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  A False Sense of Security

  by Ranchette in

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  if youre anything like me youve probably been trying to analyze your feelings over the last couple of weeks.it seems like im experiencing an ever-changing array of emotions!.

  its starting to come in on me that i had such a false sense of security and naivety .

  now when i look at our government i feel like ive been viewing them through the eyes of a child.

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  Stephanus

  A bit harsh isn't it? Like saying that they can protect farmers from bad seasons...
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  50 Years Ago in the Watchtower

  by Thirdson in

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  no doubt you are familiar with the practice of many popular magazines to print selected extracts from their issues 25, 50 or 100 years ago.

  (scientific american goes back 150 years).

  what is interesting is the ideas presented then, sometimes they are fanciful and just plain wrong.

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  Actually, 3rdSon, when I first saw the term "worldling" in this thread, I had a begrudging twinge of admiration for the writing committee of old which coined this word. The -ling suffix is a very old, almost, but not quite extinct, way of forming a diminutive. "Pigling", for example, is an alternative form of piglet, and the Anglo-Saxon princes were "athelings". There is always a hint of the derogatory in the use of diminutives (cf. the use of "Freddie" when addressing Fred Hall), and this comes out both in "Earthling" and "worldling". It is an extremely clever coinage of a term, and therefore my guess is that Freddie (or is that "Fredling"?) Franz is its originator.
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  50 Years Ago in the Watchtower

  by Thirdson in

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  no doubt you are familiar with the practice of many popular magazines to print selected extracts from their issues 25, 50 or 100 years ago.

  (scientific american goes back 150 years).

  what is interesting is the ideas presented then, sometimes they are fanciful and just plain wrong.

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  Stephanus

  What's the bet that the person who supposedly sent this letter, BG, is actually GB spelt backwards? LOL
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  50 Years Ago in the Watchtower

  by Thirdson in

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  no doubt you are familiar with the practice of many popular magazines to print selected extracts from their issues 25, 50 or 100 years ago.

  (scientific american goes back 150 years).

  what is interesting is the ideas presented then, sometimes they are fanciful and just plain wrong.

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  *** g98 6/22 30 From Our Readers ***
  No Part of the World I just loved the article “The Bible’s Viewpoint: ‘No Part of the World’—What Does It Mean?” (September 8, 1997) After studying it, I decided to stop using the expression “worldling” to describe non-Christians. After all, 30 years ago, I myself was not yet a Christian. If the person who first introduced me to the Bible had taken a supercilious attitude, then I might never have wanted to speak with a Witness again!
  B. G., United States

  Typical 'Tower tactic - use a patsy letter to condemn the word rather than admit that they were the ones who coined it in the first place! Another example of blaming the R&F for following their example. Despicable!
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  Welcome, Frightmare!

  by Stephanus in

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  saw your provocative style on one of the pro-witness boards and wondered how long before you wandered over here; after all, you can say just about whatever you want here without fear of having a controversial (read "interesting") thread terminated and removed by zealous followers of joe-hover.

  glad to see you've become apostate because of your decision to associate with apostates.

  it won't be long now...

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  Stephanus

  , I will be replacing it soon with someone I actually resemble, The Incredible Hulk.

  Hey, I'm bipolar too! LOL
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  ``Quality Time'' in Field Service: Fact or Fiction

  by Room 215 in

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  based on comments in various threads, it seems that many of you are acquainted with the various ``dodges'' jws use to strech out their field service time: foot-dragging, driving around on return visits from one far-flung end of the territory to the other, the skilful avoidance of contact with housholders, coffee breaks, etc.

  etc.. do you have any impression of how pervasive these time-wasting such practices are, and what proportion of the time reported by jws is actually bogus and not spent productively?

  or, put another way, how rare is is to encounter who just loves to go out and who uses his/her time efficiently from beginning to end?.

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  Sherri:
  

  (Kind of like dreaming about being naked in your high school classroom-arghhh.)

  I had the same dream, Sherri - you were naked in my high school classroom! LOL
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  Fact finding for You Knows Apostasy!

  by D wiltshire in

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  lets play a game!.

  let make beleive that this post is headed by elders from you know congregation, and they have heard rumors about you know apostasy, but before they can get a committee together the need solid facts that you know is truly an apostate.. the poster can play either the part of elders who are investigating, or that of a loyal jws bringing facts to the elders attention about this matter.. i think this could be fun, or i maybe totally wrong and nobody wants to play this game.. we might even get enough facts together to form a committee and disfellowship him (in our game).

  i'll defend your right to say it, but it doesn't mean i beleive it.

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  Good point, Jeff. Someone was saying that it was said at a DC that it was okay for sisters to go through their husbands' computers after their early morning internet sessions, looking for the porn (and apostate material!) they're obviously downloading at that quiet time of the day. So it must be okay to log on to YK's PC and check his files for porn - he's obviously got enough apostate material for a conviction, but we really, really want to make sure!
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  British People Ask: Does America Know.....

  by Englishman in

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  being a sociable sort of animal i enjoy the cut and thrust of lively pub banter in the mid-evening.

  however, there are only about 3 or 4 of us who take part in on-line discussion forums such as this.. time and again, because it is known that i take part in this forum, i am asked the same sort of question: .

  "do americans in general realise that the uk is totally 100% behind them in this present crisis, not just the politicians, but the grass roots of the country, do they know that we feel outraged at the wtc attack, as outraged as if it had been on london?".

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  I've always been an Anglophile: lover of Monte Python, Blackadder, Absolutely Fabulous, Fawlty Towers, and the Royal Family

  The Dad in the Royall Family always reminds me of Kent... LOL
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  Fact finding for You Knows Apostasy!

  by D wiltshire in

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  lets play a game!.

  let make beleive that this post is headed by elders from you know congregation, and they have heard rumors about you know apostasy, but before they can get a committee together the need solid facts that you know is truly an apostate.. the poster can play either the part of elders who are investigating, or that of a loyal jws bringing facts to the elders attention about this matter.. i think this could be fun, or i maybe totally wrong and nobody wants to play this game.. we might even get enough facts together to form a committee and disfellowship him (in our game).

  i'll defend your right to say it, but it doesn't mean i beleive it.

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  Stephanus

  You guys take YK far too seriously. YK, AKA Robert King, is a gutless little toadie in his KH - he displays all the characteristics of a loyal Dub, i.e. he sits down and shuts up and pretends to hang on every word of the elders whom he holds in contempt. It is only here that he has the freedom to express his own ideas. If it wasn't for the apostates who frequent the internet to sharpen himself against, as iron against iron, then he'd die a slow, pitiful death intellectually. Like Dunsscot, he needs this board for the stimulation he's not getting through the only channels through which he is supposed to be seeking it.
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  Welcome, Frightmare!

  by Stephanus in

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  saw your provocative style on one of the pro-witness boards and wondered how long before you wandered over here; after all, you can say just about whatever you want here without fear of having a controversial (read "interesting") thread terminated and removed by zealous followers of joe-hover.

  glad to see you've become apostate because of your decision to associate with apostates.

  it won't be long now...

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  Stephanus

  Well, the Clark Kent turning into Superman looks awfully familiar - sure you're not on Great Crowd or whatever it's called? (That always seemed a misnomer to me - they didn't seem such a great crowd to me...)

  Good to hear they turfed you out of WOL - it would be terrible to see someone who can string words of more than two syllables together in a coherent sentence upsetting their applecart! There's much less braindeadedness here and loads more fun. (Although what could be more fun than a "What's your favourite colour?" thread???)

  I've got a sneaking suspicion you're the second advent of Dunsscot - it remains to be seen...