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  Question for those converted to JW as adults

  by DaleRivers in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  why did you become a jw, what particular teachings attracted you to 'the truth' ?.

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  in my case (baptized at 20/21) it was the only religion i knew; my mom, her mom, and favorite sister were jw; and the teachings of no hellfire or immortal soul made sense to me.. .

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  JeffT

  I was baptized in 1973, a few months after I graduated from college. My first college roommate's mother was a JW. Later he became one and studied with me informally before I started a formal study. There were a number of factors in my conversion. I was in a bad place in my life and the JW's provided some structure and friendship. The fact that they did not believe in hell or the trinity interested me, along with the no war position. The 1975 hype tied in nicely with my world view - the world was going to hell in a handbasket, Richard Nixon proved all politicians were crooks, we were destroying the environment etc.

  Shortly before baptism I met my wife, and the sealed the deal. She was also a convert, pulled in by family. We left together in 1989.
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  TRY THIS WATCHTOWER QUIZ

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the quiz will be followed by the answers.

  don't peek!.

  the answers should be avoided while taking the quiz .

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  JeffT

  I got most of them. Food for thought: There have been at least a billion copies of "Quotations from Chairman Mao" printed.
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  What happens after a couple of thousand years of paradise?

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my guess is, god gets bored.. armageddon's over, the earth has been cleansed, only his sycophants have survived.

  all is perfect.

  after a millenium or three god gets bored.

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  JeffT

  Hortensia

  I've thought of trying to write a short story about how bored everybody would be after a billion years or whatever of Paradise, at which point they've seen and done everything a million times. Literally. I gave up on it because it was boring.
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  Nikola Tesla, wireless phone predicted 1909!

  by DwainBowman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i lived in a boarding house near a library for a few years from age 15 to 18. i spent lots of time reading popular mechanics & popular science.

  all the way back to their first issues.

  when i heard about the gb's claim, and 1922, i knew that someone before had predicted the cell phone.

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  JeffT

  Even Tesla was extrapolating from existing technology. Marconi invented the "wireless telegraph" in 1895. It wasn't that big a stretch to think of wireless telephones in the future. Lots of visionaries (many of them writing science ficition) have made some good guesses about what future techonology will look like. The real fun is in watching them miss a new trend completely, personal computers being a good example. There are numerous variations of robots clanking around the starship while the crew works out navigational problems on their slide rules.
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  Well, it was your basic KH wedding, now 40 years later

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my wife and i still like each other.

  fortieth is "ruby.

  " since rubies aren't in the budget, we went to ruby beach for the weekend.

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  Apparently there are Ruby Beaches all over the country. This one is on the Pacific Coast of the Olympic Pennisula north of Klaloch and South of Forks.
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  Well, it was your basic KH wedding, now 40 years later

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my wife and i still like each other.

  fortieth is "ruby.

  " since rubies aren't in the budget, we went to ruby beach for the weekend.

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  JeffT

  You guys look like kids.

  OK, I was thinking of posting a pic taken outside the KH on Oct. 6, 1974; but then I looked at it and decided not to. It's there on a post a year ago if you want to look.
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  Well, it was your basic KH wedding, now 40 years later

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my wife and i still like each other.

  fortieth is "ruby.

  " since rubies aren't in the budget, we went to ruby beach for the weekend.

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  JeffT

  My wife and I still like each other. Fortieth is "Ruby." Since rubies aren't in the budget, we went to Ruby Beach for the weekend. Had a good time.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This one was Debbie's work on the beach. As we walked back we found another one celebrating twenty years. Deb put an arrow next to it pointing toward hers and added the notation "they have more." We ended up having a nice conversation with the other anniversary couple.
  
  
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  WARNING - DON'T SIGN IN TO JW LANGUAGE APP

  by cultBgone in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  unless you are willing to have all your movements tracked on the internet and your files opened to the watchtower, don't sign in.

  here's what will happen:.

  to install the app - you will give the jw-app access to:.

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  I had the same idea as Greenhorn. I haven't been in a Kingdom Hall since 1988. I should download the app and check JWN frequently, maybe look at some porn. I could give them a real run trying to find me. If they did, I'd tell them I'm not a JW and what I look at on my phone is my business.
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  Come with me, back to the 1980s--you know want to.

  by FlyingHighNow in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i don't know about ya'll, but i did not appreciate the 1980s enough.

  i was too busy lamenting how different they were from the 1960s and 1970s to bask in and appreciate how wonderful they were.. this is 80s music, especially new wave music, and 80s fashion and culture appreciation thread.

  what did you love about the 80s?

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  JeffT

  Wife and I DA'd ourselves in March 1989. Highlight of the decade.
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  Pinker on Terrorism .... Self-Defeating

  by jgnat in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://chronicle.com/article/era-in-ideas-terrorism/128490/.

  his conclusion, .

  "even when they are not rooted out by states, terrorist groups carry the seeds of their own destruction.

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  Bill, I had not seen what he said, but I talk to a lot of military and ex-miltary on the net. A number of them are making or quoting similar comments. Air power enthusiasts have been claiming for a hundred years or so that aircraft can win wars by themselves. I think some people are claiming that Bill Clintons bombing in Serbia ended that conflict. The claim is disputed, and even if true its the only time it happened.

  I agree, its going to take "boots on the ground."