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  Commenting At The Meetings---Did You Enjoy It?

  by minimus in

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  was that important for you?

  most people, i believe, forced themselves to give an answer.

  i knew many elders and servants over the years being counseled because they rarely answered.. funny thing....my mom who is 88 cries if she doesn't give a comment.

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  finallysomepride

  probably count on one hand the number of times i anwsered up at the kh, book study a bit more often. i hated i, no personel additions, all straight from the articule. i refused to annwer even when the conducter threatened to put me on the spot while i was on mic duties
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  Survey---who is inactive, disfellowshipped/disassociated or active?

  by minimus in

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  i am inactive for about 10 years now..

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  finallysomepride

  Baptised 1981 and went inactive november 1981

  contnued to attend off & on until memorial 2002 and never been in a kh since.

  Refound this site in 2009 and has totally cleared my mind of any notion that there is any truth in 'The Truth'
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  A glaring example of how Watchtower's insertion of "Jehovah" corrupts the NT

  by Island Man in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  "the rnwt replaces "kyrios" (lord) with "jehovah" in translating romans 14:8 as follows:.

  "for if we live, we live to jehovah,*+ and if we die, we die to jehovah.

  * so both if we live and if we die, we belong to jehovah.".

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  finallysomepride

  bookmarked
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  TTATT in a Can... finally finished!!

  by ILoveTTATT in

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  ok so... how to condense all the flip-flops and doctrinal changes, and show graphically how the different doctrines changed, and when?.

  ttatt in a can!!.

  enjoy ;).

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  finallysomepride

  bookmarked

  great effort

  thanks
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  Do you have all your WT literature? If so why?

  by KateWild in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  many on this board are still in and have all the literature.

  do you read all your books regularly?

  do you have old magazines that you have underlined and still keep?

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  I have long dumped all the mags and books, not even a bible left in the house, i do have some items in digital format, but very rarely read
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  Which Bible Translation?

  by Blackbird Fly in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just wondering which is your favorite translation of the bible?

  we only have the nwt (pre 2013 revision) here, curently.

  but i wouldnt be opposed to having another translation to refer to....

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  finallysomepride

  I hear Harry Potter is more accurate a book
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  Meeting after meeeting

  by molybdenum in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just got information that there is going to be a short 10 min meeting.

  with elders and ms after the first meeting of the week during the co visit.. this is in addition to the usual elders/ms meeting.. it might just be for my congregation, but is this something new?.

  i wonder why.. .

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  finallysomepride

  is the meeting over already, guess i slept thro it
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  On a Scale of 1 to 10---How Devoted Were You To Being One of Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by minimus in

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  as i grew up in the religion, i was a 10. i wanted to be made a "servant" because that was instilled in me from infancy.

  i diligently studied ever piece of watchtower literature and defended my religion intensely.. when i got into my 30's, i started to see little cracks in the watchtower's surface but decided to "wait on jehovah".

  then i started to research a little more critically and realized i couldn't defend the prophecies, the treatment of people and the hypocrisy that was becoming more obvious, that especially an elder can see.. it was a gradual thing---from a 10 to a zero!.

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  never above 3

  i hated everything about being a jw

  never wanted to reachout to become a ms/elder/pioneer and never did become one.

  gave talks on only a handfull of occasions
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  What are you reading right now??

  by DATA-DOG in

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  2. friends

  i am reading "stranger in a strange land" by robert a. heinlein.

  i read it over 20 years ago.

  now i am reading it from a completely different perspective.

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  finallysomepride

  This thread

  and i just started reading the Posting Guidelines just under the posting window,

  now I reading what I have just writen

  now I'm reading the KFC packaging my dinner came in

  now I will shut up
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  Do you pray over your meals? If so why? If not, when did you stop and why?

  by BU2B in

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  to answer my question, no i do not pray over meals anymore exept for when i am with other jws i do a 15 second head bow for appearances sake.

  i just came to the realization god had nothing to do with whether i ate or not.

  many believers are starving right now whilst many non-believers are eating like kings.. also why should god give me food while he lets little children in dprk concentration camps starve to death.

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  finallysomepride

  nope, never did, when I had to as at a convention I just shut my eyes and counted to 100