new hall builds does mot mean growth.....when you have 4-5 congo's in one hall, sometimes the authorities reguire you to build a new one. i know of one that had to build because the septic system could not support 3 congo's, so they build a new one and sold the old one. that is not growth.
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If growth indicates god's blessing...
by changeling inthen how come the adventists have 15 million members and jw's only 6.7, when they originated at around the same time?
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What are you listening to now?
by sweetstuff inchair dancing to this.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci8lktsb4uo i love this song.
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robert plant/allison krauss for a laid back musical experience.
WLG, you are a tool fanatic like me. the 10,000 days concert was the best tool show ever and i've seen 5 tours including lollapalooza. the light show during the song 10,000 days(wings for marie) was incredible and when they played laturalus i was in heaven.....one of the best songs ever...next to kashmir by zep
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i know an elder who just got one (he stepped down as an elder). he blew a .08 which is legally impaired, but only takes 2-3 beers in an hour for an average person. that is not drunk for a lot of people, including yours truly(as i drink another bourbon and coke, but i ain't driving)
oh yeah, i got one in 1982 and no one ever found out 'cause i never told. my dad knew, he was PO. he even got me a lawyer. 3 months later i got DF'd for drunkenness and a bunch of other things.
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I Will Follow You Into The Dark
by SPAZnik inthis is by death cab for cutie .
love of mine some day you will die .
but i'll be close behind .
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a great song, lyrics and music. i wish i could write like that.
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At what age do you consider a person "Old" ?
by JH innow that i'm in my late 40's, old means about 80 years old.... i'm still young at 47, i think .
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i may grow old, but i'll never grow up.
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sixth sense, ghost, any movie where animals, esp. dogs, die, E.T.(don't laugh) and the TV show Friday Night Lights.
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Are You Spontaneous or more Scheduled?
by journey-on ini was thinking about why my sister is such a fanatical jw and why i turned away from it.
we were both raised.
jws by the same two parents in the same environment and taught the same stuff.
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i regularly schedule myself some spontaeous moments.
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just wonderin'
by bonnzo inhow brother barely gettin' by on my janitorial/window cleaning business elder and pioneer feels about a giant book selling corporation requiring him to be at a week long business meeting at his own expense starting feb. 2008. quite the opposite from how this wicked 'ol world treats their employee's.
or the hard working elder who has a family and one week vacation in 2008 to be spent at the lovely patterson resort in the dead of winter.
glad i ain't one.
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how brother barely gettin' by on my janitorial/window cleaning business elder and pioneer feels about a giant book selling corporation requiring him to be at a week long business meeting at his own expense starting feb. 2008. quite the opposite from how this wicked 'ol world treats their employee's. or the hard working elder who has a family and one week vacation in 2008 to be spent at the lovely patterson resort in the dead of winter. glad i ain't one.
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circuit assembly
by bonnzo inhad a new to me explanation of something i've questioned about matt 24:45-47. i, along with some here, wondered why the "slave" in matthew is singular when the wtbts says it has to be a "class" because no one person could live long enough to be the slave.
personally, i've wondered why it couldn't be each person individually, but the d.o.
says there is precedent.
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our new D.O. had a new to me explanation of something i've questioned about matt 24:45-47. i, along with some here, wondered why the "slave" in matthew is singular when the WTBTS says it has to be a "class" because no one person could live long enough to be the slave. personally, i've wondered why it couldn't be each person individually, but the D.O. says there is precedent. isa43:10 says of the nation of isreal, "you are my witnesses(plural) and then calls them "my servant"(singular), thereby justifying the singlar "slave" being a class of more than one person. just wondering what you guys think of that reasoning.
also, i have a friend that is an elder who is used quite lot on the circuit and district level that i have interesing conversations with that neither he nor i would tell any other JW about. we have discussed the validity of 144.000 being literal, the Sealing done by around 1935(which has since been changed which we both thought had to happen) and other controversial things. his son is at WT farm and went to the annual meeting and told his dad of the "new light " regarding who the generation refered to. i told him i already heard which i had to improv cause i couldn't tell him that i read it here.he thought it made sense. i then asked him the scriptural meaning behind "new light". he looked at me funny and said "proverbs". i said that didn't talk about new light. it refers to the existing light getting brighter. what we have is an old light going out and being replaced over and over. there is no scripture that mentions that. i also told him that if a certain brand of light keeps having to replaced, eventually you change brands. he sort of grunted agreement. i also asked why we dont stop trying to interpret everything and just focus on the TWO MOST important commands from jesus(which by the way, didn't include preaching, which is always refered to as the most important work going on in the world)
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faithful and discreet slave
by bonnzo insome wonder why the fds is singular in mt 24:45-47 but then is described as a "class" of more than one by the wtbts.
our new do said this weekend at the circuit assembly that this has been done before by jehovah at isa 43:10: "you are my witnesses(plural),....my servant(singular).
he implied that the "slave"(singular) could be a group of people using this precedent.
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Some wonder why the FDS is singular in mt 24:45-47 but then is described as a "class" of more than one by the WTBTS. Our new DO said this weekend at the circuit assembly that this has been done before by Jehovah at isa 43:10: "you are my witnesses(plural),....my servant(singular). He implied that the "slave"(singular) could be a group of people using this precedent. Anybody ever heard this before? New to me, so sorry if this has been discussed before.