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  HOW MANY DRINKERS----OUT THERE???

  by minimus in

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  one thing over the years that i have noticed about jehovah's witnesses is that they love to drink, especially bethelites....have you too noticed this?

  and why do you think this might be the case?

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  zenpunk

  I drank a lot more when I was a JW. I used to have a shots in my room sometimes just so I could go to sleep. In my old congregation there were extremes, those who would be upset if you even had booze on the table, and those who would drink up your liquor cabinet if you didn't stop them.

  Once, when my parents were out of town I invited the "farm boys" over for a fine christian gathering, er, I mean party. My parents were pretty pissed when they got back, not because I had people over, but because they drank every drop of alcohol in the house.
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  THE ATTITUDE OF A BETHELITE

  by minimus in

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  one of the most interesting things that i have noticed about being a witness is the awe that is given to bethelites.

  it seems that if you are a bethelite, you are accorded special privleges in congregations.

  you are honored when you visit a hall.

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  zenpunk

  I attended a congregation close to the Farm in Wallkill. There was a huge mix of hypocracy going on when it came to Bethel. The rich who had their benefactors / the desparately poor who could never even afford a car. The geeks who would never get laid / those who were getting their own action with no one the wiser because they bore the title "bethelite". Whenever a new brother showed up, the sisters (sans me and my rebellious attitude) would line up and see who would be snagging themselves a hubby. Mostly the new ones were pricks until they were beaten into submission or wised up and left (or were kicked out).
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  Femininity, God, Satan & a Truck

  by SixofNine in

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  there have been alot of post about feminity.

  i am sharing a bit of writing done by my daughter.

  my 10 year old daughter.

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  I think someone has a brilliant child at home. These are the writings of a genius. That could be published you know, and scholars would spend decades interpreting it.
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  Short doctrine

  by Bang in

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  can you briefly sum up the teachings of the wtbts?.

  eg "boo" or "god is actually an asshole, this way out" .

  bang

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  God loves a miserable and brainwashed people.
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  what did god do before he did anything?

  by sleepy in

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  i remmember the idea that god has been around forever, to be a bit confusing as a witness.. does this really make sense?.

  heres two reason why it doesn't.. 1.what was the first thing god did?.

  so either it wasn't the first thing , if there is not a first thing god did see point 2,or god had a begining.

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  zenpunk

  13th Apostate - "Let us make man in our image". Well I'm glad just2laws answered for me. I agree. And I take the Bible with a grain of salt.
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  Ever lie on your service reports?

  by The_Bad_Seed in

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  *laughing just thinking about it*.

  did anybody out there lie on their service reports that they maintained the 'national average' when in reality you got .005 hours of service in any given month?

  i magically always used to always get "10" hours out in service, while nobody ever saw me at the groups, no one ever caught on, or seemed not to -- maybe they just didn't give a shit.. i always lied so i could keep my microphone 'privelidges' -- that being, the privelidge to walk around at the back of the hall giving my deflated ass a break from those awful chairs they had.

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  I never did (I thought it was a mortal sin). Though when my husband was a regular pioneer he got 90 hours the last two months sitting on the couch watching TV. Then he made his grand, highly visible exit as soon as he returned from Pioneer School, exclaiming, "It's all a pile of crap!"

  What bravery - too bad I was still a dub at the time and completely freaked out.
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  Sister Dub's first visit to the gynecologist

  by butalbee in

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  at work last week, i was sitting in the break room doing some of my paperwork, there was a couple worldly girls sitting at a table--penny and lisa, then walked in sister tammie, and sat beside them.

  i rolled my eyes as i normally do, for sister tammy is the dub of all dubs, always at the hall, always leaving awake rags all over the place, always looking for converts..... okay, i'm there trying to act inconspicuous, for sister tammie is a sister in law to my ex-dumb dub boyfriend, and well, i'm pretty much now satanic in nature to all in that particular congreg.

  for what extremes i had to go to, to get him out of my life...but me easedropping on their conversation, at times is amusingly worth it.. "so, how did the doctor's appt.

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  This reminds me of my first visit (age 16). I was having some problems so my desparate dub mom took me. Well, the gynecologist prescribed birth control pills for me. No sooner were we in the parking lot that my mother tossed them in the trash, saying, "you're not taking those, it will give you an excuse to have sex". So I remained in agony until I moved out of the house. How sad.
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  Famous People Who've Died In Plane Crashes

  by Dutchie in

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  i'm in the process of making plans for my yearly vacation and although i am not really afraid to fly, i must admit to being a little .

  apprehensive.

  anyway, it seems to me that if i were a famous person i would be even more apprehensive because so many of them .

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  As you may have noticed, most crashes involve private aircraft. The chance of an incident on a commercial plane are next to none. Besides, as a flight incident survivor, if I could get back to my job and fly almost every week, anyone can. Mind you I was a basket case for several months.

  Plus - does anyone remember D.B.Cooper (1969)? Though no one knows if he survived diving out the back of a commercial jet.
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  DID YOU EVER RAT ON SOMEBODY???

  by minimus in

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  the congregation was always being told to root out any person who was engaged in wrongdoing.

  if it was a best friend or even a family member, you were to inform the elders so that they could look into the matter and investigate any possible sin.

  the elders pretty much told the brothers that those knowing of a sin and not reporting it were as guilty as the person that actually sinned!

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  zenpunk

  Never!!! Though I had been ratted on plenty of times. One sister even stole my diary out of my room when I was 15, read it and told the elders that it displayed a bad attitude. I got busted, but notice how the sister never got in trouble for stealing. That's because she was serving the borg's best interests.
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  Blood Part 04 - Organ transplants: cannibalism

  by JanH in

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  organ transplants: cannibalism!.

  as with blood, the wts originally had no objections to organ transplants.

  in a questions from readers section in the watchtower, aug. 1, 1961, page 480, the question about organ transplants is answered pointedly:.

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  zenpunk

  I was so excited when I saw you had posted part 04! All the information you have been posting is really, really good. And to think I used to argue the blood issue incessantly. How foolish!