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  These guys are shameless...

  by zound in

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  the annual meeting is going to be an absolute cash cow for the gb.

  newly released awake - "3 things money cannot buy".

  a double dig at 'storing up treasures for yourself' and higher education.

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  Funny enough, as a kid I always felt my dad travelled too often because of all those Bethel volunteer works he was doing, and my mum had to work so hard because she basically had to feed the family, and also provide the finance for the huge budget of the annual district convo drama(s) my dad had to direct at the end of year! Now,

  "What regrets might Brianne’s father experience later in life? By putting too much emphasis on material things, how is he affecting his relationship with his daughter? What does his family need from him more than money?" reads to me...

  "What regrets might my father experience later in life? By putting too much emphasis on spiritual things, how is he affecting his relationship with his son? What does his family need from him more than appreciation letters from Bethel?" Anyways, the answer to that last question is... MONEY!

  Yeah, money may not buy any of those three things they did mention, but absolutely cannot their "spirituality" either! Hypocrites!!
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  Which country is better to migrate Canada or Australia?

  by His Excellency in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am sure nowhere is perfect but if we want to compare these two countries from different prospectives like racism, job, income/spending, quality of life, standard of living etc.

  can you please give me a rough idea by sharing your experiences.. .

  by the way, i am considering applying for a masters progrmme in any of the two countries.. .

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  @HE, make your choice quick! I wanna go the other way!!
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  The ones who participate in CONvention...is it all a load of hypocrisy?

  by MissConfused in

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  i am talking about the ones who get special mentions or interviews or part in assemblies and conventions, they are usually stars of the congregation at least as acknowledged by boe.

  when i had interacted personally with these people, i did not find them special in any way.

  they neither reflected any true love for j, but were quite the very opposite and ambitious to be the best in "the organization", with very little humility.

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  They made me edit mine once at the DC, when I was ten! Told my dad I never wanted to give a platform experience, and for a long time I was scared I had sinned against Jehovah's holy spirit (unforgiveable sin) and I had nightmares of dying at Big A. Towards the end of my JW career anyways, I had all the experiences, I just could make them up fast enough. The interviewers at assemblies and conventions could always count on me to have the exact experience needed for the bragging sessions- I called them My Watchtower Arabian Nights, and my JW girlfriend even told me my platform fictions were more believeable than Dan Brown's books! (She never doubts them until I tell her I lied). I told her I discovered religious people were the easiest to decieved, as they were already decieving their selves already. Keep it simple, with a hint of divine intervention- that's the right recipe for JW deciet since they don't believe in heavy doses of miracle
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  Two MORE Classes of Christians at the local Kingdom Hall

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  Yeah, I especially loved the "Jehovah-o-lantern" part, very very insightful of you, Terry! Altho', you could also have used "Jah-o-lantern", the Jah almost rhymes with Jack. But I loved it all the same, and the analogy was perfect.

  Here's one too: Why are JWs always told to always act as models? Because models always have a plastic smile on!

  Or: Why does the JW pioneer considers herself a model? Because she can maintain a fake smile for 24 hours if there was company!
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  Board of bitterness

  by 1009 in

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  2. beliefs

  i always was a critical jw, now df and agnost.

  but still this religion fascinates me.

  in my eyes most jw are very sincere, but dumb sheep.. this board is filled with ex-jw.

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  Any one ever taste the bitter-leaf before? Its bitter at first, then it gets better and sweeter until you almost seem to have licked a candy. I am a bitter-leaf (or, whatever you guys call it in your part of the world)!
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  Why Still Go?

  by Thoughtless in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  for those who are disfellowshipped or da'd, why do you guys still go to the kingdom hall?

  i am just curious to the fact, because if they are teaching falsehood, why partake in it?

  i mean, you do not have to maintain appearances any longer, so what is your motivation or reason?

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  I go there just to stumble others, and cause some few discomfort i.e I always don't seat at the back, visit the toilet often, wait till the end of every meeting and don't sing any song, then visit the magz stand and endeavor to greet one or two persons on the way out! The elders once called me about it, and I told them the don't-greet laws bound their members and not me, so maybe they could announce it on the platform for them not to greet me and I could record it and sue their asses! And I do get inspirations (likely from the boredom and annoyance) for writing poems that reveal who JWs truly are when at the meetings. I am gonna name them Poems From the Kingdumb Hell. At my home congo, where they hardly practise the shunning thing, I just go for the solidarity and to get family off my back! If I can help it, I don't go at all and go to church instead where I can at least dance to my heart satisfaction since there are no party's on Sunday
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  How exactly did Paul keep in touch with his network of churches across the empire...

  by mP in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the bible presents him as humble with limit means.

  i always wondered how a man with a travelling companion of two like timothy managed to knnow or hear about all his churches.

  how exactly does the troubles of corinth manage to find paul when hes over in judea or maybe somewhere in what we call turkey ?

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  Just twenty years ago, we had our NIPOST in my country. Send a letter to a sick relative thru it, and it will be read at the first or second memorial of the person. Send a letter to an expecting parent, and the child would read it when it arrives. Many a-letter were read after the sender had arrived! And Paul is sending and recieving letters at such ease, almost 2000 years ago- another global flood story!
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  How exactly did Paul keep in touch with his network of churches across the empire...

  by mP in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the bible presents him as humble with limit means.

  i always wondered how a man with a travelling companion of two like timothy managed to knnow or hear about all his churches.

  how exactly does the troubles of corinth manage to find paul when hes over in judea or maybe somewhere in what we call turkey ?

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  Who said Paul wrote anything? Wanna bet? Someone in Rome wrote Romans, someone else in Korinth wrote the Corinthians, probably Timothy wrote his letters to himself. Okay, its farfetched! Probably the Pharisee network he was spying for delivered the letters for him, for me don't believe in no Roman-Jewish tent-making lawyer!
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  Resolutions

  by molybdenum in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last week in my kh there was a resolution put before the congregation.. i forget what it was for but it involved some expenditure from the .

  congregation account.. i have sat through many of these but i have never seen a dissenter.. i felt like dissenting but i never put my hand up when it was asked if anyone .

  does not agree with the resolution.. what happens if someone does disagree?.

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  Okay, here's one: my dad raised a resolution once, and my mum was the first to object, then me. You could hear a pin drop in the Kingdom Hall that day! Actually, we forgot we were not at home where every voice counted (probably because twas my dad on the platform). My dad was very bitter at the KH and spoke very curtly at us from the platform but when we got home and simmer down (and mum had a good cry as she was not accustomed to hearing abuses from her hubby unlike many wives in the neighbourhood and congo), he apologised and thought we could have a good laugh over it. Well, pity on him, he got a serious verbal run-down from the rest of the family, including my younger siblings. Well, needless to say, given my mum's clout for giving practical solutions to stuff and the respect they have for her in the home cong, her dissenting opinion was considered at the BOE meeting and voted for at the next meeting. Little wonders one of my dad's elder friends once described my mum as, "a brainy jewel but an embarassment-of-an-African wife!"

  Another one I saw, a village cong I associated with once, the women there were very vocal at a meeting during a resolution. When the presiding overseer asked from the platform why the rancour, the leading woman said that the men were always the first to support resolutions but always the last to pay or support it! Me and my friends from school could barely suppress our shock and laughter till we left the KH premises. Till I left the JWs, me and my friends always made a joke out of it, and it never went stale!

  Yet another: In a sister congo, the congregation once dissented against what they considered the white-elephant projects of the BOE, the arguments got tense till the super-rich PO then announced from the platform that they should all shut their traps, he was gonna foot the major of the bills afterall. Well fallout, when CO came around, the BOE was disbanded, and the rancour grew...
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  New Job

  by LouBelle in

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  2. friends

  hey everyone.

  so i left the old company behind, the one that wasn't paying me.

  they still owe me a little bit of money but have them on record and signed documentation that i'll receive payment by the close of this month.

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  I clink your glass, LouBelle!