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  Do You do Links

  by Satanus in

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  2. friends

  when people start threads by posting a link such as youtube or news, do you go there to see what they want you to see?

  or, would you prefer that they ran a short intro or summary for you?

  do you think that there is laziness on one side or the other?.

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  I Want to Believe

  I hate links, especially videos. A summary takes seconds to read, but you may spend minutes trying to watch a video before even getting to the point. Plus, at least a summary helps to start the discussion about the link instead of just throwing it out there.
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  Need Advice. Quick.

  by AwSnap in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i apologize for being absent for so long.

  i've got a jw at my house right now (unexpectedly) who is talking to my husband.

  he keeps on bringing up that only jw's have universal love....that if you go anywhere in the world, you can mention you're a witness & you'll automatically be welcomed and accepted by fellow jw's.

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  Trekkies. Browncoats.
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  I think I stumbled onto the eventual plan for the governing body teaching today.....

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  on the jw.org site, look at the 2/1/2012 public wt, page 27 of the pdf...section 4"how are jehovah's witnesses organized today".

  if anybody noticed, i mentioned i thought that no mention of 'faithful and discreet slave' possibly since 2010 in the public placed wt's.

  i've read all of them backtracking to 2/1/2012 so far, and so far, my suspicion has proven true, no mention.

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  EoM said: "...because if they got a true anointed in there, they may correct many of the wrong things happening."

  Ok, I can see where we have vastly different assumptions.
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  I think I stumbled onto the eventual plan for the governing body teaching today.....

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  on the jw.org site, look at the 2/1/2012 public wt, page 27 of the pdf...section 4"how are jehovah's witnesses organized today".

  if anybody noticed, i mentioned i thought that no mention of 'faithful and discreet slave' possibly since 2010 in the public placed wt's.

  i've read all of them backtracking to 2/1/2012 so far, and so far, my suspicion has proven true, no mention.

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  EDIT: double post
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  I think I stumbled onto the eventual plan for the governing body teaching today.....

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  on the jw.org site, look at the 2/1/2012 public wt, page 27 of the pdf...section 4"how are jehovah's witnesses organized today".

  if anybody noticed, i mentioned i thought that no mention of 'faithful and discreet slave' possibly since 2010 in the public placed wt's.

  i've read all of them backtracking to 2/1/2012 so far, and so far, my suspicion has proven true, no mention.

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  I Want to Believe

  I don't see them wanting to do that. Cult leaders always have a "specialness" that makes them qualified to lead, and there's no reason to undermine their power base with "mundanes." Besides, right now they can just appoint anyone they like and bam!--that person has suddenly recieved the heavenly calling and became one of the annointed. Much simpler.
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  Parents pulls kids from school over yoga -- more than just a JW hangup?

  by I Want to Believe in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://news.yahoo.com/parents-considering-legal-action-over-school-yoga-181449315.html.

  and yes, jws do get name dropped in the source article as one of the two families who actually pull their kids, but it says "dozens" are upset about the "religeous practices" of yoga:.

  http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/columnists/public-school-yoga-relaxation-or-religious-doctrine/article_a8da51bd-b2a0-57ff-8efc-c018808590b5.html.

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  http://news.yahoo.com/parents-considering-legal-action-over-school-yoga-181449315.html

  And yes, JWs do get name dropped in the source article as one of the two families who actually pull their kids, but it says "dozens" are upset about the "religeous practices" of yoga:

  http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/columnists/public-school-yoga-relaxation-or-religious-doctrine/article_a8da51bd-b2a0-57ff-8efc-c018808590b5.html

  My wife was looking into a "mommy and me" yoga class for toddlers, and it sounds like a cool school to actually have a program like that; what's wrong with all these parents?
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  WT article on Esther: dead wrong.

  by JeffT in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a few weeks ago the pastor at our church gave the sermon from the book of esther.

  this sparked some old wt memories.

  i looked through my old bound volumes and found this gem of misguided scholarship from the writing department.

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  @wallsofJericho, you may not have noticed but this is an old thread; though it would be really funny if Yadirf had been waiting these 10 years for someone to call him out so he could resume the discussion.
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  S.L.A.V.E.S LEAKED!!!!! ???

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in anticipation of the confusion and fallout of the nu-lite revealed at the annual meeting, the faithful slave has formed a new committee to assist right-hearted ones.

  many bothams died to make this information available.. spiritual.

  liaison.

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  It's Bothans, with an N. Aa both a Grammar Nazi and Star Wars Nerd I couldn't let that go unsaid.
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  MTS & Gilead: Can we talk about how much of a FAILURE these 2 schools were/are?

  by Black Man in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know quite a few from both of these schools who basically crashed and burned once they got into their assignments.

  graduates of these schools would be thrown into foreign territorities or remote areas without a good visible means of support and would get emotionally, mentally, financially burned out.

  post your experiences or of those you know that went to these pitiful excuses for educational institutions..

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  The only MTS grad I knew came right back home and basically used his status to have his pick of the sisters.
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  How's do jws explain Genesis 35:18

  by loosie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  genesis 35:18 (new world translation).

  .and the result was that as her soul[a] was going out (because she died) she called his name benoni; but his father called him benjamin.. .

  .. i never asked them and now i can't .

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  I Want to Believe

  The soul "going out" is equated to a candle's flame "going out": it doesn't actually go anywhere, it's just a phrase denoting it fading from existance.

  Or were you talking about her husband overriding her dying words by renaming their son? That was a jerk move with no good explaination.