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  What was your favorite Beatles song that you remember ?

  by thetrueone in

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  for myself growing up in the 60's it was mostly the beatles that drew my attention as well as many others.. as for the entire body of work by them, there might never be another four piece musical group like them.. sad to think that the younger generation today only has thug rap/hip hop trash or britney spears to listen to.. the quality of music may have diminished itself when it started to become more of a visual expression of art rather than .

  purely audio form of entertainment.. just one of my favorites out of many.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfrk4ca0dlg&feature=related.

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  "It's only Love"

  John Lennon hated it because of all the cheap rhyming. I thought it was great
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  What JW catch phrase DRIVES YOU NUTS!!!!

  by megaflower in

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  "we should be mindful".

  grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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  "is that in print"?
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  Question about WT article about ancient city of Tyre

  by EndofMysteries in

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  wt 59 page 312.

  "true to the prophecy, not long after the fall of jerusalem, the king of babylon came against tyre.

  but tyre was confident.

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  Researching a 1959 WT?

  WTF?
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  Assembly Call: PLEASE Come Back & Help Us Out---Ministerial Servants & Elders!

  by minimus in

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  i was told they were practically begging those elders and servants who are no longer "being used" to help carry the load once again.

  these people are unbelievable!.

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  Misery..........

  OMG you just described 14 yrs of my life! Not sure if I wanna do that again.
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  Greetings

  by AggieNostic in

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  first new topic for me.. i have observed this site for about 4 years.

  haven't been to a meeting since oct 2005. definitely feel jws are a high control group that mirrors many of the definitions of a cult.. i was raised as a witness since age 5, left at age 38, now 43. happily married to a wonderful woman for 24 years, except for 1 year of separation when i was failing miserable in a search for my true self - hard to do when you were completely sucked into this religion.

  yes, i was a true believer pretty much up into my late 30s.

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  BabaYaga I got the joke. hahahaha Abbie Normal
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  How fast can you "prepare" a Watchtower lesson?

  by Open mind in

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  over the last 3 years i've gotten much faster at making a wt article look "studied".. .

  how fast can you get one ready for inspection by snoopy elders and microphone handlers?.

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  "sticky notes" great idea!
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  Getting Your "Time" in On Time

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  i spoke with a fellow ex-jw whose wife is still a jw.

  she was missing some meetings, but had to get to her first meeting of the month.

  she needed to turn her "time" in.

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  "Not everything that counts is counted, and not everything that's counted counts" - Einstein
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  How Many Here Were Turned Down For "Privileges" Because You Weren't "Exemplary"?

  by minimus in

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  our odd body of elders would not allow the one person who wanted to mow the lawn at the kingdom hall to do this because he was not getting 10 hours in a month, he was only getting in 7. seriously.. were you ever told you couldn't have a "privilege" because you didn't measure up to their lofty standards?.

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  FF

  I would do the same. Parroting out of the paragraph to me was a worthless endeavor. (A parrot could to that!) I would comment from the heart and give answers that were pertinent to the subject but from my own perspective. I thought that was the whole idea.

  The PO who was the conductor didn't like that. He LOVED only comments that were directly from the paragraph. So he stopped calling on me. BTW I wasnt some goofball that gave of the wall comments. I was an elder at the time. But he just stopped calling on me.

  The bad news......after 20 yrs. he is STILL the WT conductor.
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  How Many Here Were Turned Down For "Privileges" Because You Weren't "Exemplary"?

  by minimus in

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  our odd body of elders would not allow the one person who wanted to mow the lawn at the kingdom hall to do this because he was not getting 10 hours in a month, he was only getting in 7. seriously.. were you ever told you couldn't have a "privilege" because you didn't measure up to their lofty standards?.

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  I was 16. The elders gave "privilidges" to everyone including picking up the mail, except me. Seriously, every person got priviledges announced from the platform, except me. Wow. What a slam. I attended every meeting, went in service and did everything I could as a 16 yr old.

  With tears in my eyes, I drove to an elders home who studied with me and was my book study conductor. He was a wimp and weaseled out of any kind of reasonable explaination. I knew the decision was made by a "heavy" who didn't like me.
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  New CO 70 yrs old, "youre not doing enough" school. Sigh

  by monkeyman in

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  2. beliefs

  got our new co. old school guy, 70 yrs old.

  mo is "youre all not doing enough".

  sigh.. three yrs of this asshole..

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  We'll keep you posted. Haven't actually had his visit yet. My info is from surrounding cong. who aren't too happy.