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  Just venting

  by dsgal in

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  i faded from the jws thirteen months ago and since then i have only been called on by two elderly pioneer "sisters" a couple of times.no loving shepherding calls from the elders,not even once.i always felt out of place at the kh because i didn't have any friends there.never once got invited to social gatherings the whole year i went there.what's with all the clique $hit?that's about as far from jesus' teachings as i've ever seen.now today out of the blue i have a message on my machine from one of the elder's mother.i didn't call her back.wonder what came over her to think of me anyway?oh well,you all might not understand my feelings but i feel better now that i sat down and typed it out.

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  Going in service on holidays

  by dsgal in

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  remember how embarrassing it was to show up at someone's door on a holiday?when i was a teenager i went out with a very zealous pioneer sister on christmas day.we worked an upscale neighborhood of town and of course all the servants were off so they would answer the door themselves.i rang one doorbell and a lady came to the door and i could see her family inside sitting in chairs in a circle opening gifts.they all looked at me to see who in the world was calling on christmas,i suppose.i gave my presentation with a red face and she just looked at me and said"don't you know today is christmas?

  "how embarrassing is that?so glad i don't have to do that anymore.

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  Fortunate but not lucky

  by dsgal in

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  does anyone know why jws can say they are "fortunate",but cannot say they are" lucky"?the webster's dictionary says" fortunate" is a synonym for" lucky",so what's the difference?

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  Not burdensome?

  by dsgal in

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  jesus really gave it to the pharisees for burdening down the people with heavy loads and he said "my yoke is kindly and my load is light",so i'm wondering,how many ex-jws really felt it wasn't a burden to attend five meetings a week,tend to personal and family study,prepare for meeting parts,sit all day for three days in a row at assemblies,spend your free time in field service and witness to school mates and work mates about it?

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  Early jws more deserving?

  by dsgal in

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  here's something i don't get...i was reading in a jw publication(i think it was "proclaimers of god's kingdom"that the early witnesses only had to go in,sit down and listen to a talk.they never even had to raise their hands or utter a word.didn't go door-to door either,and yet most if not all of them claimed to be of the "anointed class".nowadays if you don't comment at every meeting,spend most of your free time in field service and give talks yourself on the tms(which they didn't even have in those days) you are made to feel like your'e not even worthy to live on the earth,let alone heaven.so what's up with that?what did they do to make god love them more?.

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  Witnesses attacked by demons!

  by dsgal in

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  does anybody remember all those stories in the awake!

  magazines about witnesses being attacked by demons?

  i wonder why they never print anything of this nature anymore?

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  No hope for shy ones?

  by dsgal in

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  i knew a very nice person who was also very shy.she would sweat bullets just thinking about joining the tms or commenting at meetings.yet she was the sweetest person at the kh.she confided to someone she thought she could trust and was told she didn't have jehovah's spirit if she couldn't do these things that were required of her.also that she might not make it into the new world because romans 10;10 says clearly "public declaration by mouth means your salvation".i don't get it.god doesn't love shy people?but he created shy animals!

  needless to say,this woman does not attend meetings anymore because she thinks there is no hope for her anyway.funny,i have never heard anyone in another religion say you were doomed because of shyness.

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  Reporting Time

  by dsgal in

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  i read on another post that something new was started at the last elder's meeting about "turning in time" or "getting time in".anybody know what it is?

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  A day in field service

  by dsgal in

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  7:30-too early to get up on a saturday morning but the co is visiting and i must show up to make our cong.

  9:00 - arrive at kh, smile and say "good morning" to everyone (even though i'm still half asleep).

  he visited had 69 people when he was there.

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  144,000

  by dsgal in

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  the number of anointed kept dwindling until abou the mid-1980's when it got down to 8,000 or so and it just seemed to stop there.can someone please explain?

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