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  name your addiction

  by Vivamus in

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  i'm making it official.

  i'm addicted!

  someone once said to me that admitting it is solving half of the problem, and i can live with the other half... lol.

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  fulano

  I drink a bottle and a half Chablis a day, is that wrong?? At least I am not increasing anymore...And oh yeah the Cohiba's..one a day.
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  Number of 'Anointed' down to about 4000

  by nicolaou in

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  so i was at the 'memorial' last night (that's a whole other story) and i got into a converstaion with an elder afterwards.

  i asked him why no figure had been printed in our kingdom ministry for the number of uk partakers last year.

  (in 2000, the figure of 300 was given, down from 319 in 1999).

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  fulano

  Robdar:

  I'm going to partake next memorial. Can't wait to blow their little minds.

  What does "Given Ones (Nethinim)" mean? This must be a new doctrine and I have been out of the org for years. Anybody want to explain it to me?

  Robyn

  Forget it, they won't count you, those are the instructions, do not count: visitors, df's, or known apostates.
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  Number of 'Anointed' down to about 4000

  by nicolaou in

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  so i was at the 'memorial' last night (that's a whole other story) and i got into a converstaion with an elder afterwards.

  i asked him why no figure had been printed in our kingdom ministry for the number of uk partakers last year.

  (in 2000, the figure of 300 was given, down from 319 in 1999).

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  fulano

  Pubsinger:

  If the door was shut in 1935 (a point confirmed in a 1999 WT), then by being generous to the WT and saying that the lowest age of anointed ones was 20 in 1935 ( it must have actually been much higher than that on average, as 20yrs old would mean that they were born 1yr after 1914!!!) then the lowest age today is 87.

  The official statistics for partakers have show a steady shallow decline for 50yrs, with the occasional, convienient, sharp blip upwards(!).

  The official death rate statistics for an age group of average age 87 shows a sudden steep down turn to almost vertical. for every 5yrs added (bearing in mind that these are the youngest partakers from 1935)the survivors are almost nil.

  I think you forget the "replacers" here, they don't have to be 87, so even now any adult even young or very young could be a replacer for an apostate anointed and live fifty more years.
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  I always disagreed with ....

  by fulano in

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  disfellowshipping on smoking.. especially smoking a cigar from time to time does not have to be harmfull.

  but i personally have disfellowshipped persons for smoking sigarettes, although i never saw a good biblical base.i mean ..how many filthy fat friends did we have, addicted to sugar, carbs, and you just knew they were going to have health-problems sooner or later.

  now i smoke cigars, maybe one good cuban a day, and i am slim, active and can run 10 miles without any problems.. who had the same doubts about this dogma?

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  fulano

  fulano

  what would it take for YOU to get ME a cuban? and are they REALLY the best cigars ever? so far the best i have had so far is cohiba's

  yes, i live in the USA

  That's right, you are living in the USA, so you can't get Cubans??

  Than try Dominican Sigars, some Cubans who had to leave Cuba went to the DR and Honduras and started to make cigars overthere, some are as good as the Cubans, which I still prefer. Try a DON SEBASTIAN, or DON PEPE, you will love them. greetzzz.

  And sorry to all the sensitive souls
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  How many times in front of a committee??

  by refiners fire in

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  geesh.

  lets see.

  when i got baptized the first time.

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  fulano

  When I got baptized the first time. When I confessed and got reproved. When I requested rebaptism. When I confessed to masturbation. When I confessed to fornication. When I got DF.

  Masturbation is not a committee-case.
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  I always disagreed with ....

  by fulano in

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  2. beliefs

  disfellowshipping on smoking.. especially smoking a cigar from time to time does not have to be harmfull.

  but i personally have disfellowshipped persons for smoking sigarettes, although i never saw a good biblical base.i mean ..how many filthy fat friends did we have, addicted to sugar, carbs, and you just knew they were going to have health-problems sooner or later.

  now i smoke cigars, maybe one good cuban a day, and i am slim, active and can run 10 miles without any problems.. who had the same doubts about this dogma?

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  fulano

  Sorry LB if I offended you, but seeing 200 pound sisters and brothers at the convention was not really good taste. That's filthy, someone eating his own grave.
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  I always disagreed with ....

  by fulano in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  disfellowshipping on smoking.. especially smoking a cigar from time to time does not have to be harmfull.

  but i personally have disfellowshipped persons for smoking sigarettes, although i never saw a good biblical base.i mean ..how many filthy fat friends did we have, addicted to sugar, carbs, and you just knew they were going to have health-problems sooner or later.

  now i smoke cigars, maybe one good cuban a day, and i am slim, active and can run 10 miles without any problems.. who had the same doubts about this dogma?

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  fulano

  After all, Rutherford smoked cigars.

  Larc, how do you know this? Do you have any proof? Could you share it?

  gb

  There is even a picture that shows Rutherford smoking..I don not have it digital though.
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  I always disagreed with ....

  by fulano in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  disfellowshipping on smoking.. especially smoking a cigar from time to time does not have to be harmfull.

  but i personally have disfellowshipped persons for smoking sigarettes, although i never saw a good biblical base.i mean ..how many filthy fat friends did we have, addicted to sugar, carbs, and you just knew they were going to have health-problems sooner or later.

  now i smoke cigars, maybe one good cuban a day, and i am slim, active and can run 10 miles without any problems.. who had the same doubts about this dogma?

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  fulano

  I mean ..how many filthy fat friends did we have, addicted to sugar, carbs, and you just knew they were going to have health-problems sooner or later

  This is what I posted LB, I do not judge fat people, I don't care at all, if someone wants to be fat, hey no problem as long it's not my girl-friend. My point was that there are loads of fat people who are fat because of overeating or wrong food (sugar and carbs, most extremely fat people are alergic to carbs, but that is another discussion). I am not saying they should be disfellowshipped, I am saying you should judge smokers the same way....do not judge them at all.The reason for df smokers has not much to do with the harm you could cause to others, but to clean your body from all contamination.If that would be a reason it would be easy, than you could smoke as a JW but out in the field.
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  Americans...awake!

  by fulano in

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  it's almost 3.00 pm!

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  fulano

  Yeah, that's why we have it...makes you happier
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  Americans...awake!

  by fulano in

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  it's almost 3.00 pm!

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  fulano

  It's almost 3.00 PM! It is, in Europe..