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  Ever Wonder Why JWs Avoid Sitting in The Front Rows at The Kingdom Hall?

  by Room 215 in

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  it seems to me that in every kh i've attended, jws love to occupy the latter half of the hall.

  any ideas why?

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  Mattieu

  So you don’t get spat on by the brother with the speech impediment!
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  What I did yesterday

  by mrsjones5 in

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  i had to do laundry and i'd found a small laundromat close by so i gathered as much stinky clothes as i could and headed on there.

  when i arrived one person was just leaving and i had the whole place to myself.

  one of the first things i noticed in the shabby little joint was the abundance of watchtower and awake rags.

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  Mattieu

  Mrs Jones, I am sure this is a worldwide phenomenon, us Pioneers used to start and finish our time at a Laundromat! Apart from giving us long days in the field service, it used to boost our magazine placements! Funny thing is that none of us would go in when someone was using the Laundromat to put the magazines on the coffee tables. Mixture of fear of man & embarrassment.......

  Mattieu.
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  Kentucky Derby

  by purplesofa in

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  did any of you watch the kentucky derby yesterday?.

  yesterday i watched the kentucky derby, i am not a horse racing fan, although i do enjoy going to the races.

  we have a nice track here about an hours drive from me.. but all the hype about it being the best sporting event, me being an indy race fan, thinking that is the greatest sporting event!!!!

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  Mattieu

  Melbourne Cup, now thats a horce race!!!
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  Holy Crap! I've been doing it wrong all these years!!!

  by Elsewhere in

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  http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2407/2507379082_4b1d01534a.jpg .

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  Mattieu

  hands free...
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  My JW Life... (LONG)

  by silent in

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  i never, ever thought i would ever be posting on a board such as this but here i am.

  i've been reading the boards for several months and despite my initial conscience twinges, i couldn't help but follow a logical thought process on many issues that were causing me grief.

  over this past week, due to the things i've read on here, i've had a massive cloud lift from me and i'm starting to feel joy and love in my heart that i've *never* felt before.

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  Mattieu

  G'day Silent, so glad to have you here alive and one piece! I enjoyed your life story and can certainly relate to some parts.

  Mattieu.
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 05-03-09 WT Study (LAMB)

  by blondie in

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  evidence of god's confidence in the anointed, who "keep following the lamb no matter where he goes.

  16 "my sheep listen to my voice," said jesus, "and i know them, and they follow me.

  what shows that jesus christ completely trusts the slave class?

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  Thanks for your effort this week Blondie despite life being so hectic.

  If there is ever a w/t that will cause a serious Bible student or someone with an inkling of an “independent spirit” to stop and think what a load of crap, it will be this one.

  Questions such as:

  What evidence is there that Jehovah trusts the faithful and discreet slave?
  
  What shows that Jesus Christ completely trusts the slave class?

  Yet, the w/t in trying to answer those questions gives no solid proof! It quotes a few misapplied scriptures, goes in circles hoping that it has lost the majority of dubs who will be sitting there like robots smiling, putting their hands up and answering word for word what the paragraph says. Then the conductor will say “thank you for that insightful comment Brother Buttlicker, are we not appreciative that we belong to such a loving congregation?”

  Brothers and sisters will go home or in service saying what a great watchtower today (mind you, most will be saying that to sound spiritual. Like I used to towards the end...)

  It cannot just be me who read this week’s w/t and thought that this article lacked substance or foundation. Any high school teacher that had this article presented to them in a debating class would have given it a big F! (For fail.........)

  Mattieu.
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  What famous "Talks" do you remember that you heard as a Witness?

  by BonaFide in

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  my favorites that i heard in person or had on tape, well they were my favorites:.

  are we really in the last days?

  - br.

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  Can you Sleep on a Windy Night? - Can't remember speaker

  The last few hours of Jesus' Life - Can't remember speaker

  We have both those tapes on cassette at home somewhere, used to listen to "The Last Few Hours" before every memorial....
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  The "faithful and discreet slave class" - Past, Present and Future

  by truthseeker in

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  iv) believe that jesus christ is mediator for "the faithful and discreet slave".

  today, that "slave" is represented by the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.

  5. elders.

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  Mattieu

  Truhseeker, great job! Nothing like coming to work on a Saturday morning and enjoying a good read that once again exposes a certain amount of fraudulence in the w/t doctrines. I am certain that 99.99% of publishers could not explain the current understanding on any of the major w/t doctrines let lone the official view of the anointed class.

  Thanks again,

  Mattieu
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  we dont know them..the GB...anyone ever use that?.......

  by oompa in

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  i mean all these rules and structures and teachings.......come from some changing guys we dont even know......and ya...these guys change about every year...an so does what they teach......but i dont know a single one of them..........oompa.

  yet........damm........i lived over forty years trying to do what they say........never even knew em.......damm i was not lucky from birth......nlfb....

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  I know someone who knew someone’s Uncle’s cousins sisters friend who met someone who saw a gb during a Bethel tour.

  No seriously, my mate came back from a visit to Brooklyn bethel and had photos of one of the gb in the socialising room; they were having some sort of gathering. I will never forget when Franz came to Melbourne back in 88 or 89 I think it was (Royal Melbourne Showgrounds). After the final hour long prayer, the arena grounds filled with the r & f running to the stage as he got off, it took him an hour to leave the arena. It was loony, particularly when one brother came running back yelling “I touched him!” No joke, true story.

  But I agree Oompa, they make all these rules, some of which totally screw up people’s lives (blood issue for instance) but when the whole thing goes pear shape, they wipe their hands and introduce “new light” and then have the audacity to say “we never printed or said that”. And when you show them that they did say that, the table is turned on you for being nitpicky/negative and you sound like an apostate!

  Matieu.
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  New convention releases?

  by TheOldHippie in

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  any new books or brochures or tracts or whatever at this year's conventions?.

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  1 - Coupon Books with discount gasoline coupons to enable the book study to be reinstated.

  2 – “Advertise Advertise Advertise New Light”

  3 – “How to win friends and influence people (NGO version)”

  4 – “Babylon the Great has fallen and we fell too!”