Topics Started by joe_black

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Expect big things to happen tomorrow
by startingover in
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2. friends
that's right, may 1 and after should see momentous changes!.

that because it's.

national day of prayer!.
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Can a Woman be DFd for wearing a pantsuit to meetings?
by LovesDubs in
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2. friends
im wondering if they are still so tight assed in the organization as to make issue with such matters that they would df a woman who preferred to wear pants to dresses but still came to the hall.

do you think they wouldnt allow her to enter after awhile?

i wore a skort once and gave a talk back in like, 1986 and was soundly reprimanded for wearing apparel that was "masculine and improper for sisters to be wearing".
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Male Cannabis plant identified as Tree of knowledge of good and bad
by Ronald in
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2. friends
probably the main and most agreeable effect of the ingestion of cannabis is it enables the mind to pursue thoughts along a theme.

the immagination is released from its circular bondage to pursue one thought after another along a stout central theme and recognizing related ideas going off along the way just like branches along a limb.

this enhancement of mental capacity is very satisfying and can be enthrawling.
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Why all the changes?????
by seek2find in
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in my life time as a witness, there have been many changes and there are still more to come.

like the "generation" change in the feb study edition of the wt.

my question is this.
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Who got the biggest.....
by Crumpet in
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2. current
snowfall this morning?

we had two inches in surrey which put paid to all the trains, sent lorries jacknifing across the m25 and made my journey to work 2.5 hours.

anyone beat my two inches?.
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January 14, 2007; the most bizarre comments I have ever heard at a Hall
by MinisterAmos in
1. jw
2. experiences
most of you have already scoped out the wt lesson for yesterday that blondie provided, but i'm going to add to it a bit and share the audience comments for the meeting.. i'm also going to share some direct-from-the-gb "new-light" that was revealed by the speaker in his discussion.....ready?.

so the wife and i are on vacation yesterday and visit a congregation located in western fl or east al; floribama as the natives call it.. the speaker began by telling us that the "happy god" isn't really happy because of the state of the world.

i forgot to ask him where that fact is found in the bible.
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Believer, Agnostic or Atheist?
by lfcviking in
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2. friends
i am curious, what amount people on this board from their experiences of being a baptised & active jw and their subsequent exit from the jw org (for whatever reason or reasons) are now either agnostic, atheist or do some actually still believe in god?.

your honest answers please.. lfcv.
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Do you still call it "the truth"?
by True North in
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do you find youself still calling it "the truth" even though you are an ex-jw?

for instance, in one posting i just read, the poster wrote "when i was in the truth..." .

not a big deal, perhaps, but really not such a good thing either as it's a habitual holdover from the program of mental conditioning we were subject to.
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Being materialistic, as a disfellowshipping reason.
by free2beme in
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my sister and i, are my mothers only two children.

we were both witnesses at one point, i left ten year ago and my sister left in 2005. my mother remains as the only witness left in my immediate family.

while my sister and i make good money, with our careers and duel income in marriage, we don't talk about it much.
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Most controversial?
by joe_black in
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2. friends
i know that most of what the wbts says and does is viewed by many of us as hogwash, but what do you think was the most controversial thing that happened or was said by the watchtower in 2006?...............i mean something so obviously off the wall or sinister that it would make even the most hardcore jw pause and say, "hey, what the f*ck?!!

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