We used to have a somewhat flamboyant type who would always sit in one of the front two pews. And every meeting, about halfway thru, he would get up and march to the back, I guess to use the can. On his way he would smile or nod at a couple people. Very distracting.
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How to Annoy Everyone at the Watchtower Study
by So Past A Dub ini thought you good folks might enjoy this post from http://www.thelaughingapostate.com/.
s.p.a.d., who is one old cantankerous apostate, has been noticing of late that several of you brave souls still find yourselves in a situation where you have to attend meetings at least now and then.
i feel for you good folks and i think it is high time that all of us chip in with ideas of how to reduce the boredom and suffering you must endure.
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Revelation Climax, page 52, Kindly Respond
by compound complex indear readers of revelation,.
i have been reminded that a simple question is more effective than an elaborate presentation.
i have become very careful about what i say and how much i say to most people.
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So obviously and since it was brought up on another thread.... this couldn't have been the work of just one
wacked out artist thinking they could slip something by the censors. So who else had to be involved?
It's like "What did the President know and when did he know it?"
And another thingy, if dubs can't have beards, how come it's ok in the pictures? And those crowns - sheesh.
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Why Canadian health care is so good
by Nathan Natas inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywtwsp9jc5m.
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The most important thing is that doctors are rich. Nothing else matters.
It's capitalism which means never having to say you're sorry.
Cow Politics
DEMOCRAT
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
You vote people into office that put a tax on your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the tax.
The people you voted for then take the tax money, buy a cow and give it to your neighbor. You feel righteous.
Barbara Streisand sings for you.
SOCIALIST
You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.
REPUBLICAN
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?
COMMUNIST
You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.
CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.
DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government.
BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, and then pours the milk down the drain.
AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows.
You are surprised when one cow drops dead.
You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.
FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch.
Life is good.
JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.
GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour. Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.
ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows but you don't know where they are.
While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.
RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.
TALIBAN CORPORATION
You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two.
You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts.
Then you kill them and claim a US bomb blew them up while they were in the hospital.
POLISH CORPORATION
You have two bulls.
Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them.
FLORIDA CORPORATION
You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who like the brown one best, vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
Some people can't figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which is the best-looking one.
NEW YORK CORPORATION
You have fifteen million cows.
You have to choose which one will be the leader of the herd, so you pick some fat cow from Arkansas.
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JWs don't leave the organization over doctrine
by doublelife incan anyone help me with a quote from a publication studied in '09 that had a box that said jws leave over selfish reasons but not over doctrine?
i think it was studied in the bs but i can't find it and i already tried the search feature.
i remember someone posted about it at the time it was studied.
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jdhf - I think you nailed it. It's like a lost love that can't be replaced. Unless you go back to where it went off the tracks.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians%202:12&version=NIV;NASB;AMP;KJV;DARBY;
Ph 2:12 (AMP) "Therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed [my suggestions], so now, not only [with the enthusiasm you would show] in my presence but much more because I am absent, work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling (self-distrust, [a]with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ)." -
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whoa some of russells teachings where more correct than current JW teachings please comment
by recovering ini was on wikipedia looking up some of charles taze russells teachings, look at what i found.
whoa some of russells teachings where more correct than current jw teachings .
please discuss.
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When did Disfellowshipping start?
by God_Delusion inhello guy's & gal's,.
do we know what year disfellowshipping started?
also, for a bonus point, do we know who the first person to get disfellowshipped was?.
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Sorry dissed, I missed your post. Df'g is of course not unscriptural. It's ubiquitous from the cover to cover in Scripture. But it obviously has to be very serious and can't be decided upon by 3 men behind a curtain with everyone just left wondering what happened to 40,000 of their brethren that get thrown under the bus every year and told it's "a loving provision." And of course that doesn't begin to scratch the surface of the total number of other victims of the wtbt$ organizational control tactics and witch-hunts. So I don't think Br Russell is back peddling at all.
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The serpent (Pat Robertson) speaks!
by Nathan Natas inpat robertson blames haiti earthquake on pact with the devil.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5nraknwoes.
"true story," pat said.
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"When you go to the doctor for a checkup, she'll probably poke at you and ask "Does that hurt?" If it does, the doc knows there may be something important going on there. Same thing with Pat Robertson. As long as so many people jump in pain when he talks, there's probably something important going on there, too."
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When did Disfellowshipping start?
by God_Delusion inhello guy's & gal's,.
do we know what year disfellowshipping started?
also, for a bonus point, do we know who the first person to get disfellowshipped was?.
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Would you mind posting it.
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When did Disfellowshipping start?
by God_Delusion inhello guy's & gal's,.
do we know what year disfellowshipping started?
also, for a bonus point, do we know who the first person to get disfellowshipped was?.
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Started by Rutherford.
What Pastor Russell Said p 479
Meetings Elders in Court of Inquiry Questions 1916"Is it proper for the elders to sit at a court of inquiry and cite any supposed to be walking in a disorderly manner to appear before them and explain their conduct?" Or should the Lord's advice at Matt 18:15-18 be followed?
Answer - "I agree with the suggestion of the question that it should be handled in harmony with the Lord's direction in the passage cited. The Lord's word does not authorize any court of the Elders, or anyone else, to become busybodies. THis would be going back to the practices of the Dark Ages during the inquisition; and we would be showing the same spirit as did the inquisitors. The Lord has put the matter in a simple way and we could not improve upon it......We should remember the word of the Lord which says, 'The Lord will judge his people.' If he should need any punishment, we may trust the Lord to give it to him and not take the matter into our own hands. We should have confidence in the Lord. If we can stop the wrong that is as far as we can go. But if the wrong doer should persist in his wrong-doing and not repent, and if the matter should be of sufficient importance, then we are to bring the matter to the attention of the of the Church for correction. We should not bring any small or trifling matter. It is my judgment that 3/4 of the things which are brought to my attention - had better be dropped. However there might be an exception in case the matter had gone beyond the individual and had somehow involved the whole congregation. In such an event it might be impossible to deal with the matter in an individual way. Then the Elders MIGHT constitute themselves into a Board or Committee, and get one of their number to look into the case and see if the wrong could not be stopped, or adjusted. When the matter gets beyond the individual, we have no advice beyond the Word of God. Let us be careful not to become like Babylon and hold inquisition and mix ourselves up. The Word of God is our sufficiency and we should follow it closely and thereby avoid confusion." -
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Why Is The Governing Body Worshipped In The Watchtower All The Time?
by frankiespeakin inshort answer:.
wt writers are all taking turns kissing the governing body's ass.. long answer:.
if your'e a writer at bethel and you see brother kiss ass write this article about such and such and he always manages to throw in a few kiss ass lines about the fd&s.
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It works the same up and down the whole food chain.
Laity praises ms's, pio's and all praise elders. Then the co's, do's get fawned over and bowed to.
And on and on right up the line.
No different than the cathaholic church. Just no uniforms. Only accouterments - size of book bags.
