what Shera said.
You have the choice, but if you make the wrong choice, you die
Steve
Posts by smack
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23What did you learn as a JW?
by JH inwith 5 meetings a week plus field service, and additional reading of the bible and watchtower literature, what did you learn after all these years in the jw organization?
did we need all those meetings and time and effort just to know some simple details?
in all these years i spent there, this is just about all i can say i learned there: .
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Do we on this board have a tighter group than other boards?
by freedom96 in.
there must be hundreds of thousands of message boards.. i wonder if those who post here feel as though this particular site has a stronger knit of people than other boards.. we have so much in common, yet of course different.
is the fact that we used to be witnesses a stronger string to each other than other common interest groups?
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smack
Well, I'm certainly getting comfortable around here. It is a very friendly and informative place. I post to newsgroups as well, and there is one that is very similar but still completely different. The people there share a common bond, same as here. It is aus.motorcycles, nothing religious but still spiritual in a way.
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Did you place publications with people and without reading them ? follow up
by run dont walk inare right fess up people.
how many of us went in field service and placed literature without even opening the covers ?, let alone reading the articles.. how about following up on a return visit for a magazine you never read ?.
i have to admit, i did it many many times.. maybe we should of went into the used car business.
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every single one. I don't think I ever read one cover to cover.
Steve
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Has any one ever put up a..........
by fairy inhas anyone ever put up a for sale sign outside the kingdom hall.............or any other funny things......
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20? will I ever post that many thymes?
Steve (bored at work till 2300
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What's in a name? Teenyuck?
by leddfootdja ini find all the different aliases people use on here to be pretty entertaining.. what does your name mean to you?
why did you choose it?.
i assume teenyuck, for example = tina spoke by a young child.
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smack
Really boring
smack
S.Mack
Steve Mack
hows that
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New Girl on the block
by Teela ini have been reading the threads for about a year now and thought its time to post my story.
i cant remember much up until i was ten except the usual no birthdays, no worldly friends or bad associates.
then it was a series of arguments of why i didnt what to go to church.
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ahhhhhhhhhh, another that never believed...
welcome
Steve
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welcome Heather. Along the lines of xjw_b12, er, what '66 model with a 350 chev do you have?
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You LURKERS Out There......This Could Happen to YOU !!
by xjw_b12 in1000 posts, i thought it would never happen.
i originally joined and lurked for the longest time, before i started posting on a regular basis.. this board was a place of comfort through justification.
i still clung to some old feelings of dread, and the old "what if?
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I worked it out straight away, but I can't work out what Simon's nick means
Steve Mack
smack
geddit
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What do you do for a living ??? Would the elders make you quit your job ???
by run dont walk inthis one is my biggest pet peeves.. growing up in the borg, i had a hard time finding any job, let alone a decent paying one.. i had to quit many jobs because my parents said "i was missing out to many meetings and field service.".
but how come the elders who worked at ford, chysler, gm, or any big factories, that worked shift work, and missed meetings every three weeks consistently for decades, and that was okay.
the response i would get was, "well they have a family to raise and look after.
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I work for the national broadcaster, so for a few weeks each December I put heaps of Christmas stuff to air. I used to put 'Songs of Praise' and other religious programs to air on Sundays. I worked for a cable TV operator and did a few months on the Australian Christian Channel. I never had the opportunity to work on the Adult channel, I was over qualified.
An elder at my old clan was in the take away food business, family members were the only employees. He was partner with a non JW. He had meeting nights changed to suit his busy nights. When the clan split, his son went to the other cong, so that they wouldn't miss so many meetings.
Elders can't make me do jack
Steve
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1975..Let's Keep It Alive!
by Englishman in1975. the end of 6000 years of man's existence, and logically, therefore, the start of the 1000 year reign, which meant that armageddon had to be done and dusted before that.. i remember it well!
the hype at assemblies, my dad giving up his job and selling his home to move where the "need was great", now minimised by mother with her "oh so you're another seventy-fiver are you" comments.. now it's just something that occasionally embarrasses jw's, some of them deny it ever happened, others think that it was all too long ago to be relevent.. maybe we need to put 1975 into a slot where we can all relate to it.
maybe those of us who remember that year could chip in as well.. so, what did happen in 1975?
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smack
There were so many idiots, so few comets. We'd just returned from serving where the need was greater. 4 wasted yearsSteve