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  70 Hour Pio's & 15 Min Pubs

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  let's see here - according to the latest rumor.

  you can be a regular publisher by putting in 15 minutes.

  a month.. you can be a regular pioneer by putting in 70 hours.

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  My flood questions

  by Moxy in

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  2. friends

  i know these topics have been well-covered in many places.

  this is just me wanting to compile a list of concise reasons why i am sure the wt interpretation of the deluge is untenable.

  this is my first draft.

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  2/3 of all JW's are women and what it implies

  by Mindchild in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a few weeks back, kinsman posted a link about a recent survey of religion in america which showed that 68% of all jehovah's witnesses were female, which is the highest ratio of women to men in any religion in the usa.. i believe the reason for this unbalance in adherents in favor of women comes down to two fundamental reasons.

  the first is shunning and the second is the appeal of the "family type atmosphere" that the witnesses pretend to offer.. we all know the power of shunning keeps a lot of people trapped inside the collective, and just due to the fact that women are enculturated more with having emotional bonds with others, makes it a bit tougher to leave family and friends behind.

  this doesn't mean that men don't suffer emotionally, but the general trend is more for men to suppress their feelings and damn the emotional torpedoes and go full speed ahead out of the bad dream.. this suggests to me, that if there is a major modification of the shunning policy, the largest exodus will be in the female ranks.

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  Your favorite and least liked society publication?

  by Celtic in

  1. jw
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  did you have a favourite publication?

  what was your least liked publication?

  creation book for the shady wt take on science.. unseen spirits, do they help us or do they harm us?

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  What is this about Marking?

  by Missie Eff in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have a good freind here with me this evening.

  (celtic, if you're around you know her - it's liane).

  there is something that has always puzzled both of us.

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  What is marking about?

  by Missie Eff in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have a good freind here with me this evening.

  (celtic, if you're around you know her - it's liane).

  there is something that has always puzzled both of us.

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  FARTING at the meetings

  by gambler in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm sure you all have some good comical stories of pple farting during prayer or other quiet times during meeting.

  as a personal experience of mine, the night before i had eaten a frozen pizza, doritos, and some old chocolate milk.

  this combination produced the worst smelling brew i have ever had.

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  Reasoning on reasons for disfellowshiping

  by jed459 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the only valid scriptual reason for disfellowshipping is if someone has committed a serious sin like having sex with his father's wife as paul said and is unrepentant.. or if someone has denied the faith and are deliberately teaching others against the true gospel to mislead them.

  so unless jws really do have the true faith, they cannot scriptually disfellowship anyone unless they are unrepentant over a sin which is as serious as paul said.

  yet in most cases the disfellowshiped person has not commited such a sin as that.

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  Is anyone looking for an ex-dub roommate?

  by Mindchild in

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  2. friends

  i thought i would post this and see what happens.... i'm wondering if anyone in the ex-dub community and who lives in the usa is looking for a roommate right now?.

  my business requires me to do a lot of traveling but for several reasons i've decided that i want to have a home base where i can leave my stuff, make myself some home cooked meals (resturant food gets old if you eat out all the time) and just do some r&r on my days off.

  i can certainly afford to rent an apartment or house (up to $1,000 a month) but then there is no cool people to talk with and all that jazz.

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  Paradise - I Think I'll Pass........

  by Black Man in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one thing that has always kinda ticked me off with the society depiction of paradise, is the completely bland, devoid of personality, stepford wives-ish look given to paradise pics in the publications over the years.

  peeps walkin' around smilin' for no reason, no attention given to a cultivation of technology, the arts, space exploration.

  there never seemed to be any point to paradise.

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