To be fair, my family was the only white family at our KH in Alexandria VA in mid 80's and we were treated like family. I would have to say it was the warmest cong. I have ever been in. I never realy thought about it, but sharing the same hall was another cong. made up of mostly white, financially well off folks. Also a great bunch. But the two groups did not mix. I was really naive and never gave it much thought.
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A story about Reggie and Reginald... and why it makes me cringe... more vomiting
by confusedandalone inso i grew up in new jersey in a very urban part of the state.
i literally only saw white folks if they were in a police car or if i went to the assembly.
the funny thing is at the assembly there was still a level of segregation as well although it was self-imposed.
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You put your right foot in...you put your left foot out...
by hokeypokey inenjoying the commentary on this board and up at night doing some research.
coming to grips with my new reality.
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Welcome. Take it slow-and-easy. I wouldn't say anything to the family yet. You need to get a grip on yourself first. Otherwise, when you first spill the beans it will all come out in a rush and they will think you are the spawn of Satan. There are lots of guys here in your same shoes (wife and children) and lots of good advice already dished out. Be prepared for more late nights. Don't gve up...
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Hello New World: JW.org prepares for the Long Haul In the Old World
by steve2 inthe prominently displayed text in the home page on jw.org is (predictably) matthew 24:14. but you do not have to be too keen-eyed to see something pivotal missing from the shortened verse.
it omits perhaps the most important part of the verse (well, important for an end-times religion).. this is how it reads on jw.org: "this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth.".
this is how it reads in the bible (nwt): "this good news of the kingdgom will be preached in all the inhabited earth and then the end will come.".
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BOTR,
It sure looks to me that they have brought in some outside help to put this together. Content is the SOS, but presentation is pretty slick. If this was just a bunch of bethelites who had taken some web design courses, we would be seeing something much less professional. I'm sure we have some web professionals who could chime in here. Heaven forbid that they would actually employ possibly university educated people to develop this (I'm not saying that you have to have a university level education to be creative or talented).
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Hello New World: JW.org prepares for the Long Haul In the Old World
by steve2 inthe prominently displayed text in the home page on jw.org is (predictably) matthew 24:14. but you do not have to be too keen-eyed to see something pivotal missing from the shortened verse.
it omits perhaps the most important part of the verse (well, important for an end-times religion).. this is how it reads on jw.org: "this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth.".
this is how it reads in the bible (nwt): "this good news of the kingdgom will be preached in all the inhabited earth and then the end will come.".
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JFC steve2, good catch! I'm going to keep a tab open all the time to that site while I am here, and when my wife walks in on me, bring it up.
Hey hon, come take a look at this (how can she fault me for being at jw.org? I even printed out WT study in Polish for her last night). Why do you think they only include part of that verse? It sounds similar to me why they dropped all that stuff about the 1914 generation from the Awake masthead. What's going on?
Any predictions on the reply from her?
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Interesting view on JW's by UN legal
by snare&racket ina recently deceased human right worker howard clark who worked for watchtower co rights, remembered..... "i knew howard basically on the c.o.
issues which had become an agenda item at the u.n. commission on human rights, which met in geneva.
however, as countries dropped conscription in favor of a professional military or developed alternatives to military service, the only c.o.s left were members of the watchtower society (jehovahs witnesses), whose theology seemed strange to howard, all the more so that in some watchtower publications, the returning jesus seems less nonviolent than the first time around!
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@snare: Perhaps he thought aliens were attacking. He did not get the memo that everyone would know it was Yahweh. So many strange things about this. Back to the car - what happened to the interior? Maybe it was already being used as some kind of flop house? The guy in the black leather pants or the unemployed grad-student (glasses and ski-cap) may have been living there (maybe together).
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NEW BRITAIN BRANCH HYPOCRISY
by The Searcher ina letter from the uk branch is being read out this week - begging for a long list of highly qualified brothers such as engineers, draughtsmen etc.
to contribute their expertise free of charge in order to get the new britain branch built!.
the gb vilifies in print and from platforms, higher education!
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Snare,
I was thinking maybe they would just sell the property and sit on the funds, not send it back to mother. Perhaps, go thru the motions of buying some cheap property somewhere and then taking their sweet time about additional progress - not enough contributions, not enough volunteers (see it's your fault, not ours). In the meantime, to make good use of the funds entrusted to them, they would 'invest' it. I'm sure some of the brothers in the UK are well connected in financial circles (at least in their own minds).
Wouldn't it be funny if they got caught up in the next MF Global type scandal and lost everything? I have heard that "Karma's a bitch"...
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NEW BRITAIN BRANCH HYPOCRISY
by The Searcher ina letter from the uk branch is being read out this week - begging for a long list of highly qualified brothers such as engineers, draughtsmen etc.
to contribute their expertise free of charge in order to get the new britain branch built!.
the gb vilifies in print and from platforms, higher education!
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I doubt that soon they will need to be shipping anything anywhere. Who wants the stuff? Not even Jw's apparently. It just stacks up in a closet until it gets tossed. The move to digital is just a bit too late, and exposes the older (analog) R&F to a whole other world, sometimes by accident. I suspect that they might just sell the existing property and then find some reason not to rebuild...
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Interesting view on JW's by UN legal
by snare&racket ina recently deceased human right worker howard clark who worked for watchtower co rights, remembered..... "i knew howard basically on the c.o.
issues which had become an agenda item at the u.n. commission on human rights, which met in geneva.
however, as countries dropped conscription in favor of a professional military or developed alternatives to military service, the only c.o.s left were members of the watchtower society (jehovahs witnesses), whose theology seemed strange to howard, all the more so that in some watchtower publications, the returning jesus seems less nonviolent than the first time around!
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Love that classic JW artwork. But shouldn't the car be a 'selfish' 2 seater? The car they used, looks like my old CO's Buick Century!
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What was the subject of the Watchtower Study this past Sunday?
by Lynnie ini have a psycho cousin that has decided to go back to the jw's after never wanting to be a jw even though.
now in her early thirties she's decided to join up.
i heard her say something about this.
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For some reason, my wife also came back very fired up. She tried to place the mag with her son (not baptized, walked away many years ago [now 30 something, then 17]). I had to seperate them when she started to cry because he did not want to read it. Later he agreed to take it just to placate her. I told him to offer to read it if he could ask questions later. I suggested that he ask her if she really believes that humans first appeared on the earth 6000 years ago. In the year 4026BC(E). In view of all the evidence that suggests not. I don't think she has even thought it out yet. She agreed with me that a global flood could not have occured in 2370.
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My Mom Wanted To Know If I Would Ever Consider Going Back.... Guess what I said....
by minimus innever!!!
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I got the first step to this when my wife came back on Sunday all fired up with the 'holy spirit'.
She says: everyone says hello and that they miss you. I don't know why?
I say: Its because of you. They are trying to be 'supportive'.
She says: Are you really happy not going to the meetings anymore?
I say: Never felt better, why do you ask?