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  Taking Back the Holidays

  by Quendi in

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  2. friends

  with canada having observed its own thanksgiving day, i am reminded that the holidays are approaching beginning with halloween and terminating with twelfth night on 5 january.

  this will be an interesting holiday season for me.

  when i became one of jehovah's witnesses, i gave them all up of course.

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  ssn587

  quendi good for you celebrate, and while your at it, remember to celebrate breaking free from the borg.
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  Definition of "Negativity" according to JWs

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i recently had a falling-out with a jw which i won't go into because it is nonsense really.

  in one of the pathetic retorts i was told i was "negative".

  this wasn't the first time i heard this from a jw over the years.. what i have noticed is that it is because i spoke about real life situations in the world and/or problems and wrong things in the religion.

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  One way to get them to view you in a negative light is to start talking about shooting, and the guns and bows you may have and how much fun it is to go plinking. You can actually feel the negative feelings they start to have for you, and then some idiot will bring up that we aren't suppose to have such things because they are violent.

  Many in some congregations think hunting is tatamount to murder, yet they go out and eat steak, porkchops, etc but can't stand the fact that you go out and hunt your own meat.

  I use to love inviting some to come and go plinking or target shooting with me and you would be amazed at the look on their faces, it would be like you suddenly turned into a werewolf or something, funny to say the least. And yet they all want the big Trib and armageddon to come and kill off most of the people on the earth. Talk about hyprocites.
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  My Last Day In Field Service

  by finallysomepride in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  was in november 1981, 30th anniversay coming up wohoo.

  date: not sure but it was a saturday.

  time: 4pm aprox last house.

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  I think one of the attractions for field service had to do with the car group yacking and talking about different things, the break at micky d's and then go home or back out for some more wasted time.
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  Just came back from the two-day Assembly at the Yuba Assembly Hall.

  by Chemical Emotions in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  surprisingly, i have little to say about.

  nothing really stood out to me, unlike the convention.

  it was all the same.. did anyone else get that feeling?

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  Gossip was one thing that got my wife in a depressed mode, she couldn't believe how some were talked about when they weren't part of the car group. She told me the gossip would flow, that is one of the reasons she was so depressed.

  In one congregation I had attended it surely was the elder's wives that were paramount in spreading gossip and information about others that should have only been between the elder and whom ever he was talking with. It wouldn't be in no time that all the dirty little details would be spread around the congregation. Love among themselves had to only mean love for gossip and dirty little secrets to talk about others.
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  Witness plays Gov. Body Samuel Herd talk for me.....is he mentally ill??

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  governing body member samuel heard talk -are you ready for the finishing line?.

  so my witness "friend" plays this talk to show how near armagedon is.

  his 18 y.o daughter said "it was scary" well shocking!

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  seem the delusional talk by this person goes to show just how out of touch with reality they really are. And Yes it seems that there is always a lot of talk about love in the congregation and me wonders just how many in congregations have secret hopes that others they don't like will be killed in the great trib?

  They are all just a bunch of whack jobs.
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  Marry Only in the Lord

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  misgivings, to be sure, .

  another pursued her .

  with real intent, a burning zeal.

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  Paul had just possibly tried to get widows to marry in the Lord, so as to not marry people of "pagan" religions, there were Jewish women who may have still be Jews in their belief structure for worshiping God, and of course there were Christian women. So to me it has always been just advice to marry in the Lord, afterall Paul didn't really specify just which Lord he was talking about. Yahweh or Jesus.
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  suppression of women islam and the wtbts

  by ssn587 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i can't help but equating the suppression of women in middle east countries with how the watch tower suppress them.

  no right to teach at the meetings, women told to hold husbands in high regard, but not women.

  it pisses me off because their are many women more qualified than men that are put in positions of power.

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  I can't help but equating the suppression of women in middle east countries with how the watch tower suppress them. No right to teach at the meetings, women told to hold husbands in high regard, but not women. It pisses me off because their are many women more qualified than men that are put in positions of power. That is one reason I have told my daughter that i don't want her to be anypart of the cult of JWs.
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  Beards and Overstepping the Commandment of God

  by Darth Rutherford in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  why is it you also overstep the commandment of god because of your tradition?

  like the pharisees, the watchtower is overstepping the commandment of god because of tradition.

  (psalm 118:9; 146:3) yet, where does jehovah, through his word, command a christian not to grow a beard at all?

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  I have been wearing a goatee for about 1 1/2 years now. Only got stramge looks at first, I ignored all of them, had several comments about it and said my grooming is my business and not yours so butt out. that seemed to take care of the comments, except at assemblies and district whooplahs, told them to to butt out, and did ask several what is your problem? I don't and didn't take shit off of anyone on the goatee, it is my business and not theirs.
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  Things that made you cringe at "the meetings"

  by i_drank_the_wine in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i always cringed so hard when a "brother" or "sister" would make some overly heartfelt comment about jehovah-something, usually related to a personal experience of theirs, and get all teared up and/or start crying.. once this fringe dude that's been df'd twice now was giving a talk and kept having these long awkward pauses where he looked like he was real stressed out, then he would start up again, stutter, slip up, and repeat the process until he looked down and went "i, i just can't do this" and walked off the stage and left the hall.. it also made my spchincter pucker when a young person would give some super devotional comment on how much they love big j and whatnot, which would make the congregation all smile in their hearts and wag their heads in approval..

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  There was one sister in the congregation that i used to attend, that always answered then mentioned something else to follow later in the study. like who gave a crap. she always did that and i found it to be very annoying.
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  Cleaning Day

  by N.drew in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  each kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses have cleaning days, where families gather to clean the hall.

  three cleaning days a year, spirng, fall and before the memorial offers a pediophile time alone with the children.

  it takes only one assault against a child to make it a crime.

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  Cleaning the hall was something presented as a privilege for the rank and file, I quite participating in it sometime ago, at least a couple of years ago, I saw no privilege in it, was something that they were bringing up in announcements and added to sometalks as if i were a commandment frm God. What a bunch of BS.