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  Have You Ever Written A Letter To the Society?

  by minimus in

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  when i was a kid, i remember my family regularly visiting other friends, including a brother that was the bible study servant.

  every week, he would send a different letter to the society on a variety of subjects.

  when our families would meet, he would ask us the question and we would do research or give our opinion on what we thought the society's answer was going to be.

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  All in my mind

  by JH in

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  how do you visualize a year?

  in my mind, i see a year as a sphere, where january is on top, and july in on the bottom.

  january 1st---------on top of the sphere.

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  #2 -- It's Friggen COOOOOOOOOOLD!!!!!!

  by Elsewhere in

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  there seems to be something wrong with my other post that is preventing the responses from being displayed... so i'm starting this one.. .

  it's still friggin coooooold!!!.

  the dallas and fort worth area is pretty much shut down.

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  Just venting

  by dsgal in

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  i faded from the jws thirteen months ago and since then i have only been called on by two elderly pioneer "sisters" a couple of times.no loving shepherding calls from the elders,not even once.i always felt out of place at the kh because i didn't have any friends there.never once got invited to social gatherings the whole year i went there.what's with all the clique $hit?that's about as far from jesus' teachings as i've ever seen.now today out of the blue i have a message on my machine from one of the elder's mother.i didn't call her back.wonder what came over her to think of me anyway?oh well,you all might not understand my feelings but i feel better now that i sat down and typed it out.

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  Did anyone here actually enjoy meetings?

  by berylblue in

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  i always found them to be painfully boring at best.

  speaking of meetings, i was in a congregation where people openly admitted that the -only- reason they went was to see who brother cassanova-wanna-be (you know, the total geek who, in the world, wouldn't be able to pay a prostitute to go out with him, but in the truth, was considered a "catch" by virtue of having a penis) was going to hit on that week.

  this brother routinely preyed upon women, leading them on, in some cases, rather cruelly.

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  How to succeed in field service w/o really trying

  by joe_from_kokomo in

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  ah, field service .

  that joy of knocking on a total stranger's doors to try to sell them on your own religious doctrines.

  isn't it joyful?

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  Isaiah's Prophecy- Light for all Mankind??

  by joe_from_kokomo in

  1. watchtower
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  i don't know if anyone else has posted this yet, but i must say, that the isaiah's prophecy books are the most boring drivel i have ever had to endure.

  i don't know which member of the writing department or the gb wrote this 2 part set, but i have to say that it is super-duper-dull beyond words.

  perhaps the author suffers from alzheimers and forgot that he wrote the same thing again and again and again... .

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  Merry Christmas from the WT

  by meadow77 in

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  1904 "even though christmas is not the real anniversary of our lord's birth, but more properly the annunciation day or the date of his human begetting (luke 1:28), nevertheless, since the celebration of our lord's birth is not a matter of divine appointment or injunction, but merely a tribute of respect to him, it is not necessary for us to quibble particularly about the date.

  we may as well join with the civilized world in celebrating the grand event on the day which the majority celebrate - "christmas day.

  "" (watchtower, dec. 1, 1904, p364)

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  What's your favorite Xmas carol?

  by Scully in

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  my two favorites are a toss up between john lennon's "so this is christmas" and the "little drummer boy" - the one where bing crosby and david bowie are singing together.. love, scully

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  How did you feel about 'fake' witnesses?

  by Simon in

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  i'm sure you know the ones i mean ... they decided to have a family 'present day' on dec 26th each year so that the kids could announce what presents they got while the rest of us 'zealots' were getting the piss taken out of us.. at the time, i could not understand how or why they did it or got away with it - it seemed obvious to me that thwy were celebrating christmas and we were not supposed to.

  but hell, what did i know ... i was only a kid ... not an elder .

  now, i kind-a-think "yeah, do what's right for your kids" but also "you're not fooling anyone!

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