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  Have You Ever Served as an Attendant? Share Your Stories!

  by Funchback in

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  i remember being a jw lad (about 10 or 11 years old).

  i would be at the circuit assembly and, at around 10:45 am, about 8 brothers would get up, walk slowly up the aisle, glancing at each row of their "section", their lips quivering as they silently count each person, trying to maintain focus as nearly each jw makes eye contact them (even though everyone knew what the attendants were doing!

  did i want to grow up to be the president of the united states?

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  I was an attendant at every "ass"embly. At the district convention I became the assistant captain. I felt a wee bit stupid in the bright red tabard, which stood out from the other attendants in yellow.

  One year we had a bomb evacuation. You wouldn't believe how hard it was to get people off their butts. Later it was found that the device the bomb squad almost blew up was a recording device rigged up by some ASSembly witness! It look very bomb like too, with a little wire hanging out the side the box.

  I was taken off has assistant to the Captain overseer and replace by some Elder. The reason? I was "only" a MS and not in a position to tell other elder what to do! From then on it was back to standing still for hours, looking for nonspiritual ones.

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  What Was Your Reputation In The Congregation?

  by minimus in

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  were you considered a "troublemaker", a "complainer", a "fine" brother or sister?

  were you always being called before the elders for one thing or another?

  is your reputation the same here as it was in the congregation??

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  Mr. Reliable, Spiritual, up and coming Elder.

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  What's Your Opinion of the Opposite Sex?

  by minimus in

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  are you of the mind that all men and all women are basically the same?

  you know---all men just have one thing on their mind or all women are just users?

  there's so much stereotyping when it comes to males and females...typical man, typical woman.

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  They are cute and soft.............Well mostly!
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  Belief-o-matic test

  by qwerty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know i know this as been done before , i fink!

  http://beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

  if you haven't taken the test before, give it a go see how far down the list if at all jw is.

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  CanI call you Tink?
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  Belief-o-matic test

  by qwerty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know i know this as been done before , i fink!

  http://beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

  if you haven't taken the test before, give it a go see how far down the list if at all jw is.

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  Don't tell the wife, but I have fallen in love with Tinkerbell!

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  Belief-o-matic test

  by qwerty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know i know this as been done before , i fink!

  http://beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

  if you haven't taken the test before, give it a go see how far down the list if at all jw is.

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  Oh dear oh dear!

  Seems we can't completely get the JW beliefs out totally! LOL

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  Did Jesus disassociate from Judaism? Do we need to DA from the borg?

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

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  is 'formal' disassociation from the borg a scriptural prerequisite?.

  do we have scriptural examples of written statements for disassociation?.

  or is it all a jw concept?.

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  "Get out of her my people and stop touching the unclean thing"

  No seriously, I think DA does not really matter. It's a personal choice and one we have to way up the pros and cons for, cause and effect. God knows where we stand and who we are.

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  Belief-o-matic test

  by qwerty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know i know this as been done before , i fink!

  http://beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

  if you haven't taken the test before, give it a go see how far down the list if at all jw is.

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  I know I know this as been done before , I fink! http://beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

  If you haven't taken the test before, give it a go see how far down the list if at all JW is.

  If you have done the test in the past, see if your beliefs are any differant.

  Below are my results. Number 4 is more near to what I believe I guess.

  Your Results:
  The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa.
  
  Belief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths in order of how much they have in common with your professed beliefs. The higher a faith appears on this list, the more closely it aligns with your thinking.
  
  How did the Belief-O-Matic do? Discuss your results on our message boards.
  

  1. Orthodox Judaism (100%)

  2. Sikhism (99%) 3. Reform Judaism (91%) 4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (88%) 5. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (85%) 6. Orthodox Quaker (84%) 7. Islam (84%) 8. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (82%) 9. Eastern Orthodox (82%) 10. Roman Catholic (82%) 11. Bahá'í Faith (75%) 12. Seventh Day Adventist (73%) 13. Liberal Quakers (69%) 14. Hinduism (67%) 15. Unitarian Universalism (60%) 16. Jehovah's Witness (59%) 17. Neo-Pagan (55%) 18. Jainism (49%) 19. Mahayana Buddhism (48%) 20. Theravada Buddhism (46%) 21. New Age (46%) 22. New Thought (42%) 23. Scientology (40%) 24. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (37%) 25. Secular Humanism (27%) 26. Taoism (26%) 27. Nontheist (22%)
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  No Regrets!

  by qwerty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am on an mlm emailing list of which i receive some interesting stuff.

  have a read of this, it's about getting your priorities right.

  it just rings home about making the right decisions in life like, getting out of the "troof" when you no longer believe jw's are right.

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  Anglise

  Things aren't too bad, at least I'm being left alone since may fade from JW life. Things can get a little difficult when there is some JW social event (thankfully there are too many of those!), usual question "when are you coming back to meetings" they are shocked when I say, never! I can't say why because the Elders have threatened me to keep my "thoughts" to myself! Also the missus pleaded with me to keep quite,she does not want me to be axed.

  Valis

  Worms, you have worms coming?!!!!!!!!!!!! Advice.......Stop having kids, I didn't know it gives the Father worms!!!!!!!!!!!

  Dansk

  Thanks for the reply. I'd like to say done for making well over 1000 posts just since Feb 2003. It's taken me 2 and half years!

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  No Regrets!

  by qwerty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am on an mlm emailing list of which i receive some interesting stuff.

  have a read of this, it's about getting your priorities right.

  it just rings home about making the right decisions in life like, getting out of the "troof" when you no longer believe jw's are right.

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  Not having had Kids myself, I bet seeing your child born is better than wining gold!

  Alas due my circumstances it's probably a good thing we aren't planning a family now (wife still in and in-laws all "BIG" JW's).

  Qwerty