None of the above descriptions fit to my experience of witness weddings. They have all been joyful events, mostly with nice personal talks in the Kingdom Hall, good food, nice music (live or recorded, rockn’ roll, hit music, good oldies and disco), nice entertainment (sometimes of really good quality), moving personal speeches/songs, alcohol, although not in abundance, but still not marked with puritanism...
InquiryMan
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Were you married at the Kingdom Hall ? How bad was your wedding reception ?
by run dont walk ini'm just wondering...... i remember going to some wedding receptions for couples who got married at the kingdom hall,.
and i hate to be mean but, super boring, and bad, how bad you ask ??
ok here we go ..... - the worst had to be one couple played kingdom meolodies for their wedding dances, i couldn't believe it.. - no alcohol (i'm sure we all experienced a few of these), reception was over by 9:30.. - no music at all, just a gathering of people, and they ended the reception with a prayer, i thought i was at an assembly.. - food, like if you can't afford to get married don't, like frozen stuff bought at your local grocery store, and still in the package when you got up to the tables, how tacky.. - you could always tell a couple who couldn't afford much, when you had to drive 50 miles into the back woods to find some dinky little community hall they rented for $100.. - i remember one where the bride was pregnant, i was really surprised they allowed them to use the kingdom hall.. - another classic was, they had this band (of all jw's of course) and man they were bad.
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June 2203 K.M. anyone?
by Lisa Lefteye in.
can anyone tell me what the first service meeting song was for june 16 and june 23rd?
lisa
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InquiryMan
55 and 95 respectively.
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What "RULES" Did YOU Want To BREAK?
by minimus insince the organization has so many rules, did you ever just want to break a rule, just to do it?
one rule that i enjoyed breaking was the 15 to 20 minute rule that you were supposed to come to the meeting early.
i was regularly tardy.
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InquiryMan
Lucky us European witnesses. The R-rating of films were never enforced in that way here. Only principle - avoiding bad films. That’s it. To me, it meant avoiding e.g. occult movies etc. I hardly doubt anyone here would react on the Titanic movie... It was also rated as a film allowed for pre-teens. I did see the Matrix with a bunch of elders. One left, and no one made a scene about that. I wanted to leave, cause I thought it was too violent, stayed though. As a youth I did see, An officer and A gentleman. But we as a group all left at the time. Later one I heard a sister who had seen it several times with her daughter. No one made a big deal. I know people at Bethel watching James Bond-movies... I know pioneers watching film containing both sex and violence. Is that a reason for seeing or not seeing a movie? Of course not, people choose for themselves.
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What did you miss out on most, because you were stuck in JW land ???
by run dont walk in.
could of been as a child, teenanger, adult,anytime in your life, did you feel that being a jw (or jw parents) prevented you from doing things you really wanted to do.
why does the watchtower find it necessary to "rob" people of being human and enjoy things in life ??
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InquiryMan
Of course, we get the same literature as the US brethren, the assemblies are the same, but I’ll definitely say there are substantial cultural differences between witnesses in various countries, due to culture. E.g. in Denmark, even elders giving talks at District conventions may have a beard - unheard of in most other countries. In Sweden, most witnesses did not dance (even in weddings), I think salsa-loving hispano brothers would find that surprising. In Germany, most witnesses are pretty liberal when it comes to alcohol, whereas they might be very strict in other areas. In England, I even saw a brother giving a number two talk in the TMS, having a ring in his ear.... In one Scandinavian country, piercing and tattoos are not unheard of, although disapproved officially. The emphasis may be different on various issues, and some of the more "extreme" views are simply not enforced on a grand scale. It might also be due to the number of witnesses, that a JW sub culture have developed, that have certain standards that are enforced either locally or regionally.
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What did you miss out on most, because you were stuck in JW land ???
by run dont walk in.
could of been as a child, teenanger, adult,anytime in your life, did you feel that being a jw (or jw parents) prevented you from doing things you really wanted to do.
why does the watchtower find it necessary to "rob" people of being human and enjoy things in life ??
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InquiryMan
I feel that American ex-JWs exaggerate quite a bit, or at least, that the reality of being a JW might be somewhat different in Europe... Never heard of pantyhose-requirements, smurf-hysteria, chaperone-hysteria, R-rated-film hysteria etc. before it was revealed to me in the online world... After all everything was not that controlled. You could choose what you wanted to eat for dinner :-)
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Did you use the JW calendars?
by GermanXJW ineven in my hardcore active jw time i had no use for the jw calendar.
i ordered it each year and put it into a drawer.
most months were really ugly illustrated and it was completly useless without the holidays.
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InquiryMan
Most JWs I know do have "secular" calenders in addition to or even instead of the WT calendar.
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Ray Franz df'd , what did the society say ??????
by run dont walk ini remember vaguely, well all hell broke loose in the late 70's regarding, ray franz being df'd, and the witch hunt at bethel.
i was just a little kid at the time, and didn't pay much attention.. i know ray's point of view, from what i've read on this board, and also ordered myself his book "crisis of conscience"(should be a good read).
i think back now, i remember the event happening, and the speaker talking about it at our circuit assembly, but i don't recall the reasons (bs) he gave.
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InquiryMan
Perhaps, I mix things up, but was there an article in e.g. Newsweek, with another photo? and a title someting along this line: "Lost Heaven over a Dinner" (alluding to the technical proof of his DF, his sharing a meal with an "apostate".)
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What are the most "embarrassing" moments/events for the Watchtower ???
by run dont walk in.
boy, this thread could go on forever ........ i just found out recently, about the pyramid theory by russell and the building rutherford had built for abraham's return ..... i never remember my family talking about these while we were growing up/going to meetings.. i guess the society tries to hide the embarrassment as much as posssible.. so what would call some of the most embarrassing moments by the watchtower (1879-2003), i am hoping to copy alot of comments and pass them on to my jw family.
and hopefully other posters (lurkers) could find the info useful as well.. oh and please, if you can give more details on the two above i mentioned please do ........
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InquiryMan
In the "Proclaimers" book, the Beth Sarim is pictured on page 76 and the pyramidology stuff is commented on on page 201.
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Ray Franz df'd , what did the society say ??????
by run dont walk ini remember vaguely, well all hell broke loose in the late 70's regarding, ray franz being df'd, and the witch hunt at bethel.
i was just a little kid at the time, and didn't pay much attention.. i know ray's point of view, from what i've read on this board, and also ordered myself his book "crisis of conscience"(should be a good read).
i think back now, i remember the event happening, and the speaker talking about it at our circuit assembly, but i don't recall the reasons (bs) he gave.
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InquiryMan
I vividly remember our Circuit Overseer bringing the edition of "Time" magazine discussing the DF of Franz entitled: Lost Heaven over Dinner (or something along that line) to the Kingdom Hall. He was very agitated, and showed this article around... He was shocked that a GB member could have done this.
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Mulan could use some hugs.
by Princess ini don't think she has posted this yet.
mulan called me yesterday afternoon to tell me her dad had suffered a stroke.
i did talk to my dad last night and he seemed to think that grandpa was going to be ok. i had a birthday party with nine little girls all afternoon and was completely out of touch as a result.. i think she could use a hug, don't you?.
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InquiryMan
Hugs to you. Hopefully everything will turn out fine. Thinking about you and your family in this time of trouble.