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  When you were an active JW would you have had this sticker on your car?

  by ObservingTexan in

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  i saw a car today that had a bumper sticker that said "i ".

  considering what is taught by the wts about jesus would you have ever put a bumper sticker on your car with this message?.

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  There was an elder in a congregation I was in who had a purple triangle sticker on the back of his mini-van. He said it sparked a lot of conversations that lead to preaching opportunities. *yuck*
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  Best, worst and weirdest assembly halls...

  by Jamelle in

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  a recent thread about the experience of attending the 1969 convention as a young child really started me thinking.

  i have several fuzzy memories of assemblies i attended as very young child.

  this got me onto the track of the rather odd, uncomfortable or even really cool buildings i have visited over the years as a result of those conventions.. so my questions to everyone are:.

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  The worst I can remember was a district assembly at Maple Leaf Gardens in the early 90's? Can anyone verify this? It was so stinking hot that people were crowded around windows during the talks and old people were passing out left and right. Brutal! I was a young kid, so I don't recall many details.
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  2006 Canadian District Conventions

  by enderby in

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  do any canadians have the issue of the watchtower or awake which lists the dates and locations for this year's series of dictrict conventions?

  i'm particularly interested in any listing for hamilton, ontario @ copps.

  second question: has anybody on this forum ever picketed a convention?

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  Thanks for the dates, Mary.
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  2006 Canadian District Conventions

  by enderby in

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  do any canadians have the issue of the watchtower or awake which lists the dates and locations for this year's series of dictrict conventions?

  i'm particularly interested in any listing for hamilton, ontario @ copps.

  second question: has anybody on this forum ever picketed a convention?

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  Yeah . . . I see your point of view and agree. I don't really think anything very productive can be done by picketing in front of the convention....it just seems like an oppertunity to somehow make them think.
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  2006 Canadian District Conventions

  by enderby in

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  do any canadians have the issue of the watchtower or awake which lists the dates and locations for this year's series of dictrict conventions?

  i'm particularly interested in any listing for hamilton, ontario @ copps.

  second question: has anybody on this forum ever picketed a convention?

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  enderby

  Do any Canadians have the issue of the Watchtower or Awake which lists the dates and locations for this year's series of dictrict conventions? I'm particularly interested in any listing for Hamilton, Ontario @ Copps.
  
  Second question: Has anybody on this forum ever picketed a convention? What did you do? Hold picket signs? Try to hand out pamphlets?
  I'd like to get a group together to picket the big assemblies that usually come through town, but am uncertain about what to do. I can't really see a dub even talking to a picketer in front of other dubs. Are there any threads about this sort of thing already? Any input would be appreciated.
  (My brother suggested diguising some subversive apostate material as "$1 off from Harvey's" coupons. hehe. dubs love cheap food.)
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  Check this out........

  by Chimene in

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  http://forum.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=messageboard.viewthread&entryid=13387437&groupid=100654751&adtopicid=27&mytoken=b61f3057-d5e1-131e-f31abb89853f3aaa28640469

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  looks like the college education he's getting from the Awakes didn't teach him the difference between "effect" & "affect".
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  take patience out of the equation - a rant

  by Calliope in

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  here's my weekly rant.

  and i've concluded i'll probably never meet any of you, and those of you that i secretly know, will never realize who i am, so what is there to lose?

  i've lost already.. i'm so g'damn tired.

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  you should read albert camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus". he starts the book by arguing that having a reason not to kill one's self is the fundamental task of thinking because everything else presupposes that life is worthwhile. he compares our lives to Sisyphus who was sentenced to eternally rolling rocks up a hill, and analyzes several archetypes for a quantitative ethics.
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  how do i get free stuff from the WTBTS . . .

  by enderby in

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  does anybody know a way to get publications from the society w/o having to go to a church or having a dub stop by my apartment?

  i would like one of those fancy interlineary bibles of the greek scriptures.

  help me take advantage of brooklyn!

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  does anybody know a way to get publications from the society w/o having to go to a church or having a dub stop by my apartment? i would like one of those fancy interlineary bibles of the greek scriptures. help me take advantage of brooklyn!
  do you think i can write and just ask straight-up for literature, but no visitors?!
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  Living

  by joelbear in

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  there is only one law, love your neighbor as yourself.. very simple words that get buried under lots of gobbledegook.

  we strain to rid ourselves of the guilt of the shoulds that were cast upon us throughout our life.. we run our lives based on these shoulds and apply these shoulds to others.. there are two parts to the law.

  love your neighbor gets most of the attention.

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  also . . . why does jebus get all the credit for the 'golden rule'? one can find a clearly articulated and rationally defended version of this moral principle attributed to confucius (who lived approx 500 BC) in part 5 of The Great Learning. there, he explains that it is meant to bring together chung (conscientiousness) and shu (altruism). and! . . . confucius did it all w/o invoking vague meaningless christian concepts like 'love' or 'self'.
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  Living

  by joelbear in

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  there is only one law, love your neighbor as yourself.. very simple words that get buried under lots of gobbledegook.

  we strain to rid ourselves of the guilt of the shoulds that were cast upon us throughout our life.. we run our lives based on these shoulds and apply these shoulds to others.. there are two parts to the law.

  love your neighbor gets most of the attention.

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  enderby

  i believe that it is impossible to exist without 'harming' others in an unqualified sense. i take the moral of the golden rule to be a point about motivation and intention, not perfect consequences. afterall, in trying to help my neighbours and friends i have sometimes caused them more 'harm' than good. but, my motivation was one of sincere altruism.