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  I have never felt at home at a bar

  by sabastious in

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  last night i went to the casino for a friends birthday, we played blackjack and some slots, it was a 6.5/10 on the fun scale type of night.

  i got up from the blackjack table to go to the bar to get myself a drink.

  i sat down at the bar and ordered my favorite drink: a long island iced tea.

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  Why should anyone ever feel at home at a bar?
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  When will They Ever Learn? Probably Never

  by Room 215 in

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  ... that most humans, including - and especially jws -- yearn for normalcy in their lives -- some harmless enjoyment of life's pleasures, a measure of recognition and personal fulfillment for having lived an honorable, a sense of uniqueness and individuality, tolerance and respect for the individuality of others; a productive life of self-sufficiency; and the enjoyment of family and friends, especially in one's latter years.

  all of this is denied them by an unremitting bombardment of guilt, mind-numbing repetition, thought control and behavior manipulation.

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  ... That most humans, including - and especially JWs -- yearn for normalcy in their lives -- some harmless enjoyment of life's pleasures, a measure of recognition and personal fulfillment for having lived an honorable, a sense of uniqueness and individuality, tolerance and respect for the individuality of others; a productive life of self-sufficiency; and the enjoyment of family and friends, especially in one's latter years. All of this is denied them by an unremitting bombardment of guilt, mind-numbing repetition, thought control and behavior manipulation.
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  2/15 WT - WTS Controls by Fear, Confusion, Separating Friends & Family

  by flipper in

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  2. friends

  once again in a wt study article entitled " imitate jesus' example of watchfulness " the wt society tries to control jw members through fear mongering, confusing them by inconsistent and contradictory wording, and emphasizing devotion to wt society " sacred service " over devotion to family and friends.. we all know the wt society has always said that " nobody knows the day and hour " of the alleged armageddon - yet out of the same mouth the wt society claims to know the " day " of the end close enough to have duped people with 1975 and put fear into jw's that the " end " is " imminent" .

  notice these quotes from paragraph 4 in this article.

  it states, " in brief, jesus wants us to remain watchful because of what we know and what we do not know.

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  Want a job that will cause you to miss meetings? Just apply for Bethel, especially for the work on their building projects.
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 01-01-2012 WT Study (OWN UNDERSTANDING)

  by blondie in

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  do not lean upon your.

  own understanding.

  a young.

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  What is this obsession with pornogrqaphy? Most sociologists regards it as innocuous fantasizing. Why is it such a problem among people who devote so much of their conscious existence wrapped up in meeting attendance, Bible study and the public ministry?

  I also love the advice in paragraphs 13 which exhorts the reader to "ask, ask ask" God (Bethel? the elders?) every single time he/she faces a recurrent challenge... who does one ask? The elders? I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard an elder bemoan the childish inability of the friends to base their decisions on clear-cut "Bible principles" rather than run to them for guidance.

  By the way: just how does/did God communicate his answers to David, Hezekiah, Hannah, etc. anyway?
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  March 15, 2012 WT: These times are more critical than when we last called them critical, honest!!

  by MrMonroe in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just sad.

  "the christian ministry has always been urgent, but now it is more critical than ever.

  " (page 18).. what follows is more of the same disgusting tripe: the same scare tactics (nuclear weapons, terrorists, climate change, hurricanes, wars) that made me join in 1985 when the world was on the brink of nuclear armageddon.

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  "Such a war would leave few if any survivors."_.... you mean, kinda like .. Armageddon? _
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  Watchtower 15/3/12 "Do Not Look At The Things Behind"

  by BluesBrother in

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  2. bible

  there have been a couple of threads about this issue.

  if this has been covered, then i am sorry, but:.

  the article warns against looking back with fondness for the "good old days" don't they always do that with the "critical times we live in?

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  " Do you fantasize about what could have happened had you not made those sacrifices?" Yeah, sure ... over my second double Scotch at the local gin mill!
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  Question about unbaptized publishers

  by camicia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my daughter has been an unbaptized publisher for several months and has decided this religion is not for her.

  i tried to tell her before she got involved that it isn't but she had to learn this on her own.

  she doesn't want to be an unbaptized publisher anymore, but hasn't committed any sin to be removed.

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  ... what a nightmare all of this has become (sigh)....
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  Zen's Rant on Ayn Rand - intelligent responses appreciated

  by Dogpatch in

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  check out http://youtu.be/_rtl0g851ic.

  this is also at the freeminds channel at:.

  http://www.youtube.com/user/freeminds?feature=guide.

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  One man's opinion: I reserved judgment on her as a human being; but IMHO, her "masterpiece" Atlas Shrugged is one of the most overwrought, overwritten and overrated novels ever. It seldom -- if ever -- rises above the level of a Saturday-Matinee-at the-movies serial.
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  Letters About Earthquakes

  by Bangalore in

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  letters about earthquakes.. .

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  bangalore.

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  Larsinger, you may prefer to apply a broader meaning to "seismoi" than generally acknowledged. Without prejudice to the correctness of this broader meaning, the main point is the WT does not; in all of its commentary on the purported sign, the Society consistently limits its application strictly to earthquakes, and in so doing misrepresents the findings of the seismological experts cited above.
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  2011 Watchtower publisher statistics with analysis

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the 2012 yearbook has released the publisher statistics for the 2011 service year.

  a scan of the report can be found at http://www.jwfacts.com/images/2011-publisher-report.pdf and i have started updating the graphs at http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/statistics.php.

  as expected, it is following on from similar trends to the last 15 years.

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  " The 5.4% increase in Bible Studies is pretty big. I would be interested in a graph showing the increase in reported Bible Studies in recent years."

  It would seem that at least part of this may be attributable to the startup of "Family Worship Night," for which parents can count the studies with their children.