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  Would you be able to survive a three day Assembly?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the last assembly i attended was over 10 years ago.

  the monotone speakers, boring talks, uncomfortable seats, long prayers and nodding off after the lunch break did me in.

  i survived the morning sessions, but the afternoon sessions were brutal.

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  Last one I attended was 1991. No I couldn't do it again.
  

  However, as miserable as the 3 day conventions of my childhood were, they were nothing compared to the stories of the 1950s that my older relatives told me stories of.
  
  Imagine driving almost 900 miles from Georgia to New York on pre-interstate highways. Sitting in the open air at Yankee Stadium in the middle of the summer from 9a.m until 9:30 in the evening. For EIGHT DAYS. Sleeping in a pop up camper. Waiting in lines to use makeshift shower and toilet facilities. The smell by day 8 must have been indescribable.
  
  Also, what in the world did they manage to come up with to speak about to fill 12 hours a day for 8 days???
  
  Then drive back home utterly miserable and exhausted. Today that drive is about 16 hours. Back then it must have been a multi day drive on state highways and secondary roads. Insanity.
  
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  Where's Simon?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  anyone heard from him?

  he hasn't been active for over a week.

  probably on holiday but would be nice to know everything's okay 🤔 .

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  Likely just taking a break. Being an Englishman living in Canada with strident opinions about the USA probably takes a psychological toll.
  
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  Did your witness family have a 'Thanksgiving' that wasn't on Thanksgiving?

  by SydBarrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my family had several elders, ministerial servants, auxillary pioneers etc, so it certainly wasn't one of those 'barely in' families.

  but in certain small ways, i think mine were slightly less hard line than some other families i've heard stories about over the years.

  one example was the 'fall dinner'.

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  My family had several elders, ministerial servants, auxillary pioneers etc, so it certainly wasn't one of those 'barely in' families. But in certain small ways, I think mine were slightly less hard line than some other families i've heard stories about over the years.
  
  One example was the 'fall dinner'. My grandmother would host a big family dinner that was Thanksgiving in every aspect except name. We didn't have it on Thanksgiving Thursday but it was always that general time of year. Did yours do that?
  
  The no Thanksgiving thing always seemed even more stupid than the prohibition against the other holidays. There wasn't any scripture or pagan origin that they could twist and stretch to sorta kinda make an argument for not participating. It was simply being contrary for the sake of it.
  
  What could be more benign than taking advantage of a day that most people get off work to get together with the family for dinner? And if the JW's had allowed it, it would have been a day where JW's socialised together,strengthening their social bonds. Kinda dumb that they didn't see it that way.
  
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  Vice President Kamala Harris…your thoughts??

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  good pick?

  bad pick?

  helpful to president biden?

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  Trump wants to kick out all the migrants.
  

  
  Yeah right. All those middle class lawns aren't gonna mow themselves...
  
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  Why Is Watchtower (Supposedly a Family Friendly Christian Publisher) Obsessed with Oral Sex?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if you do a search on the wt website and type in "oral sex", you will get 69 results.

  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/s/r1/lp-e?q=oral+sex&p=par&r=occ&st=a .

  why does the wt.

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  LOL. and Seabreeze keeps "researching" and posting the quotes. He's exactly like the pervy elder or preacher who gets to spend an hour talking about perverted sex practices to the congregation as he wipes the sweat from his brow and the saliva from his lips.
  
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  Commentary To Revelation

  by Kosonen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello, i have made a commentary to revelation chapters 1 to 22.. you can find that at my youtube channel in separate videos or by downloading an mp3 file for the whole thing from the link in the description in the video below.

  the mp3 file is 1 hour and 23 minutes long and i have used an ia voice reader to record it all.

  it reads so much better than me.

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  SydBarrett

  "Hello, I have made a commentary to Revelation chapters 1 to 22."

  
  

  
  

  
  
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  Ages of each user here?

  by ukpimo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm interested to know the age demographics here.

  it must be significantly different to other exjw forums.

  it would be a damning report for watchtower if most of us appear to have left for decades.. you don't have to mention your exact age, you could always say "in my 50s".. i am in my 70s.

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  A visual representation of this site's demographics.
  
  
  
  
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  Celebrities Who Hate Jw's?

  by Ron.W. in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  do you recall any?.

  i was told that john denver hated jw's with a vengeance - any truth in that?.

  also, annie lennox - i was told before a concert she asked any jw's present to leave?.

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  These urban legends were a way for JW's to think they were way more important in the world's mind than they were.

  No one gives them a thought at all. Any more than you or I spend time thinking about the "Children of God" sect or what the Mennonites are up to lately.
  
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  Trump assassination attempt??

  by Diogenesister in

  1. social
  2. current

  it happened at a rally in pennsylvania, apparently.

  he seems ok i've seen a photo of him bleeding from his ear.

  this is absolutely nutso....if it's too it doesn't surprise me the way they constantly describe him as "far right" and that his supporters are "maga republicans".

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  "Oswald's shots on Kenndy were difficult."

  
  No they weren't. It was close, 70 yards moving at walking speed. If you visit Dealey Plaza in person, what strikes you is how small of an area it actually is.
  
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  JW s were here today with convention invite

  by enoughisenough in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i thought i would tell this story: 2 gals and a guy came by with invitation to convention.

  i am in the yard.

  the gals get out and are wearing pants.

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  SydBarrett

  Use of the paragraph break makes the reading experience vastly more pleasurable for the writer's intended audience. Paragraphs that are too long leave readers with dense blocks of text to wade through.

  This leads the reader to suspect the writer is mentally disorganized or possibly insane.