Bungi Bill

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  JWs say it's my fault I didn't go to university ?!

  by ekruks in

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  like many on here, as a jw trying hard to follow the direction of the gb, i listened to the advice to pioneer and trust in jehovah to provide (mat6.33) instead of going to university.

  after struggling for ages in low-paid physically-demanding jobs, i decided to become a student (thanks for the encouragement on here guys!).

  i tell a jw i wish i had been to university when i was a teenager, and put all that pioneer time into studying hard for a good grade, get a good job, and if i had wound up tired as i am now, at least i would have been paying into a mortgage on a home and pension.

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  "It might have been my decision, but at the time I did not feel like I had any other options but go pioneering."

  That is exactly how I felt when the twerps got me to abandon my apprenticeship, almost 40 years ago to the day.

  (Down in this part of the world at least, they took the 1975 hype to the point where they even stopped kids from entering into an apprenticeship).

  After that time, I also have had some of them try and tell me that it was my choice, and mine alone. The same ones, (of course!) still had the daggers out for me when I resumed the apprenticeship as an adult some seven years later.

  "Your choice" - I say it was Hobsons Bloody Choice!

  Bill.
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  Did you ever have any real weirdos ? in your congregation who were Elders ?

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  .....some of the things he did and got away with , to me now is unbeleivable , and maybe to you.. in all fairness he was well versed in the bible and very clever how he used it to put a critic to rest at the doors and in one instance when i was witnessing with him , he demoralised a pastor of his church .and i was impressed at that time.. but he had some strange ways , he was always looking for someone to break gods laws so to speak .he did set himself up as the policeman for enforcing gods law on the congregations .

  ( this is my description ) he was known to stand outside bros/sis.

  homes to see if he could find something incriminating against them .

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  Bungi Bill

  I hate to buck the trend here, but I recall no elders who would actually fit into the category of "weirdo."

  Upstarts, officious, snobs, a few just out right nasty, and almost all badly undereducated:

  - but weirdos, nil.

  The nearest that I recall was one elder's wife, who if not actually a weirdo, was very close to it.

  Bill.
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  Idiot Ray Comfort (Banana Man) Blames Children's Murder on Dawkins and Hitchens

  by cantleave in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.goddiscussion.com/105352/british-redcoats/.

  american pastor blames mass murder of children on 'british redcoats' richard dawkins and christopher hitchens .

  in his "on the box" program dubbed "a biblical truth zone" ray comfort of living water ministries weighed in on the horror and tragedy of the shooting spree at sandy creek elementary school in newtown, ct, in order to offer his viewers an explanation.

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  Pyramid Scheme,

  This prize-act's real name is indeed Ray Comfort, that I know for a fact.

  He hails originally from Christchurch, New Zealand, and is evidence that the religious lunatic fringe element is not limited to the JWs!

  Bill.
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  What did you do with your books?

  by mamamo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was in an used bookstore this weekend and saw a new world translation and some other society publications.

  this made me think, what did others do with their books?

  i gave mine to my mother, 22 years ago.

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  Bungi Bill

  It gave me intense satisfaction to dispose of all of mine with a box of matches, and a few litres of kerosene!

  Bill.
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  How old are you?

  by sooner7nc in

  1. jw
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  post your age...only if you want to.

  do it anyway.. i'm 42..

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  Bungi Bill

  I admit to being over 55.

  Bill.
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  2012 report analysis - countries with reduced publisher figures

  by cedars in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've just started munching through the figures for 2012 in the new 2013 yearbook, now available on jw.org.. i thought you might be interested to see which countries saw "negative growth" over 2012.. these are as follows.... .

  *sudan is so dramatically reduced because south sudan is now independent and the society has adjusted the publisher figures accordingly.. .

  countries added.

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  Bungi Bill

  jgnat,

  When you list the GDP of the "Wealthy and Internet Savvy" group of countries, presumably you are referring to the average , andper capita GDP of that group? According to the most recent estimates, Ukraine's per capita GDP for the year 2011 was USD$7200 - considerably different from the figure of $36 396 that you quote (unless their economy grew by some unbelievable amount in the last 12 months!)

  Bill.
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  CS Monitor. Religion in New England...the future of Religion. Some Jehovah's Witnesses become Seventh Day Adventists.?

  by Balaamsass in

  1. social
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  gd2-status-2 spaceid=95400273 loc=logo noad qyz cms_none_avail,,98.139.32.249;;logo;95400273;2;who's filling america's church pewsin puritan new england, protestant and catholic churches are declining while evangelical and pentecostal groups are rising.

  why the nation's most secular region may hint at the future of religion.by g. jeffrey macdonald | christian science monitor sun, dec 23, 2012 .

  start article more from yog-5u on a snowy 20-degree day in december, the visitors shiver as they move among vestiges of a long-closed pizza hut on this city's struggling main street.

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  Bungi Bill

  They say "any port in a storm" - but that would have to be a hurricane!

  Bill.
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  Born in, Convert or 1975er?

  by Think About It in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does a person's involvement in the jw religion usually fall into one of these 3 categories?.

  a) born in.

  b) convert.

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  Bungi Bill

  None of those three categories describes my background.

  I would class myself as "raised in" rather than "born in", given that my parents weren't JWs when I was born. In fact, they never did become JWs: - I was introduced to it at eleven years of age, by a grandmother who had commenced a "Bible Study" with the witnesses several years before.

  Furthermore, the term "convert" is hardly relevant in my case, as I was not a church member prior to my involvement with the witnesses.

  Also, my grandmother began "studying" with the JWs about the same time as the All Scriptures Inspired book was released, which specifically warned against any speculation regarding the 6000th anniversary of human creation. I don't therefore class myself as a 1975er, either.

  Sorry to disagree!

  Bill.
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  We're on the eve of Destruction!

  by PYRAMIDSCHEME in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's all over tommorow!

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exh7h9lk5hy .

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  7:30 ESDT on 22 December down in this part of the world, and everything so far looks much the same as it did yesterday.

  So much so, that I might even take a peek outside the bomb shelter that we built in anticipation of this event!

  Bill.
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  Dec.21st and the countdown to the Mayan Apocalypse

  by designs in

  1. social
  2. current

  december 21 marks the winter solstice and the end of a cycle called the 13th b'ak'tun.. 1.will we see a few who want to join the celestial parade ala those who wanted to hop on a comet a few years ago.. 2.should koolaid and vodka be banned dec. 20th.. 3.will the wt.

  come out with an article making fun of those who 'falsely predict the end of the world' .

  i'll take bets on #3.

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  Bungi Bill

  This side of the International Dateline, it is already well into the morning of Saturday, 22 December:

  -which has so far passed without incident!

  Bill.