Alligator Wisdom

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  Were You Looked Down In The Hall Because Of Age, Gender, Race, $$$, Etc????

  by minimus in

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  were you discriminated against for any reason in the "christian congregation"?

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  Alligator Wisdom

  anyone that had some means was considered suspect, less than whole-souled.

  Right!

  Even though I went to college and was working at an elite company for many years, I still went to all the meetings, auxillary pioneered at least twice a year (while I doubled the national average each month for the rest of the year), several duties as MS (I declined eldership twice), showed hospitality, gave rides to the meetings/assemblies/conventions to the elderly in the congregation....etc.....

  .....and there were many that still found the straw in my eye!

  Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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  Were You Looked Down In The Hall Because Of Age, Gender, Race, $$$, Etc????

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  were you discriminated against for any reason in the "christian congregation"?

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  Alligator Wisdom

  Education and a very good job.

  Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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  Have the dubs got their May 1st WT yet??

  by cultswatter in

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  some dubs have got the may 15 wt but not the may 1st wt.

  when the dubs finally get the may 1st wt will they even notice the 1935 doctrine changes??.

  anyway, have they got the may 1st wt yet?.

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  I brought up this subject several times to different ones in the congregation. The response I got was just about the same for each person.

  With a glazed look on their face they said, "That shows we living at the very end of the final part of the last days?"

  WHAT?????

  Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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  Were you a "Born-In", or were you "Converted"?

  by Warlock in

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  i was converted in the early 1980's.. warlock .

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  Alligator Wisdom

  Raised in. First stepped into a KH at the age of 5 when my mother started going to the meetings while studying with a JW.

  Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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  Who wants to see this year's DC invitation?

  by sir82 in

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  if someone is willing to host them, send me your e-mail address in a pm.

  i will send you 4 scanned jpg files, of the invitation & boe letters associated with it.. .

  teaser: there are some brand-new, unprecedented features to this year's dc!.

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  Alligator Wisdom

  That location on the back looks familiar.

  Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California U.S.A. (30 minutes south of Los Angeles by freeway). I've noticed that the WTS uses snapshots of this location in several publications when depicting a convention scene. Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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  How'd you pick your Avatar and/or Username? (Share a little bio?)

  by Open mind in

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  even though you might think it's painfully obvious, explain why you chose your avatar and/or username.

  it could help us faceless "netizens" get to know each other a little better.

  open mind.

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  Alligator Wisdom

  Alligator Wisdom:

  A play on words. (1) What comes to mind when you see an alligator? Are you wise enough not to irritate it? (2) The brain of an alligator is about the size of a human thumb. I may be stupid, but I'm learning all the time. Besides, would you mess with an alligator?

  Avatar:

  Taken from the Greatest Man Who Ever Lived publication chapter 82. Accompanying scriptural text : ( Luke 13:24) "Exert yourselves vigorously to get in through the narrow door, because many, I tell YOU, will seek to get in but will not be able,

  Being raised as a JW, I was taught to struggle and contend in order to get approved by Jehovah. It burned me out. Now I realize that God is far more lenient and loving than the WTS portrayed Him to be. The avatar is a reminder of what energy I wasted in the past and to reassure me that Jehovah gives me strength that is not of my own.

  Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously by WTS standards)
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  Went to Memorial - where was everybody?

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

  1. jw
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  i haven't missed a memorial since i started attending over 50 years ago.

  tonight i was expecting the hall to be jambed as usual.

  i sat in the 5th row from the front and from where i sat, i could see 31 empty seats--there may have been more.

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  Our congregation attendance for the Memorial was 25% down from last year.

  The interesting thing was that it was VERY noticable.

  Many of the friends mentioned it with others after the meeting. Why? Why? Why? One brother even said to me that it could be because of "Jehovah's disapproval" and "that someone may be committing a hidden sin".

  Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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  Life as a JW

  by Threestars in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've been a writer for most of my life but this is the only thing i have ever written about my life in the borg.. our house.

  madness bloomed in our house after the day two women came asking;.

  have you heard the good news of the kingdom?.

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  Alligator Wisdom

  My tears are flowing...

  Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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  How would you react if someone at the hall called you by your username here

  by JH in

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  2 years ago, i went to a meeting and the brother talking in the front said that the internet was full of dirty rats..... he was looking at me when he said that.

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  "Alligator Wisdom? Isn't it wonderful how the Awake! magazines explains in detail so much about Jehovah's creation?"

  Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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  Echo and the Bunnymen

  by wanderlustguy in

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  how in the hell did i miss these guys?

  it took 16 years and donnie darko for me to discover these guys?.

  wtf??

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  Alligator Wisdom

  "The Killing Moon" by Echo and the Bunnymen.

  One of the best song intros I've ever heard.

  Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)