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  Are you a good person?

  by Xanthippe in

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  something happened this week to make me think about this again.. it feels like all bets are off and i really don't know what a good person is anymore.. when i left the jws i was so sure i knew what it meant to be a good person.. this has been revised many times since.. i tend to favour the utilitarian approach, the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.. sometimes you have to stick your neck out and say this is not good for me no matter what others may feel they need from me.. no idea where i'm going with this maybe this is a breakthrough in my life or maybe that glass of wine was stronger than i thought!.

  any thoughts?.

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  I am mature enough to recognize and admit that most of what I do is done out of pure self interest, although I do have a streak of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". But honestly, when it comes down to the level of self preservation, there aren't many people I would sacrifice myself for. I don't think I'm a bad person though.
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  How many members of our forum are there, and where are most from?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  i would love to know where most of our fellow forum members are from.... is there a way to compile a quick list?.

  for example, i would love to know how many live near me......

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  southern Illinois
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  Strong, odd and weird opinions on my brothers anniversary

  by usualusername in

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  today my brother a non witness gave me a phone call.. .

  he spoke about this, that and the other.

  he then said that my oldest brother (an elder) was having his 25th wedding anniversary.

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  I suggest you find something better to do with your time that day. Besides the fact that you know you are unwelcome (no matter what any other relatives may say), you know it will be dull as dry toast.
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  Mud slide in WA state - sister at Assembly

  by leaving_quietly in

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  look for it in the yearbook next year.

  there was an assembly the day of the big mudslide in washington last saturday.

  a sister's life was saved because she obediently attended the assembly and thus was not home when a huge mudslide hit her neighborhood and buried and killed lots of people.

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  A woman in my old hall was in a wreck on the way home from an assembly. Her witness husband was killed and she was badly injured. Her injuries in the wreck led to the acceleration of her dementia and by the time I quit attending she was beginning to forget some of the basic witness beliefs, like only 144,000will go to heaven.
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  3 year olds giving talks now....

  by EndofMysteries in

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  i thought i was young giving one at 6 or 7 years old, now there are 3 year olds giving talks.

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnyjkzxg-j8.

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  but village girl, he has a penis! We all *know* that a person isn't a person unless he has a penis! Personally, I keep mine in my purse.
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  A medical question.

  by quellycatface in

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  i have been having pain in my left hip for around 4 years.

  got worse this winter.

  hurts at night, after walking and periods of inactivity.

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  I have sciatica - it's a sharp pain in my hip that shoots down my leg sometimes. Mostly it just stays in my hip though. The chiropractor helps, but it's too expensive to pay for unless I'm in really bad shape. Mostly it comes and goes without intervention.
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  the circuit assembly

  by thedog1 in

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  i am off to the circuit assembly tomorrow.

  not really looking forward to it as it is the first one i will go to after finding out many things on this forum.

  since the last assembly i have read coc, in search of christian freedom, and some of the gentile times reconsidered.

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  Good luck, better take some Pepto Bismal with you
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  MONEY-MAKING EXERCISE?

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone have info on a letter from the org which compels every kh to purchase goods for their maintenance from a specific multi-national company?.

  or have i simply missed a posting on this topic?.

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  the hall I used to go to bought their maintenance supplies from the COBE's company, or Walmart or the Dollar store
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  Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses Wisconsin and Midwest

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  so who's from wisconsin and the midwest usa.

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  Southern Illinois down by Evansville Indiana
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  So how many of us had guilt pangs because our WT was not highlighted?

  by cultBgone in

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  we attended several different congregations in different states, and the one common thread among them all was...if you had your study article highlighted, you were a good jw.. honestly, how often did you cover over your magazine when the attendant walked by handing out copies to visitors?.

  sheesh.

  would anyone believe how weird this organization really is?.

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  I was always a slacker - I rarely marked my magazines. I don't like to mark up books or magazines, it just feels wrong. If I want to make notes, I do it in a notebook.