There was a picture in the WT of someone informally witnessing wearing sandals, no tie and he even had a beard. He seemed to think his life saving message was more important than what he was wearing. Might have been Jesus. I guess it's not what's in our hearts but what people can see that counts in JW world
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29shock horror! WITNESSING ATTIRE NOW CONDONES OPEN-NECK SHIRTS FOR MALES!
by steve2 ingo to jw.org right now friends and you will see a young male jw witnessing in a rural setting with publication in hand and - take careful note - wearing a crisply-white open-neck shirt.
bring out the carnival, light the lights: the organ ization is kicking itself into an ongoing casualization of its rank and file.. in the 1960s through 1980s i know brothers who dared to attire themselves sans ties who were reprimanded or worse.
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Name your Top Ten or However Many you can Favorite Comedy Movies
by flipper instarted one thread serious, so thought i'd go light and easy on this one.
so what say yee to this?
here are mr. flippers, about in this order, but not necessarily.
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Life of Brian (He's not the messiah he's a very naughty boy)
There's something about Mary (I'm f'ing with you Ted)
Holy Grail (It's just a flesh wound)
Groundhog Day (Ned?)
Kingpin (We don't have a cow, we have a bull...)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (May I go to the bathroom...)
American Pie (This one time, in band camp, I stuck a flute up my...)
Old School (So what are you, campus security? Try again. Jehovah's Witness?)
Wedding Crashers (It's a game of touch football!)
The Party (Birdie num num)
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Did you ever have a supernatural experience?
by XPeterX inok i know some of you are going to mock me but i don't give a shit and you'd better get dafaq outta this thread if you don't beleive in this stuff.. .
so,you ever seen somethin strange?shadow people?felt cold spots?touched by something you can't see?beaten by an unseen force?heard voices/whispers/growls/screams etc?are you sure about it or was it just your imagination?you ever been into the occult?c'mon share your experiences and stories!personally i've never had an encounter with the other side..
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sleep paralysis - now that brings back some deep dark memories. JWN reaches parts that other websites can't. Not sure I want to revist that but at least it explains some vivid scary moments in earlier life.
I don't want to belittle others experiences as I'm still learning all the time. I feel one can read a lot more into situations than is the case and one's imagination is just that - imaginative.
I do believe EMF contributes to supernatural experiences in recent years.
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Could this be the Atom Bomb when it comes to waking up Someone? Could it Work?
by BU2B incould this be the home run swing when it comes to waking up a spouse?
could it work?
yesterday i was checking out this website http://howcultswork.com/.
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BU2B - your approach seems really good and you have a fine escape plan. This is just my personal view but the graphics on the webpage seem quite gimicky and not quite believable. If the typeface was more normal and it was presented from the angle of a professional article i think it might be more believeable - but I guess you don't have that luxury.
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Nelson Mandela - comments of what his life meant to you
by MMXIV innelson mandela has passed on.
he was a symbol of hope and peace to many.
has his life and achievements meant anything personal to members of jwn?.
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Welcome AFRICAMAN from a cold and windy UK!
I have read little of what there is to read about Mandela and all these comments are raising my interest. Today I heard of his strong opinions on education and how he encouraged many personally to become educated even his prison warden.
In terms of economics the BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) has given certain groups priority in jobs, skills opporunities in management. Legislation is trying to makes things fairer. As someone who has worked for companies that invested in SA I can say that the minor issues / risks faced were overcome with local expertise and the investments were very positive.
Band, I will read the NY times article for a balanced view - I think we are all adults and understand he was part of a movement where violence was involved. For me his course of peace and forgiveness is no less noble if he has seen the devestation violence can cause.
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Nelson Mandela - comments of what his life meant to you
by MMXIV innelson mandela has passed on.
he was a symbol of hope and peace to many.
has his life and achievements meant anything personal to members of jwn?.
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I was reading an article of his life in prison, an extreme life exposed to the elements and sleeping on a thin mat on a stone floor. Whilst some harsh conditions eventually eased, after 27 years of capitivity away from the closeness of his family he bore no grudge. Amazing.
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Nelson Mandela - comments of what his life meant to you
by MMXIV innelson mandela has passed on.
he was a symbol of hope and peace to many.
has his life and achievements meant anything personal to members of jwn?.
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Nelson Mandela has passed on. He was a symbol of hope and peace to many. Has his life and achievements meant anything personal to members of JWN?
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The reality with ectopic pregnancies is that it's all percentages. There is no guarantee about diagnosis. There is a percentage prediction of what the diagnosis is and doctors make that based on a combination of symptoms and facts. These are horrific situations that real people face. To compare their actions to Hitler is poisonous.
Unstop - hope this never affects one of your children - might not be the moment to point out what they have done is like the holocaust - although the drama queen in you surely won't resist.
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Unstop. Drawing comparison between an abortion and to Hitler’s holocaust is insulting as well as deeply disrespectful to holocaust victim’s families. Please see number one of posting guidelines below.
I’m sure that if you attended a large holocaust memorial with posters supporting your anti-abortion beliefs you would soon realise how offensive your suggestion is.(I do not suggest you do this!!!!)
If the comparison has been wrongly made in the past in printed literature with the ability to provide context then so be it. Repeating it without context on this forum is inappropriate and still doesn’t make it right.
To accuse millions of mothers who have had to take a tough decision to being like Hitler is reckless and potentially psychologically damaging.
Just think about that. Please visit some of the holocaust museums in Europe and think seriously about what they stand for. The victims of abortion are not just the babies, they are the mothers too – and you would heap more pain on them?
Please consider making a logical debate on right to life in an objective way rather than to embarrass your cause with indulgent reductive sensationalism.
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Interview with an apostate: Confused and Alone
by confusedandalone intell us a little about yourself and your family.. i am 36 years old and married with 2 children under the age of ten.
i am waiting for my letter of da situation to be completed.
my wife is also done with the watchtower organization and plans to make things official on the 3 rd of january.. are your parents / family jws?.
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C&A - very interesting in so many ways. Shredding GB books - a destruction of history - what one member steering the vast organisation used as his personal influences would no doubt have been of interest.
Very sorry about the parents trying to trap you - hard enough to have a normal relationship with them in the truth without that kind of cult behaviour.
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