Hey Vitty - thanks for such a positive thread!!!!
We x-Jws have come from a negative doom and gloom organizarion. Each morning I live I am glad to have been blessed with another day of life.
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WHAT MAKES YOU GLAD TO BE ALIVE.............?
by vitty ini live quite a mundane and often boring life..................due to circumstances beyond my control,.
but a few times a week i think "im so glad im alive "..............its usually when i take the dog out for a walk and see the lovely enviroment that im blessed to live in.. but today we fixed some lights up round the garden and now its gone dark finally ( 12pm).
they look so beautiful, i was stunned, a photo couldnt capture it.
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Ban cigarette production?
by greendawn ingiven that cigarettes are harmful to health why don't the governments shut down the factories producing them?
it's strange how they tolerate them but not marijuana.
smoking costs a lot of money to the health services of all countries, while the tobacco industries make their profits.
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eyeslice
The problem with cigarettes is that even governments appear not to be able to spell out in words of one syllable exactly how dangerous cigarettes are.
Smoking Kills - exactly what does this mean? It means that 50 % (or 1 in every 2 people) of those who smoke will die of a smoking related illness.
Smoking causes early death. By how much? The average smoker will die 10 years sooner than the average non-smoker.
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Do you think a nuclear weapon will be used in war or terrorism in our time?
by free2beme inwith all those nukes out there, and all the countries that have them or are making them.
do you think it is something we should expect, that in our lifetime a nuclear weapon will be used in war or an act of terrorism?
i personally think it is possible, and i think it would be the middle east that would see this happening.
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eyeslice
I have to agree with Gregor; a "dirty bomb". At some point this is going to happen in New York, London, Paris, Madrid or Tel Aviv. A sign of the times perhaps?
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Do you think a nuclear weapon will be used in war or terrorism in our time?
by free2beme inwith all those nukes out there, and all the countries that have them or are making them.
do you think it is something we should expect, that in our lifetime a nuclear weapon will be used in war or an act of terrorism?
i personally think it is possible, and i think it would be the middle east that would see this happening.
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eyeslice
I have to agree with Gregor; a "dirty bomb". At some point this is going to happen in New York, London, Paris, Madrid or Tel Aviv. A sign of the times perhaps?
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Do you think that the elders DF'd or DA'd you because you knew to much?
by booker-t ini was reading about carl o jonsson and how the wts df'd him because he found out about the 586/607 contraversy.
i was wondering how many people are unfairly kicked out of the wts because they have some damaging info on the wts that could lead to a massive exodus.
i know when i found out about beth sarim the elders told me not to tell any other jw's about it.
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Did you make life altering decisions because of 1975?
by restrangled ini had extended family members, both with families of 7, abandon good jobs and homes in the suburbs of chicago.
they moved to the wild outskirts of 2 separate states to protect their families from armageddon.
they both waited for 20 years, wound up financially destitute and finally had to move and depend on other family members to recover.. it would be interesting to read the stories from those of you who went through this time period as a jw.. r.
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eyeslice
Yes. I think that, like all other young people 'in at the time', the decisions I made were based on the 'fact' the end was near.
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JW Convention in Edmonton, AB open to the public (weekend of July 1/06)
by Worldly ini thought some of you would be interested to know that the local convention is being opened up to the general public.
a friend of mine and i have both received notices at our door to this effect.
my friend used to be married to a jw and he said that this is not their normal way of doing things.
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eyeslice
I believe this year there has been a 'special effort' to invite the public using a special tract. At our latest convention there was even an annoucement asking for any experiences relating to inviting the public to the convention to be reported to the chairman's office so they could be related in the Sunday afternoon wind-up talk.
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It all one big sales meeting
by mjarka911 ini've been out for a few years, but my wife is still an active jw.
the other day i was using the fax and found some notes someone had sent her from their co's visit.
she said she didn't mind if i looked at them.
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eyeslice
I just remembered something else.
There was a time (up to mid 60s?) when the congregations figures were all posted on a large notice board at the front of the hall. It used to detail total number of publishers, total hours, average hours, etc. What a sales organization! -
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Question about monthly hours, timesheets, etc.
by Alleymom incan anyone think offhand if there has been a thread about keeping hours, the timesheet, etc?
a friend has some questions, and since i was never a jw myself i am a little hazy on the actual procedure.
i figured this has probably been discussed many times before, so if anyone has a link to a previous thread, i would appreciate it.. does anyone have a scan of a timesheet?
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eyeslice
There was a time when the congregations figures were all posted on a large notice board at the front of the hall. It used to detail total number of publishers, total hours, average hours, etc. What a sales organization!
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It all one big sales meeting
by mjarka911 ini've been out for a few years, but my wife is still an active jw.
the other day i was using the fax and found some notes someone had sent her from their co's visit.
she said she didn't mind if i looked at them.
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eyeslice
Some meetings are more sales meetings than others but certainly the Service Meeting is pretty much an in your face sales meeting.
If the 'work' was saving lives then they would have a point but most of the adults I witnessed to as a child and youth must be dead by now and I am not that old!!!