Interesting thought. I've got a whole can full of wheat pennies and buffalo nickels. The one you show is in really good shape.
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So I've got this penny...
by AlmostAtheist inso i've got this penny.... it's a 1947d, a wheat back, like this one:.
i'm looking at it and wondering where it's been.
in 1947, you could get five pieces of candy for a penny.
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My No, Blood card
by ColdRedRain intoday at school, i saw a dub displaying her no blood card.
that gave me the idea to make a card that i can carry around in case, god forbid, i'm found unconcious and i need a blood transfusion, but i might be in the care of a jehovah's witness or if my hospital records show me as a jehovahs witness.
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TallTexan
Nice......and an excellent idea, especially for those of us who have lived in the same area for a while and been admitted to local hospitals when we were JW's.....
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TallTexan
I know is a sin to be on organized sports
Organized sports is NOT a sin - simply another myth created by a controlling organization who wants to make SURE that you spend no time/money on anything but selling it's books. Let your kids play, go support them, and do so with NO guilt.
Welcome to the boards....
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TallTexan
oh man i never would've caught on to that if someone didn't post it, i would've sat here and kept doing it for god knows how long lol, I miss the obvious
Me too...no WONDER I was a JW......lol.
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hi everyone :)
by jojochan injust wanted to drop a line and say "hi".
i too am a long time lurker that "came out" sort of speaking.
(' bout 2 yrs!
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TallTexan
Lots of newbies on JWD = 0% growth rate for WBTS....lol.
Welcome.
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What's The Difference Between A "Worldy Person" & JW???
by minimus injws tell their flock that they are superior to "worldly ones".
that they're better.
how would you refute that??
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TallTexan
Oh, I dunno. How 'bout referring to that little black book (or green one if you're old enough) called the Bible. Show them Jesus' discussion of the Pharisees praying on the street corner and how he dismisses those that think too highly of himself. Or "He who is standing should be wary he does not fall".
When you ask why the are superior, they will say it's because they are the most well-educated Bible students on earth. Review with them the scriptures on pride, humility, outward displays of self-righteousness. They probably won't make the connection, but at least you tried.
The real difference between 'worldly' and JW.....worldly people have the ability to think independently, JW's have the ability to be dependent on an organization to run their lives.
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If you knew....
by BlackSwan of Memphis inthat your jw family were lurking here, either to specifically to pinpoint you or just to well, lurk.
would that change the way you post?.
what if you knew for a fact they knew who you were and they were tracking you, would it change the way you post now?.
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TallTexan
Hmmmm....
She went back to our other sister whose husband is an elder and had him call me to say that I am to have absolutely no contact with them.
I would have told him that he is NOT my relative and it's none of his business and to go do the biologically impossible. Did you ask him why?
I know it's pointless to argue w/ the brainwashed, but it's so frustrating.
To answer your original question, I know members of my family know I'm on here, and it doesn't change the way I post one bit.
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Making progress
by schne_belly inso here is an update from a previous thread i posted about my parents, especially my mother.
last night, my husband and i were eating dinner at my parents house and all of sudden my mom whips out her bible and tells us to sit down because she wants to share some scriptures shes been researching.
come to find out about a month ago some elders stopped over at their house to talk to them about us, and how to deal with a disfellowshiped person.
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TallTexan
Time, opportunity, and heart condition. What we all learned about those who could be 'converts' to JW-ism applies to getting them out. She is definitely on the right track. You now have to tread lightly so as not to push too hard, but keep up a small steady trickle of information to her.
Congratulations and hang in there...
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TallTexan
Around a quarter of a million Baptised - pity they don't publish the average age of these - along with the average age of the 8524 Memorial partakers.
Just for the fun of it... Take the 6,000,000 JW's. Say that each family has 2 children. (this is very simple - I'm just trying to prove a point). That's 1.5 million families worldwide. All it would take is 1 child from every 6th family being baptized to account for the quarter of a million figure. That's definitely feasible. I wonder how close that is to reality in the U.S. Even though the growth % is '0' in the U.S., I guess there were enough baptized to account for the likes of us...lol. How many of those baptized, I wonder, are children of JW's....
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TallTexan
The 1.3% increase is blowing my mind! These are some of the lowest numbers the organization has had in decades.
And even this small growth is done by artificially inflating the #'s. Now that you can be a publisher w/ as little as 15 minutes in field service. Now that a Bible study can be a 30-min discussion at the door. Even doing all they can do to include these stragglers, they still can't achieve a positive growth in the U.S. What if they were comparing apples to apples for the last 20 years...I imagine there would be a significant decline...