And note how they grant 15 minutes to IGNORE any and all significant local needs, and rant about something insignificant and meaningless. (At least, so it was in our former congregation.)
bennyk
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Service Meeting for Week beginning December 5, 2005
by TheListener insong 38.
10 min: local announcements.. 15 min: local needs.. 20 min: "what our ministry accomplishes.
" * when considering paragraph 5, include comments on the february 15, 2004, watchtower, page 32.. song 32 and concluding prayer.. * limit introductory comments to less than a minute, and follow with a question-and-answer discussion.
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I think I'll take a few days off to DA....
by AuldSoul insince i'm da'ing this week, i think i'd better make myself scarce around here.
my nerves are in a knot and i'm not in the most rational frame of mind to be posting in good judgement.
wish me luck!
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bennyk
Good luck. Find peace. Take care, my friend.
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Movies that make me cry
by Lady Lee inok i just finished watching antwone fisher.
it's not the first time i've watched it.not even the second or third time.
i've seen it a lot.
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bennyk
Field of Dreams: "Is this Heaven?" "No... it's Iowa." (I'm not certain just why.)
Das Boot: the Boat is the star of the movie; 'mir gehen die Augen ueber' when she breaks surface again off Morocco. (Note: the music helps it right along, and anyway, it is an emotional release after having been on the sea-bottom so long.) The final scene is pretty rough, too.
Casablanca: (NOT the final scene.) Where the German soldiers are humiliating the Frenchmen by singing "die Wacht am Rhein" and the French sing their national anthem. Absolutely stunning!
I would never watch "Black Beauty" with my children. Germans try not to allow their children to see them cry. (We're actually a very emotional people.)
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As a JW did you ever have a personal relationship with God?
by Evanescence in.
as a jehovah's witness did you ever have a personal relationship with god?.
evanescence
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bennyk
I did. In spite of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.
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Are Liberal Arts Degree worth it?
by truthseeker inan excellent article, which also refutes the idea that people only go to college to get rich and make money.. http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/elearning/?article=liberalartsare liberal arts degrees worth anything?by jim pollock.
for everyone who says that a liberal arts degree doesn't prepare you for anything, you'll find someone else who claims that it prepares you for everything.
well, both, to some extent.the one thing that's pretty much certain is that right out of the gate, a liberal arts grad will tend to pull a smaller starting salary than his or her friends who majored in business or a technical field.
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bennyk
My college education is one of the things I most regret: the time and money foolishly wasted obtaining my liberal arts B. A. cannot be recovered. The entire experience remains a source of bitterness to this day.
No, I don't wish to elaborate...
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Evil Slave
by loosie inok this maybe a jw urban legend.
but does anyone remember jw's talking about an eveil slave class?.
my mom told me that there is an actualy evil slave class just like there is a faithful and discreet slave class.. she also told me that the evil slave class lives in florida.. has anyone else heard this, or had my mom been drinking when she told me this?.
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bennyk
It is alleged that I am a member of the "Evil Slave Class". I don't live in Florida.
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United in worship of the Only True God... my mom says don't read it!
by in a new york bethel minute inshe found the united book, open as if i was saving a spot from where i had last finished reading.
she found it and said, "bethel, don't read this we have an updated version!
" i said, "why do they need to update it?
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bennyk
They also removed the chapter on the Mosaic Law. Perhaps they came to realize that JW's just might begin to notice that "Watchtower-Worship" is the "fourth branch of Judaism"(?).
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Watchtower lying by omission
by Cygnus incheck this out:.
*** w84 12/1 pp.
13-14 happy are those found watching!
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bennyk
They were emphatically NOT "happy...to have been found watching!" They were, in fact, distressed to find that their prophecies were proven false. As you say, even if we were to consider true the Society's current claims regarding 1914, the fact remains that the Bible Students held NO such view IN 1914. Indeed, most Associated Bible Students currently believe the "parousia" occurred in 1874, and that Jesus was enthroned in the Heavens in 1878. Those Bible Students who abandoned Russell's teachings but remained with the Watch Tower Society did not come to believe that Jesus was enthroned in the Heavens in 1914 UNTIL 1925 (WT article: "Birth of the Nation"), and continued to believe that his invisible "Parousia" dated from 1874 UNTIL 1929 (WT publication "Prophecy").
Hmmm.... It is also interesting that the Society made the claim in the "Greatest Man" book that only Jesus' true disciples saw him return in 1914. If we were to allow that statement to stand, it would PROVE that the Bible Students (and their break-away sect, the JW's) were NOT Jesus' true followers.
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Skirting the issue
by Virgogirl inwhat argument is put forth that women must only wear dresses or skirts to the meetings or in service and are not permitted to wear slacks?
where does it say it's wrong for sisters to wear pants, and how are they convincing women in 2005 to buy into this?
i remember many bitterly cold chicago mornings with frozen legs running to doors and back to the warm car as quickly as possible, wearing a skirt which was ridiculous and inappropriate to the weather conditions.
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bennyk
Yes, they do!!!!!
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This is not a brighter light it's a lie
by PoppyR inok... i just found this and i know it's been posted before, but i had to comment!!
i have tried to justify some of the changes, but this one can only be a lie.
it's a direct quote apparently from something somebody said.. so he either said 'within fifteen years' or he said 'soon'.. it is not possible it's just become clearer what he said, or they misheard him the first time.
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bennyk
It is a correct quote both times: note where they put the quotation marks. It is misleading, though.
However, the person quoted was incorrect.