For a God of love, why is the final solution to man's problems the deaths of millions of people?
LittleMac
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Your best one sentence JW comeback contest
by moshe ini am looking for your best jw comeback- the kind that makes a jw's jaw drop.
ok, even two pithy sentences will do.. here's one i have used before on jws,.
moshe: " do you know what an oxymoron is?
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Most entertaining platform misdeed.
by Slidin Fast inmany years ago before assembly halls we used to hire large halls for circuit assemblies.
the public talk, always after lunch on the sunday was always the big (though boring) event.
the chairman sat on the stage all the time whilst the speaker for the hour long talk droned on.
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LittleMac
A few memories pop into my head from some of the congregations where I spent many, many hours. In one rural congregation in Pa, one of the readers at the book study would substitute 'hamburger' every time he didn't know a word. So if it was a chapter on Nebuchadnezzar or something, forget it, it was so hard to stay serious.
Another brother from rural Pa, also, while reading the Creation book, one night the lesson had the word 'organism' all throughout it and made us all blush when he said orgasm about twenty times during that study.
In the same hall, on another night at the Theocratic School, during a number 3 talk, this one older sister reads the scripture and refers to Nimrod as a mighty 'humper'. Too hilarious to this day we joke about it.
Then there were all of the pet words and mannerisms too funny from the brothers. One dear old elder couldn't help but work in at least some comment about prostitutes or sex no matter what the material was about.
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LittleMac
sorry i goofed on the formatting
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LittleMac
No, although some brothers came to visit us on the "day of" and give us a personal invitation.
The elder asked, "Have you thought about coming?"
I said, "Yeah I thought about it..." which was true, I just didn't answer the obvious no.
It felt good to be able to give someone else the polite brush-off for a change.
I got a lot of yard work done yesterday. It felt so good as I saw them all diligently working the neighborhood with invites to the same old ritual.
No thanks. It's been 6 mos. now and each month gets better.
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All out pandemonium breaks out on The Six Screens Conference call... Guest Barbara Anderson and Johnny the Bethelite.
by koolaid-man inthis highly explosive six screens of the watchtower april 9-2011 conference call is now up loaded and ready to be heard.
concerned people from all over the world were calling in to get the latest news on what is going on in the world of the watchtower.. our first guest was barbara anderson and she brought us up to speed on the criminal complaint the watchtower organization is facing in australia.
barbara as always wants the facts straight and delivers her information in a very professional,competent manner.. steve guziec a former j.w.
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LittleMac
I had to post to tell "Uzzah" -
BEST FREAKING JW handle ever! LOL :)
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For those that are and have been married,did the JW lifestyle aggravate "typical" marital and family problems?
by miseryloveselders ini ask this in consideration of last week's and this week's congregation bible study which focuses on the responsibilities of christian parents, and husbands.
i also ask this in harmony with itscrap&theyknowit's thread which is a heluva opening post by the way.
i linked it below for those that aren't familiar with it.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/206133/1/why-i-eventually-left.
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LittleMac
This topic is one that I can speak to because it had affected my family life for several years. Definitely- Yes! What a very interesting question for a thread topic. There is no doubt in my mind that the schedule and the mindset of usually the husband places unneccessary weight on a himself and then becomes hell for his wife and kids. An elder was in service with us last spring and we were sitting in the car, talking, and he was relating how his brother was going through a divorce where the wife 'flaked out' of the truth and left the brother and he went on to say how it seemed like the typical Witness with marital problems, these days, end with the wife leaving entirely. Then he said that he had always had the notion that the man was the one having an affair in most cases and I agreed, but I can count off the top of my head about twenty friends/acquaintances in my age group over the past fifteen years, from different congregations I've gone to, where the sister was the one who just wanted out and left the husband.
Another observation I've had, and probably isn't news to many, but many families that lived according to the watchtower very dutifully, almost like a prescription for family happiness, in almost every case ended up with the father, in his fifties or sixties, still clinging to that image he believed in for years, but with no children left going to the hall anymore. It's apparent throught the stories that people tell about how hard he was on his kids while at the meetings or whatever and that makes me feel very sad for those situations.
In my personal life, I know that in recent years, I was trying to 'reach out' and was really worried about how I could appear responsible yet sensible and relaxed, too. It was all so difficult to bear when our children came along and I just ASSUMED that they would grow to like the meetings because, hey...they were mine! Well, I have learned a hell of a lot in the last year, and thankfully we all have been able to decompress for the last couple of months. Some of the ugliest blowups were before, during, or right after meetings or service. (The honest truth) My concern over their behavior became too much to bear until finally I just had no choice but to concede the fact that we were not going to look perfect. Kids are going to be kids. This had always been my wife's belief, which was absolutely right. I had a much more difficult time with that. Well, now we both are home with the kids on the weekends and we both are so glad not to have tension due to the 'theocratic routine'. Several times each week, as a joke mostly, I would ask if I was the worst dad ever. Come to think of it, I haven't asked that in a while.
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Unbelieveable Bethel Talk-'Are you being brainwashed?'
by Joliette in...cause surely, friends, were not brainwashing you!.
http://www.jwbrothers.org/play_audio.php?audio=1124&/.
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LittleMac
Short answer: Yes
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What does a demon or an evil spirit look like?
by foolsparadise inno they havent..because they dont exsist.
who needs demons to do bad things on the earth when we have people doing horrible things to each other since the beginning of time.
demons are just an easy way to pass of the blame...pretty easy to do since no one has ever seen one.. its like telling people there are evil invisible tooth faries lurking around every corner.
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LittleMac
Oh, the good old Republicans. Agreed!
The demons today walk among us.
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Better Kingdom Melodies
by LittleMac injust a thought yesterday as i was eating lunch with my 5 yr. old son.
the restaurant had ccr's bad moon rising playing, and i thought,.
this could be a real up temp song to sing at the hall and it even has the lyrics that speak of impending doom.
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LittleMac
BrotherDan,
that 111 song rendition IS awesome. That sustain is amazing. A touching melody it is.
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Better Kingdom Melodies
by LittleMac injust a thought yesterday as i was eating lunch with my 5 yr. old son.
the restaurant had ccr's bad moon rising playing, and i thought,.
this could be a real up temp song to sing at the hall and it even has the lyrics that speak of impending doom.
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LittleMac
Yes, AnnOMaly, you're right. That's the song. A dead ringer for the Looney Tunes one.