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  Public meeting tradition

  by got my forty homey? in

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  anyone remember the unwritten tradition that the sunday public speaker would do the closing parayer for the meeting?

  thats if he stayed for the watchtower study!.

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  joenobody

  They don't do that anymore with the prayer nor send a love-mail back to his hall?
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  PLEASE HELP! Assist in 1914 Rebuttal...

  by Jared in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ok, so i'm trying to just plant a tiny seed of doubt somewhere in the cracks of my mothers mind, but that woman has 'jehovah' tattooed on her chest!

  anyway, i would not only like help for her benefit but also for my benefit.

  so it all started when i questioned her about 1914.... i wrote to her: 'as you had suggested i wanted to do some research.

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  joenobody

  Scholar never ceases to amaze me. He has had his tail kicked so many times on this subject.
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  A question for bible scholars.....It's a REAL hard one!

  by gumby in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  where does the name "israel come from?

  (the answer is intresting if you know) .

  gumby

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  joenobody

  I have to say Leolaia - I like this avatar much better. I often found the other so disturbign so as not to read your posts.
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  2003 Watchtower Library CD

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  has it even been released?

  ta muchly.

  nic'

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  joenobody

  Hey New Light - you hit the nail on the head. I remember that shocking announcement in the Kingdom Ministry when the first CD-ROM came out around 1993. I remember thinking to myself, "Huh? The cost of production is around a couple of bucks!?"

  Further proof that it's simply a publishing company and nothing more.
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  Zebras (Awake! magazine Jan 2001)

  by Duncan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, weve been in our new house now for almost two years, and we finally got our first visit from the witnesses, a couple of days ago.. two very nice middle-aged ladies stood on my doorstep, asking me would i accept their two magazines for free?

  - they were old issues from january well, how could i refuse?.

  its gods will that zebras are striped and thats the beginning and end of it.. for an educational magazine this is just a disgrace.. can you hear the voice of the great teacher in this?

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  joenobody

  Holy resurrected thread Batman.
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  this has probably been mentioned before, but...

  by LuckyNun in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you're like me, you used to dread certain days of the week.

  mainly, tuesdays and thursdays for me.

  waste the entire day at school, then come home, take a shower, scarf down supper and be ready to go by 6:30pm.

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  This is all too true. We used to have Monday night bookstudy (not so bad as I either read or conducted) but Thursday night Minstry School/Service Meetings. These were absolutely painful days to wake up on. You felt a true sense of dread during the day knowing, but were relieved at the closing prayer when you could get out. We'd often go to Dairy Queen and hang out afterwards. I loved skipping the meeting to watch Cheers and then later Seinfeld. What made the Service meeting so painful was the fact that they could run so badly overtime on some of the parts, or that the meeting was a forum for the heavy brow-beating by the harsh elders, phony field service demonstrations etc.
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  Avatars and Perception: A Study On The Effects of Visual Impression

  by new light in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how much does a persons avatar affect how you view them?

  i mean, don't you picture the avatar when you think of the person, if that's all you have to go by?

  i know i do, at least if the avy is a photo of a human.

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  joenobody

  You took the words out of my mouth - I HATE dustyb's avatar - it turns me off him.
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  E-Watchman Has Sent NGO Letters to Over 5000 U.S. Congregations!

  by Greenpalmtreestillmine in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  e-watchman has sent over 5000 letters to congregations in the u.s informing them of the ngo debacle and a similar one to 101 branches around the world.

  and according to his guestbook post he has signed his real name to the letters!

  great work and great news!

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  joenobody

  No they won't read it to the congregations, but perhaps some of the presiding overseers who receive this letter may not be aware of the issue. I can imagine it will shake a few of them. I wonder if this will cause a stir and make the circuit and district overseers call a special meeting. That would be the expected manner of dealing with things.
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  Badwillie's Life Part 2

  by badwillie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  part 2:

  one great thing about children is that they are survivors, and they learn how to adapt to changes very quickly.. so the next stage of my life (11-15 years old) was really were i came to fully realize that this was it.

  these were my new friends.

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  Badwillie - I can clearly remember some of the guys like yourself who got dragged in by their mother's when they were old enough to ave established friendships. Those guys never quite fit in with the "born-into-it" crew. I remember how they withdrew into themselves and never ever made it work.
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  Anybody watch the Sopranos?

  by MorpheuzX in

  1. social
  2. current

  this is totally unrelated to jwism, but does anybody here watch the sopranos?

  apparently 12 million households tuned in for their season premiere last sunday night.

  who's getting whacked?

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  joenobody

  It set the table for some great storylines... As a side note Melfi was stunning in her dream sequence! Looks great for a lady in her forties.