Posts by mynameislame

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How did you get through mind numbing meetings?

by minimus in

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friends

as an elder, i used to find a legitimate reason to wander.

mynameislame

I used to talk through the entire meeting. A friend told me a story about when he was studying and came to one of the meetings during the CO visit. I was sitting near the front of the hall with a friend of mine and we were talking away during the CO's talk. The CO stopped the talk to give us a dirty look. Then he tells me I gave the CO a dirty look of my own and went right on talking. I don't know if it is true but I really hope it is. It does sound a bit like me.

I never really listened to a meeting until I was DFed, that's when I started to wake up.

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Mormon 'support' for gays, pressure on the WTS?

by Simon in

the mormon / lds church has noticably changed it's stance toward homosexuality and instead of condemning it seems to be supporting protection for people's rights (of course they want to throw some protection for themselves in there as well).. how will this affect the wts?

the lds is the more-successful counterpart to the wts, similar age and history and same non-mainstream appeal.. i have no doubt that the lds church is only changing because they know which way the wind is blowing and society has completely changes it's attitudes towards gay people.

maybe they just want to stay ahead pf the curve before federal legislation enforces people's rights.. now, can we see the wts changing their views" will they be one of the last holdouts?

mynameislame

Probably just a PR stunt to help improve their reputation after the proposition 8 movie showed them in a pretty bad light. If you haven't seen it, it is probably worth watching. Makes me think twice about voting for a Mormon president.

But this really doesn't have a comparison to the JWs since they would never comment on something like this publicly.

I don't know if my area was unusual but knew a number of gay JWs and a few more I am pretty sure were gay. As far as I know it was always OK to be gay as long as you were celibate. But the same went for single straight people too. I didn't find JWs any more homophobic than the general public. If anything they were less so, I never new any JW that hated someone for being gay. As kids we made the usual jokes but even that wasn't with any malice, just stupid kids being stupid.

I'm sure they find gay marriage to be a sign of the times but to be honest I feel like the bible does condemn homosexuality and if you claim to believe the bible you would have to condemn homosexuality.

One thing I did find odd was how many JWs I knew didn't understand how you could be gay if you never had gay sex.

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Last nights meeting...

by DATA-DOG in

i know dubs are delusional.

i know dubs don't reason well.

i know dubs are a bit off, like many groups.

mynameislame

His age seems a bit ambiguous, I would say he seemed somewhere between a 10 and 15 years old. But I bet this was calculated, they know that a young child is going to want to be like their older sibling. The music certainly seemed targeted towards a someone younger than 15.

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Why tv.jw.org?

by pixel in

hello,.

this is a question for people with web knowledge (i'm looking at you simon :-)):.

i'm wondering why they named it tv.jw.org instead of something like jw.org/tv?.

mynameislame

A fairly simplified explanation as I understand it:

A url is like a map or directions to a server then to a directory on that server.

The stuff with the dots are the directions to the server. Each entry is essentially a server and each server knows about the next server down the line. It works from right to left.

i.e. for tv.jw.com your browser searches for the com server then asks com where jw server is then asks the jw server where tv server is.

The slashed entries are directories on the server and works from left to right.

So if it were jw.com/tv there would be a directory called tv on the jw.com server.

The http or https part tells the browser what language to expect.

I've never figured out what the www is for but you generally no longer need to use it in most cases.

So jehovahs-witness.com will bring you to the same place as www.jehovahs-witness.com

*edit, i had the right to left search order backwards switched both

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NEW LIGHT FROM SLO CIRCUIT OVERSEER "Warning, Blood on Doorposts", "The Couple who Missed One Meeting Died With Their Kids, Don't Miss Any!

by Trailer Park Pioneer in

sorry, i messed up before i could put the right title on this new light from our circuit overseer, his visit show's a great desperation in the organization's mindset, adding more anxiety and guilt to jws who already feel they don't measure up!.

hi, i attended the circuit overseers visit and got really angry because our c.o.

gave information coming from the governing body's chief apologists regarding "meeting attendance" and "the couple who missed one meeting and lost their entire family because they did not get the "411" when armageddon was coming!

mynameislame

The God that the JWs preach doesn't seem much better than the God of any other religion. God is totally forgiving and loving unless you happen to mess up on some random arbitrary day then sorry you are out of luck. The only difference between the JW God and the Catholic one is that the JW one doesn't send us to hell.

Your dad sucks, sure mine may beat me for next to nothing but at least he doesn't lock me up in the basement afterwards like yours does.

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2014 November 27, BOE!

by Atlantis in

from (the source).

2014 november 27, boe.. .. re: invitations to study the bible.

.. click the link by the blue arrow.. .. https://www.sendspace.com/file/q3oiho .

mynameislame

wannaexit, I think that is the point, keep them so busy with the new light they don't have time to think about the old light.

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Will the GB now accept Higher Learning???

by 7Starz in

reported in many news outlets today including the wall street journal: president obama is pushing for the first two years of a community college to be included in the normal education of the country's children.

the education law currently has a free education from k-12 and obama now wants to include a 2 year community college degree for free (well the tax payers will pick up the tab).

so basically k-12 and a 2 year college associates degree.. if this becomes law, will the gb change their view on higher education and say:.

mynameislame

If passed it would require 8 hours of community service per a semester or class, I forget which.

Lets hope the government picks the community service and not the JW.

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Convention letters for 2015 hotels

by ?me? in

jw
friends

shouldn't the letters for the conventions next yr be coming very soon ?

for the usa.

or does anyone have info from the hotel chains that are regularly on the list?

mynameislame

Did these make it to JWN (now JWC I guess) yet

http://imgur.com/a/cZT56

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Need advice on a comeback to my wife: when she is in cult mode she says faith without works is dead.

by goingthruthemotions in

so i have gotten into arguements with my wife in the past about this cult.

now a days after reading steve hassan books...i just try and avoid anything jdub with her.

try to keep her in authentic mode..(not sure she really has one).

mynameislame

Eph 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God

Rom 3:29 For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands.

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Sign in button not active on firefox

by mynameislame in

i'm using firefox and the sign in button is dimmed and does not work when selected.. is anyone else seeing this problem?.

chrome and ie are both ok..

mynameislame

I'm using Firefox and the sign in button is dimmed and does not work when selected.

Is anyone else seeing this problem?

Chrome and IE are both ok.