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  i hear rumbling about the rank and file not having the same zeal they had when new.. lets see: door to door at the time least likely to find someone.

  waste of a whole morning.

  isolated.

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  I watched my zeal waver and dwindle away into inactivity and atheism,I was very aware of it, it was a self monitoring process, but secretly quite enjoyable, and to think I was praised for my zeal,enthusiasm and public speaking LOL
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  Sexual Morality In The Old Testament Differs From That In The New Testament

  by AlanF in

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  2. bible

  conservative christians like the jehovah's witnesses often claim that, like the new testament, the old testament forbids all sexual relations outside marriage, including relations between unmarried people.

  that is not quite true.

  to see that patriarchal and israelite culture adhered to a different standard, we must first understand just how the old testament treats marriage, sexuality and related items.. the old testament view of women as property.

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  I wonder whatever happened to AlanF? the amount of time and energy he put into his work here can never be commended enough
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  How Many Here Are Estranged From Your Family Because Of The Witnesses?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  do your jw relatives still talk to you?

  are you now not very close?

  are you avoided?

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  only my hard nosed sister left haven't spoken to her in over a decade, still shunned
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  What Did You Do With All Your Meeting Clothes?

  by minimus in

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  i literally had dozens of suits.

  i still have more dress clothes than anyone i know.

  i did give some suits and clothing away and to be honest, i still like wearing a nice suit.. brothers and sisters, are all your “ meeting clothes” still in your closet?

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  I had some nice smutter, I wore my Hugo Boss wedding suit for a while when I was a R&F dub, but that was 29 years ago and I was a 32inch waist, even if I'd had kept that stuff none of it would have fitted me now!