I confirmed with my family that is still in, some have the meeting scheduled for Saturday and some for Sunday. They are traveling one hour to attend at their regularly scheduled assembly hall in the New England area.
Gypsy Sam
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Annual Meeting Instructions to MS / Elders
by jw07 inhave any elders or ministerial servants here recieved any specific instructions regarding the annual meeting?
as an ms all i have been told to do is to arrive early to "await further instruction due to the sensitive nature of my assignment".
ironically all i can imagine after hearing that a few times is dispensing cyanide laced kool aid to attendees.
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An Elder Reads CoC !!
by TTATTelder ini have recently joined the site.
i was just appointed an elder this summer.
i started discovering the ttatt (the truth about the truth) last year after putting a few things together myself concerning the leadership and then doing some research online.. i really enjoyed jwfacts.com, jwsurvey, and others.
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Gypsy Sam
A belated welcome! Isn't it amazing how confused that "holy spirit" can get things? Wishing you success with your family starting to hopefully wake up.
Carpe Diem.
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USA | Man Allegedly Fires Gun at a Group of Jehovah's Witnesses
by jwleaks inusa, arkansas | man fires gun at a group of jehovah's witnesses.
centerton police arrested a man accused of firing close to 19 rounds at a group of jehovahs witnesses on saturday (sept. 28th).
john baldwin, 35, bonded out on $50,000 sunday morning.. according to a probable cause affidavit, three jehovahs witnesses approached baldwin in his front yard at rainbow farm road and baldwin told them, get your (explicit) off my property, i moved out here to get away from people like you.. the report states the jehovahs witnesses apologized and as they were getting in their car one of them heard get me my 9.. baldwin admitted to firing a gun at three jehovahs witnesses when they drove away from his house, according to the report.. baldwin was booked into benton county jail on felony charges of aggravated assault.. several of baldwins neighbors said he moved to the neighborhood less than a month ago.. kristi tidwell who lives nearby said she was home when police arrived at her neighbors home.. my husband and i were working around the house, we had the blinds open in the back we saw probably seven or eight cop cars pulling in there, tidwell said.
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Gypsy Sam
I noticed a lot of witnesses commented on the actual news article that I pulled up. I made a comment about always check facts and how we can use the Internet to do that and then make logical choices about religion and see which one really has "the truth". I definitely think we should make clear, calm, thinking comments on these news posts, as it is evident more and more witnesses feel the need to refute their faith, at least on the news articles I've been reading. It at least gets nonJw's that don't know about them, to realize issues they have and possibly question them the next time they come to the door.
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Gypsy Sam
Welcome, my teen daughter started expressing doubts late last year. At first, I was very upset and tried to make her do more in "the truth". Then, I thought I would just step up my efforts, possibly pioneer and then she would see how the JW way was best way of life, by my example. I figured I'd reexamine my own faith and try to reprove it to myself. About this time news of the Candace Conti case came my way. I decided that before I tried to squeeze pioneering into an already completely full schedule, I'd better keep reading. Truth can stand up to scrutiny and I rationalized I'd just refute anything false I found online, or so I thought. We have since totally faded. Our last meeting was the Memorial.
Hopefully, your staying respectful but asking questions will get your mom to think...
Wish you the best and I agree with the tips Cofty gave you.
Carpe Diem!
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Finally Got to Be the Saturday Morning Householder
by mrquik ini visited relatives out of state this weekend and sure enough watched two witnesses going door to door approach the house.
i casually walked out to the front yard and, sure enough an older brother with a young married man in tow came over to me.
i let them go through the usual speil & took the magazines.
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Gypsy Sam
Nice! Great experience :)
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Update - Protest done - Hi Everyon
by LouBelle ini have been rather scarce i know, i've been so very busy with work that i don't really have much time to log on, and we had someone come into our home and steal our laptop, so haven't been able to log on at home either.. work is still going very well.
it's not easy cold selling, but i've had a good few ads come in and keep me ticking over.
every now and again i pop because i simply don't know what else management want me to do, i'm doing everything i can.
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Gypsy Sam
Great update! Nice job on the protesting!!
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Got Accosted by 2 JW Women While Pumping Gas Yesterday - Weird
by flipper inabsolutely weird.
minding my own business while pumping gas - this 60 year old short jw lady with fluffed bun styled 60's hair and her 30 year old attractive 5 ' 10 inch jw lady partner came straight up to me as i'm pumping.
they picked the wrong hombre .
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Gypsy Sam
Great experience :) The Conti amount is what had me start googling Jehovah's Witness child abuse...and here I am :) Fully faded
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Which KHall Did You Go To Or Visit, That Had The Nicest People, (Like JW's Are Supposed To Be?)
by LoisLane looking for Superman in.
this was inspired by the poster "integ"'s thread: warmth of the khall.. the nicest group of people i have ever met at a khall was the one in key west, florida.. loislane .
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Gypsy Sam
Lexington, KY, USA 5 years ago. Very friendly asnow quite a blend of beautiful, different shades is people and a nice amount if mixed couples. Made contacts with a couple people I used to stay in touch with.
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What Assembly were you baptized at...
by vilot ini was baptized at the 1976 "sacret secret" dc at inglewood ca there must have been 50,000 people there..
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Natick, MA. 1991.
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Do you detect an underlying sadness ?
by Phizzy inwhenever i talk to jw's, and even in some of the jw official videos, i detect a definite vibe of sadness coming off these people.. i am very sensitive to "atmospheres" and to peoples emotional state, you wouldn't think so, because more often than not i do not react to what i detect, i just let people get on with it.. but i do get this feeling that they are sad, probably because very, very, very deep down they realise that it is all false, maybe ?.
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Gypsy Sam
My parents are in their late 50's and one was a born an optimist; the other a pessimist. I truly feel the pessimist has worn off, based on their WT belief system. My parents cannot believe the system has lasted this long and have become bitter and judgmental. Oh, and yet they think it's somehow all their fault they don't feel they measure up, by JW standards. Thanks, WT!