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  Anyone from the Bronx, NY? Jersey City, NJ?

  by RolRod in

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  anyone here from the bronx?

  i was a member of the jerome congregation in the early 1980s, then relocated to another hall i believe it was on park ave, near the train tracks, for the life of me i can't remember the name.

  i left nyc and was a member of the west and then the north congregations in jersey city, nj.

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  Anyone here from the Bronx? I was a member of the JEROME Congregation in the early 1980s, then relocated to another Hall I believe it was on Park Ave, near the train tracks, for the life of me I can't remember the name. I left NYC and was a member of the WEST and then the NORTH Congregations in Jersey City, NJ
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  If You Could Live In Any Era or Decade What Would It Be?

  by minimus in

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  i kind of like the 50’s and early 60’s because of the innocence and “happy days” outlook by that generation.

  it seems most people were pretty innocent and real.. would you rather be living in a different era or is this century working for you?

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  I've always felt out of time, prefer to live in simpler times, late 1800s, early 1900s (1875-1925)
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  26 Years Later

  by Victor in

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  i'm one of earliest adopters of the internet in discovering the real history of the watchtower.

  back then it was the wild wild west with newsgroups being the primary sources of information.

  then came watchtower observer, freeminds, and all the other sites that followed jwd was one of the later sites.

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  I met Doc Bob on PA at the Witnesses for Jesus Now, still have the group photo. Met Duane Magnani and he said, "oh, you paid my mortgage", I bought so much crap from him LOL
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  26 Years Later

  by Victor in

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  i'm one of earliest adopters of the internet in discovering the real history of the watchtower.

  back then it was the wild wild west with newsgroups being the primary sources of information.

  then came watchtower observer, freeminds, and all the other sites that followed jwd was one of the later sites.

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  I was one of the "founding" members of this forum, way back when, of course I used a different account and contributed a hell of a lot, especially during the time people were looking for certain Watchtower material, that I had among my 6,000 books. Sold most of it off on ebay, still selling it off, as I don't have use for it, most of the stuff has been digitalized. Still don't know why I was locked out of my original account. I was gone for over 5 years, visiting here and there.

  I was with the witnesses for 12 years, from age 20 to about 32 or so. I just stepped down and walked away. Started meeting with a local Bible Student group in the area, served as deacon, then elder, then I stepped down and walked away. Got divorced after 25 years, and moved to the Midwest, where I have remarried (why, I'll never know, should've stayed single).

  I started out on AOL, had a lot of fun on that site and the JW and xJW forums. We even had a gathering of the AOL members, made up of ex, inactive and current JWs. I still have the group picture we took somewhere.

  I had the first Bible Students website and forum, debated a lot of JW's.

  I still remember all the JW and exJW forums out there, and some of the crazies who professed to be anointed and had a following … LOL

  Ah, those were the days!
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  Certain JWs

  by Holden Caufield in

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  do you ever miss jw's as an ex jw..

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  There are a few that I wonder about. Had a close friend with the JW's. He dropped me like a hot potato. A lot of the ones I associated with are disfellowshipped from what I hear, but in the end, out of sight, out of mind.
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  What Are Ways You Can Tell Someone is a Jehovah’s Witness?

  by minimus in

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  is it something they do?

  how they say things?

  how do you spot a jehovah’s witness?.

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  I met a woman on a Facebook group that I admin. nothing in her profile stated she was a JW, no comments or postings. but the background of her profile picture looked like a Kingdom Hall, I just saw chairs in a room, so I asked her, and she admitted she was one.
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  Do elders still ask inactive members to write a letter to disassociating yourself from the Congregation?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  do today's elders ever meet with inactive members and pressure them to write a letter disassociating themselves from the congregation stating that, ''you no longer wish to a jehovah witness"?.

  i was baptized at the young age of 16. after turning 18, i stopped attending meetings, field service, and all jehovah's witness activities.

  i wanted to be with my high school friends, go to rock concerts, have a girlfriend, and live like a normal teen.

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  I was always butting heads with the Presiding Overseer and the rest of the Body of Elders. The P.O. hated me with a passion, but at the same time respected me because I didn't kiss his ass like everyone else did, and he knew he could come to me and get a straight, honest answer. Having had enough I had him my resignation from the body, walked out the door and never went back. that was 25 years ago, they called me a few times, trying to meet with me but I just blew them off. I don't know what ever happened, nor do I care. I'm out and have moved on.
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  Jehovah’s witnesses and having kids

  by Addison0998 in

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  in my area, a lot of young people don’t want to have kids.

  they get married young from 18-22 years old, and think that they know how they’re going to feel the rest of their lives about having children, (which they think will be never).

  i respect people who don’t want to have kids, there are good reasons not to, but i think it’s foolish at a young age to think you will never think differently for the rest of your life.

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  I always wanted to kids, my wife at the time told me she wanted kids too, turns out she lied. It took 7 years to have our first child and another to have our second. By the time we had kids we had already left the JW's. She regretted waiting so long, especially when she runs into childhood friends who are the same age as we are and are already empty nesters. We divorced after 25 years, I remarried.
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  The Jehovah's Witnesses religion founded upon aggressive opportunistic people.

  by Finkelstein in

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  taking a reflective look back onto the founders of the jw religion such as c t russell and j rutherford we can see very opportunistic people who were avowed to themselves more so than being actual true bible interpreters and adherents.. indication of that is just how closed in these men were in their individually devised theology such as pyramidology, end times doctrine, jesus has returned and so on, where there was no effort to substantiate these claims from outside sources by other christian religious organizations .. c t russell was not an trained bible theologian by any imagination he just absorbed any outside information that he thought was engaging or provocatively interesting and went about publishing what others had found or expressed.

  j rutherford was one these people who was lured into what russell was preaching and saw what the wts was as a publishing house and grab it including the money that russell had put into it.. the literature circulation and distribution continued on from him, what is realized now is the wts/jws preaching gospel work is not an faithfully accurate preaching according to scripture.

  more or less the wts leaders created a working cult around its own public sales representatives in the pretense of preaching the gospel of jesus christ.

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  I don't think Rutherford was lured into anything. I think he was an opportunist, who saw a chance of cashing in.
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  The Public Talks

  by Charles Gillette in

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  i remember when i use to give a number of public talks.

  i had a binder with every public talk listed by number in it.

  i don't have it anymore.. when i did the fade in 2002 after 33 years a slave since 1969. i destroyed all my watchtower materials and i had a lot.

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  Outlines today are pretty much manuscript talks, all written out, I remember when they were half a page.