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  What is your strangest "supernatural" JW story?

  by donny in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i had just became a witness and a guy i worked with, who was also a jw, told me a story that actually made me laugh and i think it upset him a bit.

  the storys were almost always in the third person.

  it went as follows.. this brothers wife and him were sitting at the kingdom hall on the end seats of the row next to the back of the room.

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  lancelink

  First I knew so many sisters who honestly believed that they could not run out of gas if they were in Field Service! lol
  
  remember the Seinfeld episode where Kramer keeps on driving even tho the tank in on empty?
  
  Maybe the sisters were influenced by this example !
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  Scientists Discover the Real Reason for Global Warming!!!

  by ohiocowboy in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i put this in the humor section even though it is real.. i must have laughed for an hour!!!.

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2274995/cow-farts-collected-in-plastic-tank-for-global-warming-study.html.

  cow farts collected in plastic tank for global warming study by rupert neate last updated: 9:55pm bst 09/07/2008scientists are examining cow farts and burps in a novel bid to combat global warming.

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  Let me guess, this was started by the Bush/cheney team no doubt
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  Name Certain Things JWs Can't Do

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  here's one thing to start off our list: jws can't stand for the country's national anthem (but they can rise for the flag salute).

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  lancelink

  "Can not enter a church
  Been to many a wedding and funerals in churches. Interfaith is what is prohibited."
  
  INTERFAITH PROHIBITED, HAHAHA
  
  my god,,, if they only knew my story.
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  Had to put my dog to sleep today :*(

  by LovesDubs in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  they tell you when it's time...and she was telling us.

  the neighbor found her in his yard having a grand mal.

  i adopted her in 2002 from a shelter, shes a sheltie, and she was fine and wonderful and loved us and protected us.

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  lancelink

  I'm sorry to hear about your loss.
  We had a Lab who was 16 yrs. old when he died, and my entire family was so devastated about it
  that I went and had a small photo-tile made with his picture and name.
  We placed it under one of the trees that he would sleep under.It is quite comforting now even after
  four years to look at it.
  One of my favorite authors was james Herriot, and when he passed on, a newspaper from Chicago Illinois printed
  a story that explains a pets part in being a member of our family.
  This is the very end of the story, I believe that it states quite a lot in its simplicity.
  I hope that it gives you a little comfort during this difficult time.
  In his story The Card Over the Bed, Herriot writes of an old woman whose only fear is that she may never be reunited with her animals after death because some people say animals have no soul. Holding the old woman's hand, Herriot replies"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. You've nothing to worry about there."
  On days when I miss the members of our animal family who have died, I comfort myself with a childish vision of a heaven where there are endless fields and woods in which to run, and St. Francis sits beneath a tree surrounded by every animal who ever lived. Who could doubt that James Herriot is sitting with them?
  Chicago Tribune, Wednesday, March 8, 1995
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  The holocaust

  by lancelink in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  not long ago i was able to visit the holocaust museum out in washington dc.

  there was many references to jehovah's witnesses scattered .

  throughout the place.

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  lancelink

  Not long ago I was able to visit the holocaust museum out in Washington DC. There was many references to Jehovah's Witnesses scattered
  throughout the place. it was said that they were the only group persecuted who could have just signed a piece of paper
  renouncing their beliefs, and walked out.
  Over the weekend I was watching Schindlers List, and i noticed quite often during the movie how many people from that
  time just could not believe that the nazis were actually killing people because of what they believed. The scene toward the end
  where newly arrived persons arrive at Auschwitz, and they are just walking into a lower level, and the furnace=chimney is glowing red right above them!
  My thought here is ,would people (JW's in particular) today still make a stand regarding their beliefs, or help others being
  persecuted? It seems that here in the US the honor, decency, and unshakable faith in a religion does not exist at the level shown
  during WW 2 anymore.
  Lets say as an example that the government decided to shut down, imprison, and kill members of a religion in one country.
  How many members would make the stand, and put their lives on the line ?
  last month I attended a Jewish congregation meeting, and I was just awestruck by the history, and faith exhibited by the members/
  Now that we have the internet, text messaging,cell phones,ipods, computers, cable tv, do people (young ones mainly) still have a deep seated, honest, impression of their own religion ?
  
  50 years forward from that time would people look back at the examples set by so many members of their faith?
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  The Watchtower and Archaeology

  by UnDisfellowshipped in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  insight book, volume 1, page 147 (published by jehovah's witnesses in 1988):.

  insight book, volume 1, page 959 (published by jehovah's witnesses in 1988):.

  god's word or man's book, page 65 (published by jehovah's witnesses in 1989):.

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  lancelink

  Very interesting book titled ,
  
  The bible in the British museum
  Interpreting the evidence.
  
  It is a guidebook of archaelogy findings in the museum, very interesting chapters.
  One of them has a finding that proves Jerusalem was not destroyed in 607, but several years earlier.
  
  Pictures/description/explanation
  
  makes more sense than the ramblings of a bunch of old men living in new York
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  What is your strangest "supernatural" JW story?

  by donny in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i had just became a witness and a guy i worked with, who was also a jw, told me a story that actually made me laugh and i think it upset him a bit.

  the storys were almost always in the third person.

  it went as follows.. this brothers wife and him were sitting at the kingdom hall on the end seats of the row next to the back of the room.

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  lancelink

  back in the late 1970's a group of JW's went to a Kenny Rogers concert one night, and during the show he
  would flip glow in the dark frisbee's into the crowd that had his name/logo imprinted on it. One of the brothers
  ended up catching one.
  
  This brother went on a camping trip several weeks later, and the Frisbee that he caught during the show
  landed in the campfire by accident.
  
  Well the darn thing would not burn, so the rest of the evening the group focused on tried to destroy it by fire but it
  wouldn't melt. Some people from the group honestly claimed with a straight face that it made screaming sounds when it was in the fire
  
  They came back convinced that the Frisbee was demonized and could not be destroyed.
  I heard that it was thrown in the garbage, and that was the end of the "demonized" Frisbee.
  
  Honest story, and for years afterward anything pertaining to Kenny Rogers was looked at as a "bad" thing in our hall.
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  ~~~ the latest MLM: coming to a KH near you ~~~

  by chickpea in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  early this morning, i headed out to .

  a "u-pick-em" strawberry farm .

  and lo and behold.... a "sister" .

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  lancelink

  thank you "nameless One" for the description
  
  I thought that it was some abbreviation for a JW term.
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  ~~~ the latest MLM: coming to a KH near you ~~~

  by chickpea in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  early this morning, i headed out to .

  a "u-pick-em" strawberry farm .

  and lo and behold.... a "sister" .

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  lancelink

  could someone tell me what MLM means ?
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  My Story - Part 3

  by Jeremy C in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my story - part 1. my story - part 2. in my previous thread (part 2) i stated that i would talk about my experience as a regular pioneer in this thread.

  all of them took a special interest in me and gave me encouragement.

  i told him i would think about it.

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  lancelink

  On top of writing a very good experience, you liven it up considerably by the use of humor,
  
  It was quite surreal to listen to a Popeye-Ewok voice speak about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego;
  
  comments like that are really funny !