Exactly the same custom exists in my congregation.
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GoOdy NiGht!
by TheKings ini don't know if that's the universal jw term for potluck nights or if all congregations have them but all the ones i went to had a potluck night at the book studies once a month.
does anybody have any good stories related to these occasions?
tonight my family is going to a potluck night and as usual they asked me to make something for it.
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College Degree = $23K more a year salary
by under_believer incheck out the news on this recent press release from the us census bureau.
here's the google news listing for it (so you can see all the places this story has been covered): click here.. .
lest anybody think the society is taking a softer stance on this issue, well, they're not.
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under_believer
Check out the news on this recent press release from the US Census Bureau. Here's the Google News listing for it (so you can see all the places this story has been covered): Click Here.
Lest anybody think the Society is taking a softer stance on this issue, well, they're not. During the recent district convention they spent a lot of time covering how worthless a college education is; how it doesn't prepare anyone for real life; how it puts you in contact with "worldly people," damages your spirituality, demonstrates independent thinking, etc. They had all kinds of experts they quoted to support these opinions. And yet, look at the average salary figures:
* High School dropouts: $19,169
* High School graduates: $28,654
* College Grads (Bachelor's Degree): $51,554
* Advanced College Grads (Master's or higher): $78,093
The Society believes that going to college harms Christians, but the opposite is true. Just think of all that service time (people who make less money have to work more) and contributions that the Society is throwing away by discouraging college! Seriously, before we had kids, my wife actually was able to put much more time into the field ministry because of the fact that I had a great job. If I hadn't had such a good job, she would have had to work, and our aggregate service time as a couple would have been less. We were also able to make very big contributions, hundreds of dollars a month. If we'd been scrabbling to get by, it would have been more like a twenty or two into the box each month.
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Any Comments on IE7?
by XJW4EVR ini am currently testing this new ie update.
i was wondering if any of you technoes either have or are currently using it?.
is it worth using, instead of firefox?.
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Chameleon--so Internet Explorer 1 was better than IE7? Or did you mean to reverse that greater than symbol?
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Any Comments on IE7?
by XJW4EVR ini am currently testing this new ie update.
i was wondering if any of you technoes either have or are currently using it?.
is it worth using, instead of firefox?.
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I've used both heavily, all versions of FireFox from the original beta to the just-released 2.0 for my regular browser, and IE7 for professional and testing purposes.
IE7 is a huge step forward for IE. It is more secure and has more features (the biggest of which is tabbed browsing.) It's still weak on standards compliance. On memory usage really blows Firefox out of the water--Firefox is a big memory hog. There are some compatibility problems between IE6 and IE7--we actually had to recode some stuff to get it to be compatible with IE7 here at my work. Performance-wise it's faster at rendering than IE6, but roughly equivalent to Firefox. It has interesting RSS feed handling, arguably better that Firefox's RSS handling.
Of course, the only way to get advanced editing at JWD is to use IE--Simon has not made JWD very friendly to any other browser than IE, though you can of course get by in all the others to varying degrees depending on your technical savvy.
I'm sticking with Firefox, though--because of my extensions. There are a couple or three extensions that I just can't live without. And who knows what people will come up with next on the extension front? -
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I HAVE A COMPUTER PROBLEM
by juni ini need help please if i can describe the problem correctly.. as you are looking at your screen right now, in the upper right corner there is the - to send to task bar, squares to minimize or enlarge image, and then a large red x to delete.. on my screen i can't see these.
the type runs off the screen as i type also.
i am working w/windows xp 2005.. as you note also the lettering w/some letters comes out wider than others.
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What's the brand and model of your monitor? We may be able to find information about the menu if you give us that.
Failing that, we can experiment. If you push the menu button on your monitor, you will see a menu pop up on the screen. There will be a way to move to different settings in the menu, and a way to adjust each individual setting. The settings you want to try will be called something like H.POS or H.SIZE, or Horizontal Position/Horizontal Size. Adjusting these should allow you to squeeze your screen back down to the appropriate size. -
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I HAVE A COMPUTER PROBLEM
by juni ini need help please if i can describe the problem correctly.. as you are looking at your screen right now, in the upper right corner there is the - to send to task bar, squares to minimize or enlarge image, and then a large red x to delete.. on my screen i can't see these.
the type runs off the screen as i type also.
i am working w/windows xp 2005.. as you note also the lettering w/some letters comes out wider than others.
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Society's viewpoint of other bibles
by Zico ini like this quote, from page 145 of theocratic ministry school book about using other bibles.
'you must realize, however, that some bible translators have taken liberties with god's word.
their renderings may not conform in all respects to what was in the original bible languages.
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The Society quotes from other Bibles liberally, especially if the quote supports the point they're trying to make better than the text in the NWT.
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Would you bail your JW family out of a financial bind?
by unbeliever ini am so upset with my mother.
she took a huge mortgage out on her house which was completely paid for.
her elder husband wanted to expand his business.
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I would help, in the situation you describe, but only with very specific legal clauses which put me in control of her finances. If she wasn't willing to agree to that, it would be throwing my money to the wind.
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Why are we so mad????
by megsmomma inhttp://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/profiles/listalpha.htm my hubby and i are thinking of going to a church.....it is about the right time for us.
we were trying to figure out which religion is suited for us and he found this site.
it is interesting that the description an jw's say that it is unusual that when people leave them....there is alot of resentment, unlike other religions.. i think it is due to the brainwashing....when you have believed something blindly, then discover you were decieved...it is worse than if you are a part of a religion where you can believe all they teach...or not.
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Non-denominational churches do not have the 'checks and balances' in their teachings that denominations have
What does that even mean?
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Why are we so mad????
by megsmomma inhttp://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/profiles/listalpha.htm my hubby and i are thinking of going to a church.....it is about the right time for us.
we were trying to figure out which religion is suited for us and he found this site.
it is interesting that the description an jw's say that it is unusual that when people leave them....there is alot of resentment, unlike other religions.. i think it is due to the brainwashing....when you have believed something blindly, then discover you were decieved...it is worse than if you are a part of a religion where you can believe all they teach...or not.
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I'm not mad. Just sad. For me, anger requires a perception of fault, and it's hard for me to directly fault anybody for what's happened with the Witnesses--it's way bigger than any one person and it is a self-sustaining phenomenon at this point.