MinisterAmos

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  Celebrating Holidays Should Be a "Conscience Matter"

  by Wild_Thing in

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  the witnesses seem to love to make things a "conscience matter" and then just shame people into doing whatever it is they want them to do anyway.

  so, why haven't they done this with the holidays?

  there are plenty of scriptures in their own bible they could use to justify making it a conscience matter, yet the last i knew, celebrating christmas was still a disfellowshipping offense.

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  Lock the parking lot gate after the meeting starts?

  by MinisterAmos in

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  2. friends

  quick synopsis...the local spanish congo is the only one in about a 40 mile radius.

  most of the members live nearby, but the ones in the outskirts have up to a 1 hour trip depending on beach traffic.

  recently the wife and i noticed that the hall's parking lot had been secured by a wall and electric gates added to all three exits and entrances.

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  Village Idiot My wife and I discussed this and that was the first thing she came up with (being ever the JW white-knighter).

  
  

  My take on this is that since the wall surrounding the property is only about 2-3 feet tall, with a six foot metal gate blocking the entrances, that security is not the issue. The property already has an alarm system (which is monitored by a Brother owned Company) and cameras. Crime in the area is just about non-existent. Good thinking though!
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  Lock the parking lot gate after the meeting starts?

  by MinisterAmos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  quick synopsis...the local spanish congo is the only one in about a 40 mile radius.

  most of the members live nearby, but the ones in the outskirts have up to a 1 hour trip depending on beach traffic.

  recently the wife and i noticed that the hall's parking lot had been secured by a wall and electric gates added to all three exits and entrances.

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  Quick synopsis...The local Spanish congo is the only one in about a 40 mile radius. Most of the members live nearby, but the ones in the outskirts have up to a 1 hour trip depending on beach traffic. Recently the wife and I noticed that the Hall's parking lot had been secured by a wall and electric gates added to all three exits and entrances.

  We thought this to be a bit excessive since none of the neighbors ever parked in the Hall, and there were no issues with crime.

  So it turns out that the reason for this was that "many" (not more than two or three at maximum) brothers would arrive late to the meetings. Now, the gates open one hour in advance of the meeting, and they are locked five minutes before start meaning that late arrivals are well, locked-out.

  Talk about treating adults like children!
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  Well an Elder told me why all the new revised NWT bibles are grey/gray in color

  by StoneWall in

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  2. friends

  while in discussion with an elder from my old congregation, he asked if i had been given an opportunity to see the new bibles yet.. i told him yes that a family member had showed me one a few days back and some of the improvements (changes) that were in it.. as our conversation went along he asked me what i thought of the color.

  i said well its certainly different from the black cover i was so used to or even going back further a few decades the green covered bibles when i was a child.

  (we both got a chuckle out of that).

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  Sounds better than the cheapest to print
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  WATCHTOWER BUILDING PROJECTS REVEAL HYPOCRISY ABOUT STRESSING URGENCY OF PREACHING WORK

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  based on a letter elders in the united states have just received in the past week from the governing body, work on the warwick complex will take " a few years" to complete.

  concurrent with this, the organization urges the rank and file to urgently preach the "good news of the kingdom" because we are so deep into the end.

  so, why bother with the warwick project - or indeed the just advised project in the united kingdom to relocate the london bethel?

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  Seems to me like there will be a lot of available, vacant property after the Big A. The GB could just move into Harvard, for example. Dorms are built, and there is even a President's house.
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  My first gun

  by LivingTheDream in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my first gun.

  i realize that not all jws avoid guns.

  if you live where they hunt for food, it was ok to have guns as a jw.

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  Before you begin to really irritate me, it's called a "magazine".

  A "cartridge" is the case, powder, primer, bullet assembly that goes inside the magazine. Show some respect and learn a bit.
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  Went to Clearwater Florida - Home Base for Scientologists

  by skeeter1 in

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  business had me in clearwater, florida a few days ago.

  never been, but heard it was mecca for scientologists.

  as i was near this beautiful, old hotel .

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  Barely 30 hours after Hurricane Ivan virtually destroyed the area, Scientologists pulled up in several 18 wheelers filled with ice, rations, and water.

  They beat the National Guard by a good two days, and the Witnesses by a week.

  Cool thing was that they hired homeless from the Clearwater area to handle the distribution work.
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  Becoming "unevenly yoked" ?

  by Blttex in

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  2. friends

  i haven't been to a meeting in about a year, made up my mind about six months ago that jw's are just another religion and that its not for me.

  started dating a "worldly" girl 10 months ago and got engaged this past weekend.

  i'm having a hard time deciding who to invite to the wedding.

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  Why would you want to involve the poor woman in all this?
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  Why do the GB need a new Bethel compound if the end is so close? Here is the "official" answer

  by sir82 in

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  as most of us know, the society is spending 10's of millions of dollars on a giant, state of the art, secluded bunker country club headquarters in very remote, isolated warwick ny.. the question that "some" have is, why?

  if armageddon is coming "very soon", why go to all that time & effort & expense?

  why have thousands of jws dedicating their time to this massive effort instead of the "lifesaving ministry"?.

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  9/11 put a serious scare in them.

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  I Just Had A Big Fat Bomb Drop On My Head and It Leaves Alot Of Questions

  by TotallyADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i got home from work this afternoon my wife was standing near the door looking at me and said you need to sit down i have some hard news to tell you.

  so i sat down and she began saying my brother called and i imminently ask if my mom had died.

  she said no but my mother told my brother a deep family secrect that no one knows about.

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  Just because Dad donated some sperm to a bar-fly and then abandoned the child he created with her does not mean you have a brother.