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  Why this obsession with Standardisation?

  by eyeslice2 in

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  the longer i am out, the the less i understand the logic of this organisation.. i thought that the kingdom hall my wife attends was perfectly fine and adequate, in fact i liked that it sat in grassy grounds, surrounded by trees.

  it probably wasn't in any dire need of re-decorating at this point.

  others, obviously, thought otherwise and so the hall has recently been subjected to a make-over.. the parking lot has been extended in true joni michell they've "paved paradise and put up a parking lot".

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  That sounds vile, chopping down the trees and pulling up the grass. Paving a car park they don't need but then the WTS don't really want beautiful KHs for the members do they? They want them ready to sell as plain office buildings or industrial sites. Paradise is for the bigwigs in Warwick with their landscaped gardens.
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  Question- do JWs use the term overlapping generations

  by Xanthippe in

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  ... or is that one of our memes?

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  made absolutely no sense to me, and no matter how much I would try to figure it out I couldn't, only to discover those things didn't make any sense because it was a total sham.

  I was like that Tameria with things like the ransom, the seven times prophecy and why we celebrated wedding anniversaries but not birthdays. You end up feeling I must be stupid if everyone gets it but me.

  In reality we were brighter than most, independent thinkers. That terrible thing! Hasn't it made you trust yourself now though? If something sounds like bullshit that's because it is.
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  Post Pictures of Beautiful Things

  by APieceOfShitNamedTate in

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  beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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  Question- do JWs use the term overlapping generations

  by Xanthippe in

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  Time to move the starting point. - stillin

  Yeah stillin they're going to have to do that eventually once everyone who overlaps with the 1914 generation has died off.

  The thing is from what newbies on here say, young adult born-ins and new converts now don't know anything about the generation teaching at all! Yet still they convert or get baptised! Following all those life-crippling rules with no end in sight. Why?!
  
  
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  Question- do JWs use the term overlapping generations

  by Xanthippe in

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  ... or is that one of our memes?

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  Thanks Listener!
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  Post Pictures of Beautiful Things

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  Post Pictures of Beautiful Things

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  JWs just called at my daughter's house and said the end is near because .....

  by Xanthippe in

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  the world is getting worse, for example children are getting more cheeky!.

  proof positive!

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  In the 1800's you would have read in the newspaper about a crime, then maybe 2 weeks later about another crime. - Jayduby

  Very true, I sometimes search old newspapers, some from the 1800s on microfilm in my job. All the crimes are there and also the reports of suicides which struck me. Suicide from despair is not at all new.

  Also what hits you in the eye are the adverts for quack medicines in 19th century newspapers. Some of them sound so dangerous. People who think some diseases are hopeless now, should read the desperation those remedies suggest.
  
  
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  Question- do JWs use the term overlapping generations

  by Xanthippe in

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  No, they don't really use that term it makes it sound ridiculous (which it is) most don't talk about it - JW rogue

  I'm PIMO and I never hear the term used at meetings or in general conversation. The subject is never brought up. - a piece of shit

  To be perfectly precise, the official doctrine is that there is "one generation composed of two overlapping groups". No one uses the exact phrase "overlapping generation" - sir82

  Thanks guys that answers my question.