Posts by Quarterback

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I'm writing a DA letter...need advise

by nolongerconfused in

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friends

hello, so i have decided to da myself and will write a da letter to the body of elders.... do you have any ideas of what i can include in this letter or samples?...

i really want to make a huge impact with this letter.. i appreciate your help everyone....

Quarterback

If your life, and standards don't offend JW's, then writing a DA letter is wasted. What you need is just a time out from the belief system. Just act peacefully with them while you distance yourself from them. This makes it possible to allow peaceful future returns to some friends that you may respect, and have missed.

If your life or standards are in conflict with their belief system, write the DA letter. But, the less written, the better. You, don't want those who will read it, to hang you on everyword that they may missinterpret.

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Whatever happened to the "Fall of Babylon the Great" and the "drying up of the churches?

by villagegirl in

i am from the era of the babylon book, and all the wt predictions that the churches of christendom would "dry up".

the book babylone the great has fallen god's kingdom rules, said people would leave the churches of christendom, in droves and the ministers would have no more people in their churches while "god's organization" would see a tremendous increase, a huge overflowing great crowd, all streaming into the watchtower and coming to the "faithful and discreet slave" for instructions.

thirty years ago there were six million jw's , today after the "great increase", and " great crowd" is now ?

Quarterback

I really think that we are going to get some new understanding on the meaning of Babylon the Great at some future Annual Meeting where all the new points seem to be announced these days. It may come within the next five years when the matter remains silent and dormant until then.

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Suspicious people? No, merely Canadian

by kurtbethel in

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friends

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canadians are invited to explain this, if it isn't any big secret.

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Quarterback

Our suspicious nature is ingrained in our minds during our childhood. Young children are trained early on how to operate a flashlight. Flashlights can be purchased so cheap at each Canadian Tire Store, so each family member has at least two of them. We usually master the art of using a flashlight with practicing with our cats as they chase the light beam. This is also a popular Canadian sport. The SPCA is not happy with us and are trying to ban this sport in our country.

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Anyone Reading Jenna Miscavige Hill - Beyond Belief?

by Simon Morley in

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friends

just started reading her expose of scientology.

while it is shocking to say the east the similarities to jw cultish practices are equally shocking.

just wondering if anyone else is reading it..

Quarterback

I've enjoyed her TV interviews. I've heard that she has family ties the the Originator of that faith.

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Making the congregations pay for invitation printing

by Rattigan350 in

the memorial and district convention invitations have a space for each congregtion to put their local information on them.. the congregations then have to foot the bill, many times it is the service overseer personally, for the printing on them.. some print labels and the congregation puts them on, others print with their laser printer and wear them out.. at first the paper was so poor that the particles would destroy laster printers and make a dust storm.

commercial printers hated that paper.. the society should have a variable data printing system since they know the times of the memorial and convention for each congregation and they should print that while they print the initial invitation.. think if it, 12,000 congregations in the usa multipled by $50 on average cost to print or label each congregation's amounts to $600,000.

do that twice a year for 7 years and that is $8.4 million dollars.

Quarterback

What's this? Mess up some precious invitations. Did the Soc charge them?

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April KM Question Box: Cellphones

by pixel in

check out this arriving in april:.

what bible principles apply to the useof cell phones while attending christian meetings and sharing in the ministry?.

for everything there is an appointed time.

Quarterback

I usually use my Iphone to update my calendar, on upcoming announcements from the platform. I know that others probably think I'm texting, but I don't give a dam.

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Making the congregations pay for invitation printing

by Rattigan350 in

the memorial and district convention invitations have a space for each congregtion to put their local information on them.. the congregations then have to foot the bill, many times it is the service overseer personally, for the printing on them.. some print labels and the congregation puts them on, others print with their laser printer and wear them out.. at first the paper was so poor that the particles would destroy laster printers and make a dust storm.

commercial printers hated that paper.. the society should have a variable data printing system since they know the times of the memorial and convention for each congregation and they should print that while they print the initial invitation.. think if it, 12,000 congregations in the usa multipled by $50 on average cost to print or label each congregation's amounts to $600,000.

do that twice a year for 7 years and that is $8.4 million dollars.

Quarterback

Yes, and a good deal for $50.00, Sapphy.

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Question on In Vitro fertilization - quote from 12/15/12 WT

by sd-7 in

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12/15/12 wt p. 15:.

"in a variation that some term 'embryo adoption,' the embryos placed in a wife's womb involve neither her eggs nor her husband's sperm.

in yet another variation, a married couple's eggs and sperm are fertilized outside the womb by ivf.

Quarterback

I'm baffled over the conflict of Lev 18, and the rationale used in the Creator Book in saying it's ok in one instance, but explains is ok in the other.

The was a good finding, should I call it a blooper that has been uncovered in our explainations.

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Not just elevators - hotel rooms are unsafe

by Jim_TX in

not sure if the title is a good one or not... i didn't want to add to the elevator thread, since it seems to have gone sideways.. i was mulling over the elevator 'dangers' and a long faded memory sprang back from the dusty corners of my mind.. years ago, when i was yound, single, dumb, and still a good lil' jw, there was a circuit assembly held here locally.

there was a time when the colliseum was used, but due to its' small size, they booked it for two weekends in a row, and brought in people from two or three (or more) different circuits, spaced across those two weekends.. i had gotten acquainted with a nice young gal named rhonda w. she and her friends shannon f. and cindy attended the first assembly where they worked as telephone operators.

yes, some brother had a complete telephone switchboard that he put in the basement and i helped run telephone wires to all of the departments.

Quarterback

You story sounds alot like what I watched on the Batchelor series. Hope you gave these women a rose.

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Two Witnesses stuck in a elevator or car without Chaperon. Would they fornicate? Yes/No

by Witness 007 in

im amazed how going witnessing sisters who knew me for decades would sit only in the back seat on the way to the hall...to avoid any sex at the traffic lights!!!

and chaperons 1840's style are needed because two witnesses alone for 10 minutes would go at it like animals even after all the training watchtower articles and talks being jahs clean org.

and all..

Quarterback

Well I would have to say that some are real Horndogs, and some can behave like a responsible adult when they are alone with a member of the oposite sex. I have always worked alone and gone on working trips with members of the opposite sex. The idea of having sex with such ones has never come to mind. I'm speaking of over 25 yrs experience.