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  Do you know of any JW's that was DF/DA for going to the military?

  by booker-t in

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  i think that i only know of 1 guy that i grew up with that was da'd for going to the army.

  is this an isolated case or is it a common problem among young jw's men and women going to the military and being df or da?

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  XJW author will be interviewed on the radio tomorrow

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  brenda lee, author of "out of the cocoon: a young woman's courageous flight from the grip of a religious cult" (www.outofthecocoon.net) will be on the kgab radio show in cheyenne, wyoming, june 21, at approximately 8:07 a.m. mountain time for around 20 minutes.

  you can listen live at:.

  http://www.kgab.com/main.html.

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  I listened but a doctor Wolf was on instead.
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  Revelation-Its Grand Climax at Hand!

  by XBEHERE in

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  july km confirms that this is the next book for consideration at bookstudies starting next year.

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  Words fail me
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  #1 talk TMS this week (barf alert)

  by blindersoff in

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  * w04 3/1 pp.

  13-14 the faithful slave passes the test!

  the faithful slave passes the test!.

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  * w04 3/1 pp. 13-14 ‘The Faithful Slave’ Passes the Test! ***

  ‘The

  Faithful Slave’ Passes the Test!

  "It is the appointed time for the judgment to start with the house of God."—1 Peter 4:17.

  AT Pentecost 33 C.E., Jesus appointed a "slave" to provide food at the proper time for his "domestics." In 1914, Jesus was enthroned as King, and soon it was time to inspect that "slave." For the most part, he found that the "slave" had proved itself "faithful and discreet." Hence, he appointed it "over all his belongings." (Matthew 24:45-47) However, there was also an evil slave, who was neither faithful nor discreet.

  "That

  Evil Slave"

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  Jesus spoke of the evil slave immediately after discussing "the faithful and discreet slave." He said: "If ever that evil slave should say in his heart, ‘My master is delaying,’ and should start to beat his fellow slaves and should eat and drink with the confirmed drunkards, the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and in an hour that he does not know, and will punish him with the greatest severity and will assign him his part with the hypocrites. There is where his weeping and the gnashing of his teeth will be." (Matthew 24:48-51) The expression "that evil slave" draws our attention to Jesus’ preceding words about the faithful and discreet slave. Yes, the "evil slave" came from the ranks of the faithful slave. How?

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  Before 1914, many members of the faithful slave class had high hopes of meeting with the Bridegroom in heaven that year, but their hopes were not fulfilled. As a result of this and other developments, many were disappointed and a few became embittered. Some of these turned to ‘beating’ their former brothers verbally and consorting with "confirmed drunkards," religious groups of Christendom.—Isaiah 28:1-3; 32:6.

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  These former Christians came to be identified as the "evil slave," and Jesus punished them with "the greatest severity." How? He rejected them, and they lost out on their heavenly hope. They were not, however, immediately destroyed. They first had to endure a period of weeping and gnashing of teeth in "the darkness outside" the Christian congregation. (Matthew 8:12) Since those early days, a few other anointed individuals have shown a similar bad spirit, identifying themselves with the "evil slave." Some of the "other sheep" have imitated their unfaithfulness. (John 10:16) All such enemies of the Christ end up in the same spiritual "darkness outside."

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  Nonetheless, the faithful and discreet slave went through the same tests as "that evil slave." Rather than becoming embittered, however, they were readjusted. (2 Corinthians 13:11) Their love for Jehovah and their brothers was strengthened. As a result, they have been "a pillar and support of the truth" during these tumultuous "last days."—1 Timothy 3:15; 2 Timothy 3:1.

  Inspection Time Begins!

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  The parable continues: "After a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them." (Matthew 25:19) In 1914—certainly a long time after 33 C.E.—Christ Jesus began his royal presence. Three and a half years later, in 1918, he came to God’s spiritual temple and fulfilled Peter’s words: "It is the appointed time for the judgment to start with the house of God." (1 Peter 4:17; Malachi 3:1) It was time to settle accounts.

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  What had the slaves, Jesus’ anointed brothers, done with the King’s "talents"? From 33 C.E. onward, including the years leading up to 1914, many had been working hard at Jesus’ "business." (Matthew 25:16) Even during the first world war, they had shown a strong desire to serve the Master. Now it was fitting to give faithful ones new opportunities to ‘do business.’ The time of the end of this system of things had arrived. The good news had to be preached worldwide. "The harvest of the earth" had to be reaped. (Revelation 14:6, 7, 14-16) The final members of the wheat class had to be located and "a great crowd" of other sheep gathered in.—Revelation 7:9; Matthew 13:24-30.

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  Harvesttime is a joyful time. (Psalm 126:6) It is fitting, then, that when in 1919, Jesus entrusted his faithful anointed brothers with increased responsibility, he said: "You were faithful over a few things. I will appoint you over many things. Enter into the joy of your master." (Matthew 25:21, 23) Moreover, the joy of the Master as newly enthroned King of God’s Kingdom surpasses our imagination. (Psalm 45:1, 2, 6, 7) The faithful slave class share that joy by representing the King and increasing his interests on earth. (2 Corinthians 5:20) Their delight is seen in the prophetic words of Isaiah 61:10: "Without fail I shall exult in Jehovah. My soul will be joyful in my God. For he has clothed me with the garments of salvation."

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  Sadly, some did not pass inspection. We read: "The one that had received the one talent came forward and said, ‘Master, I knew you to be an exacting man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you did not winnow. So I grew afraid and went off and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’" (Matthew 25:24, 25) Similarly, some anointed Christians had not engaged in "business." Before 1914 they had not enthusiastically shared their hope with others, and they did not want to start in 1919. How did Jesus respond to their insolence? He took away all their privileges. They were ‘thrown out into the darkness outside, where their weeping and the gnashing of their teeth would be.’—Matthew 25:28, 30.
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  YOU KNOW YOUR FROM HOUSTON WHEN....

  by blindersoff in

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  the "farm-to-market" roads have seven lanes.. .

  if you want to be a snob about your grocery shopping, you can go to a. randall's flagship, a kroger signature, a rice epicurean, or soon, an heb.

  central market to buy bread and milk (but you have to dress up!).

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  The "farm-to-market" roads have seven lanes. If you want to be a snob about your grocery shopping, you can go to a
  Randall's Flagship, a Kroger Signature, a Rice Epicurean, or soon, an HEB
  Central Market to buy bread and milk (but you have to dress up!) You have to turn on the air conditioning in January, two days after a low of
  29 degrees. You have a Roach Story: You opened your flatware drawer to find a roach the
  size of the Taco Bell chihuahua. He stood up and looked you in the eye. You
  closed the drawer, bought new flatware -- and stored it in the oven. When you see your neighbor dancing around the front yard, you don't think
  he's won the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes; you know he just stepped
  in a fire ant bed.
  
  "Luv ya Blue" still makes you smile, even if you did run the Oilers out of
  town. You know that the Astrodome will always be the Eighth Wonder of the World. You come to work in short-sleeves and walk out at noon to find that a
  "blue-tailed norther" has blown through, and the temperature has dropped 40
  degrees in a matter of minutes.
  
  You wander into a section of town where you can't read the street signs
  because they're written in Asian characters instead of English, but you
  don't care because you can get great prices on fake designer merchandise
  there. You go to an art festival on Westheimer and you're almost run down by two
  cross-dressers on roller blades, holding hands.
  
  The "Killer Bees" are not stinging insects. You hear everything but English spoken when you go to the Galleria to
  window-shop. You know that "Dad gummit" has nothing to do with your father's failure to
  practice good dental hygiene. You think "Y'all" is perfectly good usage if you're referring to more than
  one person.
  
  Spring is not the season, Katy is not the lady, and 1960 is not the year. Society matrons of "a certain age" still sport big hair, and faces that have
  gone east, west, and north rather than south. You can leave your house, head out of town, and an hour later you still
  haven't left the city limits. (During rush hour, you haven't left your
  neighborhood.) You've never seen I-45 in any condition other than under-construction -- and
  you've lived here for 20-30 years.
  
  If the humidity is below 90 percent, it's a good hair day. You know that "Clutch City" has nothing to do with automobile transmissions. "The Dream" is not a fantasy.
  
  The only real Mexican food is Tex-Mex. You know that while saving you money, "Mattress Mac" has amassed more than
  the U.S. Treasury has. You're happy to have beaten Los Angeles out of a football team, but you'd
  rather that they keep the title of "Smog Capital." You see nothing unusual about an 80-something former sheriff's deputy who
  wears a white pompadour toupee and blue sunglasses, mispronounces names,
  allows televising of his frequent plastic surgeries, seems unnaturally
  obsessed with slime in the ice machine, and screams, "MAR-VIN ZIND-ler,
  EYE-witness news" into a television camera every night. You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Houston
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  Woman with a flat tire. Would you have stopped to help when you were a JW?

  by ObservingTexan in

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  in the light of the second greatest commandment, "love your neighbor as yourself", when you were an active jw would you have stopped to help in the following scenario?

  you are in your car and drive by a woman who is having car trouble... a flat tire.

  she's struggling to get the tire changed.

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  Yes. Happened to us. My wife and I not only stopped, but took her flat spare to Gonzales to get it fixed then took her back to her car. We considered it very important to help people if we could.

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  JWs: If the Bible is really all we need, then why all this WTS literature?

  by whyizit in

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  i've noticed when i ask jws questions, they keep handing me all kinds of booklets and encourage me to look in the reasoning book.

  they do not answer my questions.

  and why do they not refer me to the bible?

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  Feb 1, 06WT

  13 Gradually, Jehovah gave his people a clearer understanding of his will and purpose. (Proverbs 4:18) The Watch Tower of December 1, 1928, said: "Can we say that [the] circulation of the Bible Accomplished the foretold preaching of the gospel of the kingdom? Decidedly no! In spite of this Bible distribution it is still necessary for God's little band of witnesses in the earth to print literature explaining God's [purpose] and to call upon the homes where these Bibles have been placed……"
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  JWs: If the Bible is really all we need, then why all this WTS literature?

  by whyizit in

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  i've noticed when i ask jws questions, they keep handing me all kinds of booklets and encourage me to look in the reasoning book.

  they do not answer my questions.

  and why do they not refer me to the bible?

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  13 Gradually, Jehovah gave his people a clearer understanding of his will and purpose. (Proverbs 4:18) The Watch Tower of
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  convention kickback? Beaumont, TX

  by blindersoff in

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  20 groups divvy up hotel occupancy taxes by beth gallaspy , the enterprise .

  beaumont - more than 20 different organizations will share in $370,778.98 in hotel occupancy tax money to promote tourism-related events and projects in jefferson county.. .

  click herejefferson county commissioners court approved the distribution of the money monday, following recommendations of the county's tourism commission.

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  I wonder if this is a can that could be opened to let out worms from all over the country.

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  convention kickback? Beaumont, TX

  by blindersoff in

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  20 groups divvy up hotel occupancy taxes by beth gallaspy , the enterprise .

  beaumont - more than 20 different organizations will share in $370,778.98 in hotel occupancy tax money to promote tourism-related events and projects in jefferson county.. .

  click herejefferson county commissioners court approved the distribution of the money monday, following recommendations of the county's tourism commission.

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  03/28/2006

  20 groups divvy up hotel occupancy taxes

  By Beth Gallaspy , The Enterprise

  
  

  BEAUMONT - More than 20 different organizations will share in $370,778.98 in hotel occupancy tax money to promote tourism-related events and projects in Jefferson County. Advertisement Click Here Jefferson County Commissioners Court approved the distribution of the money Monday, following recommendations of the county's tourism commission. The commission is a group of volunteers appointed by the court. State law restricts use of the money to tourism activities. Recipients are: