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  Watchtower Opts to Make Service Meetings Even Worse

  by metatron in

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  the recent august kingdom ministry contains instructions on deepening the ennui.

  and sophorific potential of service meetings.

  they are ordering that before the circuit.

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  Its amazing these people can dress themselves and somehow get to the Hall three times a week!

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  I am attending an assembly.

  by jwbot in

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  the circuit assembly is coming up in september.

  there are several reasons i am going:it is at the maine center for the arts, at my college.

  i really like this place, it would be interesting..my mother told me that i would not be shunned ("what would be the point on going?

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  jwbot,

  The last couple months I went to meetings, I didn't bother even holding a song book, just stood there quietly. Kinda like what a JW does during the National Anthem or flag salute. I gotta lot of looks... but what are they gonna do?

  I think you should go around the assembly telling people you are a pioneer!

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  Did you ever live in a Kingdom Hall?

  by No Apologies in

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  ok i know there are many posters here who have lived and worked at bethel or a branch office.

  but i got to wondering how many of you have lived in a kingdom hall, i.e.

  the wonderful apartment(s) found in many kingdom halls.

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  Ok I know there are many posters here who have lived and worked at Bethel or a branch office. But I got to wondering how many of you have lived in a Kingdom Hall, i.e. the wonderful apartment(s) found in many Kingdom Halls. If so, any stories you care to share?

  And yes, I have lived in a Kingdom Hall. My wife and I were pioneeting at the time, and were allowed usage of the basement apartment. The most embarassing situation was one evening when I and my wife were uh... oh how can I phrase this in a family-friendly way...being intimate. Yeah, that works. Anyway, about then the C.O. knocks on the door! Imagine our surprise! Since we were not prepared for receiving visitors, it took a few moments for me to answer the door in a presentable manner. It seems the only phone in the Hall at the time was in the apartment, and he had some urgent call he needed to make (see, kids, back then people did not have cell phones that they carried around. It was the Dark Ages).

  Coincidently, one of the C.O.'s recommendations at the end of the week was that the Hall have its own phone line installed. Of course, this was promptly done.

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  I am attending an assembly.

  by jwbot in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the circuit assembly is coming up in september.

  there are several reasons i am going:it is at the maine center for the arts, at my college.

  i really like this place, it would be interesting..my mother told me that i would not be shunned ("what would be the point on going?

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  Those plants aren't free!! There is a sugggested contribution for them!!! Although it would be funny as heck to disregard them and walk away with the plant. Maybe I should have gone to the last day of the convention and picked one up!

  Jwbot, just be ready for some grilling after the convention. "wasn't that a good demonstrations?" "Wasn't that advice on materialism so wonderful?" And my favorite: "Wasn't this the best assembly ever?!?" This will be your chance to slip in something other than the standard JW drone's reply, and do it real casual, watch them a get a very funny look on their face...

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  Celebrating Birthdays--Disfellowshipping Offense--Where stated in WT pubs?

  by blondie in

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  2. bible

  blondis is asking for help.

  where does it state that if a jw celebrates a brithday that it is a disfellowshipping offense.

  i have searched and searched.

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  I had always heard that it was not a DF'ing offense either...

  just my 2 cents...

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  JWs and 9/11

  by kgfreeperson in

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  2. experiences

  i couldn't find anything using search, so maybe somebody just needs to point me in the right direction.

  but i don't remember any discussion about what jws thought was happening when planes started flying into buildings and the hysteria in the nation began to build.

  i do know about the reaction of the watchtower, locking their doors against people in need.

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  kg,

  If something like 9/11 had happened back in the seventies or even the early eighties, I think the response from JWs would have been much bigger. As it is, most JWs are no longer as concerned about Armageddon being right around the corner. Its impossible to keep a sense of urgency at such a high state as it was back in the 70's, when there is nothing to really fuel it.

  The only effect 9/11 had on JWs was a slight bump in activity and meeting attendance over the following months. No doubt a lot of JW-bystanders were motivated to become more active or to finally get baptised because of 9/11.

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  Honest mistakes? The Governing Body's excuses for their actions

  by Terry in

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  the governing body tells us they are not false prophets because they admit their mistakes.. they only err because they are zealous to see the new order commence.. they are on the watch and warning everybody just like they are supposed to.. their doctrines change (new light) because they see and admit their errors.. what more can we expect of them?.

  is the governing body honestly doing the best they can?

  they are only human; how can we expect them to be perfect?.

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  For me, it was when I discovered they had signed up with the UN as an affiliated NGO. To me, that was not an honest mistake but a totally cynical manuever, especially since they did it without announcing it to the r&f.

  Its one thing to be wrong about a date, or to apply some principle incorrectly, and totally different to knowingly do something as deceptive as that.

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  Spiritual Food For The Sisters!

  by Bryan in

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  this is so crazy, i had to post.. i guess you'll have to click on "jehovah's witnesses".. .

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  Does anyone see the irony in so-called faithful JW's kissing up to the Williams sisters like this??

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  Service Time Records and Recording

  by c5 in

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  does anyone still have thier old service time slips?

  i still have all of mine dating back to when i first started counting my time!

  i always kept a copy for myself besides the one i turned in.

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  RR

  girlfriend, if ever I met a person who needs a new hobby it is you!

  I've been telling her that for years!!!

  See Cari, it ain't just me!!!

  And no, I never really cheated on my time. I was not the clock-Nazi you evidently were, but I tried to stay honest. I never would of dreamed of totally faking time like some here said they did.

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  WT RESOLUTIONS what becomes of them??

  by JT in

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  i got an email the other day from an long time jw, in fact he was 13 at the 1958 convention in ny and polo grounds .

  we were talking about the org and he posed the question to me as well- i thought about it and i could not think of anything-.

  i have never heard -other than the name adoption resolution- any mention of any resolutions that we as jw adopted like in 1979, 1983 , etc.

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  willyloman said:

  The only logical conclusion why this isn't the case: They don't really believe it.

  Bingo. Even they don't believe their own crap, so why should anyone else?

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