All the insightful advice on sleeping always made me think: they really ask a lot of people...they want you to sit for at least 3 hours at a time without nodding off? Not even professional seminars I have been to have more then a 2 hour period without at least a 15 minute break! Plus, if I were a parent with even just one kid then it would be hell trying to have them sit in one spot for such a long period of time...
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More KM convention instruction gems! (KM Feb 04)
by ozziepost intruthseeker brought news to us of the controlling instructions in the april km .
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/68733/1.ashx.
just two months before (feb04) were instructions on how to make hotel and motel reservations and has these mind-numbing gems: (they're on page 8) .
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More KM convention instruction gems! (KM Feb 04)
by ozziepost intruthseeker brought news to us of the controlling instructions in the april km .
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/68733/1.ashx.
just two months before (feb04) were instructions on how to make hotel and motel reservations and has these mind-numbing gems: (they're on page 8) .
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cypher50
You know, I have to defend the JWs for once: maybe it was because I was under 11 and it was free food...maybe it was because I lived in a lower NY State circuit & district...but the food at our circuit & district assemblies weren't horrible when I was growing up. Besides the cheap Shasta, I was alright eating all the Roast Beef sandwiches I could get...and the Sara Lee Apple Danishes weren't anything to stick your nose up at either. Plus the ice cream, potato chips, and even Swiss Miss hot chocolate hit the spot...yea, we DEFINITELY weren't going to the same conventions, people.
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More KM convention instruction gems! (KM Feb 04)
by ozziepost intruthseeker brought news to us of the controlling instructions in the april km .
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/68733/1.ashx.
just two months before (feb04) were instructions on how to make hotel and motel reservations and has these mind-numbing gems: (they're on page 8) .
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cypher50
So imagine 4 days in an enclosed building with everybody eating hot dogs and chili...
I would call it a volatile & explosive situation.
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Does the faithful slave exist?
by XQsThaiPoes ini have known a few anointed and a few bethlites.
after researching pubilcations and the watchtower websites i belife the faithful slave does not exist in a tangible form and is a ghostwriter for the entire org.
everything is subcontracted from mostly the great crowd now billed as corespondants.
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cypher50
Basically in laymans terms we are an "unethical" religion. Booo Hooo this is war. There are going to be casualties on both sides.
I find it quite sad that you have come to a point where you believe it is a Christian point of view to be deceitful. I also find it amazing you think it is alright to bend "the truth" to your liking as long as you gain adherents. Jesus never changed what he taught just to enhance the number of people following...even at 1 John 2:21 it is counseled.
21 I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth.
Also, wasn't it taught that one of the discerning traits of a Christian is love for both enemy & friend (Mt. 5:44)? To talk about people as if they are "casaulties" shows no thought for them or their lives...whoever called you a troll definitely hasn't been out of line...
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More KM convention instruction gems! (KM Feb 04)
by ozziepost intruthseeker brought news to us of the controlling instructions in the april km .
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/68733/1.ashx.
just two months before (feb04) were instructions on how to make hotel and motel reservations and has these mind-numbing gems: (they're on page 8) .
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cypher50
"Lift up the phone and make a call". If you have to have this S P E L L E D out for you, you must be stupid. I mean, think about it!
Well, they certainly do not want to have you use the Internet...you might find a lower price on Expedia or even stumble across an evil apostate website!
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Who is going to be at your funeral?
by buffalosrfree inthis is a question my wife asked me again today.
i get this question asked about every 3 to 4 months.
she is concerned about what other people may think i guess.
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cypher50
I don't have this conversation because my friends who are Witnesses have 'lovingly' shunned me...
However, if I did then I would just mention Hebrew 11:37-40...many of you might not be Christians anymore & we definitely aren't prophets but the principle of the scripture hits home for all who have openly disagreed with the WTS:
37 They were stoned [6] ; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated-- 38 the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.
I wouldn't be looking for who attends my funeral because that doesn't matter to me...what matters is how I am considered in God's eyes and his eyes alone.
39 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. 40 God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect. -
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If you considered going back to the hall....
by JH inif you considered going back to the hall after posting here for a while, would you hesistate telling us?
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cypher50
Hesitate? I doubt anybody knows me here that well but I think I would post for some mental help here because I would have to have gone nuts to go back to the hall again...
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DRUGS!
by new light ini have a confession.
when i returned to the jw's a few years ago, i was on drugs.
years, but one especially heavy acid trip sent me searching for god, and i thought i found him with the dubs.
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cypher50
I've been toking on the bong for only about six months...in that span of time, I decided to visit apostate sites, take a look at Crisis Of Conscience, disassociate myself, and now I actually enjoy my weekends at clubs & such.
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THANK YOU MARIJUANA!
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Your Best / Worst attribute....
by ScoobySnax inbe honest.. i'll start.. my best is i'm a good boy at work.
i look after my staff well, and give my all in looking after my patients on the ward.
thats important to me.. my worst is i'm getting ever increasingly self centered and selfish as i'm getting older.
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cypher50
Worst attributes: I have a horrible tendency to look at people's flaws before looking at what is good in them. Also, I am very nice to people I know but I act skittish around new people (especially girls...thanks WTS!).
Best attributes: Even in my own humble opinion, I am particularly savvy for my age and I love listening to people (whether they are talking about good things or bad).
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Can a Skeptic believe in God?
by Beans inrecently i got the winter edition magazine of the ontario skeptic news and found a great six page article on "can a skeptic believe in god?
and what a great read it was, some of the points were well versed.
it went into some detail of believers and non believers arguing about god, what i found interesting was how at the end of the argument both sides would have felt they had won the argument.
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cypher50
The problem I find with people is that they tend to think that being skeptical of something is automatically bad. I would think that if you never had any doubts then your faith is like a house of cards that can be blown over at any time by the slightest debate...