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  Swimming and the gym has replaced Sunday meetings

  by KateWild in

  1. social
  2. physical

  we went swimming today, and joined up in the gym.

  we will go every week on a sunday, and i will go alone twice a week.

  i found it particularly easy to get involved with the other gym members in the suana, or playing with our kids in the pool.. we had a really great time, we even had reading time by the pool.

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  "My son was told it was "bad association" to go to rugby. He went for the first time after a year out yesterday. He really enjoyed it. He's not much into contact sports either."

  Of course its Bad Association™! One would be getting dressed and possibly showering with Youths™ that do not Serve God™! In fact, locker rooms have been mentioned twice in the scriptures, both in a Discouraging™ light. How sad it would be if we thought a locker room was an acceptable environment simply because they are not outright condemned in the bible! Only the locker rooms and saunas at Bethel™ would be acceptable. Why, they are so Encouraging™, bible discussions have been held there! Why not set this as a goal for our Young Ones™ instead of the temporary Enjoyment™ of Worldly™ sports?
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  why isnt the Revelation book on the jw website.

  by Sojae in

  1. jw
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  i asked my mother( still very much active).

  she said books made from '86 and before would not be online.

  so we both looked at her physical revelation book and it was made in 88 so it should be there.

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  j dubb

  Just wanted to note; Revelation book no longer listed in publications or in WT online library. I assume it is out of print and you can no longer get one unless your hall happens to have stock of them.
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  What Have You Bought From TV Infomercials?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have you ever bought anything?.

  my favorite commercial is the guy that screams because he's trying to clean his ears!

  ahhhhhhggghhhh!!!

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  j dubb

  Don't buy anything from TV commercials. Buy it on Ebay, Amazon, or in a store. Most of the TV infomercial clearinghouses pull scams with your credit card such as extra processing fees, slickly try to sign you up for services, hit your card with extra charges long after you ordered the product, etc.
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  Demons in a coffee shop? How would you react?

  by laverite in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i just saw this very short two minute video -- brilliant.

  it's gone "viral" on the interwebs/nets.

  i couldn't help but imagine that if a jw had been in this coffee shop, s/he would have been screaming "jehovah!

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  j dubb

  My first thought would be that it was a staged promotional stunt for Agents of Shield or something...there are so many of these youtube stunts now that the skepticism of the public should be increasing exponentially...
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  Keenen Ivory Wayans on Dave Chappelle, In Living Color and Jehovah's Witnesses

  by j dubb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you think growing up in a strict jehovah's witness household had any influence on you becoming a comedian?.

  keenen ivory wayans: i don't think religion has as much impact on me, because my mom was not a jehovah's witness, and she would point out all of the funny and contradictory things about religion.

  so we had a unique, side-eye view on religion.. my dad was the jehovah's witness.

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  Do you think growing up in a strict Jehovah's Witness household had any influence on you becoming a comedian?

  Keenen Ivory Wayans: I don't think religion has as much impact on me, because my mom was not a Jehovah's Witness, and she would point out all of the funny and contradictory things about religion. So we had a unique, side-eye view on religion.

  My dad was the Jehovah's Witness. My mom was not, and there was always conflict about that. And that was part of the humor of my house. The clashes that ensued were priceless. My mother was brilliant. My mom was one of the funniest people when she was angry. I think that impacted us more than anything. Growing up, when we got mad we tended to think funny.

  http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/2013/09/keenen_ivory_wayans.php
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  Christians and conspiracy theories?

  by Seraphim23 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i often have a pop at certain kinds of atheists but for a change i thought id have a pop at certain kinds of fellow christians.

  on the last christen web site i was thrown out of there was much love for the conspiratorial view of the world.

  they were mostly x witnesses who were very much still in its mind set.

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  "Oh, the government is definitely capable of excess. But there is no conspiracy . Blame ignorance, blame incompetence, blame inertia, but it is not a conspiracy ."

  Really? Anytime two or more parties secretly collude to accomplish something illegal, immoral, or shady, it is a conspiracy. There are countless conspiracies taking place continually at different levels of government. Anytime two or more congressmen agree to vote a certain way because of political or monetary or other interests hidden to the public or coerce another to vote a certain way, it is a conspiracy.

  We know about the few that have actually come to light. My god, our entire banking/financial system is a conpiracy against the public.
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  needs of the circuit

  by hoser in

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  the circuit overseer ranted on and on today about how parents aren't policing the internet at home good enough.

  i guess the kids and teens are on line too much unsupervised and getting into trouble..

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  LMAO. i view my porn on my smart phone in the bathroom instead of waiting for business trips :p

  The new phones you can take directly into the shower.
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  Superman vs Jesus

  by jam in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my sister told me yesterday, guess the sunday sermon.

  given at my church, superman.

  the minister was making.

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  There is a company, Grace Hill Media, founded by a former sitcom writer and Warner Bros publicist, that markets secular Hollywood films to churches.

  Superman Returns (2006) had a similar campaign. Any film that has a potential to be interpreted to have a message of faith is marketed this way.

  Superman has always had a messianic theme/interpretation, it was not accidental or unique to the films. Man of Steel the first time to my knowledge, that Kal is 33 years old when he presents himself to mankind, in the 78 film he was 30. There is also the 'Gethsemane' scene that I think is unique to this film as well. Both this film and the prior one featured the 'outstretched arms' imagery.
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  YearBooks

  by AudeSapere in

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  2. friends

  does the image below show up for everyone?

  it's a cut-and-paste of an ad for classmates.com.. what caught my eye is that the books they have in their ad are actually jw yearbooks!!

  odd, isn't it?.

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  j dubb

  I was going to post the same thing. I noticed this in an email and the colors, spine printing are all correct, as well as when they started printing thinner ones in the 90s.
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  Another visit from the elders

  by jonno12225 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i have another visit from the elder this week.

  this time they want to speak with my wife, still a believer and myself.

  i think they want to know my position about my children attending the meetings and some other things.. while preparing myself for it i though of a challenge for the elders and my wife.

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  j dubb

  If you want to really push the boat out, ask if the distancing from Russell is simply embarrassment of info now easily available online, first hand proof of his beliefs in pyramidology, the selling of expensive miracle wheat from the WT resulting in papers calling him a conman (the paper won a court battle after he attempted to sue), the divorce to his wife or the embarassing comparisson of him being a jellyfish in that he flirted from woman to woman, including his under age maid, hence his wife filed for divorce. Hardly a faithful, discreet, slave.

  Sweet! nicely put. CTR was neither faithful nor discreet. Discuss. :)

  1- The supernatural exists

  2- The god of the bible exists

  3- The god of the bible communicates with the governing body of Jehovahs Witnesses

  No religious body/official in existence can get past the first one. If it could be proven, it would be known by every human on earth and fully integrated into every governmental system. All war would be outright religious in nature and we would probably have wiped ourselves out already.

  If the first could be proven, the possibility of the next two are a given, as it could be with any other religious book/organization.

  You are trying to apply logical thinking in a situation where it cannot apply. Pursuing this as a line of discussion will accomplish nothing but establish that you are an apostate.