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  I am helping at a Carol Concert tomorrow..............

  by carpediem in

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  bloody hell, i feel so nervous.

  i am half expecting satan himself to be sat there on the stage waiting for me.

  what the heck did those witnesses do to me...........................

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  Yay I did it with Carpediem and I actually got goosebumps at one point :d
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  Are there any JWs or elders on here who are still in??

  by iMARX in

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  i'm really interested to talk to any elders especially that are on here but still go to the meetings and serve as an elder?

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  I'm really interested to talk to any elders especially that are on here but still go to the meetings and serve as an elder??
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  Written Reviews...what did you really do during them?

  by xeracia in

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  remember these silly tests they make you take?

  i don't remember how often they were, but thinking back on them, boy does it seem silly!

  sitting there for half an hour trying to remember stupid stuff as if you are in school.

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  I also wondered why it had all gone quiet when I was little. Becuase I never listened to anything, all of sudden it would go silent and 10 minutes later I would notice and when I asked my mum she just told me to shush because she was concentrating LOL
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  Written Reviews...what did you really do during them?

  by xeracia in

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  remember these silly tests they make you take?

  i don't remember how often they were, but thinking back on them, boy does it seem silly!

  sitting there for half an hour trying to remember stupid stuff as if you are in school.

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  HAHAH OMG i totally remember these!!! My mum used to call them the Wrotten Reviews because she was rubbish at them. I used to sit and copy my dad when he wrote out his answers coz he didn't even need to "revise" for them. Then as I got older I sat at home on the Thursday afternoon and researched it all with my mum. God knows why no one in our cong didn't just write down all the answers on the paper that they give you (what was that paper called again, with the Theocratic Ministry School items on it??)
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  did you go on the ministry in bad weather?

  by highdose in

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  i can remember being in the freezing snow and so cold my fingers were numb, i desparatly wanted someone to invite me in, just to warm up even, but no one did.. i got soaked on countless occasions having been dropped off in some remote corner of the territory, trying to find shelter in a thunderstorm.. i got burnt to a crisp in just half an hour in a uk heatwave, of course no one was at home... they were all far more sensible and had gone to the beach!.

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  Haha yeh I remember going out in the rain, but then my family got pissed off that no other family came out on Saturday morning's when it was wet so we gave up going out too lol
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  A Sister and a Brother alone

  by Lilycurly in

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  i've been looking in the watchtower library all morning and can't find anything.. i know that jws have this rule (is it unwritten??

  ) where a brother and a sister should not be left alone in a car, a house, or any private place.

  but my jw father says it's not so, and he spent a part of yesterday installing a computer program at a jw couple's house while the man was at work and the wife was at home.

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  Isn't there loads of this rubbish in the YPA book and on the new video they released.

  I'm not sure where it says it in the bible but there'll be loads of WT citations in the Young People Ask book.
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  Just recieved a mail from an elder

  by bohm in

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  hey, here is a little update on my fade:.

  an elder have been calling me for a couple of weeks now... i didnt answer the phone, and after two weeks he stopped calling.

  i was releaved... until today... i just recieved a mail from the same elder, telling me that he and another elder wants to visit me - he gave a bs reason about them rearranging the groups in the congregation and wrote they were visiting all the puplishers.

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  Arrange a time for them to come to your house but have the cops waiting there to arrest them for harassment!!!
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  Women as second class citizens

  by iMARX in

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  i don't know about anyone else, but even when i was 14 or 15 i had an issue with the fact that women are weaker vessels than men and we are to be submissive to our "head" of the house etc.... people just assumed i was a moody teenager trying to be cool by disagreeing with those scriptures but i was a feminist in the making.. i even asked an elder's wife about it and i said to her: "you're a headstrong woman, how do you feel about this?

  do you think you should succumb to paul's every word and do as he says all the time??".

  she replied: "i hate that scripture too sarah.

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  These are all really interesting posts thanks a lot for commenting so quickly :)

  On the illustrations point, I hate how they use one illustration for one issue and use the same one (or very similar one) for the opposite situation.

  I can't think right now of which one I'm thinking of but one that always sticks in my mind is the "the truth is like a box of chocolates, just because you don't like the Turkish Delight in a box, it doesn't mean you'd throw away the whole box! Well, the issue around (pick a controversial issue i.e. abstaining from blood) is just like the Turkish Delight. Eat around it and then eventually you'll eat the Turkish Delight/accept that abstaining from blood is also okay.

  Then they'll say that just because a 2 hour long film has the word "shit" in it doesn't mean you should watch all of it but mute it at that point, you shouldn't watch ANY of it! LOL
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  Women as second class citizens

  by iMARX in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't know about anyone else, but even when i was 14 or 15 i had an issue with the fact that women are weaker vessels than men and we are to be submissive to our "head" of the house etc.... people just assumed i was a moody teenager trying to be cool by disagreeing with those scriptures but i was a feminist in the making.. i even asked an elder's wife about it and i said to her: "you're a headstrong woman, how do you feel about this?

  do you think you should succumb to paul's every word and do as he says all the time??".

  she replied: "i hate that scripture too sarah.

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  I don't know about anyone else, but even when I was 14 or 15 I had an issue with the fact that women are weaker vessels than men and we are to be submissive to our "head" of the house etc...

  People just assumed I was a moody teenager trying to be cool by disagreeing with those scriptures but I was a feminist in the making.

  I even asked an elder's wife about it and I said to her: "You're a headstrong woman, how do you feel about this? Do you think you should succumb to Paul's every word and do as he says all the time??"

  She replied: "I hate that scripture too Sarah. In fact there are a lot of Biblical topics I don't particularly like but I ignore them."

  THEN, her husband, the PO turned round and said: "Me too, Sarah. There's a few bible parts I disagree with totally, but hey...I'm an elder."

  It was at this point where I started to lose my "faith". And, today still, those people blame the world for my leaving the JW religion.
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  Recent assembly

  by Iwonder17 in

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  1) stop using internet,facebook,myspace,email,texting and spend more time studying and in service.. my mate quit their facebook page when we came home lol.

  2) maybe i am just more tuned into it now, but they mentioned "apostate" a lot more this time around, espicially when talking about the internet.. it keeps me thinking, if there is nothing to hide, then why is there such a big push not to look?

  it's like an ugly girlfriend not wanting her boyfriend to look at the girls on the beach .

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  I wish I had the guts to go back to an assembly and be a spy!!! I think I might do one day. I live about 10 mins from the DA venue and I've purposely walked passed in the shortest skirt and rudest top I had. I loved the looks I got. I wish I had have been holding hands with my girlfriend too but can't have everything can we? :P

  How did you get back into the assembly? My mum still goes, so I could go with her but all she would do is try and preach to me and think I was going back. She wouldn't let me go with her if she knew I was going just to exploit their ignorance. I might go to the circuit A's one where no one knows me lol!

  Any tips on how to infiltrate their assembly??