Anna Marina

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  Did You Think Jehovah’s Witnesses Were Typically “Racists”?

  by minimus in

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  i was a jw from infancy.

  we had a melting pot type of congregation.

  i grew up with all types of witnesses , all with different backgrounds.

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  Anna Marina

  They are not racist. That's one of the decent things about them. But its only on the surface because to be accepted you have to submit to the GB.

  Therefore, they prove to be anti the Christian conscience of ALL races.
  
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  Did you EVER falsify your report card ?

  by Chook in

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  every single watchtower soldier lied to god out of fear of the brooklyn popes..

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  Anna Marina

  stan - you learnt all the time counting tricks from the CO. I remember being given a whole new angle on counting time when I worked with someone who served where the need was greater. In Boots buying eye shadow - you can count your time. I think that was a bit extreme. And no she didn't place a tract.
  

  I'll never forget an elder saying to me - "I am just going to support the brothers on the trolley." So he walked up the road, looked at the trolley and went into Specsaver.
  
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  Did you EVER falsify your report card ?

  by Chook in

  1. jw
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  every single watchtower soldier lied to god out of fear of the brooklyn popes..

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  Anna Marina

  Thinking back - I used to actively under-report. Even if I had done more, I'd just put down an hour and I would try hard not to put my report in unless pestered. In the end I changed my mob no so the group conductor couldn't contact me.

  But I know that the elders would make up time for people who didn't report. They'd pull a figure out of thin air. Any elders (current or ex) posting here care to admit they did that?
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  The jw builders choir omg

  by Gorbatchov in

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  seems like the genesis song jesus he knows me.. g.. https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/?applanguage=e#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-jwb_201910_12_video.

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  Anna Marina

  Is the subliminal message:

  Not only can you carry buckets of cement but you can also find a date and end up playing drums in a band.
  
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  Did you EVER falsify your report card ?

  by Chook in

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  every single watchtower soldier lied to god out of fear of the brooklyn popes..

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  Anna Marina

  No but when said I was coming off pioneering I realised I was being offered a golden ticket. Do what you want, just appear like you are doing it. But please keep pioneering.
  

  Whenever I couldn't do my hours I would tell the elders - but I thought, "this is voluntary, why am I seeking their permission?"

  It was a bit like when I went to pioneer school and got given money to go. I thought, "I gave them that money, now they have given it back to me. This is stupid."
  
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  New Massachusetts Bill ProposesTo Fine or Jail Someone For Calling Someone a Bitch!

  by minimus in

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  and if you call someone a bitch , you would be fined 150 dollars the first offense and second is 200 plus possible jail time..

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  Massachusetts is on catch up - someone had that idea a long time ago. But worded it better.
  

  (Ephesians 4:29) . . .Let a rotten saying not proceed out of your mouth, but whatever saying is good for building up as the need may be, that it may impart what is favorable to the hearers. . .
  

  The carrot and stick benefit/penalty is cheap and easy to administer - you reap what you sow.
  
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  Sisters

  by truthlover123 in

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  during the first talk tonight, the brother giving the talk indicated that now comments were to include sisters!

  previously mostly only brothers were mentioned in most prayers or comments - has anyone else heard this tonight?.

  the meeting seemed to be positioned directly to and about sisters.

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  Anna Marina

  Maybe there will be another talk to say comments can now include brothers. Is this a subtle way of saying, "please would someone answer who is over 6 years old" ?
  
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  Murmurs from the locals

  by Moster in

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  i was ministered to by several different people at a jw funeral i attended today.

  one older lady said to me, "you know the end is right around the corner, just look at the state of the world today".

  i said, "well yes but that has been the mantra for decades, remember 'stay alive till '75'".

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  jp1692 if you can count to 140, in their books you must be a scholar and therefore apostate.
  
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  elders wont pray for someone?

  by AuntBee in

  1. watchtower
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  a former member said that elders told a relative of his after she was dfed that they would not be praying for her.

  is that some kind of policy, or were they just doing their own thing in that instance?

  taot.

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  Anna Marina

  I am df'd as some of you know. I often think of the scripture to pray for those persecuting you. Matthew 5:44-45

  I keep them in my prayers.
  
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  Murmurs from the locals

  by Moster in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was ministered to by several different people at a jw funeral i attended today.

  one older lady said to me, "you know the end is right around the corner, just look at the state of the world today".

  i said, "well yes but that has been the mantra for decades, remember 'stay alive till '75'".

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  Anna Marina

  Blondie - love the opening screen shot on that YouTube.

  A convention badge with 'conquer the world in the 1970s' written on it. I guess they held back from writting 'Watchtower über alles.'