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  The privileged Bethel speakers and the rest of us Jamokes.

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  cicero,illinois 1970's.

  our four day assemblies in the 1970's through the 1980's were pure torture.. they were held at a horse race track in cicero,il in the smoking hot and humid month of july.

  they charged around $2 for parking.

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  I'd like to think that I would have never sat through even one day at an outdoor assembly. The miserable indoor facilities were bad enough.
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  Why most young/teen JW's are born-in's?

  by XPeterX in

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  age 8-18 or maybe older.why won't you find young people or teens in the world who want to learn about the jw's without being taught by their parents?i mean c'mon guys we all know that the majority of the jw youth are jw's because their mothers,fathers or both told them about the org.any thoughts?.

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  I read the magazines as a child, my dub uncle sent them to my grandma. Whenever the dubs would call at our house, my mom would take the literature and be pleasant. Once, we ended up as a return visit when I was a young teen - the dubs gave me a copy of the current version of the young people ask book. I read it, every single word. WHen they came back they asked me what I thought of it, and I said that it presented some interesting ideas. My mom said I was very diplomatic and polite, but made it clear that I wasn't interested in becoming a dub. I was way too interested in boys to sign up for a religion that forbade dating.
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  Cracked Photoplasty on JWs

  by Vidiot in

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  http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_496_the-17-worst-christmas-specials-possible_p17/#8.

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  that was funny!
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  A post on the website 'postsecret.com'

  by What Now? in

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  I remember my in laws basically saying just that when we told them we were becoming dubs. We had just had our first baby, and they never got even one christmas with him. my father in law died in 2005, while we were still deep in the borg, and he never got to spend one holiday or birthday with my kids. I can't get that time back and it just kills me.
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  New letter RE public witnessing.. omg they are setting up stands!!!

  by BigE in

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  this link contains news of a letter sent to the elders about witnesses setting up stands to peddle literature in public places!

  how desperate are they?

  it sounds sad honestly... and they are told not to argue with apostates .

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  the local congregation used to set up a tent and table in front of the local Walmart. I don't know why they quit doing it, whether Wal Mart refused to continue it
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  JW's in a sports bar

  by pontoon in

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  so i'm 2000+ miles from home on a mission for work.

  out to lunch with three other guys from the company, in a sports bar on a sunday about 3:00-4:00 pm.

  crowded, not a roudy place, nice.

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  I never had any complaints about splitting the bill. In our group at least, the practice was always to get separate checks. I didn't pay much attention to whether the others tipped properly, but we always did. Given the mess my kids always make, I tip extra.
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  Would you know or figure out what this is supposed to be if someone didn't tell you?

  by Theocratic Sedition in

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  girl at work gave me one of these.

  i was very appreciative of her doing so, yet too embarrased to ask her what it was.

  i thought it was the toyota logo at first.

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  angel - immediately.
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  AAAAHH!! DO you really want this "everlasting life in Paradise"?

  by hamsterbait in

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  they argue that we never tire of our food , never tire of sex (except the single resurrected who will be celibate) etc etc, there is so much to see and do.

  so we all want to live forever and never die:.

  life in paradise -.

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  I'd rather be dead than spend even a month in the exclusive company of dubs.
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  WHY are guns less controlled in the US than hardcore porn?

  by hamsterbait in

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  well?.

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  i would posit that it's easier to obtain the nastiest hard core porn than to obtain even a cap gun. after all, if i want a cap gun i at least have to go upstairs and retrieve the package from amazon and pay the credit card bill. I can get hard core porn in less than 10 seconds right here on my laptop without even standing up.
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  Sandy Hook Massacre - Solutions

  by tootired2care in

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  "material technologies and methods would make this relatively inexpensive"

  Marvin, I understand your point, but I think you are underestimating just how broke and how skin flint cheap the citizens in my area are. Just at the middle school, which is right behind my house, there must be 50 ground floor windows and at least 8 entry points. Even $50,000 to install safety modifications would be hard to sell, when that school can't even afford a librarian, a nurse, or a full time guidance counselor.

  Too many people, especially in small towns far away from large cities, just don't believe that something like this could happen to them. After all, there are more suicides in my county than murders ( I actually heard someone say that). People here think that because everybody knows everybody else, and everybody has lived here forever, there are no people who would commit such a terrible act. I know that isn't reality, but people desparately want to feel safe. Installing bullet proof glass would mean acknowledging that they really aren't any safer here in Carmi, IL than the people who live in Chicago or New York.