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  Peanuts suggests Memorial attendance is inflated

  by FatFreek 2005 in

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  memorial is right around the corner and many critics believe that attendance figures are manufactured.

  perhaps the gb learned from peanuts.. .

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  FatFreek 2005

  Memorial is right around the corner and many critics believe that attendance figures are manufactured. Perhaps the GB learned from Peanuts.

  
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  Do You Folks Wanna Hear My Story?

  by Farkel in

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  i've already written "my story".

  i've been "out" for 35 years.

  but that is not a story that contains the little stuff.

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  FatFreek 2005

  Sounds like there are several old-timers chiming in. Let me be the next. Baptized in November 1956, Westerly, RI. How about you, Bonnie_Clyde? Same pool?

  Farkel, if I've done my math correctly, your exit year was close to 1975 where mine was 1977. Did the Society's super-highlighting of that year have anything to do with it?

  With me, it was the 1975 yearbook and that Anna McDonald statement about 1925 that kept haunting me.

  '56
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  Great Cartoon in Today's Paper

  by Magwitch in

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  FatFreek 2005

  Hi Magwitch,

  A simple, but extremely pointed graphic that "might is right". Great find.

  Len
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  Peanuts on the new secret Elder's Manual

  by FatFreek 2005 in

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  those kids are up to mischief again.

  len.. .

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  FatFreek 2005

  Those kids are up to mischief again. Len.

  
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  Peanuts on the Overlapping Generations

  by FatFreek 2005 in

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  we apostates have to maintain our distance at times.. .

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  FatFreek 2005

  I couldn't resist. Those kids are great, thanks to the late Charles.

  
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  Peanuts on the Overlapping Generations

  by FatFreek 2005 in

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  we apostates have to maintain our distance at times.. .

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  FatFreek 2005

  Jeremy, from cartoon Zits, has a bit to say:

  
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  NEED FOR PROFITS RELUCTANTLY FORCES WTS TO ABANDON LONG STANDING PRINCIPLE

  by still wondering in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the principle is that individuals in gods organization are unimportant.

  its not open to personalities as the mission statement in the watchtower states.... .

  but if its a toss up between financial profits and principles then clearly principles need to be jettisoned if profits are to be maximised..... .

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  FatFreek 2005

  Hi Still Wondering,

  As I was browsing that Watchtower I noted another interesting thought just a paragraph before.

  I am going to have handed to every one of you 15,000 children one of these books as a gracious gift. I ask that you first study it faithfully. Ask someone else to sit with you under the shade of a tree and study that which leads to life and endless blessings .... It is your privilege between now and before the day school opens to spend six hours a day in taking the book Children to others." The parents should encourage their children to do this very thing, if they would have them live.

  That St. Louis convention, From Aug. 6-10 left a bit of free time for those children when they finally left that metropolis for home. However, if those children thought they could finally have a bit of play time left after those 5 days of drudgery -- sand-lot baseball, fishing, monopoly, relaxing -- they needed to promptly forget those silly and meaningless worldly activities. Thanks to their dynamic leader Rutherford, they had some 100 hours or more of witnesses work to do before school would begin once again. Not to forget those several "months before Armageddon" would suddenly conclude things.

  Hey, in the fifties through the seventies, we thought a 10-hour per month quota was plenty. Six a day makes ten a month look like nothing.

  Then, how about the guilt trip on the parents, "The parents should encourage their children to do this very thing, if they would have them live."

  Len
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  NEED FOR PROFITS RELUCTANTLY FORCES WTS TO ABANDON LONG STANDING PRINCIPLE

  by still wondering in

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  2. beliefs

  the principle is that individuals in gods organization are unimportant.

  its not open to personalities as the mission statement in the watchtower states.... .

  but if its a toss up between financial profits and principles then clearly principles need to be jettisoned if profits are to be maximised..... .

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  FatFreek 2005

  That same issue of The Watchtower had one of most often quoted references to that "Children" book and to how close the end is -- "remaining months", not "remaining years".

  "Never was there a more moving sight in these "last days". Many, including strong men, wept at the demonstration. Receiving the gift [the book], the marching children clasped it to them, not a toy or plaything for idle pleasure, but the Lord’s provided instrument for most effective work in the remaining months before Armageddon. What a gift! ..." . Most ex-JWs agree, "What a bunch of crap!!!"

  Len

  ps: math is not my strong suit but I tally that to be some 828 months ago.
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  iPad -- Which King James Bible is available?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

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  my wife (not a jw) just got an ipad.

  it seems to be very good as a reader -- we now get little rock's democrat gazette every morning before our hard copy is delivered in its box near the road.. now she wants a copy of the bible ready for the click.

  her hard copy is the kjv, red letter edition.

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  FatFreek 2005

  Hi GL,

  Yeah, I just tried that but I remembered she must have an offline version since our web access is normally slow.

  I'm in the process of downloading "Touch Bible Free". I'll see how that goes.

  Len
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  iPad -- Which King James Bible is available?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  my wife (not a jw) just got an ipad.

  it seems to be very good as a reader -- we now get little rock's democrat gazette every morning before our hard copy is delivered in its box near the road.. now she wants a copy of the bible ready for the click.

  her hard copy is the kjv, red letter edition.

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  FatFreek 2005

  Hi All,

  My wife (not a JW) just got an iPad. It seems to be very good as a reader -- we now get Little Rock's Democrat Gazette every morning before our hard copy is delivered in its box near the road.

  Now she wants a copy of the Bible ready for the click. Her hard copy is the KJV, red letter edition. I downloaded one of perhaps scores available but there seemed to be no way I could save it, like to a PDF format. There also was no index to Bible books, chapters, etc.

  Hey, this is all kinda strange to me since I've been a PC person since the early 80's. There's probably one out there that is formatted for a reader like the iPad but for me, finding it is like a needle in a you-know-what.

  Any suggestions?

  Len