PaintedToeNail

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  I Just Found Out That The Elders SAVED A Seat For ME For The Memorial

  by minimus in

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  a few weeks ago, i visited my mom and a couple of elders and a young ms also came by to see her.

  while i was there, the elders invited me to the memorial and i was very polite with them and thanked them for their invitation.. i just spoke to my mother and she said the elders saved 2 seats for my mother and i !

  they seemed confident that i would show up.. unbelievable!.

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  PaintedToeNail

  There were a lot of empty seats last night at the KH where I was coerced into going. The numbers do seem to be going down around here.
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  Why are there so many adverts here for mail order brides?

  by Glander in

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  i swear, i have not been visiting any sites that would tie in.

  if i look up info on, say, a particular auto i expect to be clobbered with auto ads.

  but ads for asian, russian, etc.

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  Why not ads for mail order Asian husbands? With all the gender selection going on in Asia, and the plethora of men to women ratios, one would think they would start marketing themselves on the Internet.

  Any that look like Daniel Dae Kim would be really great to look at!
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  on the fence - an introduction

  by so confused in

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  2. experiences

  i was brought up around the truth.

  my dad was disfellowshiped when i was young, around 6-7. he was a elder and very devoted even going to jail when he was younger for the truth.

  he had a stroke and started preaching things that the society was not teaching and he was disfellowshiped.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Welcome-so confused!
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 04-01-2012 WT Study (ROYAL PRIESTHOOD)

  by blondie in

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  33 c.e., jesus christ and his 12 apostles.

  the apostles have understood these words?.

  for sins that the israelites would.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Thanks again, blondie!
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  Judicial Committee Meetings – Sexual Matters

  by Celestial in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  anyone had three elders (judicial committee) question you on sex before marriage?.

  case in point, being raised as one of jehovah's witnesses, i partied with peers that were witnesses by tradition, inherent faith.

  at the age of eighteen (1992), i was conversing about the elders with a group of witnesses, and a girl who had been before a judicial committee chimed in and said, they ask questions that are none of their fucking business.

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  Once upon a time, at a JC meeting, one of the elders asked 'about how many men did you do it with'? I was annoyed and thought this is none of his business...so I lied. He acted like he was REALLY interesting in all the details, which is completely unnecessary. He later got DF'd, divorced and was jobless...a fitting end.
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  So What Would You Do If You Won $550,000,000?

  by Mary in

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  ok, so the mega millions jackpot is at half a billion dollars.

  if you won and decided to take it in a lump sum, you automatically lose 40%, then there's state and federal taxes, so you'd actually get a 'meazly' $240,000,000.. what would you do if you won that kind of money?

  other than donate a chunk to the world-wide-wit-lessing-work..........

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  The idea of a charity for disfellowship JW kids would be a great idea, it would really be a thorn in the side of the GB!

  I would travel to tropical islands in the winter and learn to surf. In the summer, I would vacation in Austria.

  My parents and brother would refuse any of my money, as it would have been received by illict means.

  My apostate brother would be given a chunk, and hopefully be able to improve his life.

  My hubby wouldn't be above accepting a ranch and a new truck.
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  Diseases that force you to violate Jehovah's commands

  by rebel8 in

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  2. medical

  a few days ago i ate a corn nut that was kind of sharp.

  it made a very tiny scratch on my tongue the size of a period (.).

  i have a bleeding disorder so it bled for 3 hours.

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  I took the pill as a JW many years ago. I never asked anyone for 'permission' before I got the prescription.

  It is nice to know that my main purpose in life is to bear other human beings...I have fulfilled my duty...lol! Here I was hoping to find meaning in my life, and I totally missed why I was here...
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  Would this bug you?

  by still thinking in

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  i have a friend, she has been my friend for over 20 years...in that 20 years i have seen her reasonably regularly.

  i visit her, she visits me.. the thing that has started bugging me is this...... when i visit her it is normally in the daytime.

  i stop in for a cuppa and a chat.

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  Just make soup. Break out a loaf of bread. Something very small...or collect money for take-out pizza.

  Maybe, if it is just her and her son, she is lonely at supper time, and wants to have human interaction, a family type meal and doesn't realize she is being obtuse. If her not helping with the dishes bothers you, why don't you suggest "Jane, why don't you help me dry the dishes.
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  Will Embracing the Internet lead to Increased Growth for the Watchtower?

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  more important than the reduction in the size of the new magazine is that the watchtower will be actively promoting its website and encouraging people use it to download magazines.

  my concern is that this has the potential to lead to an increase in growth for the watchtower.. the door-to-door preaching work has been one of the most inefficient means imaginable to gain converts, and done little more than tie up the time of active jws.

  now, by directing people to the internet, witnesses can spread their message at an alarming rate for little cost.. do you feel that this has the potential to lead to a surge in growth of jehovah's witnesses?

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  Maybe they are trying to distance themselves from the name 'Watchtower', so it looks more biblical, rather than odd. How many people in places other than the Eurasian Continent, even know what a watchtower is? I've never seen one in North America, except the odd cranulated tower on some of the old KHs.

  'Watchtower' magazine is associated with annoying people pounding on your door on Saturday morning. Yet, you may actually LIKE a JW that you work with, as long as they aren't constantly preaching at you, so you may be curious enough to look up their religion. I doubt anyone is curious enough to look up the magazine.
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  Charity Shocker in Canada - or are these figures real?

  by Dogpatch in

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  [someone passed this on to me from canada.

  it sounds pretty far-fetched, but how much truth is there in this?

  anyone know?-- randy].

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  PaintedToeNail

  I remember a sister in Ohio who was raising her grandchildren, due to their mother being a crack-head and unfit mother. She kept having babies, sex paid for her drugs, and her mother kept taking them. The brothers at the KH told the sister to stop expecting the people at the KH to support her grandkids and the next time she needed something to check with Salvation Army, and other religious organizations for the things she needed.

  I'm not saying the elders at the KH were wrong. Her daughter needed to stop having kids and expecting mom to take them. Her daughter needed to be in a rehab clinic, but she didn't want to be rehabilitated. It was a no win situation.