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  Whatever happened to the "written review"?

  by pale.emperor in

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  does anyone know why the written review was stopped?

  i relished the half hour silence they'd give you to "write down your answers", time i spend doodling or thinking up cool song lyrics..

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  Pete Zahut

  Back in the day my father was ministry school servant and I got to see the grades...and knew who was smart and who was stupid.

  Yes.....early on, we had to turn in our review sheets to our book study conductor (I think) or to the School Servant maybe. There was a certain amount of pressure to do well because someone was going to be evaluating you based on your score. When I got older, I remember realizing that there was noting they could do if I didn't turn my form in or for that matter, didn't fill it out at all !
  
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  Russia is Smart

  by Kohanic in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhnseocpffq.

  so according to the law department's meeting in feb 2016, russia has been studying the linguistics of the watchtower articles and discovered its brainwashing abilities!.

  lol it's funny now that i'm on the russian side of this debate now, ban them all!.

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  It's a sad commentary that no one in an audience made up of high level Bible Students and self proclaimed Bible Authorities, knew that Jesus was the second most frequently found name written in the Bible.

  I also found it strange that although the speaker admitted that the decrease in the number of JW's in Russia was due to JW's fleeing persecution, there was no mention of how doing so, demonstrated how disloyal to the "brotherhood" and how lacking in faith in Jehovah and his "Mountain" these ones were. Weren't we always told that we needed to be prepared to band together and even die for our brothers during persecution against the organization ? These Russian JW's turned tail and ran, leaving their fellow JW's in the lurch.
  
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  Wierd Shunning Stories

  by VW.org in

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  2. experiences

  yesterday i went to a shopping center.

  i saw a dub who was once a very friendly person.

  he was about 10 metres from me when i noticed him.

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  Pete Zahut

  Yesterday I went to a shopping center. I saw a dub who was once a very friendly person.

  Perhaps your former friend, wasn't supposed to be there and didn't want to see anyone he knows.
  
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  Biting my tongue

  by Jrjw in

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  i'm really biting my tongue at the moment with a certain witness.

  he said he hates how the churches have lied to people, misled them, controlled them, got money out of them.

  gouge can he noht see the wts has done that, i really wanted to say something so badly.

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  Make a fake email account and anonymously send him some TTATT related information such as the Australian Hearing Videos.
  
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  Whatever happened to the "written review"?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone know why the written review was stopped?

  i relished the half hour silence they'd give you to "write down your answers", time i spend doodling or thinking up cool song lyrics..

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  Pete Zahut

  "Whatever happened to the "written review"?
  

  This reminds me of how some not so lovingly referred to the written review as the "rotten review". Our Congregation used to pass out these thin boards for you to lean on while you wrote your answers. Most of them had doodles scrawled all over them and things written on them (likely by teenagers) such as "AC/DC sucks Megadeth Rules !!"
  
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  My New Year Present to Everyone

  by new boy in

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  i have lived in sedona arizona for over five years.

  we own the largest wine tour company here and take out more people to the vineyards in this area then anyone less.

  so my new years present to anyone (governing body members excluded) here that reads this thread is 2 free wine tours if you visit sedona.

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  Pete Zahut

  Former Bethelite who's a big fan of Sedona and the occasional glass of wine. I sat at the Governing Body table with Knorr , Ray and Fred Franz, Greelees , Sydlik and the rest, so I have a tale or two to tell.
  
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  Do you have JW-related dreams (nightmares)?

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, dreamers:.

  i guess it's never going away: daytime carryovers of jw-related stuff seeping into my dreams.. the majority of these dreams take place at conventions but with really weird trappings.

  last night i dreamed i arrived at the site with no books, no lunch, nothing but my car keys.

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  As a kid I had Tribulation dreams that involved me frantically trying to figure out how I was going to save my little sisters if the "bad guys" threatened to harm them if I didn't renounce Jehovah.

  From time to time I still wake up with my heart pounding after dreaming that I had re-enlisted at Bethel. In the dream I'm at Bethel and realize that for some unknown reason I've stupidly quit my job and signed up to work there. At this point, there's no way to undo what I have done and there's no way to get out of this without bringing shame on myself and my family if I don't stick it out.
  

  It's such a relief to wake up and find out it was all a bad dream. I never knew anyone else had this same dream and it's very telling, that so many of us do.
  
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  CL&M part Jan 4 - annual meeting service report - our outstanding experiences

  by loneranger in

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  this was the first part in the "living as christians" section of the meeting tonight.

  speaker had two pioneers on the stage to relate their outstanding experiences for 2017. we have 23 pioneers and over 160 publishers in the hall.

  our territory is densely populated with single family houses, apartments and condominiums.

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  One of the last assemblies I was at there was a very elderly sister on stage talking about her rich experiences as a Pioneer. Her tale was chock full of injuries from falls on the sidewalk, tumbling down stairways, car accidents, dog bites, car troubles and slips on ice because she vigilantly/stupidly went from door to door despite terrible weather conditions. She spoke about how much Jehovah had blessed her and helped her overcome these difficulties.

  My Son turned to me and whispered "Either this poor lady is super clumsy...or Jehovah isn't watching out for her at all"
  
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  What could be other alternative names for the Jehovah's Witnesses ?

  by Finkelstein in

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  2. beliefs

  how about .... the international brotherhood of stupidity.. the righteous zombies club .

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  Cataclysm Posse

  Brotherhood of the Twisted Scriptures

  Order of the Unseen Truth

  Clan of the Doomsday Hope

  Assembly of the Ever Changing Light

  Extended Millennium Counsel

  Friends of Conditional Love and God's Almighty Wrath.
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  Don't you think that some people are just better off within the org?

  by paradiseseeker in

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  2. friends

  this is my first post, i will introduce myself later.

  first of all, i must say that english is not my mother tongue (i'm spanish), so excuse me if i make any mistake.. do you think that some people simply can't cope with being outside the jws?

  some of them are too worldlyphobic to be around non-jws, too dependent on a fixed set of rules in order to carry on with their lives, too dependent on the hope of paradise and resurrection, too unable to leave their personal comfort zone within the organization.

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  Pete Zahut

  Hi Paradiseseeker,

  I agree, there are those who'd be lost if they didn't have somewhere like the JW's to go, and they are the scariest and most dangerous of all JW's to be related to or to be at the mercy of, such as in a judicial committee hearing etc.

  A lot of people do better when they have a routine or a standard set of behaviors or rules to follow. The trouble is, that after being a JW, they've ruined you for anything else. JW's thoroughly and systematically discredit the whole world and everyone in it and make it nearly impossible to fully fit in anywhere else once you've been part of them.

  Anyone who buys into the program fully, not even allowing themselves to consider alternative viewpoints, is the perfect candidate for climbing the ladder of JW success and having dangerous powers over others.