Barrold Bonds

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  Home schooled witness kids

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  sorry if i'm stepping on any toes here, but i haven't seen anything positive about home-schooling...at all.

  the notion is that parents are taking advantage of the formative years to inculcate more worthwhile values while protecting their kids from worldly influences.

  they end up with lazy, socially inept, illiterate duds who haven't a clue.

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  Barrold Bonds

  My cong. has probably 15 kids up to age 12 or so. One by one they started homeschooling and now they are ALL HOMESCHOOLED. They are all barely literate and are very, very unintelligent. It's quite sad to see the squandered potential. I imagine home schooling is pretty easy to a point, but what do you do when they start getting into advanced math or sciences? You're fucked. You can't teach them. All you can do is rely on the book.

  I know ONE person my age who is a home school success. Super smart, near perfect SAT scores, got a college scholarship and took up engineering. Of course he decided to move to South America somewhere and pioneer, but that's besides the point. The only reason he did well is because mom is a retired college professor so she was actually qualified to teach. That's obviously an exception, so he got lucky.
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  ARE THEY RAMPING UP THE FEAR MONGERING AGAIN?

  by im stuck in in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hi as many of you know i am a born in baptized and in good standing, but mentally out.

  when i was a kid it was always you will die soon and terrible pictures of horrid destruction.

  then for a number of years not so much.

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  Barrold Bonds

  ummm you guys know that the whole go-bag thing is something FEMA and other organizations have talked about forever, right? They've stressed it a lot more since Hurricane Katrina. WT has sent this information out before over the past couple years. It's nothing new.
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  Have You Ever Met...Or KNOW...a GB Member?

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if so, what is your experience?

  i've seen only a few talks by gb members and would like to hear what they're like.

  are they personable, aloof, humble, arrogant?

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  Barrold Bonds

  yeah barber was absolutely a huge perv like that. i met sydlik once. he was a nice enough guy. i never could get a good read on jaracz. he seemed like hard-ass but from what i've read here, he was apparently one of the more liberal GB members.

  as for some of other questions, here's some random things:

  -when they go to conventions for speaking assignments, odds are they have close friends in that district. this year is a bit different with the international conventions but they probably could request where they wanted to go. if they visit a congregation for a speaking thing, which i'm guessing they do if invited, they typically do go out in service on saturday.
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  Announcement: Schools for Couples and Single Brothers replaced by School for 'everyone'

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know this was noted earlier:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/266186/3/the-big-announcement-this-week#.uoaoe_yo5dg.

  but it was officially announced today that the school for couples and the school for single brothers were being combined with the new twist that single sisters would be allowed also.

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  Barrold Bonds

  wow yeah can you smell the desperation? I would LOVE to see the numbers on how many elders/servants are deleted vs. how many are appointed
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  Watchtower and Women's Rights

  by jw07 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we are in the year 2014, women make up the majority of the jw population, yet are not given certain '''''''privileges''''''' simply because they don't have a penis.

  no talks, no leadership roles or the hope of them...ever, no matter how educated, zealous, or well spoken you are.. with the world moving towards upholiding women's rights do you see this becoming an issue that the watchtower will have to 'adjust it's thinking' on soon?.

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  Barrold Bonds

  lol what rights
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  Very Big (and Shocking) Contradiction in the Gospels

  by DeWandelaar in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was visiting a website in order to prove to people that the bible can be seen as a very extremist book.. however... the site also showed some contradictions and although i am aware of most of them i came to one contradiction that was actually very shocking: the part that satan tries to temp jesus christ.

  most of the gospels mention this and the timeframe shows that it happened directly after the baptism of jesus.

  however... look at what happens in john!.

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  Barrold Bonds

  john's gospel is kinda weird. he doesn't cover a lot of stuff the other 3 mention. at the same time he has stuff in there not in the other 3.

  whatever.
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  Very Big (and Shocking) Contradiction in the Gospels

  by DeWandelaar in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was visiting a website in order to prove to people that the bible can be seen as a very extremist book.. however... the site also showed some contradictions and although i am aware of most of them i came to one contradiction that was actually very shocking: the part that satan tries to temp jesus christ.

  most of the gospels mention this and the timeframe shows that it happened directly after the baptism of jesus.

  however... look at what happens in john!.

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  De: Where does it actually indicate how much time elapsed since the baptism? I just read chapter one and the first part of 2. As mentioned, when the story picks up after the epilogue, Jesus baptism in mentioned in passing as something John did a while ago.
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  Very Big (and Shocking) Contradiction in the Gospels

  by DeWandelaar in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was visiting a website in order to prove to people that the bible can be seen as a very extremist book.. however... the site also showed some contradictions and although i am aware of most of them i came to one contradiction that was actually very shocking: the part that satan tries to temp jesus christ.

  most of the gospels mention this and the timeframe shows that it happened directly after the baptism of jesus.

  however... look at what happens in john!.

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  Barrold Bonds

  uhhhh you might want to re-read John 1 and 2. The first part is basically a prologue and then John TALKS about Jesus, whom he previously baptized. The baptism itself is not in John at all. In John1:29, when Jesus talks to him, he had already been baptized.
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  What is the longest commute you know of JW that attends every meeting?

  by Iamallcool in

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  2. friends

  there is a deaf and blind brother that depended on bus and train in nyc.

  2 hours one way by himself.

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  Barrold Bonds

  i'm sure it's changed a bit but I know some bethelites who would go 90 minutes to 2 hours each way for meetings depending on where they were assigned.
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  trespass at your own risk--so sayeth the governing body

  by wannaexit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so another wonderful tract campaign will take place in november.

  cities and towns will be inundated by a cheap bifold about the dead .. but the dubs are warned--if there is a "no trespassing sign" on a property enter at your own risk.

  so says the letter from mother/gb that was read this week at the hall.

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  Barrold Bonds

  yeah this is nothing new. I'd have to dig for it but it's been over a decade since they said all that.