Posts by PaintedToeNail

I always thought this was stupid. One day I can pray for my minor child, the next day he has to pray for me or else I have to wear a towel on my head.

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Hello

by GoUnion in

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hello everyone it's nice to finally be able to post i had trouble getting emails last month and was never able to sign up.

this has been a very informative site which has really helped me grow and to think for myself.

please allow me to introduce myself.. i was born into a witness family and was baptized at a young age an was part of a small kingdom hall.

PaintedToeNail

Welcome here and to the rest of your life.

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I'm not trying to brag, but being an EXJW is awesome!!! Status Update-

by Coffee House Girl in

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hello jwn!

i don't get to check in here or comment as often as i would like because i have been working so hard at school...but i just have to share my news in hopes that newbees can see that taking the leap to enroll in higher education is worth it-.

i am graduating this spring with a bachelor degree in art history, minor anthropology...many people (including nonjw's have given me flack for choosing a "dead end" career path) but since leaving the watchtower organization's group-think mentality and "leaning on my own understanding" instead... i decided to say fuck everyone else's opinion...i am going to pursue my passion to work in a museum as a curator or archivist-.

PaintedToeNail

Amazing what you can do once your release the bonds! Congratulation indeed!

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I did it !!!!

by snare&racket in

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7 years ago i started on a path i had long ago given up on as impossible.

i met with my elders and told them i could not justify carrying on as a jw.

i went and got my high school qualifications and my higher education diploma (a levels with distinction) in just 12 months.

PaintedToeNail

Dr. Snare-Congratulations! All your hard work and effort have paid off! May you have a wonderful practice and a great life.

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Baptisms only at regional ( district ) assemblies from 2014 / 15 service year?

by dozy in

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just a rumour but i guess it makes sense - i've a friend on a circuit committee ( he knows it's not "the truth" but for family & work reasons he stays in ) & he says that the wtbts have told them not to book a swimming pool for next years one day assemblies as the plan is to have only one baptism a year at the main regional ( what they used to call "district" ) convention.. with the drop off in baptisms so that sometimes there isn't anyone baptised or just a handful , i guess this is inevitable.

i remember going to a baptism a few years ago - we had hired a municipal 25 metre swimming pool and only one person ( a rather confused and scared middle aged lady who hadn't been in a swimming pool since her youth ) was being baptised - it was all something of a farce with the "worldly" staff looking on very puzzled at such an elaborate & expensive ceremony for one person.

) also with both assemblies being one day with just short morning & afternoon sessions , i suppose it is sensible to ditch the baptism talk - it tends to be something of a snoozefest anyway at the end of the morning session.

PaintedToeNail

It makes one wonder what they are going to do with all those assembly hall pools.

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Where does the need to worship god come from?

by Socrateswannabe in

where does the need to worship god come from?.

this is a question that i asked myself repeatedly when i used to believe that god exists.

i struggled with this because i have never had the urge, and i imagined myself an ingrate because of it.

PaintedToeNail

Socrates-I understand where you are coming from. I never had the urge to worship either and felt guilty for not feeling that urge, especially since my parents were/are so keen on it all. Whenever that point was brought out at the meetings or in literature, I always had the thought :"Not me, what is wrong with me?"

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International Conventions and JW Mathtardation

by zed is dead in

there 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.

PaintedToeNail

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.

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The Best Public Talk I Ever Heard (though the speaker was disfellowshipped thereafter)

by exWTslave in

the 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.

PaintedToeNail

He definitely went out with a Bang! They had no choice but DF him, there were more than two witnesses...