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  Disfellowshipping

  by larc in

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  i have read many stories here about those who have been disfellowshiped.

  they express the pain of the experience, and the emotional trauma they experience.

  i have to ask a question.

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  How about when you've done nothing wrong, but get kicked out on hearsay? I was diss'ed when an Elders daughter said she "might have seen" me smoking. They didn’t even have ONE witness, let alone two eyewitnesses!

  When I questioned it, I was told that I was being diss'ed because of my "unrepentant attitude" I was told it was my right to ask for separate hearing, but if I did, it would be much harder for me to return.

  Funny how when a different Elders daughter was SEEN smoking by her own father, mother, and other family members (All JW's) he put it down to a silly phase she was going through. Nothing more was done about it.

  I could reel off hundreds of examples where people have been diss'ed for nothing more than asking intelligent questions. They don’t tell you THAT when you're going through your baptism questions
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  A Normal Evening

  by Satanus in

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  what makes a normal evening for you?.

  mine might be spending a couple of hours on the computer, eat something, maybe watch the sunset, maybe a phone call or two, some maintainence on my apt, rest.

  i would consider that normal.. just before i go to sleep, i usually read some of a book.. ss

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  Talking to my wife, reading comics and smoking a spliff...
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  Ray Franz.....LIAR?

  by integ in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one of my witness family members agreed to take a look at crisis of conscience, and after.

  perusing the first couple of chapters, said that she thought it could be all made up.

  agreed that the documents presented could be legitimate, but as far as franz's personal.

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  Oh the suspense is killing me....What happened to Leo Greenless and Edward Chitty?!
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  Underlining the answers in the Watchtower magazines

  by JH in

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  i found it funny how some people would literally underline just about everything in the watchtower magazine.

  the more the magazine was underlined and notes were written, the more a person looked spiritual.. did it ever happen that you didn't read your watchtower magazine, and you underlined just about anything just to look as if you read it?.

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  I must admit, I was quite proud of pulling out my crisp virgin copy of the watchtower on a Sunday morning,

  whilst watching their disapproving looks
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  Drugs?

  by be wise in

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  2. friends

  i think this is my first debatable topic.

  for anyone who has experimented with recreational drugs or who knows about someone who has how do you think they can change you for the better as well as for the worse?

  i know a few ways in which they really changed me, i was very shy and never felt compfortable around people until i had my first experience and felt totally unhibited around a room full of people (talking in retrospect) and i never forgot what that felt like - it opened my mind and i learned to become much more confident.

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  MJ is my drug of choice. Only because beer gives makes me fat.
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  Whats the craziest thing you've done at the Kingdom hall?

  by yxl1 in

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  2. friends

  i was given the "privilege" to open the kh early to switch on the heating.

  they even gave me my own set of keys.. every saturday night, me and another jw would drive to the kh with our amps and guitars and .

  jam until the early morning, using the stage and the kh's pa system.

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  I was given the "privilege" to open the KH early to switch on the heating. They even gave me my own set of keys.

  Every Saturday night, me and another JW would drive to the KH with our amps and guitars and

  jam until the early morning, using the stage and the KH's PA system. We did this for about a year

  and at one point we had a full 6 piece rock band (with drums) rehearsing.

  Even though I dislike the Dubs, I'm not proud of what we did. Its not nice messing with peoples

  places of worship...but at the time..It REALLY felt good!!
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  As a loyal JW, what made you to start doubting the Watchtower ???

  by run dont walk in

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  2. friends

  i'm sure all of us were loyal at one time to the watchtower, believing in all of it.

  (some of us probaly hated it from day one as well but, ).

  what were some of the first things that happened or were said, that made you to start doubting it and beginning the loss of your loyalty to the organization ??????.

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  For me it was a quote in the "Yoof" book. "Masterbation leads to homosexualality" They lied. I spent many a bored

  Sunday morning locked in the mens toilets at my KH, and I never "turned" gay
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  Crystal Palace Assembly

  by yxl1 in

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  does anyone know if they still hold assemblies at crystal palace?

  i remember being told.

  not to talk to the weirdos who would hang outside and hand out apostate material.

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  Does anyone know if they still hold assemblies at Crystal Palace? I remember being told

  not to talk to the weirdos who would hang outside and hand out apostate material.
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  Bizarre Advice On Child Rearing

  by BluesBrother in

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  2. bible

  recently we looked this up, to show to someone who refused to believe that they would ever print such advice.. this was in the watchtower 1976 page 330. it was the lifestory of porfirio caicedo from columbia :-i recall a form of punishment that worked effectively on horacio, my fifth son, when the literal rod failed to do so.

  he was about eight years old.

  he was too insistent in associating with undesirable neighborhood boys.

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  I'd rather get dressed up like a girl than whipped with electrical wire for refusing to go on the field service like my mum used to....

  But then again, I'd rather get whipped with electrical wire than go on the field service...:-)
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  Technical Difficulties

  by Nosferatu in

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  2. friends

  i recall a convention quite a few years ago.

  it was the last day and i was sitting in that hard chair, bored as usual.

  suddenly, the lights went out.

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  I was in charge of draining the water pipes during the winter months at the Kingdon hall. One Thursday night I didnt bother,

  and when we turned up on Sunday morning, the pipes had burst and the KingdomHall was flooded. I had the "privledge" taken

  away from me!!!