just started attending a new congregation with my wife (very much a believer) and have noticed a lot of complacency.
during the weekdays service meetings it is only pioneers and auxileries that show up.
on weekends a typical service group that has 30 people assigned to it only has 6 show up.
My heart goes out to those that have been dealt bad advice so that in the years of plenty have wasted their time on FS rather than getting an education and now when times are hard fall into financial hardship. I have less sympathy for the elders who chose to pressure people out of an education or full time job. I have no sympathy for the GB who will rejoice at economic instability so they can claim how bad the world is and look forward to more recruits.
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i'm a californian, but a good friend in london just texted me saying there's a blitz of about 50 jehovah's witnesses in croydon right outside of where she's eating loaded up with watchtowers and setting up a stall and a speaker with a megaphone.
she also says that some of them are women in wheelchairs and that they're rolling in front of passers by and blocking them when they try to ignore them.
she says all of the pedestrians are telling them to fuck off and leave them alone because they're not interested in a cult, haha.. is this something new that the society is encouraging over there (or even more scary, everywhere?
Welcome activeJW - thanks for contributing!
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i'm a californian, but a good friend in london just texted me saying there's a blitz of about 50 jehovah's witnesses in croydon right outside of where she's eating loaded up with watchtowers and setting up a stall and a speaker with a megaphone.
she also says that some of them are women in wheelchairs and that they're rolling in front of passers by and blocking them when they try to ignore them.
she says all of the pedestrians are telling them to fuck off and leave them alone because they're not interested in a cult, haha.. is this something new that the society is encouraging over there (or even more scary, everywhere?
As I said, legally the cannot preach on the mall or the areas leading to it and I doubt the JWs would of broken the law to do this - plus the fact no ministry was done from end of September 2009 to January 2010
I've seen tables with W/T, Awakes and brochures on them in other cities in the UK - just last weekend I saw one. There was no large scale attempt at street witnessing along with it though.
Many years ago I was involved in street witnessing where 20 or more of us were out - people were crossing the roads in desperation to get away
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only 24 days left for jehovah's witnesses to criticise and mock a day set aside for giving thanks to god for.
providing all of our needs..
Maybe we should name a holiday "Armageddon Day."
Every year the GB would predict on what day this holiday would fall, only to get it wrong, afterwards deny any knowledge of the announcement and then blame the R&F for misapplying scripture.
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only 24 days left for jehovah's witnesses to criticise and mock a day set aside for giving thanks to god for.
providing all of our needs..
Thanks. What criticisms can the average American dub expect to hear from the platform in the coming weeks? "Worldly holidays are a snare of satan, it's all commercial, people don't really care for one another on such a holiday, they don't even know the name of the God they are thanking"?
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only 24 days left for jehovah's witnesses to criticise and mock a day set aside for giving thanks to god for.
providing all of our needs..
What is happening on 25th November?
today is kim clijsters' birthday and a month ago she announced her retirement from tennis.
i remember the week she was born very well.
i have watched tennis since the late '70s, and i remember when billie jean king was a star, when jimmy connors was a hot new thing, and when "virginia slims" matches were shown on wtbs.
Looked through the early pics. The one of Kim stretching after a game - what a chilled relaxed shot.
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for all of us who dread the knock on saturday morning only to find the po and the so at your door with stupid grins, here to find out why you havnt been to the meeting for a year.. ask em in, when they get over all the fake niceties and get down to the business of trying to readjust you or kick you out, try this.. just tell them you where stumbled out of the truth.
stumbled by some responsible bros that you would never have dreamed would put you in this position.. stumbled out by the lying gb.. there is no come back.
you cant be kicked out for being stumbled.. boyakaashaa!
wot iz u fick or summing? Get yer joolie to answer da door, an u iz not even need to get out ov da bed.
Reeeshpecta
thats atleast 10 years..i am dealing with the lil ones and knock knock...i open the door to find a witness at the door all pretty and smiles... told her to hold on one second and made the dog quite down..she started her spill and i was like ..don't mean to be rude but born and raised a jw.
..so first words are ?
?...wait all at once...are you dfed ?...nope i just choose not to go..asked my name a couple times and encouraged me to come to meetings.
Welcome Plowboy,
I'm sure it's not the sort of thing you've mentaly prepared for every time you've opened the door in the last 10 year - how could you? Well let us know how you get on. They're sure to come back - any friendly face that takes magazines will definitely be an rv!
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google_ad_section_start hi everyone, i am just new to this site and thanks for a very dear friend that has encouraged me to post my story and would love to hear feedback from all you out there xx.
this is my story.
we were introduced to the religion in 1982, not soon after we were unbaptized publishers (a bit to soon for me even at that age) i really didnt miss the celebrations as much as were werent that well off and my parents worked 6 days a week to pay the bills.
I've re-read this again because it keeps opening up new debates in my mind. What happened was wrong on so many levels. Even as adults being falsely accused of such a crime could and probably would ruin your life, as I've heard in recent news stories.
Interesting point about how information does leak about JC's. Gossip is a powerful weapon of control in the truth.
thank you again for sharing such a life story
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