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  Crikey!!! I'm a...........

  by johnathanseagull in

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  senior member now....excellent

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  Matty

  Well done matey. Cool book to name yerself after. Haven't read it yet though, but have read Illusions, which was a uplifting read.
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  More about Ray Franz ,please

  by wednesday in

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  i just ordered "crisis of conscience" since mr. franz has been away from jw's for a number of years now-what exactly does he believe?

  does he subscribe to any particular religion?

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  Matty

  His second book ''In Search of Christian Freedom'' explains it even clearer and is well worth the read once you have finished "Crisis of Conscience".
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  Christmas Aint Jesus's Birthday

  by comforter in

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  jesus was not born on december 25. that is not his birthday.

  why is this day observed as jesus's birthday?

  because some christians thought it was fine to mingle christianity with paganism.

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  Matty

  So what? Like there's anyone here that doesn't know that already?
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  What show scared you as a kid?

  by Been there in

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  posting on wtlies thread i got to thinking about the shows i watched as a kid.

  there were a couple that scared the &*^% out of me.

  the old twilight zone where the little demon guy was on the airplane wing was really scary.

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  Matty

  Dr Who used to scare the living crap out of me when I was little. Lost in Space was scary too! Now I see the re-runs on the tv, the special effects were so cheap, the sets were so shoddy, I can't imagine the present, more sophisticated generation of children doing much else but laugh at those shows. I doubt if anything in them would make them want to hide behind the sofa like I did!
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  Comments You Will Not Hear At The 10-13-02 WTS

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
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  watchtower study article for the week of october 7-13, 2002.

  "never has another man spoken like this"luke 4:22. introduction.

  this is the 3rd of 4 articles devoted to the way jesus taught.

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  Matty

  Your summaries have now become an essential part of my pre-study. Thanks again!
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  Bye Everybody!

  by Mary in

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  well, tomorrow's the big day........i'm nervous but i just want the surgery over with.

  anyway, i'll be out of commission for a while, so i thought i'd say bye and thanks for all your support over the last few weeks.. take care everyone!.

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  Matty

  ((((((Mary))))))

  All the best for you.

  Take care sweetheart, see ya soon.
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  What is a Ministerial Servant?

  by footprints in

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  because this site has taken a survey of past or current ministerial servants and posted a list, i think it is important to make it clear that: not one ministerial servant was appointed by holy spirit.. current and ex ministerial servant are no more special or important than anyone else.

  in fact some are a lot less trustworthy than the average.. .

  on this note i would like to hear from all of you two things:.

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  Matty

  1 Timothy 3:8 says:

  Ministerial servants should likewise be serious, not double-tongued, not giving themselves to a lot of wine, not greedy of dishonest gain, holding the sacred secret of the faith with a clean conscience.

  Then in verse 12 13:

  Let ministerial servants be husbands of one wife, presiding in a fine manner over children and their own households. For the men who minister in a fine manner are aquiring for themselves a fine standing and great freeness of speech in the faith in connection with Christ Jesus.

  Very vague in some parts, isn't it? It gives bodies of elders plenty of leeway to discount brothers that they don't see as being champion toadies! In order to be a Jehovah's witness, you have to be all these things anyway, so really every brother should be a MS!
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  What is a Ministerial Servant?

  by footprints in

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  because this site has taken a survey of past or current ministerial servants and posted a list, i think it is important to make it clear that: not one ministerial servant was appointed by holy spirit.. current and ex ministerial servant are no more special or important than anyone else.

  in fact some are a lot less trustworthy than the average.. .

  on this note i would like to hear from all of you two things:.

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  Matty

  I became one through kissing some elder ass!

  You have to be available for everything and volunteer for everything. You should be bland always and never self-opinionated. It's not good enough to be regular on the ministry. Many pioneers never make Ministerial Servants because they are too maverick.
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  Some musings...

  by SYN in

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  a little braindump from yours truly over a period of about fifteen minutes... .

  you look at the poster on the wall directly in front of you, amazed at how the subtle femininity of a beautiful girl has been reduced to a series of interlocking spirals of colour too small to see.. you peer at the community newsletter next to your keyboard, which is strumming with the buzz of your fingers smashing down the keys several times a second, marvelling at the way you are able to perceive the tone and tint of the writing, how you can pick apart the grammatical flaws with a practised (sp?

  ) hand, and yet you do not even know how to spell the word "practised".. you laugh when you realize that the printing of said community newsletter probably cost the lives of more trees than any community program will ever create.. you get an email, your computer announcing it by beeping from it's position betwixt your feet, and you read it.

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  Matty

  Maybe everone here leaps ino support mode by nature, it's kinda nice!

  Thanks for your musings, theres a lot of familiarity to me with what you said there!
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  A Night With The Sex Slaves From Hell.

  by Englishman in

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  it's absolutely true, her ladyship and i spent saturday night with the sex slaves from hell.. we'd driven down to celtic country - cornwall - to view the eden project wow, don't miss it, it's stunning!

  more on that another time.. but..saturday night we visited charlestown, where we decided to have a few bevvies at an interesting looking pub called the rashleigh arms.

  inside there was playing an outstanding band that put me in mind of fairport convention on speed.

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  Matty

  Hmm... Not quite the grade yet, but I have the very best tutor!