Oh, how brave and manly. Human wisdom taken to its extreme.
If that was an example of the most intelligent thing you managed to do, I see no limits as to how childish people can behave.
TheOldHippie
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Congregation had to relocate Memorial...thanks to me
by Shepherd Book inso, the two local congregations were planning to hold their memorial together at 7:30 at the local community center, but they had to make a last-minute change to their own hall, and i'm pretty sure it was because of me.. let me explain.... at work on monday afternoon, a co-worker returned from her lunchbreak and showed me the memorial invitation that was waiitng in her door when she went home for lunch.
i noticed the sticker on the back indicated the memorial was being held, not at the local hall, but at the community center.
from a past (non-jw) event i attended there, i knew they didn't allow alcohol (unless you pay for security guards), so i wrote to the center's coordinator:.
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kingdom hall packed from memorial invitees!!!
by nowwhat? inafter spending a month in cold,rainy, snowy conditions, and using up 100's of gallons of fuel in service.
jehovah certainly blessed our efforts!!.
we must have had zero invitees up from zero the year before!!!
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TheOldHippie
"The JWs are only attracting disadvantaged, uneducated, social misfits."
1. Cor. 1: 26-29:
26 For YOU behold his calling of YOU, brothers, that not many wise in a fleshly way were called, not many powerful, not many of noble birth; 27 but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put the wise men to shame; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put the strong things to shame; 28 and God chose the ignoble things of the world and the things looked down upon, the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are, 29 in order that no flesh might boast in the sight of God.
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11 years of compiled yearbook statistics: spreadsheet downloads
by 88JM in(edit: sorry about that - i clicked submit before i finished writing the post.
and its now 11 years, not 10. anyway...).
hi folks.
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Comoros
Check with the number of countries where there are restriction; a Moslem country with not-too-gentle attitude towards other faiths
Montenegro -
Comes from former Yugoslavia, but from 2003 to 2006 it was part of the union of Serbia and Montenegro.
South Sudan -
Comes from Sudan – obviously.
Tajikistan -
Check with the number of countries where there are restriction; a Moslem country with not-too-gentle attitude towards other faiths
Timor-Leste
Comes either from Timor or from Indonesia, check if the said figures go down coeespondingly.
Yugoslavia, F. R.
Divided into Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Kosovo
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 03-17-2013 WT Study (DRAWING CLOSE)
by blondie inview of money and pride?.
jehovah?.
comments.
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TheOldHippie
Certain eagles are reported to have drowned when they did not release
from their talons a fish that was too heavy to carry off.
Who writes this stuff? Are they trying to protect the identity of those eagles or perhaps just
shield their families from the shame?
More that it is not 100 % certain that they have drowned, I guess, that it has not been taped - not so much because of the shamefulness of having a greedy family member.
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Pioneer Takes Baby Out In Zero Wind Chill
by rocketman inthough i haven't been in the mood to discuss jws lately, i had to post this one.
it's a keeper and shows how fanatical they can get:.
on my way to work in our city's downtown area i regularly see a pioneer walking up and down the street, holding up his magazines.
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TheOldHippie
So in this my part of the world where there are five months of winter and temperatures below the freezing point all that time and for periods down to -20 Fahrenheit - what should people do? Stay indoors, or fear being delivered to the cops, as some of you suggest?
Man, do some of you live secluded, protected lives!
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VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA | The Age newspaper | March 16, 2013 | Slamming the Door on Jehovah's Witnesses
by jwleaks inthe age newspaper | fairfax media | saturday, march 16, 2013. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/slamming-the-door-on-jehovah-20130315-2g6fo.html.
slamming the door on jehovah's witnesses.
she is an apostate, which sounds like a strange disease, and in many ways it is.
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TheOldHippie
"An elder ordered that he sit in a glass room at the back of the Kingdom Hall at every meeting, twice a week, for four months, for two hours at a time. The glass room was called the fish bowl and members of the congregation were allowed to humiliate him while he was in there."
Oh yeah?
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No Governing Body in 1925
by VM44 infrom the june 15, 1938 watchtower, p. 185: "in the beginning of the first hebrew month the watchtower of march 1, 1925 published the article "the birth of the nation," meaning that the kingdom had begun to function.
an editorial committee, humanly provided for, then was supposed to control the publication of the watchtower, and the majority of that committee strenuously objected to the publication of that article "the birth of the nation," but, by the lord's grace it was published and that really marked the beginning of the end of the editorial committee, indicating that the lord himself is running his organization.".
there was no governing body, judge rutherford was the watchtower president making the decisions and running the organization.. .
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TheOldHippie
But remember: The Annual meeting article does not claim there WAS a GB back in '25, the quote goes:
"From 1919 on, there has always been a small group of anointed Christians at the world headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses. They have supervised our worldwide preaching work and have been directly involved in preparing and dispensing spiritual food. In recent years, that group has been closely identified with the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
The evidence points to the following conclusion: “The faithful and discreet slave” was appointed over Jesus’ domestics in 1919. That slave is the small, composite group of anointed brothers serving at world headquarters during Christ’s presence who are directly involved in preparing and dispensing spiritual food. When this group work together as the Governing Body, they act as “the faithful and discreet slave.”"
So there has been a group, and in later years, that group has been identified with the GB. It does not say there was a GB right from the beginning, or that there was a GB constituting the slave.
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Just wondering what is the JWs stance on the existance of dinosaurs ???
by AMO inwas pondering today on the jws stance on the existance of the dinosaurs.
would be interested to know any belieavers stance on this eg.
your own belief and that of the wts current understanding.. insidentally i tried to search this on jw.org and no search bar, or at least i didn't find one ????.
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TheOldHippie
That some of them might have died in the Flood, but that the vast majority died earlier, thru catastrophes or other occurances. If you search the CDRom, you will find some special issues of Awake! covering the topic of dinosaurs not THAT long ago, 10 years or so, and the question of when and how they died was also covered. I do not have it at hand right now. There was a picture of a long-necked dino on the front.I don't think there are any ideas about co-existence between them and man. Apart from a funny picture or two on some covers, as shown.
Voltaire or Rousseau - I do not remember which one, but one of them it was - dismissed the whole idea of fossils, and thought the bones found were leftovers from previously held lunches; so not everyone has always been quite up-to-date
Schroeder of the GB told me they made huge food reservoirs for other animals when they died individually, and that of course is correct, but does not relate to the dying out - question.
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Interesting Read About a JW Missionary in China
by Wolfy inhttp://www.believermag.com/issues/201302/?read=article_scorah.
i found it a very interesting read.
the article was linked on one of my fav websites digg.
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TheOldHippie
Amusing story, written by some novel writer enganged by the magazine to create a fake story. JWs in China do not act like that, and the Japanese branch which supervises the work would NEVER encourage making "worldly" friends as a way of tricking the gospel into them.
Nice try, but totally fake.
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Help with part on service meeting.
by msconcerned inhello all i have the part in the yearbook and cannot find anything on the "smear campaign" and "media attack" on the witnesses in norway.
any ideas?
i have googled all kinds of inquiries and came up with nothin..
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TheOldHippie
Mid and late '80s. Ex-JWs appeared on national television saying they had been df'ed for not having beaten their children enough. Newspapers and periodicals followed up. Children of JWs were beaten and ridiculed at school by others because of this, grown-ups had tough time at work etc. A few JWs were beaten up in service. Meetings were held between branch and authorities and it eventually died out. But it took years before magazine circulation reached previous amount. Studies dropped out, meeting attendance decreased.