Topics Started by ChileanRick

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A question for former pioneers.
by JV in
1. jw
2. friends
everytime you go to an assembly or to a convention or the co pays a visit, there's always a call for people to pioneer.

they always drag out a couple of pioneers on to the stage and "interview" them.

the one question they always ask is if the pioneers have any regrets over pioneering.
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Dreaming on JW model
by ChileanRick in
1. jw
2. friends
hi friends.

i was reading that naomi campell's mother is an active jw, and i understood that she was preaching to her daughter about the marvelous and wonderful organization that is the wt, and for a moment i thought that for all the males in the congregations would be so nice to have her as our sister..... imagine......sister campbell is arriving to the meeting at the kh and she is late and walks slowly looking for a place to get sit, she is wearing beautiful red underwear...... or maybe, in front of wt headquarters in ny, the organization placed a "pasarela" (i don't know the word for the place where the models walk showing dresses) and all the bros and sis are buying the watchtower and awake magazines from the campell's hands.

here in chile, we have a brother who owns a factory of women underwear called "intime".. chileanrick
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Which is worse: Going in Service or Having a Meeting on a Holiday?
by Room 215 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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i used to dread the prospect of having an evening meeting to to go hanging over my head all day long on a major holiday, almost as much as being compelled to ``go out in service.".

how about you?
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A question for dubs - Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter? Which can u watch?
by truthseeker in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the answer?

it depends on the context of the film.. .

a number of witnesses in my cong absolutely refuse to watch harry potter.
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Has anyone been barred from K.H. or convention?
by lilacs4everr in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
have you ever heard of an abuse victim being disfellowshipped, then barred from coming to the kingdom hall or to a convention?

this threat has been made to a good friend of mine here in the u.s. can they (the elders) really call the police to have someone removed who is just sitting there quietly?
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Something about me
by ChileanRick in
1. jw
2. friends
i loved to be a part of the christian congregation.

i always been a good jw (18 years) and im still one.

but, internet has given me too much information on wtbts, and now i can see it is a fraud this doesnt mean i dont love jehovah or jesus, i love my brothers and sisters too, but, i cant say the same for the organization.
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Some of their own medicine
by ChileanRick in
1. jw
2. friends
i don't know if you have read this.

enjoy it.

http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal01180202.html.
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New opinion on Memorials
by ChileanRick in
1. jw
2. friends
here in chile, when the times of memorial its near, you can see a lot of brothers and sister buying new clothes for that ocassion.

so, when you are attending the memorial meeting, you can feel nobody is listening really.

everybody is looking how are the others clothed, who is a visitor, and when the meeting gets and end, nobody is really interested in other ones, but only in its friends.
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What do you fear the most about the WT cult?
by Claudia Kittel in
1. jw
2. experiences
when i was a jw, i think what i was most afraid of was being hurt.

i did everything to keep myself from getting hurt.

i banged on doors with the best of the pioneers.
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Statistics Comparison
by Surreptitious in
1. jw
2. friends
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does anyone know of any information comparing the growth rate of jehovah's witnesses to say the mormons or other "recruit-oriented" religons?