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  Watchtower Opts to Make Service Meetings Even Worse

  by metatron in

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  2. friends

  the recent august kingdom ministry contains instructions on deepening the ennui.

  and sophorific potential of service meetings.

  they are ordering that before the circuit.

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  kgfreeperson

  Circuit Assembly time is upon us, no? Can anyone point me to the schedule?
  
  Thanks!
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  'Neath The Tower Of Fear: Video

  by Corvin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i put this little video together to get my mind of recent events.

  it sort of expresses my disenchantment and awakening since leaving the organization.

  i hope you enjoy it.

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  kgfreeperson

  Watching that right after reading the Falling Man essay has just about done me in.
  
  Just adding my voice to the chorus of "that is one powerful piece of work!"
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  JWs and 9/11

  by kgfreeperson in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i couldn't find anything using search, so maybe somebody just needs to point me in the right direction.

  but i don't remember any discussion about what jws thought was happening when planes started flying into buildings and the hysteria in the nation began to build.

  i do know about the reaction of the watchtower, locking their doors against people in need.

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  Again, I am just struck by how much the actual event resembled the illustrations in various Watchtower publications and yet no one appears to have been even momentarily convinced that they'd been right after all!
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  JWs and 9/11

  by kgfreeperson in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i couldn't find anything using search, so maybe somebody just needs to point me in the right direction.

  but i don't remember any discussion about what jws thought was happening when planes started flying into buildings and the hysteria in the nation began to build.

  i do know about the reaction of the watchtower, locking their doors against people in need.

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  kgfreeperson

  I'm sorry. My response must have seemed very rude. For some reason, the responses were not coming up so I was responding to blondie's first posting of the Watchtower response.
  
  Sorry.
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  JWs and 9/11

  by kgfreeperson in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i couldn't find anything using search, so maybe somebody just needs to point me in the right direction.

  but i don't remember any discussion about what jws thought was happening when planes started flying into buildings and the hysteria in the nation began to build.

  i do know about the reaction of the watchtower, locking their doors against people in need.

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  kgfreeperson

  And that's it? This is fascinating to me. There was no buzz in the congregations? No nothing? I'm getting the feeling that no one else is surprised by this which indicates what I thought I understood, I don't understand, about how JWs keep themselves on edge about the end being near. Soon. Does anyone have anytheories?
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  JWs and 9/11

  by kgfreeperson in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i couldn't find anything using search, so maybe somebody just needs to point me in the right direction.

  but i don't remember any discussion about what jws thought was happening when planes started flying into buildings and the hysteria in the nation began to build.

  i do know about the reaction of the watchtower, locking their doors against people in need.

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  kgfreeperson

  Wow.
  
  This really is confusing to me. JWs, who are reported here to see small, everyday events, as proof we are in the end times, saw something that looked a lot like a Watchtower illustration on the news and just shrugged? Really?
  
  And you're absolutely right, Tha Don. I do see JWs different from non-JWs in this respect: they say they live in happy anticipation of armageddon!
  
  So when the Watchtower started hinting that the end would come in 1975 all sorts of people made drastic changes in their lives to prepare. But when they turned on their tvs and saw armageddon just as the Watchtower has depicted it for years, they didn't react?
  
  Really.
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  JWs and 9/11

  by kgfreeperson in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i couldn't find anything using search, so maybe somebody just needs to point me in the right direction.

  but i don't remember any discussion about what jws thought was happening when planes started flying into buildings and the hysteria in the nation began to build.

  i do know about the reaction of the watchtower, locking their doors against people in need.

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  kgfreeperson

  I couldn't find anything using search, so maybe somebody just needs to point me in the right direction.
  
  But I don't remember any discussion about what JWs thought was happening when planes started flying into buildings and the hysteria in the nation began to build. I do know about the reaction of the Watchtower, locking their doors against people in need. I can't imagine that believers weren't convinced that this was it--armageddon had arrived. Did they? What was the reaction in Awake, The Watchtower and Kingdom Ministry? How were elders advised to handle questions from their flock?
  
  Thanks.
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  I thought I'd share a bit of the book I'm reading...

  by Surreptitious in

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  "i'll be honest about it.

  it is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics.

  doubt is useful for a while.

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  Life of Pi is one of those books that leaves you cold or is absolutely enthralling. I'm in the latter category. The quoted passage has quite a different feel when read in context (surprise!) The speaker is a young boy whose parents were absolute rationalists, but who was drawn to all religions. He made whole-soul commitments to every religion he discovered. If I recall correctly, he was seeking connection to the mystery of life and found it in all those religions.
  
  I really loved that book.
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  District Convention - Press information

  by mineralogist in

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  kgfreeperson

  I was interested that Polidoro dismissed the assaults as "parishioner on parishioner." Since when do JWs refer to each other as parishioners?
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  It's making a difference.....

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the nightmare of the wts is, more than ever, becoming a reality and is making a difference in how people research about the teachings and history of jws.

  i'm speaking, of course, about the internet.. they call the period that we are living in the information age and that is more apparent with each passing day.

  have you noticed how many new people are showing up at just this one site and saying they are leaving the jws because of the lies or saying they have been contacted by jws and maybe even studied and want to learn what they aren't telling?

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  kgfreeperson

  Well, darn! My point was that Jerry Bergman's article, talking about there are now more people who have left the Watchtower than who remain loyal, seems to be from 1984 (all the citations were from 1984). So, like, don't hold your breath!