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Were You Ever Drunk or High At A Meeting Or In Service?

by minimus in

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an elder in our hall used to drink his wine before evening meetings regularly, and on more than a few occasions was "buzzed" and laughing up on the platform while giving a talk.

jstalin

We had a CO over for supper before a meeting, and he polished a bottle of wine off himself. I'd say he had quite the buzz on.

Probably the only way he could live with himself

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this made me giggle

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Attention Fellow (or former) Ayn Rand nerds: I need a quote

by Check_Your_Premises in

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my paraphrase for it is, "any time you experience pain, it is because there is something about the world you didn't understand" .

does anyone have the source, or exact quote?

"contradictions do not exist.

jstalin

Atlas Shrugged was a life-changing book for me. The Cliffs Notes are junk. Read the real thing. Take it a little at a time.

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my preferred social construct would be a group of 5 to 10 men sharing space, chores, well everything.. if i were heterosexual i think i would prefer the same situation, 2 or 3 families living together and sharing all.. actually i believe this should be a worldwide goal, total community in every sense of the word.. i see no advantage served by social and sexual diads.. please explain it to me.

jstalin

I'm perfectly happy living alone. I would go nuts if I had to live with other families.

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More news: WatchTower take legal action against site that quotes their Quot

by Elsewhere in

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http://www.profindsearch.com/news/2005/09/21/pfs1203.htm .

watchtower take legal action against site that quotes their quotes!.

the watchtower bible and tract society of pennsylvania have initiated legal proceedings against [quotes], who has been displaying "quotes" from the jehovahs witnesses publication on his website.

jstalin

Does anyone know if this story have been picked up by any major news wires yet? It seems like it should get some attention...

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KH meeting - boring!

by jstalin in

i'm not a jw but a friend of mine who is a jw invited me to the memorial service at the kh this year.

i was raised catholic but now i'm agnostic/atheist.

one thing that struck me was how horribly sterile and boring the memorial service was.

jstalin

Want some excitement at a memorial? Partake of the emblems. :D

What happens if someone does? My friend told me not to (I would have, being raised Catholic). What I kept thinking through the event was, "how does somone know if they should take the bread and wine?" It seemed so odd.

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God hates poor people

by joelbear in

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clearly, if people who suffer the most are the people god hates the most, then god clearly hates poor people the most.

he causes them to live on the streets, be unable to evacuate from his wratharamas, sends droughts to starve them, disease to kill them by the millions.. yup, pretty clear that god is po'ed by poverty.. so, while you shouldn't love money, you should avoid being without it.. if god hates homosexuals he has a very bad aim.. he missed greenwich village on 9/11.

he missed south beach with andrew.

jstalin

Didn't you know? God shows his love by killing people.

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We're bracing for Hurricane Rita down here in SE Texas.

by Frannie Banannie in

i'm not looking fwd to going to the grocery store this evening.

i imagine that by now, most of what we should have on hand will be empty shelves in the stores.

we're gonna try and get some shtuff in here and begin cooking tomorrow.

jstalin

Make it a game! Think of it as practice for Armageddon.

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Pope immune from sex lawsuit?

by Smiles in

i wonder how the wt will try to use this legal decision to protect themselves and the wt pedophiles.

u.s. government says pope immune from lawsuit .

associated press.

jstalin

Gretchen has it right. Trying to sue the Pope is the same as trying to sue Tony Blair from the US. A current head of state can't be prosecuted in a US court. It's called Sovereign Immunity.

However, if you're a head of state, the US has no problem invading your country!

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KH meeting - boring!

by jstalin in

i'm not a jw but a friend of mine who is a jw invited me to the memorial service at the kh this year.

i was raised catholic but now i'm agnostic/atheist.

one thing that struck me was how horribly sterile and boring the memorial service was.

jstalin

I'm not a JW but a friend of mine who is a JW invited me to the memorial service at the KH this year. I was raised Catholic but now I'm agnostic/atheist. One thing that struck me was how horribly sterile and boring the memorial service was. The Catholic mass isn't very exciting, but in the beautiful church there's at least something to look at, and there's live music. The KH was drab, the people were dour (except for right before the meeting, where I was love bombed), and the music was fake. I caught myself smiling at how horrible it was. On top of that, the hall was maybe 25% full, and this was for what my friend said was going to be a busy night. Heck, at the Catholic church, Easter and Christmas would be abcolutely packed - standing room only - easily over 1000 people - and they usually had three or four masses each holiday weekend. I'd say the memorial service had perhaps 50 at the most.

Is this typical of Kingdom Halls? For those long-time JWs out there, do you see congregations dying, or did I observe an anomaly? Are they all that boring and dour?