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  Reduction of Announcements

  by wisdomfrombelow in

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  starting the week of september 3rd they will cease having local announcement as part of the service meeting.

  is there going to be a much reduction of the letters sent to the congregation?

  will everyone be expected to read the bulletin board to know what is going on?

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  Just one more reason for the rank and file to say...."This just shows - we are so close to the end"
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  Does anyone know where, or what happened to Fred and April Fredean? They where our old circuit overseers in Chicago in the sixties and I was friends when I was at bethel with them.

  by hepcat in

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  Magwitch

  Fred and April stayed with my parents when my mother was pregnant with me. She told my mother that if she could have a daughter she would name her Bethany. So that is how my name came to be...

  So happy to have you here Hepcat (BTW-Hepcat is my oldest brother)
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  What do you think is in the mind of the governing body?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  "I must be one very intelligent human to be worshipped by 7 million people simply by telling them I am their channel to everlasting life."
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  2012 District Convention: Talk re: DVD release

  by blond-moment in

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  just wondering if anyone has uploaded this talk anywhere?

  i am assuming it is saturday inculcate god's word in little hearts?

  i am really curious what the gb is telling folks to think about this thing.

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  Thank you so much for the links. I should have enough listening material to cure my insomnia for a few weeks.
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  Awake 8/2012: YPA - Who Are My Role Models (with snark)

  by corpusdei in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  wheeeee!!!!!!

  another ypa article trying mould young children into nice little myrmidons, and once again, the only way i can stand to read it is by inserting as much low-brow commentary as i can.

  read hebrews chapter 11 and pick one of the men or women named there.

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  Magwitch

  What kids talk like this?!?!...

  Terrence - My friends Kyle and David never minimize the feelings of others. They are always available to help people with their problems, while they put their own anxieties on the back burner

  Emmaline - My role model is my mom. She knows her Bible like the back of her hand, and she always looks for opportunities to talk to people about her faith.

  These Awake writers are so out of touch!
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  Funny Watchtower pictures

  by processor in

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  Magwitch

  I really liked the bird crap one too since that was the scripture that was on the front of my wedding invitation in 1986.
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  Do JWs treat women like second-class citizens, like their husbands' property?

  by matt2414 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as an elder, i recall that the husband always had to be present on any judicial committee meeting involving his wife, but that the wife was not to be present on judicial committee meetings involving her husband.

  has this changed?

  if not, isn't that treating women as lesser persons than their husbands?.

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  The way my elder husband treated me for 20 years was very similar to how Afghan men treat their wives. I just wanted basic human rights like being able to have my witness parents visit or be able to visit them. I was his property and he was not going to share me with anyone.

  It makes me ill that when I reached out for help (twice in 20 years) to an elder about my husbands headship being unbearable, I was squashed like a bug. It was the good ol boys club and I was a woman.
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  Mysterious JW Death in Walkhill Bethel April 29th - see link

  by dreamgolfer in

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  2. bible

  http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/postgazette/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-z-bobzien-tommy&pid=157453859.

  note: this just happened and some rumours are surfacing from bethel family there and are told "not to talk" about this.

  1. young man called parents to say good bye night before being found dead.

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  A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, May 5, 2012, at 1 p.m. at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, 325 Lowen Hill Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15216

  The Memorial Service was held at the KH
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  For You Cat Lovers - I Mean It This Time!

  by DNCall in

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  We're proud to share her story & a section from "Work With Passion in Midlife and Beyond," written by my sister-in-law for Baby Boomers. (She left the JWs at 16 and is a successful author and counselor.)

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  this post is not an advertisement to sell a book.

  please read on and you'll see why i thought you might like to meet my husband, joe's sister, nancy.

  back in the 1950s, much to her family's dismay, nancy was not interested in spending her life as a jw and left the group when she was 16. she married a fledgling banker at an early age (probably to escape the jws and her family), moved from dallas, texas, to apple valley, calif., and had three children.

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  Magwitch

  to survive and thrive in midlife and beyond, get rid of distractions like obsolete possessions, over drinking, overeating, socializing too much, working too much, and spending time with people who drain your energy. With distractions out of the way (and this will take a while), rewrite your life story so that the outcome matches who you are and what you value at this stage of life.

  Such sound advice.