I sure was banned from it!
I was quite fond of the game when I started in the Org.. A group of us used to play it at when we got together at each other's homes. But after that article came out, we were all banned from playing it. Funny though, after about ten years or so the elders had more important things on their minds (the 1980's apostasy purge) so I was able to get away with it some. I was good enough to trash the city champion in private play. But I never did any contests which would've meant playing openly.
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Was anyone actually ever banned from playing chess?
by Jodo inawake!
1973 march 22 pp.13-14 chess-what kind of game is it?
the spirit of competition in chess may be stirred to fever pitch, which is reflected in chess players' attitudes and language.
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Public talk over time
by ballistic inan old age bethelite elder gives a special public talk at a kingdom hall and rambles on for some time.
after two hours, he mumbles, "sorry if i have gone over-time but i left my watch at home.
" an over-zealous ministerial servant in the front row stands up and says, "it's ok, there's a calendar behind you!
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That got me thinking about old Gb member Gangas. What was supposed to be a one hour talk went on for 2 1/2!
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question on legal issue
by Mulan inanyone with legal knowledge can answer this.. the new blood form (replacing the blood card) is a dpa (durable power of attorney).
i am my jw mother's dpa.
she knows i will respect her wishes on the blood issue, so that isn't a problem.
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Blondie's got the right of it. It depends on the laws of the state you are in. When in doubt, check with a lawyer. The expense is worth the peace of mind on the matter. And that sort of consultation is usaully not all that expensive anyway!
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I took the "1914 Generation" prophecy seriously. Did you?
by nicolaou ini was born in 1964, a convenient 50 years after 1914. even in my early teens i was doing the sums.
i had a worse case scenario figured out - if the 1914 generation could apply to babies and even if they lived to be a 120, i would still only be about 70 years old after they'd all died!
i figured that i was part of the first wave of 'jehovah's people' that really would live to see the new order - guaranteed!!
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I came in in time for the 1975 thingy as well. Turned down a scholarship to one of the best universities in the nation for my rather special talents because of the pressure from the Bros. not to get a higher education.
Yep, I accepted the 1914 generation thing. I was in a university when the Society changed the definition of "generation" to make it open-ended. My first thought was "shades of Orwell's 1984." LOL
As for the date for the fall of Jerusalem, the basis for 1914, that date is by no means certain at 587 b.c. as scholars alledge. The archealogical evidence is by no means certain. 537 b.c. for the fall of Babylon to the Persians and the liberation of the Jews is far more certain and accepted by scholars. Since Daniel confirmed that 70 years of exile as decreed in Jerimiah were in fact fulfilled (Dan. 9:2, Jer. 25:11, 29:10) then the date for the fall of Jerusalem is in the area of 607 b.c., that is if we can rely on the evidence for the date of the fall of Babylon. My problem is not with the date of 1914 so much as its significance. IMO that is what is misunderstood. The end of the times of Gentile domination over the Jews and Israel does not invariably equal the establishment of the messianic kingdom in heaven or anywhere else. It simply means that the Gentiles no longer have uncontested authority over the Jews and the Holy Land. And I think that the restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land that is now playing itself out right before our eyes bears that out.
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A Must Read Link For All.....
by Rich in.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/s119.html
a lie is a lie is a lie is a lie.
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Can somebody enlighten me on how one gets Jehovah from adding the vowels from adonai to YHWH? A, o, ai somehow become e, o, a? Doesn't make sense, does it?
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The greek does not use the noun "imitator" there in 3John 11. The verb for "to imitate is in the imperative, and so the phrase could just as well be rendered "Do not keep imitating evil, but good."
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Is anyone on this forum disfellowshipped?
by Kimmee inand if you are do you care to tell why you are disfellowshipped?
for those who were not what prevented you from being disfellowshipped?
curious minds want to know.
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I am not Df'd or Da'd.
My family (what's left of them in the house) have kind of faded out for various reasons. There were a number of things that built up over the years and the trigger events were different for each of us. In my case, I caught an elder in a lie just one time to many. And health problems made the fade easier to accomplish. As I mentioned in another topic, there appears to be some confusion locally about what Congo. I am even supposed to be in, so nobody's bugging me and thats just fine with me. -
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Why God Never Recieved a PH.D.
by Forscher inmy wife was given this one by somebody at the college she goes to.
i though you folks might enjoy it, especially those who've had a higher education like me!
why god never recieved a ph.d. .
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My wife was given this one by somebody at the college she goes to. I though you folks might enjoy it, especially those who've had a higher education like me!
Why God Never Recieved a Ph.d.
1. He had only one major work.
2. It was in Hebrew.
3. It had no refrences.
4. It wasn't published in a refereed journal.
5. Some even doubt he wrote it by himself.
6. It may be true that he created the world, but what has he done since then?
7. His cooperative efforts have been quite limited.
8. The scientific community has had a hard time replicating his results.
9. He never applied to the ethics board for permission to use human subjects.
10. When one experiment went awry he tried to cover it by drowning his subjects.
11. When subjects didn't behave as predicted, he deleted them from the sample.
12. He rarely came to class, just told students to read the book.
13. Some say he had his son teach the class.
14. He expelled his first two students for learning.
15. Although there were only 10 requirements, most of his students failed his tests.
16. His office hours were infrequent and usually held on a mountain top.
17. No record of working well with colleagues.
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Anti-intellectualism and demagogy
by Narkissos inin religion (the wt being an excellent example) or politics (it's a common attitude of a lot of electorally successful leaders such as bush and chirac)... why does it work so well?
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Excuse me. I forget what my foreign born professor pointed out to us in a history class (he was in the U.S. as part of a special program. What we in the U.S. call the left, the rest of the world calls right. What we call right, or conservatism, the rest of the world calls liberal. And progressivism is an acceptable term for what the rest of the world calls the right. Monarchism is what the world calls rafdical right. This came from an Argentinian who was explaining the politics of South America and why it is pretty much the same as Europe's. For us here in the U.S. Chirac's secularist outlook marks him as radically liberal to us.
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Not love, not lust, but something in-between
by logansrun inon christmas eve i got the chance to get together with an old friend, also an ex-witness, who was visiting from new york.
his life has been something of a hedonic treadmill and only recently has gotten off of it to find, as i like to call him, the sensitive new age jesus.
well, anyway, we got on the subject of sex and relationships.
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Just from an academic point of view, I find it interesting that some gals feel that virginity is a "problem" and want to get rid of it. Any thoughts on just how widespread (pardon the pun) that view is and why?