Bonnie_Clyde

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  I know this is late but I'm happy to announce that this year I finally celebrated my first thanksgiving!!!

  by OneDayillBeFree in

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  it was truly great!

  it was work related so a lot of people from work were there but i had a great time!

  almost everybody brought some kind of food and we ate at my friends a coworker's house!

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  We had Thanksgiving at our house for several years with no problems--even inviting my father (elder) and mother. We just didn't call it Thanksgiving even though my father was usually asked to say say the blessing. Our excuse was: turkeys and cranberries are on sale, we have the day off from work, and come over for dinner. I will admit, the last time my father said a prayer at Thanksgiving (before his death) made a comment in the prayer that we don't celebrate worldly holidays.

  The other holidays are another matter.
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  Pre paid legal inc. is a cult

  by zengalileo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i tried selling pre paid legal for about two yers.

  hardly made a sale.

  none of my friends gave a crap about it.

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  I have owned Pre-paid Legal for several years and have used it a couple of times. Glad I have it. I've been solicited to sell it a number of times because I'm also in the insurance business, but I don't want to mix the two. With my company we also have a lot of people who start and don't make it, but that's not the fault of the company. I know a lot of people who make a great deal of money, and I'm not doing too bad either. We also have a lot of meetings, but they are structured to help us become better agents. BTW I recently got an email that they have changed their name to "Legal Shield."
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  The Magazine "The Plain Truth." Remember It?

  by AvocadoJake in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  do you remember the magazine and the author of this magazine, any old timers know who the backers were?

  i was five years old, when the old man was the editor or author of this religious magazine.

  did you ever talk to any of the followers of this movement?

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  I had a RV who was getting the "Plain Truth." I remember writing to Armstrong asking if he had ever been a Jehovah's Witness--because he sounded so much like the witnesses. He wrote back and said that he never had been but that he did occasionally read the Watchtower and Awake! magazines.
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  Why don't JWs do much in the way of charity work?

  by ilikecheese in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i argue with the boyfriend a lot about the fact that i think charitable work is every bit as important as preaching when it comes to serving god.

  every church i've ever gone to has some sort of community outreach, if not several outreaches, that have little or nothing to do with preaching.

  and i made the point that if these people know you're affiliated with a church, they'll think a little more kindly about christians, too, which would help in the whole witnessing arena.

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  I would like to see the government start taxing churches that do little or nothing charitable.
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  Why don't JWs do much in the way of charity work?

  by ilikecheese in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i argue with the boyfriend a lot about the fact that i think charitable work is every bit as important as preaching when it comes to serving god.

  every church i've ever gone to has some sort of community outreach, if not several outreaches, that have little or nothing to do with preaching.

  and i made the point that if these people know you're affiliated with a church, they'll think a little more kindly about christians, too, which would help in the whole witnessing arena.

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  I would like to see the government start taxing churches like JW's who do little or nothing charitable.
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  "Feeling sorry for yourself" about being hit by your husband is not Christian 2/15/12 WT Page 25 P 12

  by yourmomma in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  have anyone of you read, the absolutly jaw dropping paragraph in this article about a women who was hit by her husband?

  its in page 25 of the 2/15/12 wt study edition (i read the dumbed down version).. .

  if there was any question, that the watchtowers stance is for wives to simply take it when their husbands abuse them, this makes it crystal clear.. who the hell is scanning these things before they go to print?

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  Back in 1965 my JW brother hit his wife. She left the house and a few hours later came back with her mother. My brother decked his mother-in-law in the eye. She fell backwards onto the concrete driveway, and he slammed the door shut. She ended up in the hospital. The elders quickly got involved and counselled them not to report it to the police. So the police came to the hospital and questioned them, but they refused to answer. My sister-in-law went to live with her mother after that for about a year, but the elders told her she had no grounds for divorce and the best thing to do was to reconcile. She did this even though she had a miserable marriage, and it took 30 years before she finally divorced him anyway. I don't know if he ever hit her again, but I know he hit his kids a lot. He also hit me a lot when I was growing up, but at the time I thought it was normal.

  My JW father's attitude toward this was that the woman had it coming because she was yelling at my brother as she was entering the house, and my sister-in-law needed to be more submissive. He told me that she just got a black eye! I found out years later that she actually lost the vision in one eye. I'm embarrassed that I am related to this pervert. And my father actually sided with my brother!

  Bonnie
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  Yet another Watchtower Lie

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower website is currently highlighting the article "are jehovah's witnesses a protestant religion?

  " from the the watchtower november 1, 2009. it makes the following comment:.

  "third, unlike the protestant movement, which has splintered into hundreds of denominations, jehovahs witnesses have maintained a united global brotherhood.".

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  Smiddy - I think the term they may used back in the 1960's was "evil slave?"
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  A week without field service makes you weak! Anybody remember that?

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i remember an assembly--maybe 30 years ago--and it was stated over and over again in one of the assembly parts.

  i suppose we should avoid association with someone who hasn't been out in service for a "week" or we will also become "weak.

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  I remember an assembly--maybe 30 years ago--and it was stated over and over again in one of the assembly parts. I suppose we should avoid association with someone who hasn't been out in service for a "week" or we will also become "weak."
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  Oct. 22nd Zone Meeting: Here's some facts and figures presented to ticketed-only audiences

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if we weren't invited, this is the "bragging" information we missed last saturday, oct. 22, 2011, at the zone meeting with tie-in from patterson, ny .

  59 locations tied-in plus spanish.

  anticipating 258,000 attendance from tickets given out.

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  The last special meeting I attended was in 1984. Could have sworn they said about the same stuff. It was all about the big "O."
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  How long did Conventions used to be?

  by donuthole in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i remember as a child in the 1980's attending four day conventions.

  i know in the past conventions were even longer.

  does anyone know how long they use to last and the approximate years?

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  I attended all eight days of the 1958 international assembly at Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds--it was the only assembly that year in the entire world. There was a record-breaking 253,000 in attendance. I was 16 years old, new in the "truth", and very indoctrinated. I was young and in good health and had no concept of how difficult it must have been for older people or mothers with children.

  Freddy Franz gave several discourses over the week. I remember thinking I didn't really understand what he was saying, but I knew he was God's representative and that eventually everything would make sense. Besides, my mind was tired as Freddy was always the last speaker of the session.

  As we would leave the stadium every night, newspaper boys were selling their papers with headlines about our assembly, and we were convinced that this assembly had notified the world that we were truly God's organization and that the nations should take notice. For the next several weeks after the assembly we had to distribute leaflets about the resolution we adopted condeming Satan's world (and I think the United Nations). I remember how embarrassed I was when I knocked at a door and one my teachers answered, but I had to give her the leaflet. Somewhere in my closet I think I still have a copy of that resolution.

  Bonnie