Nice one Inkling.
eyeslice
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Life on Mars to be announced today?
by SixofNine inthis is exciting, if only for the cognitive dissonance it has to cause jws.
and since a "worldy" member of my family worked as an engineer on a spectrometer going into the pheonix mar's lander, i get to make sure my witness family partakes in that cognitive dissonance.. .
source: news australia.
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So where do we stand on the "no more CO" and "inactive people being hunted" rumors?
by changeling ini don't come here much anymore, but i do like to keep tabs on anything "important" happening in the wt.. these two rumors interest me.
do we have any official, trustworthy source on them?.
changeling.
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eyeslice
Well I haven't been to a metting in 5 years, I was a pillar of the local congregation and my wife is still is a zealous witness but still I haven't been contacted yet.
I have been thinking about what I will say when I get a visit. I think that lack of any genuine concern is going to be high on the list. The local elders are probably slightly scared of ex-elders who probably know too much, but having said that, I think that I had visit from an elder and the DO since I left. So much for a loving and concerned organization!
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Slumdog Millionaire
by Sunspot inthis movie was apparently loved by a lot of regular movie-goers and critics alike.
kelly ripa raved about it on the "live" show, and said it seeing it was a life-altering (or maybe she said life-changing) experience.
either way..... i saw it ....and it left me cold!
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eyeslice
We went to see it last night and really enjoyed it.
However, having said that we have been to Mumbia 5 or 6 times and know India very well, so many of its themes are very familiar to us.
I know many of the things portrayed in the movie do actually happen in India but it would be wrong to assume it is all like that.
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On Cold Snowy Weekends, What Do You Like To Do?
by minimus inlately, all we get around here is snow!!!!
i'm sick of it.
but at least we have no meetings to attend!.
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eyeslice
My wife and were away for the weekend last week. She even missed the Watchtower on helping strays return to the flock! Guess she thought quality time together is more important. Went to a very wild and cold part of the coast line but at the same time it was beautiful.
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eyeslice
Very clever.
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Life on Mars to be announced today?
by SixofNine inthis is exciting, if only for the cognitive dissonance it has to cause jws.
and since a "worldy" member of my family worked as an engineer on a spectrometer going into the pheonix mar's lander, i get to make sure my witness family partakes in that cognitive dissonance.. .
source: news australia.
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eyeslice
Not so sure it is proof. The theory is that the methane must be produced by microbes. Still I did find it an interesting piece of news.
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Did You Know Any "Gay" Jehovah's Witnesses?
by minimus ini suspect a few witnesses were not "straight" but didn't act on their sexual preferences.. i knew one up and coming bethelite who was approached by the bethel heavies and talked to about his "effeminate mannerisms" and was pretty much told that he could become a more prominent menmber of the bethel family if he "became more masculine looking" and preferably found a bethel sister to marry.
he followed the counsel and was thereafter a regular designated bethel speaker at district conventions.
interestingly, all of his bethel buddies thought the whole scenario was a hoot, knowing that he was really an effeminate man suddenly now looking very hetero..
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eyeslice
Jimmy Page - I love musicals. Does that make me Gay?
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Focus on Watchtower Classes and Ranks
by unclebruce inanointed class .
faithful and discreet servant class .
faithful and discreet slave class .
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eyeslice
The rank structure always concerned me as a witness.
In India, I have seen the poorest of brothers and sisters and little travel for over a day to get to a district assembly and then spend a couple of nights in what can only be described as a cellar, sleeping on the concrete floor. My wife and I tried to spend time with these people but I didn't see any of the Bethel speakers down there.
On the other hand, back in the west we wanted to see a friend of ours who is, to use a term frequently used on this board, a 'Bethel heavy' who was a visiting speaker at our district assembly. We never saw him or his wife in the main auditorium, so went up to the chairmans office. It was like trying to get in to Fort Knox. There was no way they would even let us throught the doors of the hospitality suite before they had sent someone to check that brother X really knew us - and he would deign to would see us.
I guess "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others".
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My city is running out of water! No good rain for years!
by Witness 007 inthe city of melbourne right at the bottom of australia is known as a mild and rainy climate.
but for the last four years we have been on water restrictions.
our dam is at 34.5 % with poor rain again this month.
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eyeslice
I thought that Perth was even worse. I read somewhere that Perth might become the first major city in modern times to have to be abandoned because of water shortage.
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So, there is no everlasting life...
by Quirky1 inme and my jw wifey were talking this morning.
the conversation was about her aunt that's dying of cancer.
we were discussing the issue of death and i mentioned that there is nothing we can do about it and that we will all have to go thru it at one time or another and she agreed and even spoke further about it.. i am thinking wtf, "what about everlasting life", since this is what they preach and are taught.
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eyeslice
I agree with the comments of others here.
Certainly, my elderly parents are not really expecting the 'end' in their life time. The Society is sufficiently vague nowadays about when the end is really coming - they continue to preach 'keep on the watch' and to be 'awake' but time lines are definitely not mentioned.