Posts by av8orntexas

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Topics 10 yrs. ago and topics today, what A difference

by jam in

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i was reviewing some of the topics 10yrs.

ago, notice most of.

topics were rater mild in regard to the witnesses..today, wow,.

av8orntexas

When I joined this board it was Pro-JW. If it wasn't I'm almost sure there was an JW forum similiar that was pro-dub.

I left this board.Came back.Left again. Read a few post and teeter-tootered and read the post over the years. If anything everything on here really started to make sense around 06', 07' for me.

If I can recall correctly there was an board- H2O- something to that affect. It was known to have all the apostates. Of course I thought everyone there had lost their mind.

If I only knew then and opened my eyes.

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Test Yourself. How much are you a JW ....

by sleepingbeauty in

are you a jw or if you were one do you still have any jw traits left?

take this quiz to see... .

http://www.thebentinel.com/jw-quiz.php.

av8orntexas

And to think I was once a proud regular pioneer.

My mother does say I have a bad attitude. All because I refuse to read the mags,go to meetings,etc. All that crap aside and she'd realize she has a son who has done nothing in life but work hard and become a productive citizen.

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Meeting Day

by captain in

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has anyone ever had that dreaded "meeting day" feeling where you know you are going to waste two hours or more of your life - not to mention on the weekends where you can't go away for a whole day somewhere because you have fs on saturday, then a meeting on sunday?

or when you know you have to catch up on work etc but you know that with weekly fs pressures plus the meeting you have lost six hours before the weekend has even started?.

av8orntexas

It's one of the biggest things I don't miss. Get up at 315am,leave the house at 4. Start work at 530am. Get off at 130pm. After the drive home,step in the door at about 3pm. Cook dinner,eat and clean up. It's about 5pm now. Shower ( now I'm REALLY sleepy and tired. ) ,get dressed. Mind you I haven't studied so I skim the lesson whatever it is and highlight some key points. That way sister smoking hot thinks I've studied, and I'm a strong,mature christian man in Jehovahs Congregation.

By this time it's 6 and due to tracffic, not distance. I probably need to leave at 6;10-6:15 to get there at 6:50 or right at 7. Open the magazine room,give sister talks alot her mags, and remind her that she still had some to pick up ( so brother big shot will get off my butt about why they're still in the back. ) Close it up,and usually I'd sit but once again one of the younger brothers ( early teens, as I was early 20's ) has not shown up in time,or come to the meeting. So once again I'm working the mics. If I were lucky, I wouln't have a part. To think......back then I thought I was doing something because I did the mics AND gave my talk. ( I was really impressing em I tell ya' ) when really I was dead tired.

After the meeting is over. Roll up the mics ( not very many wireless mics back then. ) Go work the magazine room. I see sister smoking hot,but she's talking to brother loser. His dad is the big shot at the local company,he doesn't have a job,but he drives one bad ass car, because since he's going to Bethel his dad has his back no matter what. And alllll the sisters are on him. He's going places. I can see I won't get anytime with her,because I'm no longer a pioneer,but work for a living.Now...... I have no faith in Jehovah as I'm reaching out for material things. FINALLY close the mag room. See a few older friends,chat it up. Walk out to my car and it is now about 10pm. Get home undressed, and damn...it's nearly 11pm and I have to get up at 3am. Brother Loves service calls to see if I want to go out on my day off. I say yes, then watch the weather channel and hope for severe weather ( I really did that ) on said service day.

Yep. I sure do miss all that.

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Do your elders care at all?

by Mr. Falcon in

i currently have an elder body who, for the most part, seems utterly complacent and disinterested in actually "shepherding" anything.

i can't tell if they are lazy or just oblivious to their responsiblities of being "teachers".

it seems like they are the last to know anything and always procrastinate on everything.

av8orntexas

Hahahaha.

When I was younger I know I had MS as an goal. I never thought far enough ahead to care about,orgive thought to being an elder.

Everybodies experiences have opened my eyes.

And yes...I always wondered what all the meetings were about.

You know....brother walks up the aisle in the middle of the meeting,stoops down and whispers in Brother Big-Shot's ear. Brother Big Shot nods,gets up,walks back and taps Brother Warbucks on the shoulder and they all go to the back or outside and have a pow wow.

I always wondering what that stuff was about.

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Circuit Assembly Lowlights

by Red Piller in

our do is a southerner- his drawl makes the.

scary things he says much easier to swallow.. some highlights of his talks:.

apostates are miserable.

av8orntexas

Red Piller,

You are right. It seemed 12-13 years ago everybody was trying to reach out to be an MS or elder.

But now ? PPPPphhhsssst. Whatever. I now realize that most of these brothers are kids. ( I'm but 34 ) but they're going to counsel a man with a family on certain issues, when most haven't lived life themself ?

10 years ago looking back , I realize I didn't know jack about jack at 24. But I was going to be a guy others would come to for answers ? hahahahaha. It's laughable now.

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Snow Storm expected in Boston on April 1st

by charlie brown jr. in

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is this a freaking joke??????

it's 60* today and we might have 1 foot of snow by friday night???.

i remember april 1 1997 i plowed almost 3 feet of snow..... haven't we had enough?

av8orntexas

No. Actually my aunt lived in Fields Corner ( she no longer lives in Boston.) , next stop over from Savin Hill ( great place to watch planes land at Logan depending on the landing config they were using ) on the Red Line. My cousin just moved from Braintree to GA about a year ago. It was a place in Roxbury, down the street from where my aunt attended the hall. We would turn onto a street and it was three streets met at once. One at the top of a hill. Every night we'd go to the meeting I'd comment on how nice downtown was in the sunlight. I don't think anybody every paid me any attention.

I grew up in Dorchester,my mom worked at Gillette for many years.

I now find myself in suburban Houston a world completely different from the Boston I grew up in. I fly to Boston a couple times a month sometimes,usually to have chinese food and walk around downtown.

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Snow Storm expected in Boston on April 1st

by charlie brown jr. in

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is this a freaking joke??????

it's 60* today and we might have 1 foot of snow by friday night???.

i remember april 1 1997 i plowed almost 3 feet of snow..... haven't we had enough?

av8orntexas

I couldn't agree more. My dad lives in Miami and as flat as the Houston area is ( and it is )... the Miami and south Florida area are amazingly flat, lol

I don't think I truly appreciated all the history when I was living up there. When I finished my last two years of High School down here, my teachers that it was such a big deal that I had seen Plymouth Rock,or the USS Constitution ( stuff we seemed to do every year for field trips,lol )

There's a spot in Roxbury not far from where my aunt used to live when I was really little. It sat atop a hill and at dusk you could get the best picture of Downtown Boston and all the entire skyline.

Are you in the Boston area ?

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Snow Storm expected in Boston on April 1st

by charlie brown jr. in

jw
friends

is this a freaking joke??????

it's 60* today and we might have 1 foot of snow by friday night???.

i remember april 1 1997 i plowed almost 3 feet of snow..... haven't we had enough?

av8orntexas

I've been through one since I've been in Texas and had close calls with Katrina and Rita.

Hopefully she can find somewhere that is a comfortable fit for her if Mass isn't it.

I like it here,but it's the HOTTEST place on earth if you ask me.

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Snow Storm expected in Boston on April 1st

by charlie brown jr. in

jw
friends

is this a freaking joke??????

it's 60* today and we might have 1 foot of snow by friday night???.

i remember april 1 1997 i plowed almost 3 feet of snow..... haven't we had enough?

av8orntexas

coffee_black,

I don't think I could have deal with all the hurricanes down there.

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Snow Storm expected in Boston on April 1st

by charlie brown jr. in

jw
friends

is this a freaking joke??????

it's 60* today and we might have 1 foot of snow by friday night???.

i remember april 1 1997 i plowed almost 3 feet of snow..... haven't we had enough?

av8orntexas

I was born and raised in Boston. I miss the cooler weather in July and August while down here in Texas.

But I don't miss February up there.