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  What do the GB members do for cash?

  by starfish422 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  am i correct in thinking that the gb members are unpaid for their role on the board?

  how, then, do they survive?

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  It is a little known fact that Brother Franz loved to read his fortune cookies. He stopped the practice though when he received a fortune that read:

  "It will all be done in ' 71!"
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  Supplement to Amazing's GB series..what did they do in Prison?

  by shotgun in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  did they persevere in prayer, recite kingdom songs....how about go to church because it was required!.

  taken from an 1952 wt article dealing with the events of 1918...can seem to post it..i'll keep trying.

  by mid-1918 j. f. rutherford and his seven associates found themselves in the federal penitentiary at .

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  Check this link to read a letter outlining all the fun they had in prison:

  http://watchtower.observer.org/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030801/HISTORY/10608002
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  Did the Circut overseer ever scare you as a kid?

  by Singing Man in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i will tell you what used to scare me real good was the circuit overseer when he would come to my parents home to stay.

  my parents would get real stressed out trying to find just the right food dishs and fix his bed real nice, and fight among them self's because of the stress of it all.

  so he always looked like this to me at the young age of six:

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  Maybe, from what I hear.
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  Did the Circut overseer ever scare you as a kid?

  by Singing Man in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i will tell you what used to scare me real good was the circuit overseer when he would come to my parents home to stay.

  my parents would get real stressed out trying to find just the right food dishs and fix his bed real nice, and fight among them self's because of the stress of it all.

  so he always looked like this to me at the young age of six:

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  Blondie,

  Was your CO's last name Bennett by any chance?
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  Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie Can Help Witnesses See Truth

  by hooberus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the arnold schwarzenegger movie "the sixth day" (not to be confused with "end of days") people are cloned by having their brain memory pattern copied and saved on a disk.

  human bodies without memories called "blanks" are also made.

  at the appropriate time the duplicate memory pattern is stamped onto the "blank" human body.

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  Spudinator

  A decent rebuttal to this thread can be found at:

  http://www.e-watchman.com/mailbag/mailbag_oct5_2003.html
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  Were There ANY Advantages To Being a Jehovah's Witness?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ...didn't have to buy any christmas presents......

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  How about invaluable training in the janitorial arts?
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  Witness Costume Parties?

  by shamus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone remember a watchtower saying that costume parties were inappropriate for christians?

  i seem to remember that they were labeled in the "deamon" category, even if you had one and it had nothing to do with halloween.. is this true?

  does anyone remember this crap?

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  Ain't it the truth! ;-)
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  Those of who are trying to get out of the Borg....

  by Flowerpetal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  are you still going in service?

  if so, how do you present your message?

  i'm sure you disagree with a lot of wt teachings, so how are you handling this?

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  This is a real challenge sometimes. Did you hear the suggested presentation for the new Awake! dealing with the Oil Crisis? It is hilarious. You (read: all apostates) can't really use any of the suggested presntations with any hope of being taken seriously. <hypocrisy> Just offer the mags. I'm always amazed at how many people end up taking the mags when you just low-key it. </hypocrisy> Maybe they just feel sorry for me, but then, so do I!
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  Att: ex-Elders and Their Kids: Did You Really Have a Regular Family Study?

  by Room 215 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  friends, this is a sort of poll, directed mainly at -- but not limited to --ex-elders, their wives and kids.

  it was my impression that, with the possible exception of meaningful personal prayer, the other aspect of the idealized, exemplary jw lifestyle that was portrayed at the assemblies and at meetings-- the regular, weekly family bible study -- was the one most neglected.

  it seemed to be something the ``other" spiritual family did and the one thing we constantly agreed we ``needed to work on.".

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  Do you think that the Society knows the truth about family studies? They are one of the best turn-offs for the religion that it has ever developed. How many kids determine that they will have no part of it when they grow up because of being subjected the the infamous weekly study?
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  Can a Spiritual Paradise Have 80+% Defection?

  by metatron in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  so, the society is still using the phrase "spiritual paradise" ?

  ( dec wt).

  communist countries ( you remember, the ones that collapsed?

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  Here is a link to Maximus' thread on this situation, alluded to by Metatron. The entire thread is very enlightening.

  JW Kids Leave the Organization: Facts

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/10417/124694/post.ashx#124694