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  Have you met anyone on the Governing Body?

  by Christ Alone in

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  i posted on another thread about a couple of my experiences of meeting the governing body while i was in brooklyn.

  i wanted to see if anyone else had any experiences along these same lines.

  i met most of the ones that were current during the 2001-2003 years.

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  I met Brother Knorr.
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  Don't Try to Choose Your Beliefs

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  beliefs are not things to be chosen like new clothes; authentic beliefs happen to us without our conscious attention.. i have often seen comments from ex-jws to the effect that they are now unsure about what they 'ought' to believe.

  others express offense when their chosen beliefs are challenged and well-meaning bystanders protest that everybody is entitled to believe whatever they wish.

  this misunderstanding of what it means to believe something is unhelpful.. it's natural to want to quickly replace our old beliefs when our worldview has collapsed around us.

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  Cofty that sounds like good advice.
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  Pot smoking, ok in California the first of the year.

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  your doctor prescribe cannabis (you are a depress jw), you show your prescription to the body of elders because someone saw you smoking pot.

  i wonder how many elders will seek out that doctor to get the same medication.

  what would be wrong with a jw lighting up a blunt after a hard day?

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  you can eat it if you don't want to smoke it. you can mix it up in some pebbles cereal
  
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  Charging $150 To Tell Your Stories

  by Bangalore in

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  2. friends

  https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/how-to-escape-from-jehovah-s-witnesses-religion#/.

  for $150: collaboration with the backer so that their story of successfully escaping an abusive belief system (300 words max) features along with others in the final pages of how to escape from jehovah's witnesses.

  the text will be written by the author but will include a minimum of one quote worded by the backer.

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  PT Barnum said there is a sucker born every minute.

  This kind of reminds me of Mark Twain and Tom Sawyer charging to paint the fence.

  I have played music professionally all my life. There are places that will charge you hundreds of dollars to bring your friends drink their drinks and listen to you and your band play your music.

  I always played at places that paid me hundreds of dollars gave me free drinks and supplied their own cliental.
  
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  What Music have you Been Listening to this Last Year ? Post You tubes if you Like !

  by flipper in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktxjuyiat4.

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  Guitar Shorty, Tab Benoit, Grateful Dead.
  
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  What Makes Someone Become a JW?

  by minimus in

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  my excuse is that i was born in the religion.

  but if someone wasn’t, why would they become one?.

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  I was born in in 1952.

  My mother was a JW my father was not. I always figured my mother was not quite right.

  I will say this, in here defense, back in the 50's there was not information available like today. You only had 3 tv channels and they signed off at midnight.

  And my mother finally saw the light and left the cult in the 90's. After the damage was done to my family.
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  What Would You Yearn For From The Good Old Days?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  2017 and the world is probably more advanced than ever before.

  prices are high for homes, food and comfort.

  wars seem to rage everywhere!.

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  I am happy with things today.

  What I yearn for is lower gas prices, and utilities, Phone, electric. Lower grocery prices. Higher wages and more bang for the buck.

  I wouldn't want to go back unless I had a couple of million dollars to profit off of knowing the future with.

  The times were simpler back in the 50's 60's and 70's but it appears I was dumber. No technology only 3 channels on TV.
  
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  Do you (or did you) have much of a social life as a Jehovahs Witness.

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i ask this question out of interest, because as a jehovahs witness for some 26 years, i have always felt that there is an 'all work, no play' culture within the organisation.

  the organisation doesn't promote social gatherings.

  i could count on one hand each year how many get togethers we have had.

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  I was a married witness in the early 70's. During that time I had a very social life. Get togethers, parties, going out to dinner with friends and playing games and drinking on the weekends.

  But, it wasn't the truth. Not even close. So, all things must change.

  I don't miss it at all, I have been on to new and better things.

  I couldn't spend my whole life eating, drinking partying and listening to bullshxt.
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  Chapter 47 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  chapter 47. eleven out of one thousand.

  even though i said i can’t do it anymore, it’s not like i had a plan of any kind.

  i didn’t want out of the marriage just out of the religion.

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  I enjoyed reading your story.
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  Are there any KH in Israel????

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  curious , i was thinking about serving where the need is great..that would be a hard sale, that would be like me setting up a lemonade stand at the gate of a kkk rally...

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  http://placesmap.net/IL/Kingdom-Hall-of-Jehovah-Witnesses-Congregation-Haifa-EnglishLanguage--232298/