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  WHAT ARE YOUR MOST VIVID, ODD, or FUNNY Memories of Conventions and Assemblies of Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by Balaamsass in

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  share with us memories of the bizarre, funny, strange, what you hated, what you miss...we all have them.

  (question..why the big to do between terms- convention and assembly .

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  clearpoison

  Ahh memories, couple things pop-up out of nowhere

  There were those times when food and other refreshments were still offered to attending crowd. I was helping in bakery and there were certain parts of the bakings that could not be set to display. i was eagerly eating of those (they were sensational) until one elder came to me and said that I cannot eat the leftovers unless I pay those with my coupons. Guess if I reported in duty next day.

  Another, some years later, when hormones were running lots of 100m quarter-finals, we decided with couple of other young brothers to skip making notes on program, but to list points for various sisters we could spot from our seat either directly or with our binoculars. And ofcourse at the end of the convention day we would compare our notes.

  Those days, never coming back.

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  Have You Ever Seen Or Met Anyone Famous?

  by minimus in

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  i'm not talking about any gb members, either!.

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  clearpoison

  Possibly, do Dave Gahan count as famous?

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  What would Jesus do?

  by Christ Alone in

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  let's not get into an argument over if jesus was historical or not.. i'd just like to know how you think the jesus of the 4 gospels would act and do things in our modern world.

  who would he talk to?

  what sorts of miracles would he perform?

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  clearpoison

  I have no idea, I guess he would surprise us. I guess this is equally difficult to imagine than guessing before that he would produce lot's of great quality wine to keep party going and get people drunk. Really he would surprise me for sure.

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  If you could leave the truth again what would you do differently?

  by usualusername in

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  if you could leave the truth again what would you do differently?.

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  clearpoison

  Do it way before I got married with kids.

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  Who have you seen in concert?

  by pontoon in

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  my short list; lynard skynard, beach boys, carole king, yes, doobie brothers, rod stewart, ringo starr.. all star band, styx, gordon lightfoot, moody blues.

  can you tell i like the older stuff?.

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  clearpoison

  This made me think, some of them

  Eagles
  Depeche Mode
  Kraftwerk
  Armin van Buuren
  ATB
  London Boys
  Ferry Corsten
  Tiësto
  Hardwell
  Nitzer Ebb
  Ultravox
  Erasure
  Sven Väth

  Only the first one do not really describe me, it was work related "had to be there" kind of event.

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  City Contributes $150,000 to Jehovah’s Witnesses Convention

  by TJ Curioso in

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  city contributes $150,000 to jehovahs witnesses convention .

  by ariella montioctober 22, 2012 | posted in: city council, news, the latest | 0 responsesduring a closed session a month ago raleigh city councilors approved a $150,000 contribution to the christian congregation of jehovahs witnesses convention that will be held next year at the pnc arena.. the city has been contributing money toward the event since it first came to raleigh seven years ago.. this is not new, said city manager russell allen.

  he said the event has been built into the citys annual budget for awhile.. the approval came during a closed session after the regular sept. 18 city council meeting.

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  clearpoison

  Well it must mean that local witnesses may reach out to some sort of community work to get this 275k contribution fixed, but on top of that they are welcomed to feel free participating in paying assembly costs with their contributions.

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  How Many Hours Did You Spend Going to the Meetings and Ministry?

  by God_Delusion in

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  i spent far too many.

  in fact, i recently created a spreadsheet and documented how many hours i spent in total per week.

  it's so depressing.

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  clearpoison

  Don't really have any crasp on total, but after ending my career as pioneer I did way too little to be considered "witness in good standing".

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  do you remember the Last assembly you attended?

  by crystlew123 in

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  i dont remember the date.

  or the year or if it was a district or circuit.

  what i do remember is that we rode up with a car full of other female witnesses.

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  clearpoison

  No memories, equally many memories of assemblies prior to that.

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  What was the biggest lie that you have ever told any JWs while you were still a JW?

  by Iamallcool in

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  i was deleted as ms some years ago, a brother thought i became an elder.

  at the circuit assembly, he asked me if i am elder now, i said yes so the brother told me all of the gritty details about his wife and her sister that got disfellowshipped at the same time.

  they went out with the worldly guys and they both got pregnant.

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  clearpoison

  To an elder asking baptism question, have you dedicated yourself to Jehovah. I thought what the f that means and answered yes, I kind of thought that was the answer that was expected to proceed.

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  When You Were A Witness Did You Ever Celebrate A Birthday or Holidays?

  by minimus in

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  i knew some families that celebrated "family day" on christmas eve or some time around the holiday.. i don't know of too many witnesses that actually celebrated but kinda came close....haha.

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  clearpoison

  Yes, not with those names however. The things that were too obviously related to holiday like christmas tree was not used but special food, watching traditional TV-shows and all other rituals were there. For birthdays it was OK to receive gifts from unbelieving relatives, but there was no funny hats and cakes.

  In short I could state that we semi-celebrated all relevant holidays.

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