Just for the record - I thank those who have responded to my posting, and who have explained the question more clearly to me - and above all, I thank you for the (somewhat unusual) fact, that your responses have been kept in a friendly way, that there has been no name-calling. Good!
TheOldHippie
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BROTHERS & SISTERS - READ THE BROCHURE!
by The Searcher injesus always used illustrations to help people reason on the import of what he was saying.
here is an illustration followed by a reality;.
imagine that your heart went out to all those poor people who suffered when fukushima blew up, so much so, that when an internationally renowned charity asked for donations to help those in need, you donated $5000 to the cause.
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How Many Here Have Ever Smoked Pot or Tobacco?
by minimus inam i the only one who has done neither?.
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TheOldHippie
I guess my user name says it all ...........................
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Anyone have a scan/copy of October 2012 BOE letter? It may help Candace's appeal..
by The Quiet One in"the brief statedthat [ t]hat letter [a 1997 letter to boe] also confirmed watchtower's long-standing policy that a known child molester does not qualify to be appointed to a position of responsibility in any congregation.
" http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/child-abuse/250093/1/summary-of-wt-appeal-brief-in-conti-case.
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TheOldHippie
I just wonder why we should send you an e-mail request for a pdf-version of the elders' book, when it is available everywhere on the net, just make a google search and there it is. No need to contact you specifically ..............................
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Do Nigerians really have bad reputation?
by His Excellency inon a recent thread here about an announcement made by the cobe, with the aim of extorting 10 grand from the servant body, different allegations were made that the request sound nigerian?..
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my question is, do nigerians really have bad reputation?.
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TheOldHippie
I did not know the Dutch and French were the colonial powers ruling Liberia and Nigeria ................. Niger was French, Nigeria was British and Liberia never was anything but what the name says, liberated, it was always free, founded by returning US slaves. The Dutch never had an African colony, they had so in Asia, like Indonesia and in South America like Suriname.
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Differences Between JWs in the US and Europe
by BU2B inthere are many cultural differences between the general population of the us and europe, what about jws?
i have heard about such things as beards being allowed, movies that a jw cant watch in the us or would be frowned upon watching being ok, same with tv shows, and even the way they dress in public.
seems more laid back over there if this is true.. any truth to this?
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TheOldHippie
Swedes are rather stiff people, whereas the other Nordic peoples are not. Germans are very stiff, Mediterranean ones open and outwardly and including. I guess the JW communities are rather similar to the people of the area in general. Some JWs from a more open part of the country move to another part and are surprised at how stiff people are in the congregation there and vice versa. But non-JWs doing the same, experience the same. Some areas are more closed than others. And a couple of strong personalities might influence a whole congregation. Tell a joke as part of your talk if you hold talks in other congregations, and you will find that in some congregations they will laugh heartedly, whereas in others not a facial muscle will move - which might be rather embarassing for you as a speaker .....................
But one thing I notice, and that is the more or less reverential attitude the US JWs obviously have towards the GB. Not so here, in general. But I guess that is because to us, they are remote, physically, they are at the other side of the Earth and strangers to us. I was at a convention here quite some years ago, when four of them were guest speakers, and those four were the among old ones, Henschel et al., but no-one cared, they pretty much stood together as a group during breaks, and there was no crowd of hangarounds to say hello. But by the way, a couple of years ago another one visited, and it was announced from the platform that it sould be possible to have one's photo taken together with him afterwards - but that flash should not be used .............. reminded me of a pop star's visit .............. so perhaps the new members are not as "shy" as the old ones.
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BROTHERS & SISTERS - READ THE BROCHURE!
by The Searcher injesus always used illustrations to help people reason on the import of what he was saying.
here is an illustration followed by a reality;.
imagine that your heart went out to all those poor people who suffered when fukushima blew up, so much so, that when an internationally renowned charity asked for donations to help those in need, you donated $5000 to the cause.
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TheOldHippie
"how it could possibly cost $9-$10,000 per day to use our own assembly hall?"
Well, it was built once, wasn't it? And that did cost some money, did'nt it? And that means loans will have to be paid, doesn't it? Just for the record, our convention hall has now been fully paid, zero loan or debt, and so there are no more calls for deficit and how much needs to be paid for a convention day.
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BROTHERS & SISTERS - READ THE BROCHURE!
by The Searcher injesus always used illustrations to help people reason on the import of what he was saying.
here is an illustration followed by a reality;.
imagine that your heart went out to all those poor people who suffered when fukushima blew up, so much so, that when an internationally renowned charity asked for donations to help those in need, you donated $5000 to the cause.
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TheOldHippie
So - just to get it straight - what you think is correct seen from the side of the houseowner who had his house destroyed, is to have volunteer JWs rebuild his house for free, receive new furniture donated either as furniture or as money given by JWs, and THEN receive and keep the full amount of insure money paid to him by his insurance agency?
Both ways, in other words?
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The resurrection fantasy, the last desperate illusion?
by Slidin Fast inas people get older they inevitably lose more of their friends and family.
the doctrine that binds them to the truth like superglue is the doctrine of the resurrection.
they ache to see their dead rise.. so ... i die.
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TheOldHippie
God keeps you in His memory, He is a God for the living, the from our viewpoint dead ones live in Him, He views them as living - and then he gives them a new physical body. I cannot see that as a clone, because they during all the in-between time have been living in His memory as individuals.
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local memorial attendance
by outsmartthesystem inso i have a friend that is still "in" because of his elderly parents.
he attended the memorial and reported back to me what i thought was encouraging.
we have two congregations in the city i live in.
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TheOldHippie
80 in our small rural congregation of 30 - an all-time high, more than 10 above the previous record!
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WTS action on Conti's case 3/27/2013
by mind blown inas most suspected, the wts filed their brief, at least it looks that way..... http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.cfm?dist=1&doc_id=2025979&doc_no=a136641.
it also notes aob in excess of word count limit.. wonder if they did that to buy more time?.
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TheOldHippie
Could someone very shortly tell me poor non-US person the time-line or the actions, the "what is happening and what will happen next" of this case? Not what the case is about, but the way and manners the US system works or deals with a case like this. So that I can get an understanding of how the US system functions, as it is different from ours.