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  Meeting Days Felt Different?

  by pale.emperor in

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  i dont know if it was the same for you, but for me when i was a jw meeting days seemed to have a black cloud hanging over them.

  on thursdays i knew i would be going to the meeting that evening.

  that i would be getting into my meeting clothes at 6:30pm, leaving the house at 6:55pm and be sat in the kingdom hall from 7:15pm-9pm, then milling around for about half an hour before finally getting home for 10pm.

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  About 4 years ago we was invited to a award event for a friend of ours. It was on a Thursday night and we had to dress up. It was the first time I put on a suit in three years. When I was tying my tie I started to feel sick by the time I had my jacket on was on I was in a full aniexity attack. It took about half hour to figure out what was going on. Soon after that I was feeling better. So you see how all those meeting days affected me. I hated them. Still Totally ADD

  This has just reminded me, i now only own one suit. I used to have 4. The one suit i own is only ever brought out for job interviews and special occasions like my partners graduation or a super fancy birthday meal. So i made sure i bought myself a good expensive one instead of the polyester mass produced sweat-bags we used to wear 3 times a week.
  
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  Can the Borg tell what sites I've been to?

  by purrpurr in

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  if i go to the jw website and then afterward to say this website, is it likely that the jw website has then tracked what websites i go to after visiting theirs?.

  i don't know how cookies work btw .

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  If you really want to have fun go on JWFacts on their wifi in the Kingdom Hall.
  
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  What is the strangest book or craziest book the JWs have ever printed?

  by blownaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  what do you think the crazies or strangest book they ever printed is?.

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  Holy shit. Gotta be Finished Mystery. Check out the notes on another thread:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/206938/finished-mystery-1917-book-that-jesus-approved
  
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  Meeting Days Felt Different?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i dont know if it was the same for you, but for me when i was a jw meeting days seemed to have a black cloud hanging over them.

  on thursdays i knew i would be going to the meeting that evening.

  that i would be getting into my meeting clothes at 6:30pm, leaving the house at 6:55pm and be sat in the kingdom hall from 7:15pm-9pm, then milling around for about half an hour before finally getting home for 10pm.

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  As a kid I actually enjoyed the Revelation book because i'd spend the entire meeting flicking through the psychedelic pictures.

  
  
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  Meeting Days Felt Different?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i dont know if it was the same for you, but for me when i was a jw meeting days seemed to have a black cloud hanging over them.

  on thursdays i knew i would be going to the meeting that evening.

  that i would be getting into my meeting clothes at 6:30pm, leaving the house at 6:55pm and be sat in the kingdom hall from 7:15pm-9pm, then milling around for about half an hour before finally getting home for 10pm.

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  I dont know if it was the same for you, but for me when I was a JW meeting days seemed to have a black cloud hanging over them. On Thursdays I knew I would be going to the meeting that evening. That i would be getting into my meeting clothes at 6:30pm, leaving the house at 6:55pm and be sat in the Kingdom hall from 7:15pm-9pm, then milling around for about half an hour before finally getting home for 10pm. Evening gone. Wasted. Nothing new or excited was learned that evening and it was totally boring.

  And that was just Thursday!

  Sunday was the same deal, except it was in the morning so you didn't get a lie-in. Plus you may have had an hour ministry after the meeting so you wouldn't get home until about 3pm. Morning and most of your afternoon gone, wasted.

  Now, I only just realized that it's Thursday. The day doesn't invoke a bad feeling inside me. One of dread.

  And remember when we used to have the book study too? (in my case, it was on Tuesdays). How did we function?! 4 days out of our 7 being hijacked by theocratic stuff when we should have been enjoying our lives.
  
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  What Is The Most Ridiculous Thing You Have Heard From A Witness?

  by minimus in

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  i remember an elder questioning a woman who had admitted to giving and receiving oral sex from her unbelieving mate.

  he asked her the most intimate questions which clearly flustered her.

  interestingly, she “confessed “ to the elders because her conscience bothered her.

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  This is the best imperfect organization.

  We've never made false predictions, we've just erred in our understanding of predictions.
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  How is life better?

  by Freedom rocks in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know this thread has probably been covered in the past but i thought it would be nice for newbies and lurkers and just a reminder to those that left a while ago.. how has your life improved since leaving the cult?

  are you happy?

  have you made some amazing friends or maybe met an amazing partner in the world?.

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  I've discovered the real me. I do what i want to do based on concern for others, respect for others and dont judge other people for doing what they want to do (as long as they're not harming anybody).

  I have a mixed bag of friends with different options and yet... we all get on perfectly well.

  I've met some great people and had some book worthy life experiences in just two years which i would never have had while still a JW.

  My life is less complicated, less stressful and i can honestly say that im happy.
  
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  Remark at memorial about growing annointed numbers

  by Gorbatchov in

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  2. friends

  don’t know if it was part of the script.. at the memorial the remark about growing annointed numbers including this numbers from 2015 to 2017 was made (from 13.000 to 18.000+).. reason for the growing numbers could be:.

  - feeling annointed because of former believe.

  - psychical reasons.

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  "Memorial partakers. This is the number of baptized individuals who partake of the emblems at the Memorial worldwide. Does this total represent the number of anointed ones on earth? Not necessarily. A number of factors — including past religious beliefs or even mental or emotional imbalance — might cause some to assume mistakenly that they have the heavenly calling. We thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to know." Watchtower 2011 Aug 15 p.22

  Well i think they're right, there's definitely 8 men in Warwick that are mental or emotionally imbalanced.

  
  
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  My JW niece is getting married ... typical JW drama

  by wannabefree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we received an invitation in the mail yesterday for my jw niece's wedding.. i am posting this just to add for any lurkers to see typical jw practices.. 1st - and perfectly understandable for anybody who is or was a jw.

  i'm not invited.

  :) hey, i'm really not complaining about that.

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  F**k me, you and your daughter must really love them. I would be livid. What a horrible, micro-managing cult. It's not even at a KH and the elders still have to take full control. Where's the love of neighbor here?
  
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  Time Gained by Leaving JW World

  by Farmer Jim1 in

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  2. friends

  does anyone else wonder at the amount of time a person immediately gains when they leave the jws?.

  just today, a sunday, i would have woken up at 7, frantically taken a highlighter pen to my wt to make it look like i had made a deep study of it.

  packed my stuff for meeting and ministry, cycled to the kh, joined the pre meeting ministry arrangement, rushed back for the meeting, sat through a sometimes interesting public talk, sometimes mind-numbingly dull one, strained through a wt study to which i usually had more questions than answers.

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  Yep! The time I gained back i spent learning new things. Lie ins on the weekend never get old