I think it is different. The kids enjoy Christmas and birthdays and get gifts. After a lifetime of being a witness you get the hope of a resurrection like everyone else who never sat in a kingdom hall.
Ucantnome
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There is no Santa Claus , no Easter bunny , and NO PARADISE!
by stuckinarut2 inwitnessing yesterday, i had a few little ones in the group chattering away excitedly to me about the things they look "forward to in the paradise":.
"i'm going to have three horses, a big house and lots of pretty flowers etc".
after i left, it hit me "like a ton of bricks"!......this is no different to the way that kids "in the world" believe in a santa claus, easter bunny, tooth fairy etc.... then they wake up when old enough and realise that it was all lies...make believe....stories etc, all told to them by parents and older ones!
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Anyone recall asemblies actually being fun?
by tim hooper inwhen i was a wee lad, there was a carnival atmosphere at assemblies as this old footage will show:.
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http://www.britishpathe.com/video/witnesses-baptised/query/jehovahs+witnesses.
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Ucantnome
my earliest recollection of an assembly is being lost in the exodus to the buses from twickenham when i was about 4.
i remember roasting at Busch Stadium
the rain at Wembley
i think the 1963 was an eight day
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Anyone recall asemblies actually being fun?
by tim hooper inwhen i was a wee lad, there was a carnival atmosphere at assemblies as this old footage will show:.
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http://www.britishpathe.com/video/witnesses-baptised/query/jehovahs+witnesses.
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Ucantnome
i always hated the assemblies. as an adult i rarely attended them.
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Misconception 1:...........
by Jon Preston inatheists want there to be no god.
absolutely false!
atheists i have met arent evil, but very moral.
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Ucantnome
Since leaving the Watchtower I'm older but not much different. My kids are grown up and my dog is old and the cat is going for living forever. I still believe in God.
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Main reason JWs are JWs
by Batman89 inwhat is the(or what was your) main motivation for serving god as a jw(or any christian)?.
a) love for god and genuinely trying to learn more about him and bible truths?.
b) to escape punishment/death at armegddon?.
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Ucantnome
i think it's not easy to say. when i was a witness at one point i felt the end/tribulation was just about here and i thought i can't change things now but i probably hadn't done enough to survive. (not that i did a whole lot more after) i wasn't on the school. i was a regular publisher. i did feel i done my 100%as little as it may have looked. i also felt being a witness was the right thing to do and now it seems the opposite.
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How many remember the 15 min break Between the Public Tlk and WT Study?
by Wasanelder Once inas kid i remember a break of 15 minutes between the public talk and the wt study.
all the new ones and "weak" ones ran out to smoke.
loved to see the attendant round them up to come back in when the droning began again.
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Ucantnome
As a kid it was so nice to go home after the talk. When my mother was ill i always drew the short straw and had to go to the hall with my father while my older brother stayed home and watched Stingray. He always claimed he had gone last week and i couldn't remember last week. I found the Watchtower so painfully dull i'm surprised i didn't hang myself in the toilet.
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How many remember the 15 min break Between the Public Tlk and WT Study?
by Wasanelder Once inas kid i remember a break of 15 minutes between the public talk and the wt study.
all the new ones and "weak" ones ran out to smoke.
loved to see the attendant round them up to come back in when the droning began again.
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Ucantnome
time to go out and get some Spangles or Bitter Lemons to suck in the Watchtower study
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What On Earth Makes The Watchtower Organization Think That Inactive Ones a Would Ever Want To Go Back To The Vomit?
by minimus indo they actually believe that if they tell you that you are "missed", that you will desire to return to the sheepfold?
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"But the Basics haven't changed"
by Phizzy ina couple of days ago in town i met a jw guy i have known since he was a kid in diapers, he is now an elder and must be 40 yrs old, still a kid to me, though.. he gave me the spiel about "we would love to see you come back " , i said that i could not come back to the religion i had left as it no longer existed (a line i got from my friend bill), this elder replied that there "had been changes, but the basics remain the same".. i just was not quick enough with this one, i just sort of nodded at that and went on about what i simply could not swallow as "truth".
overlapping generation etc etc.. what he was meaning by the basics being the same is that nothing has changed on the "what jw's don't believe in" front, i.e trinity, immortal soul etc.
the reality it is that the basics of jw/wt teachings about what they do believe in have all changed !.
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Ucantnome
I think it depends what you call the basics. When i got baptized they taught 1914 end of gentile times. 144000 go to heaven. Armageddon soon. Go hall knock on doors. Wear tie keep trousers on.
basics.
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"But the Basics haven't changed"
by Phizzy ina couple of days ago in town i met a jw guy i have known since he was a kid in diapers, he is now an elder and must be 40 yrs old, still a kid to me, though.. he gave me the spiel about "we would love to see you come back " , i said that i could not come back to the religion i had left as it no longer existed (a line i got from my friend bill), this elder replied that there "had been changes, but the basics remain the same".. i just was not quick enough with this one, i just sort of nodded at that and went on about what i simply could not swallow as "truth".
overlapping generation etc etc.. what he was meaning by the basics being the same is that nothing has changed on the "what jw's don't believe in" front, i.e trinity, immortal soul etc.
the reality it is that the basics of jw/wt teachings about what they do believe in have all changed !.
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Ucantnome
oubliette i meant it hadn't changed since my baptism and i think they always viewed it as the end of the gentile times from 1877