Posts by clearpoison

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JW teenagers party's

by bigmac in

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i fondly remember my teenage days as a jw--back in the 1960's.. circuit assemblies-in birmingham, england uk.

after the sunday afternoon god-fest there was usually a party--somewhere--in the evening.. one of the lads--his parents were care-takers (janitors?

) of an office block in the city centre.

Oh boy, I can tell you that in 80's-90's we partied like it was the last day. But hey, it could have been. Certainly not the like of parties you would like to talk with your parents about or with elders for that matter. But there was always a little squarrel present who could not keep the mouth shut, so it was time of frequent interrogations. There happened so much that they could really take action for gross sins only and just had to look through fingers all those minor incidents. I was considered a good kid so I was more asked, but not subjected, I never told them anything.

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English-language congregations in non-English speaking countries

by dgp in

i am under the impression that english-language congregations outside of the united states must serve a purpose, other than just being the place where the missionaries can hang out and catch the occasional english speaker.

i think it's also a way to find the smarter guys in other countries and teach them the language and the jargon they will need if they ever climb up the watchtower corporate ladder.. what do people think?.

thanks.

clearpoison

Here the english congregations are kind of collection point for foreigners from both english-speaking countries and various languagegroups that are not big enough to have their own native language congregation. Ofcourse these congregations also attract many locals, wishing to use english more in everyday life. Even Gilead applicants like to participate in english congregation, for obvious reasons.

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"We missed you SO much at the meeting...."

by Duncan in

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IE9 works fine if you put this site to compatibility mode.

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Today's WT lesson: Desperate for more MS. How many get appointed 1 yr after baptism?

by Open mind in

today's wt lesson: serving jehovah with all seriousness, excerpt from paragraph 11:.

"if a brother has been baptized at least one year and to a reasonable degree meets the scriptural qualifications for ministerial servants outlined at 1 timothy 3:8-13, he can be recommended for appointment.".

how often have you seen someone become a ministerial servant one year after baptism?

clearpoison

This all sounds so cool.

I always wanted to retain my originality and edges, so never ever even dreamt of reaching for privileges. That I decided already as teen. It worked well I was left alone except for one occassion where they mentioned considering me. I cut the consideration and asked them not to think in those paths. Aah the peace.

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'Great Crowd' of 12 people get baptised at District Convention!!!

by burnedout in

yesterday, out of 4,035 people in attendance at the dc, only 12 people were baptized.

that is one more than eleventeen and one less than a baker's dozen.. .

want to take a guess as to the age group of this 'great crowd?

clearpoison

In last years in my former circuit the CA/SAD had no baptisees in two cases of three for some years. Speaker always announced that it looks like we do not have anyone going to get baptised, but the speech will still be of great benefit to all of us, specially for them who are considering to get baptised later. It was indeed benefitial, the lunchbreak started some five minutes earlier.

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Amazing Awake Experience, Former druggie looks up JWs in the phone book and starts studying

by LostGeneration in

no looking up jws on the internet first?

and uses a phone book, who even owns a phone book anymore?.

here is the an "experience" from pg 7 of the august 2011 awake.. my teenage years were a blur of alcohol,.

clearpoison

Interesting though that as far as I remember this is a first notification where rock is seen in positive light, she is referring easy rock as something she enjoys. I have hard time thinking that back then when easy rock was invented it would have been written as agreeable music. So much for standards that stay the tooth of time.

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Amazing Awake Experience, Former druggie looks up JWs in the phone book and starts studying

by LostGeneration in

no looking up jws on the internet first?

and uses a phone book, who even owns a phone book anymore?.

here is the an "experience" from pg 7 of the august 2011 awake.. my teenage years were a blur of alcohol,.

clearpoison

Well my maths tell that this crabbing of phonebook happened seven years ago. I have no problem relating to reading phonebook back then.

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dos it really matter if it was a cross or a stake???

by highdose in

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what does it matter?

i belive its been found that the romans used both, so what does it matter?.

what does it matter that the roman word for cross sounds also like a word for another god?.

clearpoison

It seems to have great significance to some. I think it's related to wide-spread usage of cross as symbol for christians. It's symbol on churches and people use it as jewelry among others. If the tree was cross there is relation to why this symbol could be used and the declaring it pagan symbol would lose ground. One way of proving you are right is the prove others are wrong, "there, you see, they even use pagan symbol to describe themselves, how low can they go", kind of logic. Those fake-christians use pagan sign as their most significant symbol, they are so evil and drifted away from true religion, right. It sounds less convincing when you must state that for some reason they want to use the murderweapon as their symbol, but it really was there and is related to death of Jesus.

Semantics, I would say from my point of view, but the devil lies in nuances.

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Did anyone try to go to the high school prom ?

by Pitchess Co-Gen in

i remember being a high school senior and wanting to go to prom ( i graduated from high school in 2003 ), but prom was forbidden when your a jw teen.

i even said to my parents if i took a witness girl would it be ok; they actually said yes.

i found a girl ( yes she's a witness ) to go with me, but here's the kicker she agreed to go.

clearpoison

Undercover's words brought some delightful memories in my mind. Thank you for that.

I just loved our nerdy chemistry and physics club at school, it was one of the highlights of the week, and no, meetings did not fit to that list.

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Did anyone try to go to the high school prom ?

by Pitchess Co-Gen in

i remember being a high school senior and wanting to go to prom ( i graduated from high school in 2003 ), but prom was forbidden when your a jw teen.

i even said to my parents if i took a witness girl would it be ok; they actually said yes.

i found a girl ( yes she's a witness ) to go with me, but here's the kicker she agreed to go.

clearpoison

We have similar event here in my lilliput country, very much like US prom dance. My family tried their best to convince me to go there, but I had other plans, I could with good reason escape from school and ski one more day, as there was no real studies going on that day. I wasn't really that much for partying and dancing in those days (full-scale nerd), but I still get reminded by my family that I escaped against their will. Here it is not seen as bad thing by most JW families to participate in school traditions as such, post-parties might be seen in other light.

Ofcourse you have already shown your true colour by choosing high school education in stead of vocational studies.

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