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  Practising 'Goodness' - from the District Convention

  by passwordprotected in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as heard at the district convention.

  9 part symposium on how to display the fruitages of the spirit.

  goodness.

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  lancelink

  too bad someone didn't go up to this girl and ask her why she was worried more about an organization
  than her friend.
  
  She might now be posting on this site !
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 07-27-08 WT Study (YOUNG SERVE)

  by blondie in

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  2. friends

  comments you will not hear at the 07-27-08 wt study (may 15, 2008, pages 17-21 (young serve).

  review comments will be in red.

  wt material from today's wt will be in black.

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  lancelink

  Blondie, I really enjoy your weekly comment, thank you for the effort !
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  JFK Assasination

  by Big Tex in

  1. social
  2. current

  i am now a reformed conspiracy theorist.

  i have been wrong, i see it clearly now.. lee harvey oswald, acting alone, fired 3 bullets on november 22, 1963 wounding gov.

  connally and killing president kennedy.

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  lancelink

  james_woods states : "Then it all blew over, and we started the next 50 years of our lives without a peep from their war-god."
  
  I would find it just fascinating to hear your story about that time, I was not a witness, and I was too young to really care about
  what was happening.
  No witness I know has ever mentioned to me aspects of time during the Kennedy assassination, I find all the opinions amazing.
  
  Just what was it like being a witness during that time, besides the stuff you have already mentioned ?
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  What was your favorite cartoon that you was allowed to watch growin up JW ?

  by StoneWall in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  hands down my all-time favorite was the flintstones.

  it's just so hard for me to compare anything else to its humor,cleanliness,appeal to young as well as older ones at the time.. .

  no matter how bad a mood i would be in after school i could always count on fred and barney to screw something up to make me feel better lol.

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  lancelink

  stingray, totally awesome back in the 60'S
  
  
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=E06cNv55jTs&feature=related
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  Sing Praises to Jehober

  by gloobster in

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  2. friends

  last week when i was tipsy i ordered a copy of sing praises to jehovah, and it came in the mail today.

  i hadn't heard some of the songs since i was a child, and i've rediscovered some of the lyrics.

  they are quite amusing (albeit disturbing).. this is a classic everyone knows, song number 2. .

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  lancelink

  "Analysis: You sooooooo ripped that off from Dr. Seuss!!!"
  
  
  Ha Ha that is funny !
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  Wheelchair Witness to me... what to say???

  by Confucious in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hello all.... been a while since i've posted.. i'm mostly trolling here now-a-days.. off paxil and feel great.

  the brother that "brought me into the truth" called me the other day.

  just told him - thanks, when we last talked - i was about to commit suicide.. feel better now.

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  lancelink

  I guess that my reply would be based on his condition.
  With all the handicap laws if effect, they want to be regarded as "normal" people.
  In fact I have had several get offended with me when I would try to help them such as holding a door, or carrying some packages.
  
  Could he handle the "truth" regarding how you feel?
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  Have u found a new faith since leaving?

  by chuckyy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was just wondering how many of you have found a "new faith" since leaving the jw"s. for instance, are u a member of another church, another religion, or are u now a committed atheist.

  if u have found a new faith, what convinces you that its the right one?.

  chukyy.

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  lancelink

  Growing up i was a solid catholic.
  became a JW, but the religious feelings from my youth were always there.
  
  Now I am looking back and researching what I was raised with. It may not be 100% truth but there
  is some kind of a secure, warm feeling that comes over me when I am at church.
  Last month one of my parents (who live across the country) was in ICU and perhaps dying. There was no way
  I could have made it there until several days later.
  That Saturday evening the church has an all night vigil for people to come in and pray, or just meditate.
  As i sat there at 2:00 in the morning I analyzed my current life (JW's,parents health,family,etc) and as I sat there
  all stressed and emotional, I looked around at the statues, and pictures and this feeling of total calm came over
  me and I felt that things would be OK.
  So far they are, and I feel that I got more encouragement that night sitting in an empty church honestly thinking about things
  than I did attending the Sunday afternoon meeting at the KH, listening to a canned speech and a WT article.
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  Counselled for nodding at a df'd person

  by keyser soze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i remember this happening to my dad, when i was just a kid.

  there was a disfellowshipped brother in the cong, whom my dad had been friends with.

  before the meeting, my dad just nodded hello to him, didn't even say the word.

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  lancelink

  Once there was a brother at my hall who got DF'd and i ran into him one afternoon at McDonald's.
  
  i said hello to him, but all he did was look the other way, he didn't even acknowledge me.
  
  he was reinstated about two months later,, just about the time I began my fade
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  Reflections on the assembly - please help!!!!

  by insearchoftruth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  good morning,.

  one of the two district assemblies was this past weekend in hampton va and my wife was very excited to attend, but she only attended about 1.5 hours on friday and then i attended the morning session with her on saturday.

  not sure how these number compare with past years, but about 5200 folks were in attendance (by their count) and it appeared that about 20 folks were going to be baptized.. here are couple of my thoughts on what i heard, i kept notes, but they were in my wife's binder, so was unable to grab them this morning.. most of the speakers i heard slammed higher education....and they tried to tie that back to the bible, that was sort of a reach if you ask me...wasn't luke involved with medicine in some way??.

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  lancelink

  "Few, very few, JWs know that the founder, Russell, believed that God resided in the Pleiades star system."
  
  wow, I never heard that one, I have to research this !
  
  I'm doing an edit here, and here are some facts.
  
  http://www.freewebs.com/wwwsoundnessofmindcom/charlestazerussell.htm
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  BETTER/WORSE than a worldly person?"

  by chuckyy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  after your own personal experiences within the jws, do you conclude that the normal rank and file jw is worse than a person in the "world", better, or no different.

  what do you base your conclusions on???.

  chukyy.

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  lancelink

  I hope that I'm sticking with this link, but my daughter just came back from Germany last weekend.
  She is in her early 20's and went out there to meet up with some friends she made during college.
  She was there for four weeks, and was with worldly people the entire time, (she was raised as a JW.
  their college belief/ban really helped push her out.)She was just awestruck with the friendliness of the people over there.
  Not once did she attend a meeting, call the hall, or go out in FS.
  
  Yet she had a great memorable visit, how can that be without any JW's around ?