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Will you reply to this topic or just read it?

by compound complex in

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some topics generate hundreds of reads but few replies.

others, well ... i'm not one for scientific studies.

nor why one thing works and another will not, despite the time and effort put into it (whatever the thing/endeavor happens to be).. kindly inform me if you, in passing by and, having nothing better to do of a saturday eve, happen to see this post but have no intention of responding.. perhaps this is rocket science after all.. thank you for reading though finding no necessity to reply .... "they stayed away in droves.".

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Is this a twisted apostate lie?

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i was a full time preacher who else did ?

by mattbetrayed in

i did the full time min from school even though i could have gone to drama school.what a wast of my time and life!!!!!!!!!!!!

!iam happy to say that i came to my senses and went back to school and became a nurse,very happy i did my wife is still a jw but she stopped the pioing and she to became a nurse.. i will make sure my kids dont get temped to be encouraged to do that wast of time.as the wife still goes,and my mom and dad and sisters still go.. anyway would love to know what others who were pioneers felt of it and what doing now,please tell..

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I aux every summer while in school. Then Full Time for 1 year after high school (1000 hours - not this 800 sissy stuff) Then I got my Pioneer friend pregnant and then we lived happy ever after.

in Minnestoa (anyone else?)

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Getting Sick

by thebigdebate in

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how many here faked being sick as a kid, so you could skip meeting?.

my mom and sister still fake there sickness so they dont have to go!.

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What is M.E.?

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HELLO, I'M NEW AND.........

by billie jean in

i never believed a word of any of it !.

raised a j.w from birth, i'd sit in the meetings and at conventions wondering what the hell it was all about and that it was all one big joke and imagine that they''d all suddenly turn around laughing and pointing at me !!

saying something like "haha the joke's on you".

thebigdebate

I was born and raised in it also. Dunked when I was 13 - Full time Pioneer for 1 year - 10 years fading out - now I am out for a full year - skipped my first Memorial this year.

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Getting Sick

by thebigdebate in

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how many here faked being sick as a kid, so you could skip meeting?.

my mom and sister still fake there sickness so they dont have to go!.

thebigdebate.

thebigdebate

How many here faked being sick as a kid, so you could skip meeting?

My mom and sister still fake there sickness so they dont have to go!

thebigdebate

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COMMENTS YOU WILL NOT HEAR AT THE WT STUDY 09-07-08 (HOUSE TO HOUSE MINISTR

by Mary in

" (this would harmonize with matt 10:9 that tells them not to take any money with them).

" the interpretation of the acts of the apostles, 1961, pp.120-21.

it became evident, however, that further personal training in the house-to-house ministry was needed.

thebigdebate

I just read this and I told my wife that I want to go to meeting tomorrow. She asked me if I am nuts, I said no. I just want to give a few of these answers.

The only problem is that I have a beard now (because I have not been to a meeting in about 1 year) and they cant call on me because of my beard.

I guess that I might just skip it tomorrow and watch football with my kids.

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I need advice on the DC

by thebigdebate in

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i haven't been to a meeting in over a year, my husband longer, but he came with me to the dc last year to help me with our 4 children ( our youngest was one).

that was the last thing either of us have attended.

we have a trip planned and come home the wednesday before the dc and he does ont want to go, nor will i force him to.

thebigdebate

The only thing with my parents is, if I don't go, my mom will sky rocket into depression, I have had 3 phone calls today about it. And then my dad will completly blame me. She backed off about meetings and such a long time ago. I don't know, I just want to scream. It's so aggrevating. I'm completly torn. Why they want me to go with all 4 of my tattoos to show off and all I have no idea. CRAZY !

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I need advice on the DC

by thebigdebate in

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i haven't been to a meeting in over a year, my husband longer, but he came with me to the dc last year to help me with our 4 children ( our youngest was one).

that was the last thing either of us have attended.

we have a trip planned and come home the wednesday before the dc and he does ont want to go, nor will i force him to.

thebigdebate

I haven't been to a meeting in over a year, my husband longer, but he came with me to the DC last year to help me with our 4 children ( our youngest was one). That was the last thing either of us have attended. We have a trip planned and come home the wednesday before the DC and he does ont want to go, nor will I force him to. Problem is I also don't want to go, but my parents are stressing me out. I can't go until friday night when he is done with work and can get home, because I will only take the 2 older kids with me if I am going by myself. I am completly torn, Is it better to go and do something I really don't want to do to keep the peace, or just skip it all together. I hope this made sense.

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