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  Did your JW social life only consist of meals at a friends home?

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know many here who have had good and bad jw social experiences.

  some went camping, hiking etc, went to the beach.

  some had no social life at all in the org and some had congregations where nothing ever happened socially.. i know of one sister, who has since left, who complained that the only thing witnesses did when they got together, was share a meal.. now, there's nothing wrong with sharing a meal.

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  Badges for Conventions

  by ThomasCovenant in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  each year name badges are handed out at the kingdom halls for those attending the upcoming district convention.

  i have always refused to wear one but this was not a major issue as i would say only about 50% wore them anyway.

  however i noticed that as the years went by more and more 'brothers' were wearing them including during the lunch break in the city centre concerned.

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  Leicester UK, Incest in congregation

  by AlanB in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

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  i have just heard a whisper of an incest scandle in the congregations in leicester uk.

  does anyone have any information on this?.

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  Elder's School Notes Part 1: Quit being so materialistic, you slackers!

  by sir82 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ask, and ye shall receive.. i will herewith post my notes from the km06 elders school i recently attended.

  i will post this in 6 parts, to give people a chance to read smaller chunks and comment on them.. a couple of introductory notes: i wrote an awful lot of stuff, and will not post everything.

  for each talk, i will post 3 sections: (1) general synopsis, (2) personal thoughts & observations, (3) particularly egregious quotations.. the primary speakers, who delivered more than 1/2 of the talks, were a circuit overseer and a guest from brooklyn bethel.. to protect anonymity, we will refer to the sadly inane circuit overseer as brother sico.. and the old-timer lifelong brother from bethel, completely out of touch, as brother bethel-coot.. one more introductory comment: it seems the main points the society wanted to send to elders were:.

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  does anyone realy know how many 144,000 are realy left?

  by lied too in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have been talking to some friends of mine both in and out of the "cult".

  and the one thing that no one can come up with is how many of the socalled 144,000 are left, i would estamate there to be atleast 145,000 still kicking today.

  if any one out there know's of a number and not the number put in the watchtower, i mean realy do you belive all you read.

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  14 years later- still a wreck! What's up with me!

  by doffy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the listener said on an earlier postyou've been out for awhile, perhaps your insight will help some of us who are still in the exiting process.

  which was a lovely thing to say, and made me feel 'valued' (thanks listener!).

  but, you know, 14 years on, and there are times, when i feel like i just left.. i took the children to the pictures yesterday (to see 'wallace & grommit').

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  Political Canvassing. compared with Ministry.

  by AlanB in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have recently got involved in politics and was out over the weekend canvassing.

  i found it an interesting contrast with being on the ministry.. first of all i found it easier to actually talk to people about something i actually believed in rather then recite the same old stuff that had become so dry to me.

  the biggest contrast was when i rang a door and after a few moments it was clear no one was in, i instinctively reached for the door bell again, the witness way being to string out a 'not at home' for as long as decently possible so as to 'get your hour in' without having to talk to too many people.

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  Why is the month of October Special to JWs

  by skin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  who else has been told that the month of october is a special month because in the past jehovah has fulfilled many prophecies in that month.. we have been told this twice in the last 2 book studies.. examples are: hand writing on the wall in daniels book happened on 5/6th october 539 bce, .

  jesus was born in october 2 bce,.

  kingdom rule started in october 1914, but the most interesting one is that ww1 started in october of that year.has anyone else been told this?.

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  A Link for the Liberal Loudmouths

  by Shining One in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20050902/cm_csm/ekatrina .

  read it and see that the pres actually was on the ball and had the machinery turned on and ready to operate.

  if a dummy like clinton (gore or kerry as well) had been in charge, who knows what would have happened!

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  Do U Drive @ 55?

  by prophecor in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  who among us here, when on the freeway does the standard speed of 55mph.

  i'd like to say that i'm a law abiding citizen, however......

  it's a wonderful thing that many folks wish to follow the rules of the road but you people who don't keep it rolling with the rest of the crowd at 65-70mph are risking a catastrophe.

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