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  Can I Come Live With You???

  by ApagaLaLuz in

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  my house might burn down.

  but i live in rancho cucamonga california where there is a massive fire burning out of control right now.

  so i am home from work, hanging out with my lap top.

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  I work in Ontario and I thought I was going to choke on all the ashes falling from the sky today. Evidently the fire has effected JW preaching activity as there were no dubs selling mags outside my breakfast hangout in Rancho.
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  Would You Vote For Arnold Schwarzenegger, If You Could?

  by minimus in

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  with all the publicity in california, if you were able to vote in the governor's race, would arnold be your man??

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  I've already voted for Arnold by absentee ballot.

  I think we've all learned from Bill Clinton that a politician's personal sexual behavior is irrelevant.

  It's the economy, stupid...
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  Questions for consideration: Society's move to Patterson

  by truthseeker in

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  no doubt many of you are aware of the new project that society is taking on, regarding it's expansion of it's patterson complex, the sale or soon to be sale of its brooklyn building and the new printing presses that cost $50 million.. .

  i haven't really thought about why they are doing this, but now i do, some questions come to mind.

  i have no answers and would be grateful if someone could give me their best guess.. 1) new york is the best center for transporting goods, you have three airports, rail links and major highways.

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  I think I can answer at least item no. 1. I have worked in the freight business the last 18 years and can tell you that New York is not the best location to ship from. For domestic shipments within the USA it will be less expensive to ship from Patterson. For international shipments via ocean the cost is probably similar. Cartage (the movement of freight from the shipper's door to the air or seaport) in New York City is very expensive. I would daresay that cartage from Patterson to an airport or seaport may be the same as from Brooklyn. As regards domestic shipments (UPS or less than truckload or full truckoad )it would definitely be less to ship from Patterson than from Brooklyn.

  I currently work for USF Corp, a national less than truckload carrier. During my career I have worked for Consolidated Freightways, Fedex and AEI (which was taken over and now is a subsidiary of DHL).
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  Hey Phila. and South Jersey,..Remember this jingle

  by DevonMcBride in

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  if you lived in the phila area or south jersey during the 70's you may remember this well know commercial jingle.. http://mcnally.cc/ideal.htm.

  if you got a passion for fashion/ and you got a craving for saving/ take the wheel of your automobile and swing on down to ideal.

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  I grew up in Moorestown, NJ

  Boy do I remember Sally Starr, Chief Halftown (he came to visit our school when I was in third grade). I also remember when Gene London did a personal appearance at the Levittown, NJ Plaza. This really goes back a looooooooooooooong way!
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  "Worse and Worse" - It Makes My Blood Boil!

  by metatron in

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  everytime i get stuck going to a sunday meeting at the kingdumb hall, it seems.

  "worse and worse!".

  don't tell me "worse and worse",.

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  Your reference to appendicitis made me think of one of the early stirrings of doubt I had. When I was a teenager I got sick in the middle of the night and by 5 AM my parents realized they had to take me to the hospital. They called Sister Z in our congregation whose son Chris had recently had appendicitis to find out where they could take me so that I "wouldn't get a blood transfusion." Well we got to the hospital and I made it through with a ruptured appendix. Now just think if I lived one hundred years earlier. The time I had from first pain to rupture was less than 12 hours. Don't tell me that this is "the worst time in human history." I think it's the best because I've lived at least thirty years longer than I would have if I was born before 1914 -- the mythical beginning of the "last days!"
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  Goin' camping

  by simplesally in

  1. jw
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  i work at an rv dealer, so i get to rent them for free.

  it's my first trip in a motorhome!

  i am so excited.

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  Sally,

  Do you work for Giant RV?
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  Are these the "crucial" years for the Watchtower ? Is time running out ?

  by run dont walk in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  or can they keep it going another 100 years.. maybe i'm being a little too hopeful, but i think the next 10 years are do or die for the watchtower.. is was different back in the 20's 30's 40's 50's and 60's, they could get away with changing doctrine and "new light" and new ideas.. but today, people are different and more independent, and question things a lot more.. the "annoited class" is almost gone, regardless of the bs figures they give, .

  1914 is all but dead, .

  literature is not available like it used to be, .

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  "The same goes for the imaginary "ministry". It's a "life-saving work" - trotting from door to door, meeting no one, talking to no one for hours, and often, placing nothing. It's make-believe, a continuing pretense, with adults collectively pretending that it's real."

  Field service is just a social event. I see from time to time the witnesses doing early morning street work at a strip mall in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Four of them will congregate together at the far end of the strip mall in front of stores that don't open until 10:00 AM. That way they won't have to talk to anyone but themselves. I watch others walk up and down the sidewalk holding magazines in such a way that they are not easily seen and when they pass someone they turn the magazines inward to hide them. I've seen four, six, eight or more witnesses never talk to anyone for an hour, but of course count all the time.

  The only thing that makes field service bearable is the socializing with fellow sufferers.
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  8/8/03 Another Foolish, Waste of Paper Awake!

  by metatron in

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  "what's happening to the weather?

  " is something wrong?".

  "can environmental damage be halted?

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  "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

  -- H. L. Mencken

  I'm sure Mr. Mencken wouldn't object to my applying this quote to the WT Society.
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  JW Statistical Graph

  by Joker10 in

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  for those who think mormons are more 'successful' than the witnesses.. .

  does the mormon church really have 11.7 million members?

  keep in mind that the church practice 'quick-baptisms'.

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  "What do I think?"

  I think this proves H. L. Mencken's observation: "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."
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  Easy question for JW's.........

  by integ in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it was brought out at recent meeting that we must stay close to "jehovah's organization" and follow closely the "admonitions" found in the watchtower magazine because we know that the information found in the watchtower is given directly to us by jehovah himself.

  question for the believing witness?

  1) if by your own teaching's you believe that jehovah is a god of truth and cannot ever tell non -truths, how do you explain why the watchtower has changed it's "understanding" of scriptures so many times?

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  My question for a JW would be:

  If the WT is not the word of God why do you disfellowship people who disagree with it?