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  Dub Glossary

  by Farkel in

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  2. friends

  many of you have already seen this, but there are also many new ones posting and lurking.

  this is a little handy reference to help you understand dub-speak.

  i've updated it an added a number of new terms and expressions.. ----------------------.

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  NeonMadman

  bttt - This one deserves another run.
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  Parsippany, NJ

  by TweetieBird in

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  anyone close to there?

  i will be there from july 22nd til the 28th.

  my hubby will be in meetings all day so i will need to keep myself entertained.

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  NeonMadman

  I live about 1/2 hour from Parsippany. Keep me posted if you get a group together.
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  Witness work at 2 a.m.?

  by Fatfreek in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a non-jw friend in a southern state has close ties to a jw with a late teen-aged son.

  this son is pioneering during late hours, meaning 11 pm to 2 am.

  i'm told his car group calls on, among others, convenience store workers where they apparently have much idle time on their hands.

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  NeonMadman

  Pioneers in need of hours can be very creative.

  So can young people who want to get out of the house at night.
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  Acts 7:59

  by civicsi00 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  riddle me this about acts 7:59.. ok, so last night i pulled out the 1985 kingdom interlinear and just started perusing through it.

  after a while, i arrived at acts 7:59 where stephen "appealed" to jesus.

  this is what i also found:.

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  NeonMadman

  The sequence of events in Acts 7 weighs against the WTS' contention that Stephen was addressing Jesus directly as he saw Him in vision rather than praying to Him (though I'm not sure there is really a distinction there). In verse 57, Stephen sees Jesus standing at the right hand of the Father. He is subsequently dragged out of the city and stoned. Are we to understand, then, that the vision persisted during all the time that Stephen was being dragged out of the city? It seems far more likely that Stephen was praying to Jesus in the normal sense.

  As an interesting side note, Jesus was seen standing at the right hand of the Father in this text. He is usually seen as sitting at the Father's right hand. Some commentators have speculated that Jesus, in effect, rose from His throne to welcome the soul of the first Christian martyr.
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  Don't JWs Get Humiliated Everytime They Say THIS Time The End Is CLOSE!!!!!

  by minimus in

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  i don't get it!

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  NeonMadman

  I was talking to my mom the other night about college, and how I wasn't allowed to go (in the 80s). She said "Well, the reason you didn't go wasn't because you weren't allowed, it was because the end was so close back then".

  me:

  As Bob Dylan said, "Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."
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  Drew Carey and Revelations. Another e-mail forward from my folks....

  by Lady Zombie in

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  2. friends

  well this time they're convinced that (in their words) "someone has studied with drew carey!

  " (meaning a jw).

  http://www.servantsnews.com/sn0207/carey.htm.

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  NeonMadman

  Servants News is published by a spin-off of the old Worldwide Church of God, founded by Herbert W. Armstrong. Armstrong followers also teach that Christmas, Easter etc. are pagn and not to be celebrated, and they also have a strong emphasis on apocalyptic prophecy. In fact, Armstrong used to teach that the end of the wold was coming in 1975 - sound familiar?

  So Drew Carey might more easily have gotten his info from the Armstrongites, since that is who is publishing the report of it.
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  Which Governing body member will die next?? Will things change?

  by Witness 007 in

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  2. bible

  i will review this post when it happens so.....prophecy time!

  who will guess correct!

  my $50 is on theodore jarc born in 1925?

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  NeonMadman

  Whoever dies next, I seriously doubt anything will change. We thought things would change 30 years ago, when Knorr died, then when Franz died and as more and more of the "old guard" then passed from the scene. The "new guard" from back then is rapidly becoming the "old guard" today. These guys are simply too good at grooming and appointing successors who think exactly as they do.
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  Interesting JW/Mormon Statistics from Barna

  by NeonMadman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the barna group conducted a survey comparing the religious and demographic backgrounds of jw's and mormons vs. evangelical christians.

  i found some of the statistics rather surprising.

  for example, 29% of those who said they are jw's also reported that they are registered to vote.

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  NeonMadman

  I'd also discussed the results here. It is interesting to note that 28% of the respondents that identified themselves as Witnesses are "unchurched". That is, they believe but do not attend. I think this same 28% register to vote.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/158408/1.ashx

  Dang, should have known somebody got to it ahead of me...
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  Interesting JW/Mormon Statistics from Barna

  by NeonMadman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the barna group conducted a survey comparing the religious and demographic backgrounds of jw's and mormons vs. evangelical christians.

  i found some of the statistics rather surprising.

  for example, 29% of those who said they are jw's also reported that they are registered to vote.

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  NeonMadman

  Rounded up, 2 out of 7 or 4 out of 14 would get you 29%. That's far too small
  a sample for accurate statistics. Many such statistics are derived from small
  samples. They don't tell you that because they need to fill pages and sound
  like they know what they are doing. Even if the sample is larger (say 100), it is
  JW's that fill out such surveys that answered while the majority would simply
  avoid answering, so it really would not represent JWism as a whole.

  The article says that they contacted 186 JW's, which implies that the 29% who said they were registered to vote would have been about 54 individuals. Granted that's still too small a sample to reach any definite conclusions, it still strikes me as a high number. I can't imagine interviewing 100 publishers in a given congregation and finding that 29 of them were registered to vote. You may be right, though, that the sample itself may be skewed. Probably the more gung-ho JW's would avoid answering such a survey, especially if they knew it was an evangelical survey firm conducting it.
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  Interesting JW/Mormon Statistics from Barna

  by NeonMadman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the barna group conducted a survey comparing the religious and demographic backgrounds of jw's and mormons vs. evangelical christians.

  i found some of the statistics rather surprising.

  for example, 29% of those who said they are jw's also reported that they are registered to vote.

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  NeonMadman

  Neon

  Is this the one?

  http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpdateID=298

  Well, yes and no. When I hit that link I come up to the front page rather than the actual article. That's the same problem I was having trying to embed it.