I'm like Bubbamar, I don't have internet at home and I'm only able to check out the board when at work or when I go to the library(where I am now). I kinda look forward to seeing what's on everyone else's mind most of the time. Especially when I start a weird topic, I like to see how many responses I will get to it. But this board and another one I frequent are both something I log on too as soon as I get a chance to when I get to work everyday. And the days I'm off I come here to the library which is right around the corner from my apt.
Sweetp0985
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How long does it take you in the morning to have a peek at this board?
by JH in.
when you get up in the morning, how long does it take you to get to your computer and check things out on this board?
i mean, do you have breakfast first, get washed first....or are you just programmed to turn on your computer and check out the topics the moment you get up and then get on with your day.
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Falsely claiming to be annointed
by Margie inwhat does the wts say happens to someone who claims to be annointed and partakes at the memorial if that person really isn't annointed?
does someone who is honestly mistaken about being annointed meet the same fate as one cynically claiming to be annointed?
this has probably been discussed before, but i can't seem to find it.. thanks all!.
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From reading Frannie Bannie(sp) post and some others I've had a chance to read from time to time. I kinda agree with Elsewhere and I kinda don't. If the elders for some reason in their minds don't feel you're annointed they will question you to death and make you even question whether you're annointed or not. So if someone is really old and been a witness a long time they probably wouldn't question it, but if someone that is in their maybe 30's or 40's partakes and may be questionable to the elders, IMO they probably will pull that person to the side and ask them what makes them think they're one of the anointed and if their answer isn't up to par then the elder will probably write the GB and get a vote on it. The GB will probably make their vote according to how much time and pioneering the sis/bro has done.
But that's just my opinion.
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Now Up to the Witness To Vote Or Not? What Next?
by Sweetp0985 inmore from the plain dealer | subscribe to the plain dealer
jehovah's witnesses see voting as divisive
thousands gather hereover four weekends
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More From The Plain Dealer | Subscribe To The Plain Dealer
Jehovah's Witnesses see voting as divisive
Thousands gather hereover four weekends Thursday, July 29, 2004 David Briggs Plain Dealer Religion Reporter Call it a campaign strategist's nightmare: More than 30,000 people coming to a central location in Cleveland over four weekends, and hardly a single vote to be had.In this most political of seasons, where small percentages of votes in key states could prove decisive, the Jehovah's Witnesses are staying true to their theological beliefs that their kingdom is not of this world.
There will be no voter registration drives for the more than 8,000 delegates at the second of the Witnesses' four district conventions, which begins Friday at the Cleveland State University Convocation Center. Neither candidate will be invited to any of the month-long series of weekend conventions, and campaign literature will be nonexistent. Voting in elections would only be divisive to their work of preparing for a biblical Armageddon that the more than 1 million Witnesses in the United States believe will usher in a time of universal peace.
"You can't legislate love. You can't make people love each other," said Carole Johnson, 67, of North Ridgeville. "You have to do it from the heart."
Jehovah's Witnesses, a true made-in-America religion, grew out of a movement that began with the end-time prophecies of William Miller, the founder of Adventism. The "Great Disappointment" of 1844 - when Miller's predictions of the Second Coming did not come true - did not deter him or others from their vision.
Coming out of the Adventist tradition was Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Witnesses.
Russell set 1874 as the date for Christ's return, and 1914 for the battle of Armageddon and the beginning of Jesus' rulership on Earth.
World War I seemed to confirm his prophecy, but the slogan of Russellites that "millions now living will never die" lost some impact when Russell died in 1916.
After several other failed attempts to predict the end of this world, the Witnesses in the 1990s officially dismissed date setting as speculation.
But the church continues to teach the end is near, creating an urgency for individuals to prepare for the coming kingdom.
In their theology, there is a battle now raging between God in his heavenly kingdom, and Satan, the ruler of this world.
Witnesses are called to work for God's kingdom, not to try to improve or prop up the existing system by political means, the church teaches.
Jehovah's Witnesses can serve their communities as teachers, doctors or social workers, but voting, serving in the military or holding elected offices are off-limits.
Let the Democrats in Boston this week tell how they will change the world. The prize Witnesses keep their eyes on is a new world where the meek, not the politically powerful, will inherit the Earth.
"Our only hope lies in God's kingdom," said Blanche Bobich, 38, of North Ridgeville.
Last Sunday, in a simple plain brick building next to a strip mall along Center Ridge Road in Westlake, politics was nowhere on the agenda during a typical two-hour service consisting of singing, prayer, a lecture and Bible study.
Elders said each Witness is free to make his or her own decision about voting.
But when asked how many of the 85 members in the Westlake congregation would vote in November, Michael Dobbs' reply was immediate: "No one."
Once the church starts talking politics, the elder said, "it would be impossible" to maintain the unity and peace that he said Witnesses are trying to create throughout the world.
Dobbs, 59, served 1½ years in prison as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War.
He said "The Lord's Prayer" talks of the coming Kingdom of God, and "our allegiance is toward that kingdom completely."
Not all religious groups who foresee the imminent end of the world take such a hands-off approach.
Seventh-day Adventists, which also grew out of the Millerite movement, say in an official statement on church-state relations that, "We should participate in the voting process available to us when it is possible to do so in good conscience."
But that does not mean not voting is necessarily a hardship for Witnesses in the United States.
Sociologist Rodney Stark of Baylor University, who has written about the denomination, said Witnesses share a political world view that is not much different from the perspective of many Americans toward the two parties: "A pox on all their houses."
In a culture where many people believe their votes don't count, or follow along with the words of the bumper sticker "Don't vote - it just encourages them," most Witnesses probably do not think that they are missing out on much, Stark said.
Rather, he said, their attitude may be more along the lines of, "That's just one more thing I don't have to do."
Before she became a Witness 32 years ago, Carole Johnson not only voted for John Kennedy in 1960, but also worked for his election.
She had traveled in the South, and had seen the pain of segregation, and she was hopeful Kennedy could change things.
But that was the last time she voted.
"I realize now no man can really solve all our problems. It hasn't been proven yet," she said.
To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:
[email protected], 216-999-4812
© 2004 The Plain Dealer. Used with permission.I realize now no man can really solve all our problems. It hasn't been proven yet," she said.
She hit the nail on the head with that statement, "No Man (in my book=GB) can really solve all our problems.
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A story I've never told anyone... Part 2
by Jim_TX ini'm not sure what had happened, but we were still seeing each other, perhaps i was already linked to this girl and didn't realize it.. .
the trip was made at night.
the next day, i went to work, and she went back home to san antonio.
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so far so good......
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A story I've never told anyone... Part 1
by Jim_TX inwhat is written below - i wrote many years ago.
i am now posting it for your entertainment.
i read through part of it prior to posting... it is long.
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I hope you don't have more than 10
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Find the difference of the two photo's
by gumby in.
http://members.home.nl/saen/special/zoeken.html.
gumby.
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I'm at work and after clicking on that link i very loudly said:
OH S**T!!!
That wasn't very funny....
Edited to add: Reading over other posts on this freaky crap, I'm so glad I didn't have the sound to go with it. I might have really gotten in trouble. And here I was looking at the little scenery of the boat and pretty water and then the ugliness. That was a bad joke..VERY NOT FUNNY...
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Why Don't They Have Windows???
by Sweetp0985 in.
this may be a question that has been answered millions of times but i've seen it in alot of posts lately.. why don't the kh have windows?
what is their bible-based answer for this one?
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Something to ponder.
Being in the Dirty South, we do have the occasional hate inspired church burnings. But I rarely hear about people breaking into churches. I remember a KH locally that was always getting broken into and the theives would take the sound equipment. Why didn't Jehovah protect his house. I mean this is his house of worship, they shouldn't even need alarms. Just a thought.
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Believable Or NOT!!!!
by Sweetp0985 ini don't know about everyone else but i just want to get these stories of godly/demonic intervention out of my system.
hope it doesn't bore you but some are a good laugh now but i truly believed them and some i still believe.. 1. don't open that cabinet- one day my dear step mother was cleaning the kitchen and needed something out of a cabinet that was rarely used.
there was a plastic cake dish that makes this very audible noise when trying to close it(lil cheap cake from winn dixie).
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My God and I thought my stories were weird. I guess demons just like Smurfs for some reason. I faintly remember something about a Cabbage Patch Doll doing something too along the lines of moving by itself but I don't remember exactly what happened.
And the story about the Smurf running out the KH..C'mon now. I would have loved to see that.
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Where do you find spiritual fulfillment now?
by marked inhey everyone.. i've been "out" for about six months now, fully enjoying life for the first time in a very long time.
part of my joy comes from the freedom i now have to explore other spiritualities.. i will say, though, that since leaving i've felt something lacking in my life.
not because i regret my decision to leave.
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New Hope Baptist Church near my apt. The first time I went I was really just amazed with the choir. The next couple of times I really listened to what the preacher was saying and almost everything was speaking to me. Joined the church and I've been a member ever since. It's been about a year now.
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Why Don't They Have Windows???
by Sweetp0985 in.
this may be a question that has been answered millions of times but i've seen it in alot of posts lately.. why don't the kh have windows?
what is their bible-based answer for this one?
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I know of an account servant stealing some of the WWW money. BAD account server.
I guess it just depends on the area, but here in LA I've never been to a KH that had windows and I've been to quite a few.
