FifthOfNovember

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  CO visit soon. Haven't been to meetings for a few weeks.

  by FifthOfNovember in

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  it's been a few months since i've been out in service and almost a month of no meetings.

  the co is visiting soon and i'm already paranoid enough about random stops by elders (although this hasn't happened yet).

  should i worry when the co is here?.

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  FifthOfNovember

  Don't worry, I never really had a desire to get baptized. I was having a Bible study once and the conductor asked me where I saw myself spiritually in 1 year, 3 years, and 10 years. By this time I knew I would quit by the time I got to college. So I put down some simple short term goals for one year, baptism at 3, and MS or something at 10. He was shocked that I was putting baptism off for so long and questioned me on why I was waiting so long.

  He asked me if I believed this was God's organization, if there was anything else I'd rather be doing, if so where would I go if I wasn't a JW. Every fiber of my being wanted to just tell the truth and get it over with but I was a coward and lied. I decided I'd keep going to meetings until college, but luckily I've stopped before that and don't really have any intention on going back.
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  CO visit soon. Haven't been to meetings for a few weeks.

  by FifthOfNovember in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's been a few months since i've been out in service and almost a month of no meetings.

  the co is visiting soon and i'm already paranoid enough about random stops by elders (although this hasn't happened yet).

  should i worry when the co is here?.

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  FifthOfNovember

  Thanks for the advice everyone. I really appreciate it.

  EDIT: I think the reason I think this is so difficult for me is because I've been going to the meetings since elementary school. People in my own congregation sometimes think I'm baptized. For example, once an elder called and asked me to give an experience about the rewards of being baptized (or something like that). You should have heard him when I told him I wasn't haha.

  EDIT 2: Haha, didn't even realize I called it the truth in my first post. Some habits are hard to break.
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  CO visit soon. Haven't been to meetings for a few weeks.

  by FifthOfNovember in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's been a few months since i've been out in service and almost a month of no meetings.

  the co is visiting soon and i'm already paranoid enough about random stops by elders (although this hasn't happened yet).

  should i worry when the co is here?.

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  FifthOfNovember

  It's been a few months since I've been out in service and almost a month of no meetings. The CO is visiting soon and I'm already paranoid enough about random stops by elders (although this hasn't happened yet). Should I worry when the CO is here?

  Additional info: I'm unbaptized and people have been asking about me (a relative informs me of this). I have no close relatives in the truth except one but she isn't a die-hard witness so I don't have to worry.

  I've quit mentally, and for a month, physically. I don't have any intentions of returning.

  Should I just go down the ignore and avoid road?

  What should I do about weekends?

  What about a talk (5 minute) I have coming up? Should I just not show up?

  I don't know if I can take this paranoia until I go to college next year. (Then I'll be safe )
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  Stories thread!

  by FifthOfNovember in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i love reading peoples funny stories, angry stories, fading stories, quitting stories, etc, etc...i'm running out of old threads to find them on so i thought i'd start one.

  some of mine:.

  a few years ago i gave an experience on stage about how i came into the truth and why since it was a struggle i suppose.

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  FifthOfNovember

  Ha, I never read them either. If I read them it would only be when I was sitting in the car while someone was on a long study, trying to pass the time. And I would only read the Awake because the Watchtower would bore me to tears. I'm glad nobody ever asked me if I read them.
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  Stories thread!

  by FifthOfNovember in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i love reading peoples funny stories, angry stories, fading stories, quitting stories, etc, etc...i'm running out of old threads to find them on so i thought i'd start one.

  some of mine:.

  a few years ago i gave an experience on stage about how i came into the truth and why since it was a struggle i suppose.

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  FifthOfNovember

  Yikes, I've never actually had anyone scream at me.

  A year or two ago I was out in service and we stopped the car in front of a house and an elder in the car said it was the house of the witch. I went to the door with him (he spoke), expecting things to start floating and shaking, but she answered the door and was nice and took the magazines. Now when I look back on it I feel ridiculous for thinking that haha.
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  Stories thread!

  by FifthOfNovember in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i love reading peoples funny stories, angry stories, fading stories, quitting stories, etc, etc...i'm running out of old threads to find them on so i thought i'd start one.

  some of mine:.

  a few years ago i gave an experience on stage about how i came into the truth and why since it was a struggle i suppose.

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  FifthOfNovember

  Just remembered a good one! I forget when this happened specifically, but sometime earlier this year I was out in service. I forgot to shave that morning and the elder I was with drove me to my home and told me I should shave!
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  Stories thread!

  by FifthOfNovember in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i love reading peoples funny stories, angry stories, fading stories, quitting stories, etc, etc...i'm running out of old threads to find them on so i thought i'd start one.

  some of mine:.

  a few years ago i gave an experience on stage about how i came into the truth and why since it was a struggle i suppose.

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  FifthOfNovember

  I was just thinking about a few things:

  1) How much the elders are like the gestapo. The majority of the information given to them is from regular members because they're trained to tell the elders everything. People will even do their own snooping to find things out and tell the elders. Once, someone went through my computer files, browser history, and google searches. Another time, I went to an amusement park with a "worldly" person and, me being the naive person I was, told a JW "friend." My next Bible Study was about bad association, and the conductor told me that my "friend" told him everything.

  2) Sometimes when referring to the United States I will say "we." And my JW "friend" will reply, "I don't know who this 'we' is."
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  POLL: Can you turn your mind off?

  by Lady Lee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok ladies you know how this goes.

  you ask your man, "what are you thinking about?

  now i have had more than one man tell me this.

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  FifthOfNovember

  Hmm...not sure if this will help, but when I was at the gym today I completely zoned out while sitting at a tricep machine, staring at the floor, no idea of what was going on around me. I didn't snap out of it until my friend said something to me. I don't really remember thinking about anything, I could have been, I just don't remember. I'm a guy. Hope that helps.
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  Is Another 1975 Possible?

  by God_Delusion in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  howdy,.

  do you think the society has a planned campaign where they will state that armageddon will be upon us within the next 10 years and actually state that armageddon will definitely hit by 2020?

  we all know that they have been drumming into us that "the end is just around the corner", but can you see them pulling another 1975 stunt in order to bring in additional members?.

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  FifthOfNovember

  I think they would have wised up by now. And by that I mean, never being too specific and never committing to anything ("we never said that exactly").
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  Stories thread!

  by FifthOfNovember in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i love reading peoples funny stories, angry stories, fading stories, quitting stories, etc, etc...i'm running out of old threads to find them on so i thought i'd start one.

  some of mine:.

  a few years ago i gave an experience on stage about how i came into the truth and why since it was a struggle i suppose.

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  FifthOfNovember

  I was told the symbol of a band I like, Coheed and Cambria, was bad because it "represented the cosmos aligning." The band's music is based around a fictional story the singer made up. Their symbol represents a fictional planetary system with an energy field connecting them all.

  I don't know how to get the image to show up but if you type "keywork" into google you'll see it.