Posts by clearpoison

at the age of eighteen (1992), i was conversing about the elders with a group of witnesses, and a girl who had been before a judicial committee chimed in and said, they ask questions that are none of their fucking business.

clearpoison

Guidance to sisters who want to see their MS or elder husband more at home. Even you just go missionary, go and "confess" using all positions and help tools available preferably in detail. Today would be a perfect day.

Ok, he might get angry for a while, but if he is normal at some point he needs his missionary again. And since you already confessed you could go all the way.

CP

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I've not seen them for four years - elder puts Memorial invite on my door

by truthseeker in

i just came back from shopping, was about to pull up in the driveway and noticed an elder from my old hall and his young child working the territory.. i waited till they left and parked.

i noticed i was the only one who got a memorial invite, none of my neighbors got one.

so they weren't working the territory but stopped by to give me an invite.

clearpoison

Now I get it why some of them have been talking to me when seeing them in city. CP

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Please! I need a plausible excuse for getting out of going to the memorial!

by Inisc in

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i have been thinking about this for weeks!.

nothing short of death will be acceptable to my mother!.

i thought of saying i will go to another cong but my parents know people there so that won't work.. help!.

clearpoison

Take some laxative drug in good time according to instructions and you are good. No excuses needed.

CP

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has anyone lied to the two elders

by wasted in

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just a ?

as ive got cobe and my daughters fil coming round nxt wk to grill me, first time 2 of the blighters have turned up together so im expecting the inevitable.

by the way not been to a meeting in 2.5 yrs after 35 yrs in the b/s,and just wondering how much they pressure to get the answers they want.

clearpoison

Yes, but within the same discussion my wife ratted me out by confessing her part. I think they never noticed what really happened before that. CP

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Changes to the Watchtower and Awake magazines size! (Unnanounced Confidential letter)

by tooktheredpill in

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clearpoison

Guys, don't we all know that size really do not matter? The end must be nearer than we think. Now we are closing the time when there will be end of much of the writing. All possible issues under the sun has already been published and the human knowledge (or capacity) has reached it peak. There are just no more subjects to handle in these magazines. As these magazines gets smaller it also allows for more condensed writing about really actual issues, like in worldly magazines. Time to publish can be made narrower and it is not really question about last years news, but at least about this quarters news. CP

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Will Embracing the Internet lead to Increased Growth for the Watchtower?

by jwfacts in

more important than the reduction in the size of the new magazine is that the watchtower will be actively promoting its website and encouraging people use it to download magazines.

my concern is that this has the potential to lead to an increase in growth for the watchtower.. the door-to-door preaching work has been one of the most inefficient means imaginable to gain converts, and done little more than tie up the time of active jws.

now, by directing people to the internet, witnesses can spread their message at an alarming rate for little cost.. do you feel that this has the potential to lead to a surge in growth of jehovah's witnesses?

clearpoison

Maybe there will be some quiz or lotteries, apply now for biblestudy in your home and you can win all-costs-paid trip to international convention.

CP

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Things you did to pass the time at meetings/service/assemblies/conventions/memorials

by OneDayillBeFree in

i'm currently at the meeting again... i'm always in the back working the sound cause everyone else can't seem to work it and i'm mostly on my phone reading jwn or writing, or doodling or sometimes i just stare at the audience to see who's falling asleep or daydreaming.

its really the only way i can still sit through these things.. but i remember getting the number of a girl i used to like at one district convention and we would text each other during the program and talk about how boring it was.. i also remember sneaking out of a circuit assembly and going to see a car show that was going on right next door.

that was fun!.

clearpoison

It was the time to really read the magazines.

CP

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Remarrying, then paradise =problem?

by Inisc in

this is a question i always wondered about and never got an answer to.. its also another reason why i'm finding it harder to believe in an 'afterlife'.. th idea that humans can live forever, now seems so scientificly impossible.. so i wanted to ask all the great minds on here,.

if someone's spouse dies, and then they remarry,then armageddon comes and goes then the deceased is resurrected,.

how,is that ever gonna work?

clearpoison

Wouldn't it actually make sense for widows/ers to marry outside the thruth. In Armageddon their spouse would die in horrible way and if we have mis-interpreted this status of resurrected wrong, he/she would be able to remarry the late spouse. And if interpretetation is right they would be able to marry another survivor anyways.

CP