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  Most Awkward, Embarrassing, Comical things you Experienced as a Witness ?

  by flipper in

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  many of us i'm sure experienced embarrassing or comical moments as a witness.

  some things we'd rather just forget , i'm sure, but some things helped us think on our feet, quickly in helping others .

  here are a few of mine.

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  I was in my thirties and was at the door with a sis in her forties and I told her a joke. I said, "What did one bee say to the other bee?" "What?" she said. "Your man is down," I said with a laugh. "I dont' get it," she said. I explained that when a man's zipper is down, you say "Your fly is down." She said, "But you said "bee." I cracked up laughing and it was a good thing the homeowner didn't answer. I don't know, it's funny to me. I'm still laughing. I was supposed to say, What did one fly say to the other fly? Your man is down.
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  During Your IN Years If You Had Anointed At Your Hall, What Were They Like?

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the scoop of humanity at one khall, the anointed ones" were a mixed group.. one bro, h. had been in for eons.

  he was df for adultery, back in the day when they would announce your sin openly from the platform to everyone.

  he just kept on coming and partaking until he was reinstated.

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  When I came in at age 21 in 1980, there was one annointed lady in the cong. She was older at the time and is still alive. She was married to an elder. She was held up on a pedestol even though she always had vague illnesses that kept her from meetings and fs. Whenever she would have reason to go into the hospital (normal women health issues), she would be innundated with get well cards, etc. She was nice enough, but I always thought it strange (back then) that she hardly made any meetings and even less fs if she was annointed. She seemed to like the adoration. She had this really loud laugh that carried through the kh and I think she liked that everyone could hear her laugh if she laughed at a comment or funny anecdote that was mentioned. Another lady became annointed in her forties, but everyone thought she was mentally unstable. She was nice enough, though stopped making meetings due to her health, too. Then a man in his early forties, son of a jerk of an elder, who had been df'd about four times, became annointed. I heard he was df'd again, so don't know his standing now. I believe he is bipolar.
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  Your top 5 most irritating doctrines/practices?

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's clear that virtually everyone on here is infuriated by wt teachings/doctrines/practices, but i would really like to know what is of most concern to people who frequent this forum.. here is my top 5, number 1 being the most significant/infuriating:.

  the disfellowshipping practice - expanded to include family members (but not parents) who are old enough to leave home.

  wrecks families and creates abject fear once people find out the truth about the organization.the blood issue - another unmerciful teaching, but one that costs lives.unquestioned authority of governing body - a handful of men make life-altering decisions as representatives of a larger group of people who they never see or speak to, and yet they demand unquestioning obedience on pain of being disfellowshipped.failed prophecy - the fulfilment of huge swathes of bible prophecy, including revelation, has been attributed to the events of the early 20th century, and the actions of a small group of men.two-tier christianity - faithful and discreet slave are anointed who go to heaven to whom ransom provisions apply directly, whereas remainder, or "great crowd" stay on earth and form a sub-class, only access benefits of ransom through fds.i realise that many of these issues are inter-related, but that's roughly how i would put them.

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  Cacky

  I should have made number 3 be the two witness rule, which protects peadophiles.
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  Your top 5 most irritating doctrines/practices?

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's clear that virtually everyone on here is infuriated by wt teachings/doctrines/practices, but i would really like to know what is of most concern to people who frequent this forum.. here is my top 5, number 1 being the most significant/infuriating:.

  the disfellowshipping practice - expanded to include family members (but not parents) who are old enough to leave home.

  wrecks families and creates abject fear once people find out the truth about the organization.the blood issue - another unmerciful teaching, but one that costs lives.unquestioned authority of governing body - a handful of men make life-altering decisions as representatives of a larger group of people who they never see or speak to, and yet they demand unquestioning obedience on pain of being disfellowshipped.failed prophecy - the fulfilment of huge swathes of bible prophecy, including revelation, has been attributed to the events of the early 20th century, and the actions of a small group of men.two-tier christianity - faithful and discreet slave are anointed who go to heaven to whom ransom provisions apply directly, whereas remainder, or "great crowd" stay on earth and form a sub-class, only access benefits of ransom through fds.i realise that many of these issues are inter-related, but that's roughly how i would put them.

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  Cacky

  1. df'ing and shunning

  2. blood policy

  3. the rest don't matter that much to me, but these two are dangerous so they matter.

  Also, when a jw, having to turn in fs time slips really bothered me. I used to feel like I was playing a numbers game. I could see how the numbers really mattered, when they should have had no place in a truely christlike organization.
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  ALL a mere process??

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  phase one.

  one set of people listened to a wonderful thinker and marvelled at his words and the life he led and his kindnesses.. they were moved by him.. most of the profound words he spoke were difficult and mysterious to the point of being elusive to the mind.. when this man was violently arrested, tortured, accused and executed the shock and awe was devastating.. .

  what was the reason for all this--what did he really mean to tell us?.

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  ...appeared dead...sorry, I left out the word 'dead.'
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  ALL a mere process??

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  phase one.

  one set of people listened to a wonderful thinker and marvelled at his words and the life he led and his kindnesses.. they were moved by him.. most of the profound words he spoke were difficult and mysterious to the point of being elusive to the mind.. when this man was violently arrested, tortured, accused and executed the shock and awe was devastating.. .

  what was the reason for all this--what did he really mean to tell us?.

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  I think it went a bit further. I think Jesus was in a state of shock and appeared, and he came to while in the tomb. Maybe he even had an NDE (near death experience). I think he himself thought he had been resurrected and his followers naturally also believed he was resurrected when he came out of the tomb. And it all began from there.
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  New Human ancestors....

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so at what point did god say....now you are human... your name is adam!.

  a new skull has been found of a human ancestor 2 million years old.

  when will mere evidence be enough?

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  Cacky

  I read in one of the Watching the World of a few years ago, they mentioned Neanderthals, as if the Watchtower accepts them. And they were another hominid. I wonder if it was a "rogue" jw in the writing department that got that in. It was quoting some scientific mention of them. There was nothing about what the Watchtower thinks of them. And they know from genetics that we humans have some Neanderthal genes from past interbreeding.
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  You can now download (pdf) Plaintiff's Response to WT's Request for a New Trial

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  (pdf) plaintiff's response to wt's request for new trial:.

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  http://www.mediafire.com/?di4bry8su9tn1ft.

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  Cacky

  On your link at the top, as soon as I clicked on it, I get a message that I had viruses and asked if I wanted to run a program to clean my computer. Like a dummy, I did so. My husband is now cleaning off the virus which was the program I ran to rid my computer of viruses. Apparently some jw got a virus in to that link, Barbara, just to inform you. I'm on hubby's computer now, so I won't click on the second link given, just to be safe.

  Cathy
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  Have you ever wondered why as Jehovah's Witnesses you ignored the inconsistencies, lies and hypocricies of the Watchtower's Governing Body for so long?

  by matt2414 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here are a few examples of what i overlooked for so long:.

  1. the watchtower often praised rutherford's 1918 talk "millions now living will never die.

  " however, everyone who had ever heard that talk was dead.. 2. the governing body urges the placement of the watchtower's "bible" literature with strangers.

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  Cacky

  Yes, I've wondered how and why I put doubts to the back of my mind for so long. But I think Moche gave a good explanation why so many of us did it.
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  I have a blog

  by Cacky in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if any of your are interested, i have started a blog.

  it doesn't have any jw stuff in it, it has columns, article,s poems, many of which have been published already in the newspaper i work for.

  for those interested, the address is: http://mygrandpascorncobpipe.blogspot.com/.

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  Cacky

  If any of your are interested, I have started a blog. It doesn't have any jw stuff in it, it has columns, article,s poems, many of which have been published already in the newspaper I work for. For those interested, the address is: http://mygrandpascorncobpipe.blogspot.com/

  Thanks,

  Cathy