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2012 memorial partakers total 12,604.....atlantis
OK, I found 3 "guess the partakers" threads:
Here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/222643/2/Memorial-Partakers-guesses
Here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/224121/4/Memorial-partakers-this-year
And here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/private/222516/2/Partakers-this-year-How-many
The WINNER is.......
JimTX with 12654, a mere 50 away from the correct total. Congratulations. You win some unleavened bread.
this might be an unfair question for those who have been out of the organization for decades, but i'm wondering if any of you remember your earliest doubt -- maybe something odd that occurred to you as a kid (if you were a jw then).
please try to limit to two doubts at the most :-).
i think my first "doubt" was simply realizing that at the time of the flood, every animal that wasn't in the ark died (well, besides the fish, supposedly).
I'm fairly certain it was everything about the story of Noah and the worldwide flood. Chronology, archaelogy, science, everything
it was always stressed that the five weekly meetings were like the fingers on your hand.
each one was just as important as the next.
which of the meetings were the most boring,bothersome and difficult to listen to?
Service Meeting easily the worst. Dragged on and on and on, so boring, the topics were nonsense, and watching the clock tip past 9:15 on a Thursday was poor torture
Next worst was the Public Talk (60 minutes) which went on and on and on and you knew you had an hour more to go.
Next worst was Ministry School. Mainly because of Thursday nights. At least sometimes there'd be an interesting talk and at least the talks were all short.
Next I'll go Watchtower except if it went overtime on a Sunday which was, of course, torturous. Actually this should be higher. When its like 11:45 and you're still on paragraph 10 with a noon ending time, you know things are going to end badly. But most of my time we had a good WT conductor who didn't mess this up.
Bookstudy was the "best", at someone house, a little more relaxed, some funny moments (esp if I was conducting).
Home is a dangerous place---Do you know realize how many people are killed or seriously injured from falls in their own shower and bathtub? Thousands!! This could all be avoided by going back to an outhouse and a once a week spongebath.
Bathrooms also contribute to sanitation, disease prevention, personal hygiene, and a much easier way of life to every single person who owns them. Owning a semi-automatic does not contribute much, if anything positive to society.
good morning all,.
i have had the opportunity over the last couple of years to speak with a couple of jw's who had either attended the same congregation i did or were married to someone who to the same one.
for the record, i disassociated myself in 1992 due to being followed around by an elder or two who had heard that i had ray franz's "crisis of conscience" in my possession.
They no longer announce DA's or DF's? How does the congregation know to shun you?
She means that they no longer distinguish in the announcement between whether one left voluntarily (DA) or was forced out due to sin (DF) so no one really knows.
meet a really smart fellow named anselm 1043--1109 a.d.. .
he was elected abbot in lombardy in 1078 a.d.. .
that than which nothing greater can be thought exists in the understanding.
I said "atheist thought" not atheist. An atheist must claim that something came from nothing.
No. What's wrong with the eternal energy which, at some point allowed for the Big Bang, our visible universe, and the creation of space-time. If I'm going to belief in something eternal, that is a lot easier concept to agree with than an all-powerful, hyper-complex God. The fact is, science does not know the origin of or the preceeding moments of the singularity that gave rise to the Big Bang.
meet a really smart fellow named anselm 1043--1109 a.d.. .
he was elected abbot in lombardy in 1078 a.d.. .
that than which nothing greater can be thought exists in the understanding.
THIS MAN proved that God exists and he did it effortlessly!
I kind of agree, in the sense that he gave a proof for god and put very little effort into it making it logically sound.
god = loving.
god = all powerfull.
god didn't stop this from happing?.
Do we have to really squabble over whether god should have/will in the future help the victims? It does nothing. Let's just be sad for a horrible things that happened.
good morning all,.
i have had the opportunity over the last couple of years to speak with a couple of jw's who had either attended the same congregation i did or were married to someone who to the same one.
for the record, i disassociated myself in 1992 due to being followed around by an elder or two who had heard that i had ray franz's "crisis of conscience" in my possession.
When I was fading in a different congregation, slowly trying to cut back but still unable to cut the cord, I heard that at a party several friends, elders, and parents were discussing sadly how I had stopped going to meetings and how sad they were about it.
I heard about it about 3 weeks after it happened and everyone was still basically talking to me so I said "screw this, I guess i can stop going!"
And I never went again! Ha.
so obviously as a recently parting jw, i've never had the hastle, the annoyance or the joy of experiencing christmas.
this year in our office was the first time that we did a secret santa, so i would joke with a few of the people looking for advice because i had never really celebrated christmas.
it was kind of a fun running joke for the past month or two, as they laughed and pitied over my past with me, which they pried about and i explained.
That's the Christmas Spirit at work!!!
I hope you continue to have a wonderful First Christmas!!!
Yup! It was one of those things that you think you only see in movies. Have a wonderful holiday season yourself!
