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  WITNESS BUSINESS PARTNERS FROM HELL

  by Mary in

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  how many horror stories have we all heard about brothers at the hall who decide to go in to business together, only to have it end up in disaster?

  my brother-in-law, bill did this with a reeeeeal good christian brother i'll call max, a couple of years ago.

  my brother-in-law works in construction, and does the actual work.

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  Francois

  In fact, JWs mixing together in business are worse, far worse than the ordinary folks.

  Michael Corelone was absolutely right "Friends and business, oil and water."

  Simply put and absolutely correct.
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  Study July 6, 2003 Listen to What the Spirit Says

  by jgnat in

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  study july 6, 2003 listen to what the spirit says wt may 15, 2003

  jezebel women in the congregation!

  5 let no self-appointed prophetess seek to manipulate others in the present-day christian congregation .

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  Francois

  I see problems lurking on the horizon. As the WTBTS gets in deeper and deeper do-do I predict Witch Hunts that will make Salem look like a Methodist picnic. Watchout you single women, widows, etc.

  Mark my words
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  Been Meaning to Post that I'm a Collij Gradj-you-ate

  by NeonMadman in

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  well, a two-year grad anyway.

  i recently received the a.s. in business admin that i've been working on, like, forever.

  summa cum laude with a 4.0 average.

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  Francois

  You might want to take a close look at Nova Southeast University in Ft. Lauderdale. They have a department that teaches distance learning. My ex is getting her Ph.D. via distance learning from there. Give it a shot.
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  THE TRUTH ABOUT THE EVENTS OF 2 KINGS 19:35

  by Dansk in

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  in 2 kings 19:35 (nwt) it states: "and it came about on that night that the angel of jehovah proceeded to go out and strike down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the assyrians.

  when people rose up early in the morning, why, there all of them were dead carcasses.".

  the account goes on to say that, because of this, sennacherib, king of assyria, pulled away and took up dwelling in nineveh, whereafter two of his own sons put him to death and then esarhaddon, another son, began to reign.

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  Francois

  Personally, I believe the evidence once again points to Jewish fables being taken as literal events. So, can we trust the Hebrew Scriptures? Historically, in parts, yes! But certainly not as inspired, much of it merely being fictitious stories disguised as truth to rally the nation of Israel!

  Congrats. Good Work. I have thought this for years, beginning about the age of 18.
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  If You Could Run This Board For A Day , What Would You Do Differently?

  by minimus in

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  i would ask for donations to help this place run without costs to the owner.....and you?

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  Francois

  I would go fishing and let the board and the people on the board do exactly as they will. Because they're going to anyway and I learned a long time ago you get where you're going much faster if you go with the flow instead of swimming against it.
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  We made it to Florida!!!

  by StinkyPantz in

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  well we made it to florida, but the journey was not exactly what i would call a fun one.. .

  as many of you know, my fairly new suv was totaled (by no fault of my own) one month before we were supposed to be making our big move.

  well, we were forced to buy a car with limited income until the insurance company paid up.

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  Francois

  OH, one more thing. Be sure you post your street address in Orlando so we can all drop in one day and keep you company. I have a brass plate for your front door that says 'Orlando Hilton - S & J Pantz, Prop'

  Can't wait to see you.
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  What exactly is "origins are pagan" ? so what isn't pagan ? Who were they ?

  by run dont walk in

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  i'm sure we have all heard this comment millions and millions of times.. "oh, we don't do that because its pagan origin".

  whether it be christmas, thanksgiving, easter, birthdays, etc etc.. so who exactly were the pagans and when and where did they live ???.

  they must have been worse then sodom and gomorrah.. so what things are pagan that the jw's may not think are ???????.

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  Francois

  The JWs just pick and choose among the many thousands of things they can label "pagan" and look the other way for the rest.

  The names of the days of the week and the months of the year are of pagan origin.

  Many of the ritual events in a wedding are of direct pagan origin, and I'm speaking of events that the JWs continue to engage in. The wedding party for instance was intended to hide the identity of the bride and groom from the "demons." Same with the veil. You'd think the JWs would be in favor of that. The placement of the ring third finger, left is pagan.

  Many of the ritual events in funerals also are of direct pagan origin, but again the JWs are up to their necks in them. Tombstones come from the pagan belief that if you did not pile stones on a corpse, the "demons" would come out of the deceased to haunt the village and otherwise cause problems. Tying up the corpse in a shroud served much the same purpose.

  How long would you like this post to be? There are literally thousands of things of pagan origin that the JWs continue to practice. Their insistence on not practicing some things has nothing to do with spiritual security, it's got to do with measuring their degree of control over you as an individual.

  Who were the pagans? They were merely the country folk in any given territory. As the Catholic Church spread from Rome out into the countryside, it did battle with the beautiful nature cults of the native peoples. If the so called "pagans" did not convert to Catholicism, they were murdered by the church. And thus, it was left to the victors to write the history of those times, of those times of conversion of the country folk to Catholicism.

  And the Catholics did what the victors always do: they lied about the nature and character of those country nature religions. If the Catholic Church said they ate babies for breakfast at pagan sunrise ceremonies, who was there to refute them? It doesn't take much imagination to see what the Catholic Church did to the reputation of those beautiful, gentle, nature-oriented religions of the people.

  Those "pagan" religions were much more beautiful and, I dare say, much more accurate than was the Catholic Church. For instance, there is no female Godforce in the Christian Church. But in Wicca, there is both a male and a female godforce, and these two forces are combined in The All. The "pagans" worshipped at night and they had fires so they could see, not so they could roast humans alive as the church would have it. They worshipped the changes of the sun and moon in various seasons. They had ceremonies for the spring and fall equinoxes and for the summer and winter solstices. And the Catholics followed right along with parties of their own during these times and called them something else. For instance the spring or vernal equinox is the Christian Easter. And on and on and on like that.

  The Jehovah's Witnesses are plainly just full of shit. They're as pagan as the statue-venerating Catholics, but in their own way. See? This could never be a perfect world for me, because in a perfect world those god damn Jehovah's Witnesses would not be in it. Lying Bastards.
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  What do you do for a living ??? Would the elders make you quit your job ???

  by run dont walk in

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  2. friends

  this one is my biggest pet peeves.. growing up in the borg, i had a hard time finding any job, let alone a decent paying one.. i had to quit many jobs because my parents said "i was missing out to many meetings and field service.".

  but how come the elders who worked at ford, chysler, gm, or any big factories, that worked shift work, and missed meetings every three weeks consistently for decades, and that was okay.

  the response i would get was, "well they have a family to raise and look after.

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  Francois

  I would have enjoyed the elders attempting to make me do, or not do, anything - job, education, partner, you name it. I would have had more fun with them than a barrel of monkeys.
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  Any Radio/Former Radio People on the Forum?

  by Robdar in

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  i did radio broadcast for about 20 years.

  whereas i am thinking of doing it again, i hope that it doesn't come down to it.

  unless i can do morning drive again.

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  Francois

  Yep, I was in radio beginning in October 1963. We had a remote transmitter so everyone who worked on the air had to go get a Radio/Telephone 3rd Class License. We had two Spotmasters, which are sort of like 8-track tapes on hormones (only one track), two turntables, and a very small Gates control board. Believe me, the smaller boards with fewer switches and gain controls are harder to work since each thing on it does multiple duty depending on where something else is set. The best thing about radio is the radio disk jockey groupies - god love em.

  Before it was all over ten years later, I had worked at two or three more radio stations, two television stations and a newspaper. I loved all of it and changed my major from organic chemistry to journalism.

  From what I hear now, radio is no fun. Stick to the format and push buttons. Screw that.
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  Add a caption to this picture

  by IronGland in

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  Francois

  Wow! Brother Schlameil is right! This IS better than playing softball after school.