Posts by bluecanary

all still in........start turning in 5 or 10 hour more EACH and EVERY month...in just six months you may be turning in 60 or more hours a month....you will have already received MANY praises!!

Not necessarily. I could have turned in 1000 hours each month. No one cared. Maybe it's different for brothers.

They won't get rid of counting time because it's the only thing keeping people going out in service (i.e. keep them trying to convince others and themselves of their ridiculous doctrines and lifestyle). For pioneers and auxiliaries, they want the prestige. Stop counting hours, that goes away. For everyone else who are either too dumb or too honest to fake the time, if they don't have to make a report to avoid being "counseled" they will stop service cold.

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If you seek Amy in Field Service

by donny in

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love me, hate me.

(love me, hate me).

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It's pronounced: F U see K me.

I think it's shameful that they are listening to Brittney Spears. Never mind the lyrics; she's got no talent.

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Was There a Fictional Work Helped You Realize the Truth About the (T)ruth?

by BabaYaga in

the pen really can be mightier than the sword, and even fiction often carries much weight and powerful messages.. did you read a book or watch a movie that made you think?

did an "entertaining" work plant a seed of doubt?.

the first one i can remember making a definate comparison to the witnesses in my mind was ray bradbury's martian chronicles.

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A Wrinkle in Time. The planet where everyone had to behave in exactly the same way and even the kids had to bounce their balls in perfect coordination. If someone got sick, they were eliminated. No deviations.

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Today is my baby boy's birthday

by mrsjones5 in

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joshua turns six today.

seems just like yesterday he was born.

we went to see kung fu panda which he highly enjoyed, was kinda hard for him to keep seated but it was fun.

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He's in good company. Today is my boyfriend's birthday. It's the first birthday party I've ever been to.

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"Remember, nobody can REALLY love you unless they know and love Jehovah first."

by AllTimeJeff in

"unless they know and love jehovah first.

they love "jehovah".

they discuss how to make sure that though they are in charge, everyone doesn't see them, they see the great and powerful jehovah.... oh.

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Spike, I was ready to give you the benefit of the doubt, until your last post. At first I thought you meant that no one would know love without Jehovah simply because he created the ability to love. I can respect that belief. People who believe in a Creator, believe that he created humans with the ability to love one another, whether they know and believe in this Creator or not. In this case it is reasonable to say that love comes from God or that God is responsible for all love.

Where I disagree, is in saying that one must "know" God in order to make use of this emotion that he has created (hypothetically) when the FACTS do not bear this out. How do you know when someone loves you? By their words or by their actions? If a fellow witness claims he loves me, but ignores me or mistreats me, is his claim true? Does the fact that he "knows" Jehovah mean he loves me by default? Conversely, if a worldly person claims he love me, speaks to me kindly and helps me when I need it, is his love a lie, meaningless or nonexistent?

If so, I'll take heaping helpings of lying, meaningless, nonexistent worldly love anyday.

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MY APOLOGIES TO ALL

by Mary in

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looking back over the last few weeks, i think i've been unnessarily rude to some posters and i just want to apologize to anyone who has been on the receiving end of my anger recently.. i believe that i'm so angry, dismayed, devastated and heartbroken over what's happening to my brother in law, that i've been taking it out on others and that's not right.

it makes absolutely no difference what i think of the wts as a whole, or whether or not americans have a universal healthcare system......none of that makes any difference whatsoever when someone you love and has been like your brother for 35 years is dying and there's not a fucking thing we can do about it.. my sister just called me and there's more bad news, and that's that his disease has now progressed into the acute myeloid leukemia which means he cannot start the therapy they were going to give him, as this is far more serious now.

they want to start chemo right away, but his blood counts aren't up high enough for him to survive.

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What is something so unimportant to you

by John Doe in

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that you won't even make the effort to post about it?

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Not really the answer to your question, but sometimes I'll type an entire response to a post and then decide I don't feel like responding and delete it.

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The Hills Are Alive With the Wonders of Creation...

by sd-7 in

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wow, topic #3 for me.

i feel like i have a reputation to live up to.

hopefully there won't be any errors in this one.... so, tonight mom and i sat down to watch the wonders of creation dvd.

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I enjoyed your post. It does have more of a blog feel than message board. Have you thought about blogging your experiences? A couple of people here have been kicking around the idea of attaching blogs to this forum. You can try over at free minds, too. AllTimeJeff will sometimes write essays and post a copy here and on free minds as well.

I have no intention of ever seeing the DVD so your critique of it was welcome.