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  Where you are in your life now.....What would you have preferred .... To be left in ignorance ? ...Or to know the truth about the truth

  by smiddy in

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  i think possibly their are a few valid reasons for either options to this question ,depending on a number of factors .. such as how old you might be, how long you have devoted your life to the "truth" as you believed it .

  ?....how it may affect your mental/physical health and well being.?.

  how it will affect your financial position in your life ,?

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  Lets see, I don’t have to get freaking ready every single week and rush to get to a meeting so you can be in time to join in singing some stupid song. (I always hated the WT songs)

  Instead, I stay home and listen to Marven Gaye or Chris Botti songs.

  I don’t have to listen to stupid presentations for 30 minutes on how to place publications. (Isn’t that called a sales meeting?)

  Now I sit back at home with a hot or cold drink and watch the new fall, spring, or summer TV shows.

  I don’t have to prepare for some stupid 5 minute talk for the Theocratic school

  Now I practice the Guitar.

  I don’t have to get up early on Saturday to work laundry mats and then meet at the hall to arrange field service and then go door to door and wake up people and get them mad.

  Instead, I walk or jog in the park, go out for breakfast, work on my lawn, watch a movie, and if I meet some nice, beautiful girl and she’s willing, I will spend a nice evening with her.

  I don’t have to get up early every freaking Sunday morning to go to the kingdom hall and listen to the worst speakers in the world give the same old talks about the end of the world, don’t date worldly persons, and don’t go to study at the University.

  I don’t have to prepare for hours studying the Watchtower magazine so I can give ONE prepared-forced-comment from the Watchtower about “Listening and Obeying the Faithful Slave”

  Instead, I stay in bed as long as I want, putter around for a while, go out and have breakfast, and the rest of the day is all mine, for whatever I want

  I don’t have to save my money for some stupid trip that starts on Thursday and ends on Sunday evening. Spend the whole trip on a 3 day convention, sitting uncomfortably for 8 hours in a suit and tie.

  Instead I can go to a 3 or 4 day trip to Hawaii and enjoy the beach.

  And I don’t have to waste several weekends during the year for special day assemblies or volunteer my spare time to enrich the WT Corporation which will give me nothing back in return.

  Instead the weekends are all mine.

  I don’t have to be an elder and chase down people at night or at their job to see if they touched someone’s breasts or saw a rated R movie. And I don’t have to sit in on a judicial meeting and judge some poor 14 years old girl who got baptized at 8 years of age and now has to face 3 old men asking her questions on how the boy at school touched her and if she liked it.

  And I don’t have to put up with some ignorant, no experience in life C.O. who thinks he is the smartest man on earth and has been given power by the GB to do whatever he wants with the Jdubs.

  Now I laugh at what C.O.’s really are. Glorified imbecilics.

  Would I have preferred to stay ignorant?

  A better question is, “Why the hell didn’t I wake up earlier??
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  What is the most bizarre counsel you received as a JW, from a JW?

  by Funchback in

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  there were many addressed to me.

  for example, i once had a sister tell me i was gambling because i liked playing skill crane (the machine where you have to try to pick up prizes like stuffed animals) at the arcade.

  i then fired back a her: "you saw the r-rated movie 'backdraft.

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  When I was newly married, I hugged my wife during the song and was counseled not to do that because it would cause the friends to have improper thoughts about us having sex.
  
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  Summary of CO visit this week.

  by StarTrekAngel in

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  so i was eagerly (add sarcasm) awaiting the co visit this week.

  for once because is less work being at the meeting.

  i just have to sit down and listen.

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  John Aquila

  Beth Sarim
  

  ''we may receive instructions that may seem strange, but we must be willing to obey whether they seem strategic from a human standpoint or not''

  Just cut the green wire and don't ask questions!

  
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  Do you agreed with Ben Carson, Muslim should not become president??

  by James Mixon in

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  i do believe islam conflicts with constitution.

  your thoughts.

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  What we're really talking about is whether we want any form of extremist religious nut job in such a powerful position

  
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  KH reinstatement letters filed

  by Olivia Wilde in

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  does anyone know if you can request your original reinstatement letters back from the congregation.... mine contained too many specifics & personal information that i prefer for no one to know & have access to 2 elders of that committee are no longer there, i've been reinstated 4 yrs & had been df'd for 3 years & i had wrote 3 letters until finally was acepted by 3rd one,..... has anyone attempted to get them back?

  since ttat i don't feel comfortable for anyone to know deeply private things i wrote in those lettrrs...

  helpp!

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  what happens to them?.

  When I was an elder, one copy goes to the WT Headquarters, one copy is kept by the secretary and filed. All elders have access to the letter and many times if you move to another kingdom Hall, some elders will tell the other elders the specifics of what you did to get disfellowshipped. It's true what Sir82 said, elders don't keep anything confidential. Many swap stories between congregations, others tell the families and friends what the person did, especially sexual acts, and if they get removed as elders or or step down, they are not bound to keep things confidential.They can tell whoever they want.
  

  They will not give you the letter or any copies, those are WT property.
  
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  My story of past time.

  by pureginseng0 in

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  https://www.jehovahswitnessrecovery.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=9&sid=b4046ac11a610a1fe940af598f64351a.

  if you visit above web site, you will find my posts of past time!!

  thanks.. from south korea.

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  Welcome pureginseng0

  I knew a South Korean Sister who visited for about 6 months, her name was Ming-wa and she was good at playing the piano.

  Since the brothers have to go to prison for a few years, do they have a hard time getting work once they get out of prison? Why don't they marry the single sisters when they get out of prison?
  
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  1975 all over again!!!

  by John Aquila in

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  wt study edition jan. 2015.

  here is the bait:.

  as the number of kingdom proclaimers increases and as we near the end of this system of things, there is an urgent need for more facilities.

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  kaik
  

  My mom has surgery scheduled in October they told her not to go, because she may miss a chance to live in paradise, while she is recovering in hospital.

  
  WTF!!!!
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  "Raymond Franz: You did not go to heaven"

  by opusdei1972 in

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  that was the title that i found in a blog.

  this blog belongs to a witness apologist.

  indeed, i was shocked on account of the arrogancy.

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  DesirousOfChange

  If ANYONE has made it to heaven.........surely they would let us know it.

  
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  Everybody loves Raymond

  by Saintbertholdt in

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  a while ago the user vinman started a forum thread called: "ray franz was an idiot".

  the reaction to it was quite negative but i have to admit that the title of that thread was intriguing to me.

  by nature i am an iconoclast.

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  Saintbertholdt

  I'm going to be blunt here: I think Franz was making a power play for chief theologian in the late 70's after the 75 failure.

  I had to step out for a while but I did catch this post. What do you mean by Franz making a power play? What's higher than a GB member? Elaborate please.
  
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  Everybody loves Raymond

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. watchtower
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  a while ago the user vinman started a forum thread called: "ray franz was an idiot".

  the reaction to it was quite negative but i have to admit that the title of that thread was intriguing to me.

  by nature i am an iconoclast.

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  What do you think about Franz being oblivious as to what was going to happen to him? He was way too intelligent not to pick up on what was going down.

  I don’t think Franz was oblivious. I’m sure Ray recognized the repercussions that were going to befall him for every word and thought he printed in his book. But I’m sure he used filters to lessen the consequences that he felt might result because of the expose.

  In other words, he threw out the dirty laundry, but not necessarily “ALL” the dirty soiled laundry. Human nature makes us risk averse, and I believe Ray was trying to exit peacefully.

  Once he was disfellowshipped he went for it, that is, he decided to use the material he kept to indict them but since it was his first experience in doing this, I’m sure he tempered it a little. He still had a conscience that guided him and he didn’t allow anger and hatred to control his writings.

  I always felt that Ray knew a lot more than he wrote, but he had to balance the way he wrote so that it would not come off as hateful rhetoric against a group of people that kicked him out.

  I think he thoughtfully considered carefully what subjects to cover and how much of those subjects he would discuss. Ray probably gave much thought as to how the subjects in the book would affect the over-all tone or attitude of his book.