I knew a couple who went to the Sunday meeting the VERY NEXT DAY because it was the "Special Talk" and of course you couldn't miss that. Seriously..what the fuck?
charonsdog
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Has Being a JW affected your SEX Life?
by minimus innot being a witness has been a plus for my sex life.
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what about you!
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WT studied by all congregations 4th Feb 2018.
by skin infrom the wt dated dec 2017 - study 1 para 11 studied by all congregations 4th feb 2018. the question asked on this paragraph is:.
what did the physician luke report happened to a young man, and how did that affect others?”.
paragraph 11 in this wt reads:.
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charonsdog
Luke was a medical doctor, but Paul had stayed at a Holiday Inn Express the night before....
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Watch Tower Farms
by Lost in the fog ini know that the farms have been around for decades but i was wondering if the watch tower farms ever abbreviate their name simply to wtf?
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charonsdog
Yeah.... "WTF" was stencil-painted on everything. Trash cans, carts, tools....
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charonsdog
I've heard of it. Still trying to master "Snake" on my Nokia 3310
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Thank you, George Couch!
by charonsdog ini just thought i'd share this story from my past.. back in the 80s i remember the big problem seemed to be about music.
(today, it's tight pants, i guess) the organization, society, whatever they were calling themselves, were always going on about the music we listened to.
disco, heavy metal, the whole "backwards masking" thing...couldn't escape hearing or reading about how satan was corrupting us unless we were listening to kingdom melodies or elevator music.. i was assigned to wtf in the late 80s and remember one of the articles stating that "young people know that the rhythm of rock music is the rhythm of sexual intercourse.
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charonsdog
I'm pretty sure the "Another One Bites the Dust" thing was pretty widespread. Don't know if it was from an actual outline for the CO's, but I remember that one being talked about a LOT in the congregations in Northern Florida.
Now, I didn't hear this next one personally, but at a local gathering I went to, one of my friends was telling the story of a visiting elder spending a great deal of his 45-minute lecture dissecting Don McLean's "American Pie" and actually "explaining" it and how it was dangerous. Hell, even Don McLean didn't explain it until decades later, and it was still pretty much ambiguous.
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Fake News By Jehovah’s Witnesses 🐑
by minimus inmuch has been said about “fake news”.
regarding the witnesses, they would always ask, “ did you hear the latest”?.
since the witnesses claim to have the “truth”, can you express anything that turned out to be truly “fake news”?
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charonsdog
I keep thinking about how the Donald screams "fake news" every time something critical is reported about him, but eats up the fawning, positive stories. Reminds me of the GB/WTB&TS. They herald any news story that paints them in a good light, but if anything is said that is not positive, then we were not to listen to or read it, because it was an attack from Jehovah's enemies.
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Why were the Israelites so deplorable?
by eyeuse2badub inwhat made the israelites so deplorable?.
i started thinking about how the bible describes ‘god’s people’, the israelites.
most of the time god was very pissed off at them.
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charonsdog
Whenever my mom would decry some book or movie that I was into as "too violent for Christians", I would always point her to the scriptures like the one Betheliesalot posted. Samuel hacking Agag "to pieces". Ehud opening up Eglon's belly with a short sword so his intestines (and their contents) came spilling out. I especially liked the one where Phinehas "took a lance" and proceeded to kill Zimri and Cozbi (the Midianite chick) inside their tent while they were engaged in some hanky panky. The account (which my FATHER assigned me to read for the old #2 talk when I was TEN YEARS OLD) stated that Zimri was pierced through the head and Cozbi through "her genital parts". Anyone want to ponder about how many thrusts of the lance that took? And why?
The Israelites' YHWH was a bloodthirsty SOB.
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I want to understand British references to your countries.
by compound complex ingreetings, friends across the two ponds:.
of course, as per other posters' recommendations, i could google this; i have and remain, not totally confused, but wanting the straight dope as well as nuanced meaning.
i'm both curious and needing to know for purposes of editing works of american and british writers.
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charonsdog
stan livedeath... Aren't you aware that the entire reason the colonies rose up and tossed you redcoats out was so that we could pronounce our words any damn way we please? And drink coffee instead of tea? ;-)
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Just thinking.....i
by Bigdummy ini made a couple of comments the other day on this forum and i hadn’t realized it had.
been so long.
my history shows i joined 3 years ago.
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charonsdog
I recall several BOE meetings where the PO would assign the local needs part to be about meeting attendance. Over and over and over. Meeting attendance. Why is our meeting attendance down?
I proffered that our meetings were boring. The ones who don't come weren't likely to hear the local needs part about needing to be there, and the ones who faithfully showed up were probably sick and tired of hearing the same browbeating about the need to be there. I suggested that instead of handwringing about the fact that people were missing, we should be giving them a reason to want to show up. And hey, how about personal visits? Not to go tell them that they need to be at the meetings. But to go check on them and see what it was THEY needed.
I was shot down. Nope. We're gonna keep harping on meeting attendance.
And why was meeting attendance so important to the BOE? Because the CO would be knocking the heads of the service committee if the numbers weren't good. Why? Because he wanted to look good in front of his boss, of course. Even if it wasn't a pack of lies and misinterpretations, there wasn't any real love in the congregations. If there was, then there probably wouldn't be such a problem with getting people to come.
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What's out there?
by Jrjw insomeone asked me what does the world have to offer if left the truth?
'coz i'm still in the process of leaving i just said i don't feel i fit in the truth or the world.
she's known me for 12 years and she's the 3rd person recently to say i've changed.
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charonsdog
Back in 2013, I separated from my wife and moved into the city of Chicago, where I attempted my short fade. I didn't know anyone in the city. All of my friends were still out in the suburbs at my old congregation. I made new friends in a few different ways.
I went to open, social gatherings. For instance, there were free dancing classes held in a city park. I made a very good friend there. I discovered a supper club-type group. I have several good friends from that. I took a chance on a travel group that hosted strangers who were visiting from other countries or states. I have dozens of friends all over the world now, and it was very instrumental in my decision to leave my comfort zone in the States and move to southeast Asia. I met new people at bars, restaurants, parks. One of the good things that I personally took away from being raised JW was the ability to talk to others, start conversations, find common ground. And when you aren't starting those conversations with an agenda of selling them on the "truth", you can completely relax and actually enjoy getting to know them and share your honest points of view.
You have the tools to make friends. Now go create the opportunities!