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  A little Biblical humor (groan)

  by bikerchic in

  1. social
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  a little biblical humor.

  q. what kind of man was boaz before he married ruth?

  a. ruthless.

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  erandir

  This is an old one...

  Did you know that baseball is mentioned in the bible? It says so right in Genesis: In the big inning...
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 6-24-07 WT Study (Youths Goals Honor God)

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  comments you will not hear at the 06-24-07 wt study (may 1, 2007, pages 24-29)(youths goals honor god)(notepad).

  review comments will be in red.

  wt material from today's wt will be in black.

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  Could use some rain, the flowers are looking good. We are doing some straightening up of the garage and the windows...have a few more projects. What are you doing today?

  We had someone over to set some traps for a pesky groundhog who seems determined to undermine our deck. Other than that, we got some much needed rain all last night, and the wife and I will probably go bicycle riding...during the Sunday meeting.
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 6-24-07 WT Study (Youths Goals Honor God)

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  comments you will not hear at the 06-24-07 wt study (may 1, 2007, pages 24-29)(youths goals honor god)(notepad).

  review comments will be in red.

  wt material from today's wt will be in black.

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  erandir

  As a result, Adele was motivated to dedicate her life to Jehovah. Despite a serious physical disability, she is now a pioneer, or full-time evangelizer.

  Do they really need a special issue of the WT to avoid saying "a pioneer, or full-time evangelizer"?

  Isn't it exciting to know that in the new kool-aid version of the WT, they will no longer have to waste ink explaining what a pioneer is?

  Simply thrilling!
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  My mom went to the assembly today. . .

  by JWdaughter in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  and an old friend of mine came up to her and asked how i was doing.

  he told her how much he enjoyed my friendship when we were kids, etc etc etc.

  i haven't seen him since i was da'd back in the early 80's (right before franz was-i like to think i blazed a trail for him-tee hee) anyway, i was surprised that he mentioned me to my mom at all since i was dad and he knew it-his dad was on the elder group that i spoke to.

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  erandir

  He could be a disgruntled JW who thinks the shunning thing is all wrong and is trying to look up an old friend. It's been known to happen....
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 6-24-07 WT Study (Youths Goals Honor God)

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  comments you will not hear at the 06-24-07 wt study (may 1, 2007, pages 24-29)(youths goals honor god)(notepad).

  review comments will be in red.

  wt material from today's wt will be in black.

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  erandir

  Blondie, I certainly enjoyed your WT study this week. Thank you very much.

  I have this to add as a little bit of interesting trivia:

  You said:

  (BTW, have you noticed that "the Society" phrase has been used less since 2003? In the Watchtower, before 2000, 30 plus times each year, 2000-42, 2001-19, 2002-0, 2003-3, 2004-1 , 2005-0, 2006-1?)

  I noticed in my congregation around 2003 and after that our then CO was using the phrase "the Branch," and soon thereafter the elders and ms's started replacing "the Society" with "the Branch." Our book study conductor, who really liked to explain new things like this to his group, took the time to explain to us that we were supposed to substitute the new phrase "the Branch" for "the Society." The brothers saying public prayers made efforts to use the new phrase, and we definitely started hearing this more and more "from the platform." I am pretty sure the reasoning behind it had to do with the change in the organization of the legal entities of the WTBTS and the supposed delegation of some of the GB's responsibilities to different Branch committees. Regardless of why, it was kind of freaky to see such a change in speech and practice happen relatively overnight like that...especially since that phrase "the Society" had been in very regular use for decades.

  Reminded me of M.P. and the Holy Grail: "We are no longer the Knights who say 'Ni!'"
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  Bringing Children Into This World

  by Mysterious in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since leaving the jws how has your opinion of "bringing children into this world" changed?.

  it floored me the other day to hear a 19 year old non-jw say she didn't want to bring kids into the world because of the state it was in.

  it struck me as a very jw thing to say, or at least something i would not expect from a young person..

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  I used to think the same way that I'd rather wait till the "new system" to have children. Now, my only concern is that I don't want to raise them JW, but that will be hard cuz my wife is still a dub.
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  Last Night an Elder called me,,,,but

  by orangefatcat in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i didn't answer the telephone, i just didn ' t feel like getting all riled up as i have enough on my plate right now.. it was the same elder who showed up at my bedside while i was recently in the hospital.

  i told the hospitals administration years ago to take my off the jw list for visitations.

  so i was quite shocked to see this guy.

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  erandir

  WTWizard highly recommends the caller id approach. I heartily agree.

  But I went one step further and dumped the land line entirely. My wife and I each have a cell phone, and we only give the number out to a few people. I asked my wife that if she has to give a number to an elder or someone else in the congregation, give them her number as I don't wish to be bothered. It works great for me. Plus, the cell phones have caller id, too. Only people you add to your contact list show up with names...all the rest are just phone numbers. Easy to weed out unknown or unexpected calls that way. We also get zero telemarketing calls.
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  Positive changes in your life since leaving WBTS

  by Mrs Smith in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for me it's the friendships i have made with people that would have been considered too wordly to be friends with while i was still a jw.

  leaving behind the guilt of never been good enough or doing enough.

  celebrating the birthday of my precious children making them feel like king and queen for the day.

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  erandir

  Mrs. S, thank you!
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  What's the worst thing that happened but you still made it to the meeting?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  no matter if you are tired,sick,worked late,heavy snow,or any other reason,you were never to miss the meetings.

  i went to a 2 day assembly with 4 teeth pulled the day before.

  my gums were bleeding all day but i still went to the assembly .there was a brother who was in a bad car accident the week before with his daughter in a coma.

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  erandir

  I developed a history of skipping a lot of meetings...felt a bit guilty, but skipped them nonetheless. My excuses began that I was sick and didn't want to spread the sickness to others, then that I was up all night playing video games and needed to sleep sometime (I got a shepherding call on that one...teehee), and finally, that I was just too depressed to do much of anything. Notice the progression here: physical sickness to escaping reality to depression. All beginning within a year of being baptized seven years ago and ending with my becoming a permanent fader about 2 years ago. The rampant hypocrisy was one reason for my depression, I believe. Also, once the real truth began to dawn on me, I began regretting my decision to be baptized.
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  What is/was the last most believable date for second coming/Armageddon?

  by AllAlongTheWatchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was never a witness, i joined this site after my wife started studying with them, and i got upset over some of the things that resulted from that.

  however, i grew up in a similar high-control group called the worldwide church of god.

  much like the witnesses, in the mid 70s ( i forget the exact year, i was only in elementary school in those days, but it may have been 75, just like jws), there was a big push toward the end being at hand, the great tribulation is coming, etc etc.

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  erandir

  ok...here it is...armageddon will begin in 2036...Apophis (an asteroid) will pass so close to earth in 2029 that earth's gravity grabs it and makes it impact 7 years after. They just had a show on this on the history channel, I think. It fits some of Revelation...all that 7 year tribulation stuff...a huge mountain or some such mass being hurled into the ocean. And worldwide chaos ensuing.

  Heh...this is a combination of my Pentecostal upbringing, my 7 years of being a JW, and the serious need to take a shower and go to bed for the day.

  Or is it 2012 when the Mayan calendar says the end will come? hmmm....

  <new edit>: sorry, m...i guess i should have read your post first about the mayan thingie. and i was born august 1975. hmmm! two people born in 1975 having the same idea about the mayas and 2012. It's a sign!!! a sign, i tell you!