Yes, they made a huge deal about it at a circuit assembly when I was still going.
puffthedragon
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Black JWs voting
by turtleturtle ini heard from a fellow jw that there was scandal in the dc area because black jws were voting the 2012 election (or maybe its was the 2008 election).
is this true?.
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48 and just got my first bike!
by haboob48 inin your face wtbt$!..............and shamus?
you can play with my ken doll anytime!
hee hee hee.
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puffthedragon
Cool, I got one for the first time since I was a kid last year, they have some nice paved trails around here, but its like 30 degrees out so I got some cobwebs showing up on mine. Ready for spring already!
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New jw.org video on sexual harassment blames the victim
by puffthedragon inhope this is not a repost 2 minute video.
http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/what-your-peers-say/peers-on-sexual-harassment/.
yes, it spends half the video blaming the victim for "inviting" sexual harassment..
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puffthedragon
hope this is not a repost 2 minute video
Yes, it spends half the video blaming the victim for "inviting" sexual harassment.
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What do you mean?! I ALWAYS go to the beach after service and wear long pants and button up shirts while I play a game in the sand with my family! Sometimes I wear button up long sleeve shirts too!
by Crisis of Conscience inthe wts likes to imply how jws should dress in and outside of the hall.
you always want to set an example.. so i couldn't help but share this beauty in the january 15th, 2013, study edition of the watchtower.
i always go to the beach like this!
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puffthedragon
When I heard ipads were allowed at meeting, I thought, "ok, this is partly a cost cutting measure, but shows the bros in NY might finally be in touch." Then they put out pics like this? Has anyone in 25 Columbia Heights stepped outside to do anything but field service lately? Starting to doubt it.
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Your earliest doubt?
by Apognophos inthis might be an unfair question for those who have been out of the organization for decades, but i'm wondering if any of you remember your earliest doubt -- maybe something odd that occurred to you as a kid (if you were a jw then).
please try to limit to two doubts at the most :-).
i think my first "doubt" was simply realizing that at the time of the flood, every animal that wasn't in the ark died (well, besides the fish, supposedly).
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puffthedragon
From the time I was a child, the whole, "we are the only true religion, everyone else will die" didn't sit right to me. The differences between major religions really aren't as big as they try to crack them up to be. I knew plenty of christians in school who believed the same basic stuff, and tried to be good people, and I was supposed to believe that because they didn't listen to a knock at the door they were doomed? I remember questioning it as young as 9 years old. When I was an early teen, and everyone my age was being baptized and I waited, I became a little more verbal about my doubts. My mother tried to shame me for them, my father said I should study other religions, and pulled out the "Mankind's Search for God" book. See how easy it is, the society had already done the research, and I was sure to get an unbiased opinion...
The constant pressure got to me. as a later teen I found "apostate" sites, back then it was actually email-message groups. I was stunned to see ex-bethelites, pioneers, and elders on there. Apostates were supposed to be wicked, weak indiividuals. I remember being terrified of being caught, we only had one shared computer as a family, and I knew what could happen if they learned of it. I started questioning things to my dad, and he was an elder, and smart enough to know that I hadn't come up with all these questions on my own. They somehow got me to put them aside, "where else would you go" and argued that, sure the org may be imperfect, but to trust in Jehovah and he would fix it. I got baptized, went to bethel, yada, yada, yada. By the time I was out of bethel five years later, I was destroyed spiritually, and didn't want anything to do with the org, but I had to keep up appearances for a while. I did the slow fade, and was doing more and more research on TTATT. Besides an occasional funeral, It's been about three years since I was going to meetings.
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JW's in a sports bar
by pontoon inso i'm 2000+ miles from home on a mission for work.
out to lunch with three other guys from the company, in a sports bar on a sunday about 3:00-4:00 pm.
crowded, not a roudy place, nice.
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puffthedragon
The large groups going to eat after a convention. uuugh, make sure you get a seperate bill if you have any dignity, else you will get shorted by nearly everyone. Everyone will be like, My sandwich was $8, my soday was $2 here's a ten, see ya! No tip, no tax, whoever is collecting is almost sure to get stuck with a big shortage. And them cheapskates are usually the ones who demand constant attention from the server, maybe even wasting her time at work trying to witless to her, and then stiff her on the tip. So glad I don't have to worry about that anymore.
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puffthedragon
OP, still waiting for a shred of evidence to back up your question.
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puffthedragon
theres hardcore porn. Where's my gun.
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'No Announcements' - Big Mistake!
by The Searcher inwe are only a few short months into the "no more announcements - let them read the notice board" at the meetings, and now the effects of that new directive are beginning to reveal themselves: no information being given out regarding someone's loss of a relative, no information about someone who is ill or been admitted to hospital, and definitely no information about families moving out of the area and going to other congregations!!.
however, announcements about "special" christmas day field service must be made!!.
the import of the apostle paul's words really seem to have gone over the "decision-makers'" heads - (galatians 6:10) really, then, as long as we have time favorable for it, let us work what is good toward all, but especially toward those related to [us] in the faith.. coupled with the removal of the weekly group book study, the detrimental consequences of eliminating fellow-feeling and closer contact with one another can only lead to one eventuality - alienating one another!.
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puffthedragon
The only thing I hated more than having to prepare a demonstration was preparing it and then being axed as the least important part of the talk. I calmed my nerves and prepared your demonstration, and you canned me from it? Don't ask again buddy.
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'No Announcements' - Big Mistake!
by The Searcher inwe are only a few short months into the "no more announcements - let them read the notice board" at the meetings, and now the effects of that new directive are beginning to reveal themselves: no information being given out regarding someone's loss of a relative, no information about someone who is ill or been admitted to hospital, and definitely no information about families moving out of the area and going to other congregations!!.
however, announcements about "special" christmas day field service must be made!!.
the import of the apostle paul's words really seem to have gone over the "decision-makers'" heads - (galatians 6:10) really, then, as long as we have time favorable for it, let us work what is good toward all, but especially toward those related to [us] in the faith.. coupled with the removal of the weekly group book study, the detrimental consequences of eliminating fellow-feeling and closer contact with one another can only lead to one eventuality - alienating one another!.
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puffthedragon
They still find time to announce disfellowshipping and reproof.