Happy Aniversary! Ten years is an impressive milestone!
Paralipomenon
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My Partner and I have been together for 10 years today!
by ohiocowboy ini am very proud that we have been together for 10 years!
being raised a jw, it was always hard for me to find a long term relationship.
most people that i met weren't interested in anything long term, and each time one ended, it left me feeling like i would never find someone who shared the same feelings.
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Do you have a favourite scripture?
by Ucantnome ini have two.. luke 4.
16 he went to nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.
he stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet isaiah was handed to him.
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Paralipomenon
@mP Oh I know the bible is just myths and fairy tales, doesn't mean I can't have a favorite one.
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Do you have a favourite scripture?
by Ucantnome ini have two.. luke 4.
16 he went to nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.
he stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet isaiah was handed to him.
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Paralipomenon
Jonah 1:1-3
1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”
3 But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the LORD.
Jonah, the bitter prophet.
Gotta respect someone that hears the word of God personally and has the balls to say "screw that!"
Even after he's forced to go prophesy, he goes, calls down evil on the city and then goes out to watch the fireworks. For the first time, a city listens and converts which pisses him off even more.
Jonah's my kind of guy.
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Regular pioneers to be nominated by BOE
by yalbmert99 inapparently the regular pioneers will be nominated by the body of elders, not bethel.
however, elders will have to send bethel a notification when a pioneer is nominated or removed..
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Paralipomenon
I wonder if they were worried about liability claims like where someone sued the Watchtower when a Bethelite was involved in an auto accident. If a pioneer is at fault for an accident while in service, they could theoretically say that they were there at the appointment of the Watchtower and push liability up the ladder.
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My son was murdered today
by truman ini have been on this site daily, almost from its beginning, since i left the jws in 2001, but i have been more of a reader than a poster, as you can see from my post count.
i know few here know me, although i know many of you through reading your posts.
maybe it is not right to ask for support, when i generally stay quietly in the background of this forum, but i want only to speak a human misery of the deepest kind.
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Paralipomenon
My sympathies on your family's loss.
As we didn't know him, would you feel comfortable telling us more about him?
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Open relationships, polyamory and swinging
by techdotcom inhas anyone else, after leaving the restrictive rules of the jw world, tried having an open marriage, joining the 'lifestyle' of the swinger comunity?
we've been doing that for about 4-5 months now and it's been an interesting experience, in fact it's been a major distraction from the hell of rebuilding our lives outside the religion and our base of friends.
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Paralipomenon
As someone mentioned it is a major trust issue. Also depends on how you view sex.
Is sex an intimate bond to be shared exclusively, or a pleasure that you enjoy together?
If it's a pleasure, than theoretically it can be a pleasure you enjoy elsewhere as well.
For my wife and I, we have a great sex life but our marriage isn't built around sex. I wouldn't leave her due to a physical attraction to someone else and I seriously doubt I'd ever find someone that I enjoyed being around more than my wife.
That said, we've talked about sex and neither would fault the other for jumping at an opportunity that presented itself. The main ground rules would be ask permission and don't bring anything home (diseases or drama)
We are both confident people and not posessive. If you remove the religious reasons regarding affairs, what's left? If your partner approached you and said, "I love you, I want to grow old with you, but I'd like to have a fling with this person for fun". What would be the reasons behind saying no?
Regardless, if my wife said no I'd respect it. But in our discussions we haven't identified a reason to say no.
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Explain in a FEW word's why the 607 date is incorrect.
by XPeterX in"if you can't explain it simply you don't understand it wel enough" albert einstein.
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Paralipomenon
We found archeolgical evidence from the Babylonians that destroyed Jerusalem about the date they did it.
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9/11 Conspiracy nuts...60% of Americans are you KIDDING!!!!
by Witness 007 in60% of americans in one servey think the government did it.....even though there is no sold evidence.
let me spell it out.....a huge airplane full of fuel hit the building plowing thru the steel supports, thousands of witnesses, and video fotage, it almost flew through the building with debris blowing out the other side.
although it appears in the footage there is alot of smoke but no fire, right?
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Paralipomenon
I don't buy into most of the conspiracy stuff, but I think there's something weird about the Pentagon.
Any time I see a picture of a plane crash, I think of how inconsiderate the pilot must be to leave massive pieces of the plane behind.
In all, history is full of examples of Governments staging attacks on their own interests to validate war.
I'm sure Germans at the time of the Gleiwitz incident wouldn't believe their government would stage an act of terrorism against themselves either.
The victor in any conflict gets to write their version of what happened for history to accept.
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Where is Outlaw?
by Iamallcool inhe is one of my favorite posters, i look him up from time to time.
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Paralipomenon
It's not high school, people.
Heh, I like to refer to witness congregations as permanent High School.
You have so many cliques and gossiping.
Someone can be with the in group one day, and out the next.
It's great if you're at the top of the food chain, but hell if you're the bottom.
And to think that people willingly submit themselves to this week after week.
PS. Hope to see Outlaw back soon. :)
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Thought on the new 16 page Watchtower
by Paralipomenon indear brothers,.
wecome to the first issue of the smaller version of the watchtower.
in this current digital age, more people are turning less to the printed page and more to online sources for their reading material.
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Paralipomenon
Dear Brothers,
Wecome to the first issue of the smaller version of the Watchtower. In this current digital age, more people are turning less to the printed page and more to online sources for their reading material. This new format will enable us to reach more people and point to the vast wealth of knowledge that is stored from previous articles on www.watchtower.org.
While we know that faithful witnesses eagerly await the annual statistics to see the progress Jehovah's work is making in each country, with the smaller size we have had to reduce this detailed report to a overall summary of world wide growth. Note the positive growth! Isn't this much better than us highlighting how in the US and many similar countries with internet access our numbers have slipped into decline?
Now you can still feel like you made the right choice since we are still growing.
Sincerely,
Bethel Overlords
PS. All the growth has been in third world countries, we need you to step up the donations to make up for them. We have infrastructure to support here!