Well that's an evening of your life you wont get back..
...oh hang you will, because the WT is the gift that just keeps on giving over and over year after year.... ahhhh.
Cue the music from psycho.
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Jesus H Christ on a Popsicle stick, these people are freaking morons....
by DATA-DOG ini had to spend the evening with a bunch of dubs.
they went to the ic and are just enraptured.
i have heard the term "emotional" about 100 friggin times.
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Local Elder wins hot tub.
by Clambake inan elder in my cong.
test drove a new a car and was entered in this contest to win a new hot tub.
i don't know if he had to enter to was just.
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Well there is that scripture (in Revelation I think) warning about the dangers of being "neither hot nor cold".
The latest trend in warming the spiritualtiy of tepid christians Jehovah's Hot Tub.
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BOE 2014-07-13 Appointment and deletion of elders and ministerial servants
by WatchTower87 in2014-07-13 appointment and deletion of elders and ministerial servantsto all bodies of elders.
the link removed by request is also available at the forms link.
the congregation secretary should arrange for this letter to be retained in the congregation permanent file of policy letters.
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sparrowdown
Elders should have to qualify in a measurable sense.
Require them to attend secular courses on various subjects like counselling and social work,
also a list of mandatory reportable offences to the police.
Make them accountable.
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Women elders, what difference would they make?
by Freedom77 inokay, let's do a big what-if: suppose the gb for its own unfathomable reasons suddenly got new light (tm) and decided to start appointing women elders and ministerial servants.
they would, of course, refer to the examples of junia (apostle), and priscilla and phoebe (deaconesses in wordlyspeak) in the greek scriptures; never mind what mental somersaults it would take to get them there.
stranger things have happened in wt history.. that being the case, would having women in positions of real authority make any significant difference in the congos or in the borg as a whole, and why or why not?.
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I think I know your mother jwfacts.
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Not on JW.ORG: ANOTHER VICTIM of Jehovah's Witness ELDER, testifies about sexual assault.
by Balaamsass2 insecond victim of jailed church elder speaks out7:47am thursday 24th july 2014 in news.
speaking out: tina guy (8481415)a second victim of jailed jehovah's witness elder mark sewell has stepped forward to tell of her ordeal at the hands of the convicted rapist.. tina guy, a former employee of sewell, has told of her horror at recalling an incident where she was driven onto wasteland against her will and locked in a car by him - only to narrowly escape from the man who had already committed rape.. when sewell drove mrs guy onto barren land at barry docks in the mid 90s, she had no idea that the boss who had targeted her with a campaign of suggestive behaviour and an eventual indecent assault had already committed a rape just a few years prior.. sewell, 53, of porthkerry road, barry, was jailed for 14 years at merthyr crown court earlier this month after being found guilty of raping a fellow churchgoer, indecently assaulting two young girls - including his niece karen morgan - and also indecently assaulting mrs guy in their workplace.. mrs guy, a married mother-of-one from george street, barry, began working at sewell's janitorial supply business in the mid 90s when she was 25 years old.. soon after, sewell began making inappropriate comments to her before advancing to trying to get her alone and make her sit on his lap saying: "give uncle mark a kiss" - disturbingly similar behaviour to that used in grooming his 12-year-old niece karen several years before.. mrs guy said that at the time she had only been in one relationship and was "naive".
she didn't know how seriously to take the boss who seemed funny and playful, at first.. also, she said, knowing that he was a member of the jehovah's witness church she assumed he must be a "good person".. knowing now what sewell - described in court as a "predator" who used his power to exploit and abuse women and girls - was capable of, one incident sends shivers up her spine.. she described how one day sewell had approached her red-faced and furious while she was talking with another male employee and demanded she join him on a trip to a bank in barry town centre.. he drove her to town and left her in the car while he went to the bank, something that immediately put mrs guy on edge.. on what should have been the return trip, sewell took an unusual route before driving onto barren wasteland near barry docks.
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sparrowdown
Disturbingly, for every rat you see there are probably fifty you don't.
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If You Can Get Out Of The Jehovah's Witness Religion---DO IT!
by minimus ini realize some people feel they can't just leave the religion.
they have family, friends, position.. some elders mistakenly believe that they might be able to reform the cult from within.
the truth is, the religion is never really going to change.
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sparrowdown
In the end I stopped because I just didn't want to go anymore.
I thought "what am I-six?". No, I am a grown up and I don't have to go if I don't want to.
Nobody has a gun to my head (not a real gun anyway, only an emotionally loaded gun)
There are many things in life that we don't have a choice over, but seriously, meetings of JWs isn't one of them.
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New marketing ideas for JW.ORG merchandise!?!?
by stuckinarut2 inperhaps this should be in the humor /jokes section....but oh well...here goes.. (some of our more tech savy forum members may know to upload images to help out?).
so how about these ideas for jw.org merchandise?
or as some tacky gifts as handed out at the international conventions?.
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sparrowdown
A "snow" globe of the world with little people rather than "snow" and it makes a screaming sound when you shake it.
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New marketing ideas for JW.ORG merchandise!?!?
by stuckinarut2 inperhaps this should be in the humor /jokes section....but oh well...here goes.. (some of our more tech savy forum members may know to upload images to help out?).
so how about these ideas for jw.org merchandise?
or as some tacky gifts as handed out at the international conventions?.
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sparrowdown
Baptismal Tea-bags for when someone gets dunked.
A toaster with the logo so you will remember every day what happens to apostates at amaggeddon. (toastageddon)
A bird feeder.
Rhinestone crowns.
Tight pants.
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Women elders, what difference would they make?
by Freedom77 inokay, let's do a big what-if: suppose the gb for its own unfathomable reasons suddenly got new light (tm) and decided to start appointing women elders and ministerial servants.
they would, of course, refer to the examples of junia (apostle), and priscilla and phoebe (deaconesses in wordlyspeak) in the greek scriptures; never mind what mental somersaults it would take to get them there.
stranger things have happened in wt history.. that being the case, would having women in positions of real authority make any significant difference in the congos or in the borg as a whole, and why or why not?.
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sparrowdown
I am sure women could do the job just as well and better.
But I think women are just as susceptible to the negative effects of power as any man.
Ambition doesn't discriminate.
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What is up with the epidemic of sinkholes?
by EndofMysteries inthis is definitely not a thing where media is paying more attention, they are definitely on the rise.
too bad the gb didn't think of foretelling that years ago haha.
i have only 2 theories, 1 is perhaps it's due to pesticides and acid rain, and if that is the case, then it will get real bad.
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sparrowdown
Where I live sinkholes have been occurring where there has been a combination of limestone and continual heavy rain.