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  A Mike Myers moment...

  by jaccilynn in

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  2. entertainment

  late last night, i made a grilled cheese sandwhich and stuck "wayne's world" in the vcr.

  i've seen it dozens of times, but it never stops being funny!

  and i thought about how clever mike meyers is to come up with such a great character like wayne campbell... then i thought about austin powers and the fact that part three is coming out soon!

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  hybridous

  Remember this?

  'Velcome to Shprokets....I am your host, Dieter.'

  I hope I'm not dating myself, here.
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  JW marriages

  by Realist in

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  since jw are not allowed to live together and cannot have sexual relations before they get married are many jw marriages unhappy?

  i hear that they think jw marriages are much happier than normal marriages...can anyone verify that?.

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  hybridous

  i hear that they think JW marriages are much happier than normal marriages...can anyone verify that?

  Uhh, yeah....just ask my JW parents (now divorced - but still in the 'truth')

  They hate each other, won't speak to each other, wouldn't even walk over to piss on each other if the other was on fire....but they're both JWs and therefore, 'brother and sister'.

  It's a laugh, or a cry, depending on your perspective at the moment.
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  Moving to the official JW site.

  by Bleep in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i will be going to the real jehovahs witnesses site.

  anyone who wants to see the light go there.

  no one will have bold letters trying to make a fool of themselves.

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  hybridous

  Why would God make the Bible so hard to understand or comprehend? It is a book for All mankind and not just those few who you think are the grannies.

  Sorry, but your views seem to conflict with what the Lords of the JW faith think. Doubt it? Find out for yourself.
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  JWD is officially an Apostate site!

  by Elders_Kid in

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  2. experiences

  so just for grins i thought that i would try to take a peek at jwzone and pln (pure language network, it took the place of greatcrowd.net), two dub forums.

  i thought i would a friendly ambassador from jwd.

  well since i went directly from this site to jwzone and applied, i recieved this nice little e-mail from their admin: from: "daniel glick" <dg371@***.

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  hybridous

  Wait a minute...isn't Danny Glick the name of the kid turned into a vampire that floats outside his buddy's window at night? From the Stephen King novel, 'Salem's Lot'?

  Now you'll ask, 'what the hell are you doing even READING Satanic shit like that?'

  I know...I know...I'm sorry....
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  JW's and drinking

  by DanTheMan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is it just me, or is alchohol consumption at parties and vacations virtually an unwrittten rule of jw-culture?.

  when i was in, i did not drink, and i still don't.

  i often felt almost ostracized for this by my jw associates.

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  I've seen both extremes at our Kingdom Hall:

  There was the dry gang - all the time, including wedding receptions.

  Then there was the wet gang - all the time, every time. Probably always consuming beyond what the average person would consider 'moderate' amounts, but these were relatives of 'heavy' elders and were never...EVER spoken to or counciled in any way.

  On another occasion, a few elder's sons almost got my brother and I arrested for supplying minors with alcohol. They had it, we didn't know it....then the cops came. We probably shoulda spent the night in jail....because of underage elder's kids. Certainly 'presiding over their household in a fine manner.'...or however that reads.
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  District Conv. Releases?

  by NeonMadman in

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  i've seen several rumors and advance mention of the convention releases for 2002, but if there was a post that laid it out clearly, i must have overlooked it (not hard to do, given the speed with which threads get buried around here).

  can someone give me the exact details?

  are there 2 books or only one?

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  Well, the only one I've seen is a lame, little paperback called 'Worship the Only True God'...or something like that...

  What a weak, watered-down, mealy-mouthed little asswipe of a book!! I wanted to scream...'You call yourself a District Convention release? You make me sick!'

  It seems to cover the whole spectrum of JW-ism. All areas, but none too deep. C'mon, I thought the message was supposed to get harder & harsher...more scathing as we got closer to the end.
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  Telephoning Witnessing

  by teenyuck in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, now i know why there are so many numbers i do not recognize on caller id.

  i just pulled this off of just jw's, apparently the jw's are using the telephone for return visits!!

  read below.

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  What the hell, anything to count time, right?! haha

  Seriously, I remember when the whole idea came out in the Kingdom Ministry. Everyone talked about what a 'greeeaaaaaat' idea it was. I'm in somewhat tight with the local JW congregation, and I don't know ONE JW who opts to do this.

  I mean, if you wanna waste time, why not stand on a street corner and be politely ignored? Why actively piss people off and trouble them with uninvited telephone calls?

  I personally know JWs who have sworn off this lame tactic, because they feel that it automatically alienates a householder and makes them automatically unreceptive to the 'Kingdom Message' (they're right). Maybe this telephone witnessing takes off in some areas more than others. It would be interesting to study the differences in such areas to try to determine what make it fly or fail in the local JW community.
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  Is Bill Bowen "cleansing the temple?"

  by blindfool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i borrowed another tape recording from my mothers church.. in this sermon the pastor described how the jews were obsessed with their temple.

  so much so that they really started worshipping the temple itself.

  one obsession was how clean the temple had to stay.

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  I wonder how this 'cleansing the temple' bit could be sold to the rank & file JWs. I think it holds potential for rallying the 'friends'.

  Think about it...

  They don't have to directly question the WTS's position and authority, but they can acknowledge the poor procedures and leadership as events unfold.
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  What "hooked" you?

  by roybatty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  im not sure if this has been discussed before but id be interested to read some comments from those who became jws later in life.

  what caught your attention and sucked you in?.

  my parents became jws when i was 5 years old, so it was pretty much the only way of life that i knew.

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  Born into it...

  Somehow, from somewhere, got that gut feeling that my life could not continue as a JW. I bailed before baptism at age 17. I'm not the sharpest guy around, so I often wonder what tipped me off, especially at the green age of 17. I just knew that my life couldn't go on if I gave in to the pressure and got baptized; to continue that thought, if I knew I would never get beptized, why continue the facade any longer?

  I told everyone that I was done with it all....finished! And so it was...

  There were/are certain distinct advantages to leaving the JW farce BEFORE....BEFORE you get baptized, and that is the advice I give to the lurkers out there.
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  They Don't Like 'Downsizing'

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  oh, by the way, if you're talking to hyperloyal.

  bethelites and higherups, they don't like the word.

  "downsizing" used in reference to headquarters.

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  hybridous

  Heh - let them call it whatever they want. The end result is the same, as with any other comapany in their position.

  Yeah, there will be references to the 'greater number cooling off'. So what?! Again, how many JWs actually remember the organization's growth as 'proof' that Jehovah had their back?! You KNOW they do, and so do they. After all, it wasn't THAT long ago.

  Let those 'barely' educated Bethel hopefuls come home without employment prospects, AND without those golden-city-stories about Bethel life. Let them come home dejected and without all the 'you-should-so-this' stories for the kids at the Kingdom Hall. The lack of those Bethel cheerleaders does more damage to the WT than we can ever hope to.

  What happens when the Bethel heroes come home to tell the kids, 'Stay in school - go to College'? Ha! The WT did it to itself!!!!!!