Hey, this sounds like a great opportunity! I was thinking of purchasing a college diploma but this sounds alot cheaper. Do we get a clergy license plate too? I'm tired of having to walk so far when I visit someone in the hospital. I need alittle prestige in my life. This oughta do it :)
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Back in the saddle again?
by Lee Elder ina family friend is getting married and has asked me to perform the wedding.
my wife directed me to the solution: http://www.spiritualhumanism.org/.
so i'm clergy again!
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Congregation get-togethers
by freedom96 indid your hall ever organize times for the congregation to do activities?.
about every 6-9 months, mine would have a congregation picnic.
people would bring food, and we would play a softball game.
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Hi Freedom,
This is one subject that really chaps my ass. There were very few *gatherings*(they don't even like the word*party*, do they? Too worldly)in the congregations I attended. By the time I left, they were getting even fewer and far between. Real friendship did not exist and people had to see each other at the meetings so much, they didn't want to look at their faces on their time off, I suppose.
I remember one day, on my way to work, stopping at a redlight and watching a bunch of kids and their mom's loading into a church bus in the church parking lot. They were laughing and talking as they were, no doubt, going to go do some fun CHURCH sponsored activity. It really struck me that day how little the organization gives back to their flunkies.....er, sheep, especially the poor children. They demand so much, yet give back nothing. Nada, zip. And as you brought out, for a religion who demands it's people to associate only with other JW's, they don't lift a finger to help them do this with all of their $$$. What a dull ass selfish religion. As usual, they put it all on the pubs alone to use their own resources while they just make the rules. Too, we have to remember that they will always minimize recreation lest your valuable time not be spent in the all important preaching of the good news and the meetings. And would it kill them to have built into the KH's a fellowship hall where people could socialize and drink alittle coffee after the meetings? Um, yea, I guess it would. That would mean that they actually cared about the humanity of people. Don't want to be ANYTHING like the other whoreish churches.
And last but not least, I know what you mean about the bad association thing and how they would build paranoia among the members by encouraging them to be careful of bad association, *not just out in the world but IN the congregation*. What crap!! That just gave license to freely judge your brother's and write them off if you wanted to. Such unity and love....not.
Sorry about the rant. I told you this chapped my ass. LOL Thanks for the post.
CC
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Do you like black people?
by crownboy inwell these guys sure do!
http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/index.html.
funny and informative at the same time
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Here are a few of my thoughts, based on my own personal experiences. The most loving and fun(yes, at times) congregation I have ever attended was made up almost entirely of black people. I was the minority but was accepted with the love and respect that one would hope for from the Only True Religion(TM). As a whole, they strived to apply the *most important* christian principles and created a warm environment for everyone in the congregation, black or white. One quality that I noted was prevalent was the quality of humility. I always loved that quality in people and frankly saw very little of it among the white peeps in other congregations I attended. The black friends had no problem yielding to others and even "considering the other's as superior" as per the bible's RX while dealing with all fellow christians. They also knew how to party, put on great gatherings,have lot's of fun at wedding receptions and weren't so hung up on all of the politically correct JW directives barked down from the big dogs in Brooklyn. And this included the black elders. These were special people to me and they taught me alot. They provided just about the only good memories I have as a JW.
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Has this place changed you?
by OUTLAW inwhen i first came here i was happy to find a place where i could laugh, get pissed off or just speak my mind on a subject.the people i have met here are some of the most,kind,careing,informative,helpfull souls.
i couldn`t have asked for a better group to be involved with.i do not always agree with my board mates.even with the ones who piss me off,there is still a comradeship(yk comes to mind,lol).finding this board has taught me one important thing.we are not alone,we have each other...outlaw
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ChakkaConned
I'd very much like to speak with you!! If you can handle it!
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Thanks Beck...I can only dream....
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ChakkaConned
HEY OUTLAW!!
i'VE LUSTED AFTER YOU FOR THE LONGEST!! I THINK YOU ARE THE COOLIST GUY ON THIS BOARD SINCE FOREVER! SHOOT ME AN EMAIL, WILL yA?
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ChakkaConned
I meant BM.......sorry......
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LOL.....thanks BT...hiccupp!
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That's about it...
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People are so thick!!!
by 67mustang inhow can someone be at this website for any amount of time and not no what it's about.
somebody was reading on it and found my name and kept sending me emails, asking if i'm studying or baptised, those questions should have been enough, but i assumed she knew.
when i told her my stance she got all pist off.
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ChakkaConned
67.....it's just sexual tension. Monopolise on it!)sp...lol)