Posts by BonaFide

As an active Witness, I am still in association with Witnesses in Field Service, Meetings, and occasionally at get-togethers. We usually go to eat at a restaurant after the Sunday meeting.

So tomorrow I am sure we will be talking about Michael Jackson. I live in Southern California, and I know one sister in our usual group has met MJ's mother, and is very supportive of her. So, anyone have any good points or questions I could bring up? I have a couple of ideas but I would like some more.

Remember these are active Witnesses, so "Hey you guys, the WT Society ruined MJ's life" will not work, and it will get me in trouble. I am undercover.

Anyone have anything subtle that might work?

BF

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Do Not Say: "The Society Teaches"!

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wt 1998 - 3/15 p.19 .... .

"in order to avoid misunderstandings, jehovahs witnesses try to be careful about how they express themselves.

instead of saying, "the society teaches," many witnesses prefer to use such expressions as, "the bible says" or, "i understand the bible to teach.

BonaFide

Since I am an active Witness, I always say, "The Society teaches...", because that emphasizes what is actually happening.

Bonafide

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Have you ever been to FAMILY NIGHT at BETHEL?

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family night is held once a year at bethel and all the branches.

when i was a missionary, every year both missionary homes in that country were invited to the branch office, and we had a dinner with the bethelites, and family night.

the bethelites did some singing and skits, and each missionary home was invited to submit something.

BonaFide

Family Night is held once a year at Bethel and all the Branches. When I was a missionary, every year both missionary homes in that country were invited to the Branch Office, and we had a dinner with the Bethelites, and Family Night. The Bethelites did some singing and skits, and each missionary home was invited to submit something. It was pretty ridiculous. A couple of the European missionaries had talent and sang or played an instrument, the rest of us did dumb skits, related to preaching or the missionary home.

I never went to Family Night at Brooklyn, I was too tired to go after work. I heard some are good, and some not that good. All of them have to pass a "committee" of brothers to weed out anything risque.

I heard about some of the performances on Family Night, singing, waiters on roller skates, swing dancing, piano playing. I heard that some Bethelites have real talent.

Anyone here been, or participated?

BF

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The Purpose Of The Preaching Work

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jehovah is apparently allowing the preaching work to continue to save as many people as possible.

(that's what i was always told and read anyway.).

last time i checked population growth far outsrips the growth of jehovah's witnesses.

BonaFide

Every year Worldwide, 157,000,000 are born. 62,000,000 die. That means 94,000,000 growth

So, Witnesses have about 94 million more people to Witness to each year.

http://www.prb.org/Datafinder/Topic/List.aspx?category=10

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Oops, mistake

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more fun with silly jw email forwards.....sheez

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latest email from my elder father in law .i am sure he thinks this is awesome stuff that will guilt us right back to the kh .

what he doesn't realize is that i now see through the illogical nonsense these emails are based on .

read on and feel free to leave your breakdown of the nonsense ..... .

BonaFide

The "Why go to the Kingdom Hall" is an old story that you can find on other churches websites with "church" instead of Kingdom Hall.

BF

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Are you UNDERSTANDING towards Second, Third, and even Fourth-generation Witnesses on this forum?

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do you all realize how tough it is for a second-generation witness?

what about a third-generation witness?

fourth?.

BonaFide

Ruddy, I am happy for you, but at this point I can't see my family and friends as "the small stuff" as you wrote. And I can't see losing my family as "what the hell" either.

I could be wrong, but I don't think many other posters on here think that family and friends are the "small stuff."

Family and friends are "the big stuff" for me.

However, it may come to that, and Narkissos' post and your post and some others are making me think. At this point, I do lead a dual existence.

I wonder what my life will be like in a year. I guess I might find out sooner if I am outed.

Thanks everyone, for your very thoughtful posts.

BF

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...Jehovah`s Witness Kids don`t miss Celebrating Birthdays,Christmas..ect..ect!!....

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jehovah`s witness kids don`t miss celebrating birthdays,christmas..ect..ect..!

!......................thats what jehovah`s witness parents,tell the outside world..my parents did.......the fact is..i did want to have a birthday party..i did want to get toys at christmas..i did want a tree with all the lights..i did want to go to the school christmas party..i did want to hunt for chocolate eggs at easter................tell that to your jw parents and you`ll get an ass-whopp`n..........i told my aunt i loved christmas,she always got me something...my aunt told my mom.....mom was not happy.......i did`nt support the jehovah`s witness lie....i paid the price..............when you were a jehovah`s witness kid,did you want to participate in celebrations?

...outlaw.

BonaFide

No, I didn't want a Birthday party or Christmas. I have a brother and sisters, so my mom did treasure hunts for us a couple times a year. We had maps and everything. Cool gifts.

I was interviewed a bunch of times on the meetings and assemblies because I used to say how I didn't miss the holidays or birthdays.

Of course, my mom made sure I had gifts and parties, others just let their kids go without.

BF