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  Holy Disfellowshipping batman

  by lancelink in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wow, .

  i heard yesterday that 50 (yes 50) young people have been disfellowshipped within the past month in my .

  old circuit.

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  lancelink

  I find this very hard to believe. Where did you hear it from?
  
  1),My kids keep in contact with a teenager who attends one of the affected halls
  
  2), One of the elders called me up yesterday asking how I was doing, he mentioned that 53 (not 50) teenagers
  were DF'ed.
  
  3), My wife heard in conversation this morning that 4 kids from our old hall were now gone, the local needs part was on drinking.
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  Holy Disfellowshipping batman

  by lancelink in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wow, .

  i heard yesterday that 50 (yes 50) young people have been disfellowshipped within the past month in my .

  old circuit.

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  lancelink

  WOW,
  
  I heard yesterday that 50 (yes 50) young people have been disfellowshipped within the past month in my
  old circuit. Northern Illinois, I don't remember the number perhaps 11-A or B ??
  Round lake, Palatine, Crystal lake,Cary,Barrington area.
  
  50 kids within 30 days,, I verified this with two different people from 2 different congregations.
  
  I just cannot wrap my mind around this thought, what is going on in the world of JW's that would cause
  so many to be DF'ed so soon?
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  television preachers,

  by lancelink in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i despise jokes that have to do with bodily functions, but this one really caught me off guard.

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6waxptsrgia

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  lancelink

  I despise jokes that have to do with bodily functions, but this one really caught me off guard.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6waXPTSrGiA
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  Did you dress modestly when attending CA's & DA's?

  by Quirky1 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just wondering if you were modest in your attire?

  i know they always preached modesy but always seen a lot of bling, bright & colorful outfits and way overdone makeup and hair styles.

  and they knew it!

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  lancelink

  I was one of those people that always dressed up for a CA or DA.
  One year I was an attendant at Hawthorne race track at Cicero Illinois and i actually wore black
  gym shoes instead of dress shoes, man did i feel like a rebel.
  Several years later, we went to Cominski park in Chicago, there I was dressed in a suit and tie being an attendant.
  Little did I know, but in the afternoon the sun was shining full blast on my section and boy was it HOT.
  My whole attitude toward dressing up for the assembly changed that day, I never wore anything greater that dockers and a lite jacket
  after that afternoon
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  Pro's and Con's of DAing myself.

  by lancelink in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have been wrestling with the idea of da'ing myself for close to a year now.

  but there is a small area in my subconscious that whispers "this is not a good idea.

  i haven't been to a meeting in over six months, no service in seven years.

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  lancelink

  Thank you for all the opinions, I really appreciated all of them. Some of the comments really made me think about my reason for needing to send the letter,and sending it would only allow me to play right into the elders hands showing them that they still had an influence over me. I never thought about it that way. Years ago (30) before my parents became witnesses we were Catholics, and we just "became" JW's without notifying the church at all. There was no major concerns, or worries about letting anyone know what we were doing. Why should this situation be any different? So I will just burn the letter today, delete it from my computer, and just move on, thank you all again for your concern !
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  Pro's and Con's of DAing myself.

  by lancelink in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have been wrestling with the idea of da'ing myself for close to a year now.

  but there is a small area in my subconscious that whispers "this is not a good idea.

  i haven't been to a meeting in over six months, no service in seven years.

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  lancelink

  I have been wrestling with the idea of DA'ing myself for close to a year now.
  
  But there is a small area in my subconscious that whispers "this is not a good idea.'
  
  I haven't been to a meeting in over six months, no service in seven years. But I feel that in order to be honest with myself
  and others I should make a clean break,write a letter,send it to the PO and be done with it.
  
  Another part tells me that by doing this, I will cause alot of grief for the small amount of people (1) in my entire family who even have
  a thought of going to the KH. This person is my Dad, he is alone and lives across the country. he basically has a very thin relationship
  with the witnesses. I think because they help him out occasionally with driving, lawn mowing, etc. He goes several times a month to the KH.
  If I DA, what could it do to him if later he has to move to my area? my parents were pretty involved in the witnesses years ago. Yet now, most of their friends have died, or moved away, only some of the children are grown up and still attend their old hall.There are also several friends(?) that I have who have not spoken to me in over a year.
  So,, in conclusion do I do what I need to do and live with any flak later on, or should I remain invisible and just stay inactive?
  
  I have written a very short, direct letter that is slowly burning a hole in my hard drive and soul.
  
  Staying inactive is starting to seem more dishonest to me every day, I feel that I'm trapped in a very deep hole and I have several ways out,
  yet I don't know what to do.!?
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  Strategies for dealing with the borg

  by JimmyPage in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  having gone to the last dc i realized how much i love a lot of people within the borg.

  but i also realized how much i hate listening to the talks.. i've come up with two or three strategies on how to deal.

  one is to take advantage of the borg by going to a foreign language congregation.

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  lancelink

  Try a sign-language meeting sometime, most fun I ever had at the hall !
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  Watchtower heavy weight

  by greenhornet in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  his name is cireo...... (first name) please can any body give me the correct spelling..

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  lancelink

  Oh my!
  
  Is this loon still a member of the GB, or is he still a JW?
  
  How embarrassing to think I once would / could have listened to this and thought that what it could be true.
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  The Spanking Room

  by jamiebowers in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.earnedmedia.org/wppg09161.htm

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  lancelink

  Damn it, I remember taking my kids to the back of the hall, or to the basement and trying my best to get them to be quiet
  sometimes really spanking them.
  
  Thank god that they turned out to be really nice kids tho.
  
  When one of them was about ten years old, while getting ready for the Thursday night meeting, he did not want to go and my wife
  and I got in the usual "do it or else" mode. he turned around and punched a hole in the wall.
  
  From that night on, we really backed off with the authoritative attitudes and allowed them more freedom .
  But we sure caught alot of crap from the elders after that, the elders really made us feel like garbage for
  backing off on our kids, not creating little borg drones like they expected.
  
  I heard a great little saying yesterday that really made me think about this:
  
  remember the small things of your life today,
  because tomorrow they will have become the larger, more important things.
  
  man, if i could go back and redo those years with my kids from a spiritual aspect,, what i would change would be amazing.
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  SCAN OF TRACT CAMPAIGN: "Would you like to know the truth?"

  by DoomVoyager in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i hope this hasn't been posted yet.. http://i38.tinypic.com/106fzb9.jpg.

  http://i33.tinypic.com/2ckftw.jpg.

  http://i37.tinypic.com/k5nco.jpg.

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  lancelink

  The last page states 'printed in Canada"
  
  I thought all English literature was printed in NY.