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  The moon tonight.

  by Defianttruth in

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  i was in my yard tonight with telescope watching jupiter.

  jupiter is as close to the moon as it will be in the next 13 years.

  to my surprise, the moon had a corona which is pretty rare for where i am standing.

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  My father used to say that the number of stars inside the ring indicates the number of days until the next snow.
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  The "Pop-In"

  by Mr. Falcon in

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  2. experiences

  so last night the wife is working, the kids are getting ready for bed and i'm watching futurama.

  doorbell rings.

  now it's dark, snowing and i live on a back road, so it's very odd to have a visitor.

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  You're right - only JWs would be so rude. We used to do it all the time while out in FS - pop in on someone and ask to use their bathroom. During months when I wasn't aux pioneering I would always make sure my bathroom was clean before 10:30 a.m, just in case.
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  The "Pop-In"

  by Mr. Falcon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so last night the wife is working, the kids are getting ready for bed and i'm watching futurama.

  doorbell rings.

  now it's dark, snowing and i live on a back road, so it's very odd to have a visitor.

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  You're right - only JWs would be so rude. We used to do it all the time while out in FS - pop in on someone and ask to use their bathroom. During months when I wasn't aux pioneering I would always make sure my bathroom was clean before 10:30 a.m, just in case.
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  NOT on JW.ORG; Legal Breakthough in stemming abuse in Catholic Church. Secret files released by court order.Will Watchtower be next? Washington Post.

  by Balaamsass in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  files show how la church hierarchy maneuvered behind the scenes to shield molester priests/flipper-inner (reed saxon, file/ associated press ) - file - in this sept. 22, 2007 file photo, cardinal roger mahony speaks during an annual multi-ethnic migration mass at the cathedral of our lady of the angels in los angeles.

  cardinal mahony and other top roman catholic officials from the archdiocese of los angeles maneuvered behind the scenes to shield molester priests, provide damage control for the church and keep parishioners in the dark, according to church personnel files.

  mahony, who is retired, issued a statement monday, jan. 21, 2013, apologizing for his mistakes and saying he had been naive about the lasting impacts of abuse.. /flipper-main captionfullscreen/flippertext sizeprinte-mailreprintstooltile ad begintooltile ad end /article tool bar by associated press, for ap news registry jan 22, 2013 08:20 am est.

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  Mahony was out of town but issued a statement Monday apologizing for his mistakes and saying he had been “naive” about the lasting impacts of abuse. He has since met with 90 abuse victims privately and keeps an index card with each victim’s name in his private chapel, where he prays for them daily, he said. The card also includes the name of the molesting priest “lest I forget that real priests created this appalling harm.”

  Can you imagine a member of the GB expressing this kind of contrition? I would pay to see that!
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  This just new: Thirty-hour quota for auxiliary pioneering (letter)

  by pixel in

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  2. beliefs

  i just wanna post post this.

  to all congregations.

  re: thirty-hour quota for auxiliary pioneering.

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  There used to be an actual advantage to signing up to pioneer or temporary pioneer. The literature was cheaper for pioneers. I can't remember how much cheaper the books were, but magazines (which were sold to the public for 5 cents each) cost 4 cents for publishers and something like 2 cents for pioneers.

  When my ex and I left the pioneer service we received a letter from the Society asking us to count up the books and magazines we had left over from our pioneer service and pony up the difference between the pio and pub rate. They said we could just pop it into the contribution box. We never did.
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  Shouldn't Society Practise What They Preach??????

  by newsheep in

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  seriously, i don't own a zambonee, swimming pool, basketball courts, tennis courts, work out gym, vollyball sand pit, horse shoe pit, orchards, sauna, maple syrup/apple cider processing room and now a golf course.

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  Oh, but don't forget, Bethelites belong to a religious order and have taken a vow of poverty.

  
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  How long did it take you to prepare for talks or parts in the KM school?

  by OneDayillBeFree in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  several years ago, whenever i got a talk slip i would get really nervous but accept it and work on it almost immediately.

  of course that was way back when i still believed it all.. now they gave me a #3 talk out of the blue about a month ago and i had forgotten all about it till the meeting night.

  i really thought about not showing up at all but at the last minute, i decided to go.. so when i got there the meeting had already started and so i just stayed in the back looked at the info, found 2 scriptures and then without any notes i went up and gave the stupid talk!.

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  I always hated it that sisters had to write essentially a 5-minute play containing all the pertinent points and counsel points. If I had just been addressing the congregation it would have taken me a lot less time.
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  My Mother Passed

  by Roberta804 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  thank you for all of your support durning the two difficult weeks my mother was on her death bed.

  last night at 10:30pm she breath her last with my sister and i by her side.

  this is a real end of an era for me as i have known little these past 8 years other than taking care of my parents.

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  My deepest sympathies, Roberta.
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  Are you DF'd? Share the weirdness, I'll start.....

  by Pickler in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so i started a reply on the topic of "what's your status?

  " and it made me think about my df hearing (sorry i can't remember the exact term for what happened).. so i was fading, living in a different country, working & making rare appearances at my kingdom hall.

  i was flat sharing with a sister though.

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  Holy cats! It just shows the conditioning JWs go through that you would even answer intimate questions like that. Especially after you confessed to them!

  And you know they're picturing the whole thing.

  I was hauled before JC one time, but it was because I had confronted my father (former elder in the cong for 14 years) about years of verbal abuse I suffered at his hands. He was furious with me and filled the elders' heads with all sorts of lies about me, so when I got there they refused to believe a word I said, even though I had a second witness there with me (my husband). I didn't get canned, but my father warned me later that if I mentioned it again he'd have my friends DF'd.

  What a spiritual paradise!
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  Brilliant Robin Williams Quote

  by Amelia Ashton in

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  the loneliest place on the planet for me was the kingdom hall.

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  And boy, can you feel alone in a kingdom hall full of people.