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  Chemtrails, Seeing is believing.

  by pedal power in

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  before i begin, i want you to know i understand the difference between chemtrails and contrails, so lets leave those discussions behind, chemtrails exist.. what is the purpose of chemtrails ?

  if it was to artificially create clouds, why come to edinburgh ?

  for any of you who are unaware, 90% of the time its cloudy and rainy, so creating cloud cover, is a joke.

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  cantleave: you might be right about the PRIMARY rainbow, but the SECONDARY rainbow: flying unicorns all the way.

  Cantleave, Bohm is right. It's more likely to be a pagasus than a unicorn but they have been known to create rainbows.

  
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  She shows too much cleavage. What should I say to her?

  by Iamallcool in

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  2. relationships

  i met a gorgeous lady yesterday and she shows too much cleavage.

  i see her facebook page, all of her pictures has cleavage in them, i would not want to date her because she shows too much all the time.

  i am tempted to tell her to cover up her cleavage, she might not like me telling her that.

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  When I first clicked this thread I was of the opinion that unless she is your wife, daughter or POSSIBLY sister, it's none of your business and you really have no reason to mention it.

  But then I saw this.

  "Getting desperate, huh, Babe??"

  Zid wins the thread.
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  The magazines didn't used to be so dumb and boring

  by Lore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  here's an excerpt from this weeks watchtower study in 1950: .

  *** w50 6/15 p. 180 a victory dedicated to jehovahs honor ***.

  the strategy, and the attack.

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  Lore

  For comparison here is the first few paragraphs of THIS weeks study:

  PERHAPS the first time you saw Jehovah’s name was when it was shown to you at Psalm 83:18. You may have been surprised to read those words: “That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the Most High over all the earth.” Since then, you no doubt have used this same scripture to help others come to know our loving God, Jehovah.—Rom.10:12, 13.
  
  2 Although it is important for people to know Jehovah’s name, such knowledge in itself is not enough. Notice how the psalmist highlights yet another truth essential to our salvation when he says: “You alone are the Most High over all the earth.” Yes, Jehovah is the most important Person in the whole universe. As the Creator of all things, he has the right to expect full submission from all his creatures. (Rev. 4:11) For good reason, then, we need to ask ourselves, ‘Who is the most important person in my life?’ It is vital that we carefully analyze our answer to that question!
  
  The Issue in the Garden of Eden
  
  3 The seriousness of this question can be clearly seen in the events that developed back in the garden of Eden. There the rebellious angel who later became known as Satan the Devil enticed the first woman, Eve, to put her own desires ahead of Jehovah’s command not to eat the fruit of a certain tree. (Gen. 2:17; 2 Cor. 11:3) She succumbed to this enticement and thereby showed a lack of respect for Jehovah’s sovereignty. Eve did not acknowledge Jehovah as the most important Person in her life. But how was Satan able to deceive Eve?

  Truly BORING

  It wouldn't make a difference if Orson Wells read the paragraphs and Vincent Price jumped in to read all parts where Satan talks. There is NO way to read that in a non boring way.
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  The magazines didn't used to be so dumb and boring

  by Lore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  here's an excerpt from this weeks watchtower study in 1950: .

  *** w50 6/15 p. 180 a victory dedicated to jehovahs honor ***.

  the strategy, and the attack.

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  Here's an excerpt from this weeks watchtower study in 1950:

  *** w50 6/15 p. 180 A Victory Dedicated to Jehovah’s Honor ***
  
  THE STRATEGY, AND THE ATTACK
  
  5 Up! Arise! Prepare for battle! Gideon returns from his nighttime reconnoitering and rouses his little band to fighting zeal. He divides his force into three companies of one hundred each, and deploys them into the night’s blackness for action. Down from the heights of Mount Gilboa they file, a silent line of figures that finally encircles the sleeping Midianite camp that sprawls in the valley of Jezreel, at the foot of the hill of Moreh to the north. Well armed, these three hundred? No, not militarily speaking; they would draw scornful laughter and ridicule from haughty militarists. Each one had a trumpet, a pitcher, and a torch within the pitcher. Each one knew the instructions, had his assigned place in the thin line that stretched round about the camp, and looked to Gideon’s location for the cue. At the given signal each one blew mightily upon his trumpet, broke his pitcher, held aloft the firebrand thus uncovered, and shouted, “The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon!”—Judg. 7:1, 15-20, Am. Stan. Ver.
  
  6 A scene of wildest confusion and terror broke loose in the Midianite host. The night’s silence shattered by the blasts of three hundred trumpets, its stillness broken by the shouts from three hundred throats, its darkness pierced by the eerie flames from three hundred torches, and added to this the frightened stampeding of Midianite livestock, the unnerved terror of the invaders is understandable. The shouts and blasts rolled across the camp to strike the sides of Moreh, only to bounce back over the confused scene and bump into Mount Gilboa’s bluff, and as the noise was magnified and the echoes answered back, it seemed that the very hills awoke and took up the cry against Midian. The reverberating echoes converged upon the enemy, and as they stumbled from their tents sleep-filled eyes widened in startled fright at the leaping flames that highlighted shadowy shapes and fired superstitious imaginations. Believing the trumpets were of a numerous army that had penetrated their camp, the Midianites supposed their enemies were among them and turned their swords against every man they met, against their own numbers. They were confused and rattled, and rushed about wildly, and added to the din by their own cries, till they could straighten out their aimless dashing and take flight toward the fords of Jordan and their own land. The war of nerves had shattered their control and they flew at one another before finally breaking into headlong flight. The fear that was catching spread like a plague, and terror gave wings to the rout. (Deut. 20:8) No strategem was ever better laid, better executed, or more completely successful. Judges 7:20-22 reads:
  
  7 “The three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands wherewith to blow; and they cried, The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon. And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight. And they blew the three hundred trumpets, and Jehovah set every man’s sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled.”—Am. Stan. Ver.

  I dunno if you guys would agree, but that's actually kind of well-written and interesting, like listening to a story. I can imagine the WT reader actually being able to read it with emphasis and passion. Notice how they didn't feel the need to cram a repeatable moral in every paragraph that they could ask a question about later. Compare that to this weeks article, every other sentence is a question directed at the reader like an episode of Blue's Clues which tries to put things as simply as possible so that all the 2 year olds can answer every question with one-word.
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  Tying Your Shoes With Modesty and Soundness of Mind

  by Franklin Massey in

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  2. friends

  the lack of intellectually stimulating material within the jw religion right now is astounding.

  there is clearly a lack of spiritually dense material and a surplus of ridiculous, childish babble.

  the regular "food" that jws are being fed is illustratively equivalent to pureed baby food.

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  We had two 10 minute talks explaining the new way of getting magazines to place door to door.

  The first one read the letter from the society explaining it.
  Then they explained it again paraphrasing the letter.
  Then the repeated it with different scenarios.
  Then they assured everyone that nobody will be punishing them if they accidentally take too many.
  Then they told everyone not to pay attention to how many magazines other people are taking because it's not a big deal.
  Then they paraphrased the letter again.
  And finally they assured everyone that if they were still confused they could ask an elder after the meeting.

  Apparently there was still some confusion because they repeated the part 2 weeks later in the Local Needs.

  So they spent two 10 minute talks to explain what boiled down too:

  Each week you grab the magazines you think you are going to place this week off the counter.

  Put any extras back for other people to use at the end of the week.

  So yeah. . . They think the witnesses are idiots, and that's mostly because a lot of them ARE IDIOTS!
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  Tying Your Shoes With Modesty and Soundness of Mind

  by Franklin Massey in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the lack of intellectually stimulating material within the jw religion right now is astounding.

  there is clearly a lack of spiritually dense material and a surplus of ridiculous, childish babble.

  the regular "food" that jws are being fed is illustratively equivalent to pureed baby food.

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  Here is every subject ever discussed in a simple easy to browse list:

  How to be nice to each other In the Family

  How to be nice to each other In the Congregation

  How to be nice to each other In School or the Workplace

  How to be nice to each other In Your Recreation

  How to not fornicate In the Family

  How to not fornicate In the Congregation

  How to not fornicate In School or the Workplace

  How to not fornicate In Your Recreation

  How to preach all the time In the Family

  How to preach all the time In the Congregation

  How to preach all the time In School or the Workplace

  How to preach all the time In your Recreation

  How to not listen to apostates In the Family

  How to not listen to apostates In the Congregation

  How to not listen to apostates In School or the Workplace

  How to not listen to apostates In your Recreation

  Aside from item 1 on the "How to not fornicate" list, these same topics are all discussed pretty much weekly and almost exclusively. Every other topic discussed is just a subsection of the above.
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  My fathers weekly visit from the witnesses

  by Igot2bme in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my father who has never been a jw had a visit from a brother in a congo in his territory.

  he usually comes over at least one time a week and places magazines and shoots the breeze with him about different issues.

  this last visit though left a sour taste with him.

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  That's kinda bizzare.

  An openly racist JW sharing his political opininions . . . ? Did he say he was going to burn in hell as well?

  Maybe he just got back from donating blood and was a bit groggy.

  Seriously though, that's a pretty odd thing for a JW to say.
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  New arrangement

  by DagothUr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't know if anyone has already posted this since i was in corfu island in the last 2 weeks.

  it's from the jwn forum:.

  september 2011 km says, "publishers auxiliary pioneering during march 2012 will have the option of working toward a 30-hour or a 50-hour requirement for the month.

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  I wonder how many of the people who volunteered in April actually failed to get their 30 hours in. Would they have been included in the figures?
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  New arrangement

  by DagothUr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't know if anyone has already posted this since i was in corfu island in the last 2 weeks.

  it's from the jwn forum:.

  september 2011 km says, "publishers auxiliary pioneering during march 2012 will have the option of working toward a 30-hour or a 50-hour requirement for the month.

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  It won't be nearly as popular the second time around. I doubt they get half the response they did in April 2011.

  Everyone wants to jump in and try the new thing, but once it becomes the standard nobody cares.

  A lot of people in April thought 'this is my only chance' and so they did it. Now they know they can put it off till next year, so they always will.
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  Do humans like confrontation?

  by TimothyT in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was just thinking about this very question.. i now havnt been to meetings for a long time and i have received no calls since telling the elders to leave me alone 3 weeks ago.. the past 3 weeks have been a lovely, peaceful, enjoyable, stress-free 3 weeks - no doubts there!.

  but why is it that i can feel a part of me that wants them to call me?.

  why do i feel that i want someone to stir something up so i can tell them to get lost?.

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  Lore

  You want confirmation you've done the right thing.

  When they call you, you'll probably ask them some logical question about their religion, they'll be stumped and thus you'll feel better about your decision.

  I'm sure you've run the imaginary conversation through your head a hundred different ways, thinking: "and if they say X I'll ask them Y" that way when they call you'll be prepared and will be able to watch them struggle to keep up with your intellect.

  You want to test your ideas against theirs to make sure yours come out on top.

  Yeah it's pretty self-centered but we all do it. (I think we all do it anyway, maybe it's just me.)