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  Charles Taze 'The Elf" Russell

  by TimeBandit in

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  i have always thought charlie looks like an elf.

  he sort of looks like a leprechaun too.

  you can see him as an elf, right?

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  exwhyzee

  As a kid his photo and Rutheford's photos used to scare me. I thought they looked evil.
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  I just asked the JW website for a home visit...

  by TimeBandit in

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  i just went and filled out the form asking to be visited.

  i hope they come soon so i can work my super apostate magic!

  uh, if the super apostate magic doesn't work, i'll just let my huge great danes out onto the porch and freak the witnesses out followed by kicking them off my front porch... .

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  exwhyzee

  It's always a good policy to treat others with kindness and deceny. Inviting them to your home for the purpose you mentioned is not only unkind but sounds a little like entrapment.
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  How did/does your congregation view going out to eat AFTER the Memorial?

  by OneDayillBeFree in

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  for us it used to be a big no-no, but i think it has slowly grown more acceptable since many of our elders would be starving during the whole reject jesus party.... i always thought it was a bit funny when i saw brothers and sisters almost celebrating with a big feast and drinks on the night that the good ol' messiah sacrificed himself for all humankind!

  it seems now more recently that since it is the only thing witnessess can celebrate, they go all out!

  maybe i'll join in the festivities too.. so what about you guys?

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  exwhyzee

  It was never a habbit of ours to go out afterward. I always just wanted to get home in time to relax before having to get up for work the next day.

  As a kid I remember walking into the bathroom after the "service" just in time to see one of the Elders standing at the sink gulping down the left over wine. I was shocked.

  It always struck me funny and sort of "christendom like" when sisters used the Memorial as an opportunity to wear long dresses,corsages and hats to the hall. The last one I was at was a fiasco. A very odd Bethelite was flown to our west coast congregation to deliver an unintelligable talk. If I hadn't already known what he was talking about, I'd have been confused.Two teenaged non witness girls sitting in front of me kept shrugging their shoulders and looking from one to another with puzzled looks on their faces as he rambled on.

  Afterward, an older sister, all a twitter, rushed up to her daughter and new baby grandson who was all decked out in a 3 piece suit so she could take a photo of "baby' s first memorial". It was my last memorial...it seemed like such a farce. Two thousand and nine years later and people were still going through this ritual and awaiting deliverance.
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  So what do your Jehovah's Witness friends and loved ones think of the generation teaching?

  by garyneal in

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  after the little skit at the last assembly where one brother was asking another for understanding about the generation teaching i thought, "wow, these people will believe anything the watchtower tells them.

  " the 'more mature brother' practically said verbatim everything the watchtower said as his explanation.

  evidently, this is one of the sources of the increased 'murmuring' that the talked warned against.. so, has anyone brought this up to their witness friends and/or family?

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  My Mother in Law is "young" 81 and has been a Pioneer for about 30 years. I asked her what she thought about the new understanding of the term " generation". At first she didn't know what I was talking about,then she said " Oh that.....well I don't pay any attention to that stuff" she quickly changed the subject. It made wonder what she teaches her Bible Studies when they come to the topic of 1914 and it's significance to the end of this system. She's 81so I cut her some slack. She's so steeped in this religion that it doesn't matter if they think black is white, she'll go along with it.
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  STD's and Baptism

  by NewChapter in

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  okay, so this came up on another thread, and now i really want to know the answer.. about 10 years ago, and elder told me they now ask baptismal candidates if they have an std.

  maybe they ask about other communicable diseases too, but he focused on std's.

  he had no reason to mention this, so i just took it as true.

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  exwhyzee

  The only solution is mandatory full body condoms...they offer protection and promote modesty.
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  New Rumor: Downsizing Circuits/Assemblies

  by metatron in

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  heard a new rumor that:.

  the borg is going to phase out big district assemblies - so they can fit 'em in assembly halls.. they will reduce the size of circuits.

  they will synchronize c.o.

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  exwhyzee

  Funny....I was just thinking about District Assemblies yesterday, how they've changed and what value would they serve these days. It seemed like in the past they had days and days worth of things to harp on about and information that was oh so important for us not to miss. Granted, the assemblies were torture sessions but they seemed to rally a sort of special spirit of commaraderie in spite of it all. The last District Assembly I was at was in a Major Sprots Arena. It seemed so sterile and cold and it was a ghost town by comparrison to the old days. People seemed to mill around, come and go, pick and choose what sessions they would and wouldn't attend. This wouldn't have flown in a couple of decades ago. With the deleted meetings, reduced hours, downsized magazines, and internet access to their information they don't have enough new information to fill a program. Most of the benefit of the assembly didn't come from the talks. it was just seeing that you weren't the lone religous fanatic out there that made it seem ok to press on. It seems like they are going to streamline and homogonize themselves right out of existence if they are not careful. Can you imagine how hard it will be for single JW's to meet a variety of people without the being able to cruise the corridors of the big District Conventions. It was the only thing that we used to have to look forward to.
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  Mormons in decline because of the Internet

  by slimboyfat in

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  interesting article.

  i've often thought empirically mormons have an even harder sell than jws.

  the watchtower merely falsifies the date of the fall of jerusalem.

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  exwhyzee

  I see Mormon boys around quite often. I feel sorry for them having been in a similar situation as a youth as they are now. The ones I've known seem very decent and well meaning. My Boys were the best of friends with two Mormon brothers they knew from school...I loved those two boys...they were terrific and I preferred them to the choice of sneaky Witness kids my boys had to associate with. Two Mormon Boys came to my door about two weeks ago. I told them my JW story and said I no longer trust religion or religious people because of how hoodwinked I was for a good part of my life. They both looked from one to the other as if they knew exactly what I was talking about and as if they had had this conversation among themselves.

  Later in our conversation we talked about the Mormon Ad capaign on TV and billboards that show happy good looking people from all walks of life who claim to be Mormon. They said that many Mormons are quite unhappy with the ads. because it is obvious propaganda and it embarrasses them.
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  Why doesn't the WT close the religion?

  by Aussie Oz in

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  i was pondering the other day, why the watchtower corporation doesn't just sell off all the kingdom halls and hang the jws out to dry seeing they make far more $$$ from business than peddling the religion these days.. then it dawned on me... they need to keep that little sideline going for the tax breaks!.

  slow learner i guess.. oz .

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  exwhyzee

  djeggnog,

  If you are sure it's ok with the organization you support, for you to be here, just mention to your Elders that you frequent this site, have them look it up and read your all posts and all the others here as well. You'll soon find out that, "bible based conscience" or not, they will expect you to desist from this practice...or else. You can exercise your "bible based conscience" but you'll have to keep it a secret from them.

  Bible Based Conscience, is a JW term....not one of your own origin. You learned the term in one of their publications, not in the Bible. It means basing your actions on the Watchtower Society's interpretation of the Bible rather than on your own understanding of Gods word. They believe they are free to restrict your activities in the Congregation or punish you if you don't exercise your conscience their way.

  The G.B members and many Bethelites are JW's who grew up in this religion and are deeply entrenched in this way of life. They have reached the pinacle of JW hood. They have nowhere else to go. They are riding along on a machine that was started a hundered ago and like most JW's , desperatly cling to the hope that they won't grow old and die. So far, generations of them have gone to their graves wondering what happened.
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  Did You See A Lot Of Drinking Among JW's???

  by minimus in

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  i did!

  most jws that i know of love to drink.. interestingly, i noticed the heaviest drinkers were bethelites..

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  exwhyzee

  It's the one vice they are allowed so many don't miss an opportunity to imbibe.

  Saw lots of it in Bethel. Knew a few JW's who wound up in AA but only after they left the TRUTH and got rid of the shame and gott help.
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  I sure miss Bob

  by sooner7nc in

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  i had a friend named bob.

  he was a damned wonderful person and i loved him very much, still do as a matter of fact.

  thyroid cancer took him about 6 years ago and i count myself as lucky for the short time we got to spend and work together.

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  exwhyzee

  So what made you think of that all of a sudden ?