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  A good fake name for an author

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  if we were to suppose that someone who wants to remain anonymous were to be writing .

  about the watchtower society or his/her lifestory,.

  and if we were to suppose that this writing were to start off their new career as an author, .

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  Flowerpetal

  Ivan Tudor

  Joon O'Hara

  Liberty House

  ...or any combination from above
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  Question

  by GODLOVESME in

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  do you ever think that you pissed of god in you life time.

  and that`s why he made you a jw.. and when he forgives you he let`s you out of jw hell..

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  Flowerpetal

  What about people who had at least one parent in the household who was a witness and you were born to them?
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  New date for Armegeddon???

  by DawnLS620 in

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  i must have missed this on my travels thru different x-dub sites, but i think i read something on here about their "new light" regarding the timing for armegeddon.

  since its been over 30 years since 1975, how do they predict armegeddon now?

  what do they tell new converts regarding the 1975 debacle?

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  Flowerpetal

  2034 is the strongest date the WTBTS has "hinted at" Noah like work , 120 years ; 1914 +120 years = 2034

  When I first saw this, my immediate thought was I'll be dead by then; but it turns out, if I have the health my mom did, at the age I will be then, it'll be an old lady with bad knees.
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  Intelligence of Witness Material

  by choosing life in

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  when i started attending the meetings, i was in college.

  i would use any excuse i could to get out of the watchtower study.

  i couldn't believe they wanted me to read the article at home and underline the answers and then i had to sit and listen to them read it aloud again and give the same exact answers they underlined in the magazine.

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  Flowerpetal

  As far as the dumbing down effect, yes I noticed that years ago too. But this is not just happening among JWs.....there is a dumbing down of America as well.
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  Intelligence of Witness Material

  by choosing life in

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  when i started attending the meetings, i was in college.

  i would use any excuse i could to get out of the watchtower study.

  i couldn't believe they wanted me to read the article at home and underline the answers and then i had to sit and listen to them read it aloud again and give the same exact answers they underlined in the magazine.

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  Flowerpetal

  When I started attending the meetings, I was in college. I would use any excuse I could to get out of the Watchtower study. I couldn't believe they wanted me to read the article at home and underline the answers and then I had to sit and listen to them read it aloud again and give the same exact answers they underlined in the magazine. I felt like I was in kindergarden again.

  This is one of the things I started observing in my children when they were younger. Once they learn something, they got it and so they were very bored at the WT study on Sundays if whe studied it as a family the night before. In fact it was torture for them--I could see it in their faces.
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  I cry for the Babys, the Young, and the Fools, who make war.

  by frankiespeakin in

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  what will it take for these fools to see the suffering they cause?

  they should put them in a prison, and show them slides of all the babys, the children, that have been blown to bit by their foolishness, until they finally get it.

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  Flowerpetal

  I just wish it could be that we could put all the world leaders in a boxing ring and let them duke it out and have the best man win.
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  If someone offerred you one wish to change your life ...

  by zagor in

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  a lady friend living at my condo asked me the same question today and i had to really think hard.

  what would be the one thing that would definitively change everything?!

  one thing that would pull all other strings together?

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  Flowerpetal

  Go back to when I was 14/15 and mostly know what I know now, and continue with the boyfriend I had then. We would have gotten married. He was a baptized witness as well as I, but looking back in retrospect, he wouldn't have been for long because good sense would overtake him. After we broke up and years later, he joined the Navy was was duly DA'd and he didn't even know it.
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  Has anyone tried the USANA health products? #1 in Quality???

  by What-A-Coincidence in

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  anyone tried these health products?

  compared to shaklee, gnc and others ... the vitamins/supplements from osana are to be superior.

  http://products.usana.com/en/products/us/index.shtml?isretail=1.

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  A girl in my Yoga class started taking the products and she felt much better, and is now selling them. She gave me a newsletter to read all about the company, etc. But I recognized it as a sophisticated form of MLM. Anyway, if I had bad health problems, maybe I would consider using them. But OTOH, I get a lot of good information from a book called Back To Eden by Jethro Kloss, who was an herbalist way back in the early 1900's. It's a great book and I refer to it a lot.
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  Audience participation during public talks

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

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  we hear so much about the boring talks.. several years ago an attempt was made to liven things up a bit by randomly choosing people before the public talk, handing them a slip of paper with a question on it, and asking if they would like to answer the question when called upon during the talk.

  that must have been 20+ years ago.

  anybody know why that practice was discontinued?.

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  I remember the year I regular pioneered, we had a CO who made us laugh a lot. He was fun to be with and I remember one time when I was pulling into the parking lot of the KH for a meeting, and he was outside, recognized my car and exaggerated getting out of my way so he wouldn't get hit. Just the mental picture of him running from my car still makes me smile.

  His talks were always good and you could tell he put a lot of his own thinking into them.

  I also recall the time that audience participation was done with the public talks.

  Also there was an elder from another congregation who was invited to give talks at our hall from time to time. He was an amateur astromonist and always brought visual aids. There was one which had a picture of the Milky Way Galaxy and he pointed out where Earth was in relationship to the galaxy. It was stunning! And then, after the talk (he didn't stay for the WT study) my husband told me that one of the elders from my cong. took this brother aside and counseled him for not sticking to the outline!
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  Aside from tequilla and sex - what do you do to relax?

  by Crumpet in

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  you find yourself with a couple of hours to yourself - what do you to relax and make yourself feel good without imbibing substances?

  what does your partner like to do?.

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  Flowerpetal

  Playing a game on the computer; listen to the Soundscapes channel on cable (this is especially relaxing when I can't sleep); watch a movie.