My family had them in a severe way. I had it cause the entire ride home amounted to my father and stepmom badgering me about everything that was said. And hearing about all the changes the family (ME) had to make. The large meetings were the worse, and my father is agoraphobic.. hate crowds or being around people. So he was exceptionally hostal leaving those meetings. All just sat there and took it to avoid getting hit. So glad I don't have to deal with that crap anymore
Slayerbard
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post meeting dirty moods.
by zeb inso you are 'out' and the other in 'in'.
do they come home with the grumps after every meeting?.
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An Interesting Thing Happened at the Meeting Yesterday...
by PaintedToeNail inthis was reported to me by an attendee: during the watchtower, a brother commented that "we shouldn't question things that we don't have the full facts about, such as why is it so expensive to have an assembly at the grantville assembly hall?
it would be far cheaper to rent our own space to have an assembly than it is to use grantville.
we don't have all the facts so we don't know the reasons why and it isn't our place to question".
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Slayerbard
I hated that hall too. I remember the talks about the "corodor cutties and coridor cruisers" and it made me feel guilty to go to the bathroom. I have dunked there too.. for what 10 minutes my parents were proud of me.. then went back to the normal belittling jerks they are. Only it was WORSE then. I remember once I did the math for how much the cult raked in just with assembly halls world wide. I was a CRAZY number.
Last few times I went something was wrong with the water that you couldnt use the water fountains. I forget what. But I remember thinking it was odd that it was still bad 6 months later. lol
I think the rides home were the worse, my parents made it a point to everything the meeting said I was doing wrong and berate me the whole ride home. Nothing but yelling. I learned to take my walkman along and listen to music so I didnt' have to listen to it.
Don't miss it for anything.
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Slayerbard
Only they, would go through all the hoopla about getting a new bible... and then tell them they don't need to use it. HAHAHAHAHA
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Can a JW sell to a church?
by StephaneLaliberte inhttp://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/manukau-courier/9124458/witnesses-sell-elim-buys.
i noticed that the bethel of new zealand has been sold to another church.
could an individual jw business owner do that?.
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Oh I know, they still are terrified even to attend a wedding or funeral at a church, even being careful at flea markets they dont' buy bake goods from the church food stand. But the society can sell to one no sweat.. the Society doesn't work by the same rules as everyone else.
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Nov 2013 KM Question Box. Head coverings on Doorstep bible studies
by BroMac inshould a female publisher wear a headcovering if she is accompanied by a male publisher at a door step bible study?
when a female publisher conducts a regular ,scheduled bible study and a male kingdom publisher is present, she should wear a head covering.(1cor.
11:3-10)the july 15, 2002 issue of the watchtower, page 27, explains: this is a pre arranged session of teaching where the one conducting the study actually presides.
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I swear, if I was studying with someone and they whipped out a hankey or a tissue.. cause that is what all the sisters I knew used. and it put it on their head. That would be the end of the study. No amount of explaining would convince me that, that covering ones head has the same symbloism in our modern world as it did back then. Sorry..they just look silly with the hankey on their head.
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Can a JW sell to a church?
by StephaneLaliberte inhttp://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/manukau-courier/9124458/witnesses-sell-elim-buys.
i noticed that the bethel of new zealand has been sold to another church.
could an individual jw business owner do that?.
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yup! It can, my old hall sold to a small church. It was great once the speaker went to the wrong hall, and his wife commented on the "strange windows on the doors that looked like crosses" he ignored her and went inside. Everyone was VERY friendly with him.. he was surprised..then realized he was in the wrong place and showed up at hours. LOL I remember thinking I was surprised he didn't put some "spin" on it. Guess he didn't have enough time to flower up the story more. lol
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The self-made PARADOX of "witnessing" without Television or Radio
by Terry inwhat if i asserted the following as true?
the watchtower bible and tract society has no interest in an effective evangelical program of conversion.. .
would that sound silly?
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Slayerbard
TV and commericals cost money too, to buy air time and advertising rights. Techinally actors have to be PAID.. why do that when you can get people to spend their own money to dress themselves, put gas in their car, and do it for you for FREE!! lol yeah they ain't stupid. plus they like to "poke fun" at the TV evengilists too much to be one of them. Now if they could figure out how to make a profit off it, and have zero money put out, they be all over it.
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Kidnaper of 3 Cleveland women - his mom a JW
by Gayle inhttp://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/castro-brothers-spend-night-jail-article-1.1338131#ixzz2sjzrxozd.
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OMG I'm from that area, and she would have visited my congregation! atleast before the spilt and the spanish got their own in the city congregation. there
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WTS Counts on: BAD MEMORIES and LACK OF WTS HISTORY
by blondie inthis appeared in 1975; i was 23 at the time.
i don't remember this article and if i had been born in 1975 would the 36-year-old i'd be today be motivated for any reason to research it.. *** w75 11/1 p. 651 insight on the news ***insight on the news pray now, pay later.
the phrase pray now, pay later appeared in a headline of the philadelphia inquirer in reporting on a church experiment due to go into effect shortly.
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Slayerbard
HAHAHA my parents don't even use credit cards, and got rid of their ATM.. should be interesting.
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Saw some JWs this am! Couldn't stop laughing
by Free!! inthis morning on my way to the office i decided to stop at the gas station to get some coffee.... as i am pulling into the parking space i see this woman w a haircut from the 80's the typical below the knee skirt and long sleeve shirt (is a 105 degrees over here in the shadow).... i immediatly knew she was a jw... she had the latest wt in her hands..... she skipped me and approached a group of young mexican laborers that were resting in the back of a truck... but... as soon as i walked out of the gas station... guess who was waiting for me???
the jw!!!
she wanted to do a presentation.. i looked at her and w/o saying a word i started laughing so hard the guys in the truck started laughing as well... she just looked at me and still kept trying to push her literatrash!!
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LOL I really feel sorry for them sometimes. I had some at work. Now mind you I moved to a new area, and don't know any witness around here personally. But incomes this guy wearing a tacky outdated suit, which screamed Elder. and his wife, who was dressed in this ugly pink and purple outfit, with the skirt pulled up under her chest, which was soo pilled and overly used. UGH I knew right away they were witnesses. sure enough I ened up on check out when they left, and I kept trying to spot the no blood card in his wallet or something. then I saw she had a piece of paper in her hand, and she was acting like she was trying to be discreet. Which if you know anything means you're drawing a TON of attention to yourself. LOL So he finishes checking out she comes over in one LONG BREATH..hands me the tract, and says "here's something for you to read" and BOLTS out the door.. LOL I almost fell over laughing. I wish she woudl have stayed I would have loved to explain to her that I'm Wiccan, and said some mumbo jumbo to freak her out. HEHE