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  Celebrating Wedding Anniversaries

  by steve2 in

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  does anyone know the history of celebrating wedding anniversaries within

  the watchtower society (i.e.

  in celebration of wedding anniversaries.

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  MungoBaobab

  The line of reasoning is that since those in the Bible celebrated weddings, it's okay to celebrate the anniversary of the wedding. The logical fallacy is that Jesus' birth was celebrated, and Witnesses continue to celebrate births through baby showers, etc. So why not mark the anniversary of one's birth?

  It's really sad to see these JW Chirstmases held on married couples' anniversaries, where the whole family exchanges gifts. And the "potty training parties." Just celebrate frickin' birthdays already. But God's people didn't do it? Herod, despite being characterized as a monster, was still debateably one of "God's people," and as far as Pharoah's birthday, the Isrealites who wrote and read the account were sure familiar with the custom, weren't they?
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  New KM, With New Procedures!

  by Doubtfully Yours in

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  in the newest kingdom ministry publication comes the information of how they're combining the 'no blood' card and the 'health proxy' document into only one card.. the card will have pertinent information according to the region where the person lives.

  publishers will only need to change this card if personal information changes, otherwise one can keep the card forever instead of the nonsense of having to fill one out at the beginning of each year.. the wtbts sure is simplifying matters as time goes by.

  good!!!

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  MungoBaobab

  Maybe they're simplifying the paperwork, but...

  Blood transfusions= bad

  Blood components= bad

  Blood fractions= good

  that's like saying

  blood transfusions= bad

  b l o o d t r a n s f u s i o n s= bad

  but

  b l o o d t r a n s f u s i o n s = good

  Fine, I'm bleeding to death, so doctor, I can't have a blood transfusion, but if you could mix every single blood fraction inside my body and make a kind of blood coctail, that would be great. Thanks!
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  What Are Some of Your Favorite Urban Legends About JWs???

  by minimus in

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  periodically, we post about what we realize were good fables that were spoken as "gospel".

  smurfs running up and down the aisles of the hall is a well known one......any you remember???

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  MungoBaobab

  -Hitler's mother was a Witness.

  -A Hutu/Tutsi family was captured by the Tutsis/Hutus. The whole family was about to be slaughtered, and the young daughter asked to pray before being killed. She prayed for forgiveness for being executed, because that would mean she couldn't go out in service anymore to spread Jehovah's Word. Upon hearing this, the executioners were so moved they spared the whole famn damily!

  -Frozen mammoths are proof of the Flood.
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  "New system" questions

  by JustTickledPink in

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  do you remember all the hype about the "paradise" and then the natural questions that followed that no one has answers to... like,.

  "will we have cars in the new system?

  " - uh, well jehovah will provide us with whatever we need.

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  MungoBaobab

  You HAVE to build your own house. No exceptions. But people can help you. For their help, you can give them cucumbers you've grown. But what if they have cucumbers, and want tomatoes? They can trade cucumbers for tomatoes. Not having to haul around produce like this was why money was invented in the first place!
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  What was Jesus's real name?

  by gumby in

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  many of you migth know the archetypal jewish hero was joshua (the successor of moses) otherwise known as yeshua ben nun (?jesus of the fish?).

  since the name jesus (yeshua or yeshu in hebrew, ....ioshu in greek,...( source of the english spelling) , originally was a title (meaning ?saviour?, derived from ?yahweh saves?

  )......what was jesus's real name?

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  MungoBaobab

  Probably something like Ramierez, Vasquez, Rodriguez, etc.
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  question for history buffs..

  by candidlynuts in

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  last night my honey and i watched the program about pharoah on discovery channel.. they did facial reconstruction of pharoah and his sons heads...

  anyway..in it they discussed how monotheism began with the egyptians.. that led to my honey and i talking about how people worshipped "god" in isolated areas thruout history before christianity or any other religions came to them.

  what we know of history people would have rain gods, sun gods, earth gods , fertility gods etc.

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  MungoBaobab

  It's worth noting that Akhenaton's, aka Amenhotep IV's, endorsement for henotheism was certainly a bid to wrest power from the Egyptian priest class. What we have here is one of the earliest recorded examples of a ruler changing religion to consolidate his power. By the way, he was married to Nefertiti, one of the earliest recorded examples of a drop-dead gorgeous trophy wife!
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  Awake Caption time!!!

  by doodle-v in

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  add your own caption or title to this awake cover.

  here is the original one:.

  here is a blank one for you to use:.

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  MungoBaobab

  LOL doodle-v!

  Protect yourself from FRAUD

  Ignore telephone witnessing
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  Gandhi

  by nobodylovesme in

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  gandhi

  gandhi walked barefoot everywhere, to the point that his feet became quite thick and hard.

  he also was quite a spiritual person.

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  MungoBaobab

  17 years, eight months, eh? Just wait four months, sweetheart. I'll love ya!
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  Gandhi

  by nobodylovesme in

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  gandhi

  gandhi walked barefoot everywhere, to the point that his feet became quite thick and hard.

  he also was quite a spiritual person.

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  MungoBaobab

  Welcome to the board, by the way. Care to explain your rather depressing screenname? I'm sure it's not true.
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  Every year that passes by should be a SLAP in the face for the Watchtower

  by JH in

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  every year, a new jw calendar comes out, and i say to myself, the watchtower should feel more and more stupid each year knowing that what they prophesized didn't happen once more.. i wonder what will be this year's theme written on the calendar?.

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  MungoBaobab

  "You guys don't get it! Each year that goes by just means we're one year closer to Armageddon."

  (Talk about a one-liner joke!)