Posts by leavingwt

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How many here have been to Morning Worship at Bethel?

by BonaFide in

jw
friends

in bethels throughout the world, morning worship starts at 7 am sharp.

in new york, there are closed-circuit televisions with a large digital clock display, including the seconds.

morning worship takes place in the big dining rooms so you are given breakfast after, everyone has an assigned seat.

leavingwt

Brooklyn Bethel, 1994-2000

Morning Worship means eating an awful breakfast with 9 people you probably don't like, six days a week.

If your "Table Head" is an a-hole, it's an awful experience. If your Table Head is reasonable, normal person and not a Bethel Nerd/Geek/Retard, the whole experience is not that bad.

To change table assignments, all one has to do is request a table change from Bethel Office in writing. They will change your assignment within a week, no questions asked. I made it a rule to change tables about every 8 months, so as to keep things interesting. When I landed at a bad table, I would not delay with requesting a new table.

The very best Table Head I ever had was a Brother named William Malenfont. He was a Zone Overseer, former Gilead Missionary and worked in the Executive Office, serving as a 'Given One' on a GB Committee. He was very reasonable, humble and Christ-like. He and I never had a single issue with one another.

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Airport Security is a Joke

by leavingwt in

in the article linked below, jeffrey goldberg gives the painful details of how our airport security is nothing but a sham, "security theater", as he calls it.

he lists the many items he was able to get through security, undetected.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/airport-security.

leavingwt

In the article linked below, Jeffrey Goldberg gives the painful details of how our airport security is nothing but a sham, "security theater", as he calls it. He lists the many items he was able to get through security, undetected.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/airport-security

In my opinion, the only real security improvement since 9/11 is the mandatory hardened cockpit doors. The random security screening and the forced removing of shoes just make flying a little more dreadful, in my opinion.

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Dazzling, magical Girl Groups

by FlyingHighNow in

here's a thread to pay tribute to your favorite girl groups and songs.

i'll start with the most magical of them all: .

the ronettes.

leavingwt

En Vogue (what happened to them?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aXhxkBuQSc

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Request: First ever issue of the WT (scan or quote)

by inkling in

i am looking for an article on the front page of the first ever issue of the watchtower.. is there anyway to find a scan/quote of this?.

i has a great quote i can't quite remember the wording of.... .

[ink].

leavingwt

Is it here?

alt

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Enjoyed the 'conference call'

by Gayle in

jw
friends

enjoyed the 'conference call' organized by fearon that has the '6 screens' xjw site.

he had on michael coxe who had been a jw but recently left, he is a motivator for positive thinking issues and now is wanting to be of help for xjws (for free on his free time) to be able to move on in a positive mode for their life beyond jwdom.

fearon didn't know how many were conferenced in on the call.

leavingwt

Sure would be nice if that site offered MP3 downloads of the calls.

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The new book study arrangement...what it could mean

by undercover in

jw
friends

i've heard mentioned in a couple of places the admonition from the society about how the new void left by the discontinuing of the book study night should be filled with spiritual study or family worship instead of tv or just viewing it as a "night off".. this is the new spin on the society dropping that meeting night; "just because we gave you a night off from meetings doesn't mean you get to relax.

you should use this time for family study.

if you don't, then you invite satan into your home through your tv set or dvd player or cd player or internet connection.

leavingwt

The elders will really be able to lay a guilt trip on family heads. "You now have NO excuse to not have a Family Study each week!"

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Council on new BS arrangement - get your barf bucket ready

by DoomVoyager in

jw
friends

yesterday (sunday) at the end of the public talk, the speaker took a moment to share with us something he said that he gleaned during the 2008 annual meeting.

(hopefully someone hasn't brought this up already).. it was concerning the new bookstudy arrangements.

i will do my best to quote from memory what he said:.

leavingwt

"The terrorists have won."

5

Boston vs. Tampa Bay

by leavingwt in

game 7 tonight.

8 pm edt.. i'm pulling for tampa bay..

leavingwt

Giddy-Up!

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ran into a sister at 7-11 today

by levids in

jw
friends

well, the confrontation i've been trying to avoid happened this afternoon.

on my way to my martial arts class with my df'ed brother, i stopped at 7/11.

while i was at the counter an older sister who was one of my best friends while i was still active walked right behind me but didn't see me.

leavingwt

Thanks for sharing your story. I never tire of hearing these first-hand reports of how effective the WT mind control really is.

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McCain and Obama tax plan's effect on growth, capital stock, marginal rates

by BurnTheShips in

tax hike.dollars and sense .

earlier this week, john mccain proposed temporarily slashing the capital gains tax rate from 15 percent to 7.5 percent for 2009 and 2010. barack obama supports raising the capital gains rate to 20 percent for individuals earning more than $200,000 a year and couples earning more than $250,000.. this is a bigger issue than many people realize.

as ucla economist lee ohanian points out, the u.s. capital stock is extremely sensitive to changes in capital income taxation.

leavingwt

I believe that Obama rejects Marxism as the path to economic success.