when i was in and i was only in for 10 years, it was always about who you were close to. this bro, was only baptized for 6 years, and was made elder. when he made that people were all over him with congrats and i never did that to him. i knew personally he was not this great guy. i knew how terrible he treated his wife. she and i were best friends. they thought he was so perfect that when his wife asked for a meeting with the elders with her and her husband, one elder told him he didn't need one. she begged for one, because he was such an ahole. it made me sick to see him get that. but he kissed the right butt to get it. there was a bro. who was raised in and he was ms forever, gave amazing talks, went to different congs. for talks, but he didn't get that. not too long after that he stepped down from ms. now i don't know personally if that had anything to do with that but the timing was just right. even for sisters, if you went out in service regularly and made all meetings, you got called to (volunteer) to do demos, rv's were given to you, you would be acknowledged. but if you stopped and became irregular, that all stopped. its the way life is. its all about who you know not what you know.
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Did You See A Lot of Politics Within The Organization?
by minimus inas an elder, i got to see a lot of politics as usual being carried out within the circuit.
a lot of brown nosing.. did you see the politics that existed?.
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Things that Annoy Me in Grocery Stores - How About You ?
by flipper ini do a lot of the grocery shopping for my wife and myself as we live out in the mountains and i stop on the way home from working early morning hours.
there are some things that just drive me bat-$hit crazy sometimes .
i'll name a few- you carry it from there !
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What drives me crazy big time is, I am pushing my cart and here comes someone else toward me ( not head on but to the side toward me) and there is another person with them and they have to walk next to that person, they see me coming and do they move over nooooooooooo, they keep walking side by side so that I have to move so that I don't hit them. I have had people with just a few items in their carts check out and leave behind their cart for me to push out of they way.
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Watch Tower or Watchtower-Which is it? My blog on Freeminds
by AndersonsInfo ini hope you don't think i'm blowing my own horn by posting this information about my latest blog.
i spent a lot of time researching this subject and i think some of you folks might like to have this material in your files for future use.
it was a tedious project, but i learned a lot.
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suchafool
Thanks so much for that. I never understood when they would say "if your writing a check make it to Watch Tower two words. I now understand why.
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suchafool
The one I first went to was in need of renovations, but instead of doing that they built a big kh. We used to share an old run down hall that two spanish cong. shared and with adding us (english) and another spanish cong. that made four at one small hall. It was weird to go on sunday at 3 something in the afternoon. The hall they built is nice, a double kh I think you call it. But I think renovations would have been cheaper,but I am no builder so who knows. Unlike those big mega churches, most churches just renovate and stay in the same place. But it seems that kh's are always being sold and new ones being built.
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What Did You Do With All Your Watchtower Publications?
by minimus ini needed room when i moved so i sadly threw my entire library away.
i mentioned this to an exjw.
he and his wife took all the hundreds of books, including bound volumes from the 1800s and are now using them for research and proof of watchtower lies.. what did you do with your books?.
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I wanted to burn everything, but my husband wouldn't let me. Dumped it all. My daughter and I took the vhs tapes and unscrewed them and let the tape unravel. Very fun. The cd's we kept and plan on making my daughter a cool room decor. out of them. Spray painting them different colors. I kept the cd-rom and the really big bible. Have to say it felt great to get rid of so much crap.
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Did you loose your faith after leaving the false?
by wtfmidoing innew to this and as a nonbeliever i would like to ask how many people lost their belief in a god after leaving the wts.
what opened your eyes?
what made the light get brighter?
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I haven't lost my faith in God. But I don't pray like I did before. I don't read the bible like I did before. I don't know how to understand scripture. What do I trust. The trust issue is big with me right now. Trusting myself in what I believe. Because I fell so easy to the watchtower teachings and I can't let myself be lead down that road again.
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What Was The Very First Thing That Came Across Your Eyes That Lead You Down The Road To Doubt?
by Yizuman inany of you remember what was exactly the first thing that crossed your eyeballs to lead you into doubting the wts?.
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I'd have to say it was online going to websites I wasn't suppose to be on. Apostate sites. I was having doubts about teachings and I had stop reading the mags. so my mind was not being pounded with watchtower teaching as before. Everyone kept saying to read this amazing book, "Crisis of Con." So I found it online. I felt guilty to be reading it, I kept it hide from my husband (who was never a jw). I remember reading it and coming across things I had never heard of before. I would cry thinking wow, I am such a sucker to believe this crap. I had never heard of 1975, the un, what Russell really taught, how Rutherford was. It was like I had been asleep for 10 years and just now waking up and so much had happened. Where I live no one talked about these things, so you just lived life. Small west Texas town. But it was funny, when I was reading the book, things started coming up in conversation of others, especially 1975. Maybe I just didn't pay attention to things before and now I was.
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Have you ever personally known anyone who DA him/herself?
by lavendar inwondering something else:.
while a jw, did you ever know anyone who disassociated?
and if so, did you ever talk to that person afterwards to find out why they disassociated?.
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When I was first studing the husband of the woman studing with me did. He was considered one of the annointed and it shocked the whole cong. He is always in the paper for his public stunts and opinions.
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The Worse Mandatory JW Activity You Hated The Most
by Yizuman inof all things jw, what particular mandatory activity you really hate the most that you have to do or attend?.
why do you hate it?.
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Field service for sure. Hated going to some strangers house and talking. And taking my kid with me and having her be some perfect kid at the door. She is very active and to get her to not touch the pets, flowers whatever was there to distract her was a horrible thing. This one time she put her bible on her head and walking with it there and it fell, the sis that was with us, was so shocked, she said "I just hate that, it is so disrepectful", meaning my kid was offending God by doing that. How stupid.
And then I hated the watchtower study, so long and boring. It was like sitting in school and you couldn't wait until it was over.
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If A JW Doesn't Know You No Longer Attend Do You Tell Them?
by minimus inevery once in a while i see some jws that live far away and they may come by for business or just to say hello, at my work.
if they don't know that i've stopped going, i don't bring it up.. do you feel the need to tell jws you haven't seen in a long time that you no longer go to meetings or believe?.
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A few months after I left, a JW that had been "inactive" for a long time, came across my path at the store and asked what times the meetings were whether in the mornings or afternoon. So I told her all happy that I DA'd myself and no longer believed in what they taught. The look on her face was shock. She didn't know how to react.