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  Experiment

  by minimus in

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  minimus youv'e maximustd
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  Add your favorite JW prayer cliche'

  by King Solomon in

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  you know what i'm talking about: the trite, often-repeated phrases that convey the person offering the prayer has drawn a mental blank, and utters these words while their brain desperately searches for the next cliche', so they can conclude the ritual with the required tag, "in jesus' name we pray".... (is that like the postage stamp?).

  ok, i'll kick this one off, and take the most obvious:.

  "forgive us where we fall short....".

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  "We thank you Jehovah for this wonderful meeting we're about to enjoy Jehovah,"

  I only called my father by his name when we were in business meetings. Other times when with ourselves I would call him Dad. It somewhat sounds artificial to say Jehovah instead of "Father" like Jesus instructed. If you have a "relationship" with a deity I hope it is on a more friendly basis.??
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  Add your favorite JW prayer cliche'

  by King Solomon in

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  you know what i'm talking about: the trite, often-repeated phrases that convey the person offering the prayer has drawn a mental blank, and utters these words while their brain desperately searches for the next cliche', so they can conclude the ritual with the required tag, "in jesus' name we pray".... (is that like the postage stamp?).

  ok, i'll kick this one off, and take the most obvious:.

  "forgive us where we fall short....".

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  RRRRRrrr, during the closing prayer on a Tuesday night, brothers asking God to give a special portion of holy spirit on the governing body during their meeting on Wednesday.
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  Todays Bloomberg/ Business Week story: Religion and Money in the U.S.A.- "How the Mormans make Money".(explains how the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society hides assets).

  by Balaamsass in

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  the church of latter-day saints has amassed financial holdings worth billions.

  here's an inside look at its business empire.

  read the story on businessweek.com: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-10/how-the-mormons-make-money.

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  " Better than the Hedge Fund return."

  They have learned quite well that you can shear the sheep three times a year, but you can only slaughter it once.
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  How big a fee does the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society get for booking Jehovah's Witnesses into Convention Hotels?

  by Balaamsass in

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  curious.

  i know travel agents and on-line sites get a kickback or fee for booking hotels.

  how much is this fee?.

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  WT went in to the rooming business because the community did not have enough motel/hotel rooms for the large crowds from out of town. The conventions were much larger. It used to be that they would arrange for families to stay with people in the community and they even set up tent cities.

  It was in the late 70's early 80's that they started to have the approved rooming list. At first it was in very nice hotels and the prices were way below what you could get personally. I know that wt did get comp rooms for the co and do's.

  However, the quality of the rooms has deteriorated over the years. The nice hotels are not offered any longer. One year the KM mentioned that someone set up a hibachi in the room and created a real problems. It was about this time that the KM's had a 45 minute part on the do's and don't of staying at a hotel.

  The Motel 6's and 8's offered are there at the same price you can get nice Hotels over the internet. I thought that wt would/should get out of the hotel business years ago after the internet came about.

  I don't think that they are making much money off the hotels, and with the cheap places now on the list I have never seen or heard of a CO or DO stay there. The traveling boys stay at the wealthy elder's houses and drink.
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  Motorcylces

  by harleybear in

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  okay i thought it would be fun to find out who of you all ride bikes and i don't mean bicycles.

  we have 2 harley road kings.

  what do you ride??

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  Kawasaki Z1000 Ninja. Tennessee area, Dragon's tale. Big Bend National Park road trip in Texas. Colorado. Sturgis twice. Daily rider to work, even in the winter.
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  Governing body member engaged... Again!

  by OneDayillBeFree in

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  just found out that the australian governong body member known as geoffrey jackson got engaged to a sister about two weeks ago.

  it really shocked me at first but then i remembered how other members of the gb have remarried in the past like daniel sidlik.

  what made me say "woah" was hearing that the holy bride to be is really young!

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  I wonder if they go ice skating?
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  2013 Circuit Assembly programs on jw.org

  by sd-7 in

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  i just happened to pay a visit to hypertexttransferprotocol colon backslash backslash worldwide web dot jw dot org (http://www.jw.org), my absolute favorite website of all time right now, and i noticed they have assembly programs for 2013 on there.. it looks like the programs have similar themes as this year's convention, themed "safeguard your heart".

  the assembly program is themed "safeguard your mind" and the special assembly day is themed "safeguard your conscience", unless i've confused the two, i really don't feel like going back to look at them right now, the files opened up at like 198% magnification and it creeped the hell out of me, it was like a giant recurring nightmare in 3-d or something.

  it sounds like they're really worried about the jw mindset right now, or else why have programs with those themes?

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  "Safeguard Your Conscience"

  I made a deal with my conscience.

  I won't bother it, if it doesn't bother me.
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  No more 3-day DCs starting in 2013?

  by respectful_observer in

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  apologies if there is another recent thread on this, but i have heard from 4 different people in 3 different geographic areas (including someone who does advance work for the dcs), that beginning in 2013 the three day dc program will be replaced by a second two-day circuit assembly.

  some people were passing the info along like a secret, others seemed to think that everyone already knew.. if everyone in j-dub land is already talking about this, how is it not all over this forum??.

  anyway, can anyone confirm or deny?.

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  No more 3-day DCs starting in 2013?

  by respectful_observer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  apologies if there is another recent thread on this, but i have heard from 4 different people in 3 different geographic areas (including someone who does advance work for the dcs), that beginning in 2013 the three day dc program will be replaced by a second two-day circuit assembly.

  some people were passing the info along like a secret, others seemed to think that everyone already knew.. if everyone in j-dub land is already talking about this, how is it not all over this forum??.

  anyway, can anyone confirm or deny?.

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  JakeM2012

  LonghairGirl "This is what the religion did with its anti-college/career stand. It attracted and deliberately recruited people who have absolutely no education, no ambition not to mention every kind of issue you can possibly think of. Good riddance."

  As the organization continues to encounter troubled waters, the hand is still stretched out to assist others (of their material possesions before the final day).