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  New Light @ The 2011 District Convention

  by dontplaceliterature in

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  " at the bottom of the image on the back of the invitation raises some eyebrows, but last night in the routine district convention article during the service meeting, i caught that one of the paragraphs mentioned that we would be encouraged to keep a copy of the tract in hand for a discussion during sunday's last talk.

  my guess is, there is going to be some new revelation about what the "?

  " represents, or some other fangled idea.

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  Does the KM normally say to give out invitations informally during the convention weekend? Or is that something new?
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  Was it ever explained how.......

  by Reality79 in

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  ......god ignored the whole of mankind for 2,000 years and then suddenly decided in the late 1800s to give "da troof" to ole charlie boy?

  i was just looking at someone's parody jw channel and the person posed this very same question.

  i'll admit i've thought about it but not too deeply.. so, does anyone know why "true worship" didn't exist for all that time until god decided to grant russell special powers to determine truth?.

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  This is the one big question I suppressed for 10 years before I reached my breaking point.
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  New Way of Doing Field Service?

  by snowbird in

  1. watchtower
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  as i was driving to work this morning, i saw a familiar looking car a few yards ahead of me that kept making stops where people were standing alongside the roadway.. when i drove past the people, i noticed wt and awake!

  in their hands.. well, lo and behold, this jw woman to whom i once referenced in the link below was "placing" literature with them!.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/191371/1/a-visit-from-the-reformed-village-strumpet.

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  I think they call this "approach work" here in Canada. We were always admonished to jump out of the car and give a witness to the poor people waiting at bus stops or out walking their dogs. A captive audience! I could never work up the courage to bother people though.
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  Eating Disorders and the JWs

  by the_raisin in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hey everybody!

  so i was wondering something... am i the only who realized that eds ran rampant throughout the witnesses?

  i remeber dreading the conventions and memorials because, as every young girl involved knew, we all covertly checked each other out and snarked on each other's bodies.

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  I agree with freedomisntfree, I think my need to control what I ate was one of the few things I controlled in my life. That, and I lose my appetite when I'm depressed, and being a witness was depressing!!!
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  The meetings used to make me physically sick.

  by FifthOfNovember in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's 9:10 sunday morning.

  i'm dressed already, and just finished rushing through my watchtower a few seconds ago.

  now i need to wait for my ride to pick me up (i couldn't drive yet).

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  I became physically ill whenever we went to an assembly or convention because of all the people. And after I realized "the truth" wasn't the truth, my heart would start racing at the meetings and wouldn't slow down. Because of that anxiety, I started missing meetings and feeling a whole lot better.

  I would also become ill when I had to go on service because I was really shy and didn't like talking to people I didn't know.
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  If you could have dinner with any historical person...(top 3 choices)

  by Ron1968 in

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  if you could have dinner with any athlete, scientist, president, artist, or religious figure what would be your top 3 choices?.

  ron

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  My Grandpa

  Jesus

  John Lennon
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  How many received the memorial invitation?

  by IMHO in

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  2. friends

  how well is this territory being covered?.

  how many on here (active jws excluded) received an invitation?.

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  Just received one today. It was left in the mailbox, and we didn't hear anyone knock on the door. I also received one wacky JW invite on the phone the other day.

  Overall, I wasn't impressed, seeing as this was a "special month of activity!"
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  i feel under the weather...

  by Snowboarder in

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  2. friends

  hey what's up?

  well i feel under the weather don't know how to put it in words.

  where to start?

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  Nice_Dream

  I'm really sorry to hear how you are feeling right now. Like Nugget said, waking up and realizing how the organization has effected your life is one of the hardest things you'll ever have to deal with. But things WILL get better, it just takes time.

  It's really hard feeling left out, I know because I usually didn't have any friends growing up at the hall and was always left out. But after almost 30 years, I realized that I wasn't the problem, it was them. "Worldly" people liked me and would invite me to do things. It really hurts when people you love and trust tell you that it's your problem you don't have friends. My husband told me I wasn't loving enough, and that's why I didn't have any friends. I didn't have any problem being friends with people I actually had things in common with though, who were "wordly." It sounds like you were able to make friends at school too, which shows that you are a good friend.

  Maybe you could stop pioneering temporarily and apply for a part time job? You can get to know your coworkers (who are usually great people!), and start spending time with them. Maybe you could apply for a job at the mountain or a sports store and get to know others that have similar passions as you.

  Hang in there!
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  How far are you on your journey away from the JW Org?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i mentally left the org in march 2010. i stepped down as an elder after my lad got into trouble.

  i researched the publications to make myself 'spiritually strong' but it backfired.. i was in mental and emotional turmoil, still on fs, the platform and meetings etc.

  i had to force myself to conform to ever failing jw doctrine.. i announced to my family that i was not going back to meetings in august 2010 after the 'overlapping' joke of 'new light'.. i told the elders not to call.

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  I stopped going on service almost 3 years ago, but stopped attending meetings last spring. Fortunately, my husband stopped going to meetings too, and is finally beginning to realize that the religion doesn't make sense. My parents are now "out," but my inlaws remain hardcore JWs, so my husband is in turmoil over them.

  My born-in JW faith crumbled when I realized the GB wasn't God's organization. But I still struggle with guilt about doing "normal" things like attending kids birthday parties with my child.
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  How Many JWs Have You known Who Have Commited Suicide?

  by Was New Boy in

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  james olsen and richaed wheellock both bethelites.. rich templet.

  rich and james out of guilt, richard out of depression.. james and rich were both under 30 years old.. after richard wheelock (a bethel heavy) killed himself the society changed it's stand on whether suicides could be resurrectioned or not..

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  Nice_Dream

  I know a sister who was an elder's wife or MS wife (can't remember), and she was struggling with depression. The elders encouraged her to stop seeing her therapist, and she committed suicide shortly after. She was such a wonderful lady, and had 2 beautiful teenage daughters. They were nice enough to give her a funeral at the hall though.