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  The Face of the World is changing

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  60 years ago, in the western world, it was rare to see in media, any representation of a face that wasn't euro-white.

  these days, in response to market driven advertising, that is changing.. i can only speak for oz, and here i note that it is now quite common to see an asian face, most likely east asian (chinese, korean, vietnamese and japanese) in adverts.

  for various products.

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  mynameislame

  Miss America 2013

  
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  UFO's

  by zeb in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  i have seen ufo's in broad daylight.. what is the party line of the wts on ufo's?please.

  anyone else seen these things?.

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  mynameislame

  If I remember correctly the WT take on aliens is as follows:

  1 Jehovah created everything in the universe and beyond.

  2. Satan made the challenge that people would not worship Jehovah out of love.

  3. If Jehovah had created beings on other planets it is likely that they would have already proved or disproved #2

  4. Therefore there must not be other planets with sentient beings.
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  would this work?

  by jeremiah18:5-10 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hypothetically speaking, if you are dfd and witnesses call at your home and you give a warm reception and in the course of discussion tell them you had just been praying to jehovah to help you get back on track with him, would they go full force at helping you get back in, even fast tracking it?.

  as with many who are dfd with family still in, at time i entertain the notion of returning just to get my family back.. so what do you think about this scenario, would it help or hurt?.

  i ask because of how enamored they are with the idea that angels guide their efforts in service and lead them to the sheep.

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  mynameislame

  It would do nothing good for your situation except maybe earn you a visit from the elders. But it would do wonders for bolstering the dubs attitue that they really were being directed by holy spirit. If you were truly sincere you would already know that you needed to go and bore yourself to death at the weekly meetings.

  The truth of the matter is the dubs would have taken away your family regardless.

  If they became wittneses and other family members didn't they still would have cut off most association with the non-believers.

  At least that is what my parents did, we had the obligitory visits to their parents house on occasion but not much else.

  I do know of one person who took up smoking then got reinstated just to prove that holy spirit had nothing to do with it.
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  Non JW girl with a JW guy

  by Accio in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i want to talk about my story because i need help and advice and most impirtant a lot of comfort.. one year and a half ago i met a wonderful guy.

  he was really nice and supporyed me during hard moments.

  i slowly fell in love with him.

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  mynameislame

  1. You will eventually get over him just give it time, lots of time if you need it. It will take as long as it takes.

  Think of the sadness as something temporary like a cold or a sore muscle. Yes it is uncomfortable but eventually it will go away so no need to obcess over it.

  2. He used you for his own selfish needs then moved on. JWs are no different than any other people in that regard maybe even more so.

  You said "I have lot of respect for his faith"

  Don't, if he was really acting on that fath he would never have gotten involved with you in the first place.

  He lied you on and you have the right to be mad at him for that.
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  Is there anything you could do forever that wouln't get boring?

  by mynameislame in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  not sure when i came to this conclusion but i can't imagine living forever.

  after a while i think i would be completly bored with everything.. not saying i wouln't like to live for a few hundred years or maybe even a few thousand if i could travel through space and discover other universes star trek style.

  but the thought of living forever sounds like it would eventually become a complete drag.. maybe i'm wrong, maybe after a thousand years or so you would foregt all the stuff that happend at the beginning and just start over in an infinite loop..

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  mynameislame

  Not sure when I came to this conclusion but I can't imagine living forever. After a while I think I would be completly bored with everything.

  Not saying I wouln't like to live for a few hundred years or maybe even a few thousand if I could travel through space and discover other universes Star Trek style. But the thought of living forever sounds like it would eventually become a complete drag.

  Maybe i'm wrong, maybe after a thousand years or so you would foregt all the stuff that happend at the beginning and just start over in an infinite loop.
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  2014 DC: Fewer, but larger venues in the U.S.

  by doinmypart in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the u.s. there are fewer venues this year, but they will be held in larger facilities.

  as long as i can remember my family travelled no more than 2 hours to attend and in the last few years the dc was local (within a few minutes travel).

  this year my family is driving 6 hours to a major u.s. city.

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  mynameislame

  So the JWs will already know how to get to their designated meeting area after armegeddon.

  They realized that controling groups of 10,000 will be much more difficult so they have to move to larger venues.

  Make sure you know where it is because after armegeddon they will filter out the weak people that slipped through the cracks by saying "meet at last years convfention center". If you don't know where it is then you will be SOL when it comes to the spirtual food they will be passing out.

  Or it could be money

  On a side note why isn't the US listed in this site

  http://www.jw.org/apps/E_FRNsPnPBrt

  Kind of curious if they are doing the same thing in my neck of the woods.
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  Will this Memorial be our last?

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  they just put up the march km 2014 on the private website.

  most of it is same-old-same-old, with info here and there about the memorial.. somebody here might post the march km for all to see, i wont.. i just wanted to share the paragraph from page 2 q&a anticle: will you seize the opportunity?

  upcoming memorial enables us to show gratitude .

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  mynameislame

  Seems a bit odd, isnt the memorial the one meeting most JWs make every effort to attend? I always did.

  Why use your best bait when you already have the fish on the hook?

  Maybe it is a sign of dwindling interest even in the memorial? Probably not but one can dream.
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  Satan rules the world, well according to the Watchtower Society, right?

  by God_Delusion in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi guys & gals!.

  a friend, and current witness, says the jehovah's witnesses have the truth because they're the only religion that state that satan is in control of the world and not god/jesus as some christian religions state.. how can i counter this argument?.

  warm regards and love,.

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  mynameislame

  If by "rules the world", they mean Satan inspired the bible and other religious texts, and now uses them to confuse people and turn them against each other. Then I agree.
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  Quick question for recent convention attendees, did your hotel offer box lunches?

  by Theocratic Sedition in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  our hotel did, and on the surface that's no big deal.

  matter fact i think it's a good business move on the hotel's part and pretty darn good customer service.

  after the song was finished and the chairman did his announcements initiating the noon break, i got to wondering if the wt had anything to do with these box lunches offered by the hotel.

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  mynameislame

  I'm more interested to know why they want people to stay inside during the break especially since they don't serve lunch anymore

  And why would the city put up with that. The whole point ov a convention center is to bring money to the local economy isn't it?
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  does the watchtower still believe this?

  by lastchance in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  questions from readers ?

  some animals have characteristics that seem especially suited to killing, such as lions and poisonous snakes.

  how can this be, if they were all vegetarians at one time?l.

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  mynameislame

  I vaguely remember this but I was under the impression that the current light was that animals had lost their fear of man and they would get that back in the new system, and woul not become vegetarian