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  Bizarre, nonsensical answer from JW.org on their FAQ page...

  by Muddy Waters in

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  2. beliefs

  the answer on the faq page makes no sense.

  the question is: "why don't you call your meeting place a church?".

  the answer makes no sense at all.

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  rocketman

  Technically, the answer is correct, in that, if a church is indeed a group of people, and the meaning was limited to just that.

  The problem is that the terms, in typical understanding, are interchangable. So when a person says "I'm going to chruch", they usually mean that they are attending a religious service that involves a group of people coming together at a given location to worship.

  We all know the real reason that they don't call it a church, which has already been mentioned. Can't be like that dirty old gal Christendom now, can we?
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  Falling asleep whilst praying..

  by punkofnice in

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  2. beliefs

  when i believed in jehovah(tm), i'd pray to him at night.

  i'd doze off.. i remember admonition from the podium that it was disrespectful to doze off during our personal prayers to imaginary sky god jehovah(tm).. i'd wake up.

  say sorry to jehovah(tm) then either carry on grovelling or just end it.. one thing's for sure, asleep or awake, pray or not it makes no difference........no one's listening!.

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  rocketman

  I'd often fall asleep while praying too. In fact, it's a pretty good antidote for insomnia.
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  Is This Site As Active As It Was In The Past?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm just curious if jwn is as busy as it was even a year or two ago?

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  sometimes it seems this place buzzes and other times, not so much....but maybe it's all in my head..

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  rocketman

  The pace is still dizzying for someone like me who visits about once/day and hardly ever on weekends. I find myself trying to catch up, and I have to pass on what are probably many worthwhile threads.

  There are some things I'd love to see from the new site:

  1. A type of "Like" function. As much as I hate to mimic a Facebook idea, there are a lot of really good posts that I cannot quote, especially on threads that run several pages. It would be great to let the writer of an excellent post that you appreciate their effort.

  2. A User Control Panel.

  3. A Thread Preview, whereby pointing the mouse to a thread topic opens a brief preview of the thread. This would help users (like me) to narrow down, to some extent, the threads that they will find worthwhile and interesting.
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  This Relatively New Governing Body @ Bethel Not Liked By Bethelites Even the Ass Kissers

  by frankiespeakin in

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  2. beliefs

  when i was a bethelite back many years ago(1970's), a lot of bethelites would say negative things about knorr, kline, and other members of the gb in private conversation.

  there was at that time more freedom to express these things without feeling too threatened, which i feel is no longer the case.. now we have a completely new governing body all appointed after 1999 except for losch(1994).

  since that time we have seen a steady increase in authoritarianism from this self proclaimed august body, where no descension or voicing a negative opinon with reguards to the governing body is allowed.

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  rocketman

  "So while the Governing Body are basking in the approval and ass kissing nature of those that surround them there must also be gossip behind their backs about them there at bethel, so to their faces everything is good and people are obediant but behind their backs is an under current of dislike and talk of incompetence, about these NewBoys on the GB."

  Do you have evidence of this? You're making an assumption. While it may be somewhat valid, based on past experience, it's still only an assumption.
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  No Booing Allowed At District Conventions Especially During Apostate Hate Speech Talks

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this district assembly talk is so bad it a shame that no one is allowed to get up boo it, or voice anything negative about it, they have a captive audience of heads noding yes and claps of approval and agreement with every word or else.. it would liven up things if a group spread out in a stadium and started yelling "hate speech hate speech!

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  rocketman

  Yet another thread started by frankiespeakin.
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  Atheist Blogger Visits Kingdom Hall

  by Bangalore in

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  atheist blogger visits kingdom hall.. .

  http://doubtingmark.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/jehovahs-witness-kingdom-hall-ballard/.

  bangalore.

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  rocketman

  Good read, and accurate - same with the comments left for that blog entry.
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  Forum Policy: Off Topic Comments and Nonsense

  by Simon in

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  2. announcements

  some people didn't seem to get the message so i'll repeat it to make clear:.

  posting off topics comments and general gibberish / nonsense is something i class as spam and will not be tolerated.. any posts found will be removed and if it's repeatedly by the same poster then they will be deleted as well.. thank you for everyone else who uses the forum for proper discussion..

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  rocketman

  Nice to see you deleted my post, and then corrected your spelling of the word "tolerated", which you misspelled in your initial post, Simon.

  Why delete my post? A little humor bother ya, bro?
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  Due to Ongoing Concern about Dwindling Meeting Attendances, IS THE BOOK STUDY ARRANGEMENT GOING TO BE RE-INSTATED NEXT YEAR?

  by steve2 in

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  2. friends

  i have some family and friends still in the organization.

  i don't actively seek updates - my lovely contacts provide me with them unsolicited.

  so far the updates have been reliable and confirmed sooner or later by subsequent developments.

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  I don't see it happening either (nor have I heard anything to that effect), for many of the aformentioned reasons.

  And like Blondie, I vividly recall from the days of my youth the 15 minute intermission between the Public Talk and WT Study, 5 (or more) day Conventions, three-day circuit assemblies (Friday night and then Sat and Sun), complete with full meals cooked on site, and other features that, to a JW today, would seem like a tremendous burden - which is exactly what it was.
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  OKC TORNADO - GLAD god IS WORKING OUT UNIVERSAL SOVEREIGNTY

  by Comatose in

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  for fu@$ sake.

  6000 years of it and still figuring out this universal sovereignty.

  gimme a break.

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  rocketman

  Incidents like this tornado and its consequences are, frankly, easier explained by atheism. Taking God out of the equation makes such devastation and loss easier to understand, namely, that we live on a planet that is not always so nice to live on, and that powerful natural forces can do us in at any time.

  No need to ponder 'why didn't God intervene' and 'why does he allow...?' and so on and and on, if there is simply no God.
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  Is this example in the Jeremiah Book Geoffrey Jackson

  by konceptual99 in

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  2. friends

  in the jeremiah book this week there was this example used to bash further education.... .

  12 a brother now serving at world headquarters was 15 when he was offered a scholarship to a university.

  to his teachers dismay, he did not accept that offer, preferring a career as a pioneer.

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  Good point DOC.

  These examples, just as biblical examples such as Paul, are in the minority, and yet constantly trumpeted as examples to imitate. How many first-century Christians did what Paul did? And now many modern-day JWs do what Jackson did and end up living the pampered life of a GB member, or, for that matter, accomplish anything noteworthy?