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  Groanfest. Share your daftest jokes .

  by jhine in

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  lots of serious stuff being discussed on site .

  i thought!it would be nice to make each other groan/ smile for a change .please share your corniest ,punniest , or daftest joke .. i will start with this shocker , borrowed from tim vine .. vandalism in a multi story carpark ....... ...................................,............................ wrong on sooo many levels !.

  come on now share yours.

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  Village Idiot

  Knock, knock

  Who's there?

  Knock, knock

  WHOSE THERE?

  Knock, knock

  Will someone please open the door he's deaf!
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  jw.org cart days numbered?

  by jookbeard in

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  reading a report of an elder in a friends cong has been hiding and spying on the pioneers who seem to have a practise of dumping the cart and finding a local coffee shop, i've noticed that they do this in my local high street as well but this week they seemed to be all huddled around the cart, they've clearly been warned, a vast percentage of the time i see they seem to be more interested in fiddling with their mobile phones and gossiping, is just seems these carts are a means for the pioneers to turn in "easy time" i wonder what sort of figures show how much literature is being taken by the public?

  i bet its very minimal.

  naturally the gb would say they are a phenomenal success , we clearly know they are not.

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  daringhart13: "I've never been more convinced that it takes a certain type of person to buy into this garbage"

  That means most of us at one time (minus born ins and a few others). There might yet be hope for half the Witnesses that are still inside the Kingdom Hall.
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  jw.org cart days numbered?

  by jookbeard in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  reading a report of an elder in a friends cong has been hiding and spying on the pioneers who seem to have a practise of dumping the cart and finding a local coffee shop, i've noticed that they do this in my local high street as well but this week they seemed to be all huddled around the cart, they've clearly been warned, a vast percentage of the time i see they seem to be more interested in fiddling with their mobile phones and gossiping, is just seems these carts are a means for the pioneers to turn in "easy time" i wonder what sort of figures show how much literature is being taken by the public?

  i bet its very minimal.

  naturally the gb would say they are a phenomenal success , we clearly know they are not.

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  insidetheKH: "@cappy i spend 80% (about 40hrs a month) of my time door to door"

  So you're a pioneer. Do you count your time when you post on this forum? Serious question.
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  jw.org cart days numbered?

  by jookbeard in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  reading a report of an elder in a friends cong has been hiding and spying on the pioneers who seem to have a practise of dumping the cart and finding a local coffee shop, i've noticed that they do this in my local high street as well but this week they seemed to be all huddled around the cart, they've clearly been warned, a vast percentage of the time i see they seem to be more interested in fiddling with their mobile phones and gossiping, is just seems these carts are a means for the pioneers to turn in "easy time" i wonder what sort of figures show how much literature is being taken by the public?

  i bet its very minimal.

  naturally the gb would say they are a phenomenal success , we clearly know they are not.

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  insidetheKH, I have personally observed Witnesses at subway stations position themselves 100 meters away from pedestrian traffic just standing holding the magazines up. The hot dog stand was better positioned in that area. This was in the years B.C. (Before Carts). I noticed this in other locations where they simply didn't position themselves in a way that would maximize interaction with the public.
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  jw.org cart days numbered?

  by jookbeard in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  reading a report of an elder in a friends cong has been hiding and spying on the pioneers who seem to have a practise of dumping the cart and finding a local coffee shop, i've noticed that they do this in my local high street as well but this week they seemed to be all huddled around the cart, they've clearly been warned, a vast percentage of the time i see they seem to be more interested in fiddling with their mobile phones and gossiping, is just seems these carts are a means for the pioneers to turn in "easy time" i wonder what sort of figures show how much literature is being taken by the public?

  i bet its very minimal.

  naturally the gb would say they are a phenomenal success , we clearly know they are not.

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  insidetheKH, I've noticed that your experiences are always different than other posters observations.
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  jw.org cart days numbered?

  by jookbeard in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  reading a report of an elder in a friends cong has been hiding and spying on the pioneers who seem to have a practise of dumping the cart and finding a local coffee shop, i've noticed that they do this in my local high street as well but this week they seemed to be all huddled around the cart, they've clearly been warned, a vast percentage of the time i see they seem to be more interested in fiddling with their mobile phones and gossiping, is just seems these carts are a means for the pioneers to turn in "easy time" i wonder what sort of figures show how much literature is being taken by the public?

  i bet its very minimal.

  naturally the gb would say they are a phenomenal success , we clearly know they are not.

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  Village Idiot

  Maybe the cart pushers can't stand the singing.
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  jw.org cart days numbered?

  by jookbeard in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  reading a report of an elder in a friends cong has been hiding and spying on the pioneers who seem to have a practise of dumping the cart and finding a local coffee shop, i've noticed that they do this in my local high street as well but this week they seemed to be all huddled around the cart, they've clearly been warned, a vast percentage of the time i see they seem to be more interested in fiddling with their mobile phones and gossiping, is just seems these carts are a means for the pioneers to turn in "easy time" i wonder what sort of figures show how much literature is being taken by the public?

  i bet its very minimal.

  naturally the gb would say they are a phenomenal success , we clearly know they are not.

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  jookbeard: "The cart days could be numbered?"

  Nope. When has the Governing Body ever dropped a bad habit?
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  Theists, why does God allow suffering..

  by The Quiet One in

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  ..specifically, the suffering of animals.

  you can talk about free will/sin/people choosing to not listen to god etc to explain human suffering being allowed.. but how can you love a god that allows animals, that haven't sinned or chosen to not have anything to do with god, to have their short lives ended in often long, drawn out, painful ways.

  i could list stories i've read that would probably make you feel ill, but i'm not looking to shock anyone or start an emotional debate.

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  @ cofty: "Why did your god - who Jesus claimed cares for every sparrow - design a world to maximise suffering?"

  It's really simple. A talking snake told a naked lady to eat a fruit and share it with a naked man with a missing rib then all hell broke loose. Lions stopped eating grass and started devouring baby lambs; tyrannosaurus stopped eating palm trees and started munching on Brontosaurs; Galaxies started crashing into each other and we started having discussions such as this.

  Now think of all the cruelty down below where a gazillion species are having their planets getting ripped out of their stars orbit plunging into a freezing death or a fiery one from two stars crashing into each other.

  
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  New Mascot - Translator Robot

  by Slave4_38y in

  1. social
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  this is the latest offering from the caleb/sophia duo - lesson 16, preach in a foreign language.

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  Face it fellow apostates, Caleb and Sophia are going to grow on us. It will be a love/hate relationship.
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  Are the USA and Russia the key actors in end time prophecy?

  by scotoma in

  1. jw
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  what's the problem with prophecy?prophecy primarily requires a pattern recognition or insightful strategy not an analytical strategy.

  prophecy rarely gives names whether of empires or their rulers.

  even the name of the messiah - yeshua -wasn't foretold.

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  @ Perry: "This writer below offers some possible reasons why Russia might want to invade Israel:"

  That question was very simple. Couldn't you give a simple answer instead of a mere link?

  I read that link and it is pure conjecture. It implies that energy sources may be one thing that Russia covets but the truth is that Gazprom is likely to hold far more in reserves than a miniscule nation like Israel may have in yet to be discovered reserves. Israel is not much in the way of competition when someone looks at a map of energy sources. In comparison Russia has 6.6 million square miles compared to Israel's 7,800+. That comes out to approximately 850 times more land area.