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  Need some good parenting advice...

  by diana netherton in

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  i have a son who will be 20 in may.

  he's, by all accounts, what you would consider the.

  "perfect child.

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  I know how tempting it is to smooth the way for our kids but my first thought is "why did you book the ticket rather than let him do it and why are you calling his boss". I do know the answer to those questions. I have two sons and their Mom used to do this. She'd balance their checkbooks, remind themof appointments etc. I told her that she needs to not deprive them of the life lessons they can learn by making mistakes or having things go awry and then learn how figure out how to make things work for themselves. Sometimes necessity is a motivator. If they are too fat and happy , so to speak, they won't feel any urge to get on the ball, move forward and progress.

  This is easier said than done....very difficult to sit back and hope they work things out. It's best to offer advice and hope for the best rather than get in ther and manipulate.
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  Why Elders leave the Organization and why their Wives stay.

  by stuckinamovement in

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  i have talked to quite a few brothers who have served as elders and servants and left the organization.

  in most cases their wives have remained in despite the husbands best efforts to persuade his wife that the organization is wrong.

  even though the wife can see problems within they continue to press on in service to the society.

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  exwhyzee

  Lifes too short. What a miserable situation you describe. Haven't we all seen Elders wives and kids with looks on their faces that reflect they are going through someting similar or worse. I remember how they would have to linger after the late night meetings looking longingly at the closed door where the Elder was in some meeting or other. All they wanted to do is go home at a decent hour for once.
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  Why Elders leave the Organization and why their Wives stay.

  by stuckinamovement in

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  i have talked to quite a few brothers who have served as elders and servants and left the organization.

  in most cases their wives have remained in despite the husbands best efforts to persuade his wife that the organization is wrong.

  even though the wife can see problems within they continue to press on in service to the society.

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  exwhyzee

  There may be several reasons why an elders wife remains after he leaves. Three that I can think of are....

  1. He has seen first hand,over an extended period of time, the inside dealings of the organization. Heard the problems, seen the personality clashes, dealt with the power struggles and egos. Most or all of it, until now, he has had to keep silent about. It would be difficult to convey to her all the subleties and nuances of the conversations and the dealings he has been part of over the years and expect it to have the same impact on her.

  2. She has enjoyed the status of being an Elders wife and because of this has had a good share of attention and has been able to make friends and be a bit more popular than the "plain" JW. It might be hard for her to just leave because her husband is burned out. Maybe he'll come back, she hopes. In the meantime she may get to enjoy playing the part of the long suffering Martyr.

  3. When you look around the KHall in general, there seems to be a larger proportion of Women with unbelieving mates than there are Men with unbelieving mates anyway. That tendancy already exists. I think Women are more inclined to want to be part of a community and may allow untolerable circumstances to continue because of that desire, than men are. (I'm generalizing here) Women gather together and commiserate with one another ...Men tend to be loners and want to handle things themselves.
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  Will Embracing the Internet lead to Increased Growth for the Watchtower?

  by jwfacts in

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  more important than the reduction in the size of the new magazine is that the watchtower will be actively promoting its website and encouraging people use it to download magazines.

  my concern is that this has the potential to lead to an increase in growth for the watchtower.. the door-to-door preaching work has been one of the most inefficient means imaginable to gain converts, and done little more than tie up the time of active jws.

  now, by directing people to the internet, witnesses can spread their message at an alarming rate for little cost.. do you feel that this has the potential to lead to a surge in growth of jehovah's witnesses?

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  exwhyzee

  Besty - 400000 visits and 100 bible study requests daily = 0.025% conversion

  Just because there are 100 requests for Bible studies per day doesn't mean that many are actually started. Of the ones that are started only a small amount are likely to follow through to baptizim.
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  Will Embracing the Internet lead to Increased Growth for the Watchtower?

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  more important than the reduction in the size of the new magazine is that the watchtower will be actively promoting its website and encouraging people use it to download magazines.

  my concern is that this has the potential to lead to an increase in growth for the watchtower.. the door-to-door preaching work has been one of the most inefficient means imaginable to gain converts, and done little more than tie up the time of active jws.

  now, by directing people to the internet, witnesses can spread their message at an alarming rate for little cost.. do you feel that this has the potential to lead to a surge in growth of jehovah's witnesses?

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  exwhyzee

  The one thing the Internet won't be able to do is draw people in, out of a sense of guilt or obligation like the door to door work does. A lot of people who were found in the door to door work didn't really buy into what they were hearing at first but were drawn in by a sense of obligation to those nice well meaning people who kept coming back and who they just couldn't say no to. They were drawn in little by little over time and the doctrines were broken to them gently. On the Internet, an interested person will be able to take the information at face value and will be able to look ahead to see what he is getting into before his sensibilities are clouded by a friendly relationship that has been carefully cultivated by a JW studying with him. While he is online, he can click around and do a little investigating of his own before he swallows the program hook line and sinker. If there is a group to join or a program to buy into out there, there will always be someone who will buy into it no matter how ridiculous it may be. It's a numbers game...the more contacts that are made, the higher the chances of finding that someone who will buy into it. The difference is, anyone becoming a JW in the future will not be able to say, as we can, that he didn't have a chance to really know what he was getting into or was kept in the dark about the organization he had joined until he had spent a good part of his life in it.
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  My Lord This Girl Is Hot, Somebody Please Tell Me Her Name!!!

  by Philadelphia Ponos in

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  i hate to start a "no room for george" type thread but i really need to no the name of this girl.. .

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  these sences are from the past episode of spartacus that aired on friday on starz..

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  Sorry...not seeing the hotness.
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  Ireland

  by FreeGirl2006 in

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  i am headed to ireland this year (yeah!!!!).

  i will be in dublin, wicklow, killarney, and galway.

  any suggestions on must-see places, excellent pubs, shops, art galleries, etc?

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  Be sure to see scenic County Mayo especially the coastal towns and villages. http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/
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  confession time

  by lostinthought in

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  here are the "sins" i committed this weekend:.

  - i hung out with my catholic friend and flirted with him while together.

  - brought a lotto ticket on a dare.

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  exwhyzee

  They claim that those who leave the Org. revert to a "low sink of debauchery" like the nations.

  I don't suddenly feel the need to do anything naughty just because I'm not a JW anymore.
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  1975 And The Life Everlasting Book.

  by Bangalore in

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  found these on perimeno's site.. .

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  bangalore.

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  exwhyzee

  The 6000 years is marked so only showing Armageddon was hoped for but not taught as definite or doctrine.

  It may not have been a formal doctrine but they did state way back in 1966 that the "trumpets would be sounded within our own generation proclaiming liberty to earths inhabitants." Anyone, no matter what age, hearing a statement like that would naturally conclude that they would be included in the generation being spoken of.
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  Eating Blood v Transfusion . . . same thing?

  by sizemik in

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  the wts ban on the transfusion of whole blood or primary components is established on a number of "principles" which when taken in their entirety give rise to the doctrine.. one important one is the refusal to distinguish between the consumption of blood by eating .

  and the consumption of blood by surgically implanting it (transfusion).

  we've all heard the "alcohol" analogy.

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  exwhyzee

  They also argue that the Bible says to ABSTAIN from blood. The alcohol argument is applied by asking " If a doctor told you to ABSTAIN from alcohol, would it be OK to infuse it into ones veins ? "

  I wonder if the word ABSTAIN is a word that they entered into the New World Translation. I never checked to see what other Bibles say.