Posts by cappytan

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The new service meeting

by John Aquila in

i wanted to relate an experience that happened this morning.

it is regarding the new format for the meeting on thursdays in my area.

its not word for word but im summarizing what i heard, the best i can remember.

Fishing and JW's???

by lurkernomore in

so i was just reading a thread and came across a completely new jw 'rule', that of not being allowed to go fishing!..

at least it's new to me as i always enjoyed fishing as did others in my old congregation.

anyone else heard of this or had this imposed on them in they're jw lives?.

cappytan

I was talked to once about my practice of catch and release.

I pointed out to the brother that it was a conservation effort. That I caught so many fish, it would be reprehensible, and in some cases illegal, if I were to keep everything.

After that, I was never hassled about it again.

I am a fly fisherman as well.

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The new service meeting

by John Aquila in

i wanted to relate an experience that happened this morning.

it is regarding the new format for the meeting on thursdays in my area.

its not word for word but im summarizing what i heard, the best i can remember.

cappytan

Plausible.

i really really really want your stories to be true.

all my family is gushing about the "historic" occasion.

Gag

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What is your relationship with ALCOHOL?

by nicolaou in

here in the uk new drinking guidelines have been issued which suggest "no more than 14 units a week - equivalent to six pints of beer or seven glasses of wine.".

another piece of the advice which is getting a lot of attention is that "if people drink, it should be moderately over three or more days and that some days should be alcohol-free.".

already people are making cries of "nanny state!

What is your relationship with ALCOHOL?

by nicolaou in

here in the uk new drinking guidelines have been issued which suggest "no more than 14 units a week - equivalent to six pints of beer or seven glasses of wine.".

another piece of the advice which is getting a lot of attention is that "if people drink, it should be moderately over three or more days and that some days should be alcohol-free.".

already people are making cries of "nanny state!

cappytan

What is your relationship with ALCOHOL?

I have accepted alcohol into my heart and we now have a close, personal relationship.

Praise Dionysus.

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After 17 years, I went to a KH....really shocked!!

by Prometheus in

after severe pressure from my family, i have decided to attend to the nearest kh.

and a little history regarding my self: i became inactive and lost completely contact of the wt changes and "new light" 17 years ago.. everything seemed so odd and strange during the meeting.

latest technology, animated movies, watchtower web tv, a website that you can download everything, including km and wt study articles.

cappytan

''Do you believe that this is Jehovah's Organization?'

Just say, "I don't know what to believe..." over and over again.

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My Bethwl Experience Part 11

by new boy in

more about cars and n.y.c.. .

back then hundreds of cars were stolen, in the city every day!

the new york post said "the average life span of a corvette (sports car) parked on the street was 24 hours!

cappytan

Next up............... Love and sex in the "Big House"

Just ask Patterson Bethel Night crew about the glow in the dark condoms in the water treatment plant.

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Half of the cong was dancing last night

by StarTrekAngel in

so went to the meeting last night.

i had not been to one since before the holiday break (3 weeks ago).

besides, it was our first meeting in the new format.

cappytan

Pete: Gonna take a wild guess here...is Kenny G or Yanni in your car CD player? :-P

j/k lol

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Can you guys help me? I need to find all the recent articles on the WT's most recent stance on education and carreers

by macys in

i am at work talking to a current jdub and i am making progress (i think) with her and right now the theme is education.

she says that the wt no longer looks down on education and is claiming that the wt no longer says we are close to the end!

tia!

cappytan

Last year's broadcast. January 2015.

Tight Pants Tony gets into education bashing right after the introduction.

http://tv.jw.org/#en/video/VODStudio/pub-jwb_201501_1_VIDEO

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I almost died laughing at the meeting last night. OMG WTF is going on? Have I been away this long?

by macys in

ok so most of you guys know already that i am going through the reinstatement process for my parents but i do have a partially sinister plan which i will not mention here since someone told me that there are b-lites that read boards like this.

last night and it was the funniest experience i have ever seen.

besides that the brother doing the sound and video screwed up the whole thing when showing the videos and it took 3 brothers to fix it after 10 minutes, the whole thing was a joke.

cappytan

i think the main reason Watchtower is using animated and/or silhouette characters in videos is because they don't want to put actors onscreen that later on go "apostate". Hence we see very high-level persons used for broadcasts. At this point Watchtower does not know who it can really trust to be around 3-5 years from now.

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if this was the reasoning.