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  Reflecting On Death

  by Charles Gillette in

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  2. friends

  reflecting on death.

  i can't remember, maybe steve jobs before he died.i thought i would share it with you and see what you think about it, and i'm quoting i think from his book.. "i'm about fifty-fifty on believing in god.

  for most of my life, i've felt that there must be more to our own existence than meets the eye.. i might be overestimating the odds 50/50 out of a desire to believe in an afterlife.

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  westiebilly11

  I knew nothing of life before my birth, and I shall probably know nothing after I'm dead. As a father, I'm also saddened that I brought children into the world only for them to one day die...Bitter truth. How I wish that there was more to life than that.

  Kenneth Williams once said that if life is a joke, let's make it a good one.

  Hopefully I shall leave the world in a better state than I found it, but perhaps not..! I dread death. I face my own mortality with trepidation and fear. But, it does seem inevitable. I did find the meetings and the hope of a better life etc a comfort at one time, but , sadly, little evidence to back it up.
  
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  Crisis of Conscience is being delivered to my door today. I can't wait

  by Fognomore in

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  2. beliefs

  since i have no one else to talk to about what i am going through, i just thought i would let this group know that i have .

  crisis of conscience coming to my front door today.

  i already know what i will say if my wife says something.

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  Excellent book. Raymond throughout bears no malice or hatred towards anyone. He relates candidly various events and phase he passed through. I found it fascinating, not always easy to understand at first bite, but having carefully read it twice, it makes sense. ISOC is heavy going but equally revealing and refreshingly written.
  
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  You Don't Have to Tell the Elders Anything!

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  if you were ever brought before a judicial committee, and were about to be interrogated by the elders, just remember...you owe them nothing.

  they are mere men and no better than you!

  even if it wasn’t a judicial interrogation , you should never feel obligated to them.

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  westiebilly11

  No, my late wife's carer was not a JW. She was part of a team of carers . Whilst most of the carers worked to rule and only did the minimum, this carer went out of her way to ensure my wife was comfortable, cared for, and even took her out in her mobility chair, unpaid. Had the carer been male, I'd have been equally appreciative.
  
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  You Don't Have to Tell the Elders Anything!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you were ever brought before a judicial committee, and were about to be interrogated by the elders, just remember...you owe them nothing.

  they are mere men and no better than you!

  even if it wasn’t a judicial interrogation , you should never feel obligated to them.

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  westiebilly11

  My mistake was to be honest, trusting, and friendly. I was DF with no tangible evidence bar my own admittance that I had had a meal with my wife's carer in broad daylight (deemed to be 'brazen conduct') to repay her care and ,often unpaid, help. In hindsight, beneficial I know, I should have not played their game and made them ashamed of their unfounded accusations. One of the elders on the JC has since been removed from the congregation and transferred to another far away, as a result of his habitual interference in other's family lives...
  
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  People (!) and their bloody phones..

  by zeb in

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  2. friends

  rant warning.. simple shopping trip.. near miss one,.. normal ..as people are such dick heads today, second very close both by women with their brats in car- both occasions arguments going on over their f*** phones.

  the second had mum leaning over the drivers seat waving her hand in brats face.

  i saw this coming hit the brakes making tires howl and leaned on the horn.

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  On way to work via primary school run, I'm always shocked at how most of the mothers (yes..mothers, not fathers) are on their mob phone whilst their precious children are left to wander behind or decide to cross road before mother..
  
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  Library now cleared out

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well, it looks like the axe has finally fallen on our kh library.

  during a deep clean of the local kh, a brother suddenly informed everyone 'whikst cleaning' that all the old books including bound volumes of the watchtower etc was to be chucked in the skip.. from what i heard, some were taken aback by this and quite annoyed that no announcement was made; that no one was given the choice of taking some of these books home to keep.

  i mean the entire collection of studies in the scriptures and others that go back an entire century.

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  Such a shame. Ebay and Amazon are useful sources of old publications.....but for how long? I've kept all my old CD roms etc...thankfully, because I always suspected that hard copies would be removed from KH libraries....
  
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  2018 Service Year Report - Released on jw.org

  by Drearyweather in

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  2. bible

  2018 service year report of jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.

  see details of the global preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses from september 2017 to august 2018.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.

  average publishers preaching each month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982).

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  Zero growth. Much ado about nothing.. Perhaps there's something to be said for burying talents in the ground after all...
  
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  JW elders stumped by Watchtower Publications

  by Roger Kirkpatrick in

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  2. experiences

  i was approached by two jehovah’s witness elders who handed me a pamphlet advertising the jw .org website.

  each man carried a bible and an apple ipad.

  they told me that they enjoyed visiting with people about the bible, and asked if i was a bible reader.

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  westiebilly11

  I'm beginning to realize that many present day elders have just one active brain cell between them and just take turns in looking after it. Where are their thinking faculties?..." Make sure of all things..."
  
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  Mo Money ... $$$

  by loneranger in

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  the money grab continues!!

  at a very recent circuit assembly (usa), the accounts overseer gave the typical accounts report for the ca in the early afternoon.

  there were 2100 people at the assembly.

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  westiebilly11

  Money money money....where does it all go?..
  
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  Crisis of conscience

  by Incognigo Montoya in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so i have not read it yet.

  where would be the best place to get my hands on a copy?.

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  westiebilly11

  Amazon. Worth every penny, and a legitimate source.