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  Why the meetings are boring and uninspiring

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  each individual may have their own views as to why they feel the meetings are boring and uninspiring.

  in my case i find the midweek meeting so, because of the constant emphasis on pitching watchtower literature.

  its just monotonous and one big yawn.. i watch other christian faiths where they open up a chapter of the bible and discuss it's contents.

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  Nobody understood the Revelation book. And if you did pick up anything from it, it is now "wrong".

  Meetings are not animated, entertaining, and if you get a monotone speaker or one who is wordy it is even worse. For kids and people who work it louses up the sleep.

  And it is not 1 1/2 hours, you gotta dress up, travel, be there 20 minutes early for duties (remember no rules). Same for service, waste a whole morning and call on 2 or 3 people, then spill McD on your tie. Rember the comment about doing family worship for 4 hours? Because that is how long it used to take to do a bookstudy.
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  Were visits to the library an important part of your childhood?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, fellow bibliophiles:.

  i remember how sad i was, as a little child, when our beloved carnegie library was razed (unsafe, structurally).

  the same tragedy occurred when we moved to a new town and that similar architectural treasure was demolished to put up a new and gleaming building of steel and glass.

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  Grew up with a Carnegie library. Loved the old architecture. Mine is still there but I don't live close now. The bigger libraries have become hangouts for homeless, as long as they read and don't sleep.
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  Tuxedo

  by Phoebe in

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  2. bible

  do you think the gb live in big, posh houses??.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4diruxmqh4.

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  Well now any new abodes will be resistered on some other name. I am sure this board is read. Look how they suddenly dropped "apparently" and some other key words.

  Any 14 year old girl housekeepers? I thought it funny you could find their names on the voter list.
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  Singing todays WT

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the jist was that we all should sing.

  then the first 6 or 8 paragraphs describe how early bible accounts have trained and set aside musicians to do the singing while everyone else listened.. the songs they have put out have no soul, rhythm, or soothing melodies as a whole.

  the old hymns are some real music, even if you don't agree with the "teachings".. there is no admission of poetry using archaic language at times for affect or to add to the rhyme, they have to have everything agree with the grey bible.. anyone speak foreign languages?

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  The jist was that we all should sing. Then the first 6 or 8 paragraphs describe how early Bible accounts have trained and set aside musicians to do the singing while everyone else listened.

  The songs they have put out have no soul, rhythm, or soothing melodies as a whole. The old hymns are some real music, even if you don't agree with the "teachings".

  There is no admission of poetry using archaic language at times for affect or to add to the rhyme, they have to have everything agree with the grey Bible.

  Anyone speak foreign languages? How butchered are some of the translations? I figure they have to be to make the ideaology fit and to fit the verses.
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  borrowed ideas from christendom?

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
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  once i heard from a gb, "keep on keepin on".

  a church phrase.

  when they came out with the idea of the "way" i was dumbfounded to find churches using the same, remember the bible called the way?.

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  Once I heard from a GB, "keep on keepin on". A church phrase. When they came out with the idea of the "way" I was dumbfounded to find churches using the same, remember the Bible called the Way?

  The suffering of Christ story told at memorial is identical to what many churches tell, right down to the explanations given by experts and doctors.

  There are more I can't think of right now. It is like there is a master source of ideas for sermons and ideas somewhere on the web.
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  committees

  by dogisgod in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have had some conversations with ex-jw women and i am more than a little concerned at how, if a female, is treated in committee meetings.

  it sure seems (i experienced this when i was young) that the elders have a commonality in trying to create such shame and sexual guilt (especially where none is deserved) that it is beyond abuse.

  i know there are a lot of former elders here.

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  Stories!! I am a dirty old man too and want to hear them. Not really. A little kindness goes a long way. Lots of us were "immoral", when in reality we were just easing into marriage. Without the rules I would have taken in, cared for, cherished, and valued a certain girl sooner. THEIR so called spirituality had/has little or nothing to do with the success of this marriage.
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  Who Do JWs Fear The Most? Top Five

  by Fred Franztone in

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  2. friends

  it's a fear-based religion, at its core.

  jws fear many things, but what or who do they fear the most?

  let's find out.... 5) satan.

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  The fear is not of apostates, most of can reason on our own. The fear is being found out; leading to loss of family, friends, and we do worry about the pain our leaving can give to still in ones.

  There is also a fear of being 'poor" because of not planning better for something that wasn't ever coming.

  The realization of death, not so much in itself, but the worry about the loved ones who may need us. And there is always something I want to do.

  I did get a decent retirement if not extravagant, and always maintained life insurance for the family, wife in particular.
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  Christmas as a JW child

  by Phoebe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am sitting here, so utterly bored and waiting for this day to be over.

  so i'm starting a new topic that probably has been done a thousand times but hey, i'm fairly new here.

  humor me :).

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  road to nowhere

  Cold weahter was baking and cooking time so there were pies, fudge, cakes and all that time. Poor (relatively) people buy seasonal foods so there was the ham, turkey, roast or whatever, and if you do not take advantage of the few times when the whole family is not working, you miss any get together.

  Later my best friend would have me over, his mom did things like giving a gift anyway, having me help decorate the tree. Even kept me out of trouble a couple times when over imbibed.

  Mom was not too strict, nor Dad. I suspect they knew things were not all quite right even way back then. I went to a few birthdays, trick or treated a bit, but the one year a wealthy witness relative was having a New Year party at the hall she owned and let them use for a kingdon hall they declined.

  This is still a lonely time for a lot of people, no matter. I did have loving parents, was given a good work ethic and well grounded in American midwest culture, the good parts of it.
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  communicating with DF and inactive

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the last study covered it pretty well.

  can i still tell my brother (not in) to tell his daughter to tell mine?

  or how about smoke signals?.

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  the last study covered it pretty well. can I still tell my brother (not in) to tell his daughter to tell mine? Or how about smoke signals?

  It is our family business to keep everyone safe and sane as far as we can----------so bug off
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  The awake on my doorstep

  by days of future passed in

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  2. bible

  i occasionaly get a magazine left on the porch of my house.

  this time it was an awake.

  is the world out of control?.

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  first instruction was to not leave them at not homes. I get sales brochures thicker, and more interesting.