It looks like the JWs found a new, convenient use for the wheels on their carts. You never know when you’ll need to escape quickly!
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Carts on both ends of the farmersmarket
by Still Totally ADD inmy wife and me have a booth at the local framers market.
there is usually about 12 t0 14 vendors each week on a small short street in town.
what is funny on each end of this short street are cart setups with 3 people on each cart.
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Donating Online
by Saltheart Foamfollower ini have just heard that the local needs item next week in the uk is to be about a new arrangement for donating online.
details will be in the september announcements letter due out on sept 3rd.
speculate at will!.
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User99
That ranks right up there with one of my all-time favorites: a local needs part at the meeting, with loving reminders (addressed to all of the regular attendees) about the importance of attending the meetings.
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How many JDubs would believe this ridiculous statement?
by Sour Grapes ina circuit overseer or a member of the gibbering body is giving a talk about demonism and he says the following, "there was an elder in a congregation in california who let his 8-year-old daughter watch disney movies that involved witches, gremlins, magic, and sorcery.
many may feel that they are harmless movies and are just entertainment.
well, the 8-year-old daughter actually brought a blue smurf doll to the public talk and watchtower study.
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User99
I would have to check with Papa Smurf to see if it really happened. I mean, he’s probably the wisest Smurf, right?
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Being taught to explain rape when a kid
by purrpurr indoes anyone else recall in the 80s/90s that when the minor/child blood issue was discussed the jw children were taught to say that being forced to have blood would be like rape?
and then had to be able to explain what rape is?
apparently there was a court case were the drs were trying to get a court order to force a blood transfusion on a jw child, and the child said it would be like rape to her and the judge asked her to explain what rape is to see if she understood what she was saying.. that went round my cong at least as a "fine witness " and all the parents were encouraged to have their kids practice the whole "explain rape" thing.. anyone else remember this?.
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User99
Yes, I remember. The point they were trying to make is that no one should force you to do something that is against your morals. But in a religion as strict as the JWs at that time, it was too embarrassing to ask someone what rape was. So probably most young people didn’t grasp the comparison / illustration.
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The urban legends we heard as JWs!
by stuckinarut2 inhow often have we heard some sort of sensationalist urban legend as jws?.
here is an example i was told as a kid:.
the experience of a sister who knocked on a door and was greeted by a big fierce looking man- intimidating and mean.
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User99
I heard that there was a question on the Jeopardy game show, with the clue stating that this Bible translation was the most accurate. The JW that I was with stated that the answer was The New World Translation. Another made up story, according to Snopes.
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Drop Off in Mentioning 1914
by steve2 invideos from the summer jw conventions ("be courageous) show the "urgency" about the end racheted up several notches.
paranoia rules supreme!.
curiously, though, very few, if any, statements in the convention program about 1914 and the overlapping generations.
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User99
It is now fairly common knowledge that the embarrassing parts of their history are being overwritten online. I wonder how much longer it will be for the entire 1914 teaching to be replaced/updated in their online books, magazines and other materials. I wouldn’t be surprised if that is their current direction.
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Has Your JW Background Benefited You In Any Way?
by minimus ini would like to think there was some good that resulted from our being a witness at one time..
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User99
I probably would never have learned the word “ignominiously.“.
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Welcome...to Witness Island! Almost all Witnesses!
by Witness 007 inguadelope an island near brazil has 1 in 49 people are witnesses.
403,000 population 8,300 witnesses!
the main language is french and cereol.
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User99
Yes, Guadeloupe has about 39 out of those same 49 being Roman Catholic. So at least 40 of every 49 people on that island belong to a religion that has pedophilia issues!
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2018-05-18-BOE--Instructions For Circuit Accounting!
by Atlantis in2018-05-18-s-331-e-boeinstructions for circuit accounting6-pageshttps://we.tl/lm1hgyqxe3atlantis!.
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User99
Stephane,
Yes, transparency is one of my main concerns. I spoke with someone who handles these donations in the Southern US and he told me that my understanding of how donations are handled is wrong. So my reading this document gives me more information than someone who is actually handling the funds. The Society is misleading in yet another area.
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2018-05-18-BOE--Instructions For Circuit Accounting!
by Atlantis in2018-05-18-s-331-e-boeinstructions for circuit accounting6-pageshttps://we.tl/lm1hgyqxe3atlantis!.
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User99
Thank you!
So the per publisher contributions are a built in donation of about $10 US or so per attendee?
Another point that I found interesting is that they actually had to mention not feeling obliged to replace the furniture and appliances in the CO apartment every time another circuit overseer comes in.
And another noteworthy item for me was in reference to the contribution boxes. They stated not to put contribution boxes in close proximity, to avoid giving the impression that money was very important to them. And they also state that the boxes should be strategically placed.
And one more thing. Circuit funds are encouraged to be sent to the society, even as an interest-free loan. I wonder how easy it would be to get that returned to the circuit in time of need.