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  How many you you hated to wait in the car while someone was on a good call!

  by life is to short in

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  something i have not heard before on this board is waiting in the car out in service or any of the woman who were elders wives waiting on their husbands while in an elders meeting.. i was 24 years old when i got married to an older man he was 41 and had been an elder for about 12 years.

  i truly loved my husband when we got married.

  i truly loved him like crazy.

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  I can feel your pain. Early on, I hated waiting in the car because I live where it is 95 degrees all summer long. So that was pretty miserable. In the winter it was okay, if there were decent people in the car with you.

  However, the last few years, I loved just sitting in the car waiting. Because I hated having to knock on doors and talk to folks. That was dreadful to me, so just sitting was by far the better alternative. And plus I usually always drive, so I would sit there with the air running.
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  No Shorts and T-Shirts After Convention - Remember?

  by mentallyfree31 in

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  does everyone remember a few years back, when the km directed that nobody should wear shorts after the convention while out and about?

  i don't have the reference, but i remember a brother in our hall made a comment that night at the meeting while it was being discussed.

  he was a very poor brother, with 3 children.

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  Actually, I gave up on wearing the badges several years ago for the most part. At the convention and after the convention.

  When I grew up, our family never took vacations - so the DC was a huge thing. It was the one chance that year to stay at a hotel and eat out a lot.

  Over the past few years, our DC's have had some pretty exciting stuff happen. Two tennage girls got into a fight in the corridor one year over some guy. LOL
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  Just a short observation on my Bible study.

  by outlander in

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  i thought it would be fun to say yes to a weekly bible study just to see how far i could go in undermining the j.w.

  beliefs, also to be honest i thought it would make a family member happy.

  so i slowly and methodically refuted and questioned all the nutty things that my study teacher, or whatever he's called, tried to throw at me over a period of about 4 months.

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  Destructive mind control is alive and real. If a person is happy and doesn't want to leave the cult, it is nearly impossible to get them out.
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  Anyone look at this board while still an IN and ACTIVE JW?

  by Mad Sweeney in

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  i vaguely remember looking at this board a few years ago, before i ever considered leaving the borg, and being appalled at the evil and hateful attitudes i saw here and scared to death of reading any further.. now i go back through years and years of posts and there is no evil or hate there at all.

  it's one of the most kind and welcoming boards i've encountered since the invention of the internet.. that is how well borg indoctrination works.

  it is eerily like 1984. black is white.

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  I don't think I ever came here. I would have been terrified of anything apostate. If I did stumble upon it, I'm sure I quickly exited.
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  No Shorts and T-Shirts After Convention - Remember?

  by mentallyfree31 in

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  does everyone remember a few years back, when the km directed that nobody should wear shorts after the convention while out and about?

  i don't have the reference, but i remember a brother in our hall made a comment that night at the meeting while it was being discussed.

  he was a very poor brother, with 3 children.

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  Mad Sweeney - you know what, i have seena newspaper clippings of just that. Advertising that JW's were so serious about their worship that they endured the hot sun for all day and people were passing out. I think I have that saved somewhere. I will look.

  Thanks everyone for your comments. I think that rule was only given in 2007. I think it was dropped after that. Unless I'm mistaken.
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  Watchtower & Awake covers. Some of my satire attempts...

  by Aussie Oz in

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  Great stuff! lol
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  No Shorts and T-Shirts After Convention - Remember?

  by mentallyfree31 in

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  does everyone remember a few years back, when the km directed that nobody should wear shorts after the convention while out and about?

  i don't have the reference, but i remember a brother in our hall made a comment that night at the meeting while it was being discussed.

  he was a very poor brother, with 3 children.

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  Thanks yknot. I couldn't remember exactly when that was. I am happy to say I went straight to the motel and changed into my jeans and went to eat that weekend.
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  No Shorts and T-Shirts After Convention - Remember?

  by mentallyfree31 in

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  2. humour

  does everyone remember a few years back, when the km directed that nobody should wear shorts after the convention while out and about?

  i don't have the reference, but i remember a brother in our hall made a comment that night at the meeting while it was being discussed.

  he was a very poor brother, with 3 children.

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  Does everyone remember a few years back, when the KM directed that nobody should wear shorts after the convention while out and about? I don't have the reference, but I remember a brother in our hall made a comment that night at the meeting while it was being discussed. He was a very poor brother, with 3 children. His family never could afford to go anywhere or do anything. And as this part was considered, he commented that this would rule out swimming at the hotel at night, since shorts are required for swimming.

  I remember feeling so sorry for those kids. The one chance that year to get away for a weekend at a motel with a pool, and they can't even swim.

  Sad.
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  Book: Captives of a Concept-... Illusionary Concept That Holds JW's Captive

  by Lady Liberty in

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  good evening everyone,.

  just started reading the book by don cameron a former elder called captives of a concept-understanding the illusionary concept that holds jehovahs witnesses captive.

  holy cow!

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  I don't see how anybody can read Captives of a Concept and walk away thinking WT is God's organization. One of the best books out there. And it can pretty much be read in one long sitting.
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  For NEWBIES and LURKERS..info. for you!!

  by Lady Liberty in

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  dear friends,.

  seems like everyday there are more and more new ones finally getting brave enough to come forward.

  and welcome to all you lurkers too!!

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  Great stuff. Copied it to a text file. Thanks!