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  Ozzie's Weekend Poll #82

  by ozziepost in

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  g?day all and greetings from downunder!

  how?s your weekend been going?

  here in oz we?re enjoying the summer heat with blue skies and light breezes.

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  houdini

  We all rushed out to do street work and informal witnessing in the city centre

  Stocked up on tracts and got them organized

  Houdini
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  Blondies WT studies

  by simplesally in

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  you know, i love reading blondie's wt studies and her comments.

  today, one thought is sticking in my mind: the fact that noah had 500 years to preach and that lot had "5 minutes".....he was trying to get his sons-in-law to go with them out of sodom.

  i would suppose that the gb would say that the brothers knew lot to be a god-fearing, jehovah-worshipping man and that he would certainly not steer them wrong, therefore, they should have heeded his advice without question and that maybe the angels were of such beauty or noticeably were sons of god that the sons should have had no excuse.. now, my point is this: has anybody had enough guts to bring up one of blondie's points up at the meeting or in conversation with another jw to see what would be said.. i think it would have been interesting to have commented on the lot/noah thing this morning.

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  houdini

  I just read the one for this Sunday's meetings, The first one I have read and thought it very good.

  She has come to some of the conclusions that i'd already come to mtyself, that the WTS are wonderful spin doctors and Masters of twisting things and people to their way of thinking.

  I'd noticed how they take "soundbites" from the bible to make up their own "laws" as it were and always used guilt as a way of manipulating the congregation.

  They are excellently researched, my congratulations on this, they way she has used other bible segment to show the falseness of the WTS. I think that I could slip quite a few comments into the WTS without to much trouble.

  I really like the bit about they way they try to omit Jesus from the scenario altogether and give praise to Jehovah, and uses Act's to show the falseness of this.

  In fact she has inspired me to go and try this Sunday, although I think i'd fall asleep during the preceeding talk.

  Houdini
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  What was your excuse for skipping meetings?

  by dustyb in

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  i always said my knee hurt, or i was sick, or too tired (i'd always make it a point to stay up till like 4:00 am on saturday nite)....

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  houdini

  For evening meetings I never used an excuse, I work nights so could never attend any evening meetings. It was often suggested that i quit that job and do something that enabled me to attend their precious meetings. Right I'm going to find a day job that earns 1/2 what I was earning by working nights.

  But they said money is everything think of you spiritual well beinging. What's the point in that when you can't afford to feed yourself or you family, pay the bill, taxes etc. Worrying about these things is going to dent my spiritual well-being far more than missing a meeting

  "But God will provide what you need". I never saw Him paying for the food at the local supermarket, or the electricity bill, or in fact any bill.

  As for Sunday's that was time to spend with my family, not my spiritual one, the one I live with 24/7 rather than some phoney love for supposed brothers and sister of the world wide organization.
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  What Excuses Did You Make Up For Being a Witness?

  by minimus in

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  remember, how on tuesdays and thursdays, we never saw that tv program everyone was always talking about at work, the next day?

  and the reason was because we had to go to the meeting.

  people would talk about seinfeld and die laughing because of the episodes.

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  houdini

  I never made excuses, there is never a need, even though I am not a JW anymore I still don't celebrate christmas, or birthdays.

  Whats the point after all it's just another day in year. I am or they are just another day older in reality.

  As for Christmas, very few people who say they clebrate it don't do it to celebrate the supposed birth of Christ, it's just an excuse to get p***ed and party and act silly.

  Houdini
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  An unproductive door-to-door experience

  by Euphemism in

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  http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20040206.html

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  houdini

  Plus, he said "good AFTERNOON." Everybody knows JW's only show up on Saturday mornings!

  Well when I went door to door I did it on a Thursday and Sunday afternoon on meeting days, so I did say good afternoon. Not very often, because I only did it for 12 months then thought what an idiot I was to be wasting my time and theirs.

  Houdini
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  Favorite childhood TV shows

  by Nosferatu in

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  now, i'm not referring to sesame street, mr. rogers, or any of the educational kids' shows.

  i'm talking about the ones for pure entertainment, cartoons and such.

  however, i can't really classify this as purely cartoons since some of you might have watched things like hr pufnstuf.. i grew up in the 1980s, when the magic of saturday morning cartoons existed.

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  houdini

  In no particular order,

  Dangermouse; Magic Roundabout; Clangers; Bagpuss; Mister Men; Top Cat;

  It's great having cable with all the kids programmes on. I can revisit my childhood and watch them all again with my children
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  When Was The Last Time You Prayed?

  by minimus in

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  houdini

  It was this morning when I hoped my car would start up and get me to work without collapsing in the middle of the motorway on me like yesterday.

  But I don't always see the ned to pray as this God is meant to know your needs before you ask him. So he should know that I need a new car so that I can get to work reliable.

  But that's to materialist I think for God to do, he doesen't help out with things like that does He, only with supplying spiritual power.
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  Will there be winter in the new system?

  by Atilla in

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  so much snow this winter, but it reminds me of the silly conversations we would have out in service about conditions in the new system.

  this one guy, who thought he knew everything because he had been to bethel and had been pioneering since the 9th grade, was positive that there would be no winter in the new system.

  his reasoning was that since the whole earth would be made into a paradise with perfect conditions, there would be no real cold places like russia or even central pennsylvania.

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  houdini

  Of course there has to be winter and snow in the new system, if there is such a thing.

  We are promised that it will be paradise, but if I'm going to be there, which i doubt according to most JW's, then it wouldn't be a paradise without snow and skiing down the majestic mountians of the alps.
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  What's Your Favourite Font?

  by dh in

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  maybe some of you write, or work in publishing, design etc, are there any fonts that you choose to use because they feel better, do you change the font before you begin writing a document, or at the end?

  for writing i love to use tahoma, i type pretty quick and the way the letters appear on the screen in tahoma is very much more fluid than other fonts out there, and if you're writing a lot, or creatively, i think it makes an enormous difference... was tahoma designed to be easy on the eyes?

  for bold stuff i love the font rockwell, dunno why, i just like it.

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  houdini

  Depend to whom i'm writing and what the purpose is.

  To friends and informal stuff I use Lucida Calligraphy, it has a nice flow and look relaxing and friendly

  for more formal stuff though i use a conventional typeface, I use Book Antiqua or Georgia which are similar to Times Roman, but slightly easier to read I feel
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  Theocratic Ministry School

  by Nosferatu in

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  the tms had always somewhat intrigued me when i was a jw.

  it was actually a fascinating part of the thursday night meeting.

  you never graduated, your grades didn't range from a to f, and it was mandatory to applaud after a new "classmate" gives their first talk.

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  houdini

  Firstly let me state

  I'm not a baptized JW, just an inactive non-baptized publisher who hasn't been to a meeting for over 6 months but did attend every meeting for about 2 1/2 years

  I got quite a buzz out of doing the talks, even the preparation for them. It gave me confidence and valuable instruction in giving public addresses for my work outside the JW congregation, which ordinarily I would not have got. It taught me a few good lessons and i can't really critic it to much

  Unfortunately they didn't last long as I stopped giving my bible readings and talks after about 2 years as I was not on that frequently and got omitted more and more. Also work commitments meant that I had to withdraw form the school, which I would have liked to carry one

  I think because I used non-JW material as my research and didn't expound everything they wanted to hear. I got counselled on more than one occasion and the subject matter. My comments about the film "Monty Python's Life of Brian" didn't go down very well with some of the elders, even though probably none of them had seen the film.

  But the rest of the congregation seemed to like them and I always enjoy the congratulations from the main body of the congregation and always gave me a good feeling of belonging