Posts by maninthemiddle

Just what part of not saving for retirement is wrong? Does everyone need to work themselves to death while trying to keep up all the meetings, etc until they step into the grave? This is what my parents are doing now, they are feeling this never having saved anything, and I can't describe how furious it makes me.

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WTBTS 2010 AGM notes (GAG alert)

by billyboy in

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here are some highlights from the 2010 annual meeting;.

branch overseers/representatives from around the world gave greetings from their branch and gave some encouraging experiences from the field.

maninthemiddle

"Bible School For Single Brothers"

"Bible School for Christian Couples"

I guess the Christian Sex chapter is different?

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WTBTS 2010 AGM notes (GAG alert)

by billyboy in

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friends

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here are some highlights from the 2010 annual meeting;.

branch overseers/representatives from around the world gave greetings from their branch and gave some encouraging experiences from the field.

maninthemiddle

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DNCall - your song on disc 2 of vocal renditions

by Wrong Way in

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http://www.jw.org/index.html?option=qryqzrqvnzhfvp.

064-v make the truth your own.

maninthemiddle

DNCALL, Although I have not seen the finished product, it will be a definite improvement owing to a more concentrated pool of talent, better supervision and the elimination of a large portion of the 1982 songbook.

About a year ago you said this, I am curious if you still feel the same after hearing the now "finished" products.

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How to tell that a JW has read a book.....

by maninthemiddle in

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i was at a used book store recently, and ran across something that had me in stitches.. this book was on the shelf... carefully "studied", yellow highlighter graced many of the pages, their yellow marks straight as an arrow by the edge of a ruler.. i m not sure how this person was able to "study" it since it didn't have any questions at the bottom of the page.. must have been one of those "independent thinkers" .

i didn't read the book, i think i know what i need to know by now.. .

maninthemiddle

Their lips are still moving?

That would only be the brother appointed to read, or the sister with the napkin on her head.

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How to tell that a JW has read a book.....

by maninthemiddle in

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i was at a used book store recently, and ran across something that had me in stitches.. this book was on the shelf... carefully "studied", yellow highlighter graced many of the pages, their yellow marks straight as an arrow by the edge of a ruler.. i m not sure how this person was able to "study" it since it didn't have any questions at the bottom of the page.. must have been one of those "independent thinkers" .

i didn't read the book, i think i know what i need to know by now.. .

maninthemiddle

I was at a used book store recently, and ran across something that had me in stitches.

This book was on the shelf... Carefully "studied", yellow highlighter graced many of the pages, their yellow marks straight as an arrow by the edge of a ruler.

I m not sure how this person was able to "study" it since it didn't have any questions at the bottom of the page.

Must have been one of those "Independent Thinkers"

I didn't read the book, I think I know what I need to know by now.

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Why Did God Commission Russell to Preach to People Who Would All Die Before Armageddon?

by neverendingjourney in

i've posted this thought before, but i've yet to get a lot of feedback.

it's also not a point i see brought up very much on jwd, but it seems like a very simple, logical way of disproving witness doctrine/eschatology.. witnesses believe that the parable of the wheat and the weeds is having its fulfillment in our time.

that's to say that jehovah began to gather his people in these last days so that those rightly-disposed can survive armageddon.

maninthemiddle

Iit is the people making the rules that belive the end will come in there lifetime.

Russell thought the end woul come in 1914, Rutherford though the end would come in 1925, Franz thought the end would come in 1975 or after that, at least in his lifetime, and I am sure that the current GB believes they will see "the end".

Most of the R&F think they won't die, this concept is nothing new.

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Why Did God Commission Russell to Preach to People Who Would All Die Before Armageddon?

by neverendingjourney in

i've posted this thought before, but i've yet to get a lot of feedback.

it's also not a point i see brought up very much on jwd, but it seems like a very simple, logical way of disproving witness doctrine/eschatology.. witnesses believe that the parable of the wheat and the weeds is having its fulfillment in our time.

that's to say that jehovah began to gather his people in these last days so that those rightly-disposed can survive armageddon.

maninthemiddle

I don't have an answer, but I have a thought.

Did he start this warning in 33 CE?

Are they just afraid of getting caught still alive in "the end"?

Sounds like just as the rain falls on the righteous and the unrighteous so does death, and if death is the wage of sin shouldn't we all die at some point?

Unless we are still on that day for a year timeframe.....that just leads to more questions.