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  what's on your list of things to do before you die?

  by fern in

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  #1 to visit ireland.

  #2 go to the kentucky derby....with good seats, not the infield.. i have others but they are less important..

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  eyeslice

  The idea that 'sex' is on somebody's list is a bit sad!!!
  
  Funnily, I was talking to my son yesterday and suggesting that we ought to try and see a 'Space Shuttle' take off before it is retired. It a bit like Concorde, there'll never be another that fires the imagination in such a way.
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  Did you know of any elders who only worked by themselves in field service

  by truthseeker in

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  there was one elder i knew, a bully type, who always worked by himself in field service.

  i never saw anyone else work with him.. did you know of elders like this?.

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  eyeslice

  Not sure of what the pros and cons are here?
  
  When I was an elder and there was an odd number out in field service, I felt my duty to work on my own. On the other hand, working with members of the group is the responsibility of the elders.
  
  Glad all that sort of politics is behind me now.
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  People who actually listened to Kingdom Melodies outside the Hall

  by JimmyPage in

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  did you know people like this?

  you get in their car and the kingdom melodies are playing on prerecorded piano... you go to their house and there they are in an orchestral arrangement... even when i was a complete believer i cringed when i had to hear this banal crap!

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  eyeslice

  Even when I was well in, never had the Kingdom Melodies tapes at home; nor any of the Bible readings on tapes, videos, etc. I never really did see the point!
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  If you could, would you have many wives?

  by eyeslice in

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  i read a book a few years back entitled white moguls, which looked at the british rule in india.

  apparently, quite a few upper class englishmen ended up going native in india, and ended up not only with great wealth and power, but also with their own harems.

  it seems to me that they had great lives!

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  eyeslice

  But zero wives isn't a very good harem is it!
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  If you could, would you have many wives?

  by eyeslice in

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  i read a book a few years back entitled white moguls, which looked at the british rule in india.

  apparently, quite a few upper class englishmen ended up going native in india, and ended up not only with great wealth and power, but also with their own harems.

  it seems to me that they had great lives!

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  eyeslice

  You could use ear plugs instead!
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  Shouldn't A Religion Having The "Truth" Be Pretty Simple To Follow?

  by minimus in

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  when you think about it, there's a lot of things about jehovah's witnesses that isn't easy to understand.. try to explain all the details about the blood doctrine to half a normal brain.. the majority of jws cannot explain who exactly the "faithful & discreet slave" is.

  most will mix it up with the governing body.. the new world translation has "jehovah" in it over 7000 times.

  ask a witness if the manuscripts that were found had the name "jehovah" in it.

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  eyeslice

  Shouldn't A Religion Having The "Truth" Be Pretty Simple To Follow? Of course!
  
  Religion should be the pursuit of simplicity.
  
  The problem with a rules based religion like the witnesses is that once you make one rule then a thousand and one other rules are needed.
  
  Take long hair in men. If you don't have a rule but leave it to individuals, then some will grow their hair longer than others. However, society as a whole hasn't disintegrated into anarchy and chaos just because some men wear their hair long. But the WTB&TS has to have a 'no long hair' rule. Then you need another to define exactly what long hair is; is half an inch over your ears or can it be a little longer?
  
  Also, remember the short skirts rules? The fact is that most worldly women don't go round dressed like prostitutes on the pull, but the WTB&TS thinks that without rules, that all the sisters will turn up to the meetings dressed that way.
  
  When I was an elder I used to be at the point of pulling my own hair out on occasions over petty rule making by the elders, no wonder I am bald now!
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  If you could, would you have many wives?

  by eyeslice in

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  i read a book a few years back entitled white moguls, which looked at the british rule in india.

  apparently, quite a few upper class englishmen ended up going native in india, and ended up not only with great wealth and power, but also with their own harems.

  it seems to me that they had great lives!

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  eyeslice

  I read a book a few years back entitled ‘White Moguls’, which looked at the British rule in India. Apparently, quite a few upper class Englishmen ended up going ‘native’ in India, and ended up not only with great wealth and power, but also with their own harems. It seems to me that they had great lives!
  
  So given the wealth, the culture and the opportunity, it seems that men quite easily can slip into polygamist ways. I must add that I am not so sure by the way that this is a good deal for the women however..
  
  Could you cope? Would you want to?
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  Forget the Financial crisis; it will be the Eco Crisis that will kill us

  by eyeslice in

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  we seems to me that world news has become totally dominated by the global financial crisis.

  the world will be looking to obama when he takes office to see what he has planed to address the problems in the us housing, financial and automotive sectors.

  it strikes me that as soon as we see the signs of impending financial hard times, our leaders jump to the rescue.

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  But this is not about energy! Yes, burning fossil fuels is a bad. But supposing we had limitless, free, eco-friendly energy - it still do anything to solve the problems of food shortages and over-population, destruction of the rain forest and oceans.
  
  Taking the optimistic view, our hope has to be that we will be able to solve the short term problems of dependency on fossil fuels and then generate enough wealth to be able to solve the other issues. There is no doubt that wealthier people have fewer children, and they have the concern, energy and wealth to be able to care about the environment.
  
  After, all if you and your family are starving in the Congo, Africa, the last thing on your mind is going to be global warming.
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  Written Review Changes Through The Years

  by bronzefist in

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  in 1988 we had clip boards and i swear we passed the thing to the person next to us to check are answers.

  ....did i dream that part?

  i know things have changed since then.

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  Mulan, Blues Brother - I think that the handing in of the written review papers to the school servant lasted beyond the late 50s as I can remember this as well
  
  Later I failed to see the point, I could 100% right without having it printed in the KM so you 'revise' at home before. Seemed a stupid exam to me.
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  Do You Support Jehovah's Witnesses in ANY Way???

  by minimus in

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  eyeslice

  Not directly but my wife is still in. There is a diffference between the people, 'Jehovah's Witnesses' and the religion know by the same name.