John Aquila

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  I hope the letter about deleting the Theocratic school is true.

  by John Aquila in

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  yesterday i was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home.

  three of them were ministerial servants.

  all of them are from the spanish congregation.

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  FayeDunaway

  Omg I totally want to learn how to dance like that!!!

  
  

  Hey Faye, when I finally stepped down as an elder several congregations got into this dance craze. We all started taking Tango dancing lessons. Then we started having covert dancing get to-gethers. In time we started taking lessons in Cha Cha, Rumba, Samba, and Salsa dancing.

  
  

  Then our get to-gethers started escalating into a mixture of our own creation. Then we started having like competition to see who had the best created dance. Finally one young sister and two brothers went above and beyond and copied the last dance in the movie, "Take the Lead" (Second video) and the elders found out and we were done.

  Then all talks started at the Kingdom Hall that dancing is "The Devil"

  You know, those are one of the fun times I had while in the WT. It was a blast.
  

  
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lAKlYTQVKY
  

  
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMIXtD6-WSE

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Salsa, Samba, Rumba and Cha Cha and started having covert dancing competition. After about a year we got caught and the talks started in the Kingdom Hall that dancing is the DEVIL. But it was fun for about a year.

  
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15xMqQ1sqIA
  
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  i'm changing, but for the worse

  by embarrassed in

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  that is the truth-- that's really how i think now.

  so why should i tell the truth?

  just look at the person i've become.

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  embarrassed

  When i was a jw I really valued telling the truth and being an honest person.

  When I was a JW I had a framework of good morals because I was in fear of an invisible God that would kill me if I stepped out of line.

  But when I finally left, I became free from being judge by an ancient God who was over ancient people in an ancient culture.

  Nevertheless I still have a judge that I have to answer to, and that is the living people whose lives are directly affected by my actions and whose actions directly affect my life.

  So I have tried to develop a moral system that is neither dogmatically absolute nor irrationally relative. My morality now is more of a tolerant ethic. So we should try to live and love and learn to temper our conduct and temptations and do the right thing.

  If your BF is not willing to trust you and work together with you to bring out the best in you as a human being,---- is he the type of person that you want to be with 30 years down the road?

  If instead of helping you grow to be the best you can be as a person, and your BF literally brings out the worst in you, then your life is going to be one big struggle?

  Who you decide to allow too take a part of your life will affect the person you will eventually become.

  You have to set the rules on what is acceptable to your feelings and makeup. You have to decide what makes you happy. If your BF loves you, he will work with you. But if he doesn’t want to work with you, then you have a decision to make.
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  I hope the letter about deleting the Theocratic school is true.

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday i was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home.

  three of them were ministerial servants.

  all of them are from the spanish congregation.

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  Olivia Wilde

  people in the spanish are more socialists & many don't want to jepordize their social friends so they ignore anything negative, we have gatherings every weekend everyone is always invited

  Ha Ha that is so true OW. There was always a gathering of some sort every single weekend. And I'm talking Salsa dancing, Cumbia dancing and lots of drinking. Of course every other weekend someone was getting in trouble with some guy or gal.

  But would believe even that has changed? The WT is even breaking up cultures.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR6Xv4ccpto
  
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  I hope the letter about deleting the Theocratic school is true.

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday i was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home.

  three of them were ministerial servants.

  all of them are from the spanish congregation.

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  Sofia Lose

  It would make me happy if it was reduced to 1 hour, and the Sunday meeting too, and the big assembly 2 days, 10 am to 3 pm. Enough!

  Would you stay?
  
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  Warwick, What is it good for?

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  absolutely nothing.... has anyone dared ask what they need this place for?

  think about a few things.

  in bethels hay day, there was a shit ton of literature being printed, they even need a giant factory with elevators a truck could fit in.

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  He was belly-aching about the whole trip as every commercial movie they attempted to play some JW with a weak conscious pointed out something in the movies that might have been a cause for stumbling and forced their opinions on everyone in the group.

  Ha Ha, never go on a trip with a bunch of witnesses especially pioneers

  
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  I hope the letter about deleting the Theocratic school is true.

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday i was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home.

  three of them were ministerial servants.

  all of them are from the spanish congregation.

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  FayeDunaway

  Has anyone ever spent time watching Latino t.v.?

  In my area the idea is still the romantic muscular He-man or He-mans that come and fight for the girl and the winner takes the girl and rides into the sunset and lives happily ever after. Actually in the last hall I attended, I switch to the Spanish before I faded and the Spanish brothers and sisters did look like this;

  I'm not kidding.
  

  
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  I hope the letter about deleting the Theocratic school is true.

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday i was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home.

  three of them were ministerial servants.

  all of them are from the spanish congregation.

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  StarTrekAngel

  P.S.: Just curious.. being a JW in a Spanish congregation for over 10 years, I can tell you that we make a strong point out of Acts 4:13. We basically praise people for being uneducated rather than remarking that Acts 4:13 is meant to show that the holy spirit was acting upon the people. Is this the same in the English JW?

  Yes it’s the same in the English. The GB’s directions to avoid College affects the English as well. So they praise those that stay uneducated and demonize those that go to a University.

  Unless it’s the University of Phoenix then it’s ok.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmBSoVThoKY
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  I hope the letter about deleting the Theocratic school is true.

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday i was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home.

  three of them were ministerial servants.

  all of them are from the spanish congregation.

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  John Aquila

  I am also impressed ( I probably should not be but can't help it) on how little information there is about TTATT in Spanish.

  The Spanish JWs are less-inviting to any organization-opposing information. I find I have to be real careful with the way I speak to them. When I say something contrary to the organization and I see their pupils starting to dilate, I immediately excuse my “Spanish speaking” as not very proficient. Their eyes go back to normal and they excuse what I say. They are more hard core in my opinion.

  I wonder who had more success in waking up to TTATT, English JWs or Spanish JWs?
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  How many people are there at Bethel?

  by bohm in

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  2. friends

  rumor has it 1600 people are going to be re-allocated to the field from bethel (which i assume refers to the brooklyn complex?).

  does anyone know how many people will then remain?

  i have tried to find figures for the number of employed people but i am coming up with nothing.

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  I am becoming more and more convinced it might make sense to create some sort of WT-timeline wikipedia which track key stats and events in the WT history for instance sorted as: doctrinal changes, printing statistics and reduction in staff.

  
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  I hope the letter about deleting the Theocratic school is true.

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday i was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home.

  three of them were ministerial servants.

  all of them are from the spanish congregation.

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  I think the school will just be changing. Because in the letter they used the words "student" I am hesitant to say they are throwing the school away, at least in their perception.

  
  So it's still kind of vague what actually is going to happen with the school. I hope they do away with it because I'm planting seeds everywhere.

  What's interesting is, they can't fathom the school being done away with. It's one big hurdle they are going to have to jump. I believe it will nudge some of them to wake up.