Several years ago a brother was interviewing some young boys in the congregation (average age about 10). Apparently it was not well rehearsed because when he asked one of the boys what he planned to do when he got out of school, he said he would like to become a lawyer. The brother was a bit embarrassed. Can't remember how he handled it, but he got the interview turned around somehow.
Bonnie_Clyde
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Is the Higher/ Further Education still enemy number one?
by Jerohobobonadad ini went to university without any problems in the cong.
two others in my hall went and no one made a public complaint.
i was interviewed age 15 on the platform by my dad (elder) about whether i would pioneer when i left school or not.
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Utter fabricated incongruity........
by AK - Jeff ini was reading auld soul's post regarding the inappropriate insertion of yhwh into the nt, the dubs using the 'j' texts as support for this travesty of mistranslation.
2:5; (69) holy nation, 1 pet.
22:17; 19:7; (80) jehovah?s witnesses, isa.
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Bonnie_Clyde
I remember reading this when the article came out. I thought rather odd, but being a true believer, just let it go.
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Recieved copy of Michigan Apostate Letter today
by lovelylil intoday i received the letter sent to all the elders in michigan that our friend outaservice was referring to a few days ago.
i was planning on scanning it and putting it up on the jwd.
but the print if very, very tiny and my hubby (who knows how to scan) said it will be very hard to see.
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Bonnie_Clyde
I'm very interested in the letter as I have JW friends in Brighton, Michigan. The husband is a true blue JW, but his wife could care less.
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Name the Books That Impacted You The Most.
by XJW4EVR inanything by raymond franz is a given.. 1984. siddartha.
lord of the flies.
grapes of wrath.
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Bonnie_Clyde
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee - I hear the movie is great too. Great book about southern life in the 1930's and the prejudice.
"Hawaii "by James Michener - I read the unabridged edition - over 1,000 pages, it held my attention all the way.
"Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck was very eye opening. I read that when some of the people who migrated to Oklahoma to California in the 1930's were asked if they thought Steinbeck's novel depicted conditions the way things really were, they replied that "No, it was worse." I also understand that Steinbeck went from California to Oklahoma and accompanied one of the families who were forced out of their home, on their trip to California so he could get the emotions of their journey. Also, some school libraries in Missouri about 1939 actually banned Steinbeck's novel saying it was unfit for children to read.
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell - easier reading than "1984" but I think both books are excellent. The similarities to the Borg are so clear.
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Circuit Assembly 2006
by Zico ini've got my circuit assembly coming next week... which i'll have to attend.
i know that these are generally held around march/april, so i'm sure some posters must have been to the 2006 one?
i remember reading a lot of reviews about the district convention, and it was great to know what would be discussed before i went!
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Bonnie_Clyde
Our circuit had their two-day assembly last weekend. I didn't go. Clyde talked to one friend who slept through most of Saturday, but he said what he did hear was, "Give, give, give" of your time and money. Another friend went Sunday. Said he was very discouraged as they, again, were knocking education. The speaker, of course, already had a college education.
I wonder how many people who attend the assembly really want to be there. Those two friends certainly didn't want to be. Family pressure!
Love, Bonnie
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Did You Shun Someone?
by Country Girl inhow did you feel when you met the person in public that you were shunning?
what were you thinking as you were shunning the person?
did you think about what other witnesses were thinking if you did not want to shun the person?
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Bonnie_Clyde
When my son was 5 years old he had a speech impediment. His school arranged for a speech therapist to work with him. One day she introduced me to her replacement, a disfellowshipped witness girl. We were in a closed room. It was very awkward and I refused to speak to her. The girl walked out and I never saw her again. The original therapist stayed to work with my son.
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Why don't JWs pursue hobbies?
by Gill inin the congregation that we used to go to, and my parents and most of my relatives still do, very few had hobbies and interests other than being bound to the wtbts.. many made wine and brewed their own beer.
infact, all of my relatives are wine and beer makers.
there are a few gardeners, but i'm hearing how they are trying to grow their own grapes and fruit so that they can make their own wine!.
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Bonnie_Clyde
*** w04 8/15 p. 24 Tired but Not Tiring Out ***
I remember when we studied that article at the meeting. I was so tempted to comment that it would be appropriate for the elders to put their golf clubs away so they would have more time for Jehovah. About that time, the local paper had a picture and article featuring two or three of the prominent elders out on the golf course and how it was a "family affair.". One married couple decided to eliminate some of their hobbies and nonessential personal projects. They actually went through their things and literally packed all the materials related to such projects and put them out of sight. Periodically, we can all benefit from taking inventory of our habits and possessions, putting off every unnecessary weight so that we may not get tired and give out in our souls.
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While being an active JW, did you throw away Watchtower literature?
by JH ini remember that magazines and books came in faster than i could read, it was accumulating fast.
in my first years, i didn't dare throw away anything.
even later when i was starting to cool down, i still had mountains of books, magazines and brochures.
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Bonnie_Clyde
Can't imagine what my home would like if I can't kept every piece of literature. I've been getting literature for over 50 years. I do have all the bound volumes and just about every book printed since 1956, and that is more than enough. I wouldn't mind getting rid of them and just use the CD ROM, but my spouse says "no." He doesn't know how to use the CD.
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What happened to the victims of the Bethel inquisition?
by Bonnie_Clyde ini just cracked open my "crisis of conscience" book and reread the chapter, "point of decision.
" i wonder what ever happened to the people who were disfellowshiped and kicked out of bethel.
i know that ed dunlap went back to oklahoma and died not too long ago.
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Bonnie_Clyde
I just cracked open my "Crisis of Conscience" book and reread the chapter, "Point of Decision." I wonder what ever happened to the people who were disfellowshiped and kicked out of Bethel. I know that Ed Dunlap went back to Oklahoma and died not too long ago. Does anyone know what happened to the others? What about Nestor and Toni Kuilan, Cris Sanchez and his wife, or Rene Vazquez and his wife? Are they doing OK? And there were others.
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"....you will be like gods, knowing good and evil."
by Lilycurly ini know this has been mentioned before, but i'd like to bring that question to the front again.
not only from a jw's perspective, but also from all other christians.. who lied to man and woman in the eden story?.
yahweh god says to men: 17 "nevertheless of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you are not to eat, for on the day you eat of it you shall most surely die.
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Bonnie_Clyde
Adam did die on the day he ate of the fruit. "One day with Jehovah is as 1,000 years." He was 930 years old when he died. That's the way it was explained to me.