I am of the 70's generation of high school grads who was forbidden to attend college because the end was coming in 1975. I truly hope another generation doesn't fall for this! I was so pissed to find out my cousin J. was graduating from college, and he's an elder's son! Yet, I couldn't go! Seems like they'd encourage a good education = better job = bigger donations to the Witchtower. Figure it out, GB!
Virgogirl
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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 11-13-05 WT Study (Education)
by blondie inreview comments will be in red
wt material from todays wt will be in black
quotes from other sources will be blue
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Nationwide elders' campaign to find JWs using www.myspace.com?
by rebel8 inthis was posted on http://forum.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=messageboard.viewthread&entryid=8659411&groupid=100205476&adtopicid=27&mytoken=0b2c7ba0-19a8-493e-b7d71de149831b6b768857454 yesterday.
is it true?
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Virgogirl
My parents told me (dad's an elder) they have a computer in their Hall! I guess it's in the library or something, on a desk. I could hardly believe it, when they are blabbering again lately against having one at home!
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Why do dubs bother having children?
by gringojj inmy mother in law had 4 kids and none of them are currently "progressing in the truth".
she flat out told my wife that she was sad that none of her kids were in the truth and that it would be a waste of time to have relationships with any of them because of that.
so why even bother bringing kids into "this wicked system of things"?.
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Virgogirl
There was an exemplary young elder/elderette couple in my parents congo who discovered (gasp) to their amazement and great distress that they were pregnant, and right before 1995! How could that have happened! They were extremely upset about it and really did not welcome their son. They had been childless up till his birth, and both were pioneers in their late 30's. They were llamenting about how this couldn't have come at a worse time, with the tribulation almost here, and having an infant to care for too! Sad, poor kid. Maybe in another couple of years, he'll be posting on this board, lol!
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Nationwide elders' campaign to find JWs using www.myspace.com?
by rebel8 inthis was posted on http://forum.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=messageboard.viewthread&entryid=8659411&groupid=100205476&adtopicid=27&mytoken=0b2c7ba0-19a8-493e-b7d71de149831b6b768857454 yesterday.
is it true?
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Virgogirl
I thought they weren't s'posed to go on the wicked ol' internet?? Oh, maybe there was new light?
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Getting to know you, getting to know all about you...
by Crumpet inits wednesday evening, i'm alone and in need of distraction and am curious about my new and old fellow posters.
so i was wondering if you would reveal what makes you different from the next person in terms of your hobbies.
what are little known facts about you?
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Virgogirl
I'm a postal employee, in management. Live in a mountain state of the western USA. Love a glass of wine and watching "Ghost Hunters, "Most Haunted" or traveling! My hubby and I are seriously considering a trip to the UK in '06, including some haunted Scottish castles.We have 2 cats and a dog, adopted from the shelter and like to take day trips into the mountains. The only family I have are still JW's. I really enjoy this site and all the posts. My hubby doesn't know much about the Dubs, but is supportive. We are in our 40's.
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How to destroy the Watchtower Organization
by saved in.
destroyed like bankrupt, unable to function as an organized religion, or whatever that will make all jws really wake up and think that this organization isn't what they think it is.. ideas?
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Virgogirl
Anyone watch that show on Court TV from Dish Network called "Parco, P.I.? Wouldn't it be cool if enough money could be raised, maybe by Silent Lambs or another group, to hire a really shrewd private investigator to uncover their scandals that might trigger turmoil snd falling away? If their books were found to be cooked, or they were forced to pay taxes, or someone could infiltrate top secret meetings, maybe they could be exposed to the "brothers!"
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JW fads
by Cellist indoes anyone remember the fad of not saying "amen" at the end of a prayer?
i think it started in the late 80s.
what are some other fads that you remember?.
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Virgogirl
Oh, the memories! The hot, humid afternoon sessions after lunch, fanning myself with the songbook. Dozing off, dreaming. Then, the startling clapping! Mother cracking me on the shoulder with her songbook. "Sit up!" I clap luke warmly till the suck-ups stop it and I go back to sleep.
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Miracle Cures
by daniel-p infor those who recognize quackery in the medicinal form: .
do you find a disproportionate amount of witnesses - primarly older women - promoting and peddling miracle cures?
or do you think the occurence is the same as outside the organization?
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Virgogirl
It's always some health craze... chelations, colonics, Echinacea. For awhile, everyone was hypoglycemic. My elder at work was recently on a liquid diet of some brown nasty fluid of salts and vitamins, while doing his colon cleansings. Ugh!
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Its November!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by lola28 ingood morning everyone, i am so happy, it is finally november the month that i wait for every year.
good things alway happen in november, my birthday is in november my sisters birthday is in november, thanksgiving is in november and basketball season is in november.
the air outside feels and smells diffrent this time a year.
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Virgogirl
Football, the beautiful fall leaves, mild weather, still pleasant enough to get outside but cool sleeping weather!
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Truth Book from 1974
by Virgogirl indoes anyone remember "the truth that leads to everlasting life" book?
it was blue, and was intended as a six month home study book.
i think it came out in 1974at an assembly with much fanfare and gasping!.
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Virgogirl
What am I thinking of then? I have vivid memories of urgency to study this book in people's homes around 1974... did they dust it off and re-issue it later for the six month studies? We placed alot of them, they seemed to sell themselves and were in that simple, easy to read format.