Posts by mynameislame

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1914 - "A Turning Point In History"?

by Bobcat in

the february 2014 public wt has a cover series of articles dealing with world war i, and by inference 1914. the articles describe wwi as 'causing the world to be changed' and as "a turning point in history.".

setting the wt's defective 1914 chronology aside for a minute, how do these statements about wwi coincide with the view of the nt?.

certainly wwi was a big war.

mynameislame

I'm not directly affected by anything that happend in 1914 at least not any more than I am by other events in history. Of course 1914 has some sort of effect on us today but no more than any other historical event. 9-11 was the turning point in history for me. Maybe in a few years that will be the new light and it will be that generation where millions now living will never die.

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Marriage Consummation - emailed question has me stumped

by jwfacts in

i received an email from a jw that got married, but the wife never had sex with him.

they were together for a period of years.

he told the elders, but they said there was nothing that could be done.

mynameislame

I consider his situation a win win, rid of a cold wife and out of the cult.

If he wanted to stay he should have cheated for the legitimate divorce then repented after marying the new woman.

His wife was the one that wasn't giving her husband his due, no elder in the world would hold that against another man.

Although I knew a sister who's husband cheated on her and ended up getting remarried. She protested his being reinstated because she forgave him and that meant he was still scripturally married to her.

Not sure how that one ended up working out, he never came back to her but I don't know if he got reinstated or not.

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Spoiled, entitled kids of wealthy JW parents

by sir82 in

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friends

what's your impression?.

recently in our congregation a new family moved in.

youngest son is a high school senior.. dad was speaking glowingly of his post-high school plans.. going to college?

mynameislame

I used to hang out with some wealthy JWs in my area.

They really were different than us regular folks, hard to say exactly how but there were differences. Kind of like the people on the show "Revenge" without the drama. Actualy thinking back it was more like the weatlhy kids from the Veronica Mars show.

This post makes me wonder what ended up happening to them.

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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.