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  When do you begin counting time?

  by pubtruth in

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  2. friends

  for those who were in or still are.. when do/did you begin counting time?

  as you left for the house group, or after the meeting was over?

  did you count the car trip to and from?

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  jeckle

  ya headspinning was so honest and hardcore . hey let me help you pat yourself on the back i dont want you to hurt your arm.lol
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  Regular Pioneers: How low will the WT go?

  by Alfred in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i just came across an article in the watchtower (december 1, 1959 page 726) where it mentions that pioneers (or should i say culportuers?

  ) in the 1930s had to put in a minimum of 150 hoursper month in field circus with the phonograph (i'm guessing the record being played was rutherford's "millions" speech).

  i have to wonder how many pioneers the wt would actually have nowadays if this were still the minimum monthly quota and if they'd still have to stand on a street corner with some sort of audio system... in today's economy, i really don't think they'll find much more than 2 potential candidates per circuit... which is obviously the reason that the gb keeps lowering the bar... .

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  jeckle

  poc- i am thinking of attending a baptist church too not regularly tho i also like a calvary church nearby it helps a lot of the community
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  Ran into not One, not Two, but THREE elders at the same time!

  by Soldier77 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i'm out doing some shopping at the supermarket and as i'm walking to the checkout, i see my so and his wife (in full fs attire) talking to someone just past the checkout registers.

  i am looking for the furthest checkout at this point making sure not to be noticed by the so or his wife.

  well, just my freakin luck, there is only one checkout open.

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  jeckle

  maybe this is a different thread subject but it makes me think . why are we scurrying around them :

  1. we know the truth about the truth

  2. we have proof

  3. we have full control of ourselves minds bodies brains eyes etc.

  4. we out number them real christians and atheist and agnostics unite!

  5. we now fit in better in mainstream society.

  6. we have freedom and the contitution behind us and the bill of rights i often remind my brothers they cant make me believe anything i dont want to because i am an american citizen and well over 18 and 21 (36) sounds childish i say tho sometimes you do like it call the cops take me to court lets see what happens!

  7. that should be enough to cover it if not someone else will fill me in
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  Ran into not One, not Two, but THREE elders at the same time!

  by Soldier77 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i'm out doing some shopping at the supermarket and as i'm walking to the checkout, i see my so and his wife (in full fs attire) talking to someone just past the checkout registers.

  i am looking for the furthest checkout at this point making sure not to be noticed by the so or his wife.

  well, just my freakin luck, there is only one checkout open.

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  jeckle

  i understand too i might avoid them to a degree but i've practiced my speeches a million times letme at'em ! that being said ya its none of their effin bussiness if it leans to the right or left. it your life. i have an ability to be nice and avoid a scene but a switch will flip in my head if someone tries to tell me how white my shorts should be and i will give them a piece . but i do know the feeling
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  WARNING for active JW's

  by Anony Mous in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as you may have heard if you attended recently, social networking is of the devil and many have been 'lead astray' by website supposedly set up for jw.

  whatever, you heard it before about rock, hard rock, hip hop, rap, gangsta rap, tv, werewolves .... anyway you may have heard of the recent elder school where basically there were the proverbial tongue lashings about not having social networking sites.

  here is the skinny on recent developments:.

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  jeckle

  and another point is that its just writing a vivid version of a letter to more friends at once . meaning whether its a pen and pad or a phone a walki-talki its just a communication device but faster. i mean those kids could of called each other too to sinc up stories. side note jw kids always think of wierd ways to rebel. i mean i tried stuff but i didnt need 50 dumdies to watch me do it and hold my hand on an sn site i guess they kinda deserved some of it lol and a way to send pictures to family and friends with out having to worry about snail mail and its 2 way and instant its just stupid the way they are afraid of paper tiger meanwhile . . . . fill in the blank.
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  They really are pooping their pants over these latest "signs"...

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've seen a few threads/posts where some of y'all have heard from jw contacts and how they've stepped up their 'the end is close' rhetoric because of the earthquake/tsunami in japan.

  i usually take those things with a grain of salt.

  there's always some jw whose cheese has slipped that reads prophecy into every little thing that happens.

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  jeckle

  yes and look at all the crap that happen in the real great deppression and wwi & wwii i mean this is nothing ladies and gents. its just we are global now like never before. i hate death and destruction as much as the next guy. but i agree with gayle btw i live in az too i think their's a lot of az'ers here and nm'ers i kinda run between both. hoorah! very good thread.
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  jehovahs witnesses giving a "bad witness "

  by looloo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was talking to a workmate yesterday about my jw experiance and my daughters abuse , she told me that she works as a counsellor and had been discussing jws with a colleage , this person had given counselling to a jw woman who was a victim of domestic violence by her jw husband , the elders had done nothing to help the woman and simply told her to stop moaning about it !

  the counseller was disgusted that in this day and age women are still treated like that !

  the jw lady eventually left her husband , took the children with her and got disfellowshipped !!!!

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  jeckle

  to 3mygod. hey i definitely agree with everything said here , and i dont want to appear to defend the jws at all, but swinging wow really? i know they did a lot of hipocritical things but i mostly saw or got the idea that they just did as much as they could get away with. or maybe your right and that makes me even more right for leaving meaning maybe my mind doesnt go there or look fior that in poeple so thats why i didnt notice but that means im also honest and clean and a good person which i was alway accused of the opposite you know what i mean.
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  Channels Turn Foul as they Ebb

  by Marie B. Paraison in

  1. social
  2. current

  the watchtower channel is ebbing.

  one sister told me that the change in the number of meeting days from three days to two days is because of a shortage of funds needed to pay for utilities.

  in this economy and the waning of finances the kingdom hall attendees can look forward to meeting once a week in the future.. .

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  jeckle

  i think your all right i especially like mls's comments and glanders paranoid comment i think all of that played into it but none of the cover stories
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  Literature Is FREE To All, Donations For World Wide Work.

  by PublishingCult in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  *** km 10/91 p. 7 question box ***.

  question box.

  should publishers and pioneers feel obligated to contribute to the societys worldwide work each time they obtain literature for field service at the kingdom hall?.

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  jeckle

  so do the brothers also have to balance out moneys for the literature order too. that would make sense but i dont know for sure outlaw eluded to that? if so then you know they are getting double paid
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  New Light. Is it new truth or simply new understanding on the underlying truth?

  by garyneal in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i went to the assembly for half a day today.

  does truth change?".

  "the truth does not change," she said, "but our understanding of it changes.".

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  jeckle

  i made a quick observation a month ago to my son's maternal great grandma & great great grandma. it was very similar but shorter . we were watching a movie abouta jewish kid and an irish catholic boy that were best friends and i simply pointed out the prejudices they held of each other mainly the catholic father but both families not the 2 boys they didnt care just wanted to play; was exactly like the witnesses. she tried to refute it and i gave a quick example of how they think their right and everyone else is gonna die is no different then the dad thinking if your not a catholic you going to hell. she stopped in her tracts fought back her tears and went to her room. the older gr gr grandma doesnt try to convert me the( convert back that is)we just focus on spoiling my son. i try to spoil her too cuz she loves my son so much and i really love the other grandma too just had to point that out.oh ya its sunday and i might not do anything today! yay me!