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  Hi Everyone! My introduction.

  by cherrypye in

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  i am a former dub, born and raised and left at the age of 18. i was baptised at nine, aux pioneer, regular pioneer and around 16 started to see the light.

  my parents give me the heave-ho the day i hit 18 (at midnight, to be precise.

  ) i was marked at 17 for dating a "worldly".

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  Welcome Cherrypye!!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjyZKfdwlng&feature=related
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  What Would Bring The Watchtower Down?

  by metatron in

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  randy/dogpatch has posted some interesting material about troubles in the organization.

  this info generated a lot of skepticism about the possibility of watchtower fragmentation.

  frankly, it is very easy to be skeptical considering everything that ordinary witnesses are willing to believe or put up with.. i think it would be useful to realistically consider what sort of event(s) would bring the watchtower down or cause its fragmentation?

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  Mad Sweeney, I'd also donate.
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  UK weekly chatroom now set up on the Broad Road

  by bigmac in

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  because of the frequent activity in the broad road chatroom from the uk, a regular friday evening ( uk gmt ) chatroom has been created.. heres the link.

  http://www.thebroadroad.com/m/groups/view/true-english-ladies-and-gentlemen.

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  http://www.thebroadroad.com/m/groups/view/True-English-Ladies-and-Gentlemen

  Made it clickable for ya.
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  Reporting time

  by serein in

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  has any of u ever put a report in and added time u didnt do on it.

  i have ......just so theyd stop bugging me its like every time i sat down have u put ur report in thats all they talked to me for,.

  then id get ignored rest of the time,.

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  LOL! Me too, I pioneered for just over a year, went to pioneer school, blah blah blah, raised in the truth, spent more Saturdays of my life in field serv-us than a kid should. To this day, my count of bringing anyone into the 'truth'... 0. I'm planning on keeping that record too. In fact, I'm on a mission to go into negative numbers.
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  Reporting time

  by serein in

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  has any of u ever put a report in and added time u didnt do on it.

  i have ......just so theyd stop bugging me its like every time i sat down have u put ur report in thats all they talked to me for,.

  then id get ignored rest of the time,.

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  clearpoison, that's is along the lines of my thinking. By lying to the SO each month giving him false numbers, I'm playing by their rules and I am doing no favors to myself. I should be getting a call soon from the SO, this time, I'll tell him 0. I know he is going to ask am I sure I didn't preach at all, I'll just keep reiterating 0. There is no excuse, no reason that I need to explain why I don't have any time to report.

  The whole reporting of time is pharsaical IMO. JWs = Modern Day Pharissees.

  BroDan, I did some number breakdowns earlier this year on the amount of hours in the ministry spent last year divided by the amount of new baptized publishers. It came out to something like 5,500 (est) hours per new baptism. I don't know about you, but if my employees spent that much time on something with only 1 result, they'd be fired. The WTS version of 'preaching' is inefficient and ineffective.
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  I want to get baptized...but how and why should it happen?

  by Joliette in

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  ...and not saying that i have to get baptized as a jehovah's witness.

  i was an unbaptized publisher, but i had to step down because of some confessions i made to the elders about two years ago.

  (yes, sexual confessions, i told them that i wasnt a virgin).

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  technically you and a friend can dunk you in your bathtub or a river/lake if you near one!

  It is a symbolic gesture only afterall....

  This. It's symbolic. If you want to make it special, have them say a prayer, or you say a prayer and do the dunking.
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  "Church"

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  i hadn't read any other comments that spoke of a movement among jw's but i have to ask.. background in italics before the point of the thread:.

  i was in the company of my never-ever-a-jw sister and my jw mother.

  sis was exposed to the religion as a youth just as i was, but neither of us stuck with the jw's when mom was df'ed in 1976 when armageddon didn't come and mom went back to the world.

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  If she was trying to normalize it as you say, then she is definitely acting on her own. Maybe she is starting to doubt? Not sure.
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  My JW student is converting other students...

  by lisaBObeesa in

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  ..and it is driving me crazy.

  these kids are 16 and 17 years old.

  the jw boy is such a great kid, with a wonderful heart.

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  Soldier77

  I would say something, you are doing a disservice by not. IMO.
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  Brazilian Billboards having impact

  by Gayle in

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  Awesome!

  You can rent board space on those billboard trucks for a lot cheaper than an actual billboard sign. Should be in your local phone book, shouldn't be too hard to get a quote.
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  Reporting time

  by serein in

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  has any of u ever put a report in and added time u didnt do on it.

  i have ......just so theyd stop bugging me its like every time i sat down have u put ur report in thats all they talked to me for,.

  then id get ignored rest of the time,.

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  I've been doing that for the last 8 months. I haven't actually turned in my time either, the SO has to call me and I just tell him 2 hours. This month is going to be the first month that I will tell him 0 when he calls.