Posts by road to nowhere

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JW's revelling in their online statistic...

by The Fall Guy in

...that their web site is the most translated in the world.. https://www.tomedes.com/translator-hub/most-translated-website.php.

do jw's genuinely believe that statistics prove divine backing?

you can fool some of the people some of the time...there are lies, damned lies, and statistics!.

road to nowhere

Those circulated magazines were really in closets waiting for the trash. The count always was for how many printed, not actually placed and read

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'Experiences(tm)'! Made up or totally true??

by punkofnice in

at one assembly(tm), i was asked to relate an 'experience(tm)' which i did.

however, during rehearsals, the geezer in charge elder or co or some such title, told me that i shouldn't tell it the way it was.

i did a 're-enactment(tm)' with another 'brother(tm)'.

A lot of unverifiable stories I hear also are related to me by workmates be they catholic, Presbyterian, or baptist. How many have heard about the kid being saved from a snake ( lion, car) because he always obeys dad?

This thread goes with the one about training at midweek meetings

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When was it time for you to walk away from your congregation meetings and the WTBTS?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the basic virtue for a human being is to be true to yourself – the integrity of thought, emotion, and action.. .

ten years ago ( after 32 years as a jehovah's witness), i finally decided that my own mental sanity and being true to myself was more important than attending congregation meetings and serving the watchtower society.

i stopped (years before) field service, the ministry school, answering at the watchtower studies, missed numerous meetings and walked in minutes before the meetings started and left after the closing prayer, i knew it was time to leave.

road to nowhere

Future. Either someone sees this if i forget to erase, someone sees me voting, or wife is gone so i don't need to consider her needs

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'Experiences(tm)'! Made up or totally true??

by punkofnice in

at one assembly(tm), i was asked to relate an 'experience(tm)' which i did.

however, during rehearsals, the geezer in charge elder or co or some such title, told me that i shouldn't tell it the way it was.

i did a 're-enactment(tm)' with another 'brother(tm)'.

road to nowhere

They are all madeup now. If they cant find a similar one to massage they script it. I asked a family i knew about their problems, and got laughed at. All made up

The biggest aha came when wife got a DVD of an assembly from a different part of the country: experience was word for word as the one locally

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Not training speakers/teachers any more?

by eyeslice2 in

jw
friends

not having attended any meetings since about 2001, for reasons of safety (sounds a bit dramatic but i don't like my wife being out on her own late at night where we live now), i have started accompanying her to the mid-week meeting.. when i was young, the ministry school and service meeting were central to training brothers to take the lead.

you were assigned instruction talks, then if you cut it, you moved pretty rapidly to public talks - a full 55 mins at the time.

i was just 18 years old when i gave my first public talk and this was a first step to moving rapidly through the ranks.

road to nowhere

That training is a make believe skit. There has never been a householder or study that acts that way. Almost all the. brothers were insulted when they added them to the householder type talks. There is no thinking needed for any of the " training"

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Lack of zeal

by road to nowhere in

i hear rumbling about the rank and file not having the same zeal they had when new.. lets see: door to door at the time least likely to find someone.

waste of a whole morning.

isolated.

road to nowhere

I remember wishing for cancellation. Then go to the store for a bottle of wine. There are a lot of older ones now though

Is the old hall still in use or do the ones living further away just fail to come?

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WT study 8 December

by road to nowhere in

had to look.

first paragraph mentions that most of were probably born after 1914. most?

i bet the dubs 105 and older can be counted on your fingers..

road to nowhere

I looked up that stuff about the Y. Then looked up about religious hospitals. Completely different.

What if the Y was the only reasonable course? Funny no mention of Salvation army stores, soup kitchens, shriners hospitals, st jude, or Mormon pantries.

Every one a charitable organization you can see doing good.

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