The Insight books are a replacement for the Aid book because Ray Franz had a hand in writing it.
sherah
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Did any of you read the Insight books cover to cover? I did, ugh.
by Wasanelder Once ini was hungry for the story behind the scriptures and thought i was getting it by reading them.
i think it was beneficial but once i got to chronology i started to throw up in my mouth.
did you read them and what do you think now of the information your read?.
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Few brothers or sisters to choose from
by dgp inon the basis of two previous threads (http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/191790/2/ugly-sisters, and .
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/191797/1/ugly-brothers.
a question popped into my mind.
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sherah
The good ole 'wait on jah' advice. Just a tool to control women in the org, they need keep to that large army women peddling that garbage.
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Field service-how did you avoid it?
by sawthe light ini hated field service and would avoid it as much as possible.i tried to work on my own if i could and would just drive some where and lisern to music or pretend i had return visits and just go home.what did you do to get out of the misery service?.
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sherah
I hated FS. Couldn't avoid it as a youth, i was out every weekend and during summer vacation when i was in school. As an adult, it was easier to dodge. I had friends who hated just as much so we would meet with the group and then go eat or shopping. Since i had to work every other weekend, i could avoid d2d for months on end all the while reporting mickey mouse time.
More recently, i just sleep in.
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Few brothers or sisters to choose from
by dgp inon the basis of two previous threads (http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/191790/2/ugly-sisters, and .
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/191797/1/ugly-brothers.
a question popped into my mind.
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sherah
Co-signing everything serenity, little sister and bluecanary posted. Because brothers had plenty to choose from, they had ridiculous standards for sisters. It is an invisible, lonely life for any sister that didn't measure up. I saw many sisters who settled for whacky brothers because the pickings were slim.
Young sisters need to wise up to this disparity. Even if they don't question the doctrinal nonsense of JW, this issue alone is enough reason to walk away.
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If You Weren't In Rapt Attention What Did You Think About During The Meetings?
by minimus ini used to think of leaving early.
at the end i started making excuses to leave (supposedly work related) so that i could just get out of there.
i wanted a drink!.
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sherah
sleep
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Ugly brothers?
by dgp into respond to serenity now's question on another thread (http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/191790/2/ugly-sisters, let me start this thread about ugly brothers in congregations.
women, speak freely if you will.
were there any hot men in your congregations, i mean, men you wouldn't think twice about marrying?
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sherah
There were a few hotties and some very cool, down to earth dub-brothers when i was growing up. But many left the org in their teens or early 20's. Or they were "groomed" early on to marry pioneer-missionary type dub-sisters.
I was never attracted to JW men - their narrow view of women, brown nosing for privileges, lack of ambition etc.
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Quiet Life after JWs--a poem to the tune of Stevie Wonder
by sd-7 inno pagan days.
to celebrate.
same-sex marriage pride parades.
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sherah
"I Just Called to Say I Love You" is one of my favorite Stevie Wonder songs, LOL.
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What exactly do Jehovah's Witnesses believe?
by chashathaway ini hear a lot, both on this forum and elsewhere, about all kinds of things jehovah's witnesses believe.
but i've never felt that outsiders were a good source of information about what faithful watchtowers actually believe.
in fact, i've discovered that the worst source of information about a religion is from those who were members but left the faith.
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sherah
That's a broad question. Check out jwfacts.com for detailed explanation of jw doctrine and then direct your specific questions to the forum members.
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BEST DOCUMENTARY ON MORMONS!!! UNBELIEVABLE SIMILARITIES TO JW'S.
by whereami inexcellent documentary.
i couldn't believe the similarities.
listening to the "apostates" within the mormons is like listening to one of us.. this should be watched by ex-jdubs and regular jdubs.
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sherah
This should be a must-see for every dub, the similiarities and strange traditions are striking.
There is a segment on the baptism of the dead, they "baptise" worthy dead persons into the Mormon faith to save their ethernal souls. They were baptizing Holocaust victims much to the protest of the Jewish community. Appalling.
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Informal poll...Which Meeting was the most boring for you? Which one did you stop attending first?
by mindmelda infor me, it was always the theocratic ministry school/field service meeting.. strangely, i never minded giving talks, because i always wanted to perform and have virtually no stage fright.
but, listening to some of the deadly dull talks used to make me look at the clock a lot.
i always felt sorry for some poor slob who had to give his first bible reading on something like job's daughters raping him after getting him drunk.. i swear i think our school overseer did it on purpose because he was a mean sob.. and, i hated field slavery as my parents became witnesses when i was about 12, never did get a good attitude about it.
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sherah
Definately book study. The rushing home, tired and hungry only sit cramped up in someone's stuffy basement reviewing the material repeatedly drove me nuts. I stopped going to this meeting cold and haven't been back. The TMS suffered the same fate a year later!