Richie, you are correct. The love is performance-related and very conditional.
Of course, in human relationships, at times the same thing happens. Sometimes we tend to show greater care to those who meet our approval.
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5a love so hypocritical ........
by Richie ini am curious to find out how many of you have experienced this: when there is a sickness in the family, there are very few witnesses who really deeply care from the heart, unless of course the person who is ill is very strong in the truth, has many hours in fieldservice, attends the meetings without interrruption or is a aux.- or regular pioneer.
yet, witnesses who are not as strong in the truth will be visited less or more likely not at all.
for instance, i hear of so many instances where a sick person had to go to the hospital and everybody in the congregation would know that, yet the only ones showing real care were their immediate family members who manifested enough natural compassion and love to visit these ones.
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Year 2001 Awards
by DB inthe year is coming to a close.
perhaps it's a good time to think about some "awards" for the posters and/or items appearing on this site.
any suggestions?.
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Hi Sunshine, and thank you for mentioning her post, since I had not had a chance to read it the first time it was posted.
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Revelations & Favorite Books of the Bible ...
by Celtic inone of my favourite books is still revelation, so much dramatic scenery and awesome events, cascading symbols of events.. what was your favourite book of the bible and why?.
peace.
celtic
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My favorite Bible books are James, Daniel, and Proverbs. I also like Genesis and Exodus, until Exodus gets bogged down in the later stages with the whole Tabernacle design thing.
Most tedious and least favorite...well, gotta pick those first 9 chaps of 1 Chronicles, with all those geneologic listings. Then there's Levitcus, a wonderful book if you like plowing through the stages of leprosy and various stipulations of the Law.
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Your favorite and least liked society publication?
by Celtic indid you have a favourite publication?
what was your least liked publication?
creation book for the shady wt take on science.. unseen spirits, do they help us or do they harm us?
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I think my fave is still the Commentary on the Letter of James. It's a straightfoward commentary and the commnets on each verse are easy to find. The Revelation Climax book is layed out similarly, though that book is not one of my faves.
My least favorite is probably the All Scripture Inspired book, followed closely by the Creation book. The newer Creator book is pretty good.
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Year 2001 Awards
by DB inthe year is coming to a close.
perhaps it's a good time to think about some "awards" for the posters and/or items appearing on this site.
any suggestions?.
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Freddyhall baby doll,
You are a devil! Oh, maybe that's just the Darth likeness.
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Year 2001 Awards
by DB inthe year is coming to a close.
perhaps it's a good time to think about some "awards" for the posters and/or items appearing on this site.
any suggestions?.
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Freddyhall baby, you won asshole of the year last year. Looks like you are the best candidate for this year's award too. I did not want to refer to you as an asshole in my original post on this matter, electing to call you "weirdest" poster instead. Well, looks like asshole is the better word to use for you, since you have just referred to most of the other posters as such.
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Year 2001 Awards
by DB inthe year is coming to a close.
perhaps it's a good time to think about some "awards" for the posters and/or items appearing on this site.
any suggestions?.
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Sunshine, I just read bluesapphire's post on shunning. Just looked her up in the members list then clicked on the smaller sheet icon to read posts she replied to, which was the post on shunning. It was a very interesting reply indeed.
TR, I saw your posted pic the other day, the one with you playing guitar. Has anyone ever told you that you look like Eric Clapton?
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Year 2001 Awards
by DB inthe year is coming to a close.
perhaps it's a good time to think about some "awards" for the posters and/or items appearing on this site.
any suggestions?.
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Sunny, did you look her up in "members" and then search her posts or posts that she replied to?
Franky, I would'nt mind seeing that post now. I'll try looking it up.
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Year 2001 Awards
by DB inthe year is coming to a close.
perhaps it's a good time to think about some "awards" for the posters and/or items appearing on this site.
any suggestions?.
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The year is coming to a close. Perhaps it's a good time to think about some "awards" for the posters and/or items appearing on this site. Any suggestions?
I have two...
1) Post of the year goes to the whole UN/NGO thread. It seemed to elicit the most response, from what I could tell.
2) Weirdest poster of the year award goes to Fredhall. Can there be any other choice?
Any other suggestions?
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Brown makes statement about Laree
by mommy inhttp://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-girl14.html.
i caught this on a link from a link from a link.
the group known as the christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses disavowed corporal punishment as an acceptable way to discipline children, said j.r. brown, a national spokesman for the jehovah's witnesses.. "it has nothing to do with the religion,'' brown said.
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The Witnesses view corporal punishment as something that is up to the parents, though recently they have stressed that the "rod" of discipline encourages other methods of discipline.
When I was at a meeting a few months back, a woman slapped her daughter in the face, and all she was doing was trying to keep her younger brother quiet. I was upset at such a lack of self-control on the part of the woman. The Witnesses have, over the years, developed a justified reputation of being child-beaters at their meetings, and they have been trying to clean up that reputation to some degree.