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  It's a miserable life --- Really?

  by Lady Lee in

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  2. friends

  i was at the check-out counter sitting in my wheelchair, listening to the customer behind me talk to the cashier.

  he looks at her and says she looks tired.

  she rings through one more of my purchases and she it has been a long day.

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  Lady Lee,
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  Smiddys Wedding Anniversary Today

  by smiddy in

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  2. friends

  hi all,.

  i just wanted to tell you it`s our 52nd wedding anniversary today ,18/02/2013 ,we were married in a kh - flemington cong.by bro.jock mcbain.the hall was actually in brunswick ,i wonder if it`s still their.. and here i am today a self confessed atheist/agnostic if their is such a thing.i`m one of the lucky ones whose wife is out too.. smiddy.

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  Happy 52nd Smiddy. Any special plans?
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  May 15, 2013 WT up on jw.org now

  by Gayle in

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  2. experiences

  has article, page 32 which states about their 'neutrality' policy.

  although our position as christian neutrals may not have been fully understood by our brothers nearly a century ago, they sought to please jehovah god.

  this is aggravating, as the wts had 'policy' for so many years that jws could not do 'alternative' service.

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  But their brand new indoor olympic size pool and ball courts and gym at Wat Farm is OK
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  Letter: 30 hour quota to be extended to additional months

  by 88JM in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  read out at the service meeting this week.. ===================================.

  january 21, 2013. to all congregations.

  re: thirty-hour quota for auxiliary pioneering.

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  But remember, you are not a representitive, employed, or scanctioned by the WBTSNY, Christ.... of JW"s, WBTSPenn or any one of our hundreds of corporations
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  Expect Greater Loonieness From the Governing Body As They Are Forced to Face Their Delusion By Reality

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm thinking they will be force to do a reality check as the clock ticks and things keep going down hill for the corporation they are ceos of.. that means they may come clean or change their delusion as the hard cold facts come knocking at thier door.

  or they may hang on tenaciously to the delusion and exibit more and more bizarre reasonings.. i'm thinking this delusion to too hard to get out of and so exspect more bizarre behavior.

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  I just don't see it that way. GB's have 7,000,000 people following them, a secure no worry future, they'll continue to live without a material care in the world until the day they die, borg has solid sources of income, lakeside retirement home is under construction right now, unhappy followers are kept at bay with phrases like "wait on Jeh, the Kingdom will solve all mankinds problems, deep in the last days, those who endure will survive..........." The only delusional loonie people are the ones paying for and believing it all and at the same time wondering how to make ends meet financially with no retirement plans, no money, and still writing checks to the world wide work (Wat NY construction projects)
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  Flood Story in every Culture?

  by enigma1863 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok im looking for a specific religion and culture that has no flood story.

  someone claimed that every religion/culture has a flood story.

  i disagree but i want to have a reference..

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  Do wet basements count?
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  Expect Greater Loonieness From the Governing Body As They Are Forced to Face Their Delusion By Reality

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm thinking they will be force to do a reality check as the clock ticks and things keep going down hill for the corporation they are ceos of.. that means they may come clean or change their delusion as the hard cold facts come knocking at thier door.

  or they may hang on tenaciously to the delusion and exibit more and more bizarre reasonings.. i'm thinking this delusion to too hard to get out of and so exspect more bizarre behavior.

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  Construction at Warwick is really ramping up. Workers from Brooklyn are going to be bussed up to Warwick each day, workers from the farm, regional, and volunteer. The only delusional people are the flock paying for it. For the GB it's a reality, in a couple years they are going to have their country club on the lake in Warwick, and the money will continue to roll in from their many businesses, conventions, real estate, publishing... Hudson Valley NY
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  About the 16 pg mags

  by pontoon in

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  2. bible

  just flipped through the feb awake and the feb 1 public wat.

  first time since they went to 16 pages.

  my first impression was the large amount of blank space in both mags, really wasted space.

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  Just flipped through the Feb Awake and the Feb 1 public Wat. First time since they went to 16 pages. My first impression was the large amount of blank space in both mags, really wasted space. I don't remember that from years ago. If they used all the blank space they could probably shrink the mags down to 10 or 12 pages.
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  Change the Channel!

  by perfect1 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  on another thread band on the run mentioned the jw habit of changing the channel on tv abruptly whenever something spiritually reprehensible might pop up.. recently, when i was visiting a family member, they changed the channel from sumo wrestling so that we would not see such obscene nudity.. of course, as soon as i left the room the channel would switch back.

  id come in and it would switch again.

  this made for a semi entertaining game of seeing how close i could get before the channel changed.

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  Years ago I remember counsel about listening to classical music....the real classical, Bach, Beethovan.....The reasoning was "what was the story that inspiried that music, did it involve violence, fornication or any other kind of immorality?" If it did the conclusion was that anyone who listened to the music even without knowing the story behind it condoned that behavior.
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  Visited Beth Sarim today

  by exwhyzee in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  my sister in law has been shunned by the family since she da'd herself at the age of 18 and moved out of the house.

  i always insisted that my wife keep in contact with her and made sure she knew she had a soft place to land,with us, should she need it.

  even at the risk of it getting us in hot water with the pioneer,elder,bethelite family members there was no way we were going to let her disappear into the wild blue yonder on her own.

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  Rattigan350 Beth Sarim becomes very important when the corporation in print or talks brags about their "rich SPIRITUAL heritage"