I remember this actually took place in Germany. I was told when visiting a friend of mine there. In his congregation a family won the lottery. They were of course branded as weak. The prize money was well in the scope of 500,000 dollars. So it could not be hidden. They also had a handicapped child. They got away with a public reproorf. (I was secretly happy for them, since this money definitely would easen their burden). My mother stated when I told her this, I would gladly have accepted a public reproof for that money... I remember in their earliest years they even took part in some money games involving soccer (do not know the English term for it)... But when dad climbed the steps of the theocratic ladder, this was stopped...
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If you would have won lots of money playing lottery as a JW...
by JH inimagine if you would have won lots of money playing the lottery, while being an active jw, how would you have wiggled your way out of it?.
would you have admitted playing and winning, or invented a story that you inherited lots of money or would you have just moved elsewhere where no one knows you, and you would have lived a very comfortable life still as a jw, or would you have simply quit being a jw?.
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Describe a typical Saturday for a jw child
by carla inplease describe a typical saturday for a jw child.
reason being my jw once told me that all jw children love the door to door (yeah right) and they have all afternoon to play.
don't they need to get ready for the sunday service?
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InquiryMan
Even as an elder I rarely brought my children out in service. But I guess I was a closet apostate, so I did not have enough impetus to do it.
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Gas prices soon to pass $4.00 mark
by free2beme ini remember last year, a lot of blame against the republican congress for doing nothing to stop big oil companies from raising prices.
democrats are in office now, and no one seems to be saying anything.
why are the democrats not being the night and shinning armor about gas prices?.
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what is the problem, we pay 8 dollars a gallon here as well. Somewhat 80 per cent are taxes.
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Need help / ch 4 Youth book
by InquiryMan ini am in need of a chapter in "your youth - getting the best out of it".
if you could help me provinding a link, preferably with a pdf of the pages or the complete text i would appreaciate it very much.
the chapter in question is number 4.
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InquiryMan
found it at watchterobserver archive by using the link section here... Sorry for being lazy. Please forgive me ;-)
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Need help / ch 4 Youth book
by InquiryMan ini am in need of a chapter in "your youth - getting the best out of it".
if you could help me provinding a link, preferably with a pdf of the pages or the complete text i would appreaciate it very much.
the chapter in question is number 4.
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Need help / ch 4 Youth book
by InquiryMan ini am in need of a chapter in "your youth - getting the best out of it".
if you could help me provinding a link, preferably with a pdf of the pages or the complete text i would appreaciate it very much.
the chapter in question is number 4.
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InquiryMan
Hi! I am in need of a chapter in "Your Youth - Getting the Best out of it". If you could help me provinding a link, preferably with a pdf of the pages or the complete text I would appreaciate it very much. The chapter in question is number 4. thanks a lot
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New group in Denmark
by Manjana ini just wants to inform you, that we have started af new group in denmark.
i know the web-page are in danish, but i write here also, because iff someone from denmark, norway or sweden, read this are they more than welcome to join the group.
but only if they are x-witnesses or truly wants to leave the witnesses.
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InquiryMan
Det er noget forkert med linken.
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How much have you changed since you left the JWs..........
by fifi40 inthe reason that i ask this question is for two reasons mainly.. firstly, my experience as a jw and within the various congregations i was part of, was that they were a very mixed bag.
there were those who were very devout, studious and appeared to be very humble and placid in nature.
there were those that were very judgemental of others.
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Used to be kind, yet strict on myself and others. Humerous, but very prudent (not anymore). Talkative, but always kept within theocratic boundaries (not at all anymore). Generous and hospitable (however, due to shunning not being able to extend those qualities to my parents/sisters). Now I m trying to be tolerant, non-judgemental and open... (of course having been an elder, and now an open gay, divorced, yet living close to my ex, is by far a big change from my former life, yet I remain much of the same in my core personality - some qualities are even easier to show now. I find it easier to show the socalled fruits of the spirit now when it is not talked about all the time.... (apart from the last one LOL)
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Norway
by InquiryMan inin norway, the ombudsman of children s welfare intervened and a lot of fuss were made when it was made clear that jws endorsed corporal punishment in their publications even though it was banned by law.
it was even mentioned in the national news.
the coordinator was even interviewed on tv and the day after it was proven from the wt indexes that he had been lying.... i remember it was very embarrassing.
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interesting do read Norm. I always wondered how the newspapers managed to get hold of that piece of information before it was even given by the organization to the "brothers". I also remember there was some news on alternative civilian service in the media. Were you sort of involved there?
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Has anyone been in one of the dramas while a JW?
by Nowman init probably was one of my few happy moments of being a jw.
my mom, dad, and i were asked to be in the modern day drama, think it was in 1988-1990 (not sure exactly).
i played a worldly girl named "dolly winters" who was considered a bold and brazon girl who eventually studied to become one of jws because of a good example jw that she went to school with.
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I played a brother called Barry (in English) who became a witness in spite of his parents opposition. He uttered the words: If my father or mother leaves me, Jehovah will accept me.
Well, kind of prophetic, I ended up leaving Jehovah, and my parents left me too...