Posts by mynameislame

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Jehovah's training center

by jam in

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mynameislame

jam you might want to edit out the text you posted in your second attepmt to upload the photo.

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JW's at my inlaw's door yesterday

by Hillary in

here in the northeast it is freezing.

a father and son team brought over the outside garbage cans from the end of the driveway and offered to salt my inlaws' driveway.

my f-i-l was very impressed and said they're very nice people.

mynameislame

I think many of the RNF are sincere. Sure they have hopes that it will soften you up for conversion but they think they are doing the right thing.

Most of the non-sincere ones would bother to help anyone inside or outside of the religion.

I regularly shoveled out the older people at my hall and also took care of one really old sister's lawn.

She insisted on paying me so I charged $5 for about 2 hours work. One time I tried to go up to $10 and she complained till I went back to $5 :-)

I don't think that type of thing really works to convert anyone. What it does do is give the doer a sense of pride that they are helping with the JWs good reputation.

I think being distressed over something is the primary reason for converting.

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Story of a GB ass-kisser

by zound in

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i was reading a life story article in the latest watchtower and had a few thoughts about it i thought i'd share here.

these life story things are always so depressing to me - this one is slightly interesting because it is told by a current "governing body helper".. it's called "full time ministry - where it has led me.

" reading it i just got the impression that this guy (robert) was aiming to be a gb member but fell short and ended up being a gb "helper".

mynameislame

Hmm kind of sad, but if you believe you had a great life does anything else matter?

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The numbers don't lie...or do they?

by stillin in

at a recent ca, the co was commending the r&f about mid-week meeting attendance.

he said that it was up 4% since he first began working in our circuit.

i was listening as some were patting each other on their backs about that at last nights meeting and it occurred to me that there were many empty seats.

mynameislame

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Found this site, thought some might be interested.

by mynameislame in

seems to be a downloadable list of special talks from throughout the years.. a little too much work for me but thought some here might be interested in using them for a bit of research?.

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http://www.centralprint.net/jwtalks/specialtalks/specialtalks.html.