Boxed elder bugs

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  Did Jehovah destroy millions with a flood in Noah's day?

  by fish in

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  jesus seemed to believe in the story of noah's flood.

  i wonder if god really drowned millions of people like the bible says for simply eating and drinking and not taking any note?

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  Boxed elder bugs

  Really how likely would you be to believe it if somebody came around and said there is going to be some kind of worldwide catastrophe which you have never seen before but you better follow me or you'll die. I think most people in any age would be skeptical.

  Woudn't it have been better for God to have appeared in the sky and told the world listen to Noah and follow him or your all going to die, then I think Noah would have had plenty of believers join him on the ark.

  This idea of faith in things unseen troubles me because people are more likely to be misled by following somebody based on faith and arrive in a place like Jonestown as they are to get it right and make it to the ark.
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  Is Jehovah trying to stumble us?

  by ButtLight in

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  if you think about it, he obviously knows we are imperfect.

  he knows that there are tons of religions to choose from.

  now if we are imperfect, and choose to be catholic cause we believe it to be the right religion, we die?

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  This world is lying in the power of the wicked ones, and I don't think the JW explanation of a contest between God and the Devil explains it all for me because I think the Devil is kicking Gods butt right now, maybe God should put a napkin on his head when the Devil enters the room. The point was proven long ago that man cannot rule this world without a Gods help, is there a God who will step forward?
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  your best prank

  by KW13 in

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  whats your best prank you've pulled?

  i can think of loads but the best one that i got to actually see without causing wwiii was when two friends were staying over.

  one of them said get him something to eat...so me and his brother went and got an oxo cube and unwrapped it.

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  I think my best prank was when I left Bethel. The day I was leaving they announced on Bethel t.v. no going away parties for anyone leaving Bethel. I immediately got on the phone called everybody I knew and told them to meet me where I worked in the Squibb building,I then ran out to a nearby store in Brooklyn Heights, on the work time clock and purchased pizza, cake and a bunch of party plates and hats, and we had a big party with Bethel elders walking by giving us all the stink eye.
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  My rotten JW weekend

  by LtCmd.Lore in

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  ugh... yesterday (saturday) we did spring cleaning, in the rain!!!

  we were outside for about 3 hours in the freezing rain, raking leaves and spreading mulch.

  just so we could look good for the memorial... we weren't even allowed to go inside to warm up because the had already cleaned everything and we were soaked.

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  Just like in slavery times they try to keep the Watchtower slaves so busy and tired they don't have time to think. Leisure time and comfort is the great enemy of the Watchtower ruling class.
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  My cat is a freak!

  by Scully in

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  we adopted an abandoned kitten almost a year ago.

  at the time, she was just a little ball of fluff and my youngest found her caught in the hedge near the house.

  she couldn't have been more than 5 weeks old at the time.. she's recently gotten into the habit of chewing plastic.

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  I have heard they put shredded up plastic in with commercial cat foods, if thats true and you feed your cat commercial soft cat food that may be why they like plastic so much. My cat, a Burmese, also loves plastic and I have to fight to get it out of his mouth if I hear him eating it, seriously he'll take a swipe at me if I try to take the plastic away from him, he'll even growl at me.
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  Crisis of Conscience

  by Kristofer in

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  i just finished reading this book.

  i've got to say, that last chapter was amazing and so inspiring.

  i haven't felt that good after reading a book in a long time.

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  Boxed elder bugs

  Currently half way through CC, served at Bethel and remember Ray from the seventies, not wierd like his uncle, he and Dan Sidlick were the coolest GBers, Knorr was the toughest. Don't dare give this book to my 93 year old JW dad, not that he would read it if I did, but this fills in the gaps of things I felt but could not prove.
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  Lola and her big mouth, stupid, stupid and sooooo stupid

  by lola28 in

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  i posted a little about this last night but i figured i would post the rest for you guys, this is the conversation that i had last night with the sister that studied with me.

  she called me and wanted to know if i had plans for the memorial, i told her that i would not be going this year and the following is the conversation we had:.

  jw: oh no, you can't miss the memorial, if you can't make it to the one in your hall why don't you cme to ours?.

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  If this were some old person in the hospital the elders I knew may never get there for a visit, but given a chance to go and disfellowship somebody, hot diggity dog the elders are right there on top of it, right on top of it, this is what they live for. When I was a JW you couldn't count time for actually doing something kind or charitable for somebody sick or old and alone.
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  Does anyone know what "Jehovah's organisation" is?

  by hallelujah in

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  the 1 may 1957 at page 285 the watchtower states:.

  16 with thankful hearts we acknowledge gods mercy and gratefully and willingly show our respect for jehovahs organization, for she is our mother and the beloved wife of our heavenly father, jehovah god.. what on earth is jehovah's [visible] organisation???

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  Boxed elder bugs

  So what, the title 'organization' is also used by the mafia, I heard they want to change it. Who put the word 'God' in Godfather. Anybodies group can call themselves anything they want in this country, it doesn't make it so.

  Organization sounds like a title Knorr might have come up with, he was knit picker that was always trying to micro manage everything when I was at Bethel.
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  Former JW Governing Body Member Ray Franz

  by little star in

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  raymond franz, a former member of the watchtower's governing body, .

  has released a new book, in search of christian freedom .. this book is very interesting but i don't know if it is allowed to post the link to get information about it here.. any interest n knowing send me a reply..

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  Does Ray Franz ever do public speaking assignments or come on internet chat rooms, he woudn't remember me but I remember him from Bethel, he beat me in a game of ping pong at the Squibb building. A really nice guy. He must be getting up there in years, I would like to thank him for writing those books.
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  Do you still carry the non-blood card and what are your thoughts on it?

  by Chico86 in

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  Boxed elder bugs

  Now I carry a card that says "I don't accept blood from a Jehovah's Witness."