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The practice of "Shepherding Calls" (attention ex-elders)
by Lady Zombie in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the practice of "shepherding calls" has always been somewhat of a mystery to me.. growing up, a shepherding call was for jws who were doing something that a few/some/most (didn't matter which) found stumbling or suspicious.

for instance, i remember my folks gossiping to each other about a jw couple who had been sloughing off the meetings in order to go dancing.

one of the congregation members (who were absent themselves on a particular night) saw them going into a dance club on a meeting night and promptly ran to an elder.
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My Elder Dad said "what changes"
by Champion in
1. jw
2. friends
yeah, i need the one that shows how the old wt lit says the same basic teaching as the new generation understanding.....so not new light but finally just recycled crap...........oompa.

i will try to find it.
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FUN TEST! I am 37% JW!! Post your percentage here plz
by Tired of the Hypocrisy in
1. jw
2. friends
i found this online.

i have not seen it on here before so i thought i would post it.

it is a test to determine if you belong in the jw religion.
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Where were you when the planes hit?
by coolhandluke in
1. jw
2. experiences
it f*cks me off that this happened only a few years ago but no one in my office has yet to even mention it.

it was such a pivotal event:.

i was driving from fontana to chino in california dressed in service clothes.
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Will the Book Study ever be dropped from the weekly meetings?
by RULES & REGULATIONS in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the book study is one of the most useless meetings.

the same books have been studied 3 or 4 times.the meeting takes only an hour but takes up most of your evening.

and, it is one of the least attended meetings.. why haven't they combined the watchtower study with just question and answer and then follow with the book study with just question and answer?
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Favorite Quotes
by Abandoned in
1. social
2. entertainment
i love inspirational quotes.

i read through them from time to time and i always feel better after sharing the thoughts of yesterday and today's greatest minds.

"if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
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Songs to make an '80's Guy (or girl) cry.....
by avishai in
1. jw
2. friends
another thread inspired this one, and i'm making myself a lil' compilation.... i'll start.

"just like heaven" the cure.

"please, please let me get what i want" the smiths....
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List of family/friends lost to the Watchtower cult? (suicides)
by hubert in
1. jw
2. friends
after reading about puternuts (ari) suicide, and also reading about sabine and js losing their daughter to this cult, i think it would be a fitting memorial, so to speak, to write a list of all the people we know who died because of this cult.

i also know that cruzanheart lost her dad to it, too.

i'm sure there are many here that can make a list of suicides brought on by the shunning/threatening policies of the watchtower cult.
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Did You Ever Think That The Demons Were After You?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
i know so many jws that love to think satan and his demons are after them.

if they were being "persecuted", it was because of the devil and his demons.

if they got an ache or pain, it was because satan was trying to "discourage" them.......did you think the demons were trying to get you, too?
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BEAT that Child!
by Farkel in
1. jw
2. friends
this is sort of a continuation of threads on dubs and how they are conditioned to discipline their children.

someone questioned whether the society actually encouraged dubs to whup their children.

i only had enough time to dig up a few salient quotes from the wt magazine.