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  Craziest thing you ever did during intermission at a Circuit Assembly

  by Esse quam videri in

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  2. experiences

  1970 - there was a local drag strip a few miles away from the hall rented for the circuit assembly.

  i was 18 , tim o. was 16 and wayne d. was 18. wayne had a 1955 chevy 4 door, 6 cylinder and fresh paint job.

  tim had his dad'ss 1965 chevy half ton.

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  I can't recall doing anything crazy during intermission other than volunteering to do clean up of the Assembly Hall Cafeteria while wearing a suit and tie.

  That same assembly hall had upholstered bench seats along the back wall of the lobby. I remember walking in late to the Assembly and having to walk through the lobby past those benches a group of well dressed heavy-set young black sisters. As I passed, they were looking at me as if they'd eat me alive. One of them fanned herself, looked me up and down and in a deep throaty way, uttered an approved Mm Mm MMM !

  After being baptized, my Mom rushed my 17 year old sister, to a hair salon to have her re-done. I thought that was a bit much.
  
  
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  Geoffrey Jackson 2006 Convention Talk - Keep In Expectation As Jehovahs Day Draws Near

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  two ironys here... first of all the title "keep in expectation as jehovahs day draws near" - (this talk is from 2006!!

  ) i suppose 11 years isnt near enough.

  second is that geoffrey jackson, of all people, is giving a talk that goes on and on about liars and how jehovah never lies.

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  Jackson's talk was given in 2006 but since then (as shown below) there's been new light, as to the meaning of the term "Draws Near".

  
  
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  JW Convention 2017

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

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  Why not write it in proper English and say "Do Not Give Up".
  

  The abbreviation "Don't" is slovenly, poor English . That will be picked up by anyone over 40 in the U K

  Standards are falling all around, in that organisation .

  Petula Clark is British and her fans are all over the age of 40 and that song is at least 50 years old I'm guessing. Standards started slipping a long time ago apparently...in the UK.
  

  Besides that, Do Not Sleep in the Subway Darling, just doesn't have a nice ring to it.

  
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqP6-KHOklY
  
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  JW Convention 2017

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

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  If the RNWT is revised again...................

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ..................then proverbs 3:5 could read thus: "trust in the governing body with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding.

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  's have already reached this point!.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nmYOQIidqo

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6M35mY6unw
  
  
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  Or was it Designed???

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  awake!

  1 2017 says on its back page.

  the saharan silver ant (cataglyphis bombycina) is one of the most heat-tolerant land animals known.

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  To say this ant was created this way, is also saying the Jehovah intentionally created the scorching desert even though we were taught that the earth was cursed with harsh conditions as a punishment for Adam and Eve's sins.

  Genisis 3:14 "Then the LORD God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, you are cursed more than any livestock and more than any wild animal. You will move on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life."
  

  As a kid, when I'd question inconsistencies in the literature similar to this one example of the Saharan ant, the scripture shown above was always sited as a means to show me that God may have altered living creatures after he was done with creation. This scripture shows that serpents at one time must have had legs and feet, or some other way to move about, but because Satan inhabited the body of one serpent while tempting Adam and Eve , God cursed and then altered things so that all serpents hence forth crawl upon it's belly instead of using whatever means of mobility they had originally. (as if Satan's crime was the serpent's fault)
  

  It was obvious to me even as a kid, that people were looking for any reason to continue with the magical thinking they were taught as children or came to understand when they were at a weak and vulnerable point in their lives and needed something to cling to.
  
  
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  Hello and and introduction to Virtue Signaling

  by WobblyVern in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi all - perhaps a brief intro from me would be appropriate..... i hail from essex, england.

  a 2nd generation witness never knowing any other life and from a large and mostly devout family.

  i was disfellowshipped in 1993 aged 21 and the worldly girl i met, got pregnant and married (in that order) is mother to my 3 grown children and grandmother to our beautiful baby granddaughter.

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  I suppose one could say the JW version of this is when they haul some local family on the platform at the assembly and the family talks about how lively and fun their family study is. All the kids chime in and talk about how they can't wait for family study night and they all try to have some interesting point prepared to discuss.

  Every kid in the audience is rolling their eyes or gagging on their own bile and most of the parents are wondering why getting their kids to sit down for the family study,is such a knock down drag out fight. The rest of the audience has tuned the whole thing out or has come to the conclusion that everyone else is more spiritual than they are and there's no point even trying anymore.

  I remember there was this 20 something girl named "Laura" in our hall that constantly tried to impress everyone about how "spiritual" she was. A bunch of us were walking out the door after the Watchtower study and she piously announced to all who could hear "That was such a good article....I'm going to study it again when I get home !". One of the more outspoken sisters said under her breath but loud enough for everyone to hear " Shut up Laura...you friggin' weirdo!" Everyone within earshot started openly snickering...it was an awesome moment LOL!
  
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  Hello and and introduction to Virtue Signaling

  by WobblyVern in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi all - perhaps a brief intro from me would be appropriate..... i hail from essex, england.

  a 2nd generation witness never knowing any other life and from a large and mostly devout family.

  i was disfellowshipped in 1993 aged 21 and the worldly girl i met, got pregnant and married (in that order) is mother to my 3 grown children and grandmother to our beautiful baby granddaughter.

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  I don't see a link....is this the article you're talking about? HERE

  or HERE
  
  
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  Need your honest opinion

  by poopie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is the scenario there's a guy who is df and being shunned big time.

  we'll he needs a place to stay since he can't stay with his family you know the shunning thing well another jw in good standing says he can stay with him .the df guy is delighted but a little problem the elders are going to find out the df guy car parked at jw house.

  no one in the area knows he's df because it's 90 miles from the cong he was df in so i told him he's takeing a risk but he says i'm going to show love to this person no matter what..

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  So if your asking our opinion on whether or not the JW should let the DF'd guys stay in his house, I'd say yes he should if that's what he wants to do. The congregation 90 miles away shouldn't be a problem, but he'll have to figure out what to say when one or more of the local JW's notices someone is staying with him.

  Since the DF'd guy isn't a JW anymore, he could be passed off as a "worldly" friend (which he now is) who had shown "interest" in the past (which he once did) and is now in need of temporary help.
  
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  Stephanie Fessler v Watch Tower - Trial on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017 in Pennsylvania

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://avoidjw.org/2017/02/stephanie-fessler-v-watch-tower/.

  stephanie fessler v watch tower.

  stephanie fessler was brought up as a jehovah’s witness by her parents, jodee and kevin.

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  I can see how the Watchtower Society would be guilty because of their policy to handle these situations within the Congregation but once the parents discovered what was going on, shouldn't they be equally responsible for things having "escalated" between the girl and the older woman, later on?

  Police report or not, in my mind the parents were negligent for not keeping their daughter out of harms way once they became aware of the situation.

  I don't want to blame the victim here but at 15, isn't the girl somewhat responsible for allowing things to continue once things became known? It's not like she was a helpless 6 year old. If I'm reading things correctly, it seems crazy that she can sue the Watchtower for their irresponsibility, yet her parents, who were obviously not monitoring the girl very well all those years, are somehow not being charged.