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  Are Dubs just getting lazy?

  by pr0ner in

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  twice this month i've seen dubs out.

  both times they just totally avoided me.

  yesterday i went to subway and they were sitting on down outside of subway with their rags.

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  For increasing numbers of JWs, "field service" is just a meaningless "feel-good" exercise; the tiresome drag-on of Armageddeon's arrival, mind-numbing repetition that "it's just around the corner" and the elasticity of the "this generation" stretching on into distant future, etc. is disheartening and disincentivising greater numbers of them. Time simply is not on the WT's side.
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 07-18-10 WT Study (REACH OUT)

  by blondie in

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  2. friends

  comments.

  comments.

  you sow with a view to the spirit.

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  Nicely done, Blondie: "

  It is no surprise that many elders fall out when their children hit their

  Teens and are reappointed after they reach their majority, straighten out,

  Or move out." very insightful; so true!
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  Best Songs used by Movies

  by Darth plaugeis in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  ok best sex scenes in movies are up right now, how about songs that have been out for years then used in a movie and will always be tied to that movie???.

  my fav is this one.... never heard the song the same way.

  stuck in the middle with you/ stealers wheels.

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  "Unchained Melody" in "Ghost"

  http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=khRDInUHuOY&feature=related
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  GB member David Splane says Jehovah had already chosen the organization in 1916

  by slimboyfat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the new dvd governing body member david splane discusses the fact that the bible students did not simply disappear after russell died in 1916. he says this is because jehovah had already chosen the organization to do his work.. this is not a work of man, this is a work of jehovah god.

  it's evident that jehovah had already chosen this organization, because of the faithfulness and the sincerity of the men behind it.

  it's obvious that jehovah had already chosen this organization to get his work done.

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  Does anyone of them bother to explain any of this supposed appointment nonsense squares with their "soiled garments" as the "two witnesses in sackcloth" and their "soiled garments" teaching?
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  How many here have actually received a response from the WTS, either by phone or letter, regarding the 607/587 B.C.E. discrepancy?

  by Crisis of Conscience in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i recently called the service department about this.

  first off, what i read in another post is correct.

  the person you talk with will not give you their name.. i asked the question and the brother responds by saying that yes, they get that question all the time.. then he proceeds to tell me that i need to write in to the society with my question and they will give me plenty of information to back up their standing on it.. i told him that i searched the wl cdrom and found nothing, not even under questions from readers.

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  It's the same old modus operandi: the person on the other end will not give you his name, but he will either ask you for yours and with what congergation your associate, and/or ask you to put your question in writing. The intent here is not to provide a good faith response, but to obtain your identity and to alert the elders in your congregation to meet with you.
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  Telling it like it is to the householder ....

  by wannabefree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'd like to share a scripture with you householder, if you have a copy of the bible perhaps you can follow along in yours, by the way, did you know that the bible is the best selling book of all time ... over 6 billion copies.

  how fortunate it is for you that i am here today, because something you probably didn't now is that only the governing body of jehovah's witnesses can properly understand the bible?

  (sometimes just two-thirds of them).

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  "I'm here to save your life; all non-JWs -- men, women and children -- are under a death sentence, to be carried out imminently; join us or DIE"
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  Problems with Soccer (Football) from an American Standpoint

  by RubaDub in

  1. social
  2. physical

  so as not to hijack another thread, just a few comments on why we (americans) find that soccer is generally a boring game to watch.. 1. lack of scoring: american football adjusts the rules periodically so that each team averages around 3 touchdowns per game.

  basketball added the three-point line to encourage more scoring.

  even traditional baseball has tweaked the rules to encourage more scoring.

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  To the American, soccer is a great game to play, but low scoring and slow moving to watch, something like hockey played in hip boots. One gets the feeling in a high-stakes match that any 0-2 deficit is well-night insurmountable, although ther are exciting exceptions, as we've seen
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  Who Are Your Past Circuit Overseers? It's a small world..

  by mentallyfree31 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  who were your past circuit overseers?

  i'm sure a lot of us actually know mutual people, as the co's relocate all over the country.. here's a few from the southeast us: (let me know if you recognize any names and post yours too please...).

  ellwood johnson (new york/philadelphia area for several years also).

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  I'm willing to bet that few-to-none of these guys would show up on a google search; a scathing tesatment to their lives' contribution to humanity.
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  Do JW's now avoid "live" persons they meet in the field?

  by donny in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  lately, i have been encountering several jw's who are out placing flyers inviting folks to the upcoming district conventions.

  i am usually out for my 10:00 - 11:00 am lunch stroll and when i walk the streets of nearby residential areas, i have been seeing several jw's out in service (i counted 12 yesterday - 8 women and 4 men).

  in 4 instances over the past 9 days, i have placed myself in a situation (such as sitting on a park bench that is along the sidewalk they are on or stopping my stroll before they get to me) and each time they just smile and say hello and continue on their path.

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  It isn't that the dubs aren't still pressured to do it; it's simply that more and more of them avoid doing it....
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  The New Jeremiah Book

  by zoiks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my mother-in-law just got back from her convention and gave us the new releases, this jeremiah book included.

  just a quick scan of it has revealed a few gems.. first of all, there is a chapter entitled, "you can benefit from the new covenant" (italics theirs).

  i am not a christian, but i understand the beef that many will have with this entire chapter.

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  Even in the case of a book devoted to one Hebrew prophet they're spinning the message in the direction of social engineering, behavior manipulation, not prophetic interpretation; nobody there has the intellectual hardware to pick up where Freddie left off.