We only had one such person in our hall, but I hadn't seen her for a few years. She would stand while giving her comments (yes, they called on her during meetings) and every comment always had some weird angle about eggs and ovaries or something. She'd raise her hands and wave them during song (and during a few talks) and always sat in the very front. She'd come for a few months, brothers would stop calling on her to answer, she'd be gone for a while, a new conductor would take over, she'd come back, etc.
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Do Jehovah witnesses exploit the most vulnerable in society?
by Blind_Of_Lies induring my final few years being active with the jws i noticed that the vast majority of people who were studying or joining the group in general where those that the rest of society would consider disabled and/or severely mentally ill. now by disabled i dont mean i lost my leg in nam kind of disabled... in some cases these people were mentally retarded, had the minds of children, were severely abused as children or even as adults and as a result had personality disorders that put them on the edge of society.... and then we had the full on crazies... about 15 years ago one of the brothers who worked at the local welfare office somehow started a study with a person who was a paranoid schizophrenic.
he met her because she was a client of the welfare office.
she got handed off to a sister who studied with her, then started driving her to her doctors appointments, and to get grocerys, and took her to congregation events.
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The gal I'm dating frequents match.com - advice?
by UnConfused ini am dating a gal that i met on match.com - we saw each other first last summer, but she didn't think we were a 'match'.
after the "pressure" was off we started hanging out quite a bit with all the benefits that go along with it.
this went on for months.. i became smitten with her, but we weren't a couple, which she pointed out a couple of times.
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Taking profiles down is a hassle. I still have a MySpace profile floating around somewhere, doesn't mean I ever check it. It's far easier to forget about old profile than go around deleting them all. And if you're that certain you will be together you're entire lives without dating anyone else ever again than why not just get married already? But you said she's not actively looking, so what's the problem?
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I can't remember the 'Most Important Date of My Life!' Can you?
by Diest ini honestly cant remember the exact date when i was baptized.
it does not bother me one bit.
i didnt have it stamped in that shitty reasoning book/babel that i got at the time, so i guess the only place i could find it would be my cards, which are far away..
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A few days ago I looked in my Bible and saw the date, Sept. 29, 1996--so I put a dash next to it and wrote Jan. 24, 2012.
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When will they merge the BS, TMS, WTS, T into one meeting ?
by mP init seems to me with all the times being cut from talks, you could save further time and simply smash all the meetings into one on the weekend.
this would also save the need for those extra kingdom hall songs, and one trip to the kh.
with all these savings, jws could easily double their ministry..
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If they did, they'd lose more control. Less demands on your time means more time for other pursuits--just think how many parts they've had about the family worship night, trying to beat it into people's heads that it's not supposed to be free time. Remember, good mind control needs repetition and a monopoly on your time. Going a whole week between meetings would give too many the chance to snap out of it.
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CELEBRATE WITH ME!!!
by Notreadytorun inok so if you look at my membership and post history im very much a new member here, but have been researching things for some months on and off, so i have not made any sudden decisions..... i have been reading heaps of reasoning here as to why many of you have left jws, particularly those of you who have left for reasons of conscience.
i have just read crisis of conscience, which has become the proverbial "nail in the coffin" for me.. for many reasons i am no longer one of jehovahs witnesses in my heart, but i still identify myself as a christian, and will continue to uphold bible principles in my life.
the two big realisations for me is that: one: i do not have to compromise my bible trained conscience to make this differentiation, and it does not make me a true apostate, although loyal jws would label me that.
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Congrats on your new and improved mental outlook! It really is such a weight off isn't it? There will probably be some ups and downs, especially when you keep going to meetings, but getting over that first mental step is the hardest.
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What the devil is capable of
by StopTheTears inthrough the years i and many of my companions have seen quite a few things done by devils that are not specifically mentioned in the.
bible including things similar to this:.
i received an im from some unknown source telling me that a crystal ball was going to be delivered in our church building.
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So... the Devil sends IMs and gives out free glowing balls? Ooh, such evil power!
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is jws really growing or only natural increases from kids.?
by mP infirstly yes we all know most jw bornins leave but a quarter give or take continue.
im going to argue that this is the only source of any increase.
those that leave are barely replaced if at all by new recruits in third world countries.
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I've found too, that even those few who seem to come in from outside always have a JW background or relative somewhere in their past.
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What if it's the truth? But that would assume that God chose the Society in 1918, according to the Society's teaching, and here's why that is logically impossible:
If it is the truth, than what was taught in 1918 was false, because almost every teaching has been changed/altered/abandoned since then. But if what was taught in 1918 was false, God would have had no reason to inspect and chose the Bible Students as His people.
On the other hand, if what was taught in 1918 was true, and God did chose them, than what is taught now is false, and the Society has abandoned truth and turned into the Evil Slave class.
So either way, there's no possibility that the Watchtower's current teachings are the truth, just from this one single point of reasoning on their own doctrine of being chosen.
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Phone call from the local JWs this evening...
by Jim_TX ingosh i wish i was better at having religious discussions with jws.
this evening, as i am at home trying to relax, i get a phone call from the local jws who are evidently sitting in their kh dialing out.. i got this man who starts off by asking me if he can ask me a question.
"okaaaaay..." i say slowly.... "do you think..." he starts... and then stops... obviously losing his place in his pre-prepared sermon....
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She said she believed the Dead Sea Scrolls were part of the original writings of the Bible? Than I wonder how many times she read the Book of Enoch...
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Sex Before Marriage
by Wishididntknow inhow many witness couples percentage wise do you think slip up and have sex before wedding day?
did you?.
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We both waited. Never went beyond kissing.... although we both also indulged in other, uh, frowned upon solo adventures after our dates.