Disillusioned Lost-Lamb

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  Awkward Silences

  by TOTH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i can rememebr many such silences growing up in the wt.

  one that comes to mind was back in the mid 80's.

  i was a young twenty something fellow and had gone to the dc in fresno, ca with my parents and my brother.

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  Disillusioned Lost-Lamb

  If you want to see awkwardness and silence in action just attend a co-ed witless gathering.

  It makes an uncomfortable middle school dance look like a rockin' time.
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  LETTER TO THE ELDERS...Hot off the press!

  by Momma-Tossed-Me in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  will post as soon as i get a clearer copy!.

  but in a word it says, "in an effort to not place a burden beyond what our brother's can bare the governing body has decided to make the tuesday night theocratic ministry school, service meeting, and bookstudy optional.

  this new change will relieve financial pressure on the congregation and allow them to put our efforts and valuable things toward the work we are scripturally required to do.".

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  The fact is all the meat-ings ARE optional, they just make you think they're not.

  That's the real April Fools.
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  The Best Way of Life....why it is not

  by Momma-Tossed-Me in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a lot of us have heard the first half of the above title at one time or another.

  some could argue that even if the doctrine is wrong the comaradery and fellowship of the group fosters good family life and friendship.

  clubs offer a certain sense of entilement which makes one feel wanted and part of something greater than themselves.. why is this not an acceptable argument with regards to jehovah's witnesses?.

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  If I weren't still "in", I'd love to ask everyone who says this, "How do you know? How may other ways have you tried?"
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  Animosity Toward Inactive Ones

  by EmptyInside in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't understand why many witnesses are cold toward inactive ones.

  aren't they supposed to want to help them and encourage them?.

  i know of a young woman,i've known forever,who married a non-witness,and hasn't been to the meetings for awhile.

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  The cult mentality is you're gona do it and you're gonna like it or else, and if you even think about leaving we're gonna emotionally torture you 'til you come back.

  The last time I checked you couldn't soften hearts with hatred.
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  Please! I need a plausible excuse for getting out of going to the memorial!

  by Inisc in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been thinking about this for weeks!.

  nothing short of death will be acceptable to my mother!.

  i thought of saying i will go to another cong but my parents know people there so that won't work.. help!.

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  I'm contemplating taking a bunch of Ex-lax and then saying, "Oh I'm so sick and I've got the runs so bad that I can't get more than five feet from the toilet, I just can't go."

  I will then proceed to tell my mom not to worry I'll dial in and listen over the phone and, since that talks are always the same, I’ll only listen long enough to say that brother pompous did such a great job; that way she will think I actually listened.

  By the next morning I'll be A-OK and blame it on a 24hr (Ex-lax) flu.

  Heck, I once had a minor case of the sniffles, when the CO was visiting, and was able to blow it out of proportion enough to make my mom think I was sooo sick that I missed the whole weak of craptivity!
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  I think the Watch Tower and JW's are correct and spirit directed......

  by on the rocks in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  belated april fools day!!!!

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  Forget about your exams - go for a weeks ministry June public WT

  by dozy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  bearing in mind that every experience in the watchtower has some kind of agenda behind it , what about this experience of a london girl going to ireland to preach & have a holiday.

  i was just waiting for the inevitable "i came home & passed all my exams with flying colours.

  " but it didn't say.. and what kind of responsible parent would take a child on holiday so that she could " take her mind off her exams.

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  Remember NOTHING is more important than field circus and pious-sneering.
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  Are JW women becoming a bit more bold, seems to me there is a lot of 'headship' teaching ongoing

  by insearchoftruth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my wife who is in a never ending study seems to be learning a lot about 'headship' lately, and i notice that this weeks okm shows that once again on tms night they are going to emphasize the principles of headship from the reasoning book, page 253 in the english version..

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  Witless men are terrified of a strong independent single woman, so they pry into your personal life where they have no right to and ought not.

  I think they're just trying to dig up some dirt to make you inferior, or knock you down a notch.

  Maybe the whole headship thing was though of by a group of men scared shightless that if they didn't control the ladies, and soon, we'd take over the world. BWHAHAHA
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  Marriage troubles: Experiences of JW wives leaving JW men

  by bats in the belfry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  pls, someone direct me to experiences in the magazines or any other of their publications speaking about the lasting damage to the psychological development (traumata) of watchtower men when their watchtower wives separate from them?

  - - - i could not find any, can you?

  q.: do only men separate/leave the women in the organization?.

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  To them this sort of thing never happens, so good luck.
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  what is the all time best example of the WT selective history?

  by Aussie Oz in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's almost like there are so many little things that add up to a lot, a lot of evidence that the wt selectivly presents its history, and even attempts to re-write it at times.. but if you had to choose just one item to prove your point, what would it be?.

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  Disillusioned Lost-Lamb

  Fall of Babylon.

  They say 607 and evidence says 587.

  Must be nice to ignore proven history.