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  Check Out Weird Al's Grammar Video

  by Iown Mylife in

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  go to youtube and search for weird al, he has a clever new video called word crimes.. weird al is such a great entertainer!.

  marina.

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  I remember when I was in 8th grade and would have Wierd Al's casette tapes. I had these young girls tease me and say I should listen to real musicians like Milli Vanilli. lol it turns out I was the one listening to a true musician.
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  Why Watchtower fails young people

  by kneehighmiah in

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  1. no fun.

  2. doesn't teach good decision making.

  jws cannot choose the color of their underwear without first consulting watchtower publications.

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  How about being given advice like this all the time? You can't even rub one out without being condemn..... oh the guilt

  Young People Ask . . .

  How Can I Conquer This Habit?

  “I began masturbating when I was eight years old. Later I learned God’s view of the matter. I felt terrible every time I gave in. ‘How could God love someone like me?’ I asked myself. I felt sure that I would not make it into God’s new world.”—Luiz.*

  PERHAPS you, like Luiz, have been enslaved to the habit of masturbation. You know that Jehovah would be pleased with you if you resisted the urge and exercised self-control, a fruit of God’s holy spirit. (Galatians 5:22, 23; 2 Peter 1:5, 6) But at times you give in. After each relapse, you conclude that you are a lost cause, that you are incapable of living up to God’s righteous standards.

  That is precisely how young Pedro viewed himself. “When I relapsed, I felt terrible,” he says. “I thought that I could never atone for what I had done. I found it hard to pray. I would start by saying: ‘Jehovah, I don’t know whether you are going to hear this prayer, but . . .’” A young man named André had similar thoughts. “I felt like such a hypocrite,” he says. “It was a struggle to get out of bed in the morning and face the day. I found it difficult to sit through Christian meetings or to participate in the ministry.”

  If your feelings are similar to those of Luiz, Pedro, or André, take courage. You’re not alone, and your case is not hopeless! Many young people—and older ones—have struggled with masturbation and have been able to overcome it. You can too.*
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  Is this a new "This Generation" or not?

  by Doug Mason in

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  2. bible

  first of all i want to express my sincere gratitude to atlantis and his good friends for making this 2014 book available.. ------------.

  as i see it, and i am absolutely open to contradiction, the wts appears to be giving another new meaning to this generation.

  this time the term means all of his anointed followers, including his immediate disciples.

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  I get so confused with their constant generation teaching changes. So when will they need to make another adjustment to this teaching? In other words when does this other generation start dying off? 2025? 2035?
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  reading COC for the first time

  by This is my tigersuit in

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  I just began reading it yesterday. I've been out since around 99. I thought the book was outdated and written in the early 80's. I was surprised it has been revised up to as recently as 2004. Too bad Franz is dead to give his comments on jw.org and the current path the org is taking.
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  Why do so many refer to Elders as "window washers"?

  by adjusted knowledge in

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  i know the society is against higher education and the pursuit of careers but in my experience the elders in the various congregations i attended had good careers.

  in fact most had their own businesses.

  thinking back of the boe when i was a teenager this is what they had as a career: two were respected carpenters who owned a construction business, one a high school teacher(he was the po), one sold insurance and was a lawyer, one owned a landscaping business and also hired sisters to clean office buildings and other accounts he had, one was retired, and the last was a janitor for the school board.

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  Band on the Run

  My KH was populated by brothers who were not functionally literate.

  I suspect you may be of an older generation because I never experienced literacy issues in any congregation. Critical thinking or the lack of was the major issue in my observations. I do remember the brothers/sisters saying if you read four years of Awake! and Watchtower it was equivalent to a two year college degree. I wonder if this was just some localized opinion or if that was the feeling throughout the organization.

  I have grave doubts about lawyers from any decent law school being JWs.

  It's not too difficult to get a law degree now. There are several private colleges that will accept your money regardless of your LSAT scores or college gpa. This particular Elder got his degree from NSU, www.nova.edu/ . I'm not stating NOVA is subpar but it isn't a first tier college. I also know of a brother who received his law degree from Stetson in Florida. I agree these may not be considered decent law schools but they did pass the Florida Bar and are practicing lawyers. I wouldn't hire them.

  LongHairGal

  There were several other threads on this "window washer" topic recently (do a search and read many interesting comments). No slur on anybody who does this for a living.

  I neglected to use the search and will do as you suggest.

  Thanks
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  How long before the Wt fully embraces the internet.

  by joe134cd in

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  2. beliefs

  the way things are going i believe that wt will start encouraging its members to start setting up web sites.

  i can certainly see them loosening their stand on it.

  the example i will give is the video showing the dancing in the kh, and jw defender which i believe is wt in hiding.

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  They have had local need talks recently in some congregations and from CO's on warning witnesses from joining jw dating sites or setting up their own sites.

  The Society takes its ques from Machiavelli and Goebbels. I doubt they will give the green light for their followers to setup any sites that competes with the jw.org
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  Listening to crisis of conscience as a audio book

  by foreverme in

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  has really made me wonder how i ever got involved with the watchtower.

  it basically comes down to me just wanting to believe this delusional belief system.

  millions of people wasting their lives in this way is incredible.

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  thanks for the link... I never read the book. listening to it now
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  A Mother's Story of loss of her son..............

  by Balsam in

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  some names have been changed or removed to protect those in the family who would not want their names known, or are still active jw's.

  ruth .

  a mothers regret for a religious devotion.

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  First time reading this. How sad. It is an important story to be told.
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  Why do so many refer to Elders as "window washers"?

  by adjusted knowledge in

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  i know the society is against higher education and the pursuit of careers but in my experience the elders in the various congregations i attended had good careers.

  in fact most had their own businesses.

  thinking back of the boe when i was a teenager this is what they had as a career: two were respected carpenters who owned a construction business, one a high school teacher(he was the po), one sold insurance and was a lawyer, one owned a landscaping business and also hired sisters to clean office buildings and other accounts he had, one was retired, and the last was a janitor for the school board.

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  I know The Society is against higher education and the pursuit of careers but in my experience the elders in the various congregations I attended had good careers. In fact most had their own businesses. Thinking back of the BOE when I was a teenager this is what they had as a career: two were respected carpenters who owned a construction business, one a high school teacher(he was the PO), one sold insurance and was a lawyer, one owned a landscaping business and also hired sisters to clean office buildings and other accounts he had, one was retired, and the last was a janitor for the school board. However the last one who was a janitor received a pension from the state of Florida and other benefits. The only elder that struggled with money was the Elder who owned a landscaping business but that was because he lacked health insurance. Years later his business grew and is doing quite well now though he died of cancer.

  It was quite comical when the elders would give talks on education when one had a law degree and the PO had a Masters in Education. There was also a very respected ministerial servant who I thought was quite humbled that would give talks often. He was a multi-millionaire but never flaunted his money. He too owned his own business. But yet he too would give talks on pursuing a career in this ending system of things.

  So my question is, Was the congregation I attended in my youth the exception?
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  In the News: How being a teen mum, growing up as Jehovah’s Witness and my kids prepped me for Masterchef fame

  by Wild_Thing in

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  from australia: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/how-being-a-teen-mum-growing-up-as-jehovahs-witness-and-my-kids-prepped-me-for-masterchef-fame/story-fni0cvc9-1226974154930.

  renae smith with her two daughters kyah and paris who had to agree before renae went onto masterchef.

  picture: richard dobson.

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  What reputation does jw in Florida have?