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  WHAT A STORY! Man saves drowning bear

  by The Nothing Man in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23943950-5001021,00.html

  wildlife officer adam warwick stripped off and jumped into the sea to save the bear who bolted into the water after being hit by a tranquiliser dart.

  the 26-stone black bear had bolted into the water in fright after being shot with a tranquilliser dart when it was found roaming a florida beachfront neighbourhood.

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  lancelink

  very nice, thank you for sharing !
  
  one question tho, the article states that the bear weighed (26??) stones.
  
  what is the weight of one stone ??
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  Ugh! Horrible JW forward, only for the strong stomached

  by metaspy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just got this in my email from an elder's wife (she knows i am not going to meetings):.

  pearls.

  the cheerful girl with bouncy golden curls was almost five.

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  lancelink

  I gave up a scholarship to college in 1978 to focus more on jehovah and his organization.
  
  Now it is 2008 I have a decent job, but it is NOWHERE close to what I really wanted to do with my life.
  
  i guess that i still have the Fake pearls, the real ones are long gone.
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  changing

  by lancelink in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have realized lately that i have come to terms in a way regarding the beliefs of the jw's.

  for over thirty years, i did my best to be a productive, supporting member of the congregation.

  within the last three years there have been a number of deaths in my family.

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  I have realized lately that I have come to terms in a way regarding the beliefs of the JW's.
  
  For over thirty years, I did my best to be a productive, supporting member of the congregation.
  
  Within the last three years there have been a number of deaths in my family.
  And without slamming religion, I believe that I have finally "outgrown" the JW system.
  
  People if they need it, all the more power to them.
  
  Like a pair of tight shoes, this religion is something that I can no longer remain totally immersed in anymore.
  looking into other beliefs, attending other churches has become something that is actually relaxing to me.
  
  How can the JW's actually believe that god contains himself totally within the walls of the wtbts?
  
  Without focusing on the bizzare beliefs/ history, have many of you anyone finally come to terms with just naturally outgrowing the JW's ?
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  I moved in with a horse......

  by wings in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  really a mastiff, st. bernard mix.....his name is harry.

  he is seven years old, gentle and kind.

  when he wants to hug me, he often knocks me down.

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  The title alone just grabbed me in ! I'm glad that you are doing well, animals really can help.
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  DRUG DEALING IN YOUR CONGREGATION

  by badboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  were there any cases in your congregation?

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  back in the late 70's my cong.PO had three teenage sons(who I was "really encouraged" to hang out with)that were really into pot. WE all would get together after the bookstudy on friday night and smoke, and drink beers for most of the night. Hey Randy S, if you are reading this you were right back then, what in the world made me stay one of of JW's with your type of example? randy, Kevin, and Tim,,, what a bunch of hypocrites,what goes around comes around must be true !
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  So they are phone witnessing now

  by MrsBee in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the jw's just called my job.

  my boss answered the phone and she said that they were like, id like to share a scripture with you, read the scripture and was like now if you grab your bible, and she was like i dont have a bible and they said well, when someone comes by for a talk, and she was like, you cannot come here, this is a place of business.. .

  lmao.

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  Oh man, the memories !! we would get together on a rainy saturday morning, put on some kingdom melodies and write letters and make phone calls all morning. Excuse me while I go bang my head into the wall for doing this stuff for so long.
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  The year the end finally came: the YEAR OF THE BIG LIE

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  you have to understand three things to comprehend the significance of 1975.. 1975 was the end of the watchtower society as we who lived in the 50's and 60's once knew it.

  it would forever change because it was exposed for all the world to see as a group of liars and deceived dupes.. it all began with a baptist farmer named william miller who sat down with only his bible and a concordance and a crackpot idea that a .

  a "day for a year" and the gentile times meant something profound which would effect his own day and time.

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  I keep getting the reply : nobody knows the hour in which Jesus is coming back, ( I believe that this is written in the Bible somewhere)
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  When did The Watchtower stop printing Convention Reports?

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the watchtower used to print "souvenir" booklets to record the happenings at their assemblies and conventions.. then it became a "convention report".. these come up from time to time for auction on ebay.. but convention reports are not published anymore by the watchtower.

  when did they stop?.

  does anyone know the year the last convention report was published?.

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  In the late 70's several friends and I went to an assembly in Billings Montana.
  There was a campground next to the auditorium, and since rodeo's were the BIG thing out there,
  we were able to take showers in the area where they hosed down the cattle.
  
  Now I look back and it feels like I was living in the twilight zone during that time
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  Society to start laminating paper backed publications

  by Lady Zombie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  at the wednesday night ministry school meeting, a letter from the society was read announcing that wtbts paperbacked publications will begin to be laminated.

  according to the letter, this "will save approximately 2 million dollars per year," "lengthen the life of the publications," and "increase the attractiveness" of the publications.. so there's that.. .

  also, will someone please explain to me why 85% of the congregation started smiling and nodding at this.. i sometimes think that headquarters could send the congregations boxes of turds and the jws would act like it was the best thing ever..

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  it is incredibly telling that
  some JWs will pay $10.00 + s/hto modify a publication for which
  they likely "donated" no more than $2.00....

  I showed this to several peopleI know who are printers.

  They laughed !

  A job like this uses 1.00 max for binding,and .50 to laminate.

  Someone is making money here !
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  why JW'sdont vote/ Serena Williams version

  by lancelink in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is the link found on msn this afternoon :.

  http://www.slate.com/id/2194321/&gt1=39001.

  and here is the text,in case the link does not work :.

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  lancelink

  Here is the link found on MSN this afternoon :

  http://www.slate.com/id/2194321/>1=39001

  And here is the text,in case the link does not work :

  Serena Williams told reporters at Wimbledon on Wednesday that she's excited about Barack Obama's candidacy but won't vote for him because Jehovah's Witnesses "don't get involved in politics." Her sister Venus—who is also a Jehovah's Witness—wouldn't even comment on the presidential election. Why don't Jehovah's Witnesses vote?

  Because of John 17:14 and other passages in the Bible. In that verse, Jesus says of his followers: "They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world." Jehovah's Witnesses have interpreted that statement as a call to remain neutral in all political matters. (In some of the sect's literature, members are described as "representatives of God's heavenly kingdom"; they are thus obligated to stay out of local political affairs in keeping with the behavior of ambassadors.) Witnesses also refrain from serving in the military, running for public office, and pledging allegiance to the flag.

  Voting is not expressly prohibited, but it is discouraged. The Watchtower, the official publication of the Jehovah's Witnesses, ran an article in 1999 suggesting that the decision whether to vote was one of personal conscience, although it carefully laid out reasons for staying out of the voting booth. In reference to countries that require all citizens to show up at the ballot box, the Watchtower has explained that "[w]here Caesar makes it compulsory for citizens to vote … [Jehovah's Witnesses] can go to the polls and enter the voting booths," but the Watchtower did not specify what Witnesses should do with the ballot itself. According to some, the requirement for political neutrality led to the violent persecution of Witnesses in Malawi during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when adherents refused to register with the ruling Congress Party.

  Most Jehovah's Witnesses in America do, in fact, abstain from voting. According to a survey released this week by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, the religious group is far more likely than any other to believe that there is only one true way to interpret religious teachings. In keeping with that adherence, just 13 percent reported they were registered to vote.

  While Witnesses have shied away from electoral politics, they have left a strong mark on the judicial branch: The group has brought several dozen civil-liberties cases before the Supreme Court, including a famous 1943 case over whether Jehovah's Witnesses could be forced to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in schools.

  Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the largest religious group that refuses to vote, but they are not the only ones: Old Order Amish, Christadelphians, and Rastafarians have all traditionally shunned politics. (In the case of both the Amish and the Rastafarians, though, attitudes have changed a bit in the last few years.) Nationally, about 2 percent of people who don't register to vote cite religious reasons. If Jehovah's Witnesses did vote, they probably wouldn't form a large bloc anyway: the group makes up less than 1 percent of the U.S. population and is widely distributed across the country.

  Got a question about today's news? Ask the Explainer.

  Explainer thanks Jim Beckford of the University of Warwick, John Green of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Bryce Hemmelgarn of the Watchtower Office of Public Information, Donald Kraybill of Elizabethtown College, and Rodney Stark of Baylor University.

  Jacob Leibenluft is a writer from Washington, D.C.

  Article URL: http://www.slate.com/id/2194321/