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  Was it just my hall?

  by freedom96 in

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  my wife and i joke about the differences in our own halls all the time.

  i swear she lived in a country club compared to my hall.. just to give a couple of examples:.

  and this is from when i was growing up until i left home at 18.. every single weekend was field service.

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  A couple halls I attended as a kid weren't so bad. Then, when I was 11 my mom had to go and marry a crazy witness two towns over so we had to move. That congregation was much like yours.I remember once they had a meeting just for teenagers, so the teens could be told how important it was to tell on each other if someone was doing wrong. That a true friend would be more concerned over their spirituality than friendship.So if you saw Becky holding hands with Tom, you better tell on them!

  Never miss a meeting, even when on vacation.Never miss a meeting unless you were on your death bed. Never dance with a member of the opposite sex ( a 17 year old girl once danced with a boy at a wedding reception and got in HUGE trouble ). Must go in service Sat, and after meetings on Sun, and maybe one evening during the week. Basically, have no fun at all. Then, once they decided to have a get together at a skating rink, and that was considered a no no too. Funny it wasn't a no no for surrounding congo's. Mine just played by the book is all, as many did ( but others weren't so strict ).
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  What do you miss the most not being a witness anymore?

  by JH in

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  is there anything that you miss, since you don't belong to the jw's anymore?

  friendship, family, or maybe just the feeling of belonging to some groupe that had you dreaming of a better world?

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  absolutely nothing.
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  How old were you when you got baptised???

  by digderidoo in

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  i was 15, quite old compared to some.. a friends child has just got baptised at 13.....to think that she knows what she wants for the rest of her life at that age seems ludicrous.. so, who here got baptised at the youngest age?.

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  I was 15 when I was baptised.
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  Are the JW's Bleeding Numbers?

  by Loris in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  check this out.

  http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2003/003/19.7.html .

  jw's are the most likely to leave.

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  interesting........JW's have the highest percentage of people leaving ( 32 % ) but also the highest percentage of those joining ( 39 % ). Not that it really matters, JW's wouldn't put any credece on it anyway, since it didn't come from them ( although they may quote the 39 % joining, and forget to quote the percentage of those leaving ).

  just a side note...did anyone see the ad to the right of this story for church chairs? I thought they were KH chairs!!! If only the good jw's knew they were sitting on Christendoms chairs!!
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  JW 'urban legends'

  by Steve Lowry in

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  i was thinking about some of the old jw urban legends that we grew up with and believed in as jws.

  most of the ones i remember revolved around stories about demons, and jws being "attacked" when they would do something wrong.

  some of these legends scared the crap outta me when i was little.

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  I heard a story about a pioneer sister who started a study with a woman who was a psychic, and she was having trouble getting rid of her Tarrot cards ( like she would throw them away and they would end up back in her house ), so they decided to burn the cards. When the sister threw the cards in the fire, the cards made a horrible screaming sound as they burned ( which took a long time according to the story ). I really believed this one. I was VERY frightened of the demons as a JW. Now I look back and laugh at it all.
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  It's not just the weather that's cooler in Canada

  by Skeptic in

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  i wish i knew the original source of this article.

  it appears to be written by an american.

  thought i would share it, as i am proud of canada.. it's not just the weather that's cooler in canada.

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  Did anyone here see the movie "Bowling for Columbine"? They talk about Canada, and how more than half (my memory may serve me wrong ) of the citizens there own guns ( less than in America ), but how there are hardly any deaths by guns. In America, we have over 11,000 gun deaths every year, but in Canada, it was less than 100. Also, many people in Canada don't bother locking their doors, like we do here. Violence in America is staggering, yet other countries have the same movies, video games, etc., that we do here, yet aren't half as violent as we are. All I can say is, America's doing something wrong, and Canada's doing something right. If America didn't think it was so great, it could learn a thing or two from other countries.

  Just my two cents ( which is probably all it's worth )
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  Do A Number of Jehovah's Witnesses Have A Drinking Problem???

  by minimus in

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  jw's can't do this.

  they can't do that.

  restrictions abound.

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  I remember when I was a young teen, my sister had a crush on a bethelite ( he's DF now ), and one night he called her on the phone, and he was so drunk you couldn't understand half of what he said. I was shocked, because after all he was at Bethel, he was supposed to be an example.

  When I got married, we paid extra to have the bar closed so we wouldn't have to deal with the drinking issue. The first time I went to a worldly wedding I was surprised at how tame the people were....I was expecting to see people drinking too much, letting loose, and doing the Electric Slide, like at all the JW receptions I ever went too!

  Apparantly drinking too much is a problem at the local KH in my area. My mom said there was a local needs part on it last week ( but with funny skits to push the point home ). Some things never change.
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  I'm going to be a father

  by Trauma_Hound in

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  my girlfriend is pregnent, found this out when we were down in reno over the weekend.

  then confirmed it today, should be about may 31st for the due date.

  but will find out for sure, after the ob/gyn appointment.

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  awwwww......that's great news...Congratulations!!!!!
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  It's not just the weather that's cooler in Canada

  by Skeptic in

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  i wish i knew the original source of this article.

  it appears to be written by an american.

  thought i would share it, as i am proud of canada.. it's not just the weather that's cooler in canada.

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  < thinks about moving to Canada.........
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  Odd, Rocky Mountain-type JWs in the News

  by Funchback in

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  don't know if this was posted or not but after reading this story the moral is that we should always have a chaperone with us wherever we go!

  http://www.trib.com/ap/wire_detail.php?wire_num=176272 and.

  http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,drmn_15_2226589,00.html.

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  I find it interesting that they are even considering taking legal action against he Sheriffs department. Ok....two grown people get lost in a cave and it's the Sheriff's fault?! Give me a freakin break!

  This definately sounds like they are trying to cover their arses in the local congo and not get in trouble for their actions.