Posts by grumblecakes

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2013 Drama: "Show Yourself Attentive"

by breakfast of champions in

this is the first of three "dramas" this dc, and i have to say, it was one of the weirdest dramas ever.

i won't go through all the details.

maybe someone else wants to throw in their 2c.. it starts out with two men standing on the "beach" talking, but it took me awhile to figure out what in the hell was going on.

grumblecakes

oh holy s***! thats terrible! even by drama standards. when i was first reading this thread i thought " hes probably eggagerating lena. all the drama voices are irratating and waaay over done. nothing new." GOOD GAWD, you are all right. lena is the all time worst of the drama voices, and that says something.

uggghh ive promised to attend this this but i dont think ican stomach it.

i always seriously wonderedabout the jws who got so excited for the dramas. yeah they were a break from the tedium, but an extremely embarrasing and grating one at that.

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Unbelievable Experience in Yearbook

by gingerbread in

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a number of years back i heard a story of a young girl in a congregation ( i have some good friends in this hall ) who had an amazing field service experience.

it was so amazing that it was retold in the 2007 yearbook!.

it is retold in the highlight of the past year section.

grumblecakes

when i was studying a " sister" was asked to give an experience about me. i was never consulted about it and sure enough, although not a full on lie, it waswildly exaggerated

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Tech49, James Jackson and Zophar and every other elder on JWN...

by NeverKnew in

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i have failed to welcome any of you individually so i wanted to make a thread to formally thank you.

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i know that your presence, wisdom and the courage you're demonstrating by being here will help many.. .

grumblecakes

I second Talesins comment. i kinda think its important to welcome EVERYONE equally as we move into the light of a new day, finally free from the hiarchy, status, and power structure that ruined so many of our lives. id like to think ive found a place here where we are all equals.

that being said, big welcome too ALL the newbies out there from grumblecakes (also kinda a newbie myself)

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AAWA is here!! (The Association of Anti-Watchtower Activists)

by cedars in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcic4g5tulw.

http://www.jwactivists.org.

facebook the association of anti-watchtower activists.

grumblecakes

(grumblecakes salutes you all)

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ACK! GB at my memorial!

by grumblecakes in

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it was creepy to see so many people making such a fuss.

and of course it ran way overtime.

(im reluctant to say which gb, because i dont want to be identified).. he compared the covenent with the 144k to:.

grumblecakes

hi blondie,

invited by multiple congregations (simlutaneous via closed circuit tv), but i believe the real reason was memorial was just an excuse for an all expense paid vacation. (i live in a major vacation destination).

hi everybody, it wasnt splane. hes much harsher than splane. he spent a good portion of his long ass talk agressively alluding to the new lighton the fds and making sure every one understood that they do not have a personal relationship with god, we are meerly bystanders. as soon as the thing ended a witness was like "whoa, i bet we're gonna ses some new light in the wt soon!" (internal exasperated sigh).

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ACK! GB at my memorial!

by grumblecakes in

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friends

it was creepy to see so many people making such a fuss.

and of course it ran way overtime.

(im reluctant to say which gb, because i dont want to be identified).. he compared the covenent with the 144k to:.

grumblecakes

it was creepy to see so many people making such a fuss. and of course it ran way overtime. (im reluctant to say which gb, because i dont want to be identified).

he compared the covenent with the 144k to:

"its like a marriage contract, between a husband and wife. the children are not part of the relationship, but benefit from it."

What.

The.

F**k.

So cold and ugly to say something like that :(

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Are the Witnesses Really Losing Their Young People?

by What Now? in

that article about jehovah's witnesses having the lowest retention rate for born ins keeps popping up every now again ... i'm just curious if any of you have noticed that this is actually the case.

in the congregation that i grew up in, i'm going to say that 95% of the young people in their teens to mid twenties are either regular pioneering, regular auxiliary pioneering, serving in foreign language congregations or where the need is greater.

both of my younger sisters are regular pioneers - and the young people in their hall even organize 8 pm to midnight service on friday nights of their own accord.

grumblecakes

out of 26 from my od cong, 12 left, 5 left then came back, 7 have been good little hardcore witnesses into their 30s. the other 2 i dont know their status.

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Funny / Sad Story

by Bloody Hotdogs! in

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