Posts by Splash

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Should I take the train?!

by DeWandelaar in

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friends

there are times like this moment i think of taking a train to my final destination.

i know i have some unfinished business ( got a wife and kids though jw), but i am really done with it.

i hate my life.

Splash

Life is a journey with ups and downs.

When you're down you can't see there will ever be an up again, but when that up comes you see things in much better perspective.

When we stop and think, often there are many things we enjoy and can be grateful for, and these things help us persevere when the going is difficult.

LisaRose is right, there are people we can reach out to when things seem to be too hard and they can support us through the worst of times.

Don't try to tackle this alone if you things are getting too hard.

Splash

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How do we set up a "Used New Bike Fund" for Terry?

by BucketShopBill in

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friends

is there any way we can try to start a crowd-fund to help terry get some wheels quicker than he currently can?

with craigslist and a couple of bucks from a few members we can help terry get moving.

does anyone have any ideas how we can do a "theists for terry" bike fund raiser and challenge the atheists to a bucket-head challenge?

New "The List" of... Times when JW's thought it was the end and it wasn't...

by ILoveTTATT in

i think that there should be a list of the times when a certain world event got jw's thinking "this has got to be it!

the start of armageddon!".

it would be nice to have screenshots of twitter/facebook comments from actual jw's.... then come back to it 5, 10, 15 years from now and just say... nope... just another crisis in the world.... just this year there have been two:.

Splash

I wasn't around at the time, but no doubt the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, then when AIDS swept through in the 1980's etc.

The WT will have mentioned things like these then said "when we see all these things, we know we are close", or some such.

So basically, JW's are on high alert for anything and everything to try to validate their belief that it is around the corner.

Even this past year when the WT wrote "Could this be our last memorial" everyone was saying "100 years since 1914.... Why did the WT write that..." nudge nudge, wink wink.

It's exhausting being a JW.

Splash.

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wh.gov logo

by DavidG in

i have a question about the whitehouse web logo.

i've only seen it on witehouse webvideos out of the wh.org website.

it looks very much like a logo we all know.. a picture of mr. obama with the logo in the upper right corner taken drom a webvideo out of wh.org:.

Splash

I thought this was a faked picture, but it's out there in other places

http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/59705/

Splash.

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How do we set up a "Used New Bike Fund" for Terry?

by BucketShopBill in

jw
friends

is there any way we can try to start a crowd-fund to help terry get some wheels quicker than he currently can?

with craigslist and a couple of bucks from a few members we can help terry get moving.

does anyone have any ideas how we can do a "theists for terry" bike fund raiser and challenge the atheists to a bucket-head challenge?

Splash

Or some theft insurance

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I HAD MY BICYCLE STOLEN!

by Terry in

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friends

three months ago i had to stop driving my car.

it wouldn't pass inspection and it would cost about $3k to get it up to par.. well, it's a 98 honda accord with about 179 thousand miles on it, what did i expect?.

.. i decided i would switch to riding a bicycle instead.. it has worked out fairly well.. i put about 10 miles a day on it.

Splash

Have you thought about taking up jogging?

Splash

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A must to be MS?

by crazyhorse in

so is it a must and an absolute requirement to be a ministerial servant in the org?.

i was told that if i refuse an appointment as an ms then it means i'm opposing "jehovah's call to service".

Splash

Hi Disposable, it could be anything to be honest. I'm in bed surfing and posting from memory.

Band, the Bible is no longer used as the definitive list of qualifications anymore. Now it's all about how the brother is perceived. Hours, full and varied ministry, answers up, fulfills items, handles assignments well, family are exemplary, and I've also heard "the congregation wouldn't be surprised if he was appointed".

Oh, and he mustn't have a beard.

Love? What's that?

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A must to be MS?

by crazyhorse in

so is it a must and an absolute requirement to be a ministerial servant in the org?.

i was told that if i refuse an appointment as an ms then it means i'm opposing "jehovah's call to service".

Splash

"If any man is reaching out for the office of overseer, he is desirous of a fine work."

It says IF. It's not mandatory. Next time you are badgered look them in the eye and say "stop twisting the scriptures".

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Is there a list of JW contradictions / double standards anywhere?

by BenRichards in

as i mentioned in a recent thread, i've relatively new here.

have been lurking for a few weeks and just started posting.. one of the things i'm finding interesting about this site is how often someone posts a set of jw published material that contradicts each other.

for example the other day someone posted about lecithin.

Splash

There were quite a few on this thread

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/265257/1/TTATT-in-a-can#.VATkp463PFo

If you need additional education from the mouthpiece of God, use the search facility to look for "medium octopus" and read that thread. Where would we be without them?

Splash

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World Population Since Creation?

by objectivetruth in

matthew 20:28 - "just as the son of man came, not to be ministered to, but to minister and to give his life as a ransom in exchange of many".

the word "many" here means :.

4183 polys many (high in number); multitudinous, plenteous, "much"; "great" in amount (extent).. 4183 /polys ("much in number") emphasizes the quantity involved.

Splash

A billion at the time of the tower of babel, from 8 people a few generations before?

How do you explain that?

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