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  From the WBTS website "Do Not Be a Victim of Propaganda!"

  by middleman in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  read the first paragraph (below)....wow how/why do they write this stuff?.

  "there is a differencea big differencebetween education and propaganda.

  education shows you how to think.

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  startingover

  I read the first one before but had not read the fourth one. Unbelievable!

  Thanks for starting this thread, now I will have it bookmarked.
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  Did You/ Do You Believe Marriages Are Supposed To Be Forever?

  by minimus in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  the majority of people i know who are married either have cheated at least once or have mentioned regret to ever having married.

  as witnesses, we were taught that marriage should be lifelong unless adultery occured and even if it did, many times, eccouragement was given to forgive.. now, i see many couples go thru the motions but almost hate their status.. so, are marriages meant to be "forever" or what?.

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  startingover

  Ya gotta remember. When this whole marriage thing started people only lived 40 years. Nuf said.
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  How's the housing market in your neighborhood?

  by startingover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  bet it's not as bad as this:.

  http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-foreclosed-homes-demolished-video,0,6587474.worldnowvideo.

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  Bet it's not as bad as this:

  http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-foreclosed-homes-demolished-video,0,6587474.worldnowvideo
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  Has anyone 'sync'ed your TV with your PC and dropped cable?

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  there are tons of tv/movie programming - not to mention other more educational tools - on the web that could quickly replace the poor habit of channel surfing and potato-couching for family entertainment.. just wondering if anyone has done this?

  how difficult to do?

  has it worked out?.

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  startingover

  Interesting. Bookmark for later
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  $6,600 Expenses For a One-Day Assembly At a Fully-Paid-Up Hall? WTF!

  by Room 215 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the wife just got back from a one-day special circuit meeting (or whatever they call it) at the regional assembly hall.

  it's got a capacity of about 1,200, fully paid for, staffed by volunteers and in use for less than eight hours.

  then the guy making the announcement tells the crowd that the one-day expenses for the gig was about $6,600 (?!!!)...

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  startingover

  Billy the Ex:

  I've heard of the CO and DO and all the rest, but the COW. Now that't funny.

  It really is amazing looking at this arrangement from the outside. And they brag because they don't pass the plate. It amazes me how the intelligent people I know can't see what's going on.
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  Pro-JW letter to the editor in local paper

  by Shepherd Book in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this letter to the editor appeared in today's paper: http://www.monticellotimes.com/articles/2009/04/16/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/851witness.txt.

  this is basically a response to the article that was published about me and my family (which, frustratingly, has already been archived).

  in it, i claimed to shunned by almost all friends and family and to have been neither df'd nor da'd (both of these claims are true, by the way).

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  Shepherd Book,

  Do you by any chance know the Gary Kerr that posted? Check your pm's.
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  Anyone Have Any good Or Weird Home Book Study Stories?

  by Tired of the Hypocrisy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have a lot of them but this one my wife told me takes the cake!.

  my wife was about 15 yrs old and was attending the bookstudy at this sister's house.

  the sister's hubby was a non-believer but her daughter was a jw and was married to my wife's uncle who was also a jw.

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  I doubt anyone can top the first post. Drooling...gonna have a hard time forgetting that visual.
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  E-mail to JW Ex-Wife: What You Can Learn Researching the WTS in 3 Hours!

  by Seeker4 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i posted a thread earlier this week about a conversation i had with my jw ex-wife.

  the next day i sent her this e-mail.

  one should never be afraid of ideas.

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  Bookmark. Want to be able to find this excellent letter later. Thanks S4
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  My story in the Monticello Times

  by Shepherd Book in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i took the advice of some here and "went to the press".

  here's the resulting article: http://www.monticellotimes.com/articles/2009/04/09/community/879zimmerman.txt.

  i think it turned out rather well..

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  Excellent! A very fair look at the situation.
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  Do you like bubbly personalities?

  by rebel8 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when people are super bubbly/friendly/cheery, or constantly smiling ear-to-ear when the situation doesn't call for it, i immediately suspect they are either phonies, trying to sell me something, or suffering from bipolar mania.

  that is not really very fair of me, but that's what springs to mind.. i hate nervous giggling too.

  it completely grates on my nerves.

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  http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=jd4tugPM83c