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  IMPORTANT SPORTS ANOUNCEMENT

  by roybatty in

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  with the upcoming superbowl and the continued confusion between american football and european football aka soccer, american football will continue to be known as football while soccer will now be know as sissyball.

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  thank you for your attention and god bless.

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  What things are pagan in origin?

  by roybatty in

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  i read someone's commment about the pagan origins of pretzels, which i didn't know.

  i'd like to share with my kids other items or customs that are also pagan in origin, like wedding rings and the wedding cake.

  i want them to see that christmas isn't the only tradition with roots in pagan religion that have changed meaning over the years.. any others out there?

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  Talk with a Governing Body member

  by roybatty in

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  what would you say to a governing body member if you had the chance?

  a few years back while i was a jw i visited my sister and brother-in-law at bethel.

  well, after the grand tour of crooklyn, the farm and having dinner with the bethel family i had the honor of attending the sunday meeting at a congregation where a couple of the governing body members attended.

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  What would a meeting be like if.....

  by roybatty in

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  everyone on jw.com were jws and attended the same congregation.

  now, i'm not saying that we'd follow brooklyn's rules (how boring).

  instead what would it be like jw.com style.

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  All are not equal before judicial committees

  by roybatty in

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  this is nothing new but there seems to be a lot of advice on what to do when the elders call you to meet with them before a judicial committee.

  at the risk of sounding arrogant, ill give you the perspective that i had as an elder sitting on a judicial committee.

  it doesnt matter if youre before the committee for apostasy, fornication, smoking, drinking or anything else.

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  WT's UN excuse

  by roybatty in

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  just a question.

  what stops the boys in crooklyn from simply saying: "look, we don't know why so & so filled out this form to become a ngo.

  we, the governing body didn't know about it and as soon as we did we removed outselves from association with the un.

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  Elder burn-out

  by roybatty in

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  while responding to another post, i started to wonder how many other current or former elders out there have also seen the high turnover rate among elders.

  before i left the jws a couple of years ago, i was an elder for about 4 years and within that time i saw the local elder body drop from eight to four people.

  even before that it seemed that the elder body had a revolving door on it.

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  Familes of those DA'd & DF'd

  by roybatty in

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  i was wondering what others have experienced after being dad or dfd with regard to their jw family.

  im not wondering so much how they treat you but what are your feelings about them.

  i was raised as a jw in a really close family.

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  End of religion

  by roybatty in

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  i find it ironic how many posts contain comments from jws about the recent tragedy and how this will soon lead to the governments attack on religion.

  um...i dont know if anyone else noticed it but the exact opposite happened.

  president bush quotes psalms 23 in his address to the nation, the members of congress sing god bless america and churches across the nation are being used as centers to help out with this disaster.

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  Judicial hearing notes

  by roybatty in

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  after being disfellowshipped or disassociated, has anyone ever gone back and asked the local elders to destroy the meeting notes from the judicial hearing?

  as a former elder, i know that meeting notes arent necessarily kept private and i dont particularly care that they are accessible to someone who is determined to see them.

  just wondering if anyone else has been bothered by this and taken action.

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