Posts by NewYork44M

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I miss the "free" food.

by Justice-One in

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free food.

it used to make the conventions almost bearable.

i rememeber telling the wife and kids to not put anything in any contribution box, because as the head of the family, i had taken care of it.

NewYork44M

And one time I got a bag full of food and took it out to the homeless (aka bums) that were hanging around.

Great idea! I never thought about that.

My favorite was the burritos. mmmm I can still taste them. About mid morning during the convention we would pass a piece of paper around the family and write down what each one wanted. That was generally the highlight of the convention.

One final memory. I got really really sick after a CA and found out that many other people in the Circuit shared the same food virus. Uck!

Thanks for taking us down memory lane.

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WT magazines in different territories

by New Worldly Translation in

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when i was a jw i always had a question that i don't think i ever got to the bottom of.. it was do the jw's in different countries get different versions of the watchtower and awake magazines?.

it always struck me that the magazines were always very america-centric and a lot of the issues addressed wouldn't be applicable to jw's overseas.

living in the uk i found some of the articles to be extremely patronising and i could only imagine what an african or russian jw reading them would be thinking.. there were articles about conserving money by only taking one holiday a year or only having one car in the family.

NewYork44M

You bring up a good question. Some things that are "wt gospel" do not translate to anything in other countries. For example, the movie rating system (PG,PG13, R etc) is an american rating system. While the wt can prove through scripture that you cannot go to an "R" rated movie and there are extensive articles about the subject, the rating system means nothing outside the boarders of the US.

I remember going to a foreign country and hearing that an elder took a group of youth to a movie with no thought that it may have been inappropriate. The same movie in the US was rated "R." Taking youth to an R rated movie would have been a death sentence for any elder in the US.

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Be Honest: Did You ACTUALLY Report Accurate Field Service Time?

by minimus in

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i bet most people did not.

i think nearly everyone counted time spent on breaks.

or sitting in the car for an hour and a half while the elders did a "shepherding" call.

NewYork44M

I rounded everything up to the nearest 5 hour mark. If I had less than 5 hours I would report 5. If I had more than five but less than 10 I would report 10 hours. Same thing with mags.

If I had more than 10 hours....oh wait.... I never had more than 10 hours.

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Saturday morning books study & Field Service combined

by JH in

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i noticed recently that the book study i used to attend, used to be on a tuesdays or thursdays, but now it's on a saturday morning.. i notice that there are quite a few book studies on saturdays now.

i think that 2 out of the 4 books studies in my congregation are on saturdays.

is this a new way to get people to go out in the field service on saturdays?

NewYork44M

I attended a Sat am book study. I used to hate going out in service after the bookstudy. The "peer pressure" is great to get you to go out - even just for a little bit....

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YOUR LAST MEETING.........................

by vitty in

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........................at my last meeting, the elder was talking about 1975 and said "it never happened, it is appostates using a time when (some) brothers took the info in the wt wrong"...................i just blinked and finally woke up.. i had been on this site lurking for a couple of weeks, and realized thing werent right, but to have some creep say on the platform " it didnt happen"............when this ruined my and my siblings childhood, just made me snap.

on the way home, i told my hubby "that was the last meeting im going to"................boy was he pleased.. .

so if you didnt get df ......................what happened at your last meeting.?.

NewYork44M

My last official meeting was the 2005 memorial. However, the last "real" meeting I attended was when the CO stated from the platform with great emphasis: "We don't think we have the truth we KNOW we have the truth."

That was it, I was out of there forever... except for one last memorial that I couldn't get out of.

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How many ex-jws move out of town to start over?

by rebel8 in

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i was wondering how common it is for ex-jws to relocate after leaving the borg in order to escape the bad memories of being in a cult, or to break contact with cult members.. i have wanted to move far away for as long as i can remember--even as a kid--for this purpose.

various life circumstances have delayed that--long story--but mr. rebel8 and i are thinking of moving within the next few years.

i am the one who's most interested in moving to a completely different type of place--different culture, different climate, different everything!

NewYork44M

I don't think that my fade would have been successful without a few strategic moves. Moving maked the fade possible. Without getting out of my original congregation I think I would have "crashed and burned."

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ANYONE THAT BELIEVES JW'S HAVE THE RIGHT RELIGION ARE........

by minimus in

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after realizing how wrong they are either stupid, braindead, or in denial.

you agree????

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NewYork44M

It depends on where they are in the process. It took a while, once I determined that I was lied to, to finially accept the truth about the "truth."

That may sound contridictory. However, the transition took a long time.

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NOW AVAILABLE! Live With Jehovah's Day in Mind - in PDF file format

by drew sagan in

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i don't know how long i'll be able to make this available, so get it while you can and start sharing!

it's a hefty 37mb so it may take a while to download.

download it here.

NewYork44M

Thank you for making this "spiritual food available at the proper time."

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DC, all but gave directions to the JWD site

by ocsrf in

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i found the dc very interesting this year do to my reading of this site.

i took note that the danger of the internet was menitioned no less than three times, once with a demonstration showing a brother who found a site by a innocent search of the web on a jw subject to the very last talk, concluding remarks and final "resolution" that consisted of 10 items with number 10 staying away from dangerous sites and chat rooms.. makes you wonder what the real story is behind that much attention being given to this problem iof theirs.. oc

NewYork44M

This is a tough position for the society. They have to know that brothers and sisters are dropping like "flyies" due to the truth about the "truth" that is easily obtained via the internet.

However, if they get too explicit in their warning it will just make the r&f more curious.

For example, In the internet early days I had no idea that there was porn on the internet until I heard about the warning of porn on the internet from an elder. The first thing I did after the meeting was go home and see how much porn there was freely available.

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The "Revelation" Book...did you HATE that thing as much as I did??

by LovesDubs in

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ok the first time i thought it was pretty cool how they applied every little scripture to themselves.

i sat rapt with my young children while we discussed wonderful things to come.

the second time i was like...where's my old book with all the notes in the margins, im not looking all this sh-t up again!.

NewYork44M

We were studying the Rev book in the 1990s when I finially learned the truth about the "truth." After I was able to break the "watchtower code" I would read the material during the book study and be overwhelmed with how much it was a load of crap.

The scary part is that I studied the book several times prior and never caught on to what was being said. What I did not understand I attribituted to it being the "deep things of god."