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May 2014 Kingdom Ministry (KM - 05/2014 PDF)
by WatchTower87 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
instruction: press the 'skip ad' button top right, you should then see the download screen more easily.

no virus ;-).

km - 05/2014 pdf : http://adf.ly/fhkoa.
mynameislame

Trying to figure out what James 1:19 has to do with social media and having or being a freind.

19 Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.

I also feel like they are using some sort of chicanery around the word meditation in this context.

If you are often late, meditate on the reasons why.

Although that migh just be my bias coming through.

Is this one of those things that could be negative but they are trying to put a positive spin on it?

As of February 1, 2014, the United States branch office began to oversee the territory and congregations in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. What unity among the more than 1.2 million publishers in the United States branch territory!

Nice

Beneficiaries of a government program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) may apply to serve as temporary Bethel family members or temporary volunteers
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New Article on JW.org about gay people
by ateograciasadios in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ok, sometimes i go to jw.org just to laugh a bit about the 'food at the proper time', and i would like to know what people think of this hillarious article 'am i attracted to the same sex.

does that mean i am gay?'.

this has to be one of the most remarkable pieces of logic (last paragraph of the article).. the bibles stand is not unreasonable.
mynameislame

Watchtower said that there is usually a dominant sex and it does not require that they undergo surgery.

Now i'm not sure what to make of my grandmother's beard
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Ingredients
by leaving_quietly in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
wtbts loves to compare themselves to chefs in a kitchen, preparing "spiritual food".

and we are to eat that food, without question.

i was thinking about this last night.
mynameislame

Their new light definitely seems to fit with the ever changing lists of what's healthy now in the food industry. The analogy seems like something the JWs might use to their advantage though. I can see them saying that, unlike the worldly food companies that are only out for profit, the FuDS are regularly changing their recipes to make them more healthy. So no need to keep checking the list of ingredients every time we change it.
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New Article on JW.org about gay people
by ateograciasadios in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ok, sometimes i go to jw.org just to laugh a bit about the 'food at the proper time', and i would like to know what people think of this hillarious article 'am i attracted to the same sex.

does that mean i am gay?'.

this has to be one of the most remarkable pieces of logic (last paragraph of the article).. the bibles stand is not unreasonable.
mynameislame

Readng up a bit on intersex at http://www.isna.org/

Just an fyi it looks like hermaphrodite may now be considered derogatory. (soon to be "The H word")

Never had any idea how many different varieties of this condition there are:

http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency

Seems like this could pose quite a dilemma for religions with strict homosexuality biases.
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New Article on JW.org about gay people
by ateograciasadios in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ok, sometimes i go to jw.org just to laugh a bit about the 'food at the proper time', and i would like to know what people think of this hillarious article 'am i attracted to the same sex.

does that mean i am gay?'.

this has to be one of the most remarkable pieces of logic (last paragraph of the article).. the bibles stand is not unreasonable.
mynameislame

TheListener,

I was around through the 80s and, although I don't ever remember reading it officially, that was always my understanding.

We did have a transgender coming to our hall for a while and they were told that to get baptised they would have to concede to being a man.
Concede may not be the right word but they would have to live like a man. I forget what we did for restroom usage.
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How exactly is the Holy Spirit 'directing' the WT?
by keyser soze in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
it seems pretty impotent to me if it is.. let's assume, for the sake of argument, that they are merely 'spirit-directed', as opposed to 'inspired'.

and let's assume that there is even a difference(other than semantics) to begin with.

neither claim is validated by the end result.
mynameislame

Maybe it is, just not the way they think it is.

If someone was speaking in your name and you couldn't stop them directly what would you do? And if you could direct what they were saying so that it made them look stupid what would you do?
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May 2014 Kingdom Ministry (KM - 05/2014 PDF)
by WatchTower87 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
instruction: press the 'skip ad' button top right, you should then see the download screen more easily.

no virus ;-).

km - 05/2014 pdf : http://adf.ly/fhkoa.
mynameislame

WatchTower87,

Just curious wht the adf.ly link is for? You don't seem to need it. I can get directly to the file on sendspace without going through the advertisement.
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Who's visiting Las Vegas?
by Quarterback in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm welcoming your trip tips, and want to know about fun things to do.. i'm staying at caesars.
mynameislame

Put it all on Red, you can't lose!
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Confused?
by nomorepain13 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i have been going to meetings since i was a child, long story short only recently i've started taking the truth seriously, i am not baptized but just an unbaptized publisher.

truth is i am so lonely in the congregation.

the other young people in the cong don't like me because they dont think i am going to "stay" for long, i've even worked on the ministry with an older brother and asked her am i giving the wrong impression to people?
mynameislame

Think long and hard about why you want to stay. Not why you should stay but why you want to. Then ask yourself if you will really get what you want by staying.

If you have prayed about it, and I assume you have, take a hard look at the answers you are getting. Don't let fear cloud your judgement when you do. It is very easy to ignore the answers because of fear of being wrong.

If the JWs told you about all kinds of good things that will happen to you by being a JW then ask yourself if any of them have come true. (sounds like you have been around them long enough to know)
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Some help to overcome the Gravity of shunning
by Island Man in
1. social
2. humour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcnri1vduyq.
mynameislame

I love that show, funny and good natured. I think I have watched them all on youtube.