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  Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses Wisconsin and Midwest

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  2. experiences

  so who's from wisconsin and the midwest usa.

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  poppers

  I am from a small town 50 miles north of Eau Claire, although I've never been a dub.
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  Is there anything you could do forever that wouln't get boring?

  by mynameislame in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  not sure when i came to this conclusion but i can't imagine living forever.

  after a while i think i would be completly bored with everything.. not saying i wouln't like to live for a few hundred years or maybe even a few thousand if i could travel through space and discover other universes star trek style.

  but the thought of living forever sounds like it would eventually become a complete drag.. maybe i'm wrong, maybe after a thousand years or so you would foregt all the stuff that happend at the beginning and just start over in an infinite loop..

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  poppers

  LOL! When I saw this thread I immediately thought to myself, "I bet I know what Outlaw will say," and I was right.
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  How's the weather in your area?

  by Decided in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  here in nc it's snowing, about 6" so far.

  haven't had so much snow and ice in a long time as we have so far this winter.. ken p..

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  Finally hit 32 today in northern Wisconsin after months of sustained below average temperatures. Our local elementary school has had indoor recess nearly 50 times this season, which happens when windchill is below zero. Still several of feet of snow on the ground, but March is hisorically quite snowy here, so we aren't out of the woods yet.
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  I did it !!!!

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  7 years ago i started on a path i had long ago given up on as impossible.

  i met with my elders and told them i could not justify carrying on as a jw.

  i went and got my high school qualifications and my higher education diploma (a levels with distinction) in just 12 months.

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  Great! Congratulations, Dr. S&R!
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  Talked to JW's in Service Today (kinda long...sorry)

  by exwhyzee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was in my company vehicle and i spotted some jw's going from door to door.. i circled around the block and pulled over.

  when they passed, i rolled down the .

  window and asked the pleasant looking middle aged couple as they passed, if they were jehovah's .

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  poppers

  Well done, exwhyzee.
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  This will blow you away - if the moon were the size of a pixel.

  by poppers in

  1. social
  2. current

  this shows the scale of our solar system in a way that is a little more meaningful to our puny minds.

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  http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html.

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  poppers

  Yup, this just shows a few light hours. The size of the universe is staggering, beyond human conception. Same goes for atomic scale, which this link also comments on toward the end.
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  This will blow you away - if the moon were the size of a pixel.

  by poppers in

  1. social
  2. current

  this shows the scale of our solar system in a way that is a little more meaningful to our puny minds.

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  http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html.

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  poppers

  This shows the scale of our solar system in a way that is a little more meaningful to our puny minds.

  http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
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  What's the greatest movie no-one's ever heard of?

  by rory-ks in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  you know, that film you really love, but when you mention it everyone's, like, "eh?".

  i'll get the ball rolling.

  for me: ulee's gold..

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  I agree with Dark Star; I liked it so much I bought it.
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  The numbers don't lie...or do they?

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  at a recent ca, the co was commending the r&f about mid-week meeting attendance.

  he said that it was up 4% since he first began working in our circuit.

  i was listening as some were patting each other on their backs about that at last nights meeting and it occurred to me that there were many empty seats.

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  As noted by Mark Twain, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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  Has anyone used this question on a JW? How might they respond?

  by BU2B in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as i was laying in bed i thought of a question to ask my wife.

  "when the wt has an article on the next change in teaching or new light, just guessing, what do you think it might be?".

  it does not need to be phrased just like that, but i thought it might be a powerful question since it would make the jw subconsciously question all of the current teachings, something they are not taught to do.

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  poppers

  How about asking, "What would you like the next new light to be?" What sort of reaction would that trigger?