I would be surprise if they circulate letter on the issue. They avoid talking sensitive issues. Then they count on the fact that people have short memories. That is why the re-visit people with the "good news" about the wt empire (kingdom)
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21Congregations receive branch letter about UN
by cyberguy ini don't know if this has been posted on this site yet, but i came across something that indicates that congregations in germany were sent a letter of explanation (or rather, deception) about the societys un connection.. scroll to the end of page -- .
http://www.quotes.jehovahswitnesses.com/united_nations.htm.
can someone do a better translation from german to english?
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Where did the Sky go?
by Elsewhere ini noticed that sky has not been around for a few months.
does anyone know what is happening with her?
i sent an email to her over a week ago to check up and haven't heard back.. .
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God is sitting on it,
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What are your goals in life?
by butalbee inwhere do you see yourself in 5 or 10 yrs?
what do you really want to do with your life?
are you living your dreams or just dreaming to live?
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"Where do you see yourself in 5 or 10 yrs? "
Visiting, no just travelling, totally different places, sharing. Hong Kong, Agfanistan, South pole?
Remind me to ask the same question at next GB meeting.
"What do you really want to do with your life? "
Control it, enjoy it."Are you living your dreams or just dreaming to live? "
I dont dream..."Do you like your job or do you wish you were doing something else? "
I dont a job just thing to do when i want to."Are you happy w/ your present day world?"
I dont have a world. WT says the world is backwards and belong to Natas"Are you looking for love or just loving to look? "
Where am I supposed to be looking for the that ineffable feeling?"Do you ever wish you were somebody else,
living in a different world,
doing a different thing?"I haven't met that ("somebody") person yet,
how many world do i have to choose from,?
like what? other than sleep, eat, dance, sex, and posting on this board?Sorry for the stereotype wt/jw answers.
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ANYONE HERE USE ORACLE?
by Trotafox inthe database has holes in it,.
the server is too slow;.
i'm not authorized to go.. i've chewed off all my fingernails;.
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I bet there must be several cheap 'generic' "REPORT GENERATOR" out there that can handle oracle db. I think a report/list is all you need.
You all are blasphemous, that's why oracle doesn't work for you.
Look at what happened to anyone who did the same to the WT oracle.
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for those who "grew up in the borg"
by zev inat this late, middle stage of my life, i've started wondering, now that i know what i know, about the things in my life that i "lived" with.
having been raised all my life in the "borg" i have known nothing else.
when questions began forming years ago, it started me thinking.
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Raised jw= a living HELL
Damges outweight the benefits, you can only 'survive' within the wt complex subculture, until you break the chain, the umbilical cord.
In a few seminars (MUCH LESS TIME) you could learn the same (public speaking, ethics etc) or even more, plus the benefit of the"bad association".
Reading two non jw books (not CoC) and a few years in college has proven, to me, much more benefitial than so many years attending boring jw mettings. I got a much beter 'vision'.
WT make you think that only JW are educated and focused, everyone else is wandering, lost.
For me CoC was the last thing a needed to completely bury the whole thing.
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300,000
by larc injust wanted to let you know that this db has had over 300,000 posts and almost 5,000 registered posters.
all of this in a little over two years.
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Simon,
cookies?
topic read x times
number of visitors = what?
are revisits, repeat visits counted?
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Stop calling Britain, England.
by sleepy injust a small request to you all.. britian is not england.. england is a part of britian, as is wales, scotland .a lot of what you may think is english is in fact welsh or scotish.. it is like me refering to the usa as new york .. if this carries on i'll have no other choice but to call the usa canada.
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geographically speaking I was very practical... I spend all night dancing with four beautifull ladies from Sweden.
Some with Ph in literature, so I pretended i know what we were talking about. In reality i even had a hard time locating Sweden mentally.
Well one of them told me that United States of Europe is not possible.
BTW, Sweden is not using the new europen currency yet. And i thoght England (sorry) and France were the only countries resisting the new currency.
Forgot to ask them for a new currency tip.
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30+ years of Field Service Observations
by Tulsi Das insome very random thoughts based on 30+ years of field service activity.
would especially enjoy responses by jt, alanf, amazing, & others.. why they do it.
1. guilt.
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naked!!!
HAHAHAHA
at one time i was ruunning a business from home.
a customer stepped in while i was taking a shower and my partner took care of him.
then the customer started making noise and demanded to talk to me.
i had not cloth with me just a towel at the bath room... so he insisted in seen me and i steped out of the bath naked and confronted the guy.
I still crack (as i am doing now) every time my partner or myself recall the incident.
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30+ years of Field Service Observations
by Tulsi Das insome very random thoughts based on 30+ years of field service activity.
would especially enjoy responses by jt, alanf, amazing, & others.. why they do it.
1. guilt.
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1Cor. 9:16 "...for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel.
17 For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
a DO used to joke about "woe is me if i do not preach"
As you know special pioneer and missionaries could have the $ allowance cut in half i they did not preach (or just write down the number on the piece of paper) for 150 hours every month.
And elders could be dumped if they dont take the lead in selling and recruting, i mean preaching.
Their system is very similiar to totalitarian gov., watching and keeping track of every activity.
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MORE ON 1975, FOR MUSKY
by Liberty inalong with musky's 1975 post i've just seen another so i wanted to try and reach musky again and reach others who wonder about the reality of the society's 1975 speculations.
af and others have done an excellent job documenting what was actually said by the watchtower society through their own official publications and spokesmen.
as a person who was actually there in those heady times of the late 60's and early 70's these official documents confirm what my memory tells me i knew all along, that of course the society actively promoted 1975 as a "marked date" or a date of "great significance" at the very least.
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1973 "divine victory" international convention, the "last" one.
missionaries with moren than (2?) years in service were paid a round trip to "home". Of course wt asked the r&f to paid for the cost, i think they used special colection boxes at kh. I had the opportunity to see several friends and relatives.
Jw walked like idiots 'dressed' or waring with a'sandwhich sign announcing something.
Then the "hail" in the form of "kingdom new", R Franz mentioned that printing and distribution was equivalent to 1/7 (whatever 7 means) of world population at the time.
One of those "news" had a very similar title as the one the Judge R published ('religion being xxx') 50 years before.
Ray Franz in his convention talk sounded like he still beleived the 1975 crap promoted by his uncle, Freddy. I have not asked him yet.
BTW my family talked nothing but 1975 at every opportunity.
When wt dismised the issue in a wt article i got furious and made it clear at home i did not agree with the article
Anyone over 40 should have not problem remebering all of it.
Before 1980 GB member Shroder (the one with nutty son) acnowledge and said "well we have no more dates" and mentioned several dates 1925, 1975 when things did not happen. But i think he is the same guy who treated Carl Olson harshly for doing some investigation about F. Franz incident. So again i lost any respect i had for him.
Got carried away, seems like my memory serve me well...