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"Giving Makes You Happy" jw.org video for kids
by Scully in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
giving makes you happy.

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Scully
Lois,
This is part of a series on the jw.org website targetting children, called 'Be Jehovah's Friend' or something like that. It's where the original Caleb & Sparlock video is located.
We could have some fun with this one.
Sure, "giving makes me happy"...
- Why don't they show Caleb's mom putting some things from her grocery order into the local Food Bank bin?
- Why don't they show Caleb's dad going to the blood donor clinic and rolling up his sleeve?
- Why don't they show Caleb's sister picking vegetables from their garden and giving them to the elderly lady next door?
- Why don't they show the whole family spending an afternoon at the soup kitchen feeding homeless people?
- Why don't they show Caleb's family deciding who to invite over to dinner - should it be the Circuit Overseer? or the single mom who's barely making ends meet?
- Why don't they show Caleb's mom knitting a shawl for a cancer patient in hospital?
Because those aren't the ways the WTS wants JWs to be "giving", are they?
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Watch the new JW.ORG kids music video - GIVING makes you happy
by bytheirworks in
1. jw
2. friends
sing along everybody.. i love the part where he says: "i like getting presents.".

must have been huge a backlash from throwing away sparlock.. .

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Scully

I started a thread about that very thing, yesterday.
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Young man walks out of Glasgow convention and commits suicide
by jambon1 in
1. jw
2. friends
last weekend.

so unbelievably sad.

rip.
Scully

This makes me terribly sad, and unbelievably furious at the same time.
I remember how devastated I felt after The Memorial™ in 1994, in the throes of severe postpartum depression, having been refused the opportunity to pass the Emblems™. Here they were letting DFd people and complete strangers participate, but because I was suffering from a debilitating mental illness, some idiot Elder™ decided that I might "partake unworthily" and so instucted the Attendants™ to make sure I was not allowed to handle the wine or the bread.
It just topped off how horrible I felt at the time, and the next day I ended up in hospital on a suicide watch. I just wanted to spare Jehovah the bother of destroying me at Armageddon™. Thankfully, I had the help of a terrific physician and a skilled psychiatrist, and visiting nurses who restored my faith in humankind and helped me on the road to recovery.
To know that this kind of mental browbeating is still allowed to happen makes my blood boil.
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SURVEY QUESTIONs
by Terry in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm on the brink of publishing my book.

here are some survey questions that will help me make some important decisions.. if you were ever going to actually buy a book about an ex-jehovah's witness conscientious objector who went to prison, would you:.

a. prefer the book to be 8 1/2 x 11 ?.
Scully

Terry,
I enjoy e-books, but even more, I love audiobooks. There's just something about having a book 'read to me' that makes the experience even better.
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You Needed Me
by compound complex in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
heavy, heavy upon my failing heart weighs your aching.

need for my full and loving devotion.. oh, how i spend myself willingly on your behalf as,.

truly, your desires outstrip my own.. were i but a younger and wiry man, would i scale.
Scully

CoCo? Are you okay?
It's excellent to see you!
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"Giving Makes You Happy" jw.org video for kids
by Scully in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
giving makes you happy.

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Scully

Get them while they're young, W.
Empty that piggy bank into the Contribution Box™! You may not be able to buy anything with all those pennies anymore, but Jehovah can use them!!
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"Giving Makes You Happy" jw.org video for kids
by Scully in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
giving makes you happy.

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Scully

Giving Makes You Happy
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Books used to study with JWs - what are they?
by Scully in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i'm on the jw.org website, looking at the publications.. i'm curious as to the books being used with the 'new' studytm, and the order in which they are studiedtm.. anyone still on the inside, can you help me?.
Scully

Thanks, rip van winkle. I knew about "What Does the Bible Really Teach?"
I was wondering about the next one in line, the one leading up to Baptism™ or just following Baptism™?
I'm looking at "Come Be My Follower" (published 2007) and "Draw Close to Jehovah" (published 2002).
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Books used to study with JWs - what are they?
by Scully in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i'm on the jw.org website, looking at the publications.. i'm curious as to the books being used with the 'new' studytm, and the order in which they are studiedtm.. anyone still on the inside, can you help me?.
Scully

I'm on the jw.org website, looking at the publications.
I'm curious as to the books being used with the 'new' Study™, and the order in which they are Studied™.
Anyone still on the inside, can you help me?
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Newspaper Article: Press Telegram-JWS BRING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO LONG BEACH - (JW beliefs discussed including date setting)
by AndersonsInfo in
1. jw
2. friends
http://www.presstelegram.com/social-affairs/20130829/jehovahs-witnesses-bring-millions-of-dollars-to-long-beach#comments.

go to the website to read the comments by xjws.. jehovahs witnesses bring millions of dollars to long beach.

jehovah's witnesses hold a series of regional conventions in long beach every summer, bringing some 150,000 witnesses from across the southland over the course of 15 weekends.
Scully

the organization boasts some 17 million participants internationally
Really? They are using Memorial Attendance™ numbers to "boast" about non-existent growth now?