The devout JW for safe measure lives an absolute disconnected life, not doing anything than preaching, going to KH, eating and sleeping (some of them also go to work). The vast majority of things in "the world" is forbidden. The control is very strict, as you said, going into very fine details of how one should live his life - I'd call them techniques to skip on life completely.
Posts by teel
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32Are these things still frowned upon/banned?.
by zzaphod inthinking back, there were a few things i was told then, that now seem rather odd and petty.
i was wondering if these thing are common in the wts or was it just that my girlfriend at the time was a pioneer, and her father was an elder.
(so perhap a bit more "enthusiastic" than others).
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so now theres more remenant?!!!!!lol
by xbro inso the old cut off date of 1935 is old thinking??
the light gets brighter my ass!
theyre running scared as all the olds die off,remember the awake line about the world ending befor e the 1914 generation died out??
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teel
Lifting the 1935 limit was necessarry but it starts to backfire, as expected. The number of annointed keeps heavily increasing instead of the much discussed decrease that is one of the signs of Armageddon being near. I expect a "new light" explaining this in the next 5 years, I wouldn't be surprised if the 144k loses its literal value. Oh joy
Or, as someone in this boards mentioned, they will say the "great crowd" didn't get formed in 1935 either. Many of the first century christians were also great crowd members, and most of the "Bible Students" had wrong expectancy because they misinterpreted something. That would instantly save them a whole lot of annointed space to fill up.
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Rock Opera! Got a Favorite?
by cameo-d in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vglkxd-boy&feature=related.
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teel
How about Jesus Christ Superstar? As a JW I loved the controversial nature of that, and the fact that it actually got me thinking about stuff. I guess I had a bit of rebellion inside, didn't I?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl5jroSKTfA&videos=2I8GITB48xI
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Your worst field service experience.
by littlebird inmy worst field service experience was this.. i didn't have a car at the time and so a pioneer sister was picking me up of service every couple of days.
she was my partner and i got a door where the woman was clearly not interested.
as i am stepping away the pioneer sister starts in with all the objection stoppers.
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teel
An old woman threw a glass of water on me... Maybe she thought I was HOT! At least it wasn't in winter.
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this is damn fine read!
by xbro in1942 the end is iminent!
lol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/criticism_of_jehovah%27s_witnesses.
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teel
Bro what are you doing reading apostate literature? Don't you know that encyclopedias are written by apostates? Have you asked the elder's permission to log on the Internet? Is your content filter installed correctly?
Clickable link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses
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Watchtower cleans out Kingdom Hall Library's ...
by RR inlast night i got a call from a chap in the uk, who recently left the jw's.
he wanted to compare notes with his us counterparts.. he said that a few years ago, (i think about 2 years ago) the society cleaned out all the literature from every kingdom hall, particularly russell and rutherford books and anything prior to 1950. giving each hall a computer with the watchtower cd rom for them to use for research.
he wanted to know if the same was done in the states.
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teel
My KH had no old literature in the library. But then again even the new literature in the library was kept in a closed and locked cabinet, so one had to go to the elders to request something. Didn't see it happen...
After the Kingdom Hall was built we had a large display case featuring literature arranged in a timeline from Russel's age until today. It lasted about a year, then it dissapeared. On retrospect probably a bethelite draw the attention not to advertise the old stuff, someone might ask questions about them.
RR, I envy you
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Beards?
by Think About It ini'm new here and probably missed the latest discussion of the beard topic.
what's the latest on beards in jw society?
i'm 2 weeks into a beard and just got to wondering about it.
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teel
Their reason is, that it could stumble someone and he won't take the literature from you, because you might look like a hobo A nicely groomed hobo with a nice costume and tie. More likely a salesmen. Beards nowadays give more an air of intellect than of homeless guy.
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SISTERS ON THE RAMPAGE!!
by highdose init was well commented on by the older ones in the borg that the sisters were on the rampage when it came to trying to get themselves married.. it was normal practice for sisters in the same click or age group to visvously stab eachother in the back, exlude them as much as possible from social events and gossip about them as much as possible.
by the time i had left this was such an established practice that it seemed normal.. all this in the hopes that they would be able to bag one of the rare single and sane brothers... at least this is what it was like in my part of the world... what about yours?.
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teel
Robdar, you're talking about cattle in heat, don't you?
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Watchtower super sales pitch.
by edmond dantes ini recently looked at a copy of the watchtower and read a little of it but it seemed to me that it droned on and on in the same old way decade after decade.
however to somebody who is new to their little game i can see that their message would sound plausible because of their clever technique of selling the watchtower brand of religion.
in my eyes the books and mags.
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teel
The first time you see it, it looks like you are learning something new. After a few years, it is all the same old crap.
While applying to my current job, a psychologist tested me. Of course, when she found out I was a JW most of her questions revolved around that. I clearly remember her question why have I joined. And the answer was this, above - I mean the first sentence, the second sentence came later to my mind.
In the beginning I was actually proud to learn about the Bible, and all those answers that philosophy asks for centuries I have them now. So much bitter is the awakening that I still don't have the answers, and all that was left after those years was: sell or die.
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Site To Refute Franz And Cameron
by Bangalore ini found this site set up by a loyal jw who wants to refute books like "crisis of conscience" and "captives of a concept".
i thought loyal jw's were not even supposed to read such books.. .
http://settingtherecordstraight.wordpress.com/2010/01/.
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teel
Too bad the comments are down though, I read some more on the site, and it's going downhill. The guy is gripping at straws in his cognitive dissonance. At the blog entry The Truth About the Mexican Military and Jehovah’s Witnesses he wrote:
They had no choice in doing something illegal if they were going to continue to serve God. The fact is that they would either have to disobey God and obey the government by serving or obey God and do something illegal according to the government.
So what does the "Spirit-directed slave" do? Adopts a third choice, which the blog writer ommitted: disobey the government AND God. This is what in essence the bribe is.
He's also trying to explain bribe in Mexico is not so bad, it's socially acceptable No comment there.