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  earthquake in IL back in the 1960's

  by TotallyADD in

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  i remember the fear i had, i thought i was going to die because the big a started.

  all it was a little shaking of the plates and glasses in the cabinets.

  it was 1967 or 1968 late fall on a saturday morning.

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  NotBlind

  True, but none of these three earthquakes in Illinois ('68, '87, and '08) were on the New Madrid fault. These were actually in the Wabash Valley fault zone, which is well to the north.
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  earthquake in IL back in the 1960's

  by TotallyADD in

  1. jw
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  i remember the fear i had, i thought i was going to die because the big a started.

  all it was a little shaking of the plates and glasses in the cabinets.

  it was 1967 or 1968 late fall on a saturday morning.

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  NotBlind

  I don't remember it, but my parents do. I think that was the one centered around McLeansboro. More recently, I actually DO remember the ones in 1987 and 2008. Very minor earthquakes, really, but when you live in Illinois/Indiana, you aren't really used to those things. And the elders used the earthquake ad nauseum in talk illustrations for about two weeks following the event.
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  Do yo know your options - Jan KM 2011 Answers?

  by Sharpie in

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  hey i was wondering if anyone has the answers for this weeks km part do you know your options.

  questions are-.

  what is the main reason why jehovah witnesses refuse blood tranfusions .

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  NotBlind

  Oh no - not again.

  This is the exact same article - word for word - that was in the January 2009 KM and the January 2007 KM. These fools don't even have the ambition to change the words around when they reprint the same article every 24 months for the sheep to lick up.

  I wonder if any of the rank-and-file even noticed.
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  If you were in the Governing Body, how would YOU change the generation prophecy?

  by sabastious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i personally would lose the overlapping terminology and just say that the generation refers to the entire jehovah's witness movement.

  jesus is basically saying that the movement would not be gone when end comes to fruition.

  this will give us hope during the great tribulation because there will be times when our extermination seems imminent.. what about you?.

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  NotBlind

  I would adopt Bert Schroeder's proposal that THIS GENERATION began in 1957 with the launch of the Russian Sputnik satellite - i.e. heavenly signs & celestial phenomena. That should buy them an extra 43 years.

  It's no sillier than the current teaching.
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  Is Your Favorite Kingdom Melody still in the New Songbook? Let's see

  by cattails in

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  2. entertainment

  is your favorite kingdom melody still in the new songbook?

  red - gone.

  blue - changes to music or lyrics.

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  My favorite is the new song 92, "Flip the Bird".
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  Ex-Elders please advice on my first Public Talk as a MS.

  by african GB Member in

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  the topic is- "young people: serve jehovah wholeheartedly".. i'd appreciate various points that would make this talk appealing to my cong.

  youths, but please keep it within jw boundaries because i don't want to give my elders any hint of me being an apostate yet.. i have to say that i am still enjoying my newly given "priviledges'', and am still so surprised that holy spirit has'nt pointed me out yet.. agbm.

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  NotBlind

  AGBM:

  Based on your icon, could your real name possibly be: Samuel Francisco Herd?

  If you're really giving a public talk, just read the outline word-for-word and look up about 10 random scriptures from the outline. That's what all the other hacks do.
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  Try again...DC 2010 Discourse 48

  by JWFreak in

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  http://www.mediafire.com/file/ghnjmmoymjw/dctalk48.pdf.

  just uploaded page 2...not 1 or 3 as they are of no interest.. this talk is only given by gb members or branch committee members.

  enjoy.

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  NotBlind

  Interesting how they try to explain this.... again.

  Of interest is the new DVD that will evidently be coming out "Jehovahs Witnesses, Faith in Action - Out of Darkness"

  They mention how Fred Franz was a 'contemporary' of many of the younger anointed. Of course, although even that is a stretch, the Bible never uses the word 'contemporary' in that specific context. The word is 'generation'. Who really believes that Freddie Franz, a man who grew up literally in horse-and-buggy days, is of the same generation as the 35-year-old elder who started partaking 6 weeks ago?

  I'm assuming this is the concluding talk of the district convention.
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  WTS Smoking in the 1940's

  by cantleave in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i went to meeting today.

  during the public talk it was mentioned that as far back as 1942 the society pointed out the dangers of smoking tobacco and that it wasn't appropriate for christains.

  as usual there were no references given.

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  NotBlind

  Actually, I found this reference which stated that 1895 was one of the first times Russell spoke against tobacco use.

  *** w95 5/15 p. 23 par. 11 Part 2—Flashes of Light—Great and Small ***
  As a result of increased light, habits at first merely frowned upon were later handled with appropriate gravity. An example of this was in connection with the use of tobacco. In Zion’s Watch Tower of August 1, 1895, Brother Russell directed attention to 1 Corinthians 10:31 and 2 Corinthians 7:1 and wrote: “I cannot see how it would be to God’s glory, or to his own profit, for any Christian to use tobacco in any form.” Since 1973 it has been clearly understood that no tobacco user can be one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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  CONVENTION PHOTO !!

  by elder-schmelder in

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  2. friends

  i found this picture on facebook.. but i wanted to ask everyone a question.

  how many people here remember a moment in their young adult life at the conventions like this?.

  [picture removed - it's unclear if this is publicly available or copied without permission - simon].

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  NotBlind

  They are already rebellious. In the first picture, I count ZERO lapel badges. In the second, I see only TWO lapel badges. Don't they know the FDS tells you to wear that lapel badge so you can advertise your name and congregation to available singles advertise advertise advertise the king and his convention?
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  2010 Examining the scriptures daily

  by bobld in

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  foreword: "secular education is shortsighted.true a good education is a basic need,it can be the difference between deing able to provide for your family or not.benefits of secular education is limited.education cannot guarantee life" just some wise council for the gb/fds of the wbts.. "there is a type of education that can benefit us eternally.

  (study god's word and the wbts, wt/a, publications) will guarantee life (bs).divine education helps us to pursue what is good and avoid what is bad.

  " i know many good educated people who do good and avoid bad.also i know many who lack a good education who do good things and do bad things.education has nothing to do with being good or bad(look out santa clus knows).

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  NotBlind

  Yeah, I noticed that in the Foreword, too. It quite ticked me off, too.

  As usual, they save their anti-education rants for internal publications, like OKM or the new internal 'study' Watchtower. I'm halfway surprised they didn't compose a special anti-education song for the new songbook.