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  This week's "Give Us Your Money" meeting item.

  by freddo in

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  if you went to it, (or go later this week) how was it handled?

  just the video or some commentary too?.

  i have heard of a few negative comments from some that attended - one jw even openly said to me "not very encouraging, all they go on about is money lately" and another (a serving elder, no less) said "someone's got to pay for all those lawsuits".

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  road to nowhere

  in fairness, NPR, TV, lots of non profits do a year end donation drive. Also to be fair, I don't donate to NPR because they seem too left wing nowadays. You can see where your money goes on most organizations and decide if you want to support them.

  It stinks that the WT asks for money in general fund not marked for any cause, then when I heard a second time the Carribeann disasters (not just PR) were given $3 million all around from "the money you donated". So they didn't even earmark all the money donated for the disasters. This must work out to something like $50 per person. then the "aid" will be from nearby local brothers with little input other than bigwig overseers from the org.
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  is armageddon starting ?

  by stan livedeath in

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  the sky is so dark here in the south of the uk.

  could be armageddon starting.. or then it could be dust particles in the atmosphere..

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  may be it should start at hour zero at Greenwich time. then travel around the world

  I may be wrong though it could at the international date line, or starts at Jerusalem WT never was clear about that
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  Strip off the old personality

  by eyeuse2badub in

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  yesterday’s watchtower talked about how by becoming a jw it enabled “worldly” people to ‘strip off the old personality’ and make really significantly good changes in their life.. paragraph named 4 individuals (anonymous names of course and probably embellished tales)) sakura, ribeiro, stephen, and hans.

  their lives changed for the good because they found god or because they became jw’s---right?.

  so on the way home from this wt meeting, my wife commented to me how wonderful our brotherhood is and how it helps people who would otherwise be ‘lost’ n this world.

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  don't forget that a lot of us "grow up" around mid 20's so change anyway. As for being in prison, nothing like being in a place where you can't do a lot to straighten you out.
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  Dietary Quirks Among JWs

  by millie210 in

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  2. beliefs

  i recently had to accompany an older family member out of state to a family reunion.

  it was a big reunion and not much was overtly made of the fact that i am "misguided" and not attending meetings (lost soul that i am) which was nice.

  the thing i noticed that i was most struck by was all the dietary quirks in evidence during our 3 days together.

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  the original sin wasn't the apple, it was refined sugar!!!!!!!! when I was a kid I thought only JWs ate health food, and didn't understand how the stores could stay in business with us only.

  I am old enough that cooking with aluminum still bothers me.
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  so its discussions with people..

  by zeb in

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  so the wt mag is all but gone just a few a year.

  thus a big gap in the sunday program?

  no more year books.

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  I can converse about football, baseball, fishing, calfornia fires, earthquakes (not the sign), hurricanes, local bad traffic, new comers in town, trump/hilliary/putin. Weather, health problems, food, crime, pretty children. I joked with a return visit about the embarrassing 8 page magazines, the simplified stuff, don't remember if I even brought up the generation thing (explain that one). I did try to put a good slant on things.

  will new time slips have a spot for conversations had this month? along with placements, video showings. Remember the original advise: ask the householder for their password to show them?
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  The Ever-Changing Song Book

  by Cimarrona in

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  the songs in the old brown song book were way better than these new ones.

  had they not changed the songs, i may never have left (halfway joking).

  they gave no feeling, no soul (but of course there's no such thing as soul or whatever)!

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  Anything close to good was done away with. The really old songbooks had hymns, probably all plagiarized. the music sounds like a mix of old TV, Disney, and Mr. rogers,

  the "choir" is embarrassing, can't they afford actual robes, or uniforms.

  The christian pop songs reference is that some of the things they put out is identical sounding to what you hear on any of the Sunday morning TV evangelists, right down to a "pretty" singer.
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  It's Going Down: The Family Is About to Go to War Over... Halloween Decorations.

  by Sorry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yup, you read right.

  despite other personal turmoil that needs to be addressed, my family has decided to go nuts over halloween decorations being "too close" to our yard.

  a new family just moved in next door; their kids are super young.

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  so much for not forcing our religion on other people. the neighbors put up haloween, xmas, turkey day and all, but it is THEIRS. No red ties in December, Orange in Nov? don't even think about punkins

  the projector sounds like fun, can you do a sample presentation (oops conversation) with the shadow figures to project next time someone comes to the door?
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  Just woke up turn TV on to hear yet another nut case with a gun.

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  first they said 20 dead with 100 injured.

  now i just heard 50 dead and 200 injured.

  whatever it is it just another nut case who was able to get a high power gun to kill people.

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  Just watched 60 minutes recording. The story/timeline keeps changing. Seems now the security guard was shot before the start of the massacre. We normal people can't think like a nutso, it goes against our ingrained sense of right. Therefore we have a hard time understanding because we can't imagine being in his shoes.

  If you rent a room or suite, you do not have to have the linen changed, or room cleaned. Just keep the privacy sigh up. Does anyone really pay much attention to someone carrying suitcases in? Even long guns that are not "takedown" can still be disassembled stock from barrel making it shorter, then put back together in the room.

  As for the founding writers of the bill of rights forseeing everything, they couldn't. But they also couldn't forsee telephones, TV, radio, internet, all things that are protected by the first amendment. I think if you could show then the weapons and power of modern governments, they would say that none of the things we see should have been allowed to even start. That is why they wanted the civilian to have available what was state of art weapons at that time. You cannot discount the ability of poorly equipped LOCALS to expel foreigners. Look at the history of Afganistan, and other places where a ragtag army wore out the enemy.
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  Trivial stuff about the AGM

  by sir82 in

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  lots of good comments already about the content of saturday's agm broadcast.. i just thought i'd add my (trivial!

  ) comments about the magnificent 7:.

  -- loesch - was he intentionally trying to be boring?

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  I was wrong about it taking 15 minutes to summarize. More like 5.

  I think Loesch is the most normal, if you met him somewhere you wouldn't think much about his oddities.

  The reading is not a burden in amount, just that it puts you to sleep and does NOT stimulate you thinking.

  The efforts to pull in children seems to be a bust, hence stopping a bunch of the crap.

  I thought type/antitype was all passe. It was mentioned in the temple bit.

  Anyone get the coal test comment? You have to go way back in history to understand that reference. If someone doesn't chime in, I will comment later.
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  Disaster Relief - Used to Beg For Money/Charity

  by thedepressedsoul in

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  2. beliefs

  for a organization that "doesn't ask for money" they sure do ask a lot.. i've been noticing that over the last few months "disaster relief" has been brought up in almost everything jw.

  wt, congregation study, broadcast, special updated video, etc.... & i've noticed two things every time it gets brought up, which is a lot lately.. they talk about giving physically and how much money will be needed for the disaster relief work.

  that we should be generous.

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  Note that they always ask that you do not designate the donation for any set disaster fund, but rather to general use, so they can do what they danm well please with it.

  I figure that if I sent in money tagged for "whatever" they would just subract the amount they would have sent otherwise to help others.

  From what I can tell the relief is done by nearby congregations with THEIR funds and manpower. The most the borg does is keep track of who is doing what where and then taking credit. I have never seen an actual check or recepit for anything the bigwigs did.