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  Which of these activities bothered you the most?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  which of these activities did you hate/bothered you the most?

  rank them from 1-5 with the most hated to the least.. .

  field service.

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  ShirleyW

  Field Service for sure

  Assemblies = boring, but when I was a kid it was all about the food (real food not spiritual)  they used to serve for me.

  
  

  
  
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  Pope thinks hitting children is "Beautiful"

  by cofty in

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  one time, i heard a father in a meeting with married couples say `i sometimes have to smack my children a bit, but never in the face so as to not humiliate them.how beautiful!

  he knows the sense of dignity!

  he has to punish them but does it justly and moves on.

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  Once again, nothing wrong with spanking if it's done properly, that's my opinion, and of course you stand by your opinion.
  
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  Pope thinks hitting children is "Beautiful"

  by cofty in

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  one time, i heard a father in a meeting with married couples say `i sometimes have to smack my children a bit, but never in the face so as to not humiliate them.how beautiful!

  he knows the sense of dignity!

  he has to punish them but does it justly and moves on.

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  Nothing wrong with spanking if it's properly done.

  
  
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  Saved by the Bell Reunion

  by enigma1863 in

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  how many people saw the saved by the bell reunion on the tonight show?

  i completely forgot lark voorhies is a jw.

  do you think being a jw was the real reason she didn't join the reunion?.

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  I had to laugh when I read that she wasn't there because of an intense work schedule.  I think it's because she has mental issues and wasn't up to par for the reunion.

  
  
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  Jw wedding talk giving questionable advice as usual

  by hoser in

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  i recently went to a wedding and listened to the wedding talk at the kingdom hall the couple had both heard the talk before as they were both married in kingdom halls before.

  this is his second time and her third.

  the advice given.

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  Her third his second and they were allowed to have big wedding at the KH?

  Is she one of those JW professional widows, as soon as the husband dies the wife takes the money and runs and finds another gullible brother to marry.  I've heard of few cases where this happens.

  
  
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  Seriously, Why Can’t Jehovah’s Witness Women Wear Pants?

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  i found this.

  http://jwvictims.org/2014/02/05/seriously-why-cant-jehovahs-witness-women-wear-pants/.

  seriously, why cant jehovahs witness women wear pants?.

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  ShirleyW

  I distinctly remember at Yankee Stadium, I think it was either 69 or 70, one of the speakers brought of the subject of women wearing pants and he said something to the effect of "if it gets them to the meetings then why not" and I also remember the applause that broke out after he said that.  But I have to say I've never seen sisters start wearing them, at least at my KH after that statement.
  

  
  
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  Mom says, "CO says there's only 15 years left!"

  by Separation of Powers in

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  i don't typically hear from my mom often, but i tell you, over the past couple of weeks, i have heard from her several times.

  you heard the comment about "our way of worship will be altered" and thank you for your posts by the way....but yesterday, she calls and is asking about the kids and then, in typical jw fashion mind you, says:.

  "you know, you should really get back to meetings.

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  My mom used to say the end is near also just about week when I was growing up in the 60's also.  A few years before she passed  in 2006 she changed up and said "we're on the fringe" of the BIg A, I wonder what she would say now?  The fringe is pretty close to the end of anything.
  

  Also the JWs do say they believe in the scripture that says no man knows the day nor hour, so why are they always saying the end is near?  Ask your mom that and listen to her go around in circles trying to explain that one.
  
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  At the meeting... And I have #3 Talk

  by cappytan in

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  wife ended up sick this evening.

  so i'm by myself because i have talk #3 and i didn't know she would be sick.

  buzzing on 4 beers and 1 bourbon and coke.

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  Four beers, wow !  Hope you didn't burp!  Which is what I did once after downing a few swallows before the meeting one time, that was years ago when my digestive tract was still in it's 20's, however, that burp, although silent,  did give a major hint that I had a beer sometime during that evening. 

  Surprising that my elder dad didn't say anything about it since he was two seats away from me . . . oh, now I get it, he was probably counting the time till he could get home so he could pour his Johnny Walker Black Label.  Which I can remember him doing since I was about 4 or 5, although he didn't come into da troof until I was a teenager, he tried to give it up, but just couldn't do it, like many others elders, who probably put forth the effort but found out most of congregation were drinking fools anyway.

  
  
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  HOW EXACTLY does god communicate with or direct the GB?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  we're all familiar with the organisations claims (and have seen the flow diagrams in books and mags) that the gb is "directed by god".

  in turn, the local elders are "directed by god".

  so, how exactly do they suppose this happens?

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  The question is how exactly does God communicate with the GB

  In no shape or form does God communicate with 7 random old men in Brooklyn, case closed, that is of course unless they had a bit too much of the bubbly the night before they came up with such idiotic rules which their followers gladly adhere to without question.

  
  
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  I just went to a "wordly" funeral/memorial service.

  by William Penwell in

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  as my topic stated, i just came back from a co-worker memorial service that was not a witness.

  the minister did get into the religious stuff a bit but that was expected.

  i just respectfully listened.

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  Now the only thing I had trouble with is on the handout it says that "god had called this person to heaven" and "that he only takes the best"

  I know what you mean, about 15 years ago a mini schoolbus was hit when a tree fell on top killing three 9-10 year old girls, one of those girls and her family lived across the street from my mother, although i didn't know the family, but I met the mother later on, it was covered by TV and news media.  If you're from NYC you would be familiar with the name Floyd Flake, although he's a reverend he's also heavily into local politics. The funeral was covered by TV media and one thing I've never forgot that he said which to this day contributes to why I can't get attached to any religion is that he said " I guess God needed three little angels" and of course the folks in the audience of the Baptist church just carried on like they do when the preacher makes a point in the sermon.  I am fully aware of the scripture that says God works in mysterious ways but I'll be damned if anyone from any religion will convince me that the Lord dropped that tree on that school bus with three innocent children in it because heaven needed three more angels.