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Tell your jw jokes here.
by jean-luc picard in
1. jw
2. friends
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How The WT's 144,000 Theology Hijacks Their Annual Memorial Meeting
by Room 215 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
at last year's local memorial service, purported to honor jesus' sacrificial death and its signficance to the eternal prospects of humanity, the visiting speaker from bethel quite remarkably managed to talk for almost an hour without one recourse to the word "resurrection".. a remarkable achievement, given its centrality in the belief system of nominal christianity.

nor were the stirring moments of high drama in the bible's depicting of jesus last hours on earth-- his last supper and his prayer for the well-being of his disciples, the betrayal of judas, the agony of the garden; his disciples' succumbing to sleep; his betrayal and arrest in the garden of gethesemane; the scattering of his fear-gripped disciples; peter's denial, and the climactic soul-stirring awareness of the signficance of the empty tomb and its guardian's chilling pronouncement to mary magdalene and the women "why are you searching for the living among the dead?"...

and so on, to his post-resurrection appearance at emmaus, etc.. all of this was swept aside in favor of convincing those in attendance that they had no business in partaking of the emblematic bread and wine.
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June 15, 2011 WT... Are they really getting that desperate?
by Alfred in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so i was just browsing the june 15, 2011 (study edition) watchtower and came across this seemingly desperate article in the last two pages (29 & 30):.

a christian has a scriptural obligation to care for his family, and that includes providing for their material needs.

(1 tim.
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Quran burning!
by Iamallcool in
1. social
2. current
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110401/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan.
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What was your most embarassing WTF experience with a fanatical witness??
by Reality79 in
1. jw
2. experiences
we've all known those fanatical witnesses who are guilty of pdf (public display of faith) and always have to make a big song and dance to the whole world and let everyone and their dog know they're a faithful witness of jay hoover!.

1) when my mother first came in 'da troooof' this wacky, over zealous 'sister' was studying with her - you know the type.

this woman was one of those not so subtle individuals who would always talk loud in conversation and say the name jehovah a million times even when the conversation could have been about basketball.
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What are the people at Bethel like? What's the GB like?
by doubtful in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i can't even count the number of times i've heard people say how incredibly humble and down-to-earth and caring the exectuives at bethel are.

i've had one first person encounter with a gb member..i forget his name although i would be able to identify him in a picture.

he did seem genuinely nice.
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So an 8 year old is killed by a machine-gun and it's no ones fault?
by Simon in
1. social
2. current
i think us gun laws are s-t-u-p-i-d ... and the legal system more so.

saw a very good suggestion yesterday though - force people who want to own a gun to require insurance (hey, you have to have it for a vehicle for gods sake).

single-shot hunting rifle?
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GB Member Barr dies
by Red Piller in
1. jw
2. friends
heard this today from a reliable source.
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Is Another 1975 Possible?
by God_Delusion in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
howdy,.

do you think the society has a planned campaign where they will state that armageddon will be upon us within the next 10 years and actually state that armageddon will definitely hit by 2020?

we all know that they have been drumming into us that "the end is just around the corner", but can you see them pulling another 1975 stunt in order to bring in additional members?.
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at the beach with the anointed
by joelingeorgia in
1. jw
2. friends
how many of you have been to the beach with one of the anointed and the son of one of the anointed (different annointed)?.