dudeson - Yes, my brother has recommened that to me as an excellent book. It will be one of the next ones that I read. He has it on his bookshelf.
dgp - I agree. And yeah, that would be a pretty interesting bible study.
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Book: Who Wrote The Bible - Have you read it?
by mentallyfree31 ini started reading the book "who wrote the bible" by richard elliot friedman this week.
i'm a little over halfway through it today, and have found it to be quite informative and enlightening.
with every page i read, i realize again what a tiny jw bubble i have spent my life inside.. have you read this book?
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District Convention 2010 - Skipped! Felt Great!
by mentallyfree31 ini successfully skipped my very first district convention this weekend, after 25 years in the borg.
i spent the day with my disassociated parents - ate breakfast and lunch with them.
felt great.
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OTWO - Hopefully the memorial 2010 was my last Jehovah's Witness indoctrination session that I will ever attend in my life.
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As a JW, Did You Skip Houses You Knew Were Not Interested?
by mentallyfree31 ini have to confess: in my last 3 - 5 years in field circus, i basically only went to neighborhoods that were extrememly poor and thus i knew they would be favorable to the message.
i always had my own territory checked out, and even if an elder suggested i join another group in working another territory, i always had plenty of reasons why i needed to work mine.
(bible study or rv that i had to make at 11 am, etc...blah blah blah..lol).
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Sylvia - I never did this when I pioneered back in 1996 - 2000. Only when I burned out around 2005 or so. Then I hated service anyway. So I decided to only go to houses that would be nice.
As George McFly said on Back to the Future: "What if they say no? I just don't think I could take that kind of rejection."
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As a JW, Did You Skip Houses You Knew Were Not Interested?
by mentallyfree31 ini have to confess: in my last 3 - 5 years in field circus, i basically only went to neighborhoods that were extrememly poor and thus i knew they would be favorable to the message.
i always had my own territory checked out, and even if an elder suggested i join another group in working another territory, i always had plenty of reasons why i needed to work mine.
(bible study or rv that i had to make at 11 am, etc...blah blah blah..lol).
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Sylvia - I did this up until last year when I left.
Nobody knew about this - it was just my personal thing that I did. There's no way the elders would have approved of this.
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What Did You Do With Your WWW Money When You Left?
by mentallyfree31 inquestion: when you awakened and discovered the truth about "da troof", what did you do with the www money in your service bag?.
i must confess: i took my apostate brother out to lunch and paid for it with my www stash.
i hadn't deposited my money in a long time, so there was about $30 in there.. .
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Are you saying that you never deposited the money into the WWW box? I assumed everybody always turned the money in.
I'm really curious now. What did everybody else do?
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No typos or grammatical errors ever????
by StAnn inseems to me that, despite the fact that the content of the wts literatrash is crap, i've never seen a typo or grammatical error in the lit.
anybody ever noticed this or ever found instances of errors?
and, if there are no errors, how do they manage that?
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Years ago, at the WT study one sunday - there was a paragraph that said "in Abraham's 100th year". But the reader's magazine said "in Abaham's 99th year". We compared quite a few magazines after the meeting and sure enough, some said 100th and some said 99th.
This was way back, not sure exactly but definitely prior to 1992.
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What Did You Do With Your WWW Money When You Left?
by mentallyfree31 inquestion: when you awakened and discovered the truth about "da troof", what did you do with the www money in your service bag?.
i must confess: i took my apostate brother out to lunch and paid for it with my www stash.
i hadn't deposited my money in a long time, so there was about $30 in there.. .
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Question: When YOU awakened and discovered the truth about "da troof", what did you do with the WWW money in your service bag?
I must confess: I took my apostate brother out to lunch and paid for it with my WWW stash. I hadn't deposited my money in a long time, so there was about $30 in there.
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As a JW, Did You Skip Houses You Knew Were Not Interested?
by mentallyfree31 ini have to confess: in my last 3 - 5 years in field circus, i basically only went to neighborhoods that were extrememly poor and thus i knew they would be favorable to the message.
i always had my own territory checked out, and even if an elder suggested i join another group in working another territory, i always had plenty of reasons why i needed to work mine.
(bible study or rv that i had to make at 11 am, etc...blah blah blah..lol).
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I have to confess: In my last 3 - 5 years in field circus, I basically only went to neighborhoods that were extrememly poor and thus I knew they would be favorable to the message. I always had my own territory checked out, and even if an elder suggested I join another group in working another territory, I always had plenty of reasons why I needed to work mine. (bible study or RV that I had to make at 11 am, etc...blah blah blah..LOL)
If I came upon a house where it looked like the people were well off or middle class, I would speak up and say "oh we got this one last week". Sometimes, as we were going into the territory, I would announce to the car group that another group has already worked part of this. Therefore I could skip nice houses and only get the poor ones. Nobody ever seemed to catch on. Sometimes, when there were some nice houses mixed in, I would speak up and say "we aren't working all of this - there are just a few not at homes i need to catch".
I just always felt really ridiculous walking up to rich people's houses when i knew they were gonna say "no thank you". (Note: I pioneered for years, so I knew almost all of our territory like the palm of my hand. I knew exactly by territory number and street where the nice nice poor folks were and where the mean folks were.)
Did anybody else pull tricks like this? Or am I the only one?
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District Convention 2010 - Skipped! Felt Great!
by mentallyfree31 ini successfully skipped my very first district convention this weekend, after 25 years in the borg.
i spent the day with my disassociated parents - ate breakfast and lunch with them.
felt great.
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miseryloveselders - There are two posts on here that have provided audio of "this generation" being explained in the last talk of the convention on Sunday. Here are the links:
http://www.archive.org/details/RemainInSecretPlaceOfTheMostHigh
Actually I can only find this one. It's from Tuscan, Arizona.
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Quandry - I just want to restate something: I HATE this cult. I really do.
LOL
But honestly, those are some of the things that made me say "Yeah, but...." a few times before I gave in and researched my doubts.
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