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  Official guide to punishing weak ones

  by MissingLink in

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  2. friends

  anyone want to help me put together this guide?

  i think in the goal of "serving united" we need to have consistent standards.

  you know what i'm talking about - when a "friend" of a faithful witness expresses some "weakness" the strong friend will punish the weak one.

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  MissingLink

  You bring up a good point - what are the valid defenses against these punishments?

  Illness - more than 1 doctors certs can help you avoid the illness punishment.

  If you mention something from a TV show thats on during meeting time you must introduce it with a proper disclaimer such as "Normally I wouldn't have seen it since it's on during meeting but since I was down with the Flu..." or "I had to record the program to see it since it's on during meeting time. But I watched it later and...". Without these disclaimers in place before the discussion - the listener will begin the punishment immediately by mentally shunning you while to rattle on about the evil television, perhaps by singing Kingdom Melodies in their head.
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  What makes the 144,000 heavenly class stand out from the average person?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the jehovahs witnesses claim that the 144,000 is a limit to the number of people who will reign with christ in heaven and spend eternity with god.

  the 144,000 have the heavenly hope.

  those who are not born again will enjoy the earthly hopea paradise on earth ruled by christ and the 144,000. today,the wts claim that there are less than 9,000 heavenly class left on earth.. .

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  MissingLink

  BluesBrother --

  I used to say that either they were living at the righht time when the faithfull were being called into the "little flock", or they must have some special quality that God sees to chose them as replacements to make up the number .

  Yes, they're "Special" alright. Special in the Short-Bus kinda way.
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  I'm so frikkin sick and have been for days. Somebody shoot me.

  by UnConfused in

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  2. friends

  i took last thurs and fri off from work and was on my bed all weekend, yesterday and today.

  even now i got up to take a shower and was too dizzy to dry off.

  i've not had a cold or flu in years and take the flu shot every year.

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  MissingLink

  Right there with you UnConfused. Been laying on the couch with the laptop for almost a week.
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  Calculate number of new "ANNOINTED" in a year?

  by hamsterbait in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  unfortunately i am not a demographics expert, so don't know the percentage of annointed we could expect to die each year.. it is possible to work out how many leave the borg each year by playing off the baptisms against the previous years average publishers.. i would like to play off the number of annointed expected to die in the group in twelve months, against the partakers following year, and thereby work out how many started taking the emblems each year, from the time it hit only 10 000.

  (late 70s).

  i actually wonder if anybody with the available figures back to bible student days could calculate how near to 144 000 the figure of new partakers gets in the course of the last 130 years.. hb.

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  MissingLink

  I'm no mathologist either, but common sense would say that the percentage of the population who die each year can be fond by taking 1 divided by the average life expectancy. If this is 70 years - then the percentage would be 1.43%
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  "Secret" or "Members Only" Watchtower available for download

  by grassyknoll07 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey, the so-called "secret" or "members only" watchtower is available online at www.jw.org.

  yes, it's true.

  the fds is trying to control us so much, they are making it available in a top secret location; the internet!

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  I think the audio only format IS a way of hiding it. Only people really interrested are going to listen - you cant SKIM an audio file. Also - you can't SEARCH an audio file. Also check for sumliminal messages in those audio files -- "JWD Apostates Repent.."
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  Does anyone know? (eBay question)

  by mkr32208 in

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  2. current

  i've got a question.

  my brother and i recently sold some gift certificates on ebay.

  some from walmart some from bass pro shops and some other stores.

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  MissingLink

  Perhaps "Bass Pro Shop" and "Wallmart" customers arent not very smert at math.
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  Super Exorcists!!

  by Gill in

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  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=00wwbe1w2jjcvqfiqmfsff4avcbq0iv0?xml=/news/2007/12/29/wexor129.xml.

  what is the pope up to?

  !.

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  MissingLink

  When I was younger and heard about posessed people, I always volunteered to do an exorcism (making up qualifications). I thought if there were demons, I'd love to go nose to nose with those bad boys. Nobody ever took me up on the offer.
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  144 000 blasted by the MATH (WT lying again)

  by hamsterbait in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just took nathan natas chart for numbers of memorial partakers since 1935.. i worked out that on average 823 new partakers have been added every year since 1936, whilst on average 716 have been dying each year.. what is especially interesting, is that when the total of new partaker numbers almost exactly matches that given in w96 15/8 p31 for 1935, is in the year 1995 - they year they began to deliberately create the fog around the "generation" teaching.

  (i used actual figures, not averages here).

  i am now convinced that they have been paving the way for the feb 15 noolite since then.. i disregarded the figure for 1935 itself, since the witchtower gives two figures for partakers -.

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  MissingLink

  5% anual death rate seems really high. I would think more like 1.5%

  Do you have a spreadsheet you can share?
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  144 000 blasted by the MATH (WT lying again)

  by hamsterbait in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just took nathan natas chart for numbers of memorial partakers since 1935.. i worked out that on average 823 new partakers have been added every year since 1936, whilst on average 716 have been dying each year.. what is especially interesting, is that when the total of new partaker numbers almost exactly matches that given in w96 15/8 p31 for 1935, is in the year 1995 - they year they began to deliberately create the fog around the "generation" teaching.

  (i used actual figures, not averages here).

  i am now convinced that they have been paving the way for the feb 15 noolite since then.. i disregarded the figure for 1935 itself, since the witchtower gives two figures for partakers -.

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  MissingLink

  Any chance you could make a graph to clear this up?
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  "missionary position"

  by belbab in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  now don't get all excited, .

  this is a research project, not in the actual act itself, but the origin of the term... from whom did the expression "missionary position" surface.

  i swear to god that i believed that a missionary first used that expression.

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  MissingLink

  From Mirriam Webster -- http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/missionaryposition

  missionary position
  

  Main Entry: missionary position
  Function: noun
  Etymology: from the name given to the position by Trobriand islanders
  Date: 1948
  : a coital position in which the female lies on her back with the male on top and with his face opposite hers