If the WTS really wanted to preach the word and to as many nationalities as possible ,why don't they publish their literature in ,say ,pdf format for people to read when they can? But silly me ,there's no money in that and no way to use co-ercion
wozadummy
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I just thought of this
by wozadummy inif the wts really wanted to preach the word and to as many nationalities as possible ,why don't they publish their literature in ,say ,pdf format for people to read when they can?
but silly me ,there's no money in that and no way to use co-ercion
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Why such boring & canned answers at the WT Study?
by navytownroger inback in th 1980s, the answers at the watchtower study & the book study seemed much more interesting.
more personal experiences that somehow related to the question being asked.
nowadays it seems all answers are just repeated from the text, or consist of reading a bible verse.
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wozadummy
Some years ago when my non JW mother stayed over she came to the Sunday meeting with us . Everyone was giving the usual paraphrased or exactly word for word answers to the Watchtower ,and I answered once in my own usual way elaborating to make my answer more interesting . Suddenly my mother leaned across to me and asked " I liked your answer ,but why are the rest just parroting what's in the magazine ?" I did'nt know what to say but as our eyes met we both knew why ,she was very well educated ,studied philosophy, phschology etc and used to be a Mormon ,another American religion.
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Did you see Serena's birth control patch?
by MsMcDucket init's on her shoulder.
i saw it when she turned her back.
it's a beige patch; so it really showed up on her skin.
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wozadummy
The patch is covering the bruise that she gets from her mothers finger pushing her to the ding dong hall
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Why Is Drug Use So Rampant In The US?
by hamilcarr ina recent study published in plos medicine investigated drug use throughout the world.
this study presents novel data on the epidemiology drug use from representative, cross-national samples representing all regions of the world.
clear differences in drug use existed across the regions of the world, with the us estimated to have among the highest levels of both legal and illegal drug use among all countries surveyed.
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wozadummy
Hi Hamil , Just thinking that it's odd that a country has a strong religious conscience and yet huge drug,gun and other problems. Could it be a moral breakdown due to too much freedom seen as a right instead of a privelege?
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Why Is Drug Use So Rampant In The US?
by hamilcarr ina recent study published in plos medicine investigated drug use throughout the world.
this study presents novel data on the epidemiology drug use from representative, cross-national samples representing all regions of the world.
clear differences in drug use existed across the regions of the world, with the us estimated to have among the highest levels of both legal and illegal drug use among all countries surveyed.
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wozadummy
I think another relevent question is why does gun use seem so rampant in the US? I think this is related. It's strange too that the US has a high proportion of religious believers
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Calling Any Northern Territory Lurkers...
by brinjen income on, i know you're out there.
we have kh's here, so there's gotta be a few ex-dubs from the nt lurking here...
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wozadummy
Been there but only as far as Alice. We're going to go to the top though probably next winter coz I can't take the humidity. I know of one family from Katharine who have just about all left.I have been told off for using names here but it starts with a S and is very common. Till next year then ,geez it's cold and windy here. Went windsurfing yesterday and I'm still thawing out.
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Aussie outback Witnessing experience! Have you done isolated territory!
by Witness 007 indriving for miles between houses...sometimes i would lose a hub-cap and have to go back "hubcap hunting.
" why bother since my car was as old as i was .....20 years.
people that live 30 miles from town would be shocked to see us!
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wozadummy
Thats the way to do it SASS !Been down to SE South oz with the Millicent congo and then go real rural ,used to leave tracts on the strainer posts at the dirt track intersections as you knew people would stop at these . Interesting witnessing at Coober Pedy especiallly to the Aborigine people. W@hen I lived in Queensland I had a good freind who go out with an elder on motorbikes to the stations in all sorts of weather ,it finished though when he hit a large kangaroo at speed and mutilated his arm pretty bad. I think they used to go just to satify their need for speed and love of the bush.
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Breaking News - Ramblings of the Governing Body
by Edward Elder inif you're still unsure about the hotline to heaven (aka fds), then have a laugh at this truly pathetic story being circulated by the dubs - comments from stephen lett of the groaning body - see below.. to summarise lett's mind-control ramblings:.
angels are directing jws in the ministry - of course!if you don't answer the door - god will kill youif you don't listen to us - god will kill youbrainwashing of minor children is a real winnercalling on empty houses may seem like a waste of time - but to dubs it's the work of angelsfor the bethel drone monitoring this post - wake up and smell the coffee, before you're made to leave your cosy brooklyn office and hack the streets calling on empty houses.. you can be sure lett will be right behind you!.
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I thought they dropped the teaching of separating the sheep from the goats B4 the great trib ,but they just seem to be promoting a softer version. The GB member must be channeling as he knows exactly where the angels are and what their thinking! What if a brother has been secretly screwing his daughters freind are the angels still there? Or ten years ago the young married sister had sex before marriage with her husband ,have the angels been there with her for the past ten years in FS........I don't think so but the GB member must think so ,unless he thinks all he addresses in his speaches are perfectly moral?
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How Can We Expose Child Abusers - Who Got Away with it as Witnesses ?
by flipper ini got the idea for this thread by talking with a friend this weekend who had been abused by a father when young.
this person confronted this parent about it and got a very self righteous reply back from the offender.
already a precedent for exposing the watchtower society has been set.
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wozadummy
Unfortunately there is only one justice that satisfies the crime ,anyone can read about it in the bible -death. Though it seems to have been acceptable for the Israelites to mete out this justice ,today we have been conditioned to abhore this with our consciences which strangely enough may not have been bible trained ,but it was OK back then!
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You know, I've yet to meet a JW who can explain this
by Lady Zombie ini know that has probably been covered ad infinitum on jwd.
so...... if jehovah is omnipotent, then there is nothing he can't do and nothing he doesn't know.. and, according to jws (as well as most other religions), god is love.
therefore he had to have known, even before creating all of creation, what would happen.
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wozadummy
Iff we have free will how is it that we are also supposedly born into a weak and sinful state given to us by long past parents? We are trapped then to make imperfect decisions with that free will that may lead to us not attaining everlasting life. How can a ransom be paid one third of mankinds history ago ,and yet there is the vast majority of mankind knowing nothing of Jehovah? If god is not partial how is it that the vast majority of non whites are not following Jehovah ,does this mean their free will is of a poorer quality than say one million American JW's?