Athanasius

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  French Vanilla Morning

  by Robdar in

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  in the small corners of the morning, .

  i think of you.. as the steam rises from my coffee, .

  i gaze into the cup.

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  Excellent Robyn. A beautiful poem by a beautiful woman.
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  The Ideal Next WTBTS President Should Be..

  by Englishman in

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  fidel castro?.

  george bush senior?.

  valis?.

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  Ray Franz
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  Favorite Quotations

  by Lady Lee in

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  i'm going to offer some of my favorite quotations.

  - non wt related - what are yours?

  "i learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

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  Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.--Lord Acton
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  Literture offer for Dec.

  by Rick Aust in

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  in the dec k/m of australia, the literture offer for december is "you can live forver" book.

  i assume that the offer is the same in other countries.. i think it really shows how the wts doesn't have respect even for its own version of truth.

  the "live forever" supports the old theology of the "generations", which has being removed since 1995. they should at least destroy these books which teach what they don't even believe, but they seem to be interested in getting same money for them.

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  It doesn't surprise me. The Watch Tower publishing house had printed up so many copies of THE FINISHED MYSTERY, that they were still listing it in the cost list (a price book of Watch Tower publications that was sent out to the literature servants) until 1963. It was later in that year that they printed an announcemnt in the Kingdom Ministry that THE FINISHED MYSTERY was permanently out of stock.
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  Mazel Tov me

  by La Capra in

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  on top everything else, i finished my conversion.

  i am officially jewish.

  it was a far more meaningful ritual than anything the jw baptism had to offer.

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  Mazel Tov, Shoshana. You have been received into a wonderful religion. I attended Shabat services at Congregation Beth Ami (Conservative) in Santa Rosa for several years. I was engaged to a Jewish woman at the time and so I took the Jewish living class for non-Jewish spouses. The Rabbi was very helpful and my appreciation of Jewish culture and tradition was deepened. We occasionally attended Congregation Shomrei Torah which was Reform. As an Episcopalian, the Reform branch of Judaism had more appeal to me. However, my fiancee was Conservative and she viewed Reform as too liberal so we usually attended Congregation Beth Ami. She eventually became Orthodox, which is very strict in its traditions.
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  Hello

  by Netty in

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  just wanted to write a post to introduce myself and say hello.

  im new here, although i've read many of the posts here for a few months now.

  i was raised as a jw since i was 4 years old, elders daughter, pioneered the whole bit.

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  Welcome aboard.
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  Where were you at 33 years of age?

  by DanTheMan in

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  i've managed to survive 33 years (and a couple of weeks).

  what a long strange trip it's been.. in spite of some tell-tale signs of aging (wrinkles around eyes, gray hair, mystified and sometimes terrified by the current youth culture) in some ways i still feel like a little kid who doesn't know anything.

  what have you learned since then?

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  That was a few years ago. I was married then with one child. Also was an elder holding three positions in the congregation. Presiding Overseer, Theocratic School Overseer, and Book Study Conductor. It was a very busy time because it was just three years after Armageddon and everyone was trying to adjust to the New Order.
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  Were There ANY Advantages To Being a Jehovah's Witness?

  by minimus in

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  ...didn't have to buy any christmas presents......

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  It does help one to become a better public speaker.
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  Anyone read the Left Behind series?

  by AJN in

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  i've just started book one.

  just wondering if anyone has read the books and what they thought of them?

  :)

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  Didn't read any of the books, but did see one of the films. It was entertaining.
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  Has there been New Light regarding Apostates?

  by Athanasius in

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  yesterday my girlfriend and i were walking to our car in a shopping mall parking lot when an elder and his wife drove up.

  instead of running us down with his automobile, he stopped and let us cross.

  he and his wife even smiled at us.

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  Yesterday my girlfriend and I were walking to our car in a shopping mall parking lot when an elder and his wife drove up. Instead of running us down with his automobile, he stopped and let us cross. He and his wife even smiled at us. Several years ago my ex-fiancee and I met this same elder and his wife inside the mall. I said hello, but he just snarled with eyes filled with hate and walked right by us without acknowleging my greeting. His wife did the same. They were always gung-ho JWs, so I am puzzled about their change of attitude. Has the Watch Tower Vatican issued any new instructions that I am not aware of?

  Interestingly my girlfriend understands what it is like to live as a JW, even though she is Orthodox and was never a JW herself. She is Russian and lived under the Communist system for 42 years. Could there be a Watch Tower Gorbachev waiting in the wings?