At the venue the WTBTs uses for DC in my area, they rope off the top section and only allow seating in the bottom portion. It may have to do with crowd control, no teenagers able to sneak up to the top tiers and make out or goof off.
PaintedToeNail
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International Conventions and JW Mathtardation
by zed is dead inthere is going to be an international convention in indianapolis at lucas oil stadium this summer.. the capacity of the stadium is 67,000 people in football configuration, with no one seated on the playing surface.. they read a letter stating that the stadium only will hold 38,000 people for the convention..
wtf?!.
maybe they do not want to have everybody that wants to avoid the detroit i.c.
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The Best Public Talk I Ever Heard (though the speaker was disfellowshipped thereafter)
by exWTslave inthe best public talk i ever heard was one i heard in a jw kingdom hall.
unfortunately, the hurriedly formed jc disfellowshipped him within a couple of weeks for not worshipping the octo(headed) gb.
this happened two years back when i was his fellow-elder.
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He definitely went out with a Bang! They had no choice but DF him, there were more than two witnesses...
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Seeds of Doubt.
by donny inseeds of doubt.
what was it about the jw religion that first gave you serious doubts as to its truthiness?.
for me it occurred in late 1984 when we were studying the brochure the divine name that will endure forever which had been released at the summer convention that year.
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I was reading the book "Awaken the Giant Within" by Anthony Robbins. There is a point in that book about beliefs and how they are legs holding up your 'table' if one of the belief legs gets kicked over, does your belief still stand? I started examining what I believed as a JW and realized that the 'legs' cannot hold up the 'table', there isn't proof. Shortly thereafter, there was a Watchtower study article that said something to the affect 'Even if you are going out in service and to meetings and studying, if you aren't doing it because of love Jehovah, your works are invalid.' I never did any of those things out of love, it was only to save my own skin at the big 'A'.
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a list of good movies/tv shows to get a JW to think
by nonjwspouse inones that have themes that come uncomfortabllly close to the cult dynamic.. i already got him to watch the obsolete man on twilight zone.
he sauggested watching some old tz again tonight so i wioll pick where is everybody, and escape clause.. i have heard oters say the movie truman show was a good movie as is the matrix ( though i detest violence).
any more suggestions for my personal handy dandy list?.
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PaintedToeNail
Recently watched episode 12 of season 3 of Star Trek:Enterprise "Chosen Realm". My kids instantly picked up on how similiar the WTBTS was with the religious fanatics in this episode. The 10 year old was saying things like "This is just like at the Kingdom Hall" and rolling the eyes. Both of the kids watching said "Dad has got to see this"!
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Will the jw's get all excited about Russia in the Ukraine?
by hoser inusually when world events like this take place the dubs start into how the end must be so close they can almost taste it.
maybe there will be some speculation about the king of the north and south again.
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I know my parents and husband will be in a lather about this. Yet, I am calm, even after being raised a JW and having 40 years of brainwashing and occassional bouts of fear. After reading a little about history, you can see how things are repeated over and over again. Russian aggresson and war in Crimea are not new things. Yet the WTBTS will probably use this to attempt to get people out recruiting more.
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A simple mental exercise can calm many of their fears...
by ILoveTTATT inso one of my "closet apostate" friends is a young girl.
she's only in her mid teens, and knows ttatt... but sometimes she holds back because of the fear... the crazy amount of fear... she reads a lot of conspiracy theory/illuminati stuff... so that doesn't help.
so she said "so many prophecies are being fulfilled!".
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religious freedom my foot, cringe- worthy moments in FS
by sparrowdown ini remember talking to a highly educated man out witnessing once and the subject.
of freedom of religion came up.
the guy simply asked if the freedom of religion we.
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PaintedToeNail
Sparrow-very good observation. So much is bull when you look at it from another direction. Welcome, by the way.
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Oh my God. Was my prayer answered???
by quellycatface inanyway, he applied for a lecturer's job at a college last week.
he had a phone call today inviting him for an interview.. i'm kind of in shock.
when we left 10 years ago, i was so upset after.
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Serendipitous happenings...so wonderful for you. May you and your family be happy in your new home.
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Qualifications for Gods Sole Channel--interesting article from the meletivivlon site
by Jon Preston inqualifications to become gods channel of communication[this article was contributed by apollos].
the new teaching of the appointment of the faithful and discreet slave has arguably made 1919 an even more important date to jehovahs witnesses than 1914. appendix b1 of the revised nwt bible shows a time line of the message of the bible in relation to gods rulership.
it is of note that the official doctrine of the establishment of gods kingdom in 1914 is not even mentioned only that satan was cast down around that time.. ever since the 1919 doctrine was announced at the 2012 agm, and subsequently published in the july 15th watchtower 2013, the appointment of the slave seems to have become a much more prominent topic in our teaching, and indeed in general discussion among witnesses.. of course we should remind ourselves that this new level of interest really has nothing to do with the date, and everything to do with the nature of the appointment.
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Sledgehammer subtlety: The insidious reworking of Micah 6:8
by rory-ks inmicah 6:8 might be - or have been - a favourite verse of many.
the verse used to read:.
"he has told you, o earthling man, what is good.
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