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  JW from London calls TV show.

  by iknowall558 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdbonvka85s&feature=related.

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  InquiryMan

  Too bad the JW caller came across a scholar who had a JW Background.... He he
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  DVD "JW's Faith In Action, part 1 Out of Darkness" Omits! Omits! Omits!

  by Wasanelder Once in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been watching the new dvd and it is a bull fest about russell.

  i haven't even gotten half way and they already excluded one very important bit of information.

  you'll recall that russell "lost" his faith and "turning away from church creeds and searching for truth, russell examined some leading oriental religions, only to find these unsatisfying".

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  InquiryMan

  Please send me a link too ;-)
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  DVD "JW's Faith In Action, part 1 Out of Darkness" Omits! Omits! Omits!

  by Wasanelder Once in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been watching the new dvd and it is a bull fest about russell.

  i haven't even gotten half way and they already excluded one very important bit of information.

  you'll recall that russell "lost" his faith and "turning away from church creeds and searching for truth, russell examined some leading oriental religions, only to find these unsatisfying".

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  InquiryMan

  Please send me a link for downloading the dvd. Sounds interesting to see ;-)
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  Did you ever feel let down by the Bethel tour?

  by maninthemiddle in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  reading jeff's thread about dress made me think of my one and only trip to bethel.. i can't remember if i was babtised at the time, but i went with a bus load of jws.. like someone said in the last thread, printing presses and empty rooms.

  i was very disapointed, however i don't think i had any pre-concieved notions of what it would be like.

  what i was diapointed in was so much of the "tour" was walking hallways looking at exhibits behind glass.

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  InquiryMan

  Sweden: went as part of a bus tour. Was very nice, impressed by all the marble (not that common in Scandinavia)

  Denmark: very nice tour with friends.

  Germany: huge, impressive. Very clean, modern. Kingdom Hall, nice architecture. Remember a small signboard giving the weekly times on visits from dentist, psychiatrist and doctor.

  France. (Old one at Boulogne-Billancourt): Friendly, but somewhat untidy and outdated.

  Great Britain: A bit old-fashioned

  Italy: nice, friendly staff - were allowed to tour it in bermuda shorts and t-short

  Greece: very nice, got wine and fish for lunch when I came unsuspectedly. The brothers played volleyball in the garden.

  Kenya. a bit old, was toured by Mark Noumair in jeans. Remember some African brothers had their family living in compounds close by.

  USA: huge, impressive, but rather old-fashioned by European standards.

  Austria: once in the 80s and then later on after re-decoration. Remember the ugly curtains from the reception on the first visit being re-used as draping something in a closet that was opened when I was there. Funny

  Netherlands: nice, modern, were invited for coffee to some of the workers.

  Barbados: small, like a family home. Very nice brother showing us around. Warning us gently when he heard we were going to Jolly Roger (an excursion with a lot of booze - we did not indulge in the drinking though).

  Norway: nice Bethal in quiet surroundings.

  And all had the same system when it came to washing...
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  Circuit Overseers

  by XPeterX in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  they came to greece and gave a talk.i don't remember their names but they were definately americans and the one italian something i think.the one was about 50-55 years old and the other guy was about 70+ bald and had some tufts of hair on his head and his voice was very strict,robotic,tending to be high pitched and the latter told us that we have to respect elders and the org's rules without questioning.they were not gb members but they are something like the touring gb.i remember faces.if you have pics post them.does anyone here know them?are there many cos?.

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  InquiryMan

  Zone overseers
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  Odd place for an assemblyIn

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the african country of lesotho, one of the two assemblies will take place in "holy trinity hall".

  witnesses can be quite pragmatic.

  remember we had to rent room in a community building for our kingdom hall... it was fun when they talked about the paganism of christmas and a christmas three was placed in the corner.. i wonder if witnesses have deposits in the banco espirito santo... .

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  InquiryMan

  banco espirito santo means: Bank of the Holy Spirit.

  I intended the post to be somewhat ironic/humerous.
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  Odd place for an assemblyIn

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the african country of lesotho, one of the two assemblies will take place in "holy trinity hall".

  witnesses can be quite pragmatic.

  remember we had to rent room in a community building for our kingdom hall... it was fun when they talked about the paganism of christmas and a christmas three was placed in the corner.. i wonder if witnesses have deposits in the banco espirito santo... .

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  InquiryMan

  In the African country of Lesotho, one of the two assemblies will take place in "Holy Trinity hall". Witnesses can be quite pragmatic. Remember we had to rent room in a community building for our Kingdom Hall... It was fun when they talked about the paganism of christmas and a christmas three was placed in the corner.

  I wonder if witnesses have deposits in the Banco Espirito Santo...
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  JW views on Mental Health & Counseling

  by Confuzzled in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am considering getting couples counseling for the jw boyfriend and i. he's open to it.

  he got help himself for an issue recently, but it was in the short term, and it went well for him.

  i want to know if we started going regularly, and his mentor got wind of it, what are the jw views on mental health help?

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  InquiryMan

  http://www2.bviplatinum.com/news.php?module=news&page=Article&articleID=1272982261

  This was an interesting link. And I found quite surprising and a sign of somehow opening up a bit to the outside world.

  I gues this might end up being a one page article in Awake ;-)
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  Being a mother in the US

  by InquiryMan in

  1. social
  2. current

  i found this interesting news on motherhood in the us vs other countries.. a woman in the us has a pregnancy death risk that is five times h igher than a woman living in bosnia, greece or italy, and ten times as big as an irishi woman, states the report on motherhood in various countries.. on child mortality_ eight in a thousand children in the us dies before the age of five, placing us on the same level as slovakia and montenegro.. an american child has twice the chance of daying before it is five than a child in finland, iceland, sweden or singapore.. only 61 per cent of children in the usa attend a kindergarten, making the united states number seven among developing countries, counting from the bottom that is.

  no other industrialialised country has such a bad mother maternity arrangement as the us (considing both the length and salary).

  norway is the country which has the honor of being number 1 on being a mother.. the maternity leave is currently at at 44 weeks with full salary (based on your job before the pregnancy.

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  InquiryMan

  Actually, it seems that it is an American report published by the Save the Children organization....
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  Being a mother in the US

  by InquiryMan in

  1. social
  2. current

  i found this interesting news on motherhood in the us vs other countries.. a woman in the us has a pregnancy death risk that is five times h igher than a woman living in bosnia, greece or italy, and ten times as big as an irishi woman, states the report on motherhood in various countries.. on child mortality_ eight in a thousand children in the us dies before the age of five, placing us on the same level as slovakia and montenegro.. an american child has twice the chance of daying before it is five than a child in finland, iceland, sweden or singapore.. only 61 per cent of children in the usa attend a kindergarten, making the united states number seven among developing countries, counting from the bottom that is.

  no other industrialialised country has such a bad mother maternity arrangement as the us (considing both the length and salary).

  norway is the country which has the honor of being number 1 on being a mother.. the maternity leave is currently at at 44 weeks with full salary (based on your job before the pregnancy.

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  InquiryMan

  Sorry for not being a native American fluent writer ;-).

  Writing daying was of course intended to be dying..

  Some of these words are somehow difficult to translate, that ´s why I might have chosen a wrong phrase of describing things...

  Sorry about that.

  The study was published by a Norwegian organization, however in English, so I therefore provide the link

  http://www.allesomen.no/om-kampanjen/mer-informasjon/