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  Did you know anyone who commited suicide in the org?

  by JH in

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  back in 1991, a young brother maybe 18 years old living next to my place committed suicide.

  his father expected him to be very zealous just like he was, but the son never wanted to be like that.

  he was always controlled by his father.

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  There was a lady in our hall, maybe about 45 years old. She came from an uber family and wasn’t much to look at. Not saying that it matters but when the sex ratio is 60-65%-40-35% female to male, as a female you need to have everything going for you.

  She worked as a janitor and pioneered most of her life. She would never consider marrying outside the lord or borg. I guess all she every really wanted was a husband and children. I guess when menopause finally came it was all too much.

  Kind of a blessing in disguise. Some of the younger ones in this uber family weren’t pushed into baptism after that and are still out.
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  No more printing of WT and Awake in my country.. Shit just got real

  by cognitivedizzy in

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  guys .

  a letter was just read in out kh stating that all printing of wt and awake is ceased for the coming year and we will just place tracts on fs, countries which were cared by our branch will be cared by other countries...along with this they read the new fs form and stuff about reporting links of videos wtf..lol.

  i can't tell which country perhaps that will give away a lot, any one with a similar information.

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  It would be super funny if all printing was outsourced to China.
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  What would happen ??

  by Clambake in

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  there is a certain elder in my wives hall that has seemed to developed a real interest her.

  first he seemed to feel a need to make sure all her blood cards were signed before she gave birth to our child.. he sends her text messages if she misses a meeting saying how much " we missed you last night ".

  he finally sent her a text wondering where her oct hours were , knowing she had some pretty serious tears from child birth and could hardly even walk, much less do field service ".

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  Right now, He thinks when it comes to the bible I am some kind of dolt. All I have told him is I don’t believe there is much sincerity in your teaching when you can’t disagree with the GB.

  If wants to have some bible discussion, debate, whatever…………..does a person kindly show himself the entire religion is just complete bullshit based around twisting parables into the prophetic books of the bible or does that do more harm than good ?

  The last elder I studied with remarked how well I knew the basic biblical canon and then marked my wife and didn’t call me anymore. We were just dating then of course.
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  What would happen ??

  by Clambake in

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  there is a certain elder in my wives hall that has seemed to developed a real interest her.

  first he seemed to feel a need to make sure all her blood cards were signed before she gave birth to our child.. he sends her text messages if she misses a meeting saying how much " we missed you last night ".

  he finally sent her a text wondering where her oct hours were , knowing she had some pretty serious tears from child birth and could hardly even walk, much less do field service ".

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  Clambake

  This elder is a real uber one. My wife on the other hand isn’t the most zealous dub in the world. Five hours a month tops.

  I am beginning to think he is some narcissistic bully going after weaker members of the flock.

  Where I live most congregations have kind of reached an equilibrium where no one joins or no one leaves. I think he misses the good old days of steak-outs and markings and kangaroo court.
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  What would happen ??

  by Clambake in

  1. jw
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  there is a certain elder in my wives hall that has seemed to developed a real interest her.

  first he seemed to feel a need to make sure all her blood cards were signed before she gave birth to our child.. he sends her text messages if she misses a meeting saying how much " we missed you last night ".

  he finally sent her a text wondering where her oct hours were , knowing she had some pretty serious tears from child birth and could hardly even walk, much less do field service ".

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  Clambake

  There is a certain elder in my wives hall that has seemed to developed a real interest her.

  First he seemed to feel a need to make sure all her blood cards were signed before she gave birth to our child.

  He sends her text messages if she misses a meeting saying how much " We missed you last night "

  He finally sent her a text wondering where her Oct hours were , knowing she had some pretty serious tears from child birth and could hardly even walk, much less do field service "

  I am seriously thinking about having a meeting with him and telling him I don't feel comfortable contacting my wife any more.

  Would this cause more harm than good ?
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  Crazy things said by Higher Rank Witnesses

  by GrownMidget in

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  it was the week when circuit overseer comes and my relatives wanted to offer the food.

  i had got my school friend, a muslim girl, going into the meetings and she actually progressed and went to the field service, but never got baptized and one day she just disappeared.well anyway, this overseer comes for the free lunch and then when we are sitting in the table with his wife and my relatives, the muslim girl comes as the subject.

  overseer throws out this absurd asshole joke that because their family doesn't like witnesses his father will come with a truck and drives it through the kingdom hall wall and then it explodes.

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  That was actually kind of funny. I always ask my Muslim co workers if they have a big weekend of planning attacks.

  They usually reply fuck you redneck racist cracker prick.

  I am what do you say. All I heard was dirka dirka dirka.

  It's all good
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  Brooklyn Bethel Tours Through The Roof

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
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  was speaking with someone last night who just recently toured the us bethel's.

  the brooklyn tour i heard was awful, very limited and disappointing and conducted by a local pioneer and not even a bethelite.

  well from what they are telling the folks on the tour since the tm3 bit encouraging (guilting) people about going to disneyland on vacation when you haven't visited bethel, monthly tours went from 6000 to 16000!

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  I have often thought it was odd that the average JW wants to see Bethel Brooklynn more than Israel. There literally doesn’t seem to see any interest in the Holy Land in JW land.
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  Your thoughts on the new Star Wars?

  by Coded Logic in

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  so i've thought for a while now that jj has the lowest bar to clear in cinema history.

  all he has to do is make a movie that's not as bad as the prequels.

  but upon viewing the recent trailers, it looks like he's actually got the "feel" of the originals down.

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  Clambake

  Its funny when you go back and watch the original three movies like 20 plus years later, you soon realize why Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and Billy Dee Williams never became stars after. Man, the acting is pretty B grade sometimes.

  Man, those movies were fun though.

  We expected more from the newer movies because they had mega budgets, established stars, all ready had a rabid fan base.

  If you are a star wars fan and want to see a funny good movie watch “Fanboys” . Damm that is priceless.
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  What actually DID you learn?

  by punkofnice in

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  my jw friends that still speak to me, tell me that they love the meetings because of the things they learn.. i wonder what they think they're learning?

  it an avenue that always perplexes me because their replies are just so wishy washy or i get a blank stare when i ask.. what's you r experience?.

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  Clambake

  Is it just me or is the WTS becoming so engrossed in personal doctrine ( 1914, Blood, FDS, End times chronology, Salvation though works, prophetic meaning of parables, overlapping generations) I don’t think the average JW could give you are a brief synopsis of any book of the bible.

  Nothing pisses me off more than spending 500 dollar for a three day assembly and later asking my wife what spiritual food do you get that and she doesn’t remember a dam thing.
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  Your thoughts on the new Star Wars?

  by Coded Logic in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  so i've thought for a while now that jj has the lowest bar to clear in cinema history.

  all he has to do is make a movie that's not as bad as the prequels.

  but upon viewing the recent trailers, it looks like he's actually got the "feel" of the originals down.

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  Clambake

  I was or am a big Star wars fan but man, I really had no use for the 1999-2005 Star Wars movies.

  The first one was ruined by Jar Jar Binks and those racist jewish puppets.

  The Clone wars was just too science fiction geckish. You really had to know your science fiction shit to enjoy it. I just want mind candy.

  The third one, the acting was just so bad. I couldn’t take it serious.

  I am really hoping for the next ones to be good.