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  The Watchtower’s Perspective Seeing Issues—In Terms Of Black & White

  by The wanderer in

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  2. friends

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  if it came from the society, it was good and if it did not come out of the society, it was bad.

  i call this perspective my tunnel vision.

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  looking_glass

  I think for many people the black and white thinking is still very prevalent. It is a hard thought process to step out of. Shades of gray are often times hard to come by. As for me ... well I do have my moments where I fall into a pattern of thinking that is old and familiar. Thankfully I have a wide range of friends who often times are able to point my weaknesses out to me. There are times that I will not move on my thinking. But there are other times when I can be brought around to think outside of the box (or in the WTBTS's case "Tower").

  Hey Wand-man, I must have my slow hat on today, because I don't feel you answered the question. It seemed that you talked around the question. But I could be wrong. Though, for the slow ones (otherwise referred to as "blondes") can you just answer the question for us and be a little more specific (not using Hitler as an example) but maybe a yes or no answer and then elaborate a little.
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  I am looking for woman for dating and marriage!

  by DavinJohnson in

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  i am looking for a confident woman from north america or europe.. i am 31 y.o.

  attractive resposible man.

  i am able to financailly support myself and my future spouse and family.

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  looking_glass

  Ha - I did not realize that JWD was a magical place where we can post our wish list. So here is mine.

  I am looking for a job where I will be treated as an equal. I am looking for a job that does not want not just my time but also my soul. I am looking for a job that is not stressful. If you are out there and wish to e-mail me, you can reach me at [email protected]

  I hope I get as many responses as Mr. Johnson gets.
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  Bike ride thru Chicago at midnight

  by looking_glass in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it is called the late ride.

  it is put on thru the friends of the park and it is a total blast.

  i have been doing it for about 10 years now.

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  looking_glass

  It is called the LATE Ride. It is put on thru the Friends of the Park and it is a total blast. I have been doing it for about 10 years now. The ride is 25 miles (sorry I am a dumb American and do not know the metric equivalent). It starts downtown and loops around going west, north, east and south. You end up where you began. It starts at around midnight, but really you don't get going until b/w 12:30 and 1 a.m. You see the City at a time that you generally don't see it (because you are either asleep or too drunk to remember). I love this ride! It is the best one that is out there. And for those in the know, no I do not like Bike the Drive, generally it is still way too cold to ride 15 miles north fighting the wind and 15 miles south (also fighting the wind for some strange reason).

  Friends of the Park also do the Naked Ride. Yup, you saw that right. And let me assure you, most of the people who do the Naked Ride should really NOT be naked. And to set the record straight, no I do not do the Naked Ride. When your family jewels are in your chest, you cannot go w/o your over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder.

  If anyone else is doing it ...HAVE FUN!
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  What's the latest WTS position on surgical birth control?

  by Gregor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you know, vasectomies (require masturbation), tubal ligations, are these a "matter of conscience" (but you better do what we suggest)?

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  looking_glass

  children being a gift from Jehovah

  Wait, isn't this the same religion that said kids will just cause you to: 1) fall out of the truth because you will put them ahead of Jah - thus losing your life; 2) satan will use them to cause you to fall out of the truth - thus losing your life; 3) hold you back from better serving Jah - thus causing you to be less spiritual and giving all things to god, and because weak and possibly losing favor w/ Jah and in turn losing your life.

  You would think they would make the snip/snip thing mandatory!
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  An Assembly "Experience"-and the rest of the story

  by CaptainSchmideo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a brother was on the program for the saturday afternoon session as one of those "life experiences" interviews.

  tells the tale about how he left a lucrative, well paying position to "help where the need was greater.

  " moved from a major metropolitan area to a congregation in the rurals, was told by managers that the job he was going to was "a dead end".

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  looking_glass

  I think there is often a revision to most parts. I remember when I was used on a couple of those testimonials and they changed the story slightly to make it more compelling.

  Now you know what those stories remind me of, the 700 Club. Once and a great while I will be flipping thru channels and I will pause on the 700 Club and they start telling stories about how people who were down on their luck decided to send in a pledge and then they were blessed with things greater then they ever thought.

  Religion ... it is a snare and a racket!
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  "Little Boxes" - Theme to "Weeds" on Showtime

  by Elsewhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what can i say... i like the song.

  over the years i have come close to buying a house in the suburbs a few times, yet there has always been this odd little bug in the back of my mind that kept telling me not to buy a house like that.

  i never could quite put my finger on it until i saw this video today.

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  looking_glass

  Ahhh, but what happens if maybe we are already living in a ticky-tacky box and we DON'T know it!

  I live in a condo that looks like 1/2 of the other condos in the River North area. I am living the ticky-tacky box reality. The upside is that at least I have a balcony w/ a court yard view, so I can watch the other look-a-like people walk in and out of their ticky-tacky boxes. And make fun of all the local wannabes.
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  Service meeting part about My Space

  by seek2find in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this week an article about the internet will be discussed on the service meeting.

  at one meeting it was announced that the elders would be contacting parents about kids who have my space accounts.

  anbody else hear it at their meeting?

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  looking_glass

  I say good. Let them have a local needs talk about this. All that will do is cause the die hard bible thumpers to beat up more on the young kids. Who in turn will just hide their actions that much more, waiting for the day when they can branch out on their own and leave the religion of headcases behind them.

  A number of reasons that my friends (and I) started exiting was because of the whole "higher education is bad" crap. Most of my friends all have gone off to college. It was not college that caused them to leave the religion, it was the over the top crazies in the religion that caused them to leave.

  I love it when this stuff happens because all they are doing is causing more people - usually young ones - to see what they are all about (control) which just leads to more departures of their peeps.
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  "Little Boxes" - Theme to "Weeds" on Showtime

  by Elsewhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what can i say... i like the song.

  over the years i have come close to buying a house in the suburbs a few times, yet there has always been this odd little bug in the back of my mind that kept telling me not to buy a house like that.

  i never could quite put my finger on it until i saw this video today.

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  looking_glass

  E-man ... I really like that song too. Funny how regardless of the age of some songs they become more true to life the older they get (and the more homogenized we get)
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  NEWBIE- MARKING TALK

  by Tallman64 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  newbie here.

  i feel i will enjoy my stay.

  interesting talk last nite on marking.

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  looking_glass

  I thought marking was done away w/. Granted I have been out for a while, so maybe they brought it back.
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  How Harry Potter will end... Theory and possible Spoiler Alert

  by CaptainSchmideo in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  for those familiar with the series:.

  it was prophesied that the final battle between the child born on harry's birthday would destroy voldemort, and i seem to remember the implication that they will both be destroyed.. however, there were two children born on that date.

  harry....and neville longbottom.. isn't it just possible that all this attention on harry is just a diversion to distract voldemort and his people from the real threat, which would be neville?

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  looking_glass

  Actually the Neville theory has been out there for a while. If you do a google search, there is a site I believe called Muggle.net (or something like that) where tons of people have researched and gone thru the HP books and chronicled everything. They strike down the Neville theory based on what the earlier posted stated about the "mark".

  According to the writer she wants to end the book so there are no chances of it coming back. So I think those that believe both will die may very well be correct.

  I do wonder if she will do prequels involving Harry's parents considering she has woven tibbits into her stories and it would be a way for her to bring back the story line, just with different characters that we are familiar with.