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  Got a bike, got my license....Gotta Ride!

  by UnConfused in

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  ok so it's lame, but i bough an old 1981 honda cb400e and got my license yesterday..... gotta ride!.

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  erandir

  I'm jealous.

  Well, maybe next year I'll get a bike. Hondas rule.
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  Talk about a lazy way to go in field seervice!

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i am at home by myself.

  my active jw wife is in town.. i hear an engine running out front and peek through a window.

  some car i don't recognise.

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  erandir

  A few years ago, we visited some friends in another town. Their congo didn't have enough publishers to effectively cover all their territory, so what they did was to knock once. If no one answered, they put a bible study (Would You Like to Know More about the Bible?) tract in the door and went on. They wouldn't write that house down to try again later. If someone did answer, they immediately tried to place the magazines and start a bible study. We covered a lot more houses that way, and the territory was turned in faster by not trying to go back to houses where no one was home the first time.
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  Sister/Brother *** is disfellowshipped for.....

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in the 1950's i remember they used to say what they were disfellowshipped for, whether it be fornication, stealing, etc.

  then it was disfellowshipped for "loose conduct", then "conduct not becoming a christian.

  " then it was simply "disfellowshipped" or "disassociated.

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  erandir

  I remember when they announced disfellowshippings in other local congregations too.

  *** w63 7/1 p. 412 What Disfellowshiping Means ***Neither can he feel that by moving to another congregation he will be freed from the sanctions placed upon him. The local congregation will be notified and public announcement made of his disfellowshiping for the protection of the congregation there.

  They don't publicly announce it if you move to another congo. Instead, the elders privately tell any individual seen associating with you. That's probably worse than the public announcement, imo.
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  Isn't Jehovah a wonderful God?

  by nvrgnbk in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i look around at all the people in the world, i'm comforted to know that jehovah will soon destroy them.. i'm talking about people that don't attend our encouraging christian meetings.

  yes, people that don't zealously participate in the preaching of the good news.

  'what good news?

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  erandir

  I don't wanna die...I'll be good...I'll come back to the meetings. I can play along. I'll randomly underline my watchtower and pretend to follow along in my bible. I'll raise my hand when the conductor isn't looking so it looks like I'm trying to participate. I'll go to the doors by myself and pretend to knock, and if anyone comes to the door, I'll simply ask if they need something to read and stick a magazine in their hands. Then I'll make 2 hours of service into 3 on my report by counting all our breaks and counting driving to and from the hall and always rounding up by half hour increments. I'll be a good little dubby. I will. I will...*sniff*
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  Robot Chicken

  by erandir in

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  2. humour

  i love his show and have my dvr set to record it whenever it can.

  i haven't seen any jw spoofs on the show yet.

  i love the recent all star wars episode!

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  I remember the Jesus and the Argonauts one...it's been a while though

  That reminds me, I'm gonna check the dvr to see if any new ones are on there.

  I love the Pikachu ones. I've seen 2 so far. The one about what goes on inside the ball he lives in, and the other when Pikachu's friend is saying "What the ___ am I even saying???"
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  Robot Chicken

  by erandir in

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  2. humour

  i love his show and have my dvr set to record it whenever it can.

  i haven't seen any jw spoofs on the show yet.

  i love the recent all star wars episode!

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  I love his show and have my dvr set to record it whenever it can. I haven't seen any JW spoofs on the show yet. Does anyone know if there has been one?

  I love the recent all star wars episode! My favorite is the Emperor taking the call from Darth Vader after the first Death Star is blown up "by a bunch of teenagers." lol
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  JW's celebrating the largest national birthday of all -- you heard me!

  by Fatfreek in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my non-jw son just called from another state.

  i asked him if he's attending any fireworks display tomorrow in observance of our nation's birthday.

  he laughed, knowing that i was digging the lack of birthday celebrations amongst jw's.

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  I remember when we were studying, the couple studying with us invited us to go watch the fireworks. And we did, but I was thinking it was kind of weird.

  Also, this same couple invited us later that year to go drive around with them and look at the Christmas light displays all around the town and countryside. We said no to that one. It was funny because the husband kind of chastised his wife after we told them no.
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  How many happy JW marriages do you know of?

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just reading frequent flyer miles on the subject of feeling guilty for having a happy marriage with a non-jw.. in our congregation which i haven't attended for about a year, i can only think of two or three who seem to be happy.

  of course, i don't know what happens behind closed doors, but i know of several who admit they are unhappy.

  i wrote out a long list of couples who have divorced over the last 20 years--including three elders (one is on his second divorce).

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  I know of 6 couples who have happy marriages without having to think too hard about it. My wife and me (I'm technically still a witness)...we're still best friends after all these years. The couple we visited this past weekend. Two of their daugthers are in happy marriages. And two elders in my congregation. All of these couples have something in common--keeping things in a good balance and not letting the FDS doctrine be too strict in their lives. They all do more of a partnership than headship.
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 7-1-07 WT Study (SUFFERING END SOON)

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  comments you will not hear at the 7-1-07 wt study (may 15, 2007, pages 21-25)(suffering soon to end).

  where is the love?.

  17) "god is love.

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  erandir

  Q6, 7) Why might we rightly commend a sincere person who raises a troubling spiritual question?

  6) Second, we may commend the sincere person for raising this question. Some people conclude that because they struggle with such questions, they are faithless or disrespectful toward God. They may even have been told as much by a clergyman.

  Anybody JW (and JW's are the majority of the readers of this study article) that raises "troubling" questions about Watchtower doctrine is not commended. They are treated as faithless or disrespectful toward Jehovah (i.e., the organization). They may even have been told as much by the elders, and may even be told to just shut up about it (have faith in Jehovah, wait on him, i.e. do NOTHING).

  I actually attended this meeting. My first in a year or so. We went to our friends' house last weekend. They don't know the extent of my fading, but they do know I'm inactive yet don't care. They recognize my old congregation is the worst one in the area, and they know my reasons.

  Anyway, my wife wrote up in the margin and showed me during the meeting while we were studying this paragraph, "Why ok to question God but not to question the elders for allowing injustice?" Wow...there is hope for her yet! She was only applying that to our own congregation, though. She has questioned the PO and another elder about the injustices, but she thinks she may be viewed as disrespectful. I think she did great to question things! And according to this article, it should be ok, right?
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  Would Witnesses Go Out in Ministry if They Didn't Allow Counting Time?

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey folks.

  mr. flipper here.

  when i was a witness , like a lot of you, remember we'd all scramble around at the end of the month asking each other, ( or your book study conductor would remind you) to turn our time in for field ministry ?

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  erandir

  They would just find another way to know who participates. A roll call or

  attendance sheet being kept at each service meeting, for example, would

  fulfill that very nicely. Or turning in a monthly participation sheet to the

  bookstudy overlord without listing times, just dates. After all, field service

  is mandatory for a "Christian" who wants to be in good standing, isn't it?

  Then they'd have everyone meet up later for an after-service head count to

  try to ensure everyone did go out in service. To quelch any idea of showing

  up for the meetings without actually going out in service just to get their names

  on the paper, they'd be sure to have monthly guilt trip parts talking about just that.

  If there was absolutely no accounting of it at all, then field service would drop by 75%,

  I would think. Just the eager beavers wanting to get ahead in the organization

  would actually go...and those wanting to look down on others...and a couple

  honest-but-stupid ones.